Masters of Rowdy Bliss

I'm listening to Miles Davis - Blue Miles - "'Round Midnight."  NOPE! Scratch that, distracted by Ron Carter and Herbie Hancock playing "Agitation" in Stockholm, Sweden, in '67 on YouTube.  What an amazing time I live in.  I am showered with blessings :D

Hannah bought a book for us called Pronoia.  It took me a few days to pick it up, really, as I'm attempting to read the books I listed earlier at the same time.  The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz, and The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier.  Just to make things easy I'm listening to Wayne Shorter solo on "Footprints" from the same concert. I'm also reading the latest Modern Drummer which features Paul Gilbert's drummer and amazing hand-made artisan cymbals from Turkey, a book my coworker Jake offered me titled The Japanese Kitchen by Kimiko Barber, which is excellent although I've only read through the introductory history and ways to use old rice to make fabulous food.  I've recently read and viewed many books dealing with my current Profession, sushi crafting (including The Story of Sushi once titled The Zen of Fish.) and been overwhelmed with new things to study and learn.  I'm attempting to mold myself into a virtuoso pianist and multi-percussionist, an erudite multi-instrumentalist of inspirational artistry.  I've brainstormed purchasing software, hardware, and books on recording myself so that I can broadcast my multifaceted beauty over YouTube, Facebook, and the internet in general.  Maybe this blog too.

It doesn't even look like Miles is working hard for this show.  Playing the trumpet is like breathing for him.  I have to achieve this for myself as well.  The channel just changed to John Coltrane playing Alabama with his quartet: McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and Himself in 1963.

This feels slightly similar to previous late night interludes extruding text for papers to win glorious A grades from adoring teachers without all the pressure and stress, but plenty of boundless developing joyful exuberance.

I love my life, and life, and all of this THIS.