Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Keep A Song In Your Heart, And A Smile On Your Face!!!!!!!!!!!
Current mood: focused
Gosh……. Where to start? Tonight was such an a special night! I went to my favorite listening room to hear an old musician I used to love from back when I lived in Indianapolis. He was in a band that was called “The Floating Men”, and the lead singer is named Jeff Holmes.. He performed solo tonight…….The added treat, was his opener. A girl named Holly Long from Venice, California. She was ABSOLUTLY amazing. Her keyboard broke in the middle of the first song, and this horrible buzz took over temporarily. The sound man ended up hooking an external mic to this funcky keyboard (my keyboard won’t make any noise with out a line in)…… Anyways…. It was actually better with the external mic. It was magic!!!!! She was such a wonderful performer…… Watching her tonight and how she handled this dilemma was one of the best lessons I could have ever experienced! One of her songs about a Poet… litterally brought tears to my eyes! As I sat, I wondered…… if any performers ever feel like they have learned enough????? I know I haven’t….. Far from it…… I am no where near that place! I talked to her for a while after she finished, and she told me that she had seen Emmylou Harris several years ago, and how it had changed her!
That thought leads me to this…….. I take lessons on my mac with iplay music……..I take lessons with a man named Eric…. I read music books…. I watch people perform….. I write songs daily…..and I wonder…. when do you ever feel like you can know enough! In one way, it is so incredible to have this big giant thing called music to dive into…. But on the other… It burns your soul, because time is so fleeting, but the knowledge to aquire is so vast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As I go to bed tonight….. I smile because this world has shared it’s music with me. My grandmother used to say to “keep a song in your heart, and a smile on your face” ……… But for that to happen, everyone must have the ability to hear and feel the music! Better yet… The knowledge to play it……….
If you are reading this…… And you have the ability to give a person or child that gift….. make it happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will go to bed grateful, that I have the ability to dive into this world of music, and savor every morsel of what I can learn from it, in this lifetime! And hopefully, I can give the gift of music to some of the children in this world who have not yet experienced it! Without a song in your heart…. How can you have a smile on your face????????????
To end…. I want to say that if you’ve read my other blogs…. I DO love the “Hollow Man”…. I wish he would have called it the Hollow Human……… I hoped Jack wasn’t the Hollow Man, because I sooooooo hoped his life was full of only happiness… But that is not what life in this world is about!!!!!!!! At least not my life, and the lives of people that surround me! There is the good with the bad!!!! But as I say goodnight I will hummmm the song about the POET and SMILE, and say thank you so much for visiting with me! And I will be humbled that the Universe has given me a song to hold in my heart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Lex
