Friday, December 23, 2022

Pianos . . .


On very special occasions
When celebrating felt right,
This place we’d go to,
With ambience and wine,
On a Saturday night. 
Caricatures hung on the wall
Eavesdropping on our most intimate moments.
“I love you.”

It was essential to go there
To mark the passage of time
Between the dates we used to signify
The bond we shared and to dine.
Always served Angus A-1 prime
To patrons of each and every persuasion.
I loved you.

But now that place is all gone.
Where did our love go?
Where is the ambience and
McCafferty’s piano?

While you eat you’re serenaded 
By some local musician
Playing bad renditions of the popular songs.
You sing along.

And so it ended.
Our passion somehow
Just faded away.
And likewise too,
That place we held diving
Became a dance club today.
The memories come charging in.
Sweet dreams and all the romancing related
Are gone now.




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Thursday, December 22, 2022

All Night . . .


"There's a special satisfaction 
When a job comes off so right
Better break out the good stuff
The boss wants to party all night"
-from Good Stuff by Donald Fagan 

I know the feeling, but fortunately have never experienced it in thsese specific circumstances, nor do I want to.  But the musical vibe is capital. 


Good Stuff

- Donald Fagen



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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Well . . .

 


A joyous, celebratory melody by Jay Graboski of OHO which seems appropriate for posting during this, the holiday season. It's called 'Well I'll Be.'





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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

The Law . . .

(from https://boingboing.net/2022/12/12/trumps-bid-to-end-the-mar-a-lago-fbi-investigation-ends-in-humiliation-for-his-pet-judge.html
". . . Trump's very loyal appointee, Judge Aileen Cannon, has been repeatedly humiliated over her willingness to ignore the law in favor of her pal. Following orders from a federal appellate court, Cannon has been forced to dismiss Trump's lawsuit attempting to halt the FBI investigation into his hoard of stolen classified materials. Cannon's performance, in this case, has served as a stellar example of how packing the courts with inexperienced sycophants from the Supreme Court on down is slowly helping destroy the rule of law. . ."


I Fought The Law

- The Bobby Fuller Four



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Monday, December 19, 2022

Striving . . .


It never fails, just when it seems a song (or a project) is finished, you notice that it needs JUST ONE MORE THING. . . or sometimes a few more things. In any case, it just may happen again.  But here's the newest rendering of 'Fool' with some sonic additions. 





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Sunday, December 18, 2022

Freeing . . .

(from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/sports/soccer/qatar-and-russia-bribery-world-cup-fifa.html)
". . . After years of investigations and indictments, the United States Department of Justice . . . said for the first time that representatives working for Russia and Qatar had bribed FIFA officials to secure hosting rights for the World Cup in men’s soccer. . . . Prosecutors made the accusations in an indictment charging three media executives and a sports marketing company with a number of crimes, including wire fraud and money laundering, in connection with bribes to secure television and marketing rights for international soccer tournaments. . . "

". . . the culture in and around sports at all levels is consistently one of violence without consequence. Players from high school through to the pros seem to have a much higher chance of committing an over-the-line personal foul against another player in a game and suffering a suspension for a game or two than they do of committing an over-the-law offense against another human being in the real world and suffering any kind of meaningful legal consequences. . . These weren’t problems with just my teams, they were problems with virtually all teams. . . Despite the fact that I had very personal reasons to find the abusive behaviors of so many in professional and college sports especially abhorrent and despite the fact that I had professional reasons to stop supporting institutions who made a mockery of academic integrity, I chose to look the other way for a very long time in the name of indulging my favorite pastimes. It didn’t matter. . . Not keeping up with sports and not watching games has been a tremendous freeing up of my time, a much needed boon to my intellectual and creative development, a benefit to my psychological and physical health, and an overall worthwhile decision at this stage in my life. . ."
 
 
Free

- Chicago
 


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