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Today’s Theme Music

I haven’t been out to sample the holiday shopping crowds. Shopping and crowds are anathema to my sense of peace and social tolerance toward others. My small town yesterday demonstrated again and again how people change during this season. A flip was switched. Cashiers seemed to already be eyeing customers as threats to their patience. The rules for driving seemed to be eroding. My impression of their thinking evolved from their actions.

“One way? No problem, I’m just going a short distance, and I need that parking space. I’m in a hurry!”

“Two lanes? They can move over. There’s plenty of room for them to go around me. I’m special.”

“Stop signs – I rolled through. Close enough.”

“Turn signals? I’m barely aware of where I’m going, and you want me to think of turn signals?”

“Hurry, hurry, let’s get home, quickly, quickly, faster, faster. Get on his tail. That’ll make him go faster.”

This is what was happening in our small, mellow town. Holidays and precipitation seem to unhinge people’s thinking. I don’t know what was going on in one woman’s head as she drove down the twenty-five mile an hour residential street at what I guessed was thirty-five to forty, her head down and her phone up, texting away.

I think this song is the theme for many. I hope it’s not harrying your mind. Here’s Al Hirt on the trumpet solo and Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Flight of the Bumblebee”, as used for the theme music for the television show, ‘The Green Hornet’.

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Today’s Theme Music

A circumstance beyond our control, oh oh oh oh
The phone, the TV and the news of the world
Got in the house like a pigeon from hell, oh oh oh oh
Threw sand in our eyes and descended like flies
Put us back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang

~ ‘Back on the Chain Gang’, Chrissie Hynde, The Pretenders

So many words of these song resonate with me, making a natural as a theme song when walking around, alone, wondering, struggling. That she wrote it after her band-mate, twenty-five years old, died of a drug overdose, adds poignancy to the words.

The powers that be
That force us to live like we do
Bring me to my knees
When I see what they’ve done to you
But I’ll die as I stand here today
Knowing that deep in my heart
They’ll fall to ruin one day
For making us part

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Today’s Theme Music

Keeping it simple today, and following a theme (rim shot). I’ve been dreaming a great deal, and remembering many dreams in the past ten days, more than I usually remember. Of course, it’s my experience that remembering dreams and thinking about them builds the ability to remember dreams and think about them, so it’s a natural function to remember more as I think more….

Sorry for the diversion. To return to the theme, it’s dreams, of course. There’s a lot of music featuring dreams but being a rockboy, I’m going straight to Van Halen. The song and video came out while I was stationed at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, so it ties in with my recent dreams. And we liked the video – nice beat, easy to play air guitar with it and sing along – although, ahem, they were Navy jets, and we were the Air Force. We didn’t hold that against Van Halen or the song.

Here is ‘Dreams’.  Sing along if you know the words, or just make some up.

 

Update: after watching the above video, I didn’t think it was the one I knew. I believe the one below is the correct one. Same song, though, and, um…theme….

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Today’s Theme Music

‘Sesame Street’ began broadcasting on this date in 1969. Most Americans know its songs, characters and presentations. Either they were a child experiencing it, or a family member or baby-sitter enduring it, from big sibling to grandparents. I learned them as a big brother. Little sister’s favorite was Ernie singing ‘Rubber Ducky’. So….

 

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Today’s Theme Music

Theme music is all about being a signature song. I offer them as a signature song to establish the day’s tone. For today, I’m dropping into the wayback machine and pulling out a little theme song from a television series, ‘Bonanza’.

‘Bonanza’ was a television series produced and aired on NBC from 1959 to 1973. Meanwhile, it was syndicated and shown as reruns. It wasn’t unusual to walk into someone’s house after school and see ‘Bonanza’ on the telly. Most amusing to me is that visiting its set in the Lake Tahoe area really impressed people. Paris and the Eiffel Tower, the Great Pyramids, rock of Gibraltar, the Louvre, etc…nah. But the house where Hoss, Ben, Little Joe and the rest strutted? Wow. 

The show’s title came from the expression for a big discovery of ore. Hope your day brings you a bonanza. Thank you, Jay Livingstone and David Rose, for creating this music.

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Today’s Theme Music

Today’s rousing little ditty comes via ‘Raised by Wolves’. As I was closing down the day, I watched a couple episodes again (via Acorn) yesterday. This song, ‘Don’t Mess with Me’ by Brody Dalle, was featured on the second episode watched, in which Yoko gets her first bra and Germaine is treated to new underwear. Don’t think much of the video but enjoy the lyrics and the beat. Hope you get something out of it.

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Today’s Theme Music

After thinking through dreams and writing a post, I found myself entranced with a song’s opening lines:

I just wanna stay in the sun where I find
I know it’s hard sometimes
Pieces of peace in the sun’s peace of mind
I know it’s hard sometimes

Yeah, exactly. Some days I just wanna stay in the sun. Today’s music, ‘Ride’ from Twenty One Pilots.

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Today’s Theme Music

One heart, so many ways for it to be broken. When it breaks, you think, “That’ll teach you. You should learn your listen. I’ll never love again. I’ll never trust them again. It’ll never be the same again.”

The broken heart comes from believing and trusting in something or someone – a cause, a hope, a dream, a love. When your heart breaks, the pain echoes through time and fiber, never truly healing, but scabbing and developing scar tissue. Even then, sometimes you conclude, “I’m over it,” but when you let yourself consider your broken heart and its circumstances, you discover, “No. I’m not over it.” And you wonder, “Will I ever be over it?”

I’m a walking classic rock stereotype, so here is Led Zeppelin’s ‘Heartbreaker’.

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Today’s Theme Music #2

Consideration of my state doubled me back through a labyrinth of realizations and understanding. I set fire to a few things and watched the ashes of those spirits take to the eddying winds.  Then I set off to find a new place in the labyrinth of being. Once I did, I needed different music. Here is the song that volunteered itself.

Lynyrd Skynrd, ‘They Call Me the Breeze’.

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