{"id":177696,"date":"2024-07-23T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T19:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177696"},"modified":"2024-07-23T20:49:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T19:49:18","slug":"a-busy-weekend-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/07\/23\/a-busy-weekend-for-a-change\/","title":{"rendered":"A busy weekend for a change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">I played two actual gigs this weekend for a change. One with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SonicBoomersMusic\">Sonic Boomers<\/a> in Stevenage and one solo at Milton Ernest. That was good fun and felt almost like the old days for a shining moment or two. But it&#8217;s Monday now and back to the usual routine though its lovely and sunny and I just took an evening stroll. It&#8217;s still pretty warm.<br><br>Here is a tune that could do with a bit more love:  an instrumental tune from last year that I had forgotten about.It&#8217;s a sort of funky rocky prog trancy thing type thing. Me on keys and guitar&#8230;.<br><br><strong>Cousin Beige<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/cousin-beige\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"677\" data-attachment-id=\"177704\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/07\/23\/a-busy-weekend-for-a-change\/trouble-diana-stone-head-and-shoulders\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trouble-Diana-Stone-head-and-shoulders.jpg?fit=1592%2C1785&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1592,1785\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G950F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1625493488&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Trouble Diana Stone head and shoulders\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trouble-Diana-Stone-head-and-shoulders.jpg?fit=604%2C677&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trouble-Diana-Stone-head-and-shoulders-913x1024.jpg?resize=604%2C677&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trouble-Diana-Stone-head-and-shoulders.jpg?resize=913%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 913w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trouble-Diana-Stone-head-and-shoulders.jpg?resize=268%2C300&amp;ssl=1 268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trouble-Diana-Stone-head-and-shoulders.jpg?resize=768%2C861&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trouble-Diana-Stone-head-and-shoulders.jpg?resize=1370%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trouble-Diana-Stone-head-and-shoulders.jpg?w=1592&amp;ssl=1 1592w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trouble-Diana-Stone-head-and-shoulders.jpg?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1485893872&amp;color=%238c8cc8&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" 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;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Cousin Beige\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/cousin-beige\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cousin Beige<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Anyway back to moaning about stuff again. Now where were we? I am working on some music and taking a break for a moment. Usual musculoskeletal gripes of course. That&#8217;s not the title by the way. <br><br>The coming US presidential election is a wonderment indeed.    <br><br>The fact that you can get a college degree in some states based on &#8220;creationism&#8221; blows my mind. I get a lot of friend requests from the US on facebook and many are musicians of sorts. They are usually OK and not flat earth bible thumpers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no problem with genuine people of faith, but if they take things as factual and not allegorical that&#8217;s a problem. The fact that many Trump supporters are WASP&#8217;s is odd as the last time I looked in a bible it was saying stuff like &#8220;Love thy neighbour&#8221; and &#8220;A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another&#8221;.\u00a0<br>Trump is if you actually\u00a0 your read the bible pretty close to its description of the anti-christ.\u00a0Now I have friends who follow many religions ( I have made music with Irish Catholics, Rastafarians, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims\u00a0and Jews) and some who are secularist\u00a0 and some who have no beliefs at all.  so I am not pushing any agender.<br>As has been mentioned before you can now buy ammo from a vending machine&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t look like God is going to save America any time soon from where I am standing. Perhaps it must fall before it can rise again? I would be delighted if a woman of color was the next POTUS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly I dont think its likely<br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played two actual gigs this weekend for a change. One with the Sonic Boomers in Stevenage and one solo at Milton Ernest. That was good fun and felt almost like the old days for a shining moment or two. But it&#8217;s Monday now and back to the usual routine though its lovely and sunny &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/07\/23\/a-busy-weekend-for-a-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A busy weekend for a change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[10,60,7,4,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-history","category-music","category-musings","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC00263.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Ke4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":154335,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/12\/31\/halfway-hotel\/","url_meta":{"origin":177696,"position":0},"title":"Halfway Hotel","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 31, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/halfway-hotel A bit of Celtic twilight and the first tune I have recorded with the Dulcimer A new tune recorded yesterday with Dulcimer, Guitar and Fiddle. 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An instrumental called \"Last Best Hope\"Not much hope in the news today though sadly. The news media is now pretty much a continuous horror show with no redeeming elements. Trying to ignore it has not really worked for me too well. Diana Stones Glasscage\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":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/on-stage.jpg?fit=1200%2C619&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/on-stage.jpg?fit=1200%2C619&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/on-stage.jpg?fit=1200%2C619&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/on-stage.jpg?fit=1200%2C619&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/on-stage.jpg?fit=1200%2C619&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":176175,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/11\/19\/a-jolly-tune\/","url_meta":{"origin":177696,"position":3},"title":"A Jolly Tune","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 19, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is an upbeat trance crossover tune for you all. Posted on a dull autumn Sunday. Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Dont You Feel It Too Iamfu OK, so I didn't sleep so well last night, but mostly alright. A fairly productive day yesterday with music and related doings at home.\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":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191217_160030-scaled.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\/2019\/12\/20191217_160030-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191217_160030-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191217_160030-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191217_160030-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":141686,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/05\/18\/tune-for-vicky\/","url_meta":{"origin":177696,"position":4},"title":"Tune for Vicky","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 18, 2019","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QPOpZqdOvhE A short extemporised Violin tune by Diana Stone at the celebration of Vicky Martins life at the United Reformed church in Winchmore Hill May 17 2019","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/QPOpZqdOvhE\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":177993,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/10\/02\/octobers-musings-in-the-rain-kingdom\/","url_meta":{"origin":177696,"position":5},"title":"October&#8217;s Musings In The Rain Kingdom","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 2, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Golden October? 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