Thursday
I have to admit that I do not read the Bible often. I would like
to, but I guess I wasn't raised that way. I've tried a few times,
after getting inspired, but I just didn't "get it."
I've tried various chapters such as Jeremiah, and I've asked some
friends and Preachers for guidance.
What I do read for inspiration are books with one line per page
such as "The Feel Good Book," "Life's Little
Instruction Book" or "Don't Sweat the Small
Stuff." Last night I was in a Rasta chat room and Donna
needed inspiration for words to a song. I thought of what I read
the day before which was "Reverse Roles with your
spouse." I quoted from one of trustily little books,
"It's sad, yet the easiest person to take for granted is
probably the person you love most in the world, your spouse.
The key to prevention is to put yourself in your spouse's
shoes," that didn't inspire her, but we came up with a
metaphor that the world is like an out of tune drum.
Just to get off on a tangent a bit, I also "want" to be
a vegetarian like my 10 y/o daughter. But I guess it's the same
kind of thing as above, I guess I don't want it bad enough. I
call my self a vegetarian want-to-be.
Friday
As I mentioned previously, I
do not have a list of my Bob Marley tapes, and I still do not,
but I'm getting closer. With the help of several Internet
buddies, I am at least getting the tapes in chronological order
and numbering them.
One has to be pretty compulsive with collecting, so I do not know
where I stand, (It's taken me 25 years to make a list) I still do
not have my list on a floppy disc or have one in print, but at
least I am starting to know what I have, and what I need. I have
been using others' lists as a basis. BTW, there are many that
have much better tape collections than me.
Saturday
I was fortunate enough to have been to Rogers house twice and see
his collection. Talk about being compulsive, he has specially
built tape draws (earthquake proof) and knows where everything
is. If one takes a tape out of a draw, one is not supposed to
replace it. Sometimes my house looks like Rogers, but on a
smaller scale. Piles of tapes everywhere, stacks of CD's
and vinyl. Every so often I take time out and try to organize
items, (such as non Marley Reggae, test pressings, Radio shows,
or Marley related singles).
Just when I think I have all bases covered, I find a new category
to collect, such as Press Passes, special format MTV Reggae
Videos, or promotional Press Kits. Fortunately I do not go
overboard such as collecting buttons or posters.
Roger once asked me "how do I the find the time to do all
the things that I do." I'm not really sure, but one thing I
am good at, is delegating. My wife recently stated that if
I could, I would have someone take naps for me.
A while ago, I read a book
called "Working Smart, How to Accomplish More in Half the
Time."
I quote, "Do you find yourself doing routine jobs others
could do or be trained to do? There is enough time to get
everything done, if you use others' time. Such is the nature of
delegation-assigning to others tasks that you want or need to get
done.....We allow ourselves the liberty of performing many tasks
whose completion is of little or no importance. Worse yet,
we spend our time on jobs that could be done by others, more
effectively. As a result, less time is spent on high-priority
items. Our effectiveness is severely diluted."
The above vignette is dedicated to Grace Polson.
Speaking of delegating, I asked a internet friend to write 2
articles for me. 1. Songs that the Wailers sang backup on, for
Lenonard Dillon of the Ethiopians, ( ie." Beggers have no
choice") 2. Was Marley a hopeless Romantic? (listend to his
early Ska songs)
If I had more time I would love to find out what's the real story
with the song "Train to Skaville." Rumor has it that
the Wailers somehow were involved in the record, possibly the
introduction to the song was by Tosh. This might be the same
record as "Train to Skaville" by the Ethiopians.
Roger and Leroy are supposed to be putting out a Wailers
discography book one day, and I hope it addresses these type of
songs. I saw the completed manuscript, but was denied a copy of
it. It was roughly 150 type written pages, with the complete
listing of the musicians. Each song took up about 4 lines of
print.
