Today's Soundtrack
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shadowkatNow that I'm no longer doing the "pandemic blog" - I've no idea what to title entries.
Crazy Workplace
The head honcho of my group or rather the new BOSS, thought it would be a great idea - to schedule an office party for April 1. [They also forced all the folks with reasonable accommodation to continue working remotely - to come back into the office, with the view that there's no reason for them not to. ]
"We're having a party to celebrate our hard work this quarter - between noon and 1pm, please send your RVSP" or something to that effect. It's scheduled for April 1. In lower Manhattan.
Note - it takes everyone in my little group about an hour to get to lower Manhattan from Jamaica, Queens. Also the majority of my group lives either on Long Island or Brooklyn. Convenient, it's not. And it would kill half a day - when we're all extremely busy. I'm willing to bet no one wants to go.
Ignoring of course the small fact that we're still in a pandemic. Despite what people want to believe - the pandemic is still going on, people are still catching COVID and dying from it. Why anyone would schedule let alone want to go to an office party, indoors, with treats and drinks in lower Manhattan at lunch time during a pandemic is beyond me.
So, I'm thinking to myself as I'm reading this - any chance it's an April Fool's joke? Granted a bad one, but still.
Also, can I just decline? Can they force me to go? Do I have a choice in the matter? Is it required? Maybe I will decline and see what happens.
I miss the days in which they would just let me do my work in peace.
On a brighter note? The punch clock now works - so I no longer have to email my manager every time I come in and out of work.
Also plus side of going to work at the crack of dawn is I get to watch the sunrise over the city every morning on my way to work. And there's less people on the train.
People are slobs though. The trains were clean for a bit - but trying to clean a 24/7 transportation system with folks who feel the need to leave their trash behind, eat on the train, drink on the train, etc, is impossible.
***
I'm concerned about my blood pressure meds. I've two left. I called the pharmacy on Saturday to renew - because I had five left. But needed authorization from my Doctor, which the pharmacy and I sent. Doctor didn't provide authorization until late Monday.
So I called the pharmacy at work today and they said - we're still working on filling it. I decided to try on the way home from work. But alas, the pharmacy was closed due to an emergency (no clue what). I asked the cashier and she had no clue - and seemed annoyed by it.
Oh well, I'll drop by after work tomorrow - hopefully they'll have it filled by then. Worst case scenario - I pick it up on Thursday.
On the way home from the pharmacy, they were parking huge film trailers - which are these huge trucks - 14 wheelers, that take up half a city block. Apparently my neighborhood is now a film location set. Lovely. Been a while since I'd seen one. This is for "Three Women" - which is most likely a fake name. They are taking up the entire street with these trailers. So, I'm going to be walking through a film set to and from the subway tomorrow or however long they are filming. Assuming they let me walk through it - they kind of have to - it's the only way I can get to the subway quickly. I remember when they were filming Meet John Black - I had to go around the block to get to the subway.
Since I moved to NYC in the 1990s, I've walked through more film and television sets than I can possibly remember. They include (but are not limited to): Mr. Robot, Elementary, Meet John Black, Men in Black II, The Good Wife, Law & Order: Criminal Intent (I actually walked passed Vincent D'Orinotho - he's just slightly taller and bigger than I am). Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head. New Yorkers find filmmakers irritating. Because it usually screws up your commute. We don't care about the movie stars or television actors, we're used to them.
***
During the day and on the commute - I listen to music to calm myself and keep my focus. I put on the head phones at 6:30 am and wear them pretty much until I get home at night.
