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music in heavy rotation
Mar. 16th, 2019 10:16 amThere is a group of musical artists that I tend to play every month, on average, and a group that I play about every other week. The odd thing about these groups is that it doesn't have a lot to do with how much I love their music -- many of my absolute fave artists do not appear on these lists at all. Also, these lists tend to slowly morph over time. But, for whatever reason, the lists do seem to occur and I can't help noticing. As things stand at this moment, here they are:
Monthly
Bye Bye Badman
The Chameleons
Collective Soul
Grant Green
The Mighty Scott Hamilton
Yusef Lateef
Love
The Mighty Pat Metheny
The Mock Turtles
Thelonious Monk
Rialto
Ride
Sonny Rollins
Horace Silver
Bi-Weekly
Adorable
Arctic Monkeys
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Donald Byrd
The Dream Academy
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Hank Mobley
Ocean Colour Scene
Shed Seven
Swim Deep
Notable exceptions: for about the past ten or fifteen years, I have been listening to The Charlatans every week. And for about the past seven years, I have been listening to Sulk every day.
Monthly
Bye Bye Badman
The Chameleons
Collective Soul
Grant Green
The Mighty Scott Hamilton
Yusef Lateef
Love
The Mighty Pat Metheny
The Mock Turtles
Thelonious Monk
Rialto
Ride
Sonny Rollins
Horace Silver
Bi-Weekly
Adorable
Arctic Monkeys
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Donald Byrd
The Dream Academy
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Hank Mobley
Ocean Colour Scene
Shed Seven
Swim Deep
Notable exceptions: for about the past ten or fifteen years, I have been listening to The Charlatans every week. And for about the past seven years, I have been listening to Sulk every day.
something I am grateful for today
Mar. 14th, 2019 07:46 pma real live rainbow [too faint for my camera to catch, tho...]
something I am grateful for today
Mar. 10th, 2019 10:40 pmfinishing the first draft of my second novel -- I couldn't wait til NaNoWriMo to write it!
something I am grateful for today
Mar. 2nd, 2019 09:37 pmgetting to know a minor character better and being pleasantly surprised by what I am learning
something I am grateful for today
Feb. 27th, 2019 01:38 pmstaying inside and writing on a blustery stormy day -- yes, yet another one! [so tired...]
something I am grateful for tody
Feb. 26th, 2019 09:06 pmwriting something that made me cry -- if I can touch me, maybe I can touch someone else
something I am grateful for today
Feb. 24th, 2019 07:58 amfinding out that my budget has actually stayed more on track than I feared
something I am grateful for today
Feb. 23rd, 2019 08:13 pmmaking unusually good progress on my writing
something I am grateful for today
Feb. 22nd, 2019 02:46 pma walk in the warm sun -- best day for a walk we have had in weeks
something I am grateful for today
Feb. 21st, 2019 11:01 pmfinishing the preliminary first-draft outline of my next novel
Beatrice Wood
Feb. 20th, 2019 12:52 pmBeatrice Wood passed away in 1998, at the age of 105 years of age, with the last 25 years of her life her most productive, creating work to satisfy a growing market for her ceramics, writing books and visiting with the hundreds of people who showed up on her doorstep. When asked the secret of her longevity, she would simply offer “art books, chocolates and young men”. [emphasis added]
I only today discovered Beatrice Wood, and I am blown away by the sheer concept of her. That one could reach the peak of one’s creativity at age eighty – she didn’t begin writing til almost ninety – and keep going strong right to the end, it just dazzles me. When I think of the possibility of myself still having another forty-plus years to create in, I am in wonder and awe.
