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 2/24/23

I had a misunderstanding with my friend today. It was messy. It was mostly my fault though, instead of apologizing immediately I had to be a snob about it and made myself look intelligent. The simplest thing to say was "I'm sorry." Yet it took me a few minutes to get it out of me. No use crying about it now, I apologized and if they don't forgive me for what I did, all is well. 


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I find it so frustrating how I keep forgetting my dreams the second I wake up. The most I remember is a dream happening. It's atleast progress for the most part, before I forget I had a dream in the first place. 

Do I have to make myself remember it? How do I even do that? The moment I wake up, do I try to recall every important detail?

I'll try doing that tomorrow. 


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I recently got interested in jazz-funk after watching church bands jam. It's the type of music that even if you weren't a Christian nor an active churchgoer you'd still want to go to church just for the music. Half the time I listen to jazz-funk they make me do this face where it looks like I'm disgusted. I'm not disgusted but the bassist sure did play a nasty bassline. I listen clasely to the bass and the keyboard, most of the time the bass carries the whole piece. They don't disappoint. The keyboard always feels so energetic, its almost as if their hands are dancing because of the way it sounds. They're making love with the instrument, and they're getting very nasty with it.


Right now I'm listening to Miles Davis' On the Corner, it's not the usual type of jazz-funk where they jam or show off. Rhythm is the main thing here. Everything is stripped back, the playing is simultaneous to an extent that they become one part of a whole project. Miles gathered influence from 60's-70's funk and took it to the next level. 

It's also so quirky enough that Frank Zappa would give this a handshake, it doesn't sound like something Miles would record. I forget sometimes that this is a Miles Davis record and not a Herbie Hancock one.

Might relisten to this one again.


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I forgot there was no classes today, I woke up at 5 am and felt something was off. Only when I went downstairs I realized there wasn't any so I went back to sleep. I woke up at 5PM so I'm writing this near midnight, I don't have any plans to sleep yet so i might just listen to On The Corner again.

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