The World Health Organization said that bacon and hot dogs will kill you. I think we already knew that, although I’m not going to eat a package of smoked hickory yummy bacon every single week, nor do I rarely ever eat a hotdog unless I’m at a ballgame (or The Varsity) it’s not going to stop me from eating either one. Everything we do contributes to our loss of life including all the wonderful things that we enjoy. Food, the sun, a morning walk, (you will breathe in carcinogenic auto exhaust fumes) we are dying slowly every day no matter what we do. Life is fatal. Therefore, I adhere to what Seneca said “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
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Winter
It is one of those days. The kind of day I often wish for. The sky is quiet and gray. You can almost see the cold.
The trees stand barren and listless as if to say “I’m standing here but I’m not lonely, just waiting for another time.”
I am one that loves the cold. I treasure the first fresh nip as I step into the world each day.
I love the winter.
Give me a proper cold weather coat, a finely crafted scarf and a walk down a New York City street at Christmas time and I’m in heaven.
Cold weather suits me in every way which is odd for a girl born in the South. Most find it depressing and bleak wishing for warm, balmy beaches with immaculately arranged umbrellas.
Not me.
You’ll never hear me say “hey let’s take a trip to somewhere warmer.” I guess I was just hammered together differently.
You see, the season gives me a sense of peace.
A feeling that everything is going to work out. That the world does have order.
In short, it gives me Joy.
So, if you ever wonder where I might have wandered off to just check any place cold, you may find me there.
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Brandy Clark Ain’t No Paper Cut Out
Well, she’s gone and done it again. With a perfect right turn from her previous work, Brandy Clark has released her latest effort with major label backing giving her everything investments like that affords an artist.
With point perfect production and up-tempo snark, this is a record country radio should embrace if they want to present themselves as a 21st-century format.
The writing is relatable enough for the masses to attach themselves to but clever and sophisticated enough for any highbrow intellectual to appreciate. It’s all due to such a driving, cogent hook. Her signature turn of phrase serves her well again here with lines like the surprisingly unexpected, but superbly integrated “Virgin Mary metaphor.” Only the most clever of writers can incorporate this kind of devilish verbiage into a song and not sound farcical.
Actually, this can be considered a pop record as well. It’s a song that transcends genres.
But who I’m I kidding, country radio probably won’t understand the nuance of a record that is so sublimely crafted.
And we don’t care.
Without any radio air play on her last release, she won’t need it here either. Clark’s ever-growing fan base will find her and buy this record with or without radio leading the way.
To say I’m a fan of Clark’s may be an understatement, but I’m a fan of great writing in any form or medium. Aaron Sorkin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Brandy Clark.
Because good is good, but this is great music making.
Check out an older interview I had with Brandy Clark here:
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Hello World!
Hello World! Those famous words used in computer programming for beginners is appropriate here for me, a beginning blogger.
I plan to use this blog for thoughts and comments on a variety of things from music, theatre and art, to politics (can you say “2016”), human nature and culture today. From the latest greatest video I’ve seen, book I’ve read or song I’ve heard. So yes, it will be many things.
I hope you will find it interesting and will come back often.
I’ll start with a song… You can never go wrong with music.
Bernadette Peters “Unexpected Song” will chill you to the bone. Make sure you stick around for the last note. It’s so worth it.
Forever curious,
Kathy
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