Music

Music has always been so soothing to me. There's a song for everything and everything in a song. So, being as passionate (and talentless!) as I am about it, I always have music going. Luckily, the rest of the household is the same way.  Read More »

I live very happily in this musical time warp. I listen to Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and all the other greats from that area. I listen to opera and classical of almost any variety. (I dislike Peking Opera for it hurts my ears.) I listen to big band and swing styles, as well as tango and others less obvious.  Read More »

Last Saturday I went to the Getty for their Summer Sessions. I went early to check out some of the exhibits and then spend the rest of my night listening to what I was hoping to be some good new music. The three bands that I listened to: J. Sole’s Musaics, Fool’s Gold, and The Budos Band, were all amazing.  Read More »

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Have you ever heard a choir singing, and as you listened, your mind lifted itslef up, your eyes closed by themselves, your ears yearned for just one more suspended chord, and at that one majestic chord, your spine became jelly and a shiver went down your back?

Now, that's what I call talent!  Read More »

Frank Zappa - "I am the Slime"  Read More »

Kim Jong-Il=Big Brother. This means that he controls the way that people under his rule act, think, do anything. He keeps his country on the brink of starvation and technologically behind the rest of the world. But, could this all be changing?  Read More »

Bands used to focus on quality. Artists would have years in between record releases, and sometimes they were only a half hour long or less. There wasn't any pressure to create albums with 15 tracks on them, supplementing the three or four marketable singles you recorded with twelve other "filler" tracks that everyone skips over with their CD player.  Read More »