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Recipient Of The First Ever Music Composition Degree From Bradley University
Here's another track from my "Scratching The Surface" (think scratch track) project (more on that at: crossfeedthemix.blogspot.com/2016/04/sc…tudio.html. This one - "Meant To Be" - got me retesting and retooling a lot of my studio, and the results - good ones I think, nd hopefully you'll agree - got me remixing the other two tracks current up as part of "STS." Still not thrilled with the mastering stage of things, but these things take patience. Regardless, I'm really enjoying this process, and just getting some music out. Hoping you are too! As always, thanks for sharing and any feedback. -Max
You can check out some of my music, including Meant To Be, here:
So, after my last rant about "Whiplash" I had the most humbling and amazing experience. Somehow the Executive Producer, Gary M. Walters, found it and we briefly had a "conversation" via Twitter. No, I'm not pretending that he and I are friends, or anything like that, but here's someone who is very successful, very good at what he does, and he took the time to incredibly kindly acknowledge my opinion. Why? I have no idea. Sure, I've gotten a bit of attention recently for my work in Music Education, but let's not kid ourselves, Mr. Walters does not need to worry in the least about what some oddball music teacher in Phoenix has to say about his work. And yet, he made a point to tell me that he respected my passion for both music and my comments about his movie. It was kinda of startling. Moving. Inspiring.
I learned a lot in those couple of very simple tweets he sent me. The most important was something I shared with my own students afterwards: The truly Creative person understands that not everyone will want what they create. Simple enough to state, really tough to actually live. It's clear to me that Mr. Walters does.
And so, I kinda felt that I needed to take another look at Whiplash. He's been incredibly gracious to me, when he had no need to - I'm wondering if it's just in his nature - and so I felt I should take another look. Why not?
The truth is that I am a fan of movies. I love them. But outside the elements of scoring a soundtrack or Foley work, I have no real sense of their production process, beyond the very cursory basic. My point is that I am no expert by anyone's standard. But I do admit that when I have any real block of "free time" - particularly on "date night" with my quite lovely and exquisite Michele - we are pretty much guaranteed to go see a movie. We just really enjoy them. Anyway....
After my first review, along with the tweets with Mr. Walters, I also talked a bit about the film with my friend Eric L. Eric, to be fair, is what I would call an expert on movies. And he said something to me that truly got me thinking that I had missed something critical. He said that one of the things that he loved in Whiplash was the element that the student was just as flawed in many ways as the teacher. And suddenly a light came on in my head.
I had made the assumption that the student was "good." I don't actually know why, but in retrospect, I clearly did. I am guessing now in hindsight that it was to balance the clear "bad" of the teacher, but the truth is that there is no obligation as such for the student to be good. And maybe that was the whole point. Maybe the ending wasn't a battle of good versus bad but more of a comparison of two takes on bad. If that is the case, which I am rather inclined to believe now - at least for myself - it is, then I totally missed the point of the film the first time.
And here's the thing, in the end, that's on me. Not the film makers. Maybe Whiplash isn't really about Music at all. Maybe it's about how people approach life, with music simply as a creative vehicle to tell the story. As I thought more about it, it started to make sense to me. In the same way the words "Feel" and "Groove" are never part of the script, there is also nothing that ever tells us that the student was ever actually any good. Yeah, he got into the school, but the way he listens to music is all wrong. Every scene I can recall is of him listening to a lot of flashy playing but never anything of finesse. Never looking for the pure musicality. I assumed he was "good" and deserved to be there, but perhaps he wasn't and didn't. After all, just one example, he treats the girl like crap for the most awful and selfish and arrogant of reasons. True, he later, kinda figures it out, but you almost get the sense that he got to that point from desperation, not from a new sense of self after a journey. Maybe, as Eric says, he's just as bad as the teacher. In a different way, but bad none the less. And if that is the case, then the ending wasn't about the "Victory," it was about the casualties of bad people and their actions. Sure, the student played a song, and played it well I suppose, but that doesn't make him a musician in the true sense of the word. Whatever they were at the start, his goals by the end were not really about the music, or "making it." They were really about proving himself to the teacher. And like I said a teacher that he should have known by then did not deserve to matter. Certainly not with regard to what defines him as a musician. On my second viewing it seemed like there was nothing that pointed to the student even wanting to get truly inside the Music. Absolutely nothing. This kid is no more a musician than the teacher.
And so the more I watched again the more I got convinced that the movie is not about Music at all. I was so caught up in the superficial elements of the script that I missed the bigger picture. (Pun intended). As I said in my first review, it was all about arrogance. I just missed the possibility that that was the film's whole point. I guess my own arrogance got in the way a bit.
I don't know. Maybe I'm just trying to find a way to rationalize my newfound respect for Mr. Walters. Or I'm "fan boying" or whatever. I have no idea. What I do know is that when I watched Whiplash again and did not think of it as a movie about Music as such, it seemed to make a lot more sense. It's a tragedy on all sides. And all this got me to think. To take another look at something. To go beyond my own expectations and my own bias. Ironically, that is something I work with my own students on all the time. It seems I am not always a very good student myself. I need to work on that.
