what a wonderful thing to be told; I got a tingle just reading your post!

sorry, everybody. I think I caused it with one of my Pat Metheny posts

screenshot of a music app showing the tracks of the Pat Metheny Group’s album Still Life. the words “secretly” and “third” are underlined in red.

back in 1987 Pat was trying to tell us something but we didn’t see it: Pat saw the SECRET THIRD THING before anyone else did

if you put on JIM HALL & PAT METHENY and listen really closely, at times you can hear a *third* guitar. this isn’t overdubbing. it’s the Holy Ghost of guitar visiting because Jim and Pat ripped open the space-time continuum

Side-Eye III? haven’t listened yet, but I look forward!

fuck it. the Steely Dan to Doobie Bros to Metheny to Milton Nascimento to Herbie Hancock back to Metheny pipeline.

if you pick the right tracks there’s an unbroken thread to trace. I SWEAR IT

the Doobie Bros to Metheny pipeline

I can’t think of a single track in which Metheny (and co) combined some of the primary idioms of his musical world so deftly AND segued between them so smoothly: ballad -> guitar pastoral -> shredding -> g. p. -> ballad.

ABCBA

this track always puts a lump in my throat, but now especially that Jack DeJ is gone. he gave the world so much MUSIC 🥹

Every Day (I Thank You) YouTube video by Pat Metheny - Topic

I put this on and took in the sun, breeze, and fresh spring leaves on the trees. it’s over for me. can’t sit at a computer anymore today.

time to get this going again

✨

I refuse to believe no one understands this

help I listened to some of the Doobie Brothers’ MINUTE BY MINUTE while looking at green trees in the spring sunshine and now I can’t sit in an office and do work

I bet Edouard would wash us away with panache tho

✋

there’s a Christian elementary school near my house and every morning, as I watch a cavalcade of super-sized SVUs barrel by after parents have dropped off their kids, I wonder if that’s what Jesus would do

April Joy YouTube video by Pat Metheny - Topic

before April passes, I need to post Metheny and Mays’s gorgeous ode to the month

Book Club Scams: Are You Next? Rosemary Sekora is the Marketing and Sales Manager for UNP and has a notes file on her phone filled with book ideas. I am not a published author. I have a masters in English and loved being a part …

this is just one take on it; I’ve seen other mentions of this new scam, but now I can’t recall where

you’ve seen the recent reports about the new book club scams?

I made minimal use of PV even during grad school, so none in the inner monologue. but there was lots of “problematizing” and considering of nuances in said situation

suffered a bout of residual academic behavior

(made something more complicated in my mind than it was or needed to be)

looks like the ‘sky is being funny again, huh?

(it’s about a standardized test, lest anyone worry that something dangerous happened one of my kids)

me: damn my children. they are gremlin-vampires who won’t be happy till they suck the life out of me and their mom.

also me: *finds out of them one has been crying at school* oh, my poor baby! 🥺 I should drive over to school and interrupt class just so I can give them a hug

"future-focus and forward progress" is really the one for me. I'm more interested in "backward progress"....or maybe "forward regress"

*whispers* but sometimes people need to be told no, sometimes for their own good

this is the slow, insanely heavy feel EARTH became famous for, before EARTH

Cortez the Killer (2016 Remaster) YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic

there are some music recordings that I love in part for how they fuck with your perception of time, and this is one. I swear it sounds like the band is getting gradually slower over the course of the entire track, but they aren’t! I think a big cause is how Molina holds back the snare hit on beat 2

this just in: motor vehicles faster than humans!