"The rational mind...'

well i thought about my comments about f.zappa and o. osbourn and decided that it is a little preposterous and a lot pretentious of me to chastize anyone, especially since i started listening to B sabbath when i was about 16 years old and loved it...however my complaint is that insofar as people age and age changes peoples body and body parts and these are used to perform the acts of singing and playing musical instruments and there are many many instances of people who set the bar very very high and eventualy were not able to reach the high level of competence that THEY SET...one of the best examples of a tragic attempt to perform as they have in the past is johnny winters last performance...it is criminal how this man was pushed onto a stage without the slightest ability to perforn up to the standards which HE SET...anyhow according to the rock and roll biography john michael osbourn made several suicide attempts as early as age 14 "just to see what it would feel like"...it is astounding that the man battled with depression, addiction and bad health and still lived to the age that he did...a tough dude! as for f. zappa he recorded more than 80 albums...my first encounter with him was when i spotted "Chunga's Revenge" album in my friends older brothers room and i thought it must be some kind of illicit music...everyone i've met who likes zappa's music were guitar nerds...and there is enough film footage of him on the internet it is easy to see that he was an incredibly thoughtful person...so my calling him pretensious is well...pretensious....so enough of that...i was thinking of being in seattle in 1994 when C.cobain self destructed and learned later that there were quite a few suicides in his family...i read a good story by Horacio Quiroga called "The Dead Man"...this guy was exposed to a lot of dead folk...his best friend was killed by gunshot, his father and his stepfather commited suicide and he offed himself eventually...what a drag...well as long as i am on the subject of death, jeffery epstein is still dead...another rogue penis story...they never seem to run out...i finished watching the last episode of "Doc Martin" and "House"...two crumudgin doctors...however "Doc Martin" ended in life and light and "House" ended in darkness and death (it was really sad)...however i was looking at the offerings of music that Youtube is so good at dragging from the depths of obscurity for me to view and much to my amazement there was none other than hugh laurie (dr. house) sitting at a piano playing and singing "St. James Infirmery" and doing a damn fine job of it...i heard where some folks were lamenting the poor mental health advice which seems to be increasing in the internet...yep you got to be pretty discriminating about what you view especially if you are looking for advice...i found lex fridman #274 interview with Karl Deisseroth "Depression, schizophrinia. psychiatry" to be very intellectually uplifting and helpful...and i try not to go to bed after watching violence and mayhem...so i watch a lot of music...my latest fascination seems to be "Kitty, Daisy and lewis" who hail from london and who also play with their mom (bass guitar and stand-up bass and knowm as MOM) and their Dad (knowm as DAD on six string guitar) the three named musicians appear to all play all of the instruments equally well but kitty plays a killer harmonica and when daisy is on the drums she seems to be channeling keith moon on his more animated sets...anyhow these people seem to have good video from a lot of concerts and they are all great...about two weeks ago a person died in the hospital here from the bubonic plague...steps had to be taken to reduce the vectors..."The rational mind is a faithful servant but the intuitive mind is a precious gift." Albert Einstein