And all this just from a few kind tweets from someone who clearly does see a bigger creative picture. Will Mr. Walters read this? I have no idea. Will he care? Again, no idea. Is my new theory on the film correct? I don't know. I deliberately have not researched it in order to not color or bias my new thoughts about it. What I do know for certain is that while I've been very lucky in the recent past to have been acknowledged on a very large scale for my innovations in Music Education - I'm not gonna say the specifics here, Google it if you really wanna know - I was absolutely "schooled" about Creativity by Mr. Walters. And though part of me is a good bit embarrassed, especially given my supposed "expertise," honestly, pretty much all of me is grateful for it and completely thrilled.
OK. So I know I'm way late to the party on this, as they say, and it's been a while since I've posted anything here, and I know that I am not the first person to express this thought, but having finally watched the movie "Whiplash," I just wanted to vent a bit, because I have to say, as so many other have before, it's absolutely terrible in terms of the message it says about how to truly make music. Part of me wonders if I waited so long to see it because I knew inherently from the trailers that something was very wrong. Who knows.
Don't get me wrong, the acting is incredible. I mean, wow! Amazing performances. Really. And the sound track is absolutely unreal. So well played I don't even know how or where to begin to describe it.
But the message, after all the truly remarkable performances, about what makes a musician truly a musician is just, I am sorry, about the worst thing I can imagine.
Now, let me be absolutely clear. I have only watched the film one time. It is possible that I missed something. And perhaps the ending is supposed to be some kind of metaphor for earning another person's genuine respect, but even then, I'm sorry, it's bad. It's just wrong. I'll try to be as succinct as I can in my explanation - something I am generally not good at.
First, let's talk drumming. Endless shots of the student working to play faster. Self imposed physical (as well as emotional) abuse and suffering all for the completely non musical goal of more notes in less time. As far as I can tell the words "Feel" and "Groove" do not appear even once in the script. Certainly not in a musical context. And that is rather concerning to me. I don't care what the style, or what the person's background, any substantive conversation - or lecture - or in the style of this movie, screaming abusive mandate, that relates to drumming has to ultimately deal with feel and groove. Has to. 'Cuz, simply, if it doesn't feel good, and if it doesn't groove, it's not music, it's just time. And that is not the same thing. Moving on...
Music is about Joy. Pure and simple. Not necessarily fun. Joy. Those are not interchangeable. The entire atmosphere in that rehearsal hall was entirely without Joy. This does not mean no sadness or mournful quality to the Music when called for, it means that at it's heart, regardless of the style or compositional intent of the piece, if there is no Joy the result can only be sterile. Just because a piece comes from a place of great sadness, does not mean that it is without Joy. Just one example, a traditional New Orleans funeral. Absolute sadness. Total grief. The coming to terms with the most disheartening of realities. And yet...there is Joy. Joy in the celebration of the life. Joy in the remembrance. Joy in the cherishing of the memories and the pain and the sorrow and the guilt and whatever else there might be. Why? Because in the end, after all is said and done, what it's really about is the Joy of Love. Even at it's worst - coming from a place a pure hate - Lord, I despise that word and the notion of it, but I digress - it is still cathartic. And in that catharsis, in that process, at the end of it, there is still Joy. In fact all that is left is Joy. Anyway, another rant for another time...
But in that rehearsal hall, there was never any Joy. There was no true life in the music. Notes and rhythms are not inherently music. In this case there was sound. Not music. The sound you hear from that ensemble - yes the soundtrack of the movie is amazing! - but in reality, that group never makes music that sounds like that. Never. Not possible. I am not even certain that anything that resemble makes can truly be called music based on they way they are made to work. Not in rehearsal, and certainly not in competition.
And why in the world is the ultimate goal the competition? I don't care what it might lead to, you cannot be Musical and competitive at the same time. I've talked about this before, so I'll spare you all from that rant here, but those two are inherently at odds against each other. Always. Competition, by definition. breeds conformity. Conformity destroys Creativity. And without Creativity there is no Music.
And this idea that in the end the student stands up for himself by essentially "bullying the bully" so he was ultimately victorious, is absurd. And therein is the heart of what concerns me most about the message of this movie. Anyone who is not a musician is getting a terribly unmusical message about what makes a successful musician. "Bleed for the part." "Want it more than anything." "Stop at nothing" etc. Come on. What a load of crap.
Work hard? Absolutely. In fact, work so hard that your definition of that term changes each time you think you're working as hard as you can, so that you are always pushing yourself to go beyond your self-proclaimed and perceived Creative limits. Even so far as to lose yourself and your soul, as it were, to the Art? Sure! Go for it. Really. But to lose it to things nonmusical? Pointless. Worse, in fact. Creatively destructive.
The movie essentially ends with the notion that whoever can be the most arrogant wins in music. Not so. The goal should never have been to "show the teacher" (or really anyone else, for that matter) "I can do this! I'm the best." It should be to show yourself. Music lies within. At least at its start. From there it can connect to what is outside. It can even, from within, receive what's coming from the outside. But if it's not present on the inside, then it really doesn't matter what's coming in. You won't receive it. And the whole of the movie's ending is all about the ultimately nonmusical, superficial outside, not what's really within. That last scene was not about self-assuradness. Not about overcoming something. It was about proving to someone who absolutely did not deserve it, that the student was in fact "good enough." And it was absolutely not a pure motivation for the student. If it was, the student would never have relinquished control of the moment as he clearly did with the single stroke drumroll (fast-slow-fast). Once that happened it was all absolutely about arrogance. Not being a musician. I am not saying that he should have retained control over the moment purely for the sale of control. That would be arrogant. I am saying that when he gave up the control to that teacher, in that circumstance, he was allowing that teacher to define who he was musically. Sad. Tragic, in fact, in my view.
