Klarinet Archive - Posting 000037.txt from 2007/04

From: "Rommel John Miller" <RommelJMiller@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Bad joke time
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:23:30 -0400

I dunno, maybe I am just too simplistic, but I got a genuine chuckle =
reding
some of those jokes on the Musicians Union webpage, be they hackneyed =
and
rehashed or not. It is just that sometimes a good laugh, even at your =
own
expense, is worth it. Humility is a wonderful equalizer, and you'll note
that no aspersions were meant to be cast at anyone, I even tried to =
qualify
as much in the first bad joke I sent.=20

Thing is, we tend to take ourselves too seriously, and are a little too
uptight, especially here and in this space of all spaces, and even My =
Space
can be a little too Nazi-istic at times despite its fa=E7ade of freedom. =

We are supposed to be musicians, and the impetus of our craft is an
intrinsic LOVE of playing and listening to music. And without that LOVE, =
we
are nothing. But it is also meant to be JOYFUL and FUN. Where has the =
Joy
and Fun gone? Especially when you can't sit back and relax and enjoy a =
few
hackneyed old one-liners from long ago which some idiot on a Musicians =
Union
webpage has preserved? =20

Are we so busy being sycophantic to those whom we perceive as the =
powerful
that we are willing to step over and forget those in trenches and =
gutters
who might need or ask for our help along the way? Have we become
desensitized to everyone else's need except our own?

I guess this is something to think about on this, the quite most holiest =
day
in Christendom.=20

Rommel John Miller
308 Dale Avenue=20
Baltimore, MD 21206-1219
410-668-4784
410-967-8994
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Clarinetist, Saxiphonist and Pianist
Actor and Magician
Contact me for more information

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Kantor [mailto:klarinet@-----.net]=20
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 3:53 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Bad joke time

> Maybe we should go back to the discussion of ligatures and the =
miraculous

> ability they seem to poses in changing one's sound.

No problem here.... :-)

That would be far more amusing than rereading the same recycled, =
rehashed=20
and unwitty one-liners that every adolescent has already put on their My =

Space page.

Glenn Kantor (GBK)

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