Liberated…At Least For Awhile

I visted my son Wade in Charlotte for the last few days and left my phone in his car when he dropped us at the airport on Tuesday…so this is day 2 of being without my smart phone. And it's quietly liberating. I know I'm missing stuff that usually I would see instantly when checking my phone every 10 minutes. But it's been a very mellow couple of days not having to see the latest Trump stupidity on Twitter, thoughts and prayers from the asshats after the latest mass shooting or watch the trolls destroy the Packers before a meaningful snap has even happened. Getting information later than other people always seemed to be a negative, but the trade off for a little peace of mind is acceptable. I watched in the airport as almost every person was immersed in their screen ignoring all that went on around them. That would have been me too…except my phone was miles away. Try it if you dare. Put your phone in another room for a few hours to start. Read a book, listen to some music, watch a movie and go for a walk…without your phone there to distract you every few minutes. Yeah, you may go through the shakes for awhile, but you will soon realize that the information that you deem so critical now, will wait. Trust me…you can do it. And you may find it as liberating as I have.

While also in Charlotte we visited the Nascar Hall of Fame which is really well done…and I attended a heavy metal concert at the cities beautiful outdoor amphitheater. They have a district of the city called the Music Factory which includes the concert venue and numerous clubs, bars , breweries and restaurants all featuring live music. It's pretty cool.

I'm not a metalhead but the concert was strangely entertaining. It featured Bad Wolves (you may recognize them from their cover of Zombie), Asking Alexandria and Papa Roach. The first two were ok but Papa Roach surprised me. The sound and lights were really good and the band was tight as you might expect from an outfit that's been together as long as they have.

And now for something completely different….

Gonna see Justin Hayward at the Grand Theater tonight. He wrote and sang many of those Moody Blues classics you love including this one. Thanks to the folks at the Grand for booking this stuff. See it while these guys are still touring…probably wont get the chance again!

Cover Songs Of The Day

Cowboy Junkies cover Lou Reed

Levon Helm & most of The Band cover Johnny Otis

Quotes Of The Day

“If you are imagining that this government is going to do something about mass shootings — the ones they help provoke or otherwise — stop imagining this. This government isn't going to do anything about mass shootings, because this government doesn't do anything about ANYTHING. This government is in place for one reason and one reason only, and that reason is nothing more than to appoint pro-business judges to the courts. That's it. That's all they're gonna do. That's all they care about. Baby Huey's racist clown show and Twitter meltdowns are just a distraction that the real people running our government find useful, because, after all, when you're trying to keep your family from getting shot at Walmart, you're hardly paying attention to some judge getting appointed somewhere. And what do they care? They don't shop at Walmart, they don't party in downtown Dayton, they don't go to garlic festivals. Periodic massacres amongst the work-a-day schmucks are a small price to pay for a social environment where the government has, effectively, stopped governing (holding rallies and yelling about things on TV is not governing), allowing them to reshape it to their liking. We're going to sit here fighting about whether someone is a thug or a patriot because he doesn't stand up at such and such a time and ten years from now some court is going to decide that we don't need to be paid time-and-a-half when we work overtime, or be told when we're working with a carcinogen, or have our bills paid for when we get sick from it, and we're gonna be wondering how the hell this all happened. Oh, that's right, it happened when we were ducking bullets at Walmart and fighting about who's really working for the Russians! America couldn't embarrass itself any more if it showed up to Reagan's funeral in a tutu. The only silver lining I can find in this situation is that these assholes are politicians and not musicians, so I don't have to ever hear their crappy music or hang out with them. Good day.”-Norb Rozek

Liberated…At Least For Awhile

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