What's on your mind now?

[Bob]

Pain is very motivating.



The thought passed through my mind today...  My goal really isn't happiness.  It's being productive.   Then I realized I thought that and was thinking it's more about control than productivity.  I think I'd rather have control over things more than be happy.

[outin]

Pain is very motivating.

Not really unless you're a masochist...Avoiding pain is a much better motivator...

[thalbergmad]

Pain is very motivating.

I think Bernard Hainault said something similar.

Thal

[Bob]

Not really unless you're a masochist...Avoiding pain is a much better motivator...

That's still the pain being motivating. 

[Bob]

 
OH GOD WHERE IS MY GUN
by Vitaly S. Alexius

[thalbergmad]

What a horrible creature.

Reminds me of one of my ex girlfriends.

Thal

[visitor]

What a horrible creature.

Reminds me of one of my ex girlfriends.

Thal

I too once dated a balloon. A green one. *shudders

[outin]

I too once dated a balloon. A green one. *shudders

Did she break up with you? 

[visitor]

Did she break up with you? 

had to get out. was always exploding. couldn't take all the popping, all the time.

[goldentone]

[goldentone]

Pain is very motivating.



The thought passed through my mind today...  My goal really isn't happiness.  It's being productive.   Then I realized I thought that and was thinking it's more about control than productivity.  I think I'd rather have control over things more than be happy.

But isn't having control just a wayward undercurrent to happiness?

[Bob]

Maybe some kind of work-satisfaction that gives me control, but not necessarily happiness.

[goldentone]

"Golden's Generic Jazzie Greats"

From a notstalgic time, now decades out of print.  You may have some
luck snatching it away in a spacey music warehouse.

[goldentone]

Just finished enjoying several expositings on Rachmaninov's preludes that I had forgotten about, initially having thought they were mere "reproductions" of the usual sort.

[Bob]

Grilled eggs.

No idea why that guy is wearing a mask.






And now it's time for a public service announcement.



If you're an adult male and you happen to have wondered about chord progressions in the music from the new Frozen Disney movie.... Be aware that Amazon will target you for advertising for "products other people who bought this item purchased."  In this case that would be little girls' panties.  So you'll open an email and have Amazon trying to sell you that.

I'm not saying that just happened to me.  It's just something that possible.  It could happen to you.  Something to keep in mind.

[j_menz]

If you're an adult male and you happen to have wondered about chord progressions in the music from the new Frozen Disney movie....

.... you probably deserve all you get!

[Bob]

I suppose... Some guy out there is probably buying both.  I don't want to know.

[Bob]

Thank you Amazon.  Apparently if you click into it to see why it was recommended.... They offer you more.  Darnit...

[Bob]

And My Little Pony CDs.... Grr.....

[outin]

No idea why that guy is wearing a mask.

He's worried about that egg filled potato exploding in his face?

[outin]

And My Little Pony CDs.... Grr.....

Yeah...that's how they all work these days...the bloody iTunes just keeps recommending me all kinds of BS after I bought a few songs requested in a party at work... there's no way to convince him that I am NOT into boy bands

I don't open the posts from Amazon...but the recommendations in the web are mostly quite reasonable, although he never remembers that I don't like Beethoven or Mozart

And after buying ONE item somehow connected to physical fitness I am constantly reminded of what I should be doing...

[j_menz]

there's no way to convince him that I am NOT into boy bands

Three kd laing albums should do it.

[outin]

Three kd laing albums should do it.

 

I am slightly worried though that he still wouldn't get what I really want...

[goldentone]

[outin]

What's happening to this forum???

Several threads on exercising (and not piano but the other kind) and now one with poems! 

It's like walking on a mine field never knowing what comes up if one accidently clicks on something without thinking...

[Bob]

We've had exercising threads on here before.  That's why I posted mine.  Someone might have good ideas.


On my mind...
I just saw a person who is homeless with a MacBook and smartphone. Yes, they might need that for a job and that's probably their only internet source for work or something.... Just an odd combination, esp. since it was obviously a MacBook.

[outin]

We've had exercising threads on here before.  That's why I posted mine.  Someone might have good ideas.

No worry, the problem is exclusively in my head 

[goldentone]

[Bob]

Golden... type?



NSA's not going to  spy on Snoopy. 

[visitor]

'dat comments lol

[goldentone]

Golden... type?



NSA's not going to  spy on Snoopy. 

That's my secret identity.

If the NSA tries to spy on me, it will come back to haunt them.

'dat comments lol

Beautiful scenery.  *Poof*

[kakeithewolf]

I age like milk. Seriously, I age about as well as milk. By now, pretty much every part of me has started breaking down (if it ever even worked).

[j_menz]

I age like milk. Seriously, I age about as well as milk. By now, pretty much every part of me has started breaking down (if it ever even worked).

