My Top 5 Songs

Late this month.  It's OK, no change to the charts anyway.  This will probably not be the story for April.  I just love charting music. The late winter drags on.  I am enjoying music I find, but it has been a long while since I had seen any live music.  I just don't have passion to do so.  I do not want to be one of those people there who simply stand, wait for a song to complete, then applaud.  To me, it's personal - I need to enjoy it, to feel it.  Not that I would be in a trance or hypnotized, but still.   So if I am not really WANTING in the first place to see live music, I probably see no reason to venture out to do so. Anyway, I am missing a lot since I see from Facebook feeds that there are local bands out there, some I actually know of, entertaining the masses.  I just hate going alone and knowing no one.  That's awkward.  I really need to be IN a band.  It's possible I am definitely one of those weird, ...

A new year. I won't wax philosophic - I'm not good at that, exactly. You know, opining with clever sentences and saying something enticing of a chuckle or two, while warming your heart in nervous anticipation of another year...I will spare myself the attempt at that. I will say this: I tried to wipe the proverbial slate clean. No more self-guessing. No more apologizing for stupid stuff that doesn't require an apology. Grab life. Face challenges. Stop being afraid of things getting hard or more difficult.  Just do it, dammit!  Accept the days when I feel miserable, or when I don't feel happy, and just deal with it...then move on. Oh, the insanity that is me. I'm so busy with acting opportunities coming up - trying to learn an English accents, practicing monologues, and trying to drop a few pounds to just look a bit healthier. Work is starting to suck, though. I have to amp up my effort. Well, the very cool "Running Backwards" by Geoff Tate's Que...