When they say dogs are man's best friend, I think they really mean the AVERAGE man cause some of the most brilliant, interesting, complex men seem to prefer cats:
Mark Twain
John Lennon
Frank Zappa
Ian Anderson
Ernest Hemingway
Leonardo Da Vinci
Charles Dickens
Edgar Allen Poe
Victor Hugo
HA!
Friday, November 4, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Tim Buckley - Come Here Woman
A THINKING listener with a sophisicated ear knows that music is MORE than something to play in the background . From the album, Starsailor - which everyone should hear.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Home Sweet Home
A recurring dream
Me trying to get home
Lost........
In a state of confusion
Like being trapped in a maze
Never finding "home"
Maybe its because I haven't found home
Yet..
What I've experienced has never been much of a home
No understanding
No empathy
You sit back as so called loved ones
Break your spirit
Tear it up into incalcuable little pieces
And you're still searching for all the pieces
To put yourself back together
Me trying to get home
Lost........
In a state of confusion
Like being trapped in a maze
Never finding "home"
Maybe its because I haven't found home
Yet..
What I've experienced has never been much of a home
No understanding
No empathy
You sit back as so called loved ones
Break your spirit
Tear it up into incalcuable little pieces
And you're still searching for all the pieces
To put yourself back together
Thursday, October 6, 2011
The Question Of U
The way he plays that guitar, its like he's playing notes that have never been played before, like he made them up. Its as if this song comes from some other planet. With that guitar, he makes you want to cry, & takes you someplace else.
At one point, it sounds like the guitar is crying.
Its a shame this song, along with the almost as otherworldly Joy In Repetition are on the soundtrack to a movie we're not supposed to like, because of that a lot of people probably have never heard it.
I'll take both of those over Kiss anyday!
At one point, it sounds like the guitar is crying.
Its a shame this song, along with the almost as otherworldly Joy In Repetition are on the soundtrack to a movie we're not supposed to like, because of that a lot of people probably have never heard it.
I'll take both of those over Kiss anyday!
Friday, August 12, 2011
A different kind of airhead....
If I see one more babymama blasting misogynistic thug "music" while her kids are in the car with her, I'm gonna scream.
It's not enough these women don't have enough intelligence, depth, sensitivity, grace, etc.,to NOT pollute their "minds"with this evil..they have the stupidity to encourage their offspring to listen as well.
Its freakin child abuse.
It's not enough these women don't have enough intelligence, depth, sensitivity, grace, etc.,to NOT pollute their "minds"with this evil..they have the stupidity to encourage their offspring to listen as well.
Its freakin child abuse.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Liberated?
Why do I feel like the only woman left on this planet that isn't overtly sexual? That leaves something to the imagination in the way they dress, I mean, whatever happened to mystery? That's NOT interested in making sex tapes, & NOT interested in taking or sending nude or damn near nude pics?
I won't be anyone's Hottentot Venus!
I think alot of these chicks think they're empowered or liberated, they're wrong, they're actually doing what misogynists want them to do-they think their worth is in their body parts-that's not liberation.
They're objectifiying themselves.
I won't be anyone's Hottentot Venus!
I think alot of these chicks think they're empowered or liberated, they're wrong, they're actually doing what misogynists want them to do-they think their worth is in their body parts-that's not liberation.
They're objectifiying themselves.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
It never ends..
I hate to keep ranting, but there's so many freakin things to rant about. So, I remember an issue of Tv Guide from last year, & had to endure an article about making over some actress. Gee, I didn't know tv guide was a fashion magazine.
BTW, Makeovers SUCK!!!!
The actress says"I'm not trendy", "I'm not hip"as if that's something to be ashamed of.
Trendy & hip are just synonyms of the word-CONFORMIST.
Heaven forbid, there's one woman left in this post Sex & The City world, who aspires to be anti-fashionista or anti-trendy, who actually wants to look like she marches to her OWN beat, instead of looking like she stepped out of a fashion magazine.
BTW, Makeovers SUCK!!!!
The actress says"I'm not trendy", "I'm not hip"as if that's something to be ashamed of.
Trendy & hip are just synonyms of the word-CONFORMIST.