And, sorry, the idea that at that point the teacher and student were on the same level (or even not the same level) so that was a moment of collaboration, is terribly flawed logic. There was no evidence ever in the film that the teacher was even capable a truly respecting his students. Or anyone it would seem. No, that was not collaboration at the end, that was acquiescence. That was the student giving in to the teacher. A teacher who did not deserve it. Not that any true teacher would even want it.
I suppose there is some merit in the idea that it was about how the student was rising above his past experiences and forgiving the teacher, becoming truly the better person, but it just doesn't feel that likely to me. What seemed more likely was that the student was still grasping for the approval of someone who just should not matter. Who clearly does not deserve, under any circumstance, to matter. You wanna forgive the teacher? OK. That's fine. But to give that teacher any kind of power over what defines you Musically? No. Not even a little bit. If nothing else, the student knowing the lie that was told about the former student dying in a car accident pretty much closes the door on all that. But, who knows, maybe I'm wrong. It wouldn't be the first time.
Now, after all the ranting I just did about it, I do reserve the right to later change my mind about "Whiplash," so here's hoping I've got it all wrong. Seriously, I hope I do. Like I said, I am not saying it's a bad movie. Honestly, I really loved it. I LOVE THIS MOVIE! The acting, the soundtrack, all of that element are beyond reproach. But the musician in me, sorry, not so much.
In what I honestly believe are surely the last hours of both an incredible and humbling journey through the process of a Grammy™ nomination for my work in Music Education with CMAS, I wanted to share in a lot more detail just how important I feel my own teachers have been in all this. The truth is that I have never really considered myself a teacher as such - they all set the bar far too high for me to claim that moniker - it implies a selflessness and skill that I am not so sure I possess.
Frankly, I still cannot get my head around the notion that I was even a quarterfinalist, much less to have made it this far - I am just so out of my depth when you look at all the others up for the award - I am in awe of all of them. But setting aside the incredible honor it has been just to be nominated, my own teachers truly deserve to be recognized for their influence on me, for helping me to shape my own view of Music and Music Education, and what would ultimately become CMAS. Win or lose, they are all just so amazing, and, forgive the cliché, I want the world to know.
What follows are excerpts from the draft of a book I'm about halfway through writing, that I've been working on since before I was first contacted by the Grammy™ Foundation for what it's worth, about CMAS and how others can implement it into their own practice. What I do is not extraordinary. It is just unique. My hope is that that will begin to change now.
In any case, for reference I am also including the book's title page, table of contents, and the intro. Admittedly, it makes this post long, but I want my comments on my teachers to make sense in context. Honestly, they deserve so much more, but for now this will have to do...
*all type-os and grammatical errors included at no extra charge
I am not going to pretend that this list is comprehensive, but the events of Friday, for which I am truly honored and humbled, make me feel more than just a little bit compelled to share this list of my own teachers who impacted me and my practice. Each one deserves a detailed recounting of their specific influence on me (I will try to add that over time) and I know I will leave off many who deserve to be here. Please forgive me, and I will update this as time goes on to remedy that.
Sycamore Schools (Cincinnati, OH):
Mr. Metzger
Mr. Beeler
Mr. Wagner
Mr. Ronfeldt
Bradley University:
Dr. Heinemann
Dr. Vroman
Dr. Kaizer
Prof. Kaizer
Dr. Sanders
Dr. Jost
Prof. Slotter
Youngstown State University:
Dr. Gage
Dr. Rollin
Dr. Largent
The University Of Arizona:
Prof. Hanson
Dr. Billups
Dr. Fergison
My sincere apologies for any errors in spelling or omissions. There are others too who should be on the list. Like Mr. Fricke - my first private drum teacher. Or my very first piano teacher who sadly I cannot remember her name but recall vividly my Mom telling me how this teacher, when I was just maybe 6, was so impressed not that I had written a "song" but that I had actually played the notes exactly as I had put them down on the manuscript paper. Or my elementary school general music teacher, whose name I also, regrettably cannot recall, but still carry with me the true Joy of music that she very much instilled in me at so young an age. And I cannot forget about Dr. Anne Marie Woolsey, Arcadia's then principal, and Dr. Mitch Simmons, SUSD's director CTE, without either of their support for my original concept for CMAS it would all still just be an idea in my head. And there are others. So many others. So very many musicians and colleagues and students and friends and family from who I have learned so much and who have influenced all I do.
My point is exactly as the title of this post implies. Nothing happens in a vacuum. No matter the result of the Grammy™ selection, from the bottom of my heart, thank you all!
I don't know that this will make sense until I start posting some audio/video of me performing some of my new songs (or older songs with new arrangements) but lately I have been really trying to get my head, musically, around the idea of ultra minimalist percussion as a way to control a song's momentum.
Like so many others, in recent years I've been quite taken with Mumford and Sons, and particularly Marcus's way of controlling a song with just a bass drum and occasionally some additional tambourine. It's not that he's doing anything that has not been done before musically, but his execution is quite another story.
He's fronting the band, playing guitar, and ALSO playing these percussion parts with his feet. The songs are amazing, but as a musician there is also an entire other level of brilliance to behold. And I have found that his take on percussion to control momentum has really been influencing me.
