The New Life

Friday, April 29, 2005

Cutter/BV help
I've grown bored with my conversations (though neither of you seems to be participating :D )....I need some good political blogs to read.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

The Death of Death
I think I might be taking death in too much of a trivial way.

Its hard to know what to say when someone close to you calls you up and tells you that a non-mutual friend of theirs has died.

"I'm sorry". "I love you".

That's about all I can come up with.

I explained to Kara that perhaps the reason I take death so lightly is because I'm so close to it.

When your doctor tells you that he wants to put you on a different drug, and that this specific drug has had a low amount, but still an amount, of sudden death....you tend to wake-up. Most people I think would take death more seriously.....I take life more seriously.

I've discussed previous to this post the fact that I choose to celebrate life rather than mourn death, but it needs to be re-iterated....so there it is.

I've never cried at a funeral.....not at either of my grandparents', thought I was young.....and not at my friend's in high school. I guess I've just never seen the point really. It's not that I'm not sad, I am, 'cause I'll be missing all the moments that could've been. I would just rather be happy for what we DID have. So many people have gone in and out of my life that if I mourned all of them I would be sad all the time.

Don't get me wrong, if one of my parents/grandparents/best friends were to die. I'd like to think I would be balling, but that I'd recover and try to make those that miss them as much as I do, happy.

All of this could be complete bullshit, but I don't think so. Death just hasn't affected me in either frequency or amount of pain inflicted as much as it has other people I guess.
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Monday, April 25, 2005

Plethora of information
Two main things I feel like touching on in this particular installment.

First off, I went to see Ornette Coleman at Ted Mann as part of a festival celebrating his 75th birthday. AMAZING show. Great set, he even played "Lonely Woman" as his encore, which was gorgeous. Jeremy, Marsha, and I were all talking after the show and discussed the misconceptions of his music. People seem to think his music, or hell, jazz in general, are these massively intimidating genres bases upon getting as far out as possible. Ornette, he's out in a few ways, form seeming the most prevolent, but if you just listen to him, or jazz in general....really listen, all it is is the blues. Even Ornette or late Coltrane....its the blues. Some of the most soulful blues I've heard in a long time came last Friday night from Ornette's horn. He's from Texas, there's no way he's not gonna have the blues in him. The sound was shit, the drummer, horrible....but Ornette got up there with his little horn and understated character and blew the shit out of that horn. He cut through everyone else, at 75. Ornette is the first jazz legend of the old age that I've seen. I don't count Herbie Hancock because he was right on that edge between jazz and fusion. Ornette is the first and last jazz musician from the old school that I'll see that started a genre and made it his.

It was amazing to hear his blues blow the crap out of the rest of the band. No matter what kind of weird shit the rest of the band was playing....how "out" they were trying to be, he'd just get up there and blow the blues. No filter. Not meaning to sound pretentious, but the rest of the crowd was sitting there, being as "out" as they could....the only solos of Ornette's they clapped at were his violin solos, not his incoprehensibly bluesy sax solos....Jeremy and I just kind of looked around and shook our heads.


On the other jazz note (haha, so funny) I watched " 'Round Midnight" the other night. A brief description: movie in which Dexter Gordon's character (Dale Turner) leaves New York for Paris and is slowly nursed back to health by an adoring fan. Wonderful movie. I thought Dexter was going to suck as an actor, but did an amazing job in portraying this old sax player in failing health and failing chops. Viewing of this movie is highly reccomended.


This Thursday is Ted Nash w/ the JIN Orchestra at the Dakota. It promises to be an incredible show.

P.S. - Go HERE for pictures from my Colorado Excursion a while ago and pictures from prom night '05 and Kara's b-day present.

P.S.S. - This blog is now open for anonymous comments as well as user comments.
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Friday, April 22, 2005

American boys vs. The World's men
I was conversing with a girl today whom I used to have a crush upon for awhile before I feel insanely in love with Kara.

It was the first time we had discussed my intentions with her during that period of time.