Heaven forbid, there's one woman left in this post Sex & The City world, who aspires to be anti-fashionista or anti-trendy, who actually wants to look like she marches to her OWN beat, instead of looking like she stepped out of a fashion magazine.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Different...
Why do I feel like the only woman more interested in collecting funk & jazz records than in collecting innumerable amounts of shoes & bags?
Monday, June 27, 2011
All beats,no musicianship...
You know, real musicians get no respect in this society. But I'm not surprised. Too many people listen to music for the wrong reasons, they like a song just because of the beat or because everyone else likes it, so they don't understand how important MUSICIANSHIP is. I guess it takes more brainpower to actually LISTEN to a guitar or drum solo & most people can't handle that. Isn't that why Jazz isn't as popular as it should be? Why we now live in a world where people "make up beats"? It certainly doesn't sound like a drummers' playing on most popular music of the last 20 years. Not that anybody notices, the people who listen to that stuff have never even heard live drums & what they're supposed to sound like. And they don't care.
Its just something to play in the background right?
Wrong, music is supposed to be more than that!
Trust me, what Stevie Wonder plays on the drums on Too High is a lot more interesting than the so-called beats on the radio today. And James Brown's shows were so mind-blowing, not just because of his singing & dance moves, but because of his BANDS. Do you know what a band is, because on most music today, there's no band playing, especially in r&b, there's just a voice and a beat, no pianos, guitar, bass, drums or horns. They've DUMBED DOWN the music, cause they think you're dumb. If you're not dumb,you know that already. Take the difference for example, between Aretha Franklin's Respect & most r&b and most popular music since the mid 90s, during the intro, we get a guitar RIFF and if that's not enough,during the bridge, we also get a saxophone SOLO, now what do you get today "BEATS" but no riffs or solos. Not that most people know what a riff or solo is.
And another thing...
I love to listen to the ALBUM VERSION of Prince's I Wanna Be Your Lover, & get to my favorite part of the song-the part where he stops singing & just starts to jam-which is what real musicians love to do. Now I wonder how many people who listen to today's so-called music even know what jamming is, considering that most popular music of the last 2 decades doesn't have any jamming in it. And how many dummies would turn the song off at that point,cause they don't think there's any point in listening to that part?
This also reminds me of something an idiot at Spin magazine wrote a few years back-"But who needs musicianship? We want beats."
Simpletons like that are one of the reasons this mess happened.............
I NEED musicianship, stupid!
Maybe if some of those so-called music writers didn't willlingly join the brain dead masses in supporting the beats mentality,then the "beatmakers" wouldn't have taken over, & destroyed music, along with the souless corporate thugs who took over the record companies.
Its just something to play in the background right?
Wrong, music is supposed to be more than that!
Trust me, what Stevie Wonder plays on the drums on Too High is a lot more interesting than the so-called beats on the radio today. And James Brown's shows were so mind-blowing, not just because of his singing & dance moves, but because of his BANDS. Do you know what a band is, because on most music today, there's no band playing, especially in r&b, there's just a voice and a beat, no pianos, guitar, bass, drums or horns. They've DUMBED DOWN the music, cause they think you're dumb. If you're not dumb,you know that already. Take the difference for example, between Aretha Franklin's Respect & most r&b and most popular music since the mid 90s, during the intro, we get a guitar RIFF and if that's not enough,during the bridge, we also get a saxophone SOLO, now what do you get today "BEATS" but no riffs or solos. Not that most people know what a riff or solo is.
And another thing...
I love to listen to the ALBUM VERSION of Prince's I Wanna Be Your Lover, & get to my favorite part of the song-the part where he stops singing & just starts to jam-which is what real musicians love to do. Now I wonder how many people who listen to today's so-called music even know what jamming is, considering that most popular music of the last 2 decades doesn't have any jamming in it. And how many dummies would turn the song off at that point,cause they don't think there's any point in listening to that part?
This also reminds me of something an idiot at Spin magazine wrote a few years back-"But who needs musicianship? We want beats."
Simpletons like that are one of the reasons this mess happened.............
I NEED musicianship, stupid!
Maybe if some of those so-called music writers didn't willlingly join the brain dead masses in supporting the beats mentality,then the "beatmakers" wouldn't have taken over, & destroyed music, along with the souless corporate thugs who took over the record companies.
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