[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.
~ Matthew 10:29
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Sparrows? Fuhgeddaboudit. God even knows the destiny of every single dryer sheet!!
~ STMcC 4:20
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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I figured you're - well now that you mention it - you're drinking is legend. Anybody can drink but to drink and do things so cool is legendary. Like Morrison who lives.
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Debbie Downer/Grumpy Gus here. I agree that Martin's drinking was an act and - depending on the mood, Martin was as good depending on the mood better than Sinatra (don't have me killed).
I heard that after Dino's son* died in a plane crash, Dino really drank for real, drinking in his house, walking to the bar to drink, walking back o the house to drink. He really started to drink for real. Numb. Dino just kind of faded away after his son died. Had nothing to live for. Cheers!
Reality.
You have to admit that Dean Martin is better than Richard Cheese? I admit Dean Martin is better than Richard Cheese. Yet I've listened to Richard Cheese songs exponentially more than Martin. I have no idea what it means. Cheers! I figured you're - well now that you mention it - you're drinking is legend. Anybody can drink but to drink and do things so cool is legendary. Like Morrison who lives.
* Dino's son, Dino Bravo wait that's wrestler. There's a movie he starred in called Players. You know how you have a huge collection on vinyl albums, replace every one with a CD - I have no vinyl album anymore - and there's a few vinyl albums that aren't available on CD and thus become legend. Like the people in the forest of Fahrenheit 451 who memorized in one person per song. I paid over $40 to get an import from Australia of Bananarama's first album on CD. Then Josie Cotton and Bonnie Hayes' albums weren't on CD. I wasn't that concerned about it but later they were on CD. So I think my whole worthwhile vinyl collection is on CD. What I'm getting at is Dean Martin's son - his movie players I checked less than a few years ago not available on DVD. I'm not going to look it up right now because it's too difficult. Also Robbie Benson's One On One. I know movie critics later in his career started to get annoyed - they said it not me - with the soft spoken "aw shucks" But that's who he is. Let's face it. The big lions Pacino, DeNiro, whoever they play themselves in every movie. So I don't understand why critics would - well their critics, they're not actors. Nixon has a book "In The Arena" the title being huge subtext "I'm in the game" and you reporters are on the sidelines. Spiro Agnew in particular would call the press out - Trump is in a grand tradition. But JHC I've never seen anybody and his team go after the press like These Days.
Yea! I got a post on your site. If you see my earlier post here, I tried to post it on one of your other posts and the damn computer told me - I forget - something to the effect of "your content doesn't fit in this format." Anyway it looks like I finally got a comment through. About to press "publish" with my fingers crossed.
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DeleteI remember (circa 1988?) telling this gal that I would NEVER even begin buying compact discs until Van Morrison's 'Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart' was available on CD. Which I thought would NEVER be the case.
1-2 hours later, the gal showed up again with a copy of Van Morrison's 'Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart' on CD for me.
THAT started the process of me transitioning all of my vinyl LPs to CD.
It's funny that half of the LPs I had at that time I didn't still like well enough to re-purchase on CD. And today, I no longer even still have that 'Inarticulate Speech...' Van Morrison CD.
You probably know a lot more about computers and HTML than I do, but try this:
In the future, if you have trouble posting a comment on any of my blog bits, go back through your comment and remove any of these: > <
I have that happen to me every once in awhile, where the system thinks a > or a < is an incorrect HTML formatting attempt.
Of course, I don't know if that was REALLY the cause of the problem for you, but I believe the only times I've ever run into similar troubles is when I've had a > or a < in the text and the system rejected the entire comment, thinking it was wrongly formatted.
~ D-FensDogG
Stephen T. McCarthy Reviews...
Exactomundo Fonzie. I consistently got the message ""Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not closed" I knew you turned to jazz. That brown eyed girl with the Van Morrison CD.
ReplyDeleteI was into jazz for about one year and the only reason was that people I knew who are cool are into jazz. Then I returned wholeheartedly to popular music. Because, I believe in what's popular - I believe in the people. Truly, jazz folks are more.. musical.
