Blame the music on TedS posting Roxette. This led me down a nostalgic rabbithole of good times I had with various women who were deeply into this type of music.
This week the skies are more laid-back. Most of the action is driving by the Moon, which is a major planet but famous for its effects being short-lived. Monday (moon-day) it’s giving “good luck at home” while working with Mercury. It also goes full in Virgo, which builds off of its start in Leo to increase the overall feminine energy. April kicks off with Venus crossing into Taurus which traditionally would be good for herders but in modern interpretation has more to do with androphiles getting lucky.
Aries: Ace of Swords reversed – Excessive fore leading to disaster.
Taurus: 5 of Cups – Loss, but something remains, inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations.
Gemini: King of Swords – Judgment, power, command, authority.
Cancer: 2 of Coins – Games, recreation, amusement, news and messages in writing, obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.
Leo: Queen of Cups – Good, fair woman; honest, devoted woman, who will do service to the Querent; loving intelligence, and hence the gift of vision; success, happiness, pleasure; also wisdom, virtue; a perfect spouse and a good mother.
Virgo: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; also deliberation, decision, sentence.
Libra: 7 of Wands reversed – Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety. It is also a caution against indecision.
Scorpio: 10 of Cups reversed – Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.
Sagittarius: Strength – Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity, complete success, honors.
Capricorn: The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.
Aquarius: 8 of Wands – Activity in undertakings, great haste, great hope, love.
Pisces: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, news, messages and the bringer thereof, rule, management.
Sagittarius: Strength – Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity, complete success, honors.
*beats chest, climbs Empire State Building*
Good, fair woman; honest, devoted woman, who will do service to the Querent; loving intelligence, and hence the gift of vision; success, happiness, pleasure; also wisdom, virtue; a perfect spouse and a good mother.
Apropos.
Virgo: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; also deliberation, decision, sentence.
Well thats no good.
And the opposition’s rebuttal:
“Your current focus may be on your financial situation, but over the next few days, the cosmic picture will change and you will find yourself looking for ways to expand your enjoyment of life, whatever the cost. Keep a big smile on your face.”
Oppositional rebuttal to “you will find yourself looking for ways to expand your enjoyment of life”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvDnuglCKw
Fourscore, god I hate collectivists.
Sell it ALL.
Weakness, yeah I’ve got that. This round of the vid is kicking my ass.
Gemini: King of Swords – Judgment, power, command, authority.
Accurate. Look at the music I got NA to post.
I like Roxette’s hits. RIP Marie Fredriksson.
Ditto.
Too young.
Excessive fore leading to disaster.
Fore arm? Fore play? Fore shadowing?
Too much golf.
I shoulda yelled two!
It’s choose your own adventure week. I’m OK with that.
Cancer: 2 of Coins – Games, recreation, amusement, news and messages in writing, obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.
i have a stupid 3 day corpo training about leading as an expert. it aint gonna be amusing i reckon.
“ Cancer: 2 of Coins – Games, recreation, amusement, news and messages in writing, obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment. ”
While naked.
I thought Lindsay Sterling was teh shit when she first hip-hopped onto the scene, but her schtick got real old real quick.
I like that Muse song, and XX is a Muse fan. I have heard nothing else of their work but “Uprising.” Generally speaking, I like a lot of overproduced pop/rock. Skittles for my ears, chock full of sugar and citric acid.
Last night Imwas scrolling through a classical music Twitter account (https://x.com/old_but_gold50s?s=21&t=h5BOKTRU9mc6OIfm7REElw) that posts really unique performances, and this was one: https://x.com/Old_But_Gold50s/status/2037756568821772330?s=20 (I couldn’t find this on any other platform except Insta, sorry.) However, that pianist went into Ferrante & Teicher mode for about 2 bars, which kinda made me cringe.
Muse has a couple pretty good albums.
My boy loves Lindsy Stirling, so much so that we had to hide the YouTube feed from him on the TV for several months so her thumbnail quit popping up. It’s the thing that she does where she swings her one leg around that drives me nuts. Her signature move.