The trouble is that - and here is where the audio/video are kinda needed to make sense of things - my performance rig doesn't allow me quit the same level of rhythmic flexibility as Marcus. I'm creating many layers all at once, but I;m not looping anything, and so, quite frankly, my feet are already rather occupied with other tasks most of the time to make all the layers happen. FYI, in simplest terms, I ma playing the main riff on guitar, with a bass line, with some percussion, with some strings underneath if I want, with a solo line on either the guitar and/or a piano, all at the same time. No looping. Yes, I know that sounds absurd, but that's my rig. Really. Yeah, I'll post video soon.
In any case, at this point, my ability to play the rig means that I cannot create too elaborate percussion lines. Lots of 4-on-the-floor kinda things right now. But I also have been finding that I need some kind of percussion variations beyond just playing or not to make the songs really work.
Enter the 1/8 note. Such a simple and easily accessible variation, but yet I could not see it for a long time. Could not hear it in context. Yet now there is a great sense of variation in momentum at my disposal.
I know this all has made little or no sense, and I know that I need to post video of the rig in action for that to be resolved, but I have just bee so overcome by the simple musical elegance of this that I wanted to quickly post something. Much more coming very soon....
No, have not heard for myself Neal Young's new Pono audio player, but I like the idea behind it. For the sake of time (or rather my limited available right now) I won't go in to too much, but I did wanna just quickly make some comments. (Likely complete with typos and grammatical errors.)
Forgetting the cost of Pono (about $100 more than an iPod Touch) and the comparatively smaller number of tracks currently available (only about 600K) the notion of better fidelity has been haunting the digital age pretty much since its inception.
There's a lot of talk for studio folks about recording higher resolutions, but the final products always seem wind up as far lower res mp3s. And in some ways that's ok. If nothing else the mp3 has increased accessibility to a far larger library of music than before. And piggy backing on to that is the reality that in many ways, in today's world, being heard at all, even at lower res, is far better than no one hearing you at all. It's a trade off. I'll leave the philosophical discussion for another time as to if it's worth it or not. (It's an important discussion, but not one there is time for just now...) Anyway....
I remember the birth of the CD. The loss of "warmth" and "depth" of sound. The loss of full sized album covers. The "sterility." And so on...
And things have changed. Compression has gotten better. And our eases have gotten worse in some ways. We now tolerate the lower fidelity to the point of many of us not even really aware of what it's lower than, not even aware of the original baseline, yet we cannot handle the slightest "pitchy-ness." The irony of the loss of art in the whole matter is both ironic and sad. But also for another discussion.
My point is simply that weather Pono succeeds in the market or not, it's a step in the right direction. It's attempting to restore the feel of the listening experience to what it once was. How can that possibly be bad. And, if it does work, as Neal claims, then it's totally worth the extra money.
Now if we could just get people to actually buy albums again in full instead of almost always ala cart. Now that would really be something amazing for us to return to.
Here the origin lost i just saw today about Pono:
So, a few days ago I asked for comments on this notion and promised to share my own thoughts on the subject. I should start by saying the rather obvious - that this is just my sense of this, NOT any kind of claim to being "right." Anyway....
This subject was actually brought up by one of my ASU Music Education Interns, as we were talking about the creative process of my students and how I go about evaluating their overall progress towards creating effective music. (Note that the term "effective" is in itself a troubling term, but I digress...) Anyway, my intern mentioned that an ASU professor - key here is one who, at least on the surface, might seem like an ultra-traditionalist (a very incorrect label I personally feel, and my intern wholeheartedly agreed) - made the comment that the two types of music are "honest and dishonest." The reference was in terms of a musician's interpretation of a piece in performance, but I feel it applies far more universally, and having nothing do to with genre, instrumentation, technology usage or anything else that in may ways is all just superficial to me. (Another commentary for another time..)
In any case, this was one of those "aha!" moments for me. One of those times we all have on occasion where we think, "wow! I wish I had thought of that! That is brilliant!" And so this idea of "honest and dishonest" music really got me thinking about the whole process of music and creativity and what constitutes an honest process and what makes up one that is false.
The flaw, if I can use that word for it, in the "good and bad" line of thinking is that it ultimately is 100% subjective. That's not to say that it is not an important distinction, it very much is important, but as I thought about it, I realized that "good and bad" can never be perfectly aligned for anyone other than the individual experiencing the music. It's just too circumstantial. Too wrapped up in variables that can only apply to one person perfectly and to all others imperfectly. Too subject to the moment, moods and other countless elements. Too inconsistent.
But "honest and dishonest," have none of those issues. Honest and Dishonest is all about the creative process. Really, they have nothing to do with the listener. As a listener we are still free to interpret, still free to like or dislike something based on whatever personal experiences and preferences we have have. But that is not he same as the creative process.
The process is not good or bad. It simply is. And if that is true then the question is really about whether or not the process is genuine. Honest or dishonest. This has nothing to do with the actual result. Nothing to do with the resulting sound. Just the intent of whomever created the sound.
Sure, we want the result to "work." To reach and impact and effect the listener in a way that matches our intent, but if for any reason it does not, that does not mean we were dishonest with the process, just ineffective. "Effective" is the "good v bad" concept. It is rooted in result, and is 100%, as I said open to interpretation. How often does one person have a different taste or preference with regard to music? Or movies? Or books? Or art? Or food? Or fashion? Or on and on and on and on? All. The. Time.
