curbdrop out of grace

on blueberry hill

so i got my mom for x-mas a couple of cds including this double cd of louis armstrong, which we listened to and which i would recommend purchasing if you are a decent human being (fuck trying to save the world or the whales, buy the damn cd)...

anyway, she said she liked disc 2 better than disc 1 because she knew more of the songs on the 2nd. she said that the first cd dosen't have any famous songs on it. now i know this is a false statement, but i tried to be nice about it. i told her it was possible that the more famous songs were on the 2nd disc but that the 1st disc probably had other less-famous songs as well, and that she probably just was not so knowledgable about jazz to recognize these other songs. she said something like, "yeah that's probably true but i really only like the most famous songs any one sings."

now that isn't something that is so suprising to me because i know my mom is not that into music and not that experienced with it. i think she fits the top-40 personality that i so commonly refer to. it's ok as this is my mom and not someone i want to date. but i still think she is wrong.

i told her to give the other not-as-famous songs a couple of listens because maybe she'd be more familiar with them then and would enjoy them better. but she didn't seem to believe me.

she is stubborn like my dad like my brother like me. blah

also my mom started talking about acapella's and how she did not like them so much because they are too boring. she said she needs to hear instruments in order to enjoy music. well, i actually think the same thing about acapella. the thing that took me back a little about her comment is that the reason louis armstrong is so badass is you just listen to him blow the horn and the music is so distinct and great... so relaxing. yet she doesn't really enjoy those songs heavy in the horn. she enjoys the hits that had a ton of vocals such as it's a wonderful world. whatever.

my mom was then saying she prefers listening to barbershop quartets. she said something like, "even though there's only 4 members in a barbershop quartet, they sound better and do more than a large acapella group. because sometimes you just expect more from a lot of people... more than you'd expect from only a small number of people. all you really need is 4 people."

and i liked what she said even though she was refering to musical singing troupes. i liked what she said because that's more or less how i feel about my true friends as i don't need more than a small crew as they are the best and my favorite and when i expand my group and extend to some of these other jokers i hang out with more often than i should/want, it ends up not coming even remotely close to the experience i have with my select few. run-on-sentence-poo.

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i was thinking last nite at goldbond's house, where i was with goldbond, billy, and dbl-c that this is great and i wouldn't have wanted to be doing anything else but sitting around with good people. good simple times.

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posted by fillshe @ 4:27 PM