Musicians, Music, a Passionate One

   I can not say enough about my love of music.  My innermost passions are for the art form and how it relates to every other level of being.
    When I was young I played the trombone at least 2 hours a day.  I loved it.  I loved how I was talented at the instrument.  I had a natural ability to have a warm and well rounded tone right from the beginning.  Speed of tempo was an issue at 1st, but that was only because I was moving my entire arm instead of just my fingers for that instrument.
    All the way through high school everything else took a step back.  I played in everything that was available.  I was in the church orchestra, all 3 of the high school bands, and I played in the "pit" for the musicals.
  I still wish I had taken the time to be with family, or make friends, or did more intellectual reading instead....  But my life revolved around playing that trombone.  I had added the extra challenge of learning the bass trombone, but it still didn't help me lack of interpersonal skills or social interactions in anyway but make them that much worse.
    I took my talent of playing into college as well.  Every school I auditioned for offered me money to  attend classes at their location.  But, I didn't take the time to learn that the best schools were the bigger and better known schools.  I didn't want to go where those that I knew were going....  So I went to a budget school where I had a fellow musician friend living nearby.
   The music program at this college didn't really interest me or keep me focused.  I wanted to learn how to write better songs, not how to figure out what progression a composer from the 1500's was using for his chants and remedial compositions.
       I wanted to learn other instruments that were more commercially viable. I wanted to sing songs that I wrote and to play on a stage with 2 to 3 other musicians and not 30-50.  I wanted more fans in the audience than players on the stage.  I ran out of patience and left.
     Learning in my own seemed to be more rewarding.  I also created better styles and riffs from teaching myself.  It took years, but I got together a rock band just like I'd always dreamed about.  I moved to the singer's roll and the stage show was set.  It didn't live forever, but it was a great piece of expressionism and rage.  Our Album 
     The album took far too long to record and we decided we wanted to go other musical directions.  The "sound" never formed and our bassist became a ragging alcoholic.  That chapter was done.
      Music became an art form to enjoy, but not preform, for years after that.  I'd engross myself in the talents and passions of others who were like gods to me.  I hung on every word, line, and progression.
    Now it feels as if the whole thing has come full circle.  Now I love to play the bass trombone again.  I teach kids how to play and play church gigs again.  They pay now, and the love is just as strong as ever.  Maybe I'll be back to writing the material and performing it again.  It is all a matter of time and finding others with the same passions and dive.  But until then, I love the opportunities I have and the natural talents that I have been given.  It is such a blessing to entertain others with my playing.

That Dash Cam Video

 Did you know that the dash cam on police cars are not requires by law?  Not only are they not required, they are only there to put you in court.  If it will help you, it will conviently "disappear" or become "unavailable".  It sure will.  If brutality and theft was inflicted upon you by someone sworn to protect you, the proof will go away along with their honest testimony in court. 

 Will we change this corruption?  Will we stop allowing those corrupted by power and legal immunity to steal from us after our tax dollars are the currency used to facilitate their salaries?  Will we sit back until we each have wrap sheets to keep us quiet?  Will we let their guns and shields keep us quiet?

 I hope that this election period we stand united in the basic facts that police work needs to be worked on to give us a much safer world to live in. These members of government need to return to being our protectors and not the legalized thugs allowed to rob us to assist in their job security.  We must make those dash cam videos public domain so that accountability can be held to those we allow to posses firearms and take away freedom. 

   If we do not hold them accountable they will continue to rob and steal in the name of a "civilized society".  These is nothing civilized about robbing at gun point and then destroying the proof of your actions.  This is no better than the armed patrols of the "Dark Ages".  We must not allow ourselves to fall into a technologically advanced time of ignorance and fear.  We must be brave and hold those who take and lie for their own amusement accountable for their actions.  We must strive for harsh prison sentences and the death penalty for those who betray the trust if our society and take life without extremely real need for the protection of the society at large.  Do not let them rob you of protection, tax funding, your hard earned property, and freedom because you are afraid of the world that has been painted out for you in tv and cop lies.  Hold them accountable.  You know they will hold you in a cell if given the chance.

In a Perfect World

       

      Wow.  Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a country where police were held to as high of a standard as they hold us to?  In this world they would face harsher punishments than us for their misuse of their position in society?  What if they could be executed for murder on the job?  What if they could be fined for robbery and falsification of evidence so their victims could be compensated for what was taken from them?  (Without the victim needing a large amount of money just to get their victimhood shown in court or having to battle false charges that are sucking up all their resources and taking away their ability to find justice?)

      What a world that would be!  We would actually be protected and we would be in a safer place.  Corruption would not be tolerated and we could feel free to have families and know that the truth will not be hidden in the name of robbery for the fulfillment of the state's lack of fiscal accountability.
      Dreamers have wished for this since Plato.  Even Nietzsche got to the point of no longer fighting the system, but decided to just figure it out for his own use.  I'm not maniacal enough to sit back and abuse people for my benefit. 
     If I did feel that abuse was ok, I'd be no better than those who harmed me, and 1,000s of others, in the name of false justice and robbery for job security. 
      When we are truly free we can be safe and secure, knowing our tax dollar go for our protection and not the facilitation of armed robbery with out accountability.