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 I hate my brain. I was talking to someone yesterday and could remember what the opposite of dedicated was. This morning it hit me - more than 12 hours later - cross utilized.  This is a tragedy.  Is it age?  Is my brain failing?  Is my brain burned out from drugs used to manage other health issues?  Dopamine receptors fried?  I dunno. I woke up early this morning and wanted to listen to Garth Brooks.  But ended up listening to George Strait.  Like someone had a different idea.  Garth wasn't meant to be today.  George was.  Divine intervention?  Perhaps.  Coincidence?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  King George - sings some of the best love songs - one of them particularly struck me with a line "you can lead a heart to love but you can't make it fall."  The heart has a mind of it's own which makes one wonder how can such a lovely lady be in love with such a jerk or how can such a nice guy be in love with such...

 A movie with Christopher reeve which is not Superman. Who cares?!?!  I do because it’s got a John Williams score.  Originally wasn’t interested in this one until I heard it and was like… oh my - this is really good. Good in a gives me goosebumps good. At times hauntingly beautiful which is a special kind of beautiful.  It’s the unusual colors of the orchestra in this one that tickles the ear. And maybe because a lot of it is in 3.   Which John Williams score is my favorite?  The one I’m listening to when asked.  How lucky I am to be alive the same time John Williams is alive. It’s the modern day equivalent to being alive when Beethoven walked this earth.  H

 So potato head had a fundraiser in New York and raised 25 million dollars in one day. First of all - WTF?!?!  Second of all, with Obama and Clinton joining it sends a signal of weakness to the rest of the world. That worthless old fuck can’t even raise money by himself. And if anything demonstrates who is making the decisions in this country. Barack Hussein Obama and William Jefferson Clinton.  What a pathetic bunch of globalist losers.  

  Brothers and Sisters - Let's talk about that little light.  That little light is mine.  I give it to you through the good news and you proclaim and let it shine for all the world to see.  Your love for me is amazing.  My love for you is even greater than your love for me.  I am so proud to be your Father - I get teary eyed just thinking about it. I'll admit it.  I enjoy a good football game every now and then.  I've always enjoyed the college games more than the professional games.  The spirit of competition to see who has prepared to take on their opponent and executes best.  I love to see teams and coaches correct when they are behind to fight the good fight and maybe earn victory.  I love the bands.  I love the spirit and camaraderie it creates among teams.  There's a special electricity in the air when it's going to be a good competitive game with impassioned fans.  The smell of the popcorn, enjoying a beer and ...

 Man…. I am on a tear lately with John Williams recordings. The man is 92 years old.  I don’t know how much life he’s got left. I’ve got this HUGE FOMO complex right now.  Not only am I collecting the limited pressings but also collecting outstanding performances of his work by other people and ensembles.   This is completely irrational and compulsive. These rare recordings will either become impossible to find or they will all be re-released upon his passing and the market will be flooded.  Yes, the mainstream releases are easy to procure. It’s the special editions by the boutique labels I’m worried about. The deep cuts that aren’t  worthy of the commercial release.  IDK - maybe I’m losing my marbles.  

I started writing with napalm and decided it wasn't the best idea.  Instead, I'll write about a new addition to my John Williams collection....  An import from Japan that's simply called "John Williams" by the Seikyo Siena Wind Orchestra.  It's basically a concert band playing some of John Williams more popular work.  And you know what - it's fantastic!  The playing is second to none and the arrangements are excellent.  Sometimes transcribing John Williams work doesn't sound very good.  Most of the times it sounds pretty bad.  But THIS.  This is a great cd.  It makes me happy.  The ensemble plays with an extreme level of proficiency and comfort with the rhythmical intricacies of John Williams music.  Something an amateur group could not pull off.  They with aplomb unlike any other wind ensemble I've heard play the music of John Williams. I can't read any of the liner notes and only know the titles of the tracks because the...

 Today is one of the last big hoo-rah parties before the Roman Guards kill me.  So whatya say?  Let's make it a good one. Back in the day, I rode to Jerusalem on a donkey.  My fans would wave palm branches as I rode by.  People would be singing jubilant anthems.  Then my followers would hand out crosses made from palm stalks to take home as a souvenir - they would wear them for a couple days and then use them as book marks in their bibles or decorations for their houses and Christmas trees.  Whatever.... Not this time. Instead, we are having a parade.  There will be marching bands, floats, drill teams, the shriners doing cool tricks while driving their little cars, horses, clowns and all kinds of cool things.  Maybe we'll even sell balloons.  I will be the Grand Marshall.  I am going to be sitting on the top of a convertible, yellow Corvette.  Joseph and Mary are the honorary drivers.  On the parade route, we will cruise v...

