I've been too busy to write or post new songs on YouTube (see youtube.com/user/DrHanzonScience, which is my "channel" with 14 songs rated 5-stars, and a couple 4.5 stars, and a video of Mao Sim at her Mao Sim Silk cart in DownTownCrossing pedestrian mall, Boston, MA, a Latin guitar player (3 stars), a "bottle neck blues" guy from New York City, playing in the subways of Boston), and a drummer playing on Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA.
For a week or more, I've been preparing my 2008 tax forms. Still gathering materials I need. That's always a really nervous time for me.
My old college, the College of Santa Fe, is going to close down May 22. They went bankrupt. I've booked a flight to attend my 50th anniversary of my original BA, general science, minor English, 1959. Hugh Downs, the TV guy, was our commencement speaker.
I got word that my handicapped friends in Louisiana don't have any more Lou-Vee-Air
Car parts so I have to order 10,000 more sets of parts. That's always a tough time too because it's a big investment and always has an element of risk involved.
Another thing on my mind is getting back to work on the pushcart occasionaly. I went in to help today and it turned out to be fun, and I helped sell over $100 dollars worth of silk bags myself while the wonderful Mao Sim was getting some work done at her warehouse and at the Haymarket Square produce market, where she bought me broccoli, mangoes, bananas, apples, lemons, oranges, and tomatoes, at least 15 pounds worth, for only $13.00. Mao is amazing and knows how to squeeze every penny of every dollar until she gets a really good buy. I enjoyed a dinner of mangoes (s), a banana, spaghetti and Ragu sauce, whole wheat toast, an orange, an apple, raisins and two plums. I'm being a good vegetarian now. that's good, because I had some turkey soup last night and 3 blueberry muffins (a gift), and had a very bad attack of gout in my right elbow all night. Major pain. Uric acid causes gout, and it can wreck your eyes, kidneys, joints and tendons. Gout is really a bad disease, very dangerous and painful. So begetarians don't have much of that. Only the broccoli I know have is a real facor in gout, so I'll have to be careful of that.
Songwriter-songwriter saw a fellow with a new musical instrument in a box today as I rode home in the city bus. I gave him my youtube.com channel (above), and he sent me a video he just made using the new instrument. I thought it was one of those things that sound like a Zyther, but it turned out to be a ukeleli. He recorded Oh Prudence, and did a good job of it.
Well, I have to go no and get some sleep. Remember, when you write a song, make sure it does not have "poetic license," which means twisted sentences forces to fit into a rhyme pattern artificiall. Good poetr should all work well without twisting the words all around to "fit" the song tune. Until next time,
James DrHanzonScience Did you like anything in this post? What was it?
Did anything bother you or puzzle you, or shock you? Making comments is not just OK, it's very important so I'll know there's really someone out there I'm writing to. That's what a blog is for. Cheers! James
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