Why do I do it? Every year, I watch The Grammys, because I'm a life-long music guy. And every year, I end up yelling at the TV like the crazy coot that I am. I keep allowing myself to forget that the awards are a celebration of crass commercialism with no regard to what I consider talent or quality. They are so tantalizing, like when they announced a lifetime achievement award for Leonard Cohen, but then they introduced Pink for a production number of her own that should have been on "Circus Of The Stars." At least I got a brief performance from Leon Russell but he was embedded with The Zac Brown Band, yuk! At this moment Andrea Boccelli just finished the first verse of "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" and it sounded fine, but then they have to bring in Mary J. Blige and she trashed the melody by over-ornamentation. Tasteless! I am looking forward to the upcoming Jeff Beck salute to the late Les Paul - I hope they don't make me wait too long. Otherwise I'll play some vinyl from Norah Jones' dad, Ravi Shankar, doing east-meets-west improvisations with Jean-Peirre Rampal and Yehudi Menuhin.
Today's pictures once again I took in my own back yard. It's not much but I think I'll miss it if/when I can't make the mortgage payments any more. I can't have too many more unemployment checks left, and Marcy is not getting Medicaid or Social Security yet. I had to put ads on this blog. Maybe we'll have to take in boarders like the old days. Anyway, this bug is a blue dasher, a relative of the dragonfly. He probably stopped by to feast on the mosquito larvae that breed in our pool. Yummy!
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Cool shots of the dragonfly relative...I didn't know Norah was Ravi's daughter. I saw him once at the venue on 5th St. ages ago...can't even remember what the venue is anymore. Scheesh.
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