{"id":175075,"date":"2021-08-26T20:11:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175075"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:11:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:11:08","slug":"keeping-up-the-good-work-and-all-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/08\/26\/keeping-up-the-good-work-and-all-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Up the Good Work and All That"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1111807645&amp;color=%234c5c84&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\">\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7<\/p>\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Trying To Touch The Beyond\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/trying-to-touch-the-beyond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trying To Touch The Beyond<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Or not keeping up, that is the question.&nbsp; I am keeping busy. Actually&nbsp; on reflection much busier than I actually thought I was it turns out. over the past 25 years I have recorded about 500 plus songs and instrumentals it turns out.&nbsp; It keeps me off the streets as they say.&nbsp; And I shall carry on with as long as I can. These days I don&#8217;t do too much else.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe tune above is a bit of proggy cosmic noodling style stuff with violin and synth and what have you.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row bg-editor-hr-wrap\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">I write this blog&nbsp; and moan and winge and about the&nbsp; fates a bit of course too.&nbsp; I wonder how it looks to an outsider reading it?&nbsp; &nbsp;Boring and tedious perhaps or a deep insight into the nature of human existence.&nbsp; You the jury decide&nbsp;&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;I have definitely done myself some mischief somehow and I am having&nbsp; lot of problems with my right arm and shoulder. It feels like some sort of sprain. I did start working in the studio but taking it very easy. Its a real nuisance. Maybe I need to take a little time out . I feel also a bit stuck and at the point where I might start repeating myself. Effectively 18 months of navel gazing is a becoming an issue creatively. Also lack of external input of course.&nbsp; It feels rather like being becalmed on a ship perhaps or maybe&nbsp; &nbsp;a hotel with all the comforts of home or more but you can&#8217;t leave although you can see people going about their normal business at a distance. You cannot directly interact with them though of course<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At the time of writing this I have had to cancel a rehearsal for making a performance video and move it to Saturday when I hope I shall be in better fettle.&nbsp; I am&nbsp; doing regular covid tests at present.&nbsp; As of today I don&#8217;t have it. I would like to get an anti bodie test though as they are available now so I have applied to be part of the research program.&nbsp; It may be interesting.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">More dreadful news from Afghanistan again today.&nbsp; It&#8217;s quite difficult to process as recent history is poised to repeat itself again. No doubt with much suffering and loss of life. Will there ever be a solution? Its seems unlikely.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"175079\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/08\/26\/keeping-up-the-good-work-and-all-that\/iconic1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iconic1.jpg?fit=500%2C968&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,968\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Iconic1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iconic1.jpg?fit=500%2C968&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-175079\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iconic1.jpg?resize=500%2C968\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iconic1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iconic1.jpg?resize=155%2C300&amp;ssl=1 155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Trying To Touch The Beyond Or not keeping up, that is the question.&nbsp; I am keeping busy. Actually&nbsp; on reflection much busier than I actually thought I was it turns out. over the past 25 years I have recorded about 500 plus songs and instrumentals it turns out.&nbsp; It keeps me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/08\/26\/keeping-up-the-good-work-and-all-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keeping Up the Good Work and All That<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,33,60,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-disabilty-and-health-news","category-glass-cage","category-history","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JxN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1115,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2011\/09\/01\/dream-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":175075,"position":0},"title":"Dream 2","author":"diana Stone","date":"September 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Dream 2 An instrumental track from the first Glass Cage CD from 1998, when I got my first Korg work station keyboard. Its still sounding very good \u00a010 years later I think :-)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diana Stones Songs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Diana Stones Songs","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175179,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/12\/01\/a-new-varient\/","url_meta":{"origin":175075,"position":1},"title":"A New Varient.","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been cold. At the rehearsal rooms it was a bit chilly too so that was not the most comfortable session. But it went OK and was productive.\u00a0 It was good to play with a rock band line\u00a0 with actual people up however rusty we are at present. \u00a0 This\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diana Stones Songs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Diana Stones Songs","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":178472,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/12\/29\/popular-music\/","url_meta":{"origin":175075,"position":2},"title":"Popular Music","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 The good Stuff This is a selection of recent recordings that seem to have been well received :)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diana Stones Songs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Diana Stones Songs","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cafe2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cafe2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cafe2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cafe2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cafe2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1129,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2011\/10\/05\/diana-stone-on-cd-baby\/","url_meta":{"origin":175075,"position":3},"title":"Diana Stone on Soundcloud","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Tunes I want you to hear","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diana Stones Songs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Diana Stones Songs","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175366,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/06\/09\/june-musings-or-thereabouts\/","url_meta":{"origin":175075,"position":4},"title":"June Musings or Thereabouts","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Paying it forward. 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Ukraine's destruction\u00a0 haunts me, and I have been reading up on Vlad to get an idea if what is going through his mind and what it is he truly desires.\u00a0 It seems he is religious and\u00a0 has support from other\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"You checked out before me.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/You-checked-out-before-me.-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/You-checked-out-before-me.-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/You-checked-out-before-me.-1024x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175080,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175075\/revisions\/175080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}