Blogging, life and music...

My blogging has definitely fallen by the wayside. Not because of any massive changes in life or actually "getting a life". On the contrary, the very minimal interests that I used to have, have slowly faded away, including always listening to music or watching movies, and swimming, etc. Things just started falling apart around me and it's just where I found myself. Lost again in the same place. That being said, I have gone down many a YouTube rabbit hole this past year, after being in the absence of my stereo and home theatre system, which are now dead and long gone. Heavy sigh. 

I still haven't used my passport. (Granted, there have been some crazy events in the past few years and around the world as of late.) Oddly enough, I had to use it recently as an ID, and when I looked at it, I noticed that it was issued the year that I had my quad-bypass surgery. The idea back then was that I'd be going SOMEWHERE. At the time that I applied for it, the Docs didn't know what was wrong with me and ended up running various tests for 11 months, before the angiogram. Surgery was booked and well, the passport remains empty. The bonus is that after gaining 20 pounds after that surgery, I've now lost 30 due to a new med I was put on to try and wean off insulin which I've been on for about 24 years. 

Anyhoo... back to that YouTube rabbit hole.... Even though it started off on a musical journey, I went on many tangents, and lo and behold, it took me back to music regardless. 

I don't know much...

I didn't know she was only a few months older than me. With my very poor memory, I think I remember two songs, but I probably knew more. One was a song written by Prince. I also remember that she sang that song on SNL (when I still used to watch tv), and that she ripped up a picture of the Pope after that performance. I knew vaguely why she had, but didn't know the reasons behind it.  All I know is that over the years she was troubled and that she is at peace now. 

Hope

I'm not crying, you're crying... 

Music had always been an integral part of my life, however, listening to music had slipped away from my everyday in the past few years, coinciding with everything slowly falling apart, literally, in almost every aspect of my existence. I've never been without a piano, record player, radio, cassette player, walkman, CD player, discman or stereo in over 50 years, but life happens... things fall apart. As I struggled heading into another chapter in my life, I've found some hope in music that I have come across lately. So far, I think there's been 5 or 6 new (to me) bands and artists that have managed to pull me up from the pit. I had seen this name pop up on the sidebar, but hadn't clicked on it until tonight.