See, now I wanted to post “Take the A-Train”, just to drive it home, but you deserve better:
(424) Dave Brubeck Quartet - “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” live
Indubitably!
Very nice. Be difficult to unsquare dance to, but maybe some fast faux-ballet.
So how are you doing? Still bitter and misogynistic, or have you found true love, or what? I’ve missed you, for reasons somewhat unclear to me. I mean, I’ve had to argue with idiots instead of you, and that’s irritated me, but I even wanted to know what you thought about Trump.
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Dave Brubeck is a jazz legend ma’am
Yes, I’ve expanded my cultural awareness to reflect.
might I also recommend anything by Bill Evans as well
Are there words? Because music without words is lost on me. I’ll have Alexa play “cool jazz” if we’re cooking dinner and having quiet talk, but I can’t actively listen to instrumental music.
I honestly have to have words coming at me in one form or another pretty much always, either via talk, reading/writing, music, or tv. I’m pretty much unable to just sit quietly without a book or the computer, where I rarely do anything not reading-based.
An exception is when I’m physically active, which seems to quiet the noise in my head. But even then, if I’m alone I prefer music.
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The thing that made me start taking a step back is when I saw younger pictures of him. X was super genetically gifted. He looked amazing at like 18 and even though you can see he’s a big dude in the videos, he looked better as a kid. Now maybe at some point he dieted down and looked better, but living most your life as the fluffy big guy with that sort of genetics was a huge red flag to me about listening to his advice. Those pics and videos of him older aren’t impressive when you see where he started.
Hey, I think I found one (though an edited one):
So you’re saying that Mozart was correct.
(He was recently slammed in music world for being a sexist (from, what, 1700? Gee, I wonder what he thought about Injuns. And the English.) because he wrote a letter to the effect that opera has lyrics because women cannot follow the story told by music otherwise.)
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If you’re so inclined to try, it’s as simple as feeding that part of you incrementally.
I was always the type to not pay much attention to lyrics but enjoyed the melody and harmonies when applicable.
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I am saying unequivocally that Mozart was correct when he said that women - all women - require words in order to follow a musical story.
I do not apologize for my feminine weakness in this regard. And so what if I have the vapors now and then? Things get stressful.
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I will say Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony (# 6) is quite easy to understand what’s going on w/o words
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This is going to make me sound like a complete asshole, but I really am not. I have been doing meditation sporadically since the pandemic (and Headspace gave healthcare workers free access), but it’s not entirely my cup of tea - I frankly like the little lessons that precede the meditating part.
I feel I have enough time with my mind (TNation is one of the places I reflect), and if something is important I will tune everything around me out in order to think (or ponder or dream or whatever).
There needs to be a Tom & Jerry where they chase each other through a museum by running into and out of different styles of paintings-using that as the sound track.
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it’s ok, we know you 'round these parts…
Nah it didn’t make you sound like an asshole. I have been practicing meditation for years. I needed it to help with anxiety. I started with the staring at the flame in a dark room thing. I’ve gotten to the point I can clear my mind relatively quickly and control my anxiety to focus on what needs to get done.
Some days it just ain’t there. It doesn’t click. It is what it is and I totally get how it’s not everyone’s cup o’ java.
I don’t use it to reflect, that’s why I journal. I use it to clear my mind and get into a deep, releasing relaxed state. It’s very nice.
You and my wife agree. She was both baffled by the outcry over the statement and even the idea that music could tell a story without words.
I wonder if it has something to do with math and language differences among biological sexes.
Also explains why she hates Peter and the Wolf while my youngest son loves it.
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Ohmygosh!!! Hello !!
That’s why he wrote an entire opera featuring mostly just women complaining and arguing - The Marriage of Figaro.
/srcsm
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What ever happened to Chris Ottawa
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Started calling dudes gay or something, got suspended for a month or so, came back for a couple of posts a month after his suspension ended, but doesn’t seem to have made a full reappearance.
I’ve done my research, haha. Had noticed the same thing (disappearances, not the gay stuff) about a few different posters and I got curious.