In my ongoing self-reeducation in the art of drumming – now out of pure enjoyment rather than of perceived means of locative escape – I'm re-learning everything with traditional grip instead of with the matched grip I learned in my first, institutional(ized) incarnation all those years ago: it's my way of proving to myself that I'm doing this the way I want to do this and that I’m doing it for myself for the first time in far too long. (I will vanquish you, flamacue.)