Welcome grand readers. Thanks for being here.
I think it will be a quiet weekend. I’m not getting together with the Gutterminds this weekend. Benny the drummer is out of town on a family trip and Jaycee is singing at an event at the Concert Hall. Without her voice and the drums we’d only be a shell of what we can be.
Jaycee is singing with a choir, doing some classic Harappan songs. The Harappan Symphony will finish the concert with Marc Wilson’s Third Harappan Suite.
Jaycee offered me and Ina tickets but I’m not much for crowded events. I can watch the concert on the 3deo here at home.
People still play the old Harappan music. Some of it sounds a little dated now that we have resurrected Twentieth Century Earth music.
Some people are starting to call Earth’s Twentieth Century the “Second Renaissance”. I’d have to agree. When we look back at that period of time there was an explosion of creativity. Not just in music but in all the arts and the sciences too.
From jazz early on in the century to the rap and rock of bands like the Toxik Idols, from Picasso to Warhol, from Einstein to Hawking, knowledge and art was blossoming. Society evolved too. When the century began there were still small minded people who saw homosexuality as unnatural. I know it’s hard to believe that humans felt so, so recently. There were still examples of racism well into the century and even beyond some.
The Greenies solidified some of those social changes for good but rolled back some of the social gains. They took away some of the freedoms that we now take for granted. They took away the music, much of the art and any thing that did not honor the Messiah, Marcus Johnson. The Second Earth Renaissance was pushed underground, preserved by the man for whom this art was banned. How messed up is that?
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
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