{"id":178411,"date":"2024-12-16T19:58:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178411"},"modified":"2024-12-16T19:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:58:28","slug":"its-all-about-the-money-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/12\/16\/its-all-about-the-money-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Its All About The Money You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A song for you, or you or even you? But not you though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1986817555&#038;color=%238c8cc8&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><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 href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/its-all-about-the-money-you\" title=\"Its All About The Money You Know\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Its All About The Money You Know<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Friend&#8217;s. As we get older they get a little rarer don&#8217;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 &#8220;working&#8221;. 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.<br>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&#8217;s me. I did not expect to feel like a child that&#8217;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&#8217;s why geriatrics like me play in rock bands and stuff init? I don&#8217;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&#8217;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 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t7f\/1\/16\/1f60a.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude0a\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We need friends, compassion and love of some sort as much now as ever<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I have try and stick to the premise &#8220;It is what it is&#8221; and stop looking for meanings and reasons and shit like that. I can&#8217;t quite embrace the chaos though however much I try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8230; lol <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/td0\/1\/16\/1f602.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude02\">  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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nietzsche said:<br><br><em>&#8220;What they would like to strive for with all their powers is the universal green\u2013pasture 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 \u2018equality of rights\u2019 and \u2018sympathy for all that suffers\u2019\u2014and suffering itself they take for something that must be abolished.<\/em>&#8220;<br><br>Whats the answer, somewhere in the middle of these extremes I guess? <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>&#8220;We opposite men, having opened our eyes and conscience to the question where and how the plant \u2018man\u2019 has so far grown most vigorously to a height\u2014we 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 \u2018spirit\u2019) had to develop under prolonged pressure and constraint into refinement and audacity, his life\u2013will had to be enhanced into an unconditional power\u2013 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 \u2018man\u2019 as much as its opposite does&#8221;<\/em>&#8211; Will to Power<br><br>I think actually that may be the next conservative party manifesto <br><br>Don&#8217;t have nightmares<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song for you, or you or even you? But not you though. Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Its All About The Money You Know Friend&#8217;s. As we get older they get a little rarer don&#8217;t they? I did have some work friends at the Civil Service. I lost touch though as I was so busy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/12\/16\/its-all-about-the-money-you-know\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Its All About The Money You Know<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178425,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/random-pic.jpg?fit=1213%2C844&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KpB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":83783,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/06\/29\/more-about-the-magic-money-tree\/","url_meta":{"origin":178411,"position":0},"title":"More about the magic money tree","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Keith Lindsay-Cameron writes: \"As far as I can see there are four magic money trees. 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