Why I fucking love jazz

currently listening to Miles Davis' album Round About Midnight.

Here is why I love Jazz...

The date on this recording is 1955.

This thing...this vibe... was created 54 years ago and is STILL relevant to this day. Its like they recorded this song yesterday. Its still hold-your-head-in-your-hands cool. It reminds me that this whole humanity thing was just as relevant in the 50s as it is today. All the media I am familiar with around this time period crumbles into smokey quiet dust while this album plays.

I can picture myself in whatever venue this was recorded in... feeling the exact same way about my situation. And okay with it for now.

Were talking about nothing short of time traveling. Jazz has never been this good or evolved beyond this sexy walking bassline. Its frozen. This is it. This is Jazz as good as it will ever become and many people who enjoyed it while it was being created are no longer breathing. Yet I feel the music like its happening right now.

I fucking love miles davis and think Jazz is a perfect reminder that feeling this way will never ever grow old. It will be here when I am long gone too. Birth of the Cool indeed.

kooky

i met a legitimate sex addict tonight. it ruined her marriage. She blogs about it in graphic detail. You would never guess by looking at her the lifestyle she lives. I heard stories that just dropped my jaw.

not sure why I had to post about it. But something about secret addictions is so postable...

I want to ask her a million questions.

big show in dallas

fun times ahead in D-town. Details shortly.

Alf revisited

a while back I posted a thing about the old TV show Alf.

wikipedia explains how the cast hated each other and how it took something like 20 hours to film an episode. The main dude who played Willy mentioned that he despised acting alongside a puppet who got all the best lines.

Something about tension on the set of ALF is hilarious to me. Wiki it and check out how much everyone hated working on the show.

Awesome.

awesome interview

Tony Robbins (huge influence on me) has interviewed two of my biggest marketing influences. For me its like an interview match made in heaven.

They wanted to answer the question why some people become successful with their info-products and why some never even open the damn thing. So they met up with Tony to talk about what drives people to take action in life. I love this interview and it can be applied to anything not just making money. I hope you like it too.


http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/320/interview-with-frank-kern-and-john-reese/

great show

lots of folks came out. The sound was good. I felt good about myself. We made money. But this staying up late two nights in a row does a number on me.

No more cigarettes seriously.

checked out a really cool wine bar Monday. I stumbled onto the open mic they host every Monday and got to play a couple songs. It had been so long since I played one of them I forgot one of the chords and sort of stumbled through it every time I came to it. Funny because I have played that song MANY times.

But it felt really good to play quiet stuff again. We are normally just so loud and energetic there is something I miss about playing intensely quiet and revealing songs. I had a few great reactions and it made me want to start incorporating more of that into the band.

But I can feel attention wane when I try to do these things. This upsets me somewhat in that what I know to be well-written songs (slightly biased opinion of course) have instrumental parts that arent necessarily mind blowing which possibly bores the guys and I end up nixing it. Sucks. I guess maybe that's what solo projects are for.