Hello Blog. How are you? Long time. No Chat.

Wow! Haven’t written in here since July. It’s amazing how much time can pass if you constantly put something off forever.

So this will be a new feature of the BigDaveNovak.com blog. If I haven’t written anything by Tuesday, then you will get this week’s version of The Tuesday Thoughts which will be me just writing something. After all, it seems silly not to be writing something at least once a week. What follows will be something that I do not perceive as “good” per se. My hope is that knowing now that I will need to write one of these rambling blog posts will put me in a situation that will inspire me to be purposeful and intentional throughout the week, knowing that if I don’t put some thought into my blog, the result will be one of these off the cuff kind of posts that, at best, is maybe alright. Here we go:

All That Jazz…

I pretty much listen to jazz exclusively these days. I was Facebook messaging my cousin last night and she mentioned that we should share music suggestions with each other. I had to fess up and tell her that I’m mostly out of the new music game. Now that I’m 50, I find that new music doesn’t have as much to offer me as music of my generation and earlier did. NOT that I’m one of those, “The music they make today totally sucks” kind of people. I HATE when comedians bring that little gem out to pander to older audiences. So you mean that music made today doesn’t compare to that time in your younger life where every new song you heard was the soundtrack to your every new emotional discovery you had from your early teens through your late 20s? #DUH

I think it was Mick Jagger who coined the phrase, “If it’s too loud, you’re too old,” which is very catchy but as an older person, I can tell you that you can feel free to ditch the volume aspect of that statement. If you don’t like music, it’s because you’re too old. It’s not being made for you. Aside from those sort of child for life kind of people, if you’re over the age of… I don’t know…35ish? Music isn’t being made for you. Until mainstream music figures out how to make things like “Life didn’t turn out the way I planned” or “When is my next doctor’s appointment?” or “Yeah. Sure. I guess that might be fun. You think we’ll be home before 10?” or “That didn’t used to hurt” or similar topics into fun little pop songs, it is safe to assume that, as an older person, you are not going to relate to today’s popular music.

I came to that conclusion a year or so ago and decided to embrace the mostly lyricless music. I do dabble in classical music a little bit and I very much enjoy the Apple Classical app but I find my heart leans more towards the musical stylings of jazz. Whether it’s the calm sort of jazz that you’d hear in a Coffee Shop or the even more calm version that you might hear before you go to sleep all the way up to the real bouncy fun jazz, I’m a big fan. Right now, on SiriusXM, I’m listening to the Real Jazz station and they’re playing So What by Miles Davis and that’s a fun. bouncy song. I’m actually really happy that I found this sort of music dull and boring for most of my life as I now get to enjoy the majority of jazz through fresh ears.

In Closing…

Alright. This was good for me. I thought I was going to write about a bunch of different topics from entertainment to life philosophy and other rather whatnots but it turns out I can churn out a whole bunch of words (maybe too many words) in a fairly easy short amount of time. So I guess I’ll proofread this and then publish and then, if I was smart, get going on next week’s blog post. Spoiler Alert! That will not happen. 🤣. Talk to you soon. Dave.