Monthly Archives: December 2024

Its All About The Money You Know

Musings

A song for you, or you or even you? But not you though.

Friend’s. As we get older they get a little rarer don’t they? I did have some work friends at the Civil Service. I lost touch though as I was so busy with gigging after I left. They were out socialising whilst I was “working”. I opted out the 9 to 5 completely aged 50 and on balance it was a good idea for my sanity if not for my bank balance. But just lately I am feeling a chill wind.
Spent a while this morning working out all my finances again. Things are reasonable with luck. Most of my problems now are the ones in my head it seems. Its you, it’s me. I did not expect to feel like a child that’s expecting a visit to the headmaster for a cosmic ticking off when I go back to school on Monday. Every day that passes I feel less in control and at times more fearful in general. That’s why geriatrics like me play in rock bands and stuff init? I don’t see my decrepitude in the mirror so much except when I look at my twisted spine but I have had that for ever of course. So I do what I can and try to do no harm. Getting rid of my car is practical but also symbolic though. What hurts is the fact that I don’t need it as my life is different now. I do dream about Vicky from time to time and in dreams we just talk about stuff. It seems so real. I can see why people feel the need to go to the big house and sing to an invisible cosmic imaginary friend 😊

We need friends, compassion and love of some sort as much now as ever

I have try and stick to the premise “It is what it is” and stop looking for meanings and reasons and shit like that. I can’t quite embrace the chaos though however much I try.

Touching wood I feel a bit better today at least so far. I got a nice message from somebody that listens to my music, about 25 years old by the look of her. she has my stuff on repeat. Poor soul… lol 😂 Its interesting to note though that it seems to appeal to people much younger than me from other feedback I have had. It is definitely not modern in any respect, a lot of it of anything is really rehashed 60s and 70s but obviously with a more modern sound/sensibility.The more I look at the information I get from the websites and streaming platforms that host my music the more I feel that I ought to take it a bit more seriously perhaps? Again something to look at in 2025 perhaps? When you have South Korean Girls between 17 and 20 listening a lot to some tracks as just one strange example perhaps there is a way to do more. I could try teaming up my music with some AI generated video content perhaps? Anyway just thinking out loud. Would that be too weird?

Nietzsche said:

“What they would like to strive for with all their powers is the universal green–pasture happiness of the herd, with security, lack of danger, comfort, and an easier life for everyone; the two songs and doctrines which they repeat most often are ‘equality of rights’ and ‘sympathy for all that suffers’—and suffering itself they take for something that must be abolished.“

Whats the answer, somewhere in the middle of these extremes I guess?
“We opposite men, having opened our eyes and conscience to the question where and how the plant ‘man’ has so far grown most vigorously to a height—we think that this has happened every time under the opposite conditions, that to this end the dangerousness of his situation must first grown to the point of enormity, his power of invention and simulation (his ‘spirit’) had to develop under prolonged pressure and constraint into refinement and audacity, his life–will had to be enhanced into an unconditional power– will. We think that hardness, forcefulness, slavery, danger in the alley and the heart, life in hiding, stoicism, the art of experiment and devilry of every kind, that everything evil, terrible, tyrannical in man, everything in him that is kin to beasts of prey and serpents, serves the enhancement of the species ‘man’ as much as its opposite does”– Will to Power

I think actually that may be the next conservative party manifesto

Don’t have nightmares













No Rain Today

Diana Stones Songs, glass cage, Musings, whatever

Yep, it’s actually stopped for a while! Remarkable. It’s very, very cold though. Hits you in the bones. So it’s a day at home again. A day to muse on the world in general and the winners and the losers in particular too. And fairness or lack of it. Sometimes there is nothing to be done it seems. So what is good luck then?

The dictionary defines luck as ‘believing that whatever happens, either good or bad, to a person in the course of events is due to chance, fate or fortune.’ The Buddha denied this belief completely. Everything that happens has a specific cause or causes and there must be some relationships between the cause and the effect. Becoming sick, for example, has specific causes. One must come into contact with germs and one’s body must be weak enough for the germs to establish themselves. There is a definite relationship between the cause (germs and a weakened body) and the effect (sickness) because we know that germs attack the organisms and give rise to sickness. But no relationship can be found wearing a piece of paper with words written on it and being rich or passing examinations. Buddhism teaches that whatever happens does so because of a cause or causes and not due to luck, chance or fate. People who are interested in luck are always trying to get something – usually more money and wealth. 
We can find if we dig deep enough some causation for much of what happens to us most of the time. Sometimes we abandon ourselves to hope but miracles are still rare enough.
Other religions are of course available 🙂

A relative has had recently in almost equal measure good and perhaps bad fortune. It may be that for them this is as good as it gets. But at present to resolve their particular situation they look for a remedy that may or may not exist. Should they wait to see if a better hand is dealt them or cut their losses?