I is Arisen
The spring rebirth has rekindled my wish to be proud of my city, my symphony orchestra, and even my country.
Now, Barak Obama's speech has actually given me hope.
I realize that "hope", like "freedom" or "justice" or "love" is just a matter of the imagination.
But it feels good and if you smoke it in moderation it can make you feel better for a while.
The hangover is truly unpleasant, but.
As long as you squint your eyes a little, things can seem to be looking up.
As far as my personal, musical, hopes are concerned they remain on the ethereal plane.
Things could happen, but I have had much practice in accepting reality.
No real choice there.
And as far as the SSO is concerned;
Gathering Note
has this to say in a very astute and detailed critique of SSO's performance of
JSB's B minor Mass.
My schadenfreude is about worn out on the subject of SSO's ill treatment of myself,
so I don't really feel happy about their continuing slog through the swamp of despair
Especially since the people who screwed me are gone.
Hester
Has some very good comments about racism, prejudice, and social stratification.
With which I fully agree.
Actually, I thought everyone did until I ran into the brick wall of you know who's prejudices.
Anyway, Meredith wants my help with something, so I will bid you adieu until tomorrow
Now, Barak Obama's speech has actually given me hope.
I realize that "hope", like "freedom" or "justice" or "love" is just a matter of the imagination.
But it feels good and if you smoke it in moderation it can make you feel better for a while.
The hangover is truly unpleasant, but.
As long as you squint your eyes a little, things can seem to be looking up.
As far as my personal, musical, hopes are concerned they remain on the ethereal plane.
Things could happen, but I have had much practice in accepting reality.
No real choice there.
And as far as the SSO is concerned;
has this to say in a very astute and detailed critique of SSO's performance of
JSB's B minor Mass.
My schadenfreude is about worn out on the subject of SSO's ill treatment of myself,
so I don't really feel happy about their continuing slog through the swamp of despair
Especially since the people who screwed me are gone.
Has some very good comments about racism, prejudice, and social stratification.
With which I fully agree.
Actually, I thought everyone did until I ran into the brick wall of you know who's prejudices.
Anyway, Meredith wants my help with something, so I will bid you adieu until tomorrow
Labels: It could all get much worse
posted by Lane Savant at 12:06 PM
5 Comments:
Yes, Sir Savant, "hope springs eternal in the human breast." Even the folks in Auschwitz had some hope about this and that, as did the Roman slaves in the mines of Libya during the time of Spartacus. It makes me sad that I will not live 40 more years so that I could witness how history will be written regarding the Bush wars, the oil barons, the petrol rape of the American people, the New 21st Century Crusade, and all the rest of it.
The Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar, who gave us THE SEA INSIDE, cannot read music or write it, but he does have his computer--and he created the musical score for that and others of his films. It you have the music in you, and you certainly do, then it is just a simple matter of finding the most expedient way to share it. Music will find its own level, and it will rise up out of you like rays of sunshine, ready to radiate the rest of us with wonderment.
As for your "schadenfreude" are concerned, your best and goodest friends, and your rants regarding SSO are almost always righteous. You have spent an inordinate amount of time in the "swamp of despair", but you can only emerge from that place when you are good and damned ready to do so. So of us may bitch a bit about your SSO one note concerto, but if you write it, we will read it, or listen to it, digest it, or lump it. Such is life in the big city.
One just has to accept the fact that assholes, bullies, and bitches are lurking out there, and we will encounter them whether we are ready or not. With you divesting yourself of those three vintage autos, and getting some "perspective" on the SSO ancient history--who knows, it may be a wonder Spring 2008, for all of us.
Glenn
Have I been trying to "be serious" again.
Sorry, I guess I've entered the "depressive phase" again.
I promise to be ridiculous again ASAP
I'm not the one in any swamp that's the poor people at SSO.
I'm just a snotty rich white male in excellent health punk making fun of things I can't have.
Sneering at the phonies because they are better at it than I am.
Just making junk up as I go along.
Feeling no obligation to even make sense.
Sometimes deliberately.
I'm going to go chop wood now.
You're right, Hester did have some interesting things to say about race and discrimination.
I remember back in 1960, as a sophomore in HS, a history teacher asked the class what we thought about "interbreeding". You have to remember that was still several years before Civil Rights advances from 1964 on. I made a few enemies by saying,"Mixed race children are the most beautiful, getting the best of both parents." I said further,"Why cannot we just dispense with school patriotism, and all the propoganda mantling politics. We start with feeling "special" about our group of friends, then out neighborhood, then out school, our city, our state, and our country. If an alien abducted me and inquired as to what I was, I would like to be able to say...I am an earthite; of this earth." Pretty profound stuff for a 16 year old punk. Then I said, "I think we should all get busy and breed ourselves into ONE race, and even that would have several different blends of colors; so perhaps racism will remain with us forever." And that does not begin to touch on religion, politics, sexual preference, honesty, honor, integrity, and all the rest of those important topics.
When we get down into one race, maybe we could work on developing ONE language, understood by everyone. Why not? Even the bible claims that is the way man started out on this planet, all speaking a common tongue, until the incident at Babel, and the big split in consciousness, enit?
A black, mostly, President, with an Islamic name might go along ways in dragging us kicking and screaming into the 21st century. I could dig it.
Glenn
Hallo, Lane! I clicked on "Gathering Note" and found little about GPS. More on his reading of the b-minor Mass was in RM Campbell's review ion the PI, which I read on-line. RMC didn't like the MD's sluggish tempi which I also believe can make for a boring Bach.
Tschüß,
Anonomann
Hallo, Glenn!
You wonder how, 40 years from now, "History" will treat the one whose ass sits currently on the White House toilet. The UN official responsible for the Iraq area privately advocated in a German newspaper article that that occupant and his then-counterpart in the UK should be put before a war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Tschüß,
Anonomann
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