Today's song list included:
Oh My God - Adele
White Fire - Angel Olsen
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
Blackbird - The Beatles
Lil Jack Slade - The Chicks
Light My Fire - The Doors
There Once was a Pirate ( Bonus Track Spring Awakening - Duncan Sheik)
Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
Maggie Mae - The Beatles
Never Enough - The Cure
Aria and 30 Variations - Johann Sebastian Back - Henrick Mawe
A Strange Education - The Cinematics
Trois Gymnopedies - By Erik Satie - Frank Glazer
Pawns - Common Rotation
Distric 8 Hospital - James Newton Howard (Hunger Games film soundtrack)
Wholy Holy - Aretha Franklin
Knock on Wood (Live) - David Bowie
I Don't Know How to Love Him - Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack
Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles
Let it Go - Idina Menzel
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
City with No Children - Arcade Fire
A Call to Arms - Beirut
Bablyon Boogie - Sand Sheff
No Questions Asked - Fleetwood Mac
Mama Tried - Merl Haggard
Blackout - British Sea Power
Dancing in the Sheets - Shalamar (Footloose Soundtrack)
Taunting the Cat - James Newton Howard (Hunger Games Soundtrack)
Sigh No More - Mumford and Songs
We Used to Wait - Arcade Fire
Stuck on Me + You - Emily Ann Roberts
Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) - John Lennon
How My Heart Behaves - Feist
Lucky Man - the Verve
Disarm - The Civil Wars
When Were You Happy ( And How..) - Laura Marling
Devil's Backbone - The Civil Wars
Birthday - the Beatles
Untitled = The Cure
Isn't it a Pity - George Harrison
Mississippi Delta - Bobbie Gentry
Strong, Strong Wind - Heart
Smile - Ghost of the Robot
No Right to Love You - Rhys LEwis
Moving Out - Billy Joel
Reverie - Claude Debussy - Peter Frankl
Lovin' Me - Kid Cudi
Dear Boy - Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney
Wait for Me - Kings of Leon
Ankara Sundays - Somi
Bad Things - Jace Everett
Oh Comely - Neutral Milk Hotel
Children and All that Jazz - Joan Baez
Angeles - Elliot Smith
Turning Tables - Adele
The Lightening Strike - Snow Patrol
You Still Believe in ME - The Beach Boys
More Love - the Chicks
Will the Circle be Unbroken - The Carter Family
Fear of Failure - Sea Wolf
Daddy Lessons (feat. the Chicks) - Beyonce
Delirious - Prince
A is For.. - Tom McRae
Only the Lonely - Seth McFarlane
The Weight - Aretha Franklin
The New Timer - Bruce Springsteen
Stupid Girl - The Rolling Stones
You and Yourself - Kissing Robots
American Dream - Willie Jones
Suffragette City (2012 Remastered ) - Davie Bowie
Sinner Man - Nina Simone
Come Together - The Beatles
Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin
Manhattan - the Kings of Leon
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Put Your Hands Up - Forest Black
ABC - Jackson 5
Drink with Me - Les Miserables [ as an aside - I got to get Les Miz off my song lists...)
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Turning - Les Miserables Original London Cast (which I actually saw in the 1980s)
Take it as it Comes (Mono) - The Doors
Mad World (Live at Glam Nation ) - Adam Lambert (best rendition of Mad World)
No One's Boy - Macy Playground
I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City - Harry Nilisson
If I didn't have your Love - Leonard Cohen
Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
Turn - Natalie Imbruglia
Neon Moon (with Kacey Musgraves) - Brooks & Dunn
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Goodnight Elisabeth - Counting Crows
Lumina - Joan Osborn
Lights - Phantogram
Last Song for the Days - Sand Sheff
Float - Bush
Shadows - Edith Frost
The Camera Eye - Bush
I Just Shot John Lennon - The Cranberries
Plumet Attack - Les Mis (sigh - really need to get rid of this - it takes over the song list and I'm bored of it. Once is fine, twenty to thirty times hearing Les Miz song, you see all the flaws.)
Revelry - Kings of Leon
1999 - Prince
Sparrow - Big Theif
California Paradise - the Runaways
Surfin' USA - the Beach Boys
Lucy - Adam Lambert (feat Brian May)
The Rolling People - The Verve
There's more - but I got tired. I've created my own radio station - with over thousands of songs downloaded to my library and more added via Apple Music subscription. As you can see? I have ridiculously eclectic taste.
Inherited from my mother (not my father) and my brother who also has eclectic taste. I get curious about music - and will try it.
Also, I adore music.
Anyhow...it's late..
I'll leave you with two music videos from that very very long list of songs that I listened to today ...
1. Forest Black's Put Your Hands Up (Acoustic Folk/Indie Americana) which haunts me and reassures me at the same time. Every time I hear it, I feel less alone, and somehow connected. There's songs and music that just makes me feel connected to the universe around me - and this is one of those songs. It also makes me teary eyed - pulls at the heart.
And
2. America Dream by Willie Jones (which is Americana/Country). It's a song that pulls me into another perspective and also pulls deeply at the heart. Painful song, but a moving one. Haunting. I remember it long after. And have often rewound it.
Crazy Workplace
The head honcho of my group or rather the new BOSS, thought it would be a great idea - to schedule an office party for April 1. [They also forced all the folks with reasonable accommodation to continue working remotely - to come back into the office, with the view that there's no reason for them not to. ]
"We're having a party to celebrate our hard work this quarter - between noon and 1pm, please send your RVSP" or something to that effect. It's scheduled for April 1. In lower Manhattan.
Note - it takes everyone in my little group about an hour to get to lower Manhattan from Jamaica, Queens. Also the majority of my group lives either on Long Island or Brooklyn. Convenient, it's not. And it would kill half a day - when we're all extremely busy. I'm willing to bet no one wants to go.
