Hi Elizabeth,
Happy Tuesday Night. I hope your day was a good one. I guess you are probably still working on your video? It takes a lot of work to complete, I know. Well anyway, it was a basic workday here. I try to think up stuff to write about but am not always successful, hence the missed days like yesterday. I will keep trying, though I cannot guarantee success without something to respond to.
The passing of George Martin was a surprise, because it came out of the blue, though because he was 90 it cannot be said to be a shock. Tons of stuff will be written about him in the coming days, and by people far closer to the situation than me (though fan tributes will pour in as well), but all I can think of to say is that, as great of a band as The Beatles were - and as a young band they were incredibly tight from playing so many gigs - and as great of songwriters as they were (Lennon/McCartney is the greatest team of all time), there is a reason they also made the greatest records of all time.
That reason is George Martin. He was a unique producer in that he took the role to that of a full collaborator, and he suggested many of the musical ingredients, some experimental, that made The Beatles songs unique and perfect sounding, like the piccollo trumpet solo on "Penny Lane", my own favorite song by the band. Or the backwards guitars on "Tomorrow Never Knows", or the crazy sounds all through "Sgt. Pepper", especially on songs like "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite" or "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds". That is an amazing record, and even more so that it came out 50 years ago this Summer.
When you take into account that most songs, including Beatles, are written on strummed acoustic guitars and/or piano, then you have to ask how the finished product is arrived at, with a full blown sound, arrangement and instrumentation. That is due to the producer, and never did a producer do more to enhance the songs of a band than did Sir George Martin, who created perfect records with The Beatles, filled with songs developed and honed to their ideal musical condition. As such, he helped create music that will always be listened to, ala Bach and Beethoven. Add The Beatles to that short list, and come back in 500 years to see if I'm right.
Thanks, Sir George! The Beatles are my strongest, earliest memory, and I can't calculate their influence on my life. I, as literally one of likely billions of worldwide Beatle fans, past and present.....////
Tonight we watched the election results. I was disappointed with Michigan, but overall not too worried. The media love to play up all the so-called "momentum" changes in the race, but if you look at the delegate count, it is still in Hillary's favor. Plus she has all the "superdelegates". I had to Google that term to see what it means, and apparently the superdelegates are people like governors of states and assorted local polititians who pledge to vote for one candidate or another, and in this case - because they are political officials - they are supposed to act as endorsers or even "guidance counselors" to the general public of Democratic voters (the Republicans do not have superdelegates). The reason for this is because, in a few past elections, idealistic Democrats had nominated candidates like George McGovern, who lost to Richard Nixon in the biggest landslide in American history. Or Michael Dukakis, who had a similar fate in 1988. There was a candidate named Eugene McCarthy in 1968 (or '72? Can't remember) who the idealists loved. He flamed out, too. So did Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s against Dwight Eisenhower.
Democrats sometimes get unrealistic expectations of who can be elected against a standard Republican candidate. Repubs sometimes nominate a moderate (if there is such a thing for that party), but they never get dreamy eyed and nominate someone who is far out of step with the right wing.
The Democrats, on the other hand, have nominated far left candidates on a few occasions.
And they've gotten clobbered every single time.
So, I would just say to all the Bernie voters, I can appreciate that you are standing up for your candidate, who seems to be a forthright guy. But America is not, and never will be, a Socialist country. It is too diverse, and too divided in opinion, and to be successful in Socialism, a country must have all (or a high percentage) of it's citizens on the same page. And that's never gonna happen in America, because of the demographics.
So, I would say to Bernie voters the same thing I thought about Ralph Nader voters in 2000. Nader played a big role in electing George Dubya Bush, the worst President in American history. By running as a third party socialist independent, he took votes away from Al Gore, who might have been one of the greatest Presidents we've ever had. And Bush won instead, and we had an eight year catastrophe.
So I would say to Bernie voters, if you want to guarantee Trump as President, keep on Feeling The Bern. Idealism does not win general elections. Instead, it works from the bottom up, at a local level.
From the top down, at the Presidential level, there is a Big Bad World to deal with. Neither Bernie nor Trump is Presidential material, for differing reasons, but if that were the choice, we'd be stuck with Trump, which would be the biggest and unfunniest joke in American history.
Luckily, we won't have to worry about it (fingers crossed), because Hillary will soon pull away from Bernie Sanders, a good guy at heart but a political disaster waiting to happen. ////
I get carried away with politics, which is why I don't comment on it often, lol....
On a brighter note, I did see your post from Rupi, via your friend Sarah, about International Women's Day. I agree wholeheartedly with what is said in that post, and that is again why we need to promote women all over the world, because women - if given the chance to be themselves and not "compete" (but instead maybe alternate or share) with men, in charge of things - would provide to the world a 50% side of things, a female perspective, that we've been been missing out on, and lacking.
We lack without women being involved, not from any stereotyped or sexual perspective, but from a female spiritual perspective.
Not a strident, "fighting against men" perspective, either, ala Women's Lib from the 70s. Instead, something much higher. Female leadership and ideas, as we are all in this together and need to cooperate as humans rather than compete as sexes.
That's all I know for tonight. I will see you in the morning. Post if you can.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox :):)
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