But the intent is what really matters. How people interpret is on them. Certainly in today's world there are countless ways people can be influenced towards a particular interpretation, but that is still on them to react to those influences. It does not change the intent -the honesty (or not, I suppose) of that intent. That's what matters. In fact, as I continue to explore this concept, I suspect that the honest process more often yields the interpretation of "good" anyway.
And for those still struggling to "make it" - to break through - keep your process honest. In the end I am certain that is all that really matters.
Certainly, there is far more to this, and I am just starting to get me head around it, but I can already tell it is have a significantly positive impact on my own process and that makes it all the more fascinating, interesting, and worth it.
So last night CMAS played what was certainly the best stadium show we have ever done. We had the benefit of a great sense of team work with technical crew, a considerable amount of additional time to perform that normally is not available, but mostly an overall positive work ethic that I had not seen in along time - maybe not ever before.
That is not to take away anything from anyone or any past shows, but this one had a very different vibe. The entire CMAS crew - every single one of them - wanted this show. In a kind of visceral, "we will not let anything get in our way," kind of manner. It was really quite something.
We've had that before, but not across the entire group. Not like this.
The process to make last night happen was a bit brutal. Aside from the normal gig preparations of writing and rehearsing all the music, we made some specific production choices on this show that meant a considerable amount of additional logistical prep time. Most of it in the heat of AZ at 105+ degrees. It was somewhat unforgiving in the unavoidable hot afternoon hours, and yet, though clearly tired and running low on energy, no one just stopped. No one just sat back and said, "someone else will take care of it." It was pretty remarkable. And somewhat uncharacteristic, as in the past when it can get like that and people start to lose the ability or willingness to keep their egos in check.
Sure, there are moments that we'd like back - no show is perfect - but when you witness so many young people pulling together for a common goal - so many of then very new to what is a very complex and exceptionally demanding project (remember this is all student executed) - it's hard not to be inspired. Watching the more experienced students mentor the new ones, in a way that had no ego, nothing but positive support, and you start to feel like things are moving forward in a way that can only be summed up as great.
I've been asked, and talked about here and in other places, about the idea of "ensemble" as it relates to CMAS. On the surface there are those who say that for all CMAS may (or may not - critics still seem to like to go that route for some reason; seems like a waste of energy, but that's just the way some folks are; obviously it still bothers me even though I don't want it to and try not to let it get to me; it's a process...anyway...) that there is no real sense of ensemble like there is in a band, orchestra or choir. Well, last night proved once again that is simply not the case. By any definition CMAS was very much working as a musical ensemble last night. No question about it - it's as strong an ensemble as any.
What does tomorrow hold? Who knows. But for now - despite my lack of ability to really express it properly here - last night was a great moment in time. Made possible not just by those there but by all the students who came before and who really did help to make CMAS move forward on each step we've taken. I hope to have some student produced video up soon to share.
From here we plan on modifying our approach a bit. CMAS will still do one of these Stadium shows every year - it's a good experience obviously - but the time it takes to put together, versus the amount of performance time itself, has become a bit of a drain on the students. Plus, while it is quite the spectacle, the fact is that we now have so many other "big" show venue options that allow us full shows - not just 6 minutes - that it would be kinda of foolish not to evolve to the next step with all this. On the other hand, if you've been paying attention over the years, you just never know what we might do....
So, today marks a year since Dad passed, and like anyone, the loss still stings for me. I continue to comfort myself knowing that he got to meet and spend some great time with both of my own children, saw me finally on a good path within myself (a long and still rather incomplete journey), that for all the tension of our relationship when I was in my 20s that we had moved well passed it and were very close, and so on; but mostly, over this past year I have spent a good deal of time wondering if I really appreciated all the "small" moments I had with him. Particularly when I was Gray and Tanner's age.
At some point - and this was certainly before he passed - I began looking at my relationship with Dad pretty much exclusively through the lens of my relationship with Gray and Tanner. I have found myself constantly drawing parallels - likely unfairly projecting - all kinds of things. I wonder for example, when I am reading with Gray or Tanner at bedtime why I cannot recall dad reading to me similarly, yet I can "feel" the same kind of sensation from the memories I do have from when I was that age. Perhaps it's not about the act but about the connections made.
And particularly with Tanner, since he is about the same age difference to me as I was to Dad, so I many times get lost in this sense of walking a predetermined path with him. Some of that is comforting and some of that is truly terrifying (though also kind of silly when I really get my head around it) and at least with Gray I don't have that. Hopefully as time goes on it will dissipate with Tanner. It feels unfair to both him and me to be burdened with something so against my own sense of life as "destiny." Certainly repeated destiny is counter. I'm working on it, though, like so much of what I do, it seems to be a sadly slow process.