Not popular like Jackson Brown. Jazz is a lot of little hooks all over the place (imho hooks buzzing all in the air like a herd of independent mosquitoes) as opposed to one huge hook.
Oh, yeah, absolutely, that was the issue then. "Tag is not closed" always means the system thinks you're trying to use a > or < as an HTML code.
DeleteYou've gotta watch the slashes, too (/), as they're also part of that HTML formatting.
It's possible that, in just that one year, you did not stumble upon the particular form of Jazz you would like best. There are as many forms of Jazz as there are forms of Rock (50s R'n'R, Doo-Wop, Rockabilly, Pop, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Country-Rock, Prog-Rock, Punk, New Wave, et al.)
Jazz also has a ton of subdivisions like that. I like almost all forms of Jazz, but it's possible you might find just one or two (or none) that appeals to you.
Eventually, I intend to use in BOTB the recording that I credit for being the one that really drew me into Jazz. Although it happened over a period of time -- not all at once.
Hmmm.... The idea of a herd o'hooks in Jazz -- I had not thought of it in that way before. I've always thought of the Modern Free-Form version of Jazz more as a single theme (or hook) with lots of variations on it and embroidery added to it, before the band returns again and again to the principal theme or hook.
But there are so many types of Jazz. (As I'm typing these words, 'WAVY GRAVY' by Kenny Burrell is playing. Very funky 'n' soulful Jazz.)
I believe the primary appeal of Jazz to me is that it predominantly employs the instruments I like the sound of best -- electric organ, saxophones, and trumpets.
When I was a teenager, music was mostly about fast 'n' loud guitars for me. But as I got older, that all started to sound too similar and lacking nuance to me.
Then one day I was driving through the heart of Hollywood (on my way to a movie studio, if I recall correctly) and this very Jazzy-Rock song was played by the radio station I was listening to, and I had one of those "Hokey-Smoke!" moments. Ha!
Have a terrific weekend, McBrother!
~ D-FensDogG
STMcC Presents 'Battle Of The Bands'
POSTSCRIPT:
I've got a new 'BOTB' installment coming up this next Tuesday. Unfortunately, I fear this one may not exactly be your mug of beer. ...It's not Jazz, though.
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"Eventually, I intend to use in BOTB the recording that I credit for being the one that really drew me into Jazz." Sounds like a gateway drug into jazz.
ReplyDeleteI'm listening literally to "Wavy Gravy" as I type this. Understood anybody who doesn't like a broad genre "It all sounds the same" isn't going to note(ice) subgenres. An acquired taste - but imagine someone saying "I don't like beer" (sacrilege!)... but you haven't tried Beck's or Molson's Ale... "No you don't understand I just don't like beer." If I had to choose, the jazz that is spacious - can create huge spaces. Free form jazz would be my last choice - I'd have to take 4 years of calculus to find a pattern out of it.
I like Kraftwerk, they're not at the top of my list - but that would be the broad genre of the subgenres that make sense.
On a side note out of the blue I didn't know "Wavy Gravy" was a phrase before the hippy guy you know the hippy guy named Wavy Gravy.
Cheers. Looking forward to the BOTB. You always write for even not popular songs equally in proper context.
Someone saying "I don't like beer" makes less sense now than it did 20 years ago. Because the whole craft beer movement has taken it so far that almost anything can fall under the category of "Beer".
DeleteWho was it? New Belgium brewing company, maybe. But someone came out with a (so-called) "beer" based on Ben & Jerry's cookie dough ice cream. I saw that and said: "OK, we have now entered into the Star Wars 'Cantina' scene phase of brewing."
It had gone too far, IMO.
And how can New Belgium's Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough Ice Cream Beer and Sierra Nevada's Bigfoot Barleywine Ale both fall under the same general heading?
That's like comparing apples and... rutabagas.
Yeah, I'd heard the name of the hippie Wavy Gravy, but I don't know the first thing about him. ...I prefer to keep it that way, too. (Anybody who'd call himself "Wavy Gravy" is probably someone who would also drink Cookie Dough Ice Cream Beer. ...They should never be allowed to leave the Star Wars 'Cantina'.)
~ D-FensDogG
STMcC Presents 'Battle Of The Bands'