Vladimir Ashkenazy
Beethoven's Piano Concerto # 5 (Emperor): Rondo
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Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
My youngest is 13 and feeling it.
Daughter # 2 is 23 and excited to be buying her first car. New.
My oldest 25 and going to make me a grandfather in September.
I remember sitting with her on the couch when she was 1 or 2 and had chicken pox, watching the latest Blizzard to End All Blizzards march across the U.S.
And scarlet fever with them. Boyfriend breakups.
Vacations at the Maryland shore. Asateague. Williamsburg.
Their wonder at Niagara Falls. How quickly bleach will destroy a stainless steel paring knife. And in the butterfly they hatched from a caterpillar.
Teaching them to fish (oh you dirty bird) and shoot and backpack. How to start a fire with 1 match. And keep it going in the rain.
That day feeding the geese. And a wild horse dropping a mouthful of grass in my lap through the open car window.
It's not where you've been with them or what you've seen.
But how they remember it.
I told them none of this calling me grandpa or poppop stuff.
I am to be referred to as Dude.
Hooboy.
Daughter # 2 is 23 and excited to be buying her first car. New.
My oldest 25 and going to make me a grandfather in September.
I remember sitting with her on the couch when she was 1 or 2 and had chicken pox, watching the latest Blizzard to End All Blizzards march across the U.S.
And scarlet fever with them. Boyfriend breakups.
Vacations at the Maryland shore. Asateague. Williamsburg.
Their wonder at Niagara Falls. How quickly bleach will destroy a stainless steel paring knife. And in the butterfly they hatched from a caterpillar.
Teaching them to fish (oh you dirty bird) and shoot and backpack. How to start a fire with 1 match. And keep it going in the rain.
That day feeding the geese. And a wild horse dropping a mouthful of grass in my lap through the open car window.
It's not where you've been with them or what you've seen.
But how they remember it.
I told them none of this calling me grandpa or poppop stuff.
I am to be referred to as Dude.
Hooboy.
Yeah, this is another music post. Sue me.
I know there have been alot of them lately but, with the way things are, it gets frustrating beyond belief to keep writing and reporting about the same hijinks and shenanigans day in and day out without driving yourself crazy.
No one seems to listen, let alone learn from it.
Except here, of course. And the other blogs that have their head on straight.
The economy is in free fall. See Epa's post below. We are not digging ourselves outn of this and it doesn't seem anyone is trying to. At best, they seem to be looking for a way to avoid the blame when the bottom finally gives way.
The MENA is ready to explode. Quite frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't already. I expected full scale war with Israel months ago.
But you'd never know it from the newscasts and spin from D.C.
By the way, we're well past the 60 day war powers act mark. No one is talking about that, either. Not even Congress who should be screaming their fool heads off.
And what are the big stories being reported?
Arnold. Ok, that was last week's flavor.
This week it's Weiner's weiner. And all the trouble he's going through to avoid saying it was not his weiner.
Was it lewd? Sure. Unbecoming a U.S. congressman? Sure.
But, if it was his weiner, did he break any laws? She was 21 and he was still clothed. You see worse than that in any underwear commercial.
We got real problems here, folks. Ask anyone along the Mississippi or in the midwest.
So, for everyone who is as frustrated as Pastorius and I are, who really wonder why we keep shouting into what sometimes seems to us to be the void, this post's for you.
I know there have been alot of them lately but, with the way things are, it gets frustrating beyond belief to keep writing and reporting about the same hijinks and shenanigans day in and day out without driving yourself crazy.
No one seems to listen, let alone learn from it.
Except here, of course. And the other blogs that have their head on straight.
The economy is in free fall. See Epa's post below. We are not digging ourselves outn of this and it doesn't seem anyone is trying to. At best, they seem to be looking for a way to avoid the blame when the bottom finally gives way.
The MENA is ready to explode. Quite frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't already. I expected full scale war with Israel months ago.
But you'd never know it from the newscasts and spin from D.C.
By the way, we're well past the 60 day war powers act mark. No one is talking about that, either. Not even Congress who should be screaming their fool heads off.
And what are the big stories being reported?
Arnold. Ok, that was last week's flavor.
This week it's Weiner's weiner. And all the trouble he's going through to avoid saying it was not his weiner.
Was it lewd? Sure. Unbecoming a U.S. congressman? Sure.
But, if it was his weiner, did he break any laws? She was 21 and he was still clothed. You see worse than that in any underwear commercial.
We got real problems here, folks. Ask anyone along the Mississippi or in the midwest.
So, for everyone who is as frustrated as Pastorius and I are, who really wonder why we keep shouting into what sometimes seems to us to be the void, this post's for you.
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