Some milk ages very well, it just needs to redefine itself....

[Bob]

'dat comments lol

Haha.  I worked on that a bit a long time ago.  I remember practicing that a night.  Spooky and a "what the heck am I doing?" moments.  And a huge contrast to Brahms practicing.  And then I got comments from other people who heard me practicing that. 

Makes me aware that the music I pick to play is influence by other people and where it might be performed.  I heard that and thought, "I wouldn't mind working on that piece again."  But what would I do with it after that? 

I can't remember why I stopped working on that piece either.  Strange.  It just slipped away.

[kakeithewolf]

Some milk ages very well, it just needs to redefine itself....

See that moldy looking cheese? That's me.

[goldentone]

The last voyage of the Ship of Modern Tonal Goodiness.  Circa 1877.

[Bob]

*Bob is enlightened.*     I didn't know it had a positive definition.

Word/phrase of the day... cold ass honkey

https://americanenglishblog.com/2013/03/what-is-a-cold-ass-honkey/


I was listening to this and wondered....

*Bob considers being a cold ass Bob and ponders if he already is such.*

[Bob]

*le sigh*

Google "cold ass honkey," get Google ads for stool softener. 


My temp files and caches were already cleared before I started the browser.  Unless it's just a random ad that's what it was from. 

[Bob]

That's still a bit freaky when I get one targeted ad for something I googled along with another ad for something I just thought of and possibly wrote down somewhere, but there should be no way a targeted ad would get that info.

[Bob]

I wonder if there will be a way to measure ugliness. Or beauty.  I'm thinking faces.  It's obvious when someone is kind of a ugly or plain or much better looking.  And I've heard about symmetry for beauty.  But I can see someone is... pretty much ugly, but I can't say exactly what it is that makes them ugly.  I would think you could tweak someone's face to go from ugly to good looking.  Right?  I'm thinking on a computer.  In real life, yes, but there are limits.  What would it look like if you took an ugly person and make them beautiful?

[outin]

I wonder if there will be a way to measure ugliness. Or beauty.  I'm thinking faces.  It's obvious when someone is kind of a ugly or plain or much better looking.  And I've heard about symmetry for beauty.  But I can see someone is... pretty much ugly, but I can't say exactly what it is that makes them ugly.  I would think you could tweak someone's face to go from ugly to good looking.  Right?  I'm thinking on a computer.  In real life, yes, but there are limits.  What would it look like if you took an ugly person and make them beautiful?

In real life it's a bit messy with all that blood and tissue, but with photoshopping it's not difficult...assuming you know what's ugly and what's not...

Why not the other way round?

[goldentone]

[Bob]

In real life it's a bit messy with all that blood and tissue, but with photoshopping it's not difficult...assuming you know what's ugly and what's not...

Why not the other way round?

I suppose skin blemishes.... But how would you measure the distortion? Even if you go back to the original for that pic... Is the original version itself distorted a bit from something?

[Bob]

A future type of music... Maybe it's symphonic, but it wouldn't have to be... (Symphonic would just make it more unusual/impossible than what could be now)... Music that doesn't stay the same.  Maybe it's improvised (but a full orchestra actually doing that?  Not so much now.)   You know, you listen to music, you study it, you see what might happen/what could be... But it happens to have been written down in one direction.  But what if it didn't go that way?  What if it went a different direction, actually flowed like that?  And the next you listen through it, same style, very similar probably, but the direction could change.  Imagine a piece of music like that.

[goldentone]

After dinner and church this evening, I plan to seek some good musical conversation. 

[goldentone]

[kakeithewolf]

I was just wondering about something. I've tried my hand at both writing literature and writing music. I went into both with no training or knowledge of how to write them. In terms of my literature, I wrote good works, with rare cases of the mediocre or dreadful. However, concerning my music, the vast majority of it has been dreadful or mediocre, and the good works were flukes or rare exceptions.

I wonder if this might have something to do with the fact I started writing 11 years ago, but only started music 2 years ago. Even though I never trained in the common way for either, I have improved both through trial and error. Granted, I still am terrible at music, but I have also done that a lot shorter of a time than writing.

My point here is this: Is it possible that someone might be able to learn and grow on their own accord, through trial and error, without study? I would think so, or else arts would not come to fruition, let alone face evolution. When I approach music in the way my mind naturally works, as if it is all numbers and equations and algorithms, I make better works than if I throw the book at the matter. When I write stream-of-consciousness, I do better than if I thought my words up ahead of time (showing that improvisation is stronger for me in both types of writing).

I'm not particularly sure where I'm going with this, but it is just what was on my mind...

[visitor]

[awesom_o]

I think my old teacher is in jail!

[kakeithewolf]

I think my old teacher is in jail!

How can you tell?