Enjoyable saturday. No flippin' running, for a change.

Did most of that yesterday.  Sitting here, listening to cds.  To think, wasted most my life on crappy music (rock-n-roll).  Yep, welcome to old age - when the b.s. meter runs on high alert. Eh, no wonder ooolld people are prone to forget what they'd come into the livingroom for.  Nope, not altzheimers onset - that's precisely what the unclean spirit of fear wants us to believe; and blow precious funds - better spent on good music.  Seriously.  "Trust the science?"  Well alrighty then!  There's studies which scan brain waves, while the person listens to music, and how the genre affects different areas of the brain.  

That said, am no expert on the genre, guess not!  First time for everything.  The music is two of Beethoven's concertos.  The case is in good condition.  Had paid ONE dollar, at a kids' Christmas party fundraiser - and a dollar for each of the other 15 or so classical cds.  Heard Beethoven was a Christian, and Bach as well.  Beautiful music.  Whatever time i've remaining, have been filling it with for-real music.  Oh, and have noticed, classical cds generally run nearly twice as long as those put out by popular groups. 

Anyway, that also said...frankly, we've all (young old, regenerate, unregenerate) been swindled - bigtime.  Had been the most part of a century ago, when crappy music began being horned into civilization.  People claim that feminism is the devil's most brilliant scheme.  Maybe so, but his flinging turd-tunes (seriously) - after hawking them as prime rib - comes in as a very close second.  And the way, he got his toadies to substitute orchestra, for offal...absolutely brilliant.

One devious method, among others, was back in either the 1940s, or maybe the 50s, an "innocent" Tom and Jerry cartoon came out, before the movie - when movie theaters showed a news reel, then a cartoon prior to the movie feature.  (Now it's just commercials, or previews of movies, you don't want to see - that torture scene, why'd they have to detail that? Ugh!)

Anyway, the cartoon, rerun on TV (newsreels in theaters? i'm old, but not totally ancient 😀 ) shows Jerry, the mouse, who lives beneath the floor of a concert hall.  He's getting more fed up, by the minute, because each night, the orchestra plays music by Brahms, Wagner, Handel and such.  Meanwhile Tom, the cat, is the fine orchestra's conductor.  Well, Jerry runs around the pit, and plays a few notes of either jazz or ragtime (rock's baby-daDuh) upon each (for-real) musician's instrument.  At the end of the three-minute cartoon, the entire orchestra is rocking out - while the conductor is about pulling out his hair.

Was seven or eight, when first having seen the cartoon.  And yeah, like millions of other kids, i was all in.  Had taken the bait.