🎶 I'm called Little Dilettante Dear Digital Dilettante Though I could never tell why But still I'm so dilatory In social media purgatory Stream of consciousness blogger am I I've haikus for Mondays And tankas for Tuesdays From prompts kind people provide I post them in mornings To shake up my wake up Then on with my daily survive 🎶
Tone deaf No rhythm Left footed Stumble bum Dilettante
Hey That's Me !
In spite of all that, music has played an important part throughout my life.
Choir
Guitarist
Singer
Dancer
Editor
Actor
Listener
Sure it was a church choir, garage band guitarist, high school, college, community productions. Musical theater singer, dancer, and actor in front of big and small crowds alike. I even got paid for a summer acting gig once. Not musical, but since I’m bragging. . .
What I did get paid for and quite well thank you was as a film, video, and digital editor. There I orchestrated numerous medlies of picture, voice, music, and sound effects many times over many years. If there is no music in the way the pictures flow before the eye and the dialog plays to the ear then it’s back to the cutting room.
See Ma, I didn’t waste my entire youth on trivial pursuits.
My taste in music can be described as eclectic. As a matter of fact that pretty well describes my taste in just about everything. That being said, in regards to bands specifically; I would be hard pressed to single out bands I hate. It is equally difficult to single out bands I love. There is a wide variety and genre of songs I love, done by various and varied bands in many styles. But there are songs done by bands I like that I grew sick of due to the endless play rotation on AM radio stations.
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Now with streaming music and a well placed subscription I am given the random access algorithm that I have been waiting for my whole life. Good for me. Bad for bands livelihoods. But I keep finding new music and music from past eras that I missed. I keep discovering many old bands that are new to me but old and passe to others. Best of all I am no longer stuck with an album or CD with only one or two songs I like.
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Now with a few keystrokes it seems I can find even the most obscure band or artist from the distant past, so I can joyously relive the memories or wonder what the heck I was thinking at the time. Either way they sure don’t make em like that any more.
Lest we forget, since antiquity when The Sea Peoples came rolling up on your shores, you knew you were in big trouble. Or at least you found out quick like a bunny.
When everyone is running a criminal enterprise, no one is. Land of the free. Home of the criminal enterprise. But pirates are old timey romanticized criminal enterprises. Still more recent, the Lincoln Park pirates here in sweet home Chicago.
🎶Weigh! Hey! Tow em away 🎶
Meanwhile let us all give thanks for those hours of pirated music, videos, and intellectual properties that still circulate the dark webs; while A.I. pirates everything in the world that you can possibly imagine.
Okay, now hold your tongue and say, “I was born on a pirate ship.”