 I hate target due because of their stance on social issue to which I adamantly disagree.  I was traveling recently and forgot my underwear and target was the closest to my lodging location. I begrudgingly entered the store and got the goods. While I was walking around I noticed all the model images in the women’s department. They were all ugly people smiling with joy to be wearing their clothing items.  Fat people. People with tattoos. Grey haired old people.  People with purple hair and nose piercings.  I don’t enjoy going into a store and seeing advertising collateral featuring humans that represents their target (pun intended) demographic.  I want to see pretty and attractive people. Do people really want to shop somewhere where the models look like them?  Do they want to shop where they see attractive people?  Aspirational images?  This is probably a textbook example of toxic masculinity and body shaming causing body dysphoria in the fem...

 I think there is a movement that is trying to undo the American culture. They’re attacking the family structure. They’re making everything cost more. They’re trying to inhibit our freedom to travel freely. They want transportation to be expensive. They want food and energy to be expensive. They want us to live, shop and work in a small amount of space. They want us to be poor, not own anything and be happy about it. They are under the spell of satan.   I believe it is the new world order. It is those world economic forum. The world health organizization.  The people that go to Davos and member that attend the builderburg group. It is NATO. It is the people bitching about the environmental pollution who fly in private jets.  It’s the people supporting the war in Ukraine. The people supporting mutilating children through the guise of gender affirming care. It’s the people who take are money through taxation. The people who invented social media, Facebook, TikTok and t...

I hope I die soon after a wonderful musical experience either attending a concert or performing in a band.  I find quality musical experiences to be extraordinarily satisfying to my soul.  Tonight there was a concert performed by the University of Texas wind symphony.  Two pieces were written by Viet Cuong. He does some really interesting things with the ensemble.  Don't quite know how to describe it but he brings certain sounds out of a band that I've never heard before.  Listening to these works is just so inspiring - whenever a band does something innovative, it's very interesting because I am intimately familiar with the sounds and colors a band can produce.  Then Viet Cuong enters the arena and my mind is blow.  It brings me such happiness and joy.  It grounds me like nothing else.  If I were to die after an experience life that, life will have been good. 

My son is in choir.  I asked him when they are going to UIL contest.  He informed me his group is not going to contest because the behavior of the ensemble has been terrible.  The choir director said she wasn't going to take them.  I'm like why are you taking an opportunity away from my child to perform because you can't manage your classroom?  If you ask me she should have left the misbehaving kids and took the kids with good behavior.  What if they didn't do well?  I really don't care how they scored.  What I care about is they prepared, went to be judged and came away learning something from the experience.  I don't care about stifling opportunity for knuckle heads.  Unfortunate situation. At tonight's concert they sounded fine and should have been given the experience to perform and compete.      

 When Joe's corvette gets auctioned off, someone should buy it, set it on fire and crush it.  

 Judging by the news, the transcript from Biden’s interview with Robert Hur is probably the funniest yet saddest thing to experience.  It should be published in its entirety and made available for people to draw their own conclusions.  An interesting interview is available on Twitter, newly x, with Tucker Carlson and Chris Cuomo having a conversation for almost two hours. Parts of it are laugh out loud funny. Other parts are really interesting. And some of it is nonsense. Some people won’t be able to tell the difference.  My boss and I went to dinner. During our drive she brought up politics.  My momma didn’t raise a dummy. My response was it is it says a lot about the country when this is the choice we are given. Dropped it like a hot potato. Refuse to discuss politics with people I work with. Maybe we could all learn something by watching the Carlson Cuomo interview.  How to talk face to face with people with differing viewpoints while being civil and dec...

 Diversity, equity and inclusion is absolutely exhausting. Every time I turn around it’s time to recognize someone for something else. One month it’s recognizing someone because they’re black, the next month it’s because they’re women, next it’s Arab American recognition month. Recognizing people not because of their merit and contribution but because of an attribute they have no control over - something genetic.   In May it is LGBTQ awareness month so we can celebrate people for their sexuality and relationship choices and perversions.  At breakfast today there was some 300 pound fat man with a beard and braided hair acting like a prissy woman carrying a purse wearing 1970s trailer trash earrings.  Get out of here and go see a therapist.  When he arrived to his groups table everyone fawned over him and he melted into his chair when the conversation resumed. No one talked to him and he didn’t talk unless it was about him.  He/she/it/they/them/za/zim/zam/fli...

 This is the third trip in the last year I forgot to pack my underwear. What the hell?!?!?  I’m too stupid to figure  out what size I wear by looking in the pair I’m wearing - I call home like a moron and ask my son to look in my underwear drawer and my son says ‘Dad-are you okay?’  