I also need to acknowledge that like my eulogy for Dad last year (http://crossfeedthemix.blogspot.com/2013/07/dad.html) this post it truly nothing more than self-serving. A way to have a cathartic release of my feelings with the misguided notion that while it's perhaps healthy for me to do so, the idea that anyone else would or should care is somewhat absurd. In fact when I posted last year that Dad had passed, I was almost immediately consoled by two very good friends who I learned had also recently lost their own fathers. They reached out to me immediately and I am so grateful; but I also continue to be struck by the fact that I had no idea that they had lost their own fathers too. It wasn't because they had hidden it, it was because I had not been paying attention. I am generally a rather self-absorbed person, and that is something that when I feel particularly not in control of I try to force myself to think back on those two friends to pull my head back to where it should be. My rate of success is clearly not great, but at least it's a step in the right direction. Or at least that's what I will continue to tell myself for now. Anyway...
When I think of Dad I get this wonderful, overwhelming sense of joy and a kind of internal warmth. When Mom passed I was in such a bad place within myself that over the past year I have frequently wondered if I lost a kind of connection with her because I was not in a place to cultivate it at the time. That fills me with tremendous regret - a kind of guilt I cannot seem to let go of no matter how much time passes or how much I tell myself that she understood I was not the man I am now. As though there was a very important moment that I let slip away, never to be reacquired, no matter the reason or my desire to do so.
I am a big believer in the importance of moments. They matter to me. Even when I don't want them to. I find them hard to let go of even when I know I should. It's a blessing and a curse in many ways, and drives my family nuts at times. A topic for another post perhaps...
In any case, this dichotomy of sensations - joy versus regret - on paper, would seem to imply a kind of balance that in most other circumstances I would actually embrace, but here it feels false. Though the last weeks for Dad were less than ideal (I still harbor a lot of real anger towards some of his "caregivers" over this - moments it seems once again I cannot/will not? let go of), he was in good shape overall prior to that, and his life - he told me - was good. He was happy, albeit for his missing Mom. But Mom had been sick. Very sick for a long time. I feel she (and the rest of us, selfishly) was cheated. Cheated out of so much that came after. Grandkids and so on. Just the joy of a shared life with Dad. And somewhere, not so deep down, I still struggle with the knowledge that in some ways I may have caused it. I hurt her. Deliberately I now see in the year before she got ill. It's a longer "confession" that I will post here (and it's still very raw so many years later that I am certainly using that as an excuse not to fully reveal it - Good Lord, I am clearly still no different than I was back then in too many ways! Still too much fear within me) but while I may not acknowledge destiny, I do believe in both Fate and definitely in Karma. So let's for now just say that I wonder if I twisted Karma in such a way that forced a kind of massive life event to change my perspective since nothing else was working. On the other hand, what an incredibly self-absorbed notion for me to even consider. I need to do better.
Ok, well, this is getting a good bit darker than I intend when I started writing, so maybe let's get back to Dad for now...
Over the years after Mom passed he had girl friends - several quite serious, by any standards - but to me it was clear at the time that none of them would ever even remotely approach what he had with Mom. Not because I was rooting against them - I honestly liked when he had someone to get him to do things and get out of the house and such - but just because it was not his way to move on like that. It wasn't within him to let go in a way to fully recover and give himself to someone else in even a cursory manner that paralleled his relationship with Mom. That's not just my clear bias talking, it's a fact. He tried several times. Even basically living with two of them for a period of time. It just wasn't going to happen. And it really had nothing to do with them either. He just looked at all his relationships through the lens of the one he had with Mom, and no relationship could possibly have the same view for him.
I think that's why he had so many great relationships with women far younger than him. Nothing physical mind you - more like granddaughters (goodness, the age difference was stunning! Good for you, Dad! Ha!) He needed that feminine kind of energy in his life and this was a way for him to have it. I think the proof is that the purely plutonic relationships with the younger girls lasted up till he passed, and in fact they are in a few cases still in contact with my brothers and I.
Like anyone, I just miss him. I miss my Mom. I miss the relationship I had with Dad and the sense of wholeness that he restored to me years after Mom died when he took Michele and the boys into his heart. While I know he's at peace, with Mom, I am still so selfish (try as I might to not be) that I want him around still, even if it keeps him from her.
My view remains myopic in that regard. Perhaps that's what grief is about - at least for me. Maybe when my view is more opened up I will be left with only the sense of joy I crave and no loss or regret. I tend to move in extremes - particularly with regard to emotion. Not ideal, but I'm not going to pretend it's not the case. So I'm going to focus on the joy. I figure if nothing else it's what both Mom and Dad would want.


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In addition, traffic restricting curbs were placed on Auto Center Drive and later removed when they added tremendously to congestion. More recent examples are the concrete wedges placed in the Bridge and Beck Street intersection, and the zigzag created at the Lincoln Street and Freedom Boulevard merge which brought a flurry of protests to no avail. Is there a wannabe traffic czar somewhere with way too much time on their hands?
The new circle is planned for the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Clifford Drive, and would require hiring a consultant at a cost "not to exceed $75,000" to design and prepare construction documents for the project. Apparently that's considered a paltry amount to create plans which might be doomed to gather dust in a public works official's hold basket; or worse, lead to larger expenditures to create something that might later need to be removed.
A much higher value on that approximate $75,000 figure was indicated in a Feb. 9 R-P letter from Sam Earnshaw, who opposed the city placing a measure to consider annexing the Sakata-Kett property on a June 2013 special election ballot "which will cost the city approximately $80,000" instead of putting it off to the next general election in November 2014.
Councilman Daniel Dodge is the main proponent for the annexation effort, and though I disagree with his idea of trying to use the Sakata-Kett site for another Santa Cruz County Costco, its shovel-ready characteristics of existing infrastructure, freeway access, and neighboring businesses make it a far superior location for job and revenue creation than the isolated and environmentally restricted Manabe-Ow property.
