I have been teaching him to play Pachelbel’s Canon in D major. He plays the viola but has never really been introduced to the keyboard. I have a piano in the middle of my apartment so naturally my nephew has taken to it. Being a parent and being a teacher seem to be similar vocations. Some people are self-taught on the piano but most of us mere mortals need teachers. Piano Shop is the story of a guy who discovers a piano shop in his Paris neighborhood and also rediscovers his love of the instrument. Like all good parents do, I left him to his devices as I sat outside finishing my book, A Piano Shop on the Left Bank, by Thad Carhart. He can stretch out a couple of bucks longer than your granny playing nickel slots. This place is like a casino for kids and my nephew has a video game addiction worse than any Las Vegas burn-out. Along with the carousel and the Ferris wheel there is a video game house. As the Eiffel Tower has its Ferris wheel, the Space Needle has its half-assed amusement park. I live across the street from the Seattle Center which is a sort of a low-rent Disneyland. Come to think of it, when I was 12 I could have written an Austin Powers movie. I don’t think I have been subjected to so many dick jokes since I myself was 12. OK, so I was laughing my ass off but only because the kid thought it was funny. I can be amused without guilt as a midget receives a cruel beating.
Under the guise of childcare a pseudo-intellectual dipshit like me has an excuse to see the new Austin Powers movie.
To borrow a quote from my nephew, “Being 12 years old isn’t half bad.” Having a 12 year old kid around isn’t half bad either. I have taken the past week off from life while my 12 year old nephew visits me from Chicago.
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