Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Owning . . .

https://www.history.com/topics/landmarks/monticello

(from Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham)
". . . One thing was very clear as he settled back into life on the mountain: He loved, he said, the "ineffable luxury of being owner of my own time.". . . "


Time
- Pink Floyd



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Confusion . . .

https://www.pngwing.com/en/search?q=confusion

What is this song REALLY saying?


Hey daddy, hey daddy I'm all grown up
Standing at your door just like I done before
You've changed so strange you're all grown up
You wear those heels and hose dressed up in your mama's clothes
You're hip, I'm flipped, your all grown up
When I'm walking talking to ya all the time
Makes me glad all over honey so glad your mine
When you feel my touch by loving you too much
You're right, so nice, you're all grown up
Hey daddy, hey daddy I'm all grown up
You threw away those candy bars started gazing at the stars
Brand new that's you you're all grown up
When your lips so fine start closing in on mine
More thrills, more chills you're all grown up
When I'm walking talking to ya all the time
Makes me glad all over honey so glad your mine
When you feel my touch by loving you too much
You're right, so nice, you're all grown up
Hey daddy, hey daddy I'm all grown up

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Songwriters: Ellie Greenwich / Jeff Barry / Phillip SpectorAll Grown Up lyrics © Abkco Music Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group 


Dazed and Confused
- Led Zeppelin



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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Relative . . .

https://www.gillette.co.uk/blog/facial-hair-styles/zappa-beard/

(from The Baltimore Sun, May 9, 1980 https://www.afka.net/Articles/1980-05_The_Baltimore_Sun_1.htm)
"Going through life as Frank Zappa when you're not the real Frank Zappa can be very strange. Francis Vincent Zappa, 39, is a world famous guitarist/composer and founder of the now-defunct Mothers of Invention. He will bring his act to the Baltimore Civic Center Sunday -- Mother's Day. Francis Xavier Zappa, 26, works at the Giant Food store on Loch Raven boulevard. He will be moving to Seattle at the end of the month to enroll in scuba diving school. He's one of many Zappa relatives living in the musician's hometown of Baltimore. "It's weird. You tell people you're Frank Zappa and nobody believes it. When I went down to the department of motor vehicles to get my picture license, the guy called my name out over the speaker and everybody turned around and said, ‘Where? Where's he at? Where's Frank Zappa?’ "Frank X. Zappa says having a famous name hasn't caused him any problems ("it's a good way to meet girls, a real conversation piece") though he does have an unlisted phone number. '"When I lived at home people would call the house at all hours of the night and ask for Frank Zappa. My parents would think it was one of my friends and get me out of bed. I'd say ‘hello’ and the guy would say, ‘Hey Frank man, I really dig you in concert.’ A lot of the calls would be from out of town." Frank X. doesn't really know his famed cousin very well. In 1962, the younger Frank's dad, Joe Zappa, moved the family to California to open a restaurant ("Eat More") with his late brother, Francis Vincent Zappa, Sr. Frank X. was only 8 years old. (Joe and his family returned to Baltimore shortly thereafter.) "The last time I talked to him was when he played the Civic Center in 1975. I asked him if he really enjoyed all the music he put out, and I kind of got the feeling that he didn't. "I'm not going to the show Sunday. I wouldn't feel right bugging him for tickets when we never talk any other time. His music is too spacey for me. When it comes to free tickets, I'd rather have Bob Seger for a cousin." Frank X's final statement about the celebrated branch of his family tree was, "I'm going to be famous one day, too. Just give me some time."

 
You Are What You Is
- Frank Zappa
 


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Monday, January 31, 2022

Maturity . . .

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/08/02/two-more-utahns-arrested/

(from Thomas Jefferson: The Area of Power by Jon Meacham) 
". . . Jefferson came to share Immanuel Kant's 1784 definition of the spirit of the era: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity," Kant wrote. "Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another.". . . "


All Grown Up
- Johnny Horton


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Sunday, January 30, 2022

In Your Soul . . .

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/where-is-the-soul/ 

(from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare)
"The Man who has not Music in his Soul, 
Or is not touch'd with Concord of sweet Sounds, 
Is fit for Treason, Stratagems, and Spoils, 
The Motions of his Mind are dull as Night,
And his Affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted.



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Saturday, January 29, 2022

Just . . .

 . . . my ego 

https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/ego.html
Sometimes I can get my point across,
And I do it rather well.
You can see
What I think
About me.

It's just my ego.
It gets the best of me.
It's just my ego
It just won't let me be,
It just won't let me be alone.
It's not one of my most redeeming qualities.
Still though it serves me rather well sometimes.
It won't be easy to just let it go,
It's just my ego.

I take such great pride in what I do.
Everyone should take some too.
Don't you think;
Pride in me,
Not in you?

There's a fine distinction between confidence and pride.
There's a fine distinction that I'll never know.
Cloaked with some discretion you emerge from the inside.
I emerge in all my glory. 
What is there to hide?

Mother said that I would never make
Any friends if I don't see
What I'm like,
If I don't lose some pride.



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Friday, January 28, 2022

Decision . . .

 

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/in-a-world-of-
endless-choices-why-is-decision-making-so-tiring

Which side are you on?
Choose just one or the other.
God forbid you should think for yourself.
Sure there’s strength.
Yes there’s strength in the numbers.
But sometimes, you must go it alone.

Are you a them-ist?
Maybe an us-ist?
One or the other.
Decision time,
Which will it be?

There’s a world out there
And it’s teeming with wonder.
At your fingertips is the power to learn.
But you must possess
A sincere kind of yearning
To know what is real from what either one says.

So much variety.
So many choices 
To simply settle for just one or the other.
Black or white;
Just left or right.
It’s chocolate or vanilla that we have.

We’ve got shit
That requires taking care of.
More important things
Than which side wins the game.




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