| 
  • If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.

  • You already know Dokkio is an AI-powered assistant to organize & manage your digital files & messages. Very soon, Dokkio will support Outlook as well as One Drive. Check it out today!

View
 

msb-0367 Stay Focused

Page history last edited by Charles-A. Rovira 14 years, 9 months ago

 

 

 

Episode Sponsor's banner (This could be YOU!)

MSBPodcast Shows

 

Episode Name msb-0367 Stay Focused

 

Direct Link to episode -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/msb-0366_Stay_Focused.m4a

 

YouTube Vids

 

Focus- Hocus Pocus (live '73)

. YouTube plugin error .

 

Johnny Winter-Highway 61 Revisited (Centralia PA.)

. YouTube plugin error .

 

Intro

 


Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

 


Survey

 


FeedBack comes first, so...

 

I'm an unashamedly great fan of the "Diskworld" novels by Sir Terry Pratchett and I have just been in touch with the young woman who's currently running the "From Rim To Hub" podast. [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=301780640 ]

This a very young woman who obviously needs some help, so I offered.

How did I know she's a young woman?

She didn't know how to pronounce Abba (she called them a.b.b.a. like it was some form of meter measurement and she she'd obviously never hear of the Bee Gees, A.K.A. the Brothers Gibb.)

Oh Key fringgin' Christ, I felt do OLD. :-)

But that's the way the cookie crumbles.

---- "Focus" by: "Platypus Complex" http://www.myspace.com/platrio

 


FeedForward

 

---- "Inner Focus" by: "absentmachine"  http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage

 

 


FeedMe 

 

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.

[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Soft Focus" by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team" http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php

 


Thesis:

 

The theme this episode is "Stay Focused" because that's so important for MSers.

And so exhausting too.

You have to stay focused on "everything".

If you're anywhere where you'd really like to let your hair down and really enjoy yourself, you cant really let your hair down and enjoy yourself because you're concerned with things like spasticity or even falling over.

Its hard to gracefully get a little tipsy on vino when you are either favoring one hand, and single handedness is a symptom of MS, or sloshing a glass of red all over yourself and your nice white shirt.

---- "Soft Focus" by: "Black Nite Crash" http://www.blacknitecrash.com/

 


Synthesis:

 

 Stay Focused sounds like one of my darling wife's mantras.

But frankly its gets tiring never letting go, cutting loose and actually having the rest of that beer.

"In Vino Veritas", "Truth from wine",  used to be the old Roman way of proving who your friends were.

You'd lounge around the "vomitarium" attending to the orgy, getting pie eyed, and quaffing to your heart's content. (Quaffing it like drinking except you spill more.)

The following morning all that could even be remembered was forgiven. but the truth was known.

(Yes "vomitarium" sounds disgusting, and it was, but they were Romans and they totally owned the world, sort of like the "soit-disant" nuptual parties of the days of prohibition or the Bacchanals of Bernie Madoff and the like, [The libertine attitude of the Paris Hiltons of this world came from somewhere, you know?])

Lord I sound like a drunk but its been so long since I've had a pint or three at a pub with a friend while we bullshit and chew the rag.

That's one reason I miss Eugene since he returned to the "spawning grounds" to help take care of his old, cantankerous father, way the heck out on Long Island.

And Long Island makes me think of "Long Island Ice Tea".

Damn. I think I need a drink.

Heck, Its the week-end, i've got nobody who just dying to see me, so I think I will go out on this grey afternoon, do my slow dance between the rain drops and pop on down to the booze sore and buy a bottle of red for the pork chop we're having for supper.

---- "Drinkin With My Guitar" by: "ATL Producers"  http://www.atlproducers.com/

 


Conclusion:

 

MSers are faced with dilemmas because we can't ever really relax.

But if ever you want to turn the computer loose on something fabulously fun, try the "12 Days of Hogwatch" [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207871434 ] to get 12 short videos about the Diskworld  and get a glimpse at the imaginative mind of Terry Prachett.

Best of all ...  its free.

Oh, the "Centralia" "Highway 61 Revisited Johnny Winter YouTube video at the front of this episode is because I know somebody, originally from round there as it turned out.

The story of the underground fire there is a cautionary tale for us all.

Unchecked passions burn deep and lay waste to the surface.

---- "I Need A Drink" by: "Adam and the Walter Boys" http://www.adamandthewalterboys.com/

 

Outro

 

SongList

 

Theme and 'incidental music' from:

"msb_theme",

 by: "Guy David",

 http://www.guydavid.com/

 no album,

 via personal contract

 

Song list

 

"Focus"

 by: "Platypus Complex"

 http://www.myspace.com/platrio

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

"Inner Focus"

 by: "absentmachine"

 http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

"Soft Focus"

 by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team"

 http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

"Soft Focus"

 by: "Black Nite Crash"

 http://www.blacknitecrash.com/

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

"Drinkin With My Guitar"

 by: "ATL Producers"

 http://www.atlproducers.com/

 (And I HATE a record company taking an artist' work and putting their name all over it because its NOT sustainable.)

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

"I Need A Drink"

 by: "Adam and the Walter Boys"

 http://www.adamandthewalterboys.com/

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

 


PhotoCredits:

 

 All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

 


BookRecommendations

 


Links:

Comments (0)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.