Listening to Lindsay is kind of like listening to Vivaldi. Same song, slightly different variations.
That’s what ‘classical’ and jazz sounds like to me.
I think jazz is a lot like baseball or having a dog: It only makes sense if you’ve played (or done) it.
After percussion in elem school, and with older bro a drummer, I ‘started’ with jazz band in middle school, though didn’t take it over to my weird (but spectacular) high school. I can appreciate jazz and it’s great for background music, but I’ve never purposefully put a jazz album on to really *listen* to it.
See also: Classical, but it’s also culturally pervasive. (We all know at least *some* Beethoven.)
Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters in particular, *is* go-to music for walking the dog. Superfly, as well. When I get chance to just *play,* alone, I’m definitely a pocket, funk drummer. Do wanna work on more fills. Feel I’ve stagnated there, but haven’t played for fun in a long time.
Evan, I dont like dogs or baseball either.
So good comparison.
Gun games? You could have held off for a week, damnit, the GOAT PCSL 2-gun isn’t until the 11th…
If Monday is moon day why do Muslims go to mosque on Friday?
Cause there’s nothing good on TV.
Dear TPTB,
I have just submitted an article for review. As usual I couldn’t find controls to turn off the rendering of the featured image in the article and to turn off the sidebar so if my reviewer would please take care of these things for me again I’d appreciate it again.
If I hadn’t already stolen that page, I’d sure be stealing it now.
Here I am wondering what a “sidebar” is.
You and me both, bro. I assume it doesn’t show up when it detects my presence, frightened.
I’m a phone user.
I wonder if it’s a desktop thing?
I am a desktop user, no sidebar here.
But Zwak. What IS a sidebar?
Leo:
I will show this to my wife and suggest she needs to up her game this week.
Let us know how that goes.
Or at least instruct your heirs to do so.
Taurus: 5 of Cups – Loss, but something remains, inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations.
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Yep, but not that. Second last shift at the station last night and all went well. Just one more pinch-hit shift next Sat before I begin test evaluations for new contract. The trick is to maintain that old bridge for after the contract ends.
Thought may be do get training in before the theoretical April 20 grading portion, but we begin onboarding April 9. I think that initial bit is 3-4 days worth, with likely a short break until the ~20th. In between would be perfect do get trained in the regular Meijer store for grocery picking. (I hear they call it “pulling.”) Get that done in those ~15 days and it may be feasible to do one Sat every other week while I’m looking over those standardized tests.
That’d girder that bridge fairly nicely, I believe/hope. For now, I’ve got a psych appt tomorrow at a place that specifically focuses on ADHD. (It’s called “IN FOCUS First.”)
For now, Cubs have the rubber match v Washington in five min and time to work on submission.
@Tonio et a: How’s the media library? I have pics to include but don’t want to mess up the flooded system. OK to load my pics?
chef’s kiss
https://x.com/caesararum/status/2038021613887660393
I really like Muse. We covered Hysteria and Time is Running out in Korea.
Guitarist/Singer Matt Bellamy is disturbing. He’s a good guitarist, can sing really quite well, and he’s very handsome.
He wins. (*frumps, aims for pebble, kicks dirt; envy grows*)
I think we covered the linked Uprising, possibly not Time Is, tho the latter is likely my ‘favorite’ of theirs. To be fair, we likely rehearsed or jammed on several more by them. We covered songs before introducing our own originals, and that era was… nearly 15 years ago.
A favorite “I’ve done…” thing, for a few years, we pretty literally toured in S Korea, travelling to other cities and playing in bars. We’d try for a show at least once a month outside of our base in Daejeon as we were recording /releasing an album. (Two of our bands released a OG album each.)
Really think the weekend, especially Sunday posting schedule should be extended.
Reminds me to finish my post about the lottery at the station. And The People of Walgo. That one got delayed by getting fired and my search for another gig.
People on fixed income should not live in condos. Apartments w/ HOAs.
If you punch a clock for 40 hours you are by definition “on a fixed income.”