no better time...

I really slipped with this blog. Ok, ok...I really slipped, fell, bounced down some stairs and fell unconscious with this blog. So might as well get back up and get back to work.

Note : No that isn't me, but thanks to Unsplash.com provider of free images for having "just" the right photo for this post.

musical bliss

8 months or so....

I do believe I will return back soon, very soon....

just the right Christmas song for me now..

The right new Christmas song for me (Alessia Cara - Make It To Christmas). Being away from my adopted family and friends (and some other things) always makes this a VERY tough time of year for me, and I always tell myself that I just need to make it to Christmas - and lo and behold this year I find a song that says just that...

Back to School Mr. Bean | Full Episode | Mr. Bean Official

I'm back, and yet not?

I was rather good at posting for a long period and then - I just kind of hit the wall and life got in the way. But hopefully I can restart..we'll see....

Billie Eilish - idontwannabeyouanymore

It is weird how it's be over 2 years since I first ran across Billie's music, and now it's like she is everywhere? That's cool..and yet..kind of ethereal.

unfiltered clarity

wisdom is when you think you know all the answers, and can accept you don't know every question

what truly counts...

It's not how long you live, it's how much you live.

TBI in musical form.... ? ?

This is one of my favorite Beatles tunes, "All Too Much" (a good remake by Paul Gilbert can be viewed here.), and to me it really is a good example to me of what a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) is like for someone who has no insight into what a TBI "feels" like (or better, how it can feel).
That is to say - the various layering of this song and the weaving of the sounds is how it does "feel" like with a TBI. Particularly how there's one part where the mix gets(to me) sort of muddied, and how if you just get into the song, it has several parts that have a kind of sensation of having your head in a fish bowl/underwater vibe.
Now I am not saying that having a TBI is a wonderful musical like experience, it is rarely such. But rather that with some moments of having a TBI (at least in my experiences)it is the sensation of being on an internal remix of how things are processed, and that it can feel like someone other than yourself is at the "mixing board" of your cognition. It's like someone is adjusting the equalizer of your brain. Sorry if that sounds either "trippy", or if it makes the experience sound like others might enjoy it - as I doubt that is even remotely true at all.

Tell Me Why - The Beatles

Just trying to battle another case of "writer's block", and a good Beatles song might do the trick....

one of a kind, just not your kind, which can be unkind?

I've mentioned in some of my posts about how much I enjoy music, and how my musical tastes cover such a huge spectrum of varieties.
And sometimes that includes songs that are just plain sappy and/or kitschy.
Here's a great example of such - from 2006, "Nothing in this world" from Paris Hilton.
Go ahead, roll your eyes. But it is a happy go lucky pop tune. To me it is catchy and just has a (to me) infectious groove to it. Sometimes (again in my opinion) a good song can just be a bubble gum sweet bouncy song. Sure you could gloss over this song and say it is vapid and not "deep" or "meaningful", but sometimes life's guilty pleasures are just simple and enjoyable.
But for the record - I've never followed fads, trends or tried to be "something" I'm not. I've always been the person I wanted to be, and though that might not be an opinion shared by many, who really cares?