On Becoming a Star
As I had mentioned previously, my cousin Dan passed away due to Covid last summer. One of the gestures his surviving partner(thank the GODS!) did was gift our family with some of the rings he used to wear. I got a fire Opal, but perhaps more importantly, a ring with two rows of Garnet chips, of which two are missing. I've decided I would fill one hole with a diamond chip of the same size, and leave the other one blank.
The hole represents the hole my cousin left in all the lives he touched, and the diamond would be an acknowledgement that he's now a star in our skies. Not that he wasn't before, it's just more...literal now?
Which brought me to the sobering and somewhat depressing thought of if anyone will see me the same way after God decides I've fermented in my own juices long enough and can now finally be let out of this damn glass jar of a body, like a zesty sprig of pickled asparagus. Yes, I said that, and I'm not even drunk.
I also just finished "Rock and Roll President" a sort of retrospective on Jimmy Carter focusing primarily on his presidential years with a few glimmers pre and post, and his interaction with the musical community at the time, and how both may have shaped each others' views.
Say what you want about him, but you cannot deny the man had and still has integrity. And even out of office, can you name another former president who even comes close to the amount of output he's had?
Anyway, I continued the path of bass practice I started last night. I sat down and with the help of YouTube learned the rest of the bass line to "One Step Ahead" by Split Enz. The song is actually quite complicated tonally, going in and out of key seemingly every other measure. Strange that the parts I was having trouble with were probably the most straightforwards tonally speaking. Mostly Am and Dm with a Bb thrown in for good measure.
Now tonight I started something that seemed written in G. G D C with a Bm thrown in as well. So take that. All composed on the five string bass, though I've been getting an itch to drag out the 1974 Rickenbacker. Yeah, it's probably older than YOU. Only six years younger than ME!
The hole represents the hole my cousin left in all the lives he touched, and the diamond would be an acknowledgement that he's now a star in our skies. Not that he wasn't before, it's just more...literal now?
Which brought me to the sobering and somewhat depressing thought of if anyone will see me the same way after God decides I've fermented in my own juices long enough and can now finally be let out of this damn glass jar of a body, like a zesty sprig of pickled asparagus. Yes, I said that, and I'm not even drunk.
I also just finished "Rock and Roll President" a sort of retrospective on Jimmy Carter focusing primarily on his presidential years with a few glimmers pre and post, and his interaction with the musical community at the time, and how both may have shaped each others' views.
Say what you want about him, but you cannot deny the man had and still has integrity. And even out of office, can you name another former president who even comes close to the amount of output he's had?
Anyway, I continued the path of bass practice I started last night. I sat down and with the help of YouTube learned the rest of the bass line to "One Step Ahead" by Split Enz. The song is actually quite complicated tonally, going in and out of key seemingly every other measure. Strange that the parts I was having trouble with were probably the most straightforwards tonally speaking. Mostly Am and Dm with a Bb thrown in for good measure.
Now tonight I started something that seemed written in G. G D C with a Bm thrown in as well. So take that. All composed on the five string bass, though I've been getting an itch to drag out the 1974 Rickenbacker. Yeah, it's probably older than YOU. Only six years younger than ME!