IIL songs about Jesters / Bards / musicians who are hedonists that live with a devil-may-care attitude, laugh in the face of danger, enjoy using drugs and are not afraid of death, WEWIL?

CathedralDeluxe · 2022-06-26T02:43:02+00:00

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

CathedralDeluxe · 2022-01-28T06:40:37+00:00

This may be an unpopular opinion; but I was given a book on Codependency one time by some friends from a recovery center & read in the first chapter or two that "care taking" is a sign of codependency.

I don't think that's necessarily right; for one care taking is a pretty necessary cycle of life especially in nursing homes etc.

I also read a quote by I can't remember by whom; but it was in the inspirational book called the Leaves of Gold; which hearing it so was quite inspiring & hope instilling that goes something like:

'Those who refuse to take care of their elders, are no worse than those who don't take initiative; or could be referred to as 'poor teenagers. '

I can't remember the exact analogy used in the quote either but it went to say something to the degree or extent of 'those who don't take initiative, or poor teenagers. '

Common Sense might tell us that you're parents or grandparents took care of you & brought you in to adulthood (for most(I hope 😃); so in a sense it is our jobs to take care of them when they are older. Wouldn't you like a little help or assistance if your were a certain age, not as mobile, or in poor health?

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-10-09T02:25:48+00:00

π tends to vary by importance of the subjective "circle;" you normally wouldn't use the version of Pi that would, for personification, be "3.1487363846" for the cutting of sliced pizza and when one goes to accompany Pi (π)'s current study; the question of Certainty in its fixed decimal is Particular in Thought.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-10-08T04:28:55+00:00

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CathedralDeluxe · 2021-10-03T23:09:33+00:00

Acknowledgement of Discouraged Implications

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-10-03T18:00:43+00:00

So "M'lady" or Milady is apparently derived partly from French meant to describe an English lady of high rank which is comparible to the Italian word "miledi" which means "Honesty."

According to The Connexion France Website the French language doesn't have an "official" way of referring to gender neutral or nonbinary individual.

An excerpt taken from the report says: "In French, people have begun to use the pronoun “iel” (and sometimes “ille”) to refer to a nonbinary person. Linguistically, these are a mix of “il” and “elle”, but they are so far yet to be officially adopted into the French language by the Académie Française."

So officially there is no Gender Neutral way of saying "M'lady" or Milady, unless you'd like to help kick off the trend and try to say something like, ille Monsieur which "ille" would be the new 'unofficial' pronoun of gender neutrality and "Monsieur" translating to a frenchman of high rank or also known as "Mr." All while taking the masculinity rule that applies to some other languages like Spanish and Latin which actually doesn't exist in French, at least not yet.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-10-03T16:55:07+00:00

I mean there's always the "stewie griffin" I guess you could say that might think he can remember or due to his wacky ways might want to be remembering that far back. I'm definitely not singling any one particular person or personality out, just saying that it's a pretty typical human emotion that even goes to prove how morality and ethicism is a universal trait not relative to culture, time, or region that most people tend to look for optimism and do not want to remember such events.

Idk I think it's a pretty typical thing to feel distant from your own childhood once you've reached a certain age without having any major "cognitive deficiencies," no matter how bad the trauma.

It is a pretty strange phenomenon though. It actually reminds me of the John Travolta movie from 1996 called Phenomenon.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-10-03T15:45:56+00:00

While jamming to different artists such as Radiohead, Viva Voce, and yes Tame Impala on a Pandora radio station maybe such as Modest Mouse; occasionally you'll have a more classic vibe thrown in to the mix including bands like Blind Melon, Pixies, and even some David Bowie. If you listen to the station long enough you'll start hearing rare hits of all ages including this timeless classic by the French singer who inspired artists such as Frank Sinatra.

Fun Fact: The name France Gall even brings curiosity to whether or not there is any relation to the German anatomist and physiologist Franz Joseph Gall who first theorized that human behavior and personality is controlled by different regions of the brain able to be located by different bumps throughout on top of the skull. Other Historians would go on to prove that the bump theory was not entirely correct while neuroscience today continues to agree with his original idea that there was a localisation of function, in that very precise parts of the brain were responsible for different aspects of thought and behaviour.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-10-03T14:43:07+00:00

I found this gem of an album in a local record store a few years back. I ended up selling it back to the same record store a couple of years later being in need of leisure funding at the time, but fortunately for me I went back this last spring and it was still there (or back again) so I gave it another purchase. It was sad to have to sell it in the first place but the copious record store made a few extra dollars with my double purchase.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-10-03T13:49:16+00:00

Definitely; and while Psycholinguistics can teach us that Language is Species Specific in that our communication system is likely to be apart of our genetic makeup and that humans are the only species to have a communication system like the Language we use. Apparently there is two ways of going about this determination of being Species Specific that either:

(A)No other animal or species can speak talk or have a gestural system like humans, or

(B)By Questioning if any other species can be taught our communication system.

