Another week, another Thursday with releases at 9:00 pm PDT, though it’ll be PST after Saturday (so they tell me). We had good singles from Jimi Hendrix and Guns N Roses, some great tracks showing the process by which The Beatles made Yellow Submarine on their Revolver Deluxe Edition, and a song from the Kings of Chaos featuring Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum of Guns N Roses and Velvet Revolver fame. Interestingly, the last release from the Kings of Chaos was 10 years ago on a tribute to Deep Purple’s Machine Head which also featured Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, but had Steve Stevens (Billy Idol’s guitarist) and Joe Elliot, the lead singer of Def Leppard. Idina Menzel had a heartfelt song in tribute to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting from some years back, the day after, my Church sang “Shalom” in Church, the pastor in charge that Sunday reminding us that the Jewish and Christian God are the same God.
In my personal life, I have an audition to work with Majestic Adventures next Monday, which I am nervous about, mostly about the fact I will need to improv DnD-style in an age-appropriate manner. I do have a lot of experience with fantasy worlds thanks to video games, Anime and Critical Role, I'm just nervous about what will be asked of me and if I can pull it off, it sounds like a fun opportunity, but I haven't properly acted since college. At the same time, I am looking forward to it and under the anxiety is a layer of excitement I haven't felt for quite a while. I miss BAAY's theatrical nature and I miss having my finger on the pulse of the arts. I want to help nurture that curiosity for artistic fantasy in kids, I don't think kids today have access to things like Calvin and Hobbes, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG, Legend of Zelda; A Link to the Past, the Pokemon and Digimon anime, Final Fantasy IV and the 1954-1994 Godzilla films like I did.
I'm also still dealing with my own mental health issues, discovering that I've been blaming myself for all the bad things that happened to me, my family or people I care about. It got really bad with Dad's pulmonary embolism, Uncle Jon dying, my favorite wrestler getting Leukemia and Rachel Held Evans dying, this year I had to deal with almost-constant political cries that America may soon be no more as fascism and denial are circulating like crazy in right-wing politicians, who threaten and encourage violence and bloodshed, continuing propaganda that the 45th President is a messiah who didn't get voted out. On top of that, I have now dealt with 4 stories of women in the public eye getting abused, sometimes raped, and that people believe the man, who say the woman was the abuser or that the actions were consensual. This just calls to mind this nation's blatant dismissal of 42 such charges against the 45th president and one against one of his Supreme Court picks, who just made sure women can't do anything if they're raped in certain states and must bear the rapist's child and birth it. You want to know why I've come across like I'm losing it this year? Because I have to deal with this and I don't know if anyone else can bear these burdens. I'm strong and I can't bear them myself, plus I don't have many people in my life to have any meaningful conversation with. It's usually just baseball and Classic Rock, never about modern music, anime, video games or Godzilla.
This week has two Christmas releases I’m looking forward to from Switchfoot and Alicia Keys and a CCM release from Hope Darst. The 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Donna Summer’s self-titled album is also due out, as is a live album from Billy Joel (or “Billy Jo-el” as Jim Gaffigan says the Irish call him). There will also be a single from FLETCHER, promoting the deluxe edition of her album, released in September. I’m also trying to go to bed earlier and spend less on music from now on. Until next week.
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