Feeling old yet?
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Yes, it reminds me I feel old.
I've had many such reminders lately.
I had a trip and fall in the dark on concrete. I landed on my lower left rib cage with my hand protecting my head. I tore and pulverized muscle tissue from my left shoulder to where my ribcage ends. The palms of my hands are bruise. My left hand bend backward to a severe angle.
I've been in pain for a week and counting. It's so wrong to realize that my almost uncanny ability to catch myself when I fall can only last for a finite number of times moving into the future.
My trustee and I had what I'll call a difficult conversation on Saturday, all the result of the fact she created a needless drama that was mind boggling in the pointlessness of it.
I did what I was asked to do when I was asked to do it. She refused to follow one note of explicit instructions (again, she asked for a list of explicit instructions containing agreed on information sought) the reason being she wanted to do it a different way.
She didn't think to get a bank check and take care of it when she was at the bank on Saturday, and was remiss in not buying physical checks for the trust account, as it turned out.
She then insisted on me giving her information I didn't have so she could use the bank's auto generating check feature.
She told me she was not going out of her way for me again (it never happened in the first place), berated me about my situation (completely inappropriate), and accused me of metaphorically beating her ("I'm not your punching bag") in a way that was bizarre, not at all apt, and offensive.
I had to run down some facts with her and tell her to keep her judgmentalism and accusations to herself in the future.
I used nicer language but with the same meaning.
She's 15 years younger than me; she has the time (apparently) and the energy to act this way.
We agreed on "next steps" (if barely) but she can't be talking to me this way. It can't be "a thing."
She'll know what it feels like to be 60 when she gets here. She's in for a rude awakening.
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I like to think of it musical context of what is an oldie?
The first Beatles album came out about 63 years ago.
When you were listening to that first Beatles album ,what was an oldie that was 63 years old? Well, that’s about when John Philip Sousa wrote “the stars and stripes forever” and Scott Joplin wrote “the entertainer.” The biggest pop song hits were by Al Jolson..
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Sorry you’re going through that Daniel.
Thanks, jon. She actually did get the the service for the new place today. It starts on Wednesday. I have to insure the breakers are turned off by Wednesday morning to prevent a power surge. The cashier's check was sent USPS tracking on Saturday to the buyer's agent. I have papers to sign. My car should arrive any day now from NY (the Bronx, lol). I bought it after seeing an ad at Cars.com. It was last driven in Montana but it's got only 24k miles, 1 owner, and clearly it was garaged. I don't have the car yet but it's insured. So it won't be long now.
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When I was young, Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich were living composers. Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Prokofiev, and Ravel were "recent." In high school I was playing piano works by Barber, who was still around.
I saw Arthur Rubinstein give a concert in Miami. He debuted with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1900.
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I heard Rubinstein in concert too. With orchestra. Of course, I was a wee teen then.
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As a child I remember my older sister who worked for the Veterans Administration speaking about how there were soldiers at the VA hospital who had been there since WWI. It seemed incredible to me that a person could remain in a hospital for nearly 50 years.
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I like to think of it musical context of what is an oldie?
The first Beatles album came out about 63 years ago.
When you were listening to that first Beatles album ,what was an oldie that was 63 years old? Well, that’s about when John Philip Sousa wrote “the stars and stripes forever” and Scott Joplin wrote “the entertainer.” The biggest pop song hits were by Al Jolson..
I like to think of it musical context of what is an oldie?
The first Beatles album came out about 63 years ago.
When you were listening to that first Beatles album ,what was an oldie that was 63 years old? Well, that’s about when John Philip Sousa wrote “the stars and stripes forever” and Scott Joplin wrote “the entertainer.” The biggest pop song hits were by Al Jolson..
Yes. You can absolutely hear Sousa and Joplin in some Beatles songs.
Also, Joplin had quite a moment shortly after the Beatles broke up.
I rather like this kind of recursion. The artist reaches back in time for something that many people loved and reintroduces it to a new audience, sometimes but not always (Joplin), reinterpreting it for a new generation.
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I like to think of it musical context of what is an oldie?
The first Beatles album came out about 63 years ago.
When you were listening to that first Beatles album ,what was an oldie that was 63 years old? Well, that’s about when John Philip Sousa wrote “the stars and stripes forever” and Scott Joplin wrote “the entertainer.” The biggest pop song hits were by Al Jolson..
Yes. You can absolutely hear Sousa and Joplin in some Beatles songs.
Also, Joplin had quite a moment shortly after the Beatles broke up.
I rather like this kind of recursion. The artist reaches back in time for something that many people loved and reintroduces it to a new audience, sometimes but not always (Joplin), reinterpreting it for a new generation.
@Mary-Anna I do hear Sousa and Joplin in some Beatles songs, but it sounds to me like they were used ironically, not in tribute.
As for feeling old, I am tackling a Chopin etude, the kind of thing I haven’t played in decades. It’s mostly because it will help me evaluate pianos in my search, but partly just to convince myself I can still do it!
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This music clip makes me feel old. I remember the lyrics from my teens (we've had Live Aid and a few wars since) and yet he's still singing the song.
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This music clip makes me feel old. I remember the lyrics from my teens (we've had Live Aid and a few wars since) and yet he's still singing the song.
This music clip makes me feel old. I remember the lyrics from my teens (we've had Live Aid and a few wars since) and yet he's still singing the song.
I’ve ever heard that one. I think the only Gilbert O’Sullivan song I know is “Alone Again.”
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