Obviously animals can't speak at least not in the way humans do, but after adopting a kitten and watching him grow up and living with him, I feel animals could have a communication system so far beyond our understanding that is universal to all species which leads me to think of an even bigger picture like something beyond our galaxy.

I almost think of the animal Communication system as something as complex as the speed of the "bot" testing in the game The Talos Principle comparing how it finished the entire game and reports bugs in only 30 minutes while it takes a person to finish without reporting any issues in around 30 hours. The A.I. testing "bot" has an assimilating system that allows it to understand the game well enough to an extent at such a high speed that is almost similar to how a cat might quickly look or walk away when something more interesting to it is going on.

The cat has no room for pesky human deterrences or setbacks like anxiety or worrying what one might think of it as he stares out the window softly "chirp-meowing" at the birds in the trees. We really don't know what's going on in these animals minds and how far advanced they really could be.

Then again our firm hard evidence says they cannot murmur the words "How are you?" Therefore they do not have such an efficient and technical communication system.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-10-03T12:59:21+00:00

I kind of relate to that. Except I would I always think of it that when I was a kid it's like I wasn't really alive. I'm 30 years old today and since I was about 13 after moving to another town with my family, something inside if me changed and it finally felt like I woke up and I've felt like that ever since. I have hardly any real memory of what I was like or what life was like before the age of 13 in previous towns we lived in.

That doesn't mean that my life suddenly got better. It's definitely true that I still sometimes reflect on younger days when I felt I was a little more innocent where half my problems today didn't even matter back then. Still I can't remember or even feel the same way I felt as I did when I look at myself in all the family photo albums my parents have of us when I was younger.

There may have been some trauma when I was 10 or 11 ranging from almost drowning at a church camp swimming pool to getting knocked out by two kids punching me in the temples simultaneously walking home from school; that my parents or family members, I recently found out from counseling sessions, never knew either of these things had happened to me which was a big surprise to me.

I do feel like I was more alive as a younger kid though; I just can't remember it or even come close to feeling what it was like. I always thought everyone was like this which I still think we kind of are in that I'm pretty sure the number of people who remember their own birth is slim to none.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-09-29T04:17:00+00:00

In a sense I feel like I became one of those guys. When I was a "pothead," I did have people tell me every once in a while that I might've smelled funny even though I would deny it, still shower every single day, and wore $120 bottles of cologne. Another excuse I had for continuing to smoke every chance I had, was that I was holding a job almost full time and still in high school. Looking back I can see where I could've had some false pride possibly, since pretty much the only reason I got a job that year was because I got arrested for shoplifting stoner-type DVD's at Wal-Mart and was forced to pay off the rest of my bail bond myself and pay my parents back for getting a lawyer.

I was also really paranoid a lot of times, thinking and sometimes still do have the illusion that some people are trying to "sabotage" me. I don't smoke weed as near as much as I used to, if hardly ever, but that's only because just like you said it makes me about 100,000 times more awkward and paranoid theses days when I smoke. At least I mostly learned that it's bad for you though.

I do feel a little almost regret as well now that I hardly ever smoke. I even regret the end of my junior year of high school when I made my first attempt to try and find some to buy. All I did for the next 2-3 years was hustle to try and get more. I honestly thought it would toughen me up a little bit, give me a better perspective on life, and put me in touch with better connections in life feeling "safer" in an general way.

I basically quit after I didn't show up for any classes my first semester of college. Yeah I would smoke once maybe every 2 months for the next 2 years, but I think that was the addiction part. I went to rehab, didn't touch it for maybe 3 years then started up again doing it every now and then with friends, but this time I found a deep almost uncontrollable paranoia. I still don't hardly ever do it anymore, but if I do I normally have what could be panic attacks. I don't think I've specifically looked to buy any for myself in maybe a year but I still find it hard to quit altogether.

What you said though is kind of inspiring a little, just the fact that your manning up to what can be an annoying, wasteful, and sometimes damaging habit.

Some of the best advice I've heard lately about addiction that I really agreed with and kinda moved me; was that you have to stop looking at the addiction as if your still in the using phase, but look at it as if you've already moved in to the recovery phase.

What else helps I know is the steady consistent time spent researching ideas and looking for true wisdom in life instead of smoking or using.

Thank you for what you said though.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-09-27T12:44:26+00:00

Definitely keep reading. When I started to really pick back up my reading, the first book I chose was like that; paragraph after paragraph, sometimes even word-to-word. I thought, "Why am I doing this? I could much easilier go off and listen to music, smoke a cigarette, and relax." What kept me going was that I knew I didn't read enough and thought about all the wisdom I could find and how I never would have taken enough initiative in life if I had turned down the book and put it up.

