I was watching Woody Allen's movie "Whatever Works" (title) last week. Couldn't figure out what the title meant. Woody Allen wrote and produced this movie and as most of you know, he's a pretty melancholy person in real life.

The movie was awful but the message was great....something we often forget.

Boris (the lead actor) is rambling through life as a borderline psychotic, but with a brilliant mind. He's talking to his friends about his experience in "life."

He states: my story is "whatever works" ....as long as you don't hurt anybody. In any way you can filch a little joy in this cruel, dog-eat-dog, pointless, black chaos of a world.

He then says later on: you've got to take what little pleasure you can find in this chamber of horrors called life because that's what life is.....a series of happy events wherever you can find them and put them together.

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I'm sure most of you know by now that, when I'm not playing music, I'm a very deep thinking Spiritual type person......more Spiritual than religious. I think that's how most musicians are, though many don't know it!

MARK

Oh darn! No wonder I haven't won yet.

chas

Correctiob:...Susan is Cajun,.....Don is an Okie...

Tx all, food for thought.

I forgot about the lottery option, guaranteed results right?

After I grew up enough to stop using music to get women (last week, I think), realized that my challenge was to combine music with my other passions; film making, photography, copy and graphic production.


It's a GREAT combination. If you think about it, everything you see on the internet,. hear on radio or see on TV and various forms of recorded media have audio. Someone is writing and recording that sound. I say "sound" because, often, what you do is NOT at tune with a head, bridge and ending. There are many tempo changes, inserted sound effects, etc.

Since I'm not an entertainer, I get maximum joy out of a completed project where I created all the elements.

My live jobs are used to "fish" for large clients with big pockets and challenging ones with philharmonics, jazz groups, etc.

Where else could a 70 year old man have this much fun and make enough to help some people in need?


Russ

... happy wife, happy life. There's always another gig.