Current location:	Chained To The Pillars
Current mood:	Com Saudades
Current music:	Regina Spektor - Samson

Musing

It's been a cool and overcast day, the kind that one usually associates with Seattle and/or London - though I've been in Seattle and seen the sunshine, so I have to wonder if that's not just a myth - but it's also the kind of day that most people would call 'dreary,' and indeed, there've been times when I've found such days to be on the dismal side.

But you know, mostly I find gray days like this to be soothing, cause bright sunshine tends to hurts my eyes, and I guess I'm actually left a bit more mellow for all the soft light of a truly cloudy day.

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Anyway, it's a cloudy Wednesday and I'm on Daddy-Duty today, and in fact I was on Daddy-Duty all last week, too, as Mrs. Muzzy was out of the country to her paternal uncle's memorial service. I actually worked from home about half-time, brought home my work laptop and logged in from here, but there was also all the attendant running around with the kiddies, especially LK, who is only in half-day kindergarten.

At least, as of this week, Kiddie Choir is over for the summer, and we don't have to rush over there after school, so I've been lolligagging about this afternoon, after taking LK to her therapy appointment, watching YouTube videos, and chatting with friends online, old and new.
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I must say, I am very shy in social groups, and I find that I'm much the same on social networking sites, as well. It's not that I can't interact with people, but there are times when I'm just at loss for words.

I remember in the early days of Compuserve and America Online, I'd wander into chat rooms and just watch the stream of text flow by on the screen, fascinated with the ease that others seemed to have, and feeling completely mute. Occasionally someone would call out a 'hey there,' and try to entice me into the discussion, but I'd just lurk, and eventually leave.

Nearly twenty years later, little has changed.

But you know, it's different here on my blog, I mean, this is my soapbox, and yes, there are days/weeks/months when I'm just off the whole experience, and feel lexicologically congested, but then there's other times when it feels like the words are just there, waiting to be plucked, and dressed, and presented to the world, though I admit that today is not one of those days.
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It's strange, I own maybe a thousand record albums, nearly as many CD's, and hundreds of gigabytes of digital music, and there's only about ten or twelve albums worth of tunes that I ever listen to - ever, and of those ten, there are maybe three albums that I listen to regularly. It's not that I never listen to new music, cause my favorite albums are constantly being updated with new ones, often things that have yet to hit the mainstream, and won't be 'popular' until next year.

BTW, I'm baffled by those of my peers who prattle on about how nothing good has been recorded since some Steve Miller or Boston album that came out back when they were in college? I can't imagine not listening to only to music that evoked my high school days, or young adulthood, mostly because my teens and twenties were massively depressing, but also because there's just so much great music being made today.

And that's just it, I *do* listen to alot of new music, all the time, in fact, but I guess I'm not that different than the young skulls-full-of-mush who are coming of age at present, in that I use last.fm, Pandora and YouTube to try stuff out, and I don't go to the store to buy CD's much any more, cause with the advent of the many online music stores, and the likes of Limewire - which I've only heard of, you know - it's easier than ever to assemble one's own 'Now That's What I Call My Favorite Music' playlists, and just bypass the purchasing of albums, altogether.

(Shame on bands and record companies for putting out albums and collections with one or two great songs, and the rest just tripe filler. If they'd offer up a dozen great tunes, we'd all rush out to buy twelve great tunes, I have to imagine.)

I was just struck by all this when I went to my iPod yesterday to listen to something at work, and scrolled thru some 2000 songs without finding a thing that looked interesting enough to press 'play,' and I had to wonder just WTH I have all that music cluttering up my shelves and hard drives for.

I'm just sayin'.
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Anyway, I'm feeling completely distracted right now by my two lovely daughters and their whooping and hollering, so I think I'll let all the writing go for the evening, but I really to think I need to return soon to vent my political spleen, as, well, check back in a few, and I'll try to put down something or other, in due season.

Shalom.


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