Since Sakata-Kett promises much quicker benefits, the $80,000 special election cost seems a bargain if it could bring those benefits sooner through a June election compared to kicking the timeline back 18 months to November 2014. All Sakata-Kett needs is better magnet businesses and employers than a box store that already has several outlets within driving distance of Watsonville. That's where community input could come into the plan in seeking a more widely acceptable use, but we first need the property.
Seeing Earnshaw and Dodge on opposite sides of this issue is somewhat nostalgic. In the original debate of the Riverside Annexation containing the Sakata-Kett property beginning around 1996, Earnshaw helped lead opposition to the plan from his position with the Community Alliance of Family Farmers (CAFF). This alliance of small organic growers naturally opposes any farmland development.
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And that urban-agricultural rift probably still exists between them and others on both sides of the current Sakata-Kett debate. Here's hoping something ... anything ... can come from it that will benefit our suffering city. If so, the $80,000 price tag for a special election would be a much better investment than another traffic circle design.
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We've had a nice stay at the studio from Salvatore. Everything was really close by foot. When we had rain, the studio was spacious enough to comfortably rest an afternoon indoors. If we'd stay another weekend in Nice, we probably would come to the same apartment.
Posizione ottimale per visitare la città ma appartamento davvero troppo piccolo...molto scomodo il fatto di dover tenere la scaletta alzata per poter accedere al bagno: se qualcuno dorme sul soppalco in pratica rimane confinato li! Ideale per una sola persona secondo me, se siete in più persone cercate altro. Inoltre il Wi-Fi non funzionava e, nonostante avessimo segnalato il problema, non è stato risolto. 2 Stelle solo per la posizione
Schönes kleines Appartment.
Leider kommt in Nizza nachts die Müllabfuhr und anschließend die Straßenreinigung so gegen 4 Uhr nachts. Somit ist schlafen bei offenem Fenster ausgeschlossen.
Dennoch würde ich es empfehlen.
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Fue todo perfecto, la recepción fue muy buena y cualquier problema fue arreglado con brevedad
Los defectos: hay bichos, estuvimos 4 noches y aparecieron en total unos 14 bichos(muy asquerosos y de unos 3-4cm) y a la hora de ventilar la calle olía mal.
Quitando estos 2 defectos muy contento
appatrement cosy mais confortable. Merci
Salvatore oder mehr sein angestellter war sehr nett und hat uns alles sehr genau erklärt, das war Top. Recht negativ viel aber das Appartement selber auf. Um die Sache mal ab zu kürzen, es ist Renovierungs bedürftig. Für 3 Personen ist es sehr kuschelig aber es gab nur eine decke. Alles in allem kann man für 47€ die Nacht nicht viel meckern.
Sin dall'inizio Salvatore è stato disponibilissimo e direi quasi istantaneo nel dare una risposta alle mie domande. L'alloggio è super, in pratica a 5 Min dalla Vecchia Nizza, Piazza Garibaldi, Coulis Vert. Ad altrettanti dai servizi. Insomma perfetto anche per chi non vuole avere rogne con gli spostamenti in auto.
Salvatore sarà sicuramente il primo a cui penserò per la prossima Vacanza a Nice.. Un'unica cosa gli rimprovero (in maniera simpatica e a modo mio)...."A Salvato'....ma una moca per noi italiani, ce la devi far trovare!!!!" ;)
Très beau appartement ; calme, agréable ..
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The Twilight saga may be drawing to a close, but Hollywoods love affair with Stephenie Meyers prose is just beginning. With word that the merged Lionsgate-Summit powerhouse intends to explore further Twilight adventures on the small screen, casting continues on Andrew Niccols adaptation of Meyers other novel, The Host.
Inglourious Basterds star Diane Kruger is circling the pivotal role of The Seeker, according to Deadline. In Meyers science-fiction story, an alien race known as The Souls have taken over the human race. The Seeker agrees to watch over Melanie, a warrior soul (played by Hanna star Saoirse Ronan) who has been taken over by Wanderer, a force that has survived the Soul invasion but is overwhelmed by Melanies former memories which shouldnt exist.
Remember when Meyer dealt only with chaste vampires and sexually frustrated werewolves? Man, those were simpler times. I think its safe to assume that Meyers audience will follow her from Twilight to The Host, no matter who ultimately is cast in Niccols finished film.
But adding legitimate talents like Ronan and Kruger helps to ensure that The Host wont be as painful for non-Meyer converts. And while The Host sounds like the umpteenth take on the classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers fable, Niccol wrote The Truman Show and directed the underrated In Time with Justin Timberlake, so he has the ability to spin a conventional plotline in unexpected directions. Lets hope hes the collaborator Meyer and her army have been hoping for.
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Got my dividend Fri PM. Looks like Schwab took out additional 15% from the amount received, and net dividend was about 4%.
Sorry, but I misunderstood your message. 4% appears to be OK. My problem was that I thought that the tax had to be withheld at the source and not by the broker.
I still haven't received my dividend (I elected shares) from Etrade. I've also continued to hound them about the tax issue and requested them to look at SNY's website and read the documents. Why I have to do their job, I have no idea... not impressed with their Corporate Actions department and general response. This issue might convince me to switch brokers but that's another expensive fee I would have to pay to Etrade...
