Friday, June 4, 2021

Covering . . .

https://www.masterfile.com/search/en/peeking+under
. . . one of my favorite local musicians . . . 

(from https://dawilcox.com/press)
". . . Intimate, thought-provoking and on occasion, wryly humorous, Doug Alan Wilcox delivers music that will stick in your head - as well as your heart.
Over the years, Wilcox has provided support for or shared a stage with a diverse cross-section of musical talent including Peter Mayer,
Jen Chaplin, L.J. Booth, Stacey Earle, Pierce Pettis, and Peter Case.

“Passionate and insightful....”
“Funky, folky....”

"Doug Alan Wilcox has the soul of a poet and the songs to prove it. He immediately became a favorite guest on the Acoustic Highway.”
- Barry Graham, Folk music producer / WHRV FM

"I was drawn to your authentic soul-filled sound and the lyrics caught me by surprise."
- KD Morris, gallery owner

“Wilcox's honey soaked vocals can exhibit swagger and occasionally a sadness.....”
- Brian Tucker, Bootleg magazine . . . "

Distraction by Doug Allen Wilcox (from Black & White Then Back)


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Thursday, June 3, 2021

Overweight . . .

 . . . baggage?  I hope not. 

https://mymodernmet.com/heavy-bicycle-loads-10-photos/
Six AM,
The buses aren't nearly as crowded
As the night before.
Someone said there was
Music and laughter 
Behind all the shutters and doors.
What was all of it for?

Who needs friends?
There's barely a minute for breathing.
Everyone here works so hard.
There's no party.
When I reach my doorstep
I struggle to pull out my key.
Where's the meaning for me?

You see but you're unaware
There's life on the other side.

But there's no bridge to cross.
I'm looking through the fog
For some way out of here.
I've baggage here to toss.

Bless my soul!
I've read about you in the paper.
I've seen your picture somewhere.
When you speak it's in volumes and volumes.
I can't hear a word that you say.
Funny it happens that way.

I've been told 
That envy's the thing I've been feeling
For your kind of work and your play.
But to tell you the truth
That it's only a wish 
For a new kind of day,
When worry and fear melt away.

Could be 
That a day will come
When you just might understand.

I’d like to go away.
And go there to stay.
But I can’t find the way.

So it goes,
But change never really comes easy.
Resistance is felt all around. 
But inevitably something happens
That makes the old ship run aground.
We all stare in awe of what’s found.

Like me you appear to be
Looking for some meaning here.



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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Why. . .

https://www.govexec.com/management/2017/04/neuroscience-a
sking-insightful-questions/137274/
 . . . ask why?  Pay attention! Do something!

(from https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/27/us/san-jose-shooting-thursday/index.html)

". . . Biden said . . . "Once again, I urge Congress to take immediate action and heed the call of the American people, including the vast majority of gun owners, to help end this epidemic of gun violence in America." . . . The San Jose shooting suspect spoke angrily about co-workers, his ex-wife says. . .The shooter had two semi-automatic handguns and 11 magazines with ammunition, Smith told CNN. . ."They were handguns of the type that would be legal in California," Smith said, adding she didn't know how or when the gunman obtained the weapons. . . bomb-sniffing dogs alerted investigators to the gunman's locker at work. In the locker, investigators found "precursor things for explosives ... ingredients for a device," Smith said Thursday. . . Cassidy resented his work and spoke angrily about coworkers, his ex-wife says Cecilia Nelms told CNN . . . he "resented what he saw as unfair work assignments" and "would rant about his job when he got home," she said. . . Cassidy also had a strained relationship with an ex-girlfriend, court documents show, which revealed troubling allegations she made in a filing in 2009 as she responded to a restraining order he filed against her. . . described Cassidy as having mood swings that were "exacerbated when (Cassidy) consumed large quantities of alcohol," she said in the court document, and she alleged he had bipolar disorder. . . "




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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Expatriates . . .

https://www.lauraleedesign.com/los-angeles-spanish-revival 

. . . at home from  home

(from Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson)
". . . The paneled door rises a story high and would befit a museum or government office but is actually the front door of a Spanish Revival south of Wilshire. The door opens, and there stands a onetime bourbon-swilling army captain and deft-handed surgeon who, now in hi later years, is a regular at the blackjack tables and the trifectas at Santa Anita. But he is, at the heart of it all and perhaps most important, a lon-standing, still bitter, and somewhat obsessive expatriate from the twentieth-century South, the heartbreak Jim Crow land he chose to reject before it could reject him again. . . "  


                                               (An early mix of a composition, that later evolved 
                                                         substantially, with the working title "Going")



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Monday, May 31, 2021

Sharks . . .

https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/swimming-with-sharks 

The sharks, it seems, 
Are at it again.
The lazy circles resumed.
They smell your blood,
If you're out in the drink;
Your art is like a perfume.
They pretend they will help you.
Pretense, though it is.
Motives, rarely, are honest
In this tough, cutthroat biz.





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Sunday, May 30, 2021

Summer . . .

. . . begins at the beach this weekend.





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Saturday, May 29, 2021

Powerful . . .

https://unsplash.com/s/photos/sheet-music

(from https://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/power-of-music.html)
". . . Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig van Beethoven

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.
-Oliver Sacks

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
-George Eliot

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
-Martin Luther

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius

Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
-Khalil Gibran

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
-Victor Hugo. . ."




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