to be fair to Axl most of the band spent their time dancing with mr brownstone and if he hasn’t been dictatorial nothing much would have got done I saw them in their uk tour before use your illusion came out and slash and duff were so whacked off their chunks that they could barely play
Checked on the Atticuses (probably not Attici since Atticus is not Latin bu rather Greek) today, and they are doing well, almost full-sized. Not sure if all of them made it, the nest is chock-full, and they kind of hunker down when I look in. Another few days and off they'll go. Since these are house finches, likely descended from a group of finches released in New York in 1940, I'm sometimes tempted to keep one, but decided not to; I would obviously have to keep it in a different cage from my aggressive, possessive lovebird. And making a pet of one would mean more responsibility for me. And I'm not sure at what age they bond; if it's past that age, then it would just be a wild bird in a cage.
Saki(H.H. Munro) has a short story, "The Mappined Life," which features a character who likes to review the news from distant places so he can go down to his local hangout and talk with his buddies, and express his opinions on things on which he never will have the slightest impact (you'll probably need to read it to get the full picture of what I'm saying). Well, I'm wondering if that's the way I am about CNN and other news sites. It's a big world with lots going on, but not much I can do about any of it. So am I fooling myself about the "need to be informed"? Am I nothing more than a targeted consumer opening clickbait and wandering down information rabbit holes? Would I be better off saying "the Hell with it" and spending all that time instead on gardening and writing fiction and working on interpersonal relationships with people around me? More time in yoga and meditation? I really wonder sometimes.
Been thinking about this and here's what struck me. I've seen a lot of VH1 Behind the Music mini-docos, and they're always set up so there's one band asshat, a diva or a total jerk. Sometimes they're just disruptive and break the band apart, but sometimes they're the one who holds it together and makes it function despite all the problems (Jon Anderson of Yes for instance). Maybe that's what Axl was doing. I don't know. But I suspect their problem was with the way he did it. Isn't that always the case though.
And if we want to be cynical the singer generally gets most of the money ( because they write most of the songs) and thus it is usual for the rest of the band to resent them
I recall reading an interview in which John Fogarty of Creedence Clearwater Revival was talking about the same thing, and said the Beatles, who truly did seem to have equal voices, had created the illusion of band democracy, and complained that his band members mistakenly thought they were entitled to equal input.
I think the issue is that when they say "who wrote the song" they're talking mostly about the lyrics. That was like 98% Paul and John in the Beatles, and probably 100% Fogarty in Creedence. Fogarty probably also wrote most of the music. But it would be impossible to figure out who wrote the music, with the way they all build on each others' ideas.
Her Majesty transcends the bounds and bonds of time and space. She is indeed the Second, it's just not apparent to your mortal means of comprehension.
but none aside from Liz 1 who were queen in their own right rather than being queen consort...you don't get numbers if you're only queen because you're married to the king
But were any of the others a Gustav? You don't get to be a real Carl Jung if you aren't a true Gustav.
I'm researching optimism and pessimism (for a story), which apparently are differentially associated with the two cerebral hemispheres. High self-esteem, a cheerful attitude that tends to look at the positive aspects of a given situation, as well as an optimistic belief in a bright future are associated with physiological activity in the left-hemisphere (LH). In contrast, a gloomy viewpoint, an inclination to focus on the negative part and exaggerate its significance, low self-esteem as well as a pessimistic view on what the future holds are interlinked with neurophysiological processes in the right-hemisphere (RH). So is realism whole-brained?