$1.76/SNY share went to my Schwab IRA account. Schwab then took out $.26/share after the SNY dividend hit. I don't own that much SNY--I was waiting to see what the net dividend would be before buying much of it.
Did you complain? Would be interested to learn how they justify that. If response not satisfactory, you should contact SEC .


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Someone posted on the xtracycle message board a few weeks ago that Val, maker of the Rolling Jackass kickstand, had passed away. This is very sad, but does anyone know more about this?
I bought a rolling jackass this Spring after over a year of angsting over a $350 kickstand, it was money well spent, now they are no longer available.


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Dark Dark Dark give us a preview of next week's 'Spies' performance
As much as it pains us to admit that not only is the Walker's Music & Movies series underway but already half over, the organizers are giving us something extra-auspicious to look forward to for next Monday's finale. This year's Music & Movies series was tailored around themes from the Walker's exhibition Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, and the curators selected Dark Dark Dark to create a live soundtrack to Fritz Lang's Spies for the final show, which will also be the first time in recent history that the free event, traditionally held in Loring Park, will be moved onto the Walker's own grounds.
To get us ready for the series, Dark Dark Dark sent over a short teaser video that shows them collaborating with a group called the Modern Times Spychestra in advance of Monday's show:
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Data Type(s): Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Bubble Gun, Seismics: Sparker, Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Seismics: Sonobouy, Environmental Data: Temperature, Location-Elevation: Navigation
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Period after 6 weeks and exclusively breast feeding???
My little on is 6 weeks old and is exclusively breast feeding every 2-4 hours around the clock. I bled for just about two weeks and then just had slight discharge after. 4 days ago I started spotting... Thought nothing of it until the next day I had some more and the nextd and today. Its like its the last day or two of my usual period. Could it be a period!??? With my first child, I got my period back after 7 weeks and she was also exclusively breasted around the clock( I even pumped at night when she started skipping feedings). My doctor said I am the only patient he had or hs even heard of that period resumed so shortly whileexclusivelys breast feeding. Has this happened to anyone else??????
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It's an old wives tale that you don't get your period while breastfeeding. The PP is correct, it can delay it. I got my period at 3 months and they are just now returning to normal (LO is 10 months). The standard rule is that the body should be back to pre-pregnancy status at 1 year post-partum. That means the uterus has returned to it's normal size, your periods should be normal, and so should any post-partum hormones. If not, see a doctor. Preferably a different one because I don't think yours knows what he should.posted 10/29/2012 by Fearless Leader
Ok let me tell you right away that your doc is a moron! It is absolutely possible and common for women to start their periods very shortly after delivery. Breasteeding most of the time will prolonge the start of the period but it will not always do so nor is there something wrong with that. My husband's cousin got her period 6 weeks after delivering BOTH her sons and they were both brest fed past 1 year. It is completely normal and you have nothing to worry about. I would switch docs though, he seems clueless...posted 10/23/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
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No issues for me so far. But then, I've only had it for a couple of hours now. At least on my iPhone. It's still loading on my iPad.
I did have a couple of minor sync issues when it was loading. The capacity thermometer on the iTunes Summary page for my iPhone (and my iPad) indicated that I had too much stuff. Told me that "other" was too big. Whatever the heck "other" was. I just stopped the sync and restarted it and everything seems to be OK now.
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Oh, I can smell it alright and it stinks... No new detail in the 10q out today. Except we bought more notes from Tracciare on the same terms. I think this is the third time I've seen that. Does that mean we now have warrants to buy 240% of the company?Please explain just why you believe a big move is coming.
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"I was pretty happy with this news myself," says lead author Beatrice Golomb, associate professor of medicine at the University of California-San Diego. "Findings show the composition of calories, not just the number of them, matters for determining ultimate weight."
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One point on the BMI scale "is not insignificant," Golomb says; 1 point translates to 5 fewer pounds for someone 5 feet tall, 7 pounds for someone 5-foot-10. Findings were published Monday in Archives of Internal Medicine.
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The study was observational, meaning it analyzed data based on how much chocolate people said they ate, rather than a controlled trial in which some people are given chocolate and compared with others who did not get chocolate.
Chocolate should preferably be consumed as dark chocolate, as it contains more of the beneficial flavonoids, as well as less sugar.
Past research has found that dark chocolate can be beneficial for the heart, says physician Suzanne Steinbaum, director of women's health and heart disease at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. One study of more than 100,000 people found that those who ate dark chocolate regularly reduced their relative risk of heart disease by a third. Golomb's study did not specify the type of chocolate. Neither study received funding from chocolate makers.
Cocoa is rich in antioxidants called flavonoids, which help fight inflammation, lower blood pressure and improve overall vascular function.
The antioxidants also affect metabolism and improve insulin sensitivity, Golomb says. Insulin resistance contributes to hypertension and obesity. "The chocolate provided better metabolism for all calories, not just the chocolate calories."
At a time when 66% of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, the results need to be regarded with some caution, experts acknowledge.
"Before you start to eat a chocolate bar a day to keep the doctor away, remember a chocolate bar can contain over 200 calories, which mostly come from saturated fats and sugar," says Nancy Copperman, a registered dietitian and director of public health initiatives at the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Great Neck, N.Y.
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