It Don’t Matter, Part Deux

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music, observations, The Monkees, virus

Following up on the previous post of almost the same name.

That replayed football game’s 4th quarter happens to coincide with a local station’s broadcast on their point 2 as in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 etc…that I like.

Eight point two shows two episodes of The Monkees starting at 5pm on Sundays.  The fourth quarter of the replay games shares airtime with Los Monkees.

Watching the show again after 50 something years is hard to describe.  The boys were so young, who wasn’t?  The music was pretty good and it turns out they were talented performers in their own rights.

Mike Nesmith  already had written a hit or two, Peter Tork was in a couple of working bands, Davy Jones had performed in the West End and on Broadway and Mickey Dolenz had tv chops.

Some of the music holds up pretty well even after 50 years. Some of it doesn’t.

It’s the smirking asides from Nesmith and the boys that I see now for the first time.  I suspect they all knew how ridiculous the whole scene was and so they decided to be as ridiculous as they could be.

They were fine with management as long as they towed the line but once they realized they had power since they were the stars and  wanted to make their own music they were done, cooked, kaput.

I would toss in a Monkee tune here but you all know which ones are your favs and besides I’m tired of fighting “Skip Ads” on You Tube so you can “Skip Ads” yourself.

I’ve also had it it with ” You’re not signed in,” Start a free trial account” and ads right in the middle of whatever movie I’m watching.  Ads are your problem, not mine.

As far as going bed early, or late or even to at all it don’t matter as it’s always Groundhog Day but without Bill Murray or And McDowell or Ned Ryerson.

Honestly, we have it pretty good overall.

So you better get ready, they maybe coming your town.

 

 

 

It Don’t Matter

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country music, crossword puzzles, observations, virus

I figure I’ll write the piece and then maybe a title will come to me or it won’t.  As they say in country music – ” It Don’t Matter.”

I think I just happened upon a title.

Along the lines of passing time these days I offer these observations:

I watched a replay of Super Bowl 31 or XXXl as the NFL likes to call it.  I have no idea when it occurred except that I probably, maybe, most likely watched it.  There were no leather helmets involved so it somewhere in te recent but maybe distant past.

I found the time waster to be fairly interesting as John Madden and Pat Summerall called the game.  Since it was x number of years ago there was serious lack of video and teevee bells and whistles in the replay department which I found refreshing.

Even better was how the game was edited down to three or maybe 2 hours leaving all of the in game commercials on the sidelines, if you will and whatever dreadful halftime show that actually took place never made it to air.

I remember when my kids were young and my Sunday afternoons were not free for football viewing I would tape the games, yes, tape the games, and then watch them at 11pm that same evening having embargoed myself from the final scores so I could be genuinely surprised that those New York Football Jets had actually won a game if they did.

I could watch a whole game in about 25 minutes fast forwarding past the pre game, kickoffs, replays, commercials, halftime show, commercials, replays, commercials and commercials and commercials.  Boom and done, Jets win, Jets lose and I go to bed.

But back to the matters at hand these days.   I have been consciously varying my schedule day to day in order to change things up.  Go to bed early, go to bed late, take a nap, don’t take a nap.

Then I read an article today somewhere cautioning me on how to avoid falling into the trap of going to bed early, going to bed late and so on.

I walk and run, I play guitar and piano and I have a love hate thing going with the NY Times crosswords.

Sometimes the puzzles are too cute for their own good.

Last night I did one where there was supposed to be a four letter word in one box although neither the puzzle nor the Times tells you this upfront.

The word was “Back” so a four letter answer became “Back Bay” or ” Pay Back or Get Back” and so on.

We do not appreciate extra cuteness around here these days so please leave your cleverness at the front door.

And as for the title, It Don’t Matter.

Next post – Part Two of It Don’t Matter.

 

 

 

 

Passing Time These Days

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observations, politics, virus

I wasn’t sure if I should title this piece ” Passing Time” or “These Days” so I came to the obvious conclusion I should use both.

Here we are passing time these days or these days we’re passing time.  I can probably still reuse the titles since these days I have nowhere to go and all day to get there.  Passing Days anyone?  These Times? Passing These days?  The possibilities are somewhat limited but might be good for a week’s worth of observations.

I have been watching WWll documentaries on the Battle of Britain.  The Nazis keep making the same mistakes and the Brits always prevail.

Yes, I know history repeats itself more often than we realize or would like admit.  We keep making the same mistakes over and over again.

Supposedly Jackson Browne was 16 years old when he wrote his song,”These Days.”  Pretty self aware for a kid.

We could use some self awareness in certain quarters so that history would stop repeating itself for a while and give us a break.

Thanks to everyone who is till at work keeping the rest of us safe.