a day in the life of cyborg

still fighting a cold. and losing. the heath brothers, at 25 a ticket plus 3 buck ticket master fee, will have to wait. the whole thing leaves me feeling kenny barron. took a walk to the local grocery store, and picked up a globe. yes, that alone makes me a criminal, i admit. in it, i read that "covert attacks continue in pakistan." well, if they are covert, how do we know about them? page 2 in a major paper doesn't sound particularly covert to me. no, there is nothing secret about any of this. as far as those attacks go, i am quite sure that many of the guys we are killing wouldn't be fellows to bring home to mother, but that doesn't give us the right to kill them. there are millions of "militants" in this country, but i don't want our cities bombed as a result. and what of the children, and the dozens of regular people that we have killed in pakistan? what of the buildings destroyed, the sovereignty trampled upon, the violations of international law? and why is it that we can attack other nations, but they can't attack us? hey, we are fighting two wars at once and have killed millions. does that mean dc and virginia should be up for grabs? come on, it's only collateral damage.

if i were the picture of heath, then i could have gone to the music bar, jim. as it is, i blog. currently, i am listening to giant steps for the first time in an eternity. it is a great album, but there were many great albums. music should be seen as an organic, gradual thing, where individual recordings spring up from a shared base. the truth is, there were many giants, and they all took giant steps. just listen to booker with byard take us on a journey into space, or to hank and wynton as they drop us off at the soul station, or to gene and jackie as they make us smile with the happy blues. if you want to know jazz, you have to know it whole. to cherry pick certain "jazz essentials" is a half assed approach. it is a surface solution. the real truth lies deeper. coltrane, yes. by all means. but hundreds of others too. giants don't grow alone.

but isn't that our problem? we are always looking for heroes, the great people who are going to make everything well. we would rather follow an electoral map than join a picket line. we would rather wear a button than boycott a war hungry nation. but it will be collective solutions, not individual solutions, that will do it, if it is to get done. the problems are collective, so the solutions must also be. it ain't about bad apples folks.

the whole food chain is rotten.

as the man said, they are gonna try to get us through the food chain.

alright man, that's enough.