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Nothing matters but the weekend from a Tuesday point of view

The Kings - This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide

Released 1980

http://thekingsarehere.com/

The Kings were formed in Vancouver, British Columbia and Oakville, Ontario, Canada. 

Original members were 

  David Diamond, lead vocals, bass guitar, and songwriter

  Sonny Keyes, vocals, keyboards, and songwriter

  Max Styles, drums

  Mister Zero, guitar and songwriter

This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide is actually two songs melded into one and released as one. Is almost six minutes long but I dare anybody to sit still for it haha :D

This Beat Goes On*
(Diamond- Zero)

Hey Judy, get Trudy
You said to call you up if I was feeling moody
Hey little Donna, still wanna
You said to ring you up if I was in Toronto
I have lots of friends that I can ding at any time
Can mobilize some laughs with just one call
Like a bunch of lunatics we'll act till way past dawn
Sure we'll be rockin' till our strength is gone
Yeah This Beat Goes On
Hey ladies you crazies
Me and Zero request you in the Mercedes
And then we'll ride so zoomy inside
The sky's the limit this time I'm Switchin' to Glide
I don't give a hoot about what people have to say
I'm laughin' as I'm analyzed
Lunatics Anonymous that's where I belong
Sure cause I am one till my strength is gone
Yeah This Beat Goes On
I have lots of friends that I can ding at any time
Can mobilize some laughs with just one call
Like a bunch of lunatics we'll act till way past dawn
Sure we'll be rockin' till our strength is gone
Yeah This Beat Goes On

Switchin' To Glide*
(Diamond-Zero)

Nothing matters but the weekend
From a Tuesday point of view
Like a kettle in the kitchen
I feel the steam begin to brew
Switchin' to Glide
Energy can be directed
I'm turning it up I'm turning it down
Even love can be affected
Harmony's the sweetest sound
Switching to Glide..Balancing in my head..inside of me...
taking the glide path instead.
Everybody gets the no-no
Hear it ringing in they ears
Lots of ways that you can go GO!
Look around NO disappears

http://youtu.be/sxkjvKBPQjo

Music ... part one?

One thing that saved my sanity a time or two since I was old enough to remember was music. Started off with just a cheap AM radio. Do you remember those? Before the FM band came along. If I remember correctly, my parents had a couple '78's. Remember them? We had nothing to play those old relics on until the day I got a turn table that looked like a suitcase that played the 78's, 45's, and 33 1/3's. I loved that thing. Eventually started adding to the LP collection. Unfortunately, money was tight and used whatever I made babysitting in town, to get LP's like Canada Gold, where more than one artist and group was listed. After amassing a few LP's and almost wearing out that suitcase turn table, I was surprised one Christmas with a new stereo. Separate receiver with AM/FM radio and an 8-track player, separate turn table, and two decent speakers. I wore out that turn table as I continued to add to my LP collection and took the whole lot of it with me when I finished high school and move out of my parents home to make my way in the world. I still have all those LP's, and had even added to the collection when others were 'throwing them out' sort of thing. I've gone through three turn tables over the years and hate that I can't listen to those LP's at the moment. I inherited my grandfathers' 6 piece stereo system and the turntable part has belt issues.

I would rather listen to music than watch tv. I've got my favorite radio station tuned in almost everywhere. My car. My alarm clock.  And if I need a change of pace, I pop in a cd into the dvd player hooked up to my tv and listen through my grandfather's stereo speakers. Or a couple dvd's of live performances (Eagles Farewell 1 Tour is a favorite). Or go on YouTube to find long ago forgotten artists and groups.

The one draw back to radio's, and compiled LP's, audio tapes, and cd's is that you only hear one, maybe two, songs of a particular artist or group. I missed so many good songs all these years.

Heard a song on the radio one day a few weeks ago and thought "oh yeah, I remember that song". Decided to look them up on YouTube. The song might have been their version of Spooky. Well, once I started clicking through other YouTube video's posted of them and discovering all the songs I didn't hear before, what with having multi-artist LP's, I fell in love with everything the Atlanta Rhythm Section had ever done with lead singer Ronnie Hammond and guitarist extraordinaire Barry Bailey (pictured). I'm looking for ways to get a hold of all their music from that time period. For now, I have to settle with clicking on the favorite option and put them in a playlist of their own in my YT account.

It might sound weird, but I don't need quiet, non-lyrical music to calm me down or to escape my own thoughts. I can do it quite easily with any kind, but my music of choice is rock or classic rock. Between my LP's and my cd's, my music ranges from the 60's to the 70's to the 80's to almost todays stuff in rock. I have some New Country cd's. Easy Listening like Enya, Enigma, Yanni. Groups like Three Dog Night, The Eagles, Van Halen, AC/DC, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Metallica, Nazareth, Elton John, Big and Rich, Garth Brooks, Billy Ray Cyrus, Boney M, Pink Floyd .. I couldn't list it all here. And Canadian artists .. I tend to stay loyal and supportive of them. I haven't seen many concerts over the years, but the only non-Canadian one I saw many years ago was Chuck Mangione. 

I don't know what it was about music when I was young. And I started quite young, running around outside with a little transistor radio. Well, I do know, but that's another story but maybe a little odd for someone as young as I was to immerse themselves in music like I did. I was the only one in my family and still am. And still misunderstood. 

