[MD] When the music dies

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do'nt mean to be a persnickity pick john, but I am an eastwood fan
his directoral debut was Josey wales... a favorite...
I think unforgiven was the only one to top it in it's genre.

although gran torino kicked ass too


jus luvs that man

mmm...mmm



----- Original Message ----
From: John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Sent: Sat, March 6, 2010 2:40:58 PM
Subject: [MD] When the music dies

For a short time near the beginning of our marriage, Lu and I lived in a
Nevada City Victorian, sharing rent with Bill and his first wife, Kathy.  I
wish we'd stayed longer because that was a real cool place to live.  And my
mom was the landlord, which is usually  a cushy deal.

For Valentine's Day, Bill and I ordered  a horse-drawn to carriage pull up
to the door as a surprise, and deliver us to Friar Tuck's, a fancy-shmancy
restaurant in town.

Also, every Sunday night, Bill and I would walk to the Nevada
Theater<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Theatre>,
California's oldest theater building, and watch an artsy movie together and
then walk back through town together.


The most memorable of all the movies we watched at the Nevada Theater Film
series, which only played movies on Sunday nights, was Clint Eastwood's
directorial debut, Bird, about the life of Charlie Parker.  Bill and I
really enjoyed the movies and even more the summer evening walks back
through town to our home and wives.  We'd have a chance to discuss what we'd
just seen and the long walk seemed to enhance the quality of the movies.  A
post-reflective coming down.

The most striking scene for me in the movie Bird was one where another sax
player goes to hear Charlie (Bird) Parker playing, and going in to see him
he's all happy and cocky, but afterward he comes out depressed.  He's on a
bridge and with a muttered oath, throws his sax into the river.

Walking back home I wondered why.  Why be discouraged over something good,
new and different?  Why not be inspired?

Ego I guess.  A musician, a sax player, struggles to master his instrument
for years, and then encounters another who just blows him away.  He thinks,
perhaps, that Quality is a competition, rather than a collaboration.
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