That's in part because I have no idea where in the house I would find sugar anyway. If I cared then I might look ... but I don't.
Lasers do matter and there is progress as the wimpy red laser has been extracted. Pulling the purple deader may happen as well but this is lots of hands-over-the-head stuff to do it and sitting on my dead butt is better plus one hand doesn't really go over my head. There would be satisfaction in getting the last lamer out of the rack, tho.
Shooting video is not likely as I must be at the hospital at 10:00 a.m. in Dallas and finding it is highly-questionable. I think I'm making a huge mistake but the appt is already made and it's too late to cancel it. The arrhythmia is already known so confirming it further with a monitor can, at best, lead to recommendation of a pacemaker ... which they can't do. We went through this once before and I'm really coming to the thinking it's better not to know. If you're going to fuck me up then just do it. Talking about it just wastes time that could have been enjoyable.
Unsettled is not a vibe I want to bring to the Lady so I believe the game for now will be playing with lasers even though I fookin' hate the racket they make. That's part of the reason for getting the purple deader out of there as it will make for one less fan.
Playing earlier with "The Space Between Things" went well as it's a simple thing but with enough swing to the beat that it makes for big fun arpeggiating the hell out of things ... but ... when does that turn into New School and become just another automaton playing scales.
I don't play scales as I don't even know any esoteric ones. The basic is a pentatonic scale which just means fifths ... which doesn't mean anything. If you go da da, then the second da will almost certainly be a fifth up from the first one. Congratulations, now you're a musician.
The way I look at it, all twelve tones are 'in the scale' insofar as any of them may be cool at any given time. A blue note (i.e. half note up / down and definitely not in any key scale) is precisely what you need ... when the time is right for it. Deliberately going off-key isn't an 'accidental' but rather a 'very deliberate' as it's highly-discomfiting when a note doesn't seem to 'fit' with the notes that preceded. Do it right and it will draw people to listen. Do it wrong and sound like a cat fight or, even worse, it will make people nervous and they won't know why. Jazz does that to a lot of people.
For me, jazz is anything in which you're willing to go off-key because the music needs it. What makes it good jazz is when you do it with a reason beyond having clumsy fingers. There's nothing so blue as when you bring it to a peak and then drop down a half note. All the anguish in the Universe comes in on that one tone.
I was asked about Joe Bonamassa and he's got to be the saddest guy on the tour as no-one believes him. He's an excellent musician and he knows all the words but it isn't believable as I hear him singing about suffering and just think, wow, did you read about that. I'd like to like his set but, in truth, I don't. I feel for him as he obviously loves it or he wouldn't work so hard. It's similar for me in listening to a lot of New School in which I hear wizard guitar playing but it's not at all moving, I don't hear any passion in it.
Maybe he should have gone "On the Road with a Mouse and a Chicken" as there's a lot of blues on that road. Too bad I don't much like playing blues. Maybe I should have taken a rat as I definitely love rats. Me and Algernon, man, we go back at least forty years.
"Flowers for Algernon" was written by Daniel Keyes and he died only a few months ago. There are ironies within ironies. (WIKI: Flowers for Algernon)
The WIKI is amusing as one sci-fi editor suggested Keyes give it a happy ending. Thanks for entirely missing the point, you worthless blob of cellulite. Fortunately, Keyes ignored him and wrote one of the most important sci-fi stories ever. The adaptations have been complete crap but the original was superlative.
Lasers do matter and there is progress as the wimpy red laser has been extracted. Pulling the purple deader may happen as well but this is lots of hands-over-the-head stuff to do it and sitting on my dead butt is better plus one hand doesn't really go over my head. There would be satisfaction in getting the last lamer out of the rack, tho.
Shooting video is not likely as I must be at the hospital at 10:00 a.m. in Dallas and finding it is highly-questionable. I think I'm making a huge mistake but the appt is already made and it's too late to cancel it. The arrhythmia is already known so confirming it further with a monitor can, at best, lead to recommendation of a pacemaker ... which they can't do. We went through this once before and I'm really coming to the thinking it's better not to know. If you're going to fuck me up then just do it. Talking about it just wastes time that could have been enjoyable.
Unsettled is not a vibe I want to bring to the Lady so I believe the game for now will be playing with lasers even though I fookin' hate the racket they make. That's part of the reason for getting the purple deader out of there as it will make for one less fan.
Playing earlier with "The Space Between Things" went well as it's a simple thing but with enough swing to the beat that it makes for big fun arpeggiating the hell out of things ... but ... when does that turn into New School and become just another automaton playing scales.
I don't play scales as I don't even know any esoteric ones. The basic is a pentatonic scale which just means fifths ... which doesn't mean anything. If you go da da, then the second da will almost certainly be a fifth up from the first one. Congratulations, now you're a musician.
The way I look at it, all twelve tones are 'in the scale' insofar as any of them may be cool at any given time. A blue note (i.e. half note up / down and definitely not in any key scale) is precisely what you need ... when the time is right for it. Deliberately going off-key isn't an 'accidental' but rather a 'very deliberate' as it's highly-discomfiting when a note doesn't seem to 'fit' with the notes that preceded. Do it right and it will draw people to listen. Do it wrong and sound like a cat fight or, even worse, it will make people nervous and they won't know why. Jazz does that to a lot of people.
For me, jazz is anything in which you're willing to go off-key because the music needs it. What makes it good jazz is when you do it with a reason beyond having clumsy fingers. There's nothing so blue as when you bring it to a peak and then drop down a half note. All the anguish in the Universe comes in on that one tone.
I was asked about Joe Bonamassa and he's got to be the saddest guy on the tour as no-one believes him. He's an excellent musician and he knows all the words but it isn't believable as I hear him singing about suffering and just think, wow, did you read about that. I'd like to like his set but, in truth, I don't. I feel for him as he obviously loves it or he wouldn't work so hard. It's similar for me in listening to a lot of New School in which I hear wizard guitar playing but it's not at all moving, I don't hear any passion in it.
Maybe he should have gone "On the Road with a Mouse and a Chicken" as there's a lot of blues on that road. Too bad I don't much like playing blues. Maybe I should have taken a rat as I definitely love rats. Me and Algernon, man, we go back at least forty years.
"Flowers for Algernon" was written by Daniel Keyes and he died only a few months ago. There are ironies within ironies. (WIKI: Flowers for Algernon)
The WIKI is amusing as one sci-fi editor suggested Keyes give it a happy ending. Thanks for entirely missing the point, you worthless blob of cellulite. Fortunately, Keyes ignored him and wrote one of the most important sci-fi stories ever. The adaptations have been complete crap but the original was superlative.
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