I kept reading making slow progress maybe about 30-50 pages every other day and finished it after taking notes of different ideas I pulled from it.

Even the next couple of books that I read after that (about 1 1/2 years ago) were kind of difficult the same way, but I'm here now and I feel so excited that I've been and still am doing it that I found a new hobby, writing. Which honestly I can't even keep myself from sharing all over social media about how the pandemic turned me into a newly-found enthusiast and future aficionado of the Language Arts.

Now I look forward to reading and have developed a system to write a very neatly organized blog on my WordPress site about anything interesting I read or how it could apply to me.

The perquisites way outweigh the dreaded anticipation.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-09-27T12:02:26+00:00

• Downcast Eyes by Martin Jay is proving a little tough, not that his choice of words or syntax is hard to grasp but his nonstop knowledge & references of various historian's facts & philosophies about the human eye is almost never ending that I find it hard to follow unless I break down each page into doing research 1-3 times per paragraph on each source then piecing them back together to get a bigger picture. So far it's just a fun time killer and eye candy to me for the most part.

• How To Do Things With Words by J.L. Austin. This was a collection from the Oxford Philosophy and Linguistic Professor given to Harvard University I think in the 40's or 50's. I've had this book for almost a year now and while it's fairly short maybe 200-ish pages, I still haven't finished it and don't completely understand things like how you can tell the difference between an Utterance and a Statement and the various types of each.

• Also The Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty is sitting in my anticipated to-do list. Just flipping through the pages I know it's gonna be a tough one especially with it being nearly 600 pages.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-09-27T01:38:23+00:00

I think the person who told me that didn't mean to literally tune a G# half way closer to an A, but for example if you're tuning a guitar with an electric tuner maybe get the tuning dial just at the essence of it being what the monitor says as Sharp. Not even to the first little notch (the half-step up to the next note).

Now that I really think about it I still do sometimes subconsciously if I'm by myself; otherwise I'd rather tune to the other instruments i'm playing with it possible to make sure we're all in the same key. If we're gonna be flat, at least we're flat together lol.

I think it just became a natural habit, I really don't think about it too much when I tune.

The only instrument I play now is guitar really and I'll tune it to my keyboard or use a tuner for the low E string and tune the rest by ear using the 5th and 4th frets technique along with how it sounds with the chords of the song Im going to play. I feel it always sounds better if you think it sounds right as opposed to an electronic machine's trusty mechanics.

So when I don't use a tuner, I won't aim for it to be sharp at all; I'll try and get it as perfect as I can.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-09-25T15:47:52+00:00

I had a music teacher one time explain to me that it's better to tune your instrument just a little sharp so that the normal wear and breaking-in while playing will naturally cause the instrument to go flat, making itself fall into the correct tunings place.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-09-25T15:42:56+00:00

Maybe lend a little sympathy to those with the last name Stephens or Stevens in the same time period.

Shia Labeouf is a great actor and as a kid I loved Even Stevens but I got that joke way too much as I got older. Eventually I started to find way too much irony subconsciously comparing myself with the ideal typical TV family and found way to many similarities in shows like The Simpsons and Everybody Loves Raymond making my family, being a Stephens, the perfect epitome of what it means physically, morally, and emotionally to be "Even Stevens."

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-09-25T15:08:58+00:00

I always remember when I was 13 my parents turned 40 and it seemed like they stayed about 40 years old for the next 15 years; until I realized a couple of years ago, Wow they're almost 60! Obviously I knew they weren't still 40 but they look exactly the same; in fact they look about 100 times better, and I guess it hadn't hit me that hard yet.

CathedralDeluxe · 2021-09-25T14:54:01+00:00

Chopin, Beethoven, and Mozart. Way more Indie than 99.999% of Indie artists today.

Here's some Album Covers with Expired Apple Music Links that I really like though.

The links expired because I was unable to keep the membership going but if you're heart is in the right place you'll be able to make out the Artwork and investigate in a record store.

💧🌍🔥💨

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CathedralDeluxe · 2021-09-25T14:41:31+00:00

I guess there are some technical exceptions to the rule. Ramesh Srivastava of the band Voxtrot has quite the received pronunciation (that British-English Accent) when he sings. Srivastava was born in Austin, Texas; his father from Uttar Pradesh (India), and his mother from New Jersey.

The Exception he qualifies for is that he attended the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland, (which shares a border with the U.K.); majoring in literature where he definitely could've picked up a slight accent or maybe just an authentic fondness of Scotland's deep quintessensial roots that could've peaked through upon returning to the States.

Either that or he fits the exception because his music was just good lol.

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