Her pickiness was touched on briefly then, after me berating her sarcastically with remarks about how I should live up to her expectations, explained in further detail her philosophy concerning the differences between the boys over here and the men over there. She didn't go as far into it as I would have liked so as to give me an idea of how to better myself, but did propose that perhaps it was the idea that men abroad are more forward and persistent. I said that around certain women its hard for certain men (I.E. - me) to be forward and persistent because not only are certain women very intimidating, but most American women either don't take well to forwardness and persistence, or they view it as something that's socially deviant. This, in turn, makes it much harder on males such as myself because A) we don't know how to approach the woman and B) we don't know when we're being to forward or persistent. I informed her that I was quite forward with numerous women that I've dated and persistent as well, but this occurred when I had the upper hand, when I knew the woman had at least a bit of interest in me. There are plenty of guys that cannot be damaged mentally when they are constantly taiing a woman or being aggressive and brazen, mostly because 75% of the time they aren't turned down.....I am not one of these males. I'm confident when I want to be, but not always when I need to be. You women perhaps need to realize that just because a guy may not be frightningly assertive with his feelings, it doesn't always mean his doesn't intensely feel for you...and you shouldn't hold this against him, instead, you might take to role of the contender and aggressor.

Now after this brief, yet enlightening conversation regarding overzealousness or the lack thereof, I proposed that it might be the cynicality (is that a word?) or the need to find the fault in logic in everything that makes American males different from those abroad (no pun intended). It seems to me as though those living in places like Europe seem to be less focused on the negative in their lives or if they do, they at least feel like they can fix it, and want to. Its as if American males come out of college with a second, unlisted degree, a Bachelor's in misanthropy with a minor in bullshit. I can see how most women that go over to Europe would find that uninhibited atmosphere a bit more appealing than the cretinous and unconcious American alternative.

Just something to think about I guess. Feel free to disuade me.
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Thursday, April 21, 2005

Room to Breathe
Passive & agressive.

Two words I've grown to know rather intimately over the past couple of weeks.

It's weird how people can be totally into each other and one person can think that nothing is wrong, but that's only because the other person is acting and has another life. A life of not hatred, but of dislike for that certain person....the person is unwilling to tell this other person that he/she has a problem with him/her....until the person being disliked finds out through various outlets; friends of friends, a journal, hersay, etc.

Let's call this like it is, Dom resents what's going on with Kara right now. He's said he has issues with me hanging out with her, though he certainly doesn't tell ME. He says we're ditching him, though he certainly doesn't confront me about it. All this before, during, and after I hung out with him all day two days in a row. All this considering he's talking to Cheri (sp?) at least twice a day.

He's got the stones to go live in Italy for 2 years for Culinary school without knowing Italian or how to cook more than the average parent, but can't say more than 2 words about how he feels to me. I don't care if I get pissed off at him, at least something would be worked out then.

I love the kid, but he needs to learn how to confront people 1 on 1.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

In Honour
So here I sit, ready to start this new blog faced with all that is new....Death Cab's "The New Year", a new love, a new start for jobs....it does feel like a new life compared to last year when the club had just closed, no prospects for a relationship were on the horizon, and I was frustrated.

Now we're cool.

I feel like talking about something important, like the way democrats or liberals need to start acting in order to shift power. These words come out so fluently right now, its as though I could write a complete book on that specific topic in one night, but alas, I don't know enough about politics to concern myself with that presently.

Nearly all of my passion is focused with a laser sight on two seperate things right now: A new club with me as proprietor and my new love. I don't want to become that person that is always talking of or being around his/her significant other, because I feel as though it limits me, and I hate limits to the core of my being; but at the same time I feel as though I need to grasp this supreme opportunity because it hasn't been around me for almost 6 years now, and the one connection that I had to it is now out of my life, if not permanently, then at least until she can pull her head out of her ass.

The life I've wanted to lead for a while now is on its way to fruition. We just need to set to work on the subject of there not being a place that I can hear great jazz every night of the week and know its my place to run. Jazz can work in Minneapolis, it can, it just has to be two things: A) real jazz B) simple in structure (the club, not the jazz). The problem with many of the jazz clubs that have opened up is that they are either trying to be two things at once (I.E. - a restraunt and club) or they aren't playing real good jazz. Nobody lives in St. Paul, and Uptown kids just don't want to leave their little huvvle, so we must go to Minneapolis. It has to be a simple concept or else investors will get nervous. Say "here's what I need, and here's what we'll do with it", and do it passionately. The intention here is just to make jazz accesible and viable. Good jazz, small cover, coffee, beer, and wine.

Sounds simple doesn't it?

Not really, but to the new life I go anyways.


In Honour
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Monday, April 18, 2005

The New Life
This is the new blog.....I hate the word "blog"....I call it what it is, a journal to air my thoughts, musings, rantings, loves, etc.

I do have another journal, but I haven't quite decided which to write in.....I may just write in both...copy and paste and all that.

Welcome to The New Life
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