Ever listen to a piece of music that was totally sad and a bit depressing, but one you couldn’t stop listening to because you loved it so much? That’s where I am right now with a song called Ashokan Farewell. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it was the overall theme music for Ken Burn’s great multipart documentary The Civil War that aired on PBS about 20 years ago.
Simple violin and guitar, playing what I consider a cross between a dirge and a serenade. It makes me sad every single time I hear it, but at the same time, I simply adore it. I actually loaded it into my phone, so that whenever the urge strikes me, I can listen to it.
= + = + =
Once in a while, you get one of Those Moments that kind of sticks in your memory, stands out from all of the other gibberish that we all have to deal with.
The wife and I are kind of a strange couple, in that we don’t actually do a lot of shit together. I’ll get home from work, and we’ll talk briefly, but end up with her in the bedroom watching Filipino TV and me in the living either watching TV or farting around with the computer. It’s not that we don’t love each other; it simply means that we are both into different stuff for entertainment.
Last night, we sat around the kitchen table and talked, for a good long time, about important things and things that are not important. It reminded me, yet again, how insanely beautiful and fascinating my wife is. It was one of those moments when a guy has to count his blessings and be thankful for what he has, rather than what he may want or thinks he deserves.
Why this woman married a knucklehead like me, I have no idea.
= + = + =
If you haven’t discovered it yet, there is a wonderful site on the web where you can obtain free music, if you are a cheap bastard like me. If you have ever been on YouTube and heard something that you wanted for your very own, there is a way to obtain it. While you are rocking out on YouTube, open another browser window and go to listentoyoutube.com. You then copy and paste the URL of the song that you want for your own self into that page, and it will strip the audio and convert it to an MP3. Pretty cool if you are looking for rare shit that people have posted, or just want to hear the audio of something that you saw, like an interview.
= + = + =
More later. Lots of deep stuff swimming through this noggin of mine that I need to capture in a format that normal people can understand.
