Tuning . . .

https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/tuning.html 

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_standard_tuning) 

". . . New standard tuning (NST) is an alternative tuning for the guitar that approximates all-fifths tuning. The guitar's strings are assigned the notes C2-G2-D3-A3-E4-G4 (from lowest to highest); the five lowest open strings are each tuned to an interval of a perfect fifth {(C,G),(G,D),(D,A),(A,E)}; the two highest strings are a minor third apart (E,G). . . All-fifths tuning is typically used for mandolins, cellos, violas, and violins. On a guitar, tuning the strings in fifths would mean the first string would be a high B, something that was impractical until recently.[citation needed] NST provides a good approximation to all-fifths tuning. Like other regular tunings, NST allows chord fingerings to be shifted from one set of strings to another. . . NST's C-G range is wider, both lower and higher, than the E-E range of standard tuning in which the strings are tuned to the open notes E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4. The greater range allows NST guitars to play repertoire that would be impractical, if not impossible, on a standard-tuned guitar. . . NST was developed by Robert Fripp, the guitarist for King Crimson. Fripp taught the new standard tuning in Guitar Craft courses beginning in 1985, and thousands of Guitar Craft students continue to use the tuning. Like other alternative tunings for guitar, NST provides challenges and new opportunities to guitarists, who have developed music especially suited to NST. . . "

[Lighting in the video is virtually non-existent. The performance however, was noteworthy. Hope you agree]

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                   Chromatose

Buying Power . . .

 

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So I said,
I've got a roof o'er my head.
Some people can't even say the same thing.
But it's still not a fact
I can take any comfort in.
I want more to make up my legacy.
I'm not poor but everybody's telling me
Money can't buy everything.
You've heard it time again.
No money can't buy happiness.
When will you learn this fact of life my friend?
So I said,
I've got my very own bed.
I don't give it much thought
When I lay down my head.
But it's cold and it's lonely
In December on the street.
Why do you tell me these kinds of things.
I want more of luxuries that wealth can bring.
I want to be a squire a king a country gentleman
If I can if I can.
I want to get respect for what I have 
And not for what I am, 
Just a man, just a man.
So I said,
It's more than daily bread
That I'm talking about.
Can't you hear what I said?
You see, everything changes 
But we have to admit,
What exists needs to be recognized,
Not merely out of our fear of being duly chastised.

    

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                                     Grains

Constant . . .

 

https://www.constant.com

Money is constant. 

The thought of money is constant. 

The thought of my money is constant.

The thought of poor people who have little or no money is constant.

The Thought of people who have so much money that they cannot think of luxuries great enough to spend it on is constant.

The Thought of people who have so much money that they cannot think of luxuries great enough to spend it on but who would not dare to make an effort to help people who have little or no money is constant.

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                         No Frills

Not . . .

https://unsplash.com/s/photos/knot

 . . . normal, and certainly not upstanding . . . 

(from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/opinion/redacted-affidavit-trump.html)

". . .  the government doesn’t get to pick and choose to defend the nation’s top secrets based on politics — it doesn’t matter if the person in question is a Democrat or Republican, a former president, a secretary of state or Edward Snowden. These documents belong to the government, and their having been taken away posed a clear risk to our national security. . . In any normal case, in my experience, with a responsible, upstanding citizen who may have inadvertently taken government documents, a simple voluntary request for their return would ordinarily suffice. If that failed, a grand jury subpoena would typically do the trick. In this case, neither approach worked. The attorney general had to resort to the most intrusive method of obtaining the return of the documents, a search warrant approved by a federal court. . . "

This Is Not
- Satic-X

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   Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak

Oh The Things . . .

https://www.spring.org.uk/2014/08/how-you-can-instantly-tell-which-way-a-crowd-is-looking.php

There’s a boy in a room.

It’s a cavernous room,

With the walls all festooned

With the likenesses of

Sincere and humble, pious faces.

The eyes were watching,

Intently so.

Suspiciously watching,

But they weren’t the eyes

Of some omniscient, single, potent being.

They were the eyes of my fellow man,

And oh the things they did see.

By design or by fate,

From the boy grew the man,

And believing in magic,

Drew his comfort from what 

They called his deep faith

And perseverance.

All those around him

And the vast majority believed

In it too,

So much resembling dependent infancy 

I shudder. Shudder!

As a product of his time,

And of nurture through the years,

He pushed on where his intellect

Showed him how to proceed

Without any invasive deities.

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                          2014

More Prescience . . .

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/fox-news-fox-nation

(from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand)

". . . ". . . And you have always been first to believe that the public does not think." He paused, but Dr. Stadler said nothing. "This book may have no philosophical value whatever, but it has a great psychological value." "Just what is that?" "You see, Dr. Stadler, people don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who give them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt." . . . "

Don't Think About It
- One Way

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        Black & White Then Back

Black & White . . .

 

https://www.pinterest.com/pschappler/black-and-white-movie-stills-and-more/

Nothing in life is strictly black or white.  It's the shades that make it all so interesting. This song appears on the album Black & White Then Back but was actually written about 1993 with three, very special, little men in mind. It even has lyrics.

Innocence and wisdom coexist inside their minds,

Together with appreciation for the things we miss

In our haste and our big business.

Always in awe of the wheels spinning round

And a laugh for the foolish things big men do.

The poet said, 'Trailing clouds of glory 

We come and we go.'

What do we really know?

Smiling so brightly 

Betraying the years 

They have yet to try.

Those little men 

With that glory;

Riddles and bedtime stories;

Little men with that glory 

In their eyes.

Everybody thinks about the world and what the future brings.

Who really knows the plan and all its subtleties?

We're really smart, at least that's what we think.

Going our own way in blissful retreat

From the prospect of seeing things too clearly.

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                         No Frills