Berak Obama, Matt Smith, Peter Brickman
We went to the Obama fundraiser.
I tried to get M to go downtown for dinner at the Pike , but she didn't want to.
So the 2:00 t0 4:00 event used up the whole day and I didn't get to any day of music junk at all.
Actually David's show at the Nordstrom was the only thing I was really interested in and that happened at the same time as the Obama thing.
I'd like to pontificate on the important difference between the two events, how the political one was actively helping change the world situation and "save democracy", as Dwight Pelz put it, thereby making it the important thing, but I don't really think the choice of politicians will have any but the most negligible effect on the crushing weight of historical drift.
Democracy comes and goes.
Fascism comes and goes.
Or, more accurately it all exists at the same time and all we can do is "know when to hold 'em", et cetera.
But music is always music
(sharp eyed students of logic will notice that
the foregoing two analyses' express the same philosophy)
It just seems that any time I have a musical adventure planned, some other complication comes along to interfere.
Fr'instance the opening concert of the Seattle Philharmonic happens on the same weekend that the book group is meeting at a cabin owned by one of the Book group members.
The place is located near Spokane and is a weekend overnighter.
I was hoping to meet the cellist who has shown some interest in the duet.
Before it was too late once again to get the piece on the salon.
Anyway they raised 16,000+ bucks for the big "O" for campaign ads to annoy us with between now and November.
Part of which was our 500 buck donation and the $100 chocolate cake we bought at the auction.
An auction superbly conducted by Matt Smith, a local actor, comedian and auctioneer.
Great guy.
I once worked on a car of his that he wanted to sell.
As I remember he had to make about $150 in repairs in order to sell it for $150
Sic semper tyrannis mechanis.
Amazingly enough, he remembered me because of my policy of taking Beethoven's birthday as a holiday.
A little joke that got a bit out of hand.
We still make a yearly pilgrimage downtown on that date for Christmas shopping.
He heard about that from Peter Brickman a potter friend of my first wife, Liz.
Pequeño mundo
I tried to get M to go downtown for dinner at the Pike , but she didn't want to.
So the 2:00 t0 4:00 event used up the whole day and I didn't get to any day of music junk at all.
Actually David's show at the Nordstrom was the only thing I was really interested in and that happened at the same time as the Obama thing.
I'd like to pontificate on the important difference between the two events, how the political one was actively helping change the world situation and "save democracy", as Dwight Pelz put it, thereby making it the important thing, but I don't really think the choice of politicians will have any but the most negligible effect on the crushing weight of historical drift.
Democracy comes and goes.
Fascism comes and goes.
Or, more accurately it all exists at the same time and all we can do is "know when to hold 'em", et cetera.
But music is always music
(sharp eyed students of logic will notice that
the foregoing two analyses' express the same philosophy)
It just seems that any time I have a musical adventure planned, some other complication comes along to interfere.
Fr'instance the opening concert of the Seattle Philharmonic happens on the same weekend that the book group is meeting at a cabin owned by one of the Book group members.
The place is located near Spokane and is a weekend overnighter.
I was hoping to meet the cellist who has shown some interest in the duet.
Before it was too late once again to get the piece on the salon.
Anyway they raised 16,000+ bucks for the big "O" for campaign ads to annoy us with between now and November.
Part of which was our 500 buck donation and the $100 chocolate cake we bought at the auction.
An auction superbly conducted by Matt Smith, a local actor, comedian and auctioneer.
Great guy.
I once worked on a car of his that he wanted to sell.
As I remember he had to make about $150 in repairs in order to sell it for $150
Sic semper tyrannis mechanis.
Amazingly enough, he remembered me because of my policy of taking Beethoven's birthday as a holiday.
A little joke that got a bit out of hand.
We still make a yearly pilgrimage downtown on that date for Christmas shopping.
He heard about that from Peter Brickman a potter friend of my first wife, Liz.
Pequeño mundo
posted by Lane Savant at 11:29 AM
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Hallo, Lane!
An interesting chronicle of missed opportunities! I.e.:
Obama would have still gotten your $500 if you had gone to hear your composition-professor's Trio and Meredith went to the O-Rally and bought the cake from your former customer.
The Book Club would have still had its book confab and its day-and-night-in-the-woods if you had gone to where your interested 'cellist was performing.
Priorities, priorities, priorities.
Tschüß,
Anonomann
Hallo, Lane!
An interesting chronicle of missed opportunities! I.e.:
Obama would have still gotten your $500 if you had gone to hear your composition-professor's Trio and Meredith went to the O-Rally and bought the cake from your former customer.
The Book Club would have still had its book confab and its day-and-night-in-the-woods if you had gone to where your interested 'cellist was performing.
Priorities, priorities, priorities.
Tschüß,
Anonomann
Hallo, again, Lane!
In a previous Blog, I think you mentioned that Ilka had something(s) to say about GS's announced "retirement". I just read his Blogsite and found nothing about this there. Did the SSO "Security" make him take it off his site? Do you have a copy of it that I can view when I'm back for jury-duty? I'll fly in on 17 October; Jury Duty begins on 20 October; Election Duty on 4 November, and I fly back here on 6 November, with several "Elektras" as a Standee in that time, as well.
Tschüß,
Anonomann
Hallo, nochmals, Lane!
Also just read Jeremy's Blogsite where he jealously announced the appearance of a ghost-written "autobiography" by his non-rival key-tingler, Lang Lang. They are not rivals, at least at the piano, if not as "authors", as Jeremy is not a soloist, but an accompanist and chamber musician, while Lang is a soloist.
I was amazed to learn that the super-sophisticate Jeremy was born and raised in Las Cruces, NM!!
Also I loved your "comment" on his site about how BH-"Security" mis-
handled you when you had the fortune to experience Lang rehearsing!!! Anyone who knows BH's Thugs would find your account truly believable!!!
Tschüß,
Anonomann
Way to blast those comments out there, Anonomann! Nice to see your many edged sorties and wit back on the blog.
Another sterling post, Doug. I really dug the Fascism/democracy/music analogy. I set up a few linebreaks, titled it JACKBOOT BLUES, and posted it on FFTR. Hope you dig it. It looks pretty good actually.
Colin Powell was afraid to run for President, cuz his wife was sure some rednecked asshole would put a bullet in him. So perhaps Obama is braver, or is it more foolhardy. Perhaps we can not duck destiny. Sarah Palin scares me, with that plastic smile and her skinning knife in her purse. Arnie Zaslove sent out an email today asking, "How many children did Lady Macbeth have?" The answer was, "Five--one was a pregnant teenager and one was a developmentally delayed and disabled child." McCain and Lady Macbeth, now there is a pair to draw to.
You and Miss M do make the rounds, that is a fact. I would have contributed something to the Obama compaign, but I figure the politicians are putting their hands in my pockets on a regular basis anyway, so screw em'. I have been a life long Democrat; health, education and welfare issues, don't you know, convincing myself that FDR, JFK, Carter, Clinton were all preferable to the Nixons, Bushes both, Reagans, Goldwaters, et ceterara. But in the maelstrom of politics, in the great cauldron of world events, midst the New Crusades, being overwhelmed by technology--how do we keep up, how do we make our youth savvy, how do we protect social security, how do we hold cancer,stroke, and heart disease at arm's length???
Anyway, great comment, Sir Savant. It churned up my morning!
Glenn
Gosh, your comment, or quote, sounds a lot like a Woody Allenism. Is it?
...........Eddy E.
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