I would also like to hear what people have to say about the war
between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Ethiopia has stated that they
killed 865 enemy troops and wounded 1600 in a 2 day battle near
the Mereb River. Eritrea blamed Ethiopian troops for the starting
the new battle and said 785 Ethiopian troops were killed in 5
days of fighting on the Badme front and that 1800 were
wounded."
This war seems almost sacrilegious, due it's historical location.
There has been no mention of this war in any Reggae Usegroups or
Rasta chats.
As I mentioned earlier, I like to take on a challenge, mastered
conquer it, and then move one. I tend to recycle my conquests
periodically, and then get back to them at a future date.
Like many, Close up and Stage magic was a childhood interest of
mine.
Over the last few yeas, I have been associated with POPAJO, MOKO
the Clown and the Amazing Juan (Wand). This was my interest
before I was heavily getting into computers.I did several
educational shows for the local schools, cub scouts, a few family
birthday parties and appearance at the Library and one large
stage show at the local Synagogue.
Anyway getting back to Reggae there was an interesting quote by
Marley pertaining to magic, from the Richard Cromelin
"Rolling Stone Magazine" Interview, (An edited version
was published in the Beat Magazine. Taking this statement out of
context:
RC "I want to talk to you about Haile Selassie a little We
want to understand your reaction to whatever the political
situation in Ethiopia of the last year. He no loner rules
Ethiopia politically, right?"
BM "Politically. You see when you talk abut-Him is not a
man, you know. Him not a natural man like me. He's God! You can
see Him. You have a thing named magic. Magic, I mean real magic!
I'm not talking about, like tricks. I'm talking about.
......real..... magic! And me no talk about learned magic, I talk
about real magic. Him is a magician (laughs) - He is the real
Magician.
Once I wrote an article that I submitted to a Magic magazine that
was not published comparing the power of suggestion of a
Physician and that of a Magician. I'll edit a version for this
page at a future date.
My son Jeremy, is into Magic
Cards. I would trade anybody out there, 10 tapes for a
Black Lotus.
My 81 y/o mother in Law,
Minerva Altchuler just helped me with editing, grammer and
punctuation for this Journal.
Mother in Law?, What type of word is that?, Is there is a
Lawyer in her Mother?
Sunday
My wife and had a great time last night. We went out for Italian
food with Abe and Bonnie Dorfman. After dinner, we went to an
acquaintance of Abe's house where a real live professional
Baseball player from the Arizona Diamond Backs was there, by the
name of John Frascalu #80. He is a relief
pitcher (known as a closer, according to his sister) and I
believe he was on the St.
Louis Cardinals last year. I got his autograph on a
prescription pad and he mentioned whether he should write out a
Rx. for Sanism . (I guess that means to be sane) Since I
was a bit intimated and shy, I chose not to continue the
conversation (I do not have the gift of gab, like Abe).
Under his name, he signed Isazah 4127-31. I 'll have
to ask for some help in finding this chapter in the Bible.
All I know is that it's from the Old Testament.
About 3 years ago, I obtained the 18 page Master Catalog from
Cayman Music of Wailers songs. I do no know if these songs exist
and some of them are mistitled:
Be your friend (High Tide, Low Tide)
Band Played on
Bailando toda la noche
All the girls are ready
A toast to the people
Body Slang
Blue Grass
Beautiful
Baby
I'm only up to the B's. ........
In one of my Life's Little Instruction Books, one of the quotes
was "Take a vacation at home," which is what I did this
long weekend.
I dedicate this page to Virginia Nestler, who passed away
yesterday morning. I am really going to miss her.
;'-(
I have been trying to learn Hawaiian guitar unsuccessfully.
My father in Law gave me one about 6 months ago and it's a bit
more difficult than I expected. I purchased a video on how to
play Dobro. I had my FIL give me a lesson yesterday, which
I video tapped and have since partially transcribed.
Musical theory is not one of my strong points. My 84 y/o
FIL has perfect pitch and used to be a band teacher, School
Principal and played with the likes of the Benny Goodman
Orchestra.
A C cord is made up of C, E, G and C. I always learned
better by writing things out.
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