www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther. Have you known anyone who hated music? Songs? Regardless of where you are from, music resonates in the human heart, in your culture, in your life. Music pervades all areas and facets of life. It is found in your home, at the cinemas, in pubs, restaurants, on your devices, TV, radio, in sports etc. You play music or listen to songs when you are happy or sad. Music can change your mood, inspires, sets your adrenalin flowing or just simply lets you appreciate. Gets you excited, makes you calm or when you fall in love or...lust. Music is an universal language. It transcends borders and across cultures. It has history, heritage, influences. It is also borrowed and mixed into other cultures. The genres of music and songs are endless. Music is artistic by nature and genres can quite easily overlap...

I felt compelled to pay a tribute to great soccer. The Total Football of the Netherlands and the Tiki-Taka of Barcelona. This is a tribute to FC Barcelona! They say Spain is pretty though I have never been . (Elton John with Daniel) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY5_CNHRqqk . But I am often in awe of Spanish music. Just listen to Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (don't miss these music) , here with: Spanish Flea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-_2QpbXMbw A Taste of Honey - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KDPUTyDyQ Tijuana Taxi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-t-g_msR2o Lonely Bull - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16B5Xm8_IKw What made it even more special was we used to play these songs so frequently in the school band. Herb Alpert is an American Jew when he went to Tijuana, Mexico and was so influenced that he formed the Tijuana Brass. From the bull fights in Mexico we move to the bull fights and soccer in Spain, in particular Barcelona. Flamenco music has such ...

There are some intriguing movies that you have watched or books that you have read where the story is told from back to front. Such plots can be quite interesting. Let me share with you this interesting movie "Memento" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vS0E9bBSL0 . Dealing with memory loss can be quite a terrifying thing as the character in this movie suffered from short term memory loss. I mean you don't even know who you are and the people around you. Worse, if there are people out to get you and meant you harm. Ask Jason Bourne of Bourne Identity (Matt Damon). If you haven't even seen these movies what are you waiting for? Memory loss? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-uQreIwEk (Bourne Identity) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOLviFy9inA (Bourne Supremacy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJoVljaZP0k (Bourne Ultimatum) I am not crazy or fixated in life over certain things like the 5Cs or the dream and the charmed life. Life's not just about gainin...

Advent of CD When CD was first introduced they cost more than $30 a piece. Philips came out with the CD player but it was Sony who marketed it successfully. Most of us were lost in transition. The innocent low cost cassette tapes and to some extend the vinyls were going the way of the dinosaurs. There were umpteen times they got entangled in the cassette players and the worse was when they were in the car. Otherwise, they get moldy. Meantime, those who swear by vinyls are not wrong but dirt gets trapped too easily and the inconvenience of changing stylus. CDs offer the best of several worlds - doesn't get entangled, if it gets moldy it could be easily cleansed. However, not many folks know that CDs doesn't produce the best sound at first just like DVDs won't give you the best sound and pictures as opposed to LDs. Overtime, CDs became more affordable so having lost most of my treasured songs and music, I have to seek those songs, singers and bands that I found spec...