Are The Wheels Coming Off The Bus As They Go Round

Just maybe they are. Start of a migraine this morning. Felt a bit stressed last night. Don’t know why. Anxiety can be managed but it never quite goes away. Everything feels a bit stale suddenly and the seasons change is becoming very visible due to the dry weather. Today I feel old and perhaps now also a little irrelevant. Is there a prescription for that? Apparently not it most cases.

The older I get the more I realise that it’s not about being right or wrong it’s just trying to do no harm. My legacy (if I were to have one ) would I hope be that one or two people liked me and maybe enjoyed my music and didn’t think I was a too much of a c****. If I am singing Bessie Smith’s’ “Me and my gin” people like the racket I make and that weird noise that comes out is me, not me pretending to be somebody or something else…. Much like when I am singing my own songs I guess. I have some rude songs that I have never recorded as well. What am I like 😉

At present I am trying to convince my sister that with regard to her arm injury and the NHS screw up related to it a bad deal may be better than no deal as I think the best she can get is a compromise. Also I think the original consultant may have been over optimistic. Perhaps even to keep her spirits up. I don’t want to stop her trying to get the best fix possible but the effort required for an uncertain outcome may be frankly a waste of time. So that is a bit of a worry.
She is back in court very soon and hopefully to finally sort out a final ruling on inheritance from her partner which has been going on for about 3 years since he died.

Everything is fading. Really it is. I have been working on some new music, but it’s got very hot and I am taking a break. Yesterday it was 20C today its near to 30C. Crazy weather.
Played through some stuff on the piano to loosen up and I am totally knackered.

A few tunes

A Pause For Thought

I started recording a thing with 12 string not sure what it will turn into yet though. sometimes interesting things are chanced upon that way. The electric 12 string makes a good noise used sparingly when appropriate. Its in standard tuning this time though. I am just pausing from that adventure at present. I have had a slightly rough week and been a bit below par. No particular reason that’s detectable though. The world externally is getting pretty crazy now and I have been trying to avoid the news as much as possible. Its grimm out there. So I shall ignore the larger world and concentrate more on life in the small for the present.

It’s beginning to feel rather autumnal around here now, though it’s likely to be a warmish September. As the leaves start to turn inevitably if you are anything like me thoughts of one’s own mortality start to creep into the mind. My body is quite creaky these days too. My backs been bad for years too.

A song with the aforementioned 12 string.

Everytime I read the news/watch I find more to make me angry in it. Everything that’s was gained in the last 50 years or so is slowly being thrown away by the last government and the new one doesn’t seem to be going anywhere worthwhile. And they are still fucking it up for anyone thats not wealthy. But why should they care, egomaniac twats most of them it seems.
Trotting out the same bollocks. Might as well turn to drink then as I don’t get on with drugs. Seriously what’s the point?

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt







One Step Forward Two Steps Backward Means All Work And No Play

Existential angst mostly. That’s what’s on my mind.

Labour and Conservative, what is the difference. Slightly less xenophobia?
Also the simplistic “working people” trope and still no proper “social housing” as in old school council houses due to misplaced ideology plus a few 100 other things….
So most people think it is one bunch of suits swapped for another (that’s actually what I think too).

The real ideological problem is in my opinion this: Clinging on to the old school notions that everyone wants the equivalent of a “middle class” lifestyle and sharing that view is in part the problem, Up north there are a lot of people who don’t share those views and are frankly often ill educated with a very narrow minded and naive view of the world. They are the ones and their descendants that Thatcher wrote off. They are the ones that supported Brexit, and some of them were rioting, possibly in part because that nice Mr Khan that owns the local 7-11 has a 3 year old Mercedes and they don’t… There needs to be a massive cultural shift. The arts need to be opened up to everyone. It will taken generations to fix. Not all old school socialist ideas were daft. Yes we need a strong economy and a skilled workforce, but also we need poetic road sweepers and homes for those that can work but will never be even hedge hoppers let along high flyers. Aspiration is fine but all the perspiration and grafting in the world won’t get you there if its not in the stars for you.

On a different subject I do YouGov polls. they did one today about “How Woke Are You”.
daft really, but the comments were interesting. A lot of guff about “woke” erasing british culture… I am so woke to the point that gammons are at risk of spontaneous combustion if I am within 3 meters of them.

And I just saw this from another occasional musical co-conspirator: “Statement from Ealing Blues Festival Founder Bob Salmons (aka musician Robert Hokum) as he bids farewell to the event he started in 1987 and where he remained Artistic Director, until 2024. “Well it’s not so much ‘Elvis has left the building’ as ‘Bob is leaving the park’ as I have joined the likes of Stephen Hawking and Rob Burrow in having Motor Neurone Disease and thus have to say ‘goodbye’ to the event that I have brought to Ealing’s Walpole Park since 1987.”

Blimey….

That was a shock.

Here are a few of my Tunes

  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Time Will Take So Much From You by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A Darker Green by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Its all about the mo0ney you know
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A violin and Rhodes tune for you 🎶
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    The Best That I Can Do For You Now by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    I Have No Faith Left by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Just Because It Fits Maybe You Shouldent by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Just a sleazy blues
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Sometimes you have a revelation and you can’t keep it to yourself so you end up singing about about it almost ecstatically. So I did. Go me. A very recent recording inspired by those moments of special sharing twined with enlightenment.
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Tune in Gb
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A few thoughts on lost opportunities' in a pop rock setting ballad.
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Just cause you are a bad person by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A stream of consciousness song.
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    I am So Empty Now by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Safe For The Moment by Diana Stones Glasscage
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    A moment of pure joy letting go
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    jazz fusion world style instrumental
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Simple acoustic guitar instrumental tune.
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Autumnal Piano Piece
  • by Diana Stones Glasscage
    Wish You Would Let Me by Diana Stones Glasscage