Cat Power Setlist

Just got back from Cat Power's "The Greatest" twentieth anniversary tour.  It is crazy that is has been twenty years, because that album came from the era when my musical discoveries and taste really accelerated in its evolution and doesn’t really seem that long ago.

It was good to finally get to see Chan Marshall (pronounced Shawn), after all these years.  She had really become a fixture in my life, which was why I made the decision to get myself to this one, solo. 

I ended up talking to a transgender security person who told me they were at one time a corrections officer.  Go figure.  

 

She closed with this song, which I didn't even know had a video.

Incredible new track from Jessie Ware.

So maybe a problem journal is the way to go.

My workplace:

Gossip-y and foul mouthed leadership who want me to supervise in ways that go against my value system, and enforce policies that they don't abide by themselves.  

When I go in to work it feels like I am walking into a minefield. 

For me it has always been about the taxpayers who I want to help and who I want my employees to learn how to help.   

 There are so many bad parts to life.  So so many bad parts.  I sincerely worry about my seeming ineptness and inability to adapt.

My pain and problems run so deep.

 If I can make things work out the way I want to, I will have seen Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, and Bruce Springsteen within the course of a year.

I just got back from seeing Pulitzer Prize winner Tyshawn Sorey and a group of musicians perform a tribute to Max Roach's "Members Don't Git Weary."  It was truly a transformative journey, and only supported my long time affiliation with jazz, which was at one point, something I actually hoped I could do with my life.  Instead, I'm a supervisor in a call center.  

I think I came out better after this long musical journey.    

I am so incredibly proud of this man.

 The older I get, the harder it is to be myself.  Working is at times rewarding, but other times it is frustrating.  

I'm in a position where I try to work with people and their particular personality or quirks, but upper management seems to just dislike everyone.  I have one girl who likes to dance, so I let her dance a little bit in her seat as she works, etc.  

I had a conversation with someone from the new company that is taking over our project.  They are looking to bring me over as a supervisor.  

Unbelievable.  

 

I would love to know how this guy's idea of activism is to celebrate the murder of people because they are Jewish and/or Israeli, and how he is allowed to be reinstated on a college campus  again in the name of so-called free speech.

Not sure how murdering people like this mother and baby entitles someone to a brand new country in the name of "resistance."