Ignoring of course the small fact that we're still in a pandemic. Despite what people want to believe - the pandemic is still going on, people are still catching COVID and dying from it. Why anyone would schedule let alone want to go to an office party, indoors, with treats and drinks in lower Manhattan at lunch time during a pandemic is beyond me.
So, I'm thinking to myself as I'm reading this - any chance it's an April Fool's joke? Granted a bad one, but still.
Also, can I just decline? Can they force me to go? Do I have a choice in the matter? Is it required? Maybe I will decline and see what happens.
I miss the days in which they would just let me do my work in peace.
On a brighter note? The punch clock now works - so I no longer have to email my manager every time I come in and out of work.
Also plus side of going to work at the crack of dawn is I get to watch the sunrise over the city every morning on my way to work. And there's less people on the train.
People are slobs though. The trains were clean for a bit - but trying to clean a 24/7 transportation system with folks who feel the need to leave their trash behind, eat on the train, drink on the train, etc, is impossible.
***
I'm concerned about my blood pressure meds. I've two left. I called the pharmacy on Saturday to renew - because I had five left. But needed authorization from my Doctor, which the pharmacy and I sent. Doctor didn't provide authorization until late Monday.
So I called the pharmacy at work today and they said - we're still working on filling it. I decided to try on the way home from work. But alas, the pharmacy was closed due to an emergency (no clue what). I asked the cashier and she had no clue - and seemed annoyed by it.
Oh well, I'll drop by after work tomorrow - hopefully they'll have it filled by then. Worst case scenario - I pick it up on Thursday.
On the way home from the pharmacy, they were parking huge film trailers - which are these huge trucks - 14 wheelers, that take up half a city block. Apparently my neighborhood is now a film location set. Lovely. Been a while since I'd seen one. This is for "Three Women" - which is most likely a fake name. They are taking up the entire street with these trailers. So, I'm going to be walking through a film set to and from the subway tomorrow or however long they are filming. Assuming they let me walk through it - they kind of have to - it's the only way I can get to the subway quickly. I remember when they were filming Meet John Black - I had to go around the block to get to the subway.
Since I moved to NYC in the 1990s, I've walked through more film and television sets than I can possibly remember. They include (but are not limited to): Mr. Robot, Elementary, Meet John Black, Men in Black II, The Good Wife, Law & Order: Criminal Intent (I actually walked passed Vincent D'Orinotho - he's just slightly taller and bigger than I am). Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head. New Yorkers find filmmakers irritating. Because it usually screws up your commute. We don't care about the movie stars or television actors, we're used to them.
***
During the day and on the commute - I listen to music to calm myself and keep my focus. I put on the head phones at 6:30 am and wear them pretty much until I get home at night.
Today's song list included:
Oh My God - Adele
White Fire - Angel Olsen
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
Blackbird - The Beatles
Lil Jack Slade - The Chicks
Light My Fire - The Doors
There Once was a Pirate ( Bonus Track Spring Awakening - Duncan Sheik)
Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
Maggie Mae - The Beatles
Never Enough - The Cure
Aria and 30 Variations - Johann Sebastian Back - Henrick Mawe
A Strange Education - The Cinematics
Trois Gymnopedies - By Erik Satie - Frank Glazer
Pawns - Common Rotation
Distric 8 Hospital - James Newton Howard (Hunger Games film soundtrack)
Wholy Holy - Aretha Franklin
Knock on Wood (Live) - David Bowie
I Don't Know How to Love Him - Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack
Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles
Let it Go - Idina Menzel
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
City with No Children - Arcade Fire
A Call to Arms - Beirut
Bablyon Boogie - Sand Sheff
No Questions Asked - Fleetwood Mac
Mama Tried - Merl Haggard
Blackout - British Sea Power
Dancing in the Sheets - Shalamar (Footloose Soundtrack)
Taunting the Cat - James Newton Howard (Hunger Games Soundtrack)
Sigh No More - Mumford and Songs
We Used to Wait - Arcade Fire
Stuck on Me + You - Emily Ann Roberts
Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) - John Lennon
How My Heart Behaves - Feist
Lucky Man - the Verve
Disarm - The Civil Wars
When Were You Happy ( And How..) - Laura Marling
Devil's Backbone - The Civil Wars
Birthday - the Beatles
Untitled = The Cure
Isn't it a Pity - George Harrison
Mississippi Delta - Bobbie Gentry
Strong, Strong Wind - Heart
Smile - Ghost of the Robot
No Right to Love You - Rhys LEwis
Moving Out - Billy Joel
Reverie - Claude Debussy - Peter Frankl
Lovin' Me - Kid Cudi
Dear Boy - Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney
Wait for Me - Kings of Leon
Ankara Sundays - Somi
Bad Things - Jace Everett
Oh Comely - Neutral Milk Hotel
Children and All that Jazz - Joan Baez
Angeles - Elliot Smith
Turning Tables - Adele
The Lightening Strike - Snow Patrol
You Still Believe in ME - The Beach Boys
More Love - the Chicks
Will the Circle be Unbroken - The Carter Family
Fear of Failure - Sea Wolf
Daddy Lessons (feat. the Chicks) - Beyonce
Delirious - Prince
A is For.. - Tom McRae
Only the Lonely - Seth McFarlane
The Weight - Aretha Franklin
The New Timer - Bruce Springsteen
Stupid Girl - The Rolling Stones
You and Yourself - Kissing Robots
American Dream - Willie Jones
Suffragette City (2012 Remastered ) - Davie Bowie
Sinner Man - Nina Simone
Come Together - The Beatles
Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin
Manhattan - the Kings of Leon
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Put Your Hands Up - Forest Black
ABC - Jackson 5
Drink with Me - Les Miserables [ as an aside - I got to get Les Miz off my song lists...)
