Classical musicians are mutually blessed and cursed: the latter with low pay, high rent, canned tuna, and cheap wine. The former, however, with the chance to travel the world and schmooze with the filthily wealthy.
I want you all to picture the following scene: Ryo, Orlay, and I sitting in an outdoor hot tub of a 10 million dollar house on the beach, with the sun setting in the backdrop of the Atlantic ocean 100 feet away, drinking 300 dollar champagne and smoking illegally purchased Cuban cigars. This is right after a meal of fresh raw oysters and shrimp.
Does it get any better?
Inspired simultaneously and erratically by the blog thoughts of both Stanley Lee and Ned Rorem.
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Bush and the Republicans were not protecting us on 9-11, and we aren't a lot safer now. We may be more afraid due to george bush, but are we safer? Being fearful does not necessarily make one safer. Fear can cause people to hide and cower. What do you think? How does that work in a democracy again? How does being more threatening make us more likeable?Isn't the country with
the most weapons the biggest threat to the rest of the world? When one country is the biggest threat to the rest of the world, isn't that likely to be the most hated country?
What happened to us, people? When did we become such lemmings?
The more people that the government puts in jails, the safer we are told to think we are. The real terrorists are wherever they are, but they aren't living in a country with bars on the windows. We are.
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