Music is ingrained in my soul. Never learned to fully play an instrument, guitar being my weapon of choice and still might learn how to play it one day. I was in grade one when I bugged my parents about music lessons and wanted to learn the guitar (yeah, even way back then). Just the local music teacher that taught students as young as me taught accordian. So I did do that for a year, until we moved and the travel back and forth was too much of an undertaking. 

I do so appreciate the talents of others. Makes a stressful day a little bit calmer to deal with. Even if it has an up beat and I'm caught dancing or be-bopping around my living room. 

I am set free.

  

HELLLPPPP !!

My cat, KC, is trying to tell me something. 

What do you suppose it might be ? 

What can you hold without ever touching it ?

Knock knock .. anybody home?

Okay, I know. Disappeared again. This time it wasn't so long though. A lot of stuff .. aka crap .. I had to sort out. No, I haven't got it all sorted out, but think I'm finally on the right path about it all.

I was driving myself crazy with the stress and frustration over that second job I had. How the bosses 'would not say what they mean and would not mean what they say'. Saying one thing, and then not backing it up with action. That bugs me more than anything. Do not tell me what a caring and compassionate company you are, then leave me feeling like you just kicked my son to the curb by your actions. I spent seven-and-a-half months part time, three-and-a-half months full time, a month-and-a-half back at part time, only to be kicked out mid-August when I chose my son over them. They just figured I would throw Billy into a group home as he was 'inconvenient' for me to work full time afternoons. I know, the idea was you have other full time drivers over the barrel, where they have to kiss your backside to keep their job. I refused to do that. They lied from the get-go and I said enough is enough.

Then I was trying to figure out what my purpose ... what was really the intention .. of joining a few websites. Blogger ... FB .. Multiply ... G+ ... WordPress. I was running around those sites feeling like a lost soul. Okay, there was a purpose to it all, but it sure wasn't clear to me at first. The blogging sites? It was hard to get it through my thick head that people would read them. If they chose to read whatever I put there. So old habits and training were getting in the way. I was afraid I would offend someone, inadvertently, by whatever I put there. So I just didn't. Well, barely anyways. The past continued to haunt me still. And one does not ditch almost five decades of training overnight either. So this isn't a lightbulb instantaneous moment here.

First there was the quote my friend Jeannie turned me onto a few months back, when it came to dealing with those turkeys at my second job.

Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear a word you say.

I liked it enough that I used it as a signature at the bottom of my emails in my 'biz' account, so those turkeys would see it as part of any emails I sent to them.

Then there was a beginning post (for me anyways) by a friend about being a procrastinator, which was right before being an introvert. Okay, I knew I procrastinated a bit too much at times. Is the way I am wired. But introvert? I had to find out more about it. Once I did the search on the web and read up a bit more about introverts vs extroverts, then it made a bit more sense to me. Could never figure out why I wasn't the party animal type .. why I wasn't the prolific blogger and being comfy as that .. why I wasn't the chatty Cathy type. Oh, I did realize that walking in to a room full of strangers would cause a mild anxiety attack, but never knew why I could be so different. Introvert huh? Okay, I understand things better now. Doubt I'll ever be an extrovert or do a great impersonation of one either, but I can make an attempt to get out of that box I stuck myself in though. haha

I came here to Multiply one night, a few weeks back, and started going through my old posts. Re-read a lot of them. Remembering the feeling I had doing certain ones .. how much I enjoyed doing those particular blogs. Figuring out why I walked away from the United Friends Challenge blogs. Why I would feel like my poetry was never 'good enough'. Just because of the way I do them? Yeah, that bothered me .. my style. I came back several times to read them. What was it about those blogs I enjoyed doing? What was it about those poems?

Got talking to Jeannie one night via her AOL/my AIM messenger. I forgot how the whole conversation got around to it, but I signed into Multiply here to copy and paste those particular blogs and my poetry into emails for her to read. And we talked about them. The 'aha' moment for me didn't happen that night though. I still had to figure it out.

Then I got an inkling of what was going on. Never mind I was afraid of offending anybody. I was afraid there would never be 'approval'. Approval? What? But I still didn't quite get it. Until I saw this quote on the web by accident one day ...

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974)

AHA !!!

That's what made those particular blogs and my poetry special. I didn't do them seeking approval from anybody for them. I didn't worry about offending anybody when I did them either.  I was being my quirky self those times. Oh, I know, my quirkiness sneaks out from time to time elsewhere, but I was too hung up on writing for 'others' most of the time. The expectation they might get read. And not getting read was bumming me out badly. What would they think of what I wrote? I was too conscious of other people possibly reading my ramblings. I wasn't doing it for my self, for my own pleasure. 

Baby steps. I signed in today and immediately went over to the Sidewalk Cafe. After chuckling over the two 'picture challenge' blogs there, I decided to bring the third one here, to this place. Humor is a good place to restart. Humor and music. And maybe a bit of rambling from time to time :D

  

Pic Challenge anyone ?

Picture Challenge, should you choose to accept it ...


Write a caption for this. Whatever immediately comes to your mind when you see this.

I want to know how your mind works hahaha 

No winners or losers here. Just a bit o' fun :)