Trans feminine composers. Wow! When I walk through the music library at UW in Milwaukee, I see they have set up a gay composers showcase. What does being gay or trans have to do with music? I was recently rejected as a singer songwriter category at the Jazz Gallery in Milwaukee. The reason being that they don't showcase singer songwriters, just experimental stuff. But a few months later, I noticed they were having a special night for queer singer songwriters.
I think I should invent a new category: puppaphilia: people who love puppies. I am entitled to be showcased because as a puppaphile, I am in an oppressed category.
Just sitting here listening for the first time ... but my Japanese friend immediately named the song and composer! That's what I get for being a jazzer.
Oh, and sorry to hear about your mom. Despite my 20 years experience running the bio-labs at TUJ (though for non-STEM majors), my mom was fully up with her jabs when she passed away last year due to accelerated neurological problems. And my sis continues to send me 15 second clips of Kennedy in a gotcha moment, but refuses to read 'The Real Anthony Fauci'. Like too many other Americans, she doesn't do books.
Lovely! Now all I have to do is get the sound restored on my computer so I can listen to her music as well, which I am sure is exquisitely played.
I, too, should write more. I spend a good bit of my morning and afternoon commute to work and home again thinking about things, things which need to be expressed but find that they are forgotten long before I reach my keyboard in the evening. I have considered getting a machine (digital or tape doesn't matter) to record my thoughts and have seriously procrastinated on the matter. Tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow. Free beer tomorrow.
Nevertheless, I do enjoy your articles and encourage you to keep plugging away at the production. There is something about a well-written piece which cannot be duplicated in a verbal fashion. Not to say that the kla.tv style doesn't have an attraction, but my preference is to read.
Trans feminine composers. Wow! When I walk through the music library at UW in Milwaukee, I see they have set up a gay composers showcase. What does being gay or trans have to do with music? I was recently rejected as a singer songwriter category at the Jazz Gallery in Milwaukee. The reason being that they don't showcase singer songwriters, just experimental stuff. But a few months later, I noticed they were having a special night for queer singer songwriters.
heh- you should have identified as queer. If push came to shove you could just say, "All I meant was that I was a bit odd," in the old sense of queer.
I think I should invent a new category: puppaphilia: people who love puppies. I am entitled to be showcased because as a puppaphile, I am in an oppressed category.
Hi DW.
Just sitting here listening for the first time ... but my Japanese friend immediately named the song and composer! That's what I get for being a jazzer.
Oh, and sorry to hear about your mom. Despite my 20 years experience running the bio-labs at TUJ (though for non-STEM majors), my mom was fully up with her jabs when she passed away last year due to accelerated neurological problems. And my sis continues to send me 15 second clips of Kennedy in a gotcha moment, but refuses to read 'The Real Anthony Fauci'. Like too many other Americans, she doesn't do books.
Cheers.
Lovely! Now all I have to do is get the sound restored on my computer so I can listen to her music as well, which I am sure is exquisitely played.
I, too, should write more. I spend a good bit of my morning and afternoon commute to work and home again thinking about things, things which need to be expressed but find that they are forgotten long before I reach my keyboard in the evening. I have considered getting a machine (digital or tape doesn't matter) to record my thoughts and have seriously procrastinated on the matter. Tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow. Free beer tomorrow.
Nevertheless, I do enjoy your articles and encourage you to keep plugging away at the production. There is something about a well-written piece which cannot be duplicated in a verbal fashion. Not to say that the kla.tv style doesn't have an attraction, but my preference is to read.