Enjoy Your Life Day everyone! Go have fun! Share a smile or a laugh or some kind of deep intense moment with someone.
Happy Birthday to all of you, especially if you already make me happy somehow.
Happy Celebration of Your Life Day to Bill Palinski and my friend Robert's grandmother Evelyn, who was buried today on her birthday the day after her daughter's birthday. She had a long and loving life, and it was fitting that they waited three months to celebrate her life on the same day she entered the world and brightened the world of everyone around her. I'm sorry I could not be there to attend.
Thank you, Billy, for living your life so joyfully and openly, and attempting to make connections with almost anybody, in such a way that has caused anyone lucky enough to find their way into your wonderful web to follow suit in their own way. I'm sorry I could not be there to attend the party this year.
Thank you, Evelyn, for always taking care of me after school when I came over to visit, and driving Robert to my house so we could hang out, and buying orange soda whenever you knew I was coming over. Thank you for being so kind and warm, and loving one of my best friends ever, and taking care of him and encouraging him to play such amazing music.
There will be a post tomorrow about New York City and how it furthered my love of jazz, classical and experimental music, and how that helped me have the best experiences of my life when traveling the world, and how that's always helped me to enjoy life, whatever else was going on at the time
I already wrote a first draft, but that glorious music is too important and fantastic to rush. I think I'll listen to a lot more of it today.
Until then, if you are at all bored and want a clue as to how you can enjoy your day a little better, you are only a click or two away from listening to my favorite all time classical and jazz songs:
Happy Birthday to all of you, especially if you already make me happy somehow.
Happy Celebration of Your Life Day to Bill Palinski and my friend Robert's grandmother Evelyn, who was buried today on her birthday the day after her daughter's birthday. She had a long and loving life, and it was fitting that they waited three months to celebrate her life on the same day she entered the world and brightened the world of everyone around her. I'm sorry I could not be there to attend.
Thank you, Billy, for living your life so joyfully and openly, and attempting to make connections with almost anybody, in such a way that has caused anyone lucky enough to find their way into your wonderful web to follow suit in their own way. I'm sorry I could not be there to attend the party this year.
Thank you, Evelyn, for always taking care of me after school when I came over to visit, and driving Robert to my house so we could hang out, and buying orange soda whenever you knew I was coming over. Thank you for being so kind and warm, and loving one of my best friends ever, and taking care of him and encouraging him to play such amazing music.
There will be a post tomorrow about New York City and how it furthered my love of jazz, classical and experimental music, and how that helped me have the best experiences of my life when traveling the world, and how that's always helped me to enjoy life, whatever else was going on at the time
I already wrote a first draft, but that glorious music is too important and fantastic to rush. I think I'll listen to a lot more of it today.
Until then, if you are at all bored and want a clue as to how you can enjoy your day a little better, you are only a click or two away from listening to my favorite all time classical and jazz songs:
"Joy of Man's Desiring" by Johann Sebastian Bach
"Ode to Joy" by Ludwig van Beethoven
6th Symphony, "Pastoral" by Beethoven
5th Symphony, 4th Movement by Beethoven
"Raindrop Prelude" by Frederic Chopin
Mozart is always welcome. Ask Albert Einstein.
The Edvard Grieg album my sister gave me.
"Acknowledgment" by John Coltrane
"Mr. PC" by John Coltrane
"Milestones" by Miles Davis
"Autumn Leaves" by Davis and Coltrane
"Moanin" by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
"Better Git It In Your Soul" by Charles Mingus
"Take Five" by Dave Brubeck
The Shape of Jazz to Come by Ornette Coleman
Although they are not classical,
I love the piano covers of Radiohead by Christopher O'Riley.
Also, completely in their own category,
are The Books.
Although they are not classical,
I love the piano covers of Radiohead by Christopher O'Riley.
Also, completely in their own category,
are The Books.
I love any music from Hiromi,
which both mixes and transcends
classical, jazz and progressive rock music.
If you're in the New York City area,
I seriously tell you to get yourself over to the
http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/
http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/
and wait in line for bar seats.
The first time I saw her I did that.
My friends and I were the last three to get seats,
and we got seats right behind her.
and we got seats right behind her.
It was the best show I'd ever seen,
but it's been replaced ten times, that is,
each time I've seen her since.
The best three shows I saw in New York City while I lived there
were the last three shows I saw when I lived there
and they were Hiromi' Sonic Bloom,
Christopher O'Riley plays Rachmaninoff and Radiohead,
and Wordless Music presents The Books and Timothy Andres.
And Hiromi again, during a visit to the city after moving away,
a few months before traveling for a long time.
each time I've seen her since.
The best three shows I saw in New York City while I lived there
were the last three shows I saw when I lived there
and they were Hiromi' Sonic Bloom,
Christopher O'Riley plays Rachmaninoff and Radiohead,
and Wordless Music presents The Books and Timothy Andres.
And Hiromi again, during a visit to the city after moving away,
a few months before traveling for a long time.
Shows like those and days like these make me miss New York and all the people I love there, but I gotta say that I just saw Hiromi and Sigur Ros in San Francisco, and it's a gorgeous day outside, so I think I'll go for a walk and a ride and check out the tide at Half Moon Bay and see what the canoe can do.
Whatever I do, I'll have incredible music to listen to.
If you're a musical master, thank you.
If not, the music is waiting there to be enjoyed
BY
LIVING
BREATHING
DREAMING YOU
If not, the music is waiting there to be enjoyed
BY
LIVING
BREATHING
DREAMING YOU
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