Carl Crossman Blog

I was going through my music collection the other day. I pulled out my Beatles Greatest hits CD. I put it in and I really enjoyed hearing the old songs play. I’ve always liked the way they sing and their lyrics were always top-notch. Who couldn’t like the Beatles?

I really hope the kids pick up the great music when they hear it. I am always glad to have a good influence on them when possible. I know the band is gone and will never return, but I’m glad their music lives on!

You can tell a lot about a person by the ring tone they use. Some people are lazy and have the default one that came with their phone. I guess they are to busy to change it, or are not smart enough to figure out how. That’s the category I’m in.

It’s funny when someone has a dance song as their ringer. In the middle of the day, you may hear someone’s phone going “shake that thing!” always at a seemingly inappropriate time. To each his own I guess!

I have listened to music all my life. There are many great songs by many great artists. One of the ones I wanted to speak about was a song called “Cortez the Killer” by Neil Young. From his 1975 album entitled “Zuma”, this is one of the songs that is legendary in my mind.

The song describes the actions of Hernan Cortes and his conquest of the Aztec Indians. The destruction caused by one civilized people over another civilized people. This song has the capacity to haunt the listener with a strange feeling of compassion for things lost.
I highly recommend giving this song a listen and see what feelings it brings to you.

A friend of mine was telling me about a website that plays music. It’s called Pandora internet radio. It’s a pretty cool thing to have. You put the name of a band or a song in, and it will play many songs of the same type from other bands. It’s a good way to discover new music. You may hear a song from a relatively unknown band and decide you like them.

They have a little section called “About the music”. It tells you a little about the band that is playing. You also have the option to buy the album right from their website. I thanked my friend for turning me on to this site. I have really enjoyed it so far!

One of my many nieces was playing in her school’s Winter Band Concert this late afternoon, so I skipped work to go see her play. It is her first year in middle school and her first year in Band. She is enjoying learning the flute and did a marvelous job today. We managed to gather up nine immediate family members to attend, in order to show our support to this lovely young lady that has had a lot on her plate these past few years and is blossoming quite nicely.

She has some serious allergy issues and other medical problems that has made attending school and real challenge. She does manage to pull in all A’s & B’s even though she misses at least one day a week and many times even more, her teachers are asking what she would be able to do if she had less of an attendance issue.

She is pretty, tall, slim, very shy, well mannered and we all hope that she goes far in life, she wants to become a Marine Biologist so that she can be a dolphin trainer, something that she has dreamed of all of her life. I for one think that she has a chance, she just needs to get out of middle school and it will take off from there.