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Good morning! I’m sitting on a bus right now going on an organized trip to Bratislava.
I usually travel on my own, can’t remember when there was a last time I was on organized trip, but judging from the big and diversive offer of the travel agencies, there seem to be a lot of people interested. My bus is full too.
Are there a lot organized trips available in your countries? What are the popular destinations? Do you like to travel like that or prefer to travel on your own?
A fight in the Turkish parliament became news. There’s some serious animosity between the government and that opposition party.
Good to see that the US congress seems to shy away from workplace violence for now, reserving the hate for social media.
I remember reading that Taiwan’s legislature has a comical number of fights.
Anyone ever thought about what’s the best night sky from a celestial body? Wouldn’t it be beautiful if the Earth was a moon of a gas giant, and you could gaze upon the colorful planet at night?
After Athens, there have been many fires in and around Izmir the past days. I love the Mediterranean, but summers are turning more and more into hell every year. It’s very sad. I must of course say that bad urbanization also plays a big role in this in our case.
At the other end of the spectrum, it’s a very wet and cold day today. We’re supposed to entertain kids, so I am hoping that it will at least stop raining 😐
My husband went to an open air festival in his home town yesterday. There were apparently quite a few very famous bands, if rather old by now, at a pretty reasonable price. Considering that Scorpions made an appearance at Wacken this year, though, some can be considered not even that old (at least they’re still actively producing music). When he came back, our small cat darted out of the house (they’re both house cats) and he had a lot of fun looking for a black cat in a dark garden half drunk. I was sleeping, so I didn’t notice anything.
On my walk this morning the traffic light that had been off for the past week and a half was now flashing red on all sides, so functionally the same as it had been but it was encouraging to see it powered.
I also saw a sign for Labor Day mass at one of the Catholic churches in my neighborhood, and it just made me wonder who on Earth would want that? Church on Christmas Eve can be nice, but what religious significance is there to the U.S. holiday of Labor Day? Maybe it’s for people who weren’t invited to any cookouts but want to get some free bread and booze. xD
I’ve been eating more of Nairn’s cheesy oatcakes recently and I can’t help but wonder… why did it take so long for us to invent cheesy oatcakes in the first place? I mean we had cheese as well as oatcakes in the middle ages, how the hell is it such a recent invention? Melting cheese and mixing it together with oats can’t be that hard of a concept to come up with, can it???
In fact, why did it take so long for people to come up with cheese sandwiches? Or TOAST?? I mean these are things that medieval Europeans could have come up with but apparently they just… didn’t! What the hell were people DOING back in the 1200s???
Last night I was watching The Sopranos, and in one scene in the background they were playing a version of [Summertime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn9a-kJBLU8), from Porgy and Bess, by Booker T. and the M.G.’s, most famous for Green Onions. And Booker T. actually also wrote Born Under a Bad Sign too. But anyway, it made me think about organ as an instrument and I came to the conclusion that it’s actually goated. Organ might just be the best instrument in the world. In all the shapes and sizes it comes in.
Leonard Bernstein said that piano is the orchestra in black and white. Then organ is the orchestra in just the prime colours or something. Still not the full colour an orchestra provides, but definitely more colour with all the different sections.
The sound can be so nice, pleasant, it can provide a base so sturdy you could almost stand on it, but it can also crawl down your spine like a spider, be gritty, eerie, haunting. It can be the warmness of the sun on your skin, or a cold draft seeping in from beneath the floorboards.
And all the different versions of it. There is nothing like being at a cathedral and feeling a big organ move air like that. It’s such a full sound. Or, have you ever been at a jazz gig where an organist really throws it down on an electric organ? Like a Hammond or something, with the Leslie cabinet spinning. And even the synth ones, when Robin S’s Show Me Love starts to play, isn’t that main riff impossible not to dance to? Oh how much I love the Organ 2 preset on a Korg M1.