After a mini agony, today, Thursday, October 9,
2008, I decided to Publish (Upload) this webpage that I made right
after I wrote this poem. Hey, with all the crazy stuff these days
-- Wall Street!!!, US Presidential Elections etc -- my English
and this multimedia webpage seem a bit less "from Mars" --
an expression that is often used as a euphemism for CRAZY!:)! Plus,
what's one more "Maverick"
among friends, "my friends"?! If you didn't get my joke,
see click
here, "my friends"
It's
Thursday, October 9, 2008, 10:40 PM right now, and I am watching
this TV Show's Premier -- got my DVR on
Pause... Nice thing to have,
but it would have sounded CRAZY, "from Mars", if I had
to explain it to someone back in 1973....
If I get enough of a Feedback from this webpage,
maybe I'll post more photos related to this? And, as to the plot
of this TV Show -- Time Travel concept is not unusual -- this
reminds me of going back to Kiev, Ukraine, and seeing were I grew
up... It was like Time Travel too!
Or maybe I'll even do a mini Blog,
time permitting...?! For now, keep Emptying
the Cache, and Refreshing this webpage in your
browser, to see the latest version of this page, and if I have
added the Link to that Blog, or new Photos. Or you can Subscribe
to The Arkady Newsletter on my Contact
Page!?
OK, I'll press Play Button again now, here in
2008... Hope you like this TV show... Thus far, 26 minutes into
it, I like it! I am not sure if ABC TV is like HBO, where
one could catch the re-runs! Maybe you can catch it with ABC
On Demand; if that's
part of your Cable TV Package; or, if you have a fast Internet
Connection, you can watch
it here online; or Download each Episode, or the Entire
Series to you iPod or iPhoe from iTunes,
obviously after the end of each season, or buy the entire Season
on DVD later?! -- Nice things to have, but it would have sounded
CRAZY, "from
Mars", if I had
to explain it to someone back in 1973....
So that this poem doesn't sound too "from
Mars",
here is a brief background:
On September 10, 2008, they were filming a TV
Show near Hell Gate Bridge in Astoria Park, in NYC. That's one
of the places where I've been practicing this past Summer,
in 2008! With iPod playing Maceo Parker track, or whatever to keep
it interesting, who needs metronome?!. I find practing outdoors
pretty liberating, weather permitting! In general, changing the
location where I practice is very helpful -- breaks up the monotony!!!
That's why I had my sax on me that day, in these
photos...
So, I walked
over to the set, where they were filming this show, and said "Hi!" to
one of its lead actors! -- For years, I've been a fan of Michael
Imperioli, formerly "Christopher" in Sopranos, on HBO. He
turned out to be very gracious! Maybe it was cause I had a sax,
iPod, cell phone, digital camera on me?! -- and thus wasn't a bum:)!?
Or maybe he thought I was one of the extras?!?!?
Hey, as I have often said:
Sometimes
I think we are all extras in the movies of others....
When I got home from the park, this Opening Line
came to me:
"Altos, Sopranos, Life On Mars,
Can’t Make It Up! Call it a Farce? "
As usual, I knew I had
a poem knocking on my soul... And an hour or so later, I made this
"webpage"... A fun thing to do sometimes,
but it would have sounded CRAZY, "from
Mars" if I had to explain it to someone back in 1973....
Hopefully all the Links on this page
help explaining this poem!
Weaving in these "enharmonic
common word-tones" was
particularly fun :
Hey, that's an Alto
Saxophone in my hand, not
a trumpet, or tuba !
And to kick off this poem, I made word "Alto" plural, so
it plays nicely with word "Sopranos", with intentional double
meaning, pun, being the musical
term for the vocal range!
Hey, it's a free country, right?! And I loved Sopranos
on HBO!
This is an ABC TV Series. Premiers on October 9th, 2008
@ 10PM
They were filming it in Astoria on September 10th, 2008,
when I wondered on the set. Too bad I ate, cause there was
lots of food there for your
"inner
party crasher" ...
I liked that movie too?!
See this TV Series Widget at the bottom of this page!
It was amazing to see all that old clothes next to iPhones,
iPods, digital cameras, and other things that we take
for granted in 2008! Imagine if Time Travel was possible, the
folks in 1973 would thing that we were from Mars! And “There
Was A Time” before 1973 too - hey, I love puns!
I actually did a job as an "extra" in "Hitch"!
Lots of sitting around
and eating like you are trying to kill yourself!!! Here
are the Photos to prove it!!! !!!
The wedding band scene, that I was in, got cut, but that didn't
stop the residual
payments!!! Cool, ha?!
"polishing scales"
With my colorful English, I meant "practicing" my
saxophone etc. And, if you haven't heard about iPod by
now, you HAVE been "living on Mars"!
See the T-Shirt I am wearing? I only wish
I bought more than one at Macworld (2003?) in NYC's
Javitz Center! Hey, I love Mac,
Apple!!! And this logo is a subtle and clever play on
"I
Love New York" marketing
theme logo...
As to Metronome-iPod thing, I just used
that video's audio track to practice with! In general, I
find practicing with iPod more exciting than Metronome.
And the fantasy of being on that gig feels great! Try it!
And with the Amazing
Slower Downer (ASD) I can change the pitch or and speed
of the audio tracks independently before
I transfer them to my iPod, or an iPhone (getting it soon!).
Hopefully, one day, ASD, will have an iPod-iPhone Version,
so that no pre-production is needed on the computer prior
to syncing to iPod-iPhone...
Wordplay on "Weapon
Of Mass Destruction", a.k.a. WMD! But,
if you really want to dig deeper... -- when I was a kid in Kiev,
Ukraine, Back
In The USSR, I heard this expression:
"From love to knife two steps!". The implication
was that love, "crime
of passion" etc. Then I heard the musicians
having fun with that expression -- "From
saxophone to knife two steps!"...
The implication was that saxophone, being a "Western
instrument"
could lead to a criminal behavior! Hey, that's Cold
War humor for you!
TIME
TIME IS ALL WE GOT....
and health to enjoy it, doing what we love, and hanging with
the loved ones...
Click
here to see the Re-Runs of this
show for
FREE on
your computer!!!
Too
bad that TV Series got cancelled, thus the
above Embedded Video Link won't work! But, I am leaving
that Link here for sentimental value... I actually became a
fan... Maybe it'll show up in re-runs on Hulu
and such, or on DVD, or Mars someday? The lawyers and the "suites"
will decide, I guess, while we are here on Earth...
"Hope
this Multimedia "Outburst" was as good for you
as it was for me!"... And,
if you liked it, please tell your friends about this webpage,
starting with Michael Imperioli, the star of this show!
Who
knows, maybe someone will hire me for their kid's Bar/Bat
Mitzvah ?!
