Pic a Day - 1/30 to 2/5

Mon. Jan 30, Patch helps me play and write some songs on the new uke

Tues. Jan 31, prepping for our silent dinner

Wed. Feb 1, waiting at ADK

Thurs. Feb 2, last light (Imbolc 2017)

Fri. Feb 3, some Bob Dylan spirit on the day of our last class

Sat. Feb 4

Sun. Feb 5, assigned to the discharge room today

OTTILT January

2017's off to a pretty good start so far (taking a class on Bob Dylan could certainly have a lot to do with that :D)...

http://ottilt.blogspot.com/2017/01/january.html

Pic a Day - 1/23 to 1/29

Mon. Jan 23

Tues. Jan 24, crystalline trees

Wed. Jan 25, where do the trees end and the clouds begin

Thurs. Jan 26, hope stone

Fri. Jan 27, lunchtime window seat

Sat. Jan 28, bridge over the creek

Sun. Jan 29

Pic a Day - 1/9 to 1/15

Mon. Jan 9, waiting in JFK

Tues. Jan 10, back on campus

Wed. Jan 11, a kids' ski class

Thurs. Jan 12, chilling in the arts building after class to do homework

Fri. Jan 13, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Sat. Jan 14

Sun. Jan 15, who's that peeking out of my backpack?

Bob Dylan

Happy 72nd Zimmy!

What to Do... Bored with Music (3)

...if you are stuck in a rut and have been listening to the same song(s) over and over for the past week(s) without any interest in them.
As it turns out, I've previously come up with a solution for this problem(which may or may not work)!

Ahem. Here I present to you:

"Harlenn MacSaint's Top Five Ways to Find a Good Song to Listen To!
(by the way, Harlenn MacSaint is my now-extinct alias)

Chances are you've probably been listening to the same song or two for the past week. Don't you want to hear something new, and just as exciting? Problem is, you don't find yourself to be interested in listening to just any random song. You keep going back to the same song(s) over and over again. How can you possibly overcome this dilemma?

1. Listen to a song you like that you haven't heard in a while. Chances are listening to it after that span of time will remind you of how you came to like it in the first place. Score! (And by a while, I don't mean five minutes.)

2. Listen to a song you've been wanting to listen to but have put off. If your need for this song has lasted this long, there's a good possibility that you will enjoy finally getting to hear it. Win!

3. Listen to a song similar to the song you've been obsessing over, but by a different artist. Pandora is a great hands-free way to do this - type in that song and let the Internet work its magic. Awesome!

4. Have a friend make a recommendation to you. Do you and your bud rock out to the same artists? There's an easy way to get your ears on some good stuff related to the songs and albums you already like. Go team!

5. Listen to a greatest hits album by that artist. If this is precisely what you've been obsessing over, you're out of luck here! If not, you will see good results. PWNAGE

And now that I have made this handy little reference sheet, I will go to follow my own wonderful and completely logical advice. AWESOME!"

excerpt taken from journal; written on May 7, 2012

Or, when in doubt, I have two words: Bob. Dylan. I'm not kidding. He is the greatest, and if you can't find a song to listen to, just pop a Dylan LP on the old turntable and relax...

Word Whiz Wednesday

Well, yeah, okay, I'm not so much of a word whiz. I just figured, hey guys, alliteration, and I don't have to be like "Wordless Wednesday" and then skimp on all the stuff I could be saying on this blog right now.

Whatever. I guess I don't actually have anything relevant to say, except that - if anyone's seen the blog posts from when I first started, back in mid-2011 - I don't dislike people that much anymore. Maybe I don't like how some people always have sneers or always have smiles, or how I can look at someone and feel a deep-down fear that started from nothing but my own biased assumptions. I don't dislike the guy I used to like - you probably wonder why I would even dislike him at all, but it's my way of "letting go" - I walk back down that path, retrace my steps, and go a ways in the opposite direction (hate recovery, if you want to be clearer, but I try not to use that word if I can help it). I don't dislike any of my teachers or any of my classmates.

Random and completely off-topic, but are there any Bob Dylan fans out there reading, and if so, are you all aware of his newest album, Tempest, coming out in September? There is a song off the album on npr.org, and it is absolutely great, GREAT, even though when I first heard it, I said to myself two things: "That sounds like jazz - how in the heck does my dad think he can get a hold of the stereo this early in the morning?" and "That cannot be Bob Dylan, I mean, that doesn't even sound like his style of music." But it is Dylan, it is great - it is called "Duquesne Whistle" (pronounced "doo - kayne", to anyone like me who saw that and was like "WHaaaaaa"), first song on his newest album. Kudos to anyone who's gonna go out there and retrieve it in any format when it comes out.

Thanks for reading. I ramble a lot.