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Turning - Les Miserables Original London Cast (which I actually saw in the 1980s)
Take it as it Comes (Mono) - The Doors
Mad World (Live at Glam Nation ) - Adam Lambert (best rendition of Mad World)
No One's Boy - Macy Playground
I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City - Harry Nilisson
If I didn't have your Love - Leonard Cohen
Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
Turn - Natalie Imbruglia
Neon Moon (with Kacey Musgraves) - Brooks & Dunn
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Goodnight Elisabeth - Counting Crows
Lumina - Joan Osborn
Lights - Phantogram
Last Song for the Days - Sand Sheff
Float - Bush
Shadows - Edith Frost
The Camera Eye - Bush
I Just Shot John Lennon - The Cranberries
Plumet Attack - Les Mis (sigh - really need to get rid of this - it takes over the song list and I'm bored of it. Once is fine, twenty to thirty times hearing Les Miz song, you see all the flaws.)
Revelry - Kings of Leon
1999 - Prince
Sparrow - Big Theif
California Paradise - the Runaways
Surfin' USA - the Beach Boys
Lucy - Adam Lambert (feat Brian May)
The Rolling People - The Verve
There's more - but I got tired. I've created my own radio station - with over thousands of songs downloaded to my library and more added via Apple Music subscription. As you can see? I have ridiculously eclectic taste.
Inherited from my mother (not my father) and my brother who also has eclectic taste. I get curious about music - and will try it.
Also, I adore music.
Anyhow...it's late..
I'll leave you with two music videos from that very very long list of songs that I listened to today ...
1. Forest Black's Put Your Hands Up (Acoustic Folk/Indie Americana) which haunts me and reassures me at the same time. Every time I hear it, I feel less alone, and somehow connected. There's songs and music that just makes me feel connected to the universe around me - and this is one of those songs. It also makes me teary eyed - pulls at the heart.
And
2. America Dream by Willie Jones (which is Americana/Country). It's a song that pulls me into another perspective and also pulls deeply at the heart. Painful song, but a moving one. Haunting. I remember it long after. And have often rewound it.
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Date: 2022-03-23 06:31 pm (UTC)Why anyone would schedule let alone want to go to an office party, indoors, with treats and drinks in lower Manhattan at lunch time during a pandemic is beyond me.
Yeah, that sounds really inconvenient all around. Aren't parties supposed to be fun? Hopefully it is not mandatory and you can get out of it or they realize that it isn't all that logical. Good news about the punch clock working at least.
I don't get people who just leave their trash everywhere, whether on public transport or elsewhere; there are usually plenty of garbage cans around!
Hope you're able to get your prescriptions filled in a timely manner!
Wow, that's a lot of shows/movies. My friend used to live in Brooklyn and I think she told me once that she saw White Collar filming. That sucks when it gets in the way, which since so many things are filmed in NY, I can see how it would. Over here, the closest I've gotten to a set was when they filmed part of this Bollywood movie (My Name is Khan) at my college campus. It was cool for me, because I got to see my favorite Bollywood actor at the time (Shah Rukh Khan) and it helped that it was a more rare experience that didn't inconvenience me.
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Date: 2022-03-24 06:36 am (UTC)Indeed you do, congrats! Hey, perhaps you could get a job as a host on a good NPR radio station? No, not kidding. Maybe not now, but could be a good future gig!
I think this might be my fave grouping...
Never Enough - The Cure
Aria and 30 Variations - Johann Sebastian Back - Henrick Mawe
A Strange Education - The Cinematics
Trois Gymnopedies - By Erik Satie - Frank Glazer
Pawns - Common Rotation
This one came across the other night as I was heading back home from my walk. I was like... wait, is that?? as it started. Yes, it was. Different take on a classic in a jazz vein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJzqrI-yBOw