Sex and Drugs and Rock n' Roll

Despite the Ian Dury reference, I don't really care for his music. Don't misconstrue this for not knowing who the man is and what he did. To do so would be an insult to what he accomplished as a unique flower in the flower bed of humanity.

And like all flowers his time came and went. In a thousand years he will more than likely be a trivia question for the future generation of hipsters to hipster over, and I doubt what he did will not even be mentioned, let alone understood.

Music is one of those things.... things - such a cheap and useless word... it's like a placeholder for where a real word should be.

Music is one of many human common denominators. Those "things" that most if not all cultures around the globe have developed and bonded to over time.

I'm at this point in my life that I want to study a portion of the facets of humanity... in hopes to get a better understanding of not only myself but others around me. Honestly I have noticed a few things in the past year or so that I have fully taken advantage of. I won't lie and say that I don't have some guilt and some of which I could get into some trouble. Not with the wife.. well that's not true.. anyway let's just say it's not an infidelity thing.

I have been doing some things of questionable character.... and getting away with it. For now...

Anywho... back to music..

So I remember when I was a budding teen and music became my everything... it was my emotional roulette.... my memory reanimator so to speak and is to some point to this day.

Here I was being over run with a flood of hormones into my system and emotional levels that (looking back on it) I'm so fucking glad that shit is over with. My childhood consisted of a severely depressed mother with zero parenting skills and sad to say my father wasn't much better in that department, but he's the more well adjusted one.

Not having parents that work together is one of the worst scenarios a kid can be in. If the parents are solid with the kids, I think the kids can handle pretty much anything thrown at them. This could include divorce, rebellion on their part, general questions about life, open honest discussions.

Sad to say it's taken a long time in some discussions with my kids now that they are older. Though let this be known... none of them have the excuse of "we never talked to them". That I know is a load of bullshit. While we didn't force discussions on them, we would monitor what they did to a point, gave them freedom/perks/etc.. as the earned it. Good grades were required and they had options to get into whatever activity they wanted to. Some took more advantage of this than others.. <cough>Xander</cough>

I know just recently I offered Kendo and fencing options which were turned down. Any earlier conversations attempts with the "YA YA I already know".. only to be revisited down the road with some karmic fate of retribution for not listening completely and missing key information that would have saved them.

Music... yak shaving...

I have the extreme interest in the physiology of homosaipens... like why we do the things we do.. weird sciencey type things...

how your nostrils oscillate their duty throughout the day

Rods and cones