I’m increasingly interested in playing drumset (in my way) on cool music only,
that is,
things Brazilian, African, and a little Jazzy too.
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Music and In the Moment
I almost feel sorry for people who can’t be in the moment enough to totally love playing and listening to wonderful (Brazilian in this case) music so much that it is life, pure joy, right now, never before, never after, always now.
ain’t necessarily an endorphins thing, though they seem to do this sometimes also.
just an in the moment thing.
and a love harmony and rhythm (or melody) thing.
Guess I’m just lucky, and man life would suck if this wasn’t enough.
me blessed.
yay music.
don’t be opportunist, STAND for things
politicians (and everyone) shouldn’t be OPPORTUNIST. they should STAND for things and do them.
either things THEY THEMSELVES care about, and/or things that OTHERS do.
not just whatever’s popular, whatever’s gonna work.
I’m NOT sorry, but doing whatever WORKS isn’t ok. it puts you at the mercy of meaningless bullshit, and that is UNfuckinacceptable.
and by the WAY; I mean this ARTISTICALLY, and in ALL MANNER OF WAYS, not just politics, not even specifically politics.
WHAT others appreciate about you
trying to control WHAT others appreciate about you is one thing.
but believing that you don’t deserve appreciation simply for normal human qualities is QUITE another, particularly if it causes to try to control what others appreciate about you.
it might even lead you to not present yourself for a great many experiences, because you think that all you have to offer is being abnormal, extreme, crazy, weird, special, different. (it’s not like people didn’t make me feel guilty for being normal as a child, nor appreciate me only when I was special and different (they did, and they did, nor is it like many of my interests genuinely were and ARE in things that are less common and normal than some.)
…
starting things isn’t all that easy.
starting things isn’t all that easy.
finishing them doesn’t seem to take commitment, what it takes is giving enough of a fuck about them instead of ten or a million other “equally as interesting if not more so” things that you also could start.
for after all…
I want what you want…
…
I want
Everything.
Happiness. enough, I may indeed have.
I make some money this month (less than required, but more than usual by plenty. (July’s always like this.)
It has occurred to me,
if I had sorta enough money, not millions, just thousands)
and was playing some music,
that would be enough to be happy.
should it not be.
it is.
and I gots and have always had the music, lucky me.
guess things really ain’t that bad then:)
thank everyone for my nifty education, in the normal stuff (I went to a good high school, though I may not have appreciated it then (Irondequoit:)
and
learned nifty music stuff at Hochstein school in downtown Rochester,
and at SUNY Potsdam Crane School And and
Cadets Drum Corps
and at the Boat (long story)
and hanging around Eastman school
and CalArts.
and in life.
me happy.
Thought of the Day, perhaps the life:
Thought of the Day, perhaps the life:
don’t give the care of your inner child over to the wrong people, to incompetent/disinterested people.
including those emotionally unavailable or detached.
You’re Welcome.
doing what’s cool versus necessary
my problem is not with doing what’s necessary, instead of what is best, what is cool, what is good.
(yeah, what kinda shitty world is this where what is cool, best, good, and interesting ARE NOT the things that are necessary anyway? but I digress.0
my problem is when people
do what’s cool
then they do what’s necessary, (and it is almost always, artistically, remember,
super lame, trite, and just utterly sucks (thanks, corporate mentality.)
THEN, they make MILLONS of dollars, which would enable them to again do what’s cool.
BUT…
THEY DON’T!
WHAT KINDA SHIT IS THAT?!?!?!?!
…never be ashamed of being normal, human
…never be ashamed of being normal, human
yes, that.
#selflove
selflove, not the love of others, (gods included) is the thing.
if I believed I had a lot to offer-
if I-
1. believed I had a lot to offer, and
2. was actually interested in taking part in the system and in other peoples’s basically bullshit jive-ass way of doing things…
what would I do…
that’s two questions…
ok, let’s rephrase:
if I;
1. believed I had a lot to offer and-
2. could at least “try” to do things however “I” would have them done,
what would I do…
hm, surprisingly hard to answer.