Well…it was a somewhat interesting day yesterday…had a bee invasion through my kitchen window…got stung, and then whacked one of them on one of my blinds in the living room…the shade just shattered like glass when I hit it…must have been from the sun exposure…had to go out and buy a new one since it looked so ghetto with 5 slats broken…slept okay last night with it being a no cocktail night and that will continue through Thurs….and there were weird time-travel dreams that had Steve Jobs in it…which was fun…there was also a zoo and other places in it and California….I am sore today from the bike ride….after taking sun off, my legs were okay but everything hurts today….but, I will be out on it again after it warms up a little…not much to do today…may meet up with T later and I do have to clean my kitchen but that is about it…more later…
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Drummers…
Well…out on the bike today, my brain went off on on a tangent and started thinking about drummers and the differences in their styles and how that fits with the music and the bands that they played with. Okay…you can stop here if you don’t want to hear about it…it is, after all, just opinion and I don’t know what it will mean…but, it’s something I do from time to time. Oh, and none of this is meant to be a value judgment…just observation. So, to start, I’ve thought about the bands that I like and their drummers….Nick Mason from Pink Floyd, John Bonham from Led Zepplin, Manu Katche who plays with Peter Gabriel, and Keith Moon from the Who. Of the group, I think Nick Mason is the simplest….when you listen to Dark Side of the Moon for example, there is nothing fancy or complicated there but it just fits with the style of the music..it’s even better when you see him live…there is just something about it….then, with John Bonham…it’s pure power, not busy at all but more of hypnotic, trance like drumming that goes so well with the mysticism in many of their songs…Kashmir comes to mind or When the levee breaks….Manu Katche seems to be a hybrid with more African type beats but that may be a product of Gabriel’s writing more than anything…seems to be medium busy and complex…then, you have Keith Moon who is one of the busiest drummers I have ever heard….again, though, I think he fits the Who’s style which is more in your face…daring you to like it or not. Okay, my opinions… and I’m not sure why I even wrote this…and I’m not sure I even like it….but, it did get me caught up for the month so that is something…
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…
Well…you should see my face, I’m grinning so much from this little piece of news that I think I’m going to hurt it…if you haven’t heard, the second largest broadcaster in the US is going to dump Rush Limbaugh since they can’t get any advertisers for his show anymore…other than natural “manhood” enhancers or gold sellers…and it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy (snark)…this idiot has been almost solely responsible for the coarsening of the political discourse in this country and his hate filled spewing has emboldened the other crazies on the right to do the same…I hope this is a harbinger of things to come for the repubs across the country so we don’t have to listen to this nonsense anymore….yay…
July 29th
Well….running late again today and it is because of the cocktails last night…just having a hard time getting moving today…it was an okay day yesterday with the race and the US winning the gold cup but not looking as good as they have in the earlier matches…slept okay but I think I didn’t eat enough even with skipping the bike ride….I do need to get some stuff done around here today and get back into the routine….so, that is what I’m going to do right now…have to post over at Kos and then get going…more later…
Need to cheat a little…
Well…since I’m running out of month and running behind, I do feel the need to cheat a little and just do one with random thoughts…I did decide to not ride the bike today and give the legs a rest…but, there was some trail weirdness that I haven’t relayed yet…another pregnancy test on the trail…I wonder if there is a different life on the trail late at night that I just never see since I am out during the day? I did have a bird attack the other day, too, but that one is just about normal now..just some small black bird that is protecting something…or maybe it just doesn’t like my hat….the bike has been working perfectly so I guess it is time for it to break again…but, the cool thing is that I know how to fix everything that can break so there is no stress…just don’t want it to break on the trail and have to walk back…I am getting excited that the US is playing at 4…but, I am so tired today for some reason that I may nap through it…hope not….more later…
July 28th
Well…it was another day yesterday where I didn’t get much done…just kind of vegged it and cooked…and today looks like more of the same and I may even take the day off from riding…I am going to blame that on the rain but I do need to rest the legs and let the pain go away…but, it will be a fight with guilt all day if I don’t ride…slept okay last night and just laid in bed for almost an hour after I woke up…something I never do….so, the day has started out a little strange….I do have to clean the bathroom today…the spiders have taken over and I do need to get rid of them and clean the shower…and the floor, and the sink….so that is the big plan for the day…along with watching the US play in the gold cup final later…thought they were playing Mexico but Panama beat them so that should be good…more later…
More republican hypocrisy…
Well…with all of the stories on Detroit’s bankruptcy, the one thing has struck me more than anything else is the height of the repub hate of the city….with Rand Paul spouting that there is no way in hell that he would ever vote to help them out and that has been echoed by the normal group of crazies on the right…and no, that’s not what I don’t understand…I have come to expect nothing but racism and meanness from the repubs…but, these are the same folks that had no problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan to rebuild those countries after we destroyed them, but they can’t see why it’s the federal government’s responsibility to help out in Detroit. Well…let me point it out to you…Detroit is part of America! The people that live there are US citizens! What the hell kind of world do the repubs want? One where…oh, yeah, that’s right…they want a world that is winner take all and to hell with everyone who is not connected, white, and Christian….this crap has got to end….geez…
July 27th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one yesterday and now that means I need to do three today…but that is a concern for later…it was an okay day yesterday but I got whipped at pool again…I did make an 8 ball on the break so that was some small consolation….and, with the cocktails last night, I feel a little crappy today and that is why I’m running so late…it looks like it’s going to be a low key day today with nothing but cooking and cleaning in it…I am going to run the slow cooker today and that is something I need to get to right now so I can get out on the bike….I may have to take a day off the bike in the near future since my legs are constantly in pain and stiff…but, not today…more later…
July 26th
Well…feel kind of crappy today with going out to meet up with C for a few more than a couple last night…but it was fun and good to get out and see a few people after being in since last Sat…other than that, it was just a normal day with the normal stuff going on….slept okay, I think, but I am quite tired today and I hope that the bike ride will help with that…I’m sure I didn’t eat enough and that is part of it…but, you’ve heard me bitch about that more than enough times…I am going to try to eat a lot this weekend to make up for it…making some slow cooked chicken that may help….not much to do today…..might have pool day but I’m not sure about that…more later…
The lack of outrage is doing me in…
Well…I have been working on trying to circumvent the lack of outrage lately but trying to make some faux outrage…is not working at all so I really don’t know what to write about…politics has reached the level of absurdity that I can’t top with the repubs going off the rails constantly…I really can’t believe how crazy these folks have gotten…the latest one that has me shaking my head is an editorial in the Detroit News yesterday arguing against medicaid expansion here in Michigan since when it was done in other states, not as many people signed up as was projected so we should not make it available to anyone who can’t afford insurance….or the other day, too…when ole Steven King. R from crazyland, said that he could spot an illegal immigrant from their “cantalope sized calves” that they get from carrying 75 pounds of drugs across the border…and sadly, I’m not making this up….then in another fit of the crazy…there are about 14 repub senators who say they will crash the world economy unless Obamacare is repealed…going along with ole Boehner who says that he will hold the debt ceiling hostage unless every safety net is destroyed….never mind that before Obama, the debt ceiling was raised 57 times with no drama…I wonder what the difference is now…hmmmm…could it be because the repubs are a bunch of racist hacks? No wonder the repub controlled congress is at the lowest approval rating in history…we just need to do something to throw these know-nothing idiots out in 2014…geez…