"...caring leads to attention..."

                                          new camera...recent desert photo...no rain...too bad 

picked up an excellent book at the thrift recently                                                                                        as usual much of what i find to read is by synchronicity...                                                                         "This is your brain on music" Daniel J. Levitin author 2006                                                                     he was a musician, producer and is now a neuro-scientist                                                                         like brian may guitarist with Queen who works as an astrophysicist                                                         he did more than just play music....i often wondered why this or that                                                      music had such an emotional impact on people, myself included.... this                                                        book explains why....

i decided to analyze the songs being played on a video music concert by                                                           nikkie lane in Barcelona, spain in 2017 she has a fellow from madrid                                                    named alex munox who kicks ass on electric guitar  and her bass player is                                          eric whitman and drummer is taylor powell   she calls them the "tennessee dirtbags"                               i first heard ms lane sing "man up" which she explains caused her husband to                                        leave her...this genre of song was promoted if not invented by ms taylor swift and                                    might be said to express in words as a "swift kick in the balls"...the sort of tunes which                            might give a fellow a bad facial twitch and a drinking problem....     anyhow i learned                            that ms lanes has a deeper appreciation for music than man bashing and "Highway Queen"                    expresses some of her ideas about being an entertainer...i suppose if i had to pick a favorite                  on this hour long show "You can't talk to me like that" probably gives ms lane full                                 rein with her talents...when she says "CRAZY" you believe it.   now there is something                        that is  expressed in her work that might be described by the term "DUENDE"  i looked                        looked up the word and it is a contraction of "dueno de casa" or owner of the house....she                      owns it...the whole concert is worth the time to watch and listen to...her co-worker ms                           Ruby Boots does a good job with her song also...                                                                                 it is not possible to put these songs into a particular genre but i think ms lanes spiffy dress with                     cow skulls on both hips would  indicate vaguely "country western" roots...very vaguely                but her hat is not a Stetson and mr munox is not playing a gibson...very refreshing

"It is impossible to overestimate the importance of these factors; caring leads to attention,                    and together they lead to measurable neurochemical changes. Dopamine, the neurotransmitter              associated with emotional regulation, alertness, and mood, is released, and the dopaminergic                system aids in the encoding of the memory trace."  "Your brain on music"      

                                                      

 

"I am going to seek a great perhaps..."

                                              came across 3 30 second videos of the last meal

well i managed to fulfill my only new years resolution                            which was "don't die on new years day"                                                no more resolutions to keep this calendar year                                  but the world seems to be getting stranger and stranger                        my 4th winter in the desert...i was alarmed that i was adapting to        the desert environment by turning into a chuckwalla (Sauromalus        obesus) my hair getting thinner and thinner, my belly becoming           round and soft...but i did not begin laying naked on my belly on the    boulders in the arroyo...so i guess my transformation into a big            fat lizard has been delayed...                                                                  amazingly despite a global virus that has prompted the radio news      to give a daily death count as well as how many people have been      hospitalized i still see folks who can'tquite figure out the not so            complicated mask thing...the math will subtract them...there is no       disputing that more people without masks will die than with masks...   simple Darwinian math....                                                                       i have heard it said that some folks are bored...and i might suggest some online programs that i downloaded to my mini-SD card so i        could watch them on my phone at night...some i have watched a few times   WSU_Special Relativity with Brian Greene is 11 and a half hours  and is a great way to keep you humble as the math is unintelligable as Sumerian...but it does expose one to the ideas about space/time and why math can be used to describe the universe (past/present/future)    my favorite documentary is "COBRA GYPSIES" which is 52 minutes long and is one of the best documentaries i have ever seen.    pay special attention to the part about the gypsies who have a special relationship with their camels...the are like big gentle dogs and the kids love them...unfortunately there is a deadly virus i think called MERS which is transmitied through camels...and the gypsies who design their own clothes look fantastic... also I think the best    LEXX episode is called "Patches in the Sky" and shows what kinds of problems might arise if you get high at work...big, big, problems      everything by Stfan Milo is good and educational...i sometimes suddenly get a blank spot in my thoughts and i realize it is "Gilligans  Island" that has left a "stupid stain" where my brain used to be...    be careful about what you feed to your brain...

"I am going to seek a great perhaps. Draw the curtain the farce is played out." F. Rabelais (last words)

cant get the video to upload correctly.... maybe later