Musings and Ramblings from a Baguio Native Far Away from Home
"I'm trying to learn to blog," was my original description in 2001 ... years ago. Now I'm just trying to consolidate my thoughts and all I've been saying elsewhere. Who knows, this may come to be a fun habit once again aside from my attempts at poetry.
Remember the very first time you picked-up a guitar? In my case it was a Yamaha nylon acoustic my mom used to have lying around in a green soft case. It wasn't used much except when I took it down and gave it a few strums.
(the rest of the story later, got something more exciting here below ...)
I was updating FaceBook today and came-upon this post of a kid holding a guitar linking to YouTube. Curiosity of course ... but lo ... behold ... and be ashamed at not trying harder. Sungha rocks and makes me proud!
No news yet if he's coming out with an album, but I'd buy it and put it next to my other favorites like Laurence and Ilsey Juber (my thanks again to David Perry for bringing me along for sushi and the show at Santa Monica which I previously blogged about).
Here's an idea, Life Uncomplicated. I remember the days in Irisan just staring across the mountains as the golden sun either rose or set. There are days in California where the light is just right and it sends me to reverie.
On one of the jeeps to "town", as we often called traveling to Baguio proper, I remember seeing this "I'm an Irish Cowboy". A local would understand, but for those who didn't my Uncle Sixto and Johnny listen to country; I remember my cousin Jaja's favorite album was America. My mom listens to Randy Travis. Looking at the guitar makes me want to play covers of Cat Stevens. There's a cowboy hat in back of my car all the time. Been to the Grand Canyon more than once. 'Nuff said.
I've been a big fan of Hootie & the Blowfish and identify with with Darius' easy song style and baritone. Is that a banjo in the background? That just reminds me of Sky World Condominium and the blue grass band that played at Shakey's Pizza. Hero burgers, Orange Julius, skiletti's, garlic bread, family meals. *sigh*
All you tenor's out there, well, you rock as well!
Artist: Darius Rucker
Alright, Alright Yeah it's alright, alright
Don't need no five star reservations I've got spaghetti and a cheap bottle of wine Don't need no concert in the city I've got a stereo and the best of Patsy Cline Ain't got no caviar no Dom Perignon But as far as I can see, I've got everything I want
Cause I've got a roof over my head, the woman I love laying in my bed And it's alright, alright I've got shoes under my feet Forever in her eyes staring back at me And it's alright, alright And I've got all I need And it's alright by me
Maybe later on we'll walk down to the river Lay on a blanket and stare up at the moon It may not be no French Riviera But it's all the same to me as long as I've got you
It may be a simple life, but that's okay If you ask me baby, I think I've got it made
Cause I've got a roof over my head, the woman I love laying in my bed And it's alright, alright I've got shoes under my feet Forever in her eyes staring back at me And it's alright, alright And I've got all I need And it's alright by me
It's alright by me, yeah yeah When I lay down at night I thank the Lord above For giving me everything I ever could dream of
Cause I've got a roof over my head, the woman I love laying in my bed And it's alright, alright, alright, alright I've got shoes under my feet Forever in her eyes staring back at me And it's alright, alright, alright And I've got all I need, yeah I've got all I need And it's alright by me Oh yeah, it's alright by me
Did my usual routine this morning, add in a few phone meetings. Now registered for RSA. But what's missing with my second cup of coffee and smokes is my fix.
All of a sudden I'm forced to reach out and read long delayed issues of InformationWeekly and peek at a few articles on Discovery.
The new storage server isn't going to be here until early next week, thats got me antsy since all eight-(8) of the WDA 2TB drives are sitting here staring at me and begging to be plugged in.
And probably worse annoying is that my Dell XPS Gen4 server went down last night after an unscheduled upgrade routine, and silly me letting all the tax documents press onto the DOWN key on the keyboard -- now the machine is truly down for now. Damn.
On another note, looks like Steph actually has a new project up with yet unkown (at least to me) release date. The working title is Midnight Sun. Ah... another fix, soon.
That is what usually happens when you wait around for a package, it doesn't show up until you relax and take few drag from your fag .... suddenly boom!
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