 There is this John Williams box set released in Europe that contains 20 cds and highlights John Williams' career from his television scoring days through the work he done for Anne Sophie Muter reworking some of his most famous work for violin and orchestra.  While John Williams work is among my most favorite in the world, I notice in the early years of film scoring he had an unusual affinity for the harmonica against the orchestra.  Almost as if he wanted the harmonica to evolve into the instrumentation of a traditional symphony orchestra.  There's 4 like three different scores:  Sugarland Express, The Reivers, Cinderella Liberty, and The Cowboys.  An unusual instrument to feature.... Which begs the question - why has the instrumentation of the symphony orchestra remained the same since the romantic period?  

We drink dr. Pepper don’t you know. It’s the original taste that taste that we love so. Im a pepper. He’s a pepper. She’s a pepper were a pepper. Wouldn’t you like to be pepper too.   #earworm

 First - Joe Biden is worthless.  Regrets calling a new comer/undocumented citizen an illegal...  Like what the hell?  They are here illegally and it's not okay to call them illegal.  They're breaking the law.  What is wrong with this world.  If you're here breaking the law from day one, what you're doing is illegal and you are illegal.  Say it you old fuck.  Coward.  Loser.  I’m not participating in the lies this government pushes onto the American public   Second - My wife bought an Ikea storage contraption the other day and I put it together today.  I learned a few things.  They give you just enough pieces of hardware to put the item together - no extras and no shortages.  Kinda like Lego.  Their design is extremely clever - in my case the pieces were symmetrical so it didn't matter if it was left or right side.  I guess that makes sense for a piece of furniture.  They had clever ways for mounti...

I was picked on a lot when I was a little kid.  Back in the day bullying was part of life.  I got more than my fair share for sure.  I was a nerdy kid on what I later in life learned on the bipolar spectrum.  I got beat up a few times by the neighborhood bully.  He was a total shithead and probably still is because was stupid.  In middle school I decided if someone was going to start something I was going to finish it and that served  me pretty well through high school.  I learned to fight back.  What I never really figure out is why some other nerd would pick on me.  I made it my point to insure they would never touch me again. Bullying was just something we dealt with back in the day.  It may have been frowned upon but no one really did anything to stop it besides blame the one who was being picked on.  What was that about?  How about go fuck yourself?!?! In college something changed.  I went from nerd to gaining co...

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I discovered you can look at album credits when listening to music in iTunes.  I was listening to Star Wars The Force Awakens today....  I clicked on the credits and they said Gustavo Dudamel was the conductor in the credits for the album?  Really?  So I looked at the cover of the cd I own and it says Music by John Williams.  If you look at the first 6 Star Wars album covers they say Music Composed and Conducted by John Williams.  I wonder when John Williams stopped conducting on his albums.  TFA is copyrighted in 2015.  I checked the credits on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) and conducting credit is shared by John Williams and William Ross.  The last three Star Wars movies just say Music by John Williams.  Solo a Star Wars Story(2018) give conducting credit to John Williams and Emlyn Singleton.

A friend of mine once said "Everywhere you go, there you are." And ya know what?  It's true.  When I moved to FL I left all my cd's and my stereo at home.  Soon after I found a place to live I bought a little stereo someone one selling....  and that led to finding the sound exchange which led to buying cds.  I found some cds I had been searching for and repurchased some titles I already had so I could listen to them.  It's what I do.  I listen to music on cd.  I donated all the duplicates, the little stereo, etc when I moved again. Which brings me to my dad.  When his house was cleaned out, he had miles of wire running through the house connecting all kinds of devices together and to computers.  Two years ago he moved into an assisted living community.  After he got out of hospice, guess what he started doing?  Buying cameras, wires and motion detectors and starting hooking all that stuff up to his computer and creating this ho...

I received a solicitation in my mail box for cannibis products. Pre-rolled joints, rice Krispy treats, edibles and whatever other shit they're selling.  Addressed to "our friends over 21."  For starters, kids live at my address.  Second, why is this solicitation coming in the mail.  I hate the government.  But why do they allow this?  It is the most offensive piece of mail I've received in my entire life.  I believe marijuana derived products are ruining america.  Fuck.  Another example of this country going to hell in a hand basket.

I don't understand governments. The EU successfully sued Apple forcing them to change how the iPhone works.  They required them to adopt the USBC charging port as well as options to side load non approved app stores, payment methods and web browsers.  Why does the government sue to tell Apple how their iPhone has to work and what it has to be compatible with.  If you don't like how an iPhone works or what you can or can't do with it, get a different kind of phone.  Like seriously.  If you don't like it - don't use it.  Don't force a company to do something they don't want to do.  Or force a company to do something because you want it different than the way they make it.  Let the market decided.  Apple shouldn't have to modify their phone in any shape or form.  If people want the phone the way it is, it'll win in the market place.  If you want a phone you can customize the shit out of, get an android.  Don't mess with the iPhone...