Raggin' Piano Boogie
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July 09, 2026Las Vegas, NevadaAs of today I have been alive on this planet for 71 years! That is so fucking amazing to me. You cannot know what it is to be old until you are old for sure. Last night I felt excruciatingly needy for special attention in every way possible. While playing poor me, I thought about how I have to create everything I need and want in my life for myself. Then when I woke up today to found that my niece sent me $71.71 via venmo which is as special as it can get. It shows how much I have been an influence on her life... the only family member out of a huge family and as I have said thousands of times... it only takes one. It is not in my families psyche to share money without obligation and expectation or benefit in some way. They have never, even when I was selling posters and cassettes in the old days, out of fifty members... not one would contribute through a purchase. So with my niece Heather's Happy Birthday present today, that was all I needed to begin feeling special and the attention began to grow from others. I think last night was more about Mo not being with me on my birthday. I always had him and Boner before Mo to feel "special" on every occasion with. He was the center of my life. I am not a dog fanatic it just happens that my two dogs turned out to be the very best of all my life experiences.  |
July 08, 2026Las Vegas, NevadaI realized something truly amazing through a friends statement today. I was telling them how I get emails from time to time about people reminiscing and saying how significant our interaction with the Traveling Piano was, like twenty years later even, but last nights was more significant then most. Someone I met ten years ago, we have stayed in touch, she told me she has cancer and that her meeting Mo and myself with the Traveling Piano was the best experience of her life and she wants me to know that. When this kind of thing happens it is validating and reassuring with meaning beyond words but does not really help me in anyway. The significance does not sink in emotionally and I've always thought that it has to do with humility and/or not owning it in of myself. I've never been able to make sense of it and then my friend hit the nail right on more elegantly than I can repeat but here is the gist. My interactions present and in the moment, I know how significant they are when they happen. When someone tells me later in thanking me it is like, I already know that. My personal gratification happens in the moment. I know clearly what the experience is for them and then immediately I am off to the next "fix" of amazing to be created. That relates directly to my disease of alcoholism. I've been sober now more than forty years but the working to stay that way never ends. It relates to my never having enough, wanting more, more more, not good enough, my neediness in the extreme. I am always looking for the next "fix." And then once I get it, that propells my mind forward to wanting it again and again never ending. I need new experiences on the same old theme of Musical Fun, Friendship and Respect ever ending. |
July 07, 2026Las Vegas, NevadaI am inching closer and closer to a gallery contribution panel finished in a crystal shop in the Downtown Arts District of Las Vegas. I have absolutely no expectations about it and look at it as a project to finish. I look at it as more of an art installation. Hopefully it will live on for a time and reap some support but I've done this too many times in the past to create expectations about it. People will be interested I know that. People have already tried to make photo purchases without knowing how much they cost. Nothing is ready for that as I am still filing inventory and a way to find photos when needed. No money will be exchanged through the store. It will all be through QR codes found on the info panels. And how people will have access to photos they want... that is still a dilemma because taking store space for that from my friend Jocelyn who owns the store will lead to ammunition for conflict and stuff like you owe me, what I did for you, this needs to change to that, etc... One step at a time. Most people would have a plan. That is not how this journey of mine works.  |
July 06, 2026Las Vegas, NevadaTwo panels to be printed are in the mail for a new Traveling Piano photo art gallery. I got them on the cheap. They are being printed on corrugated cardboard as a real-estate sign turned sideways, lol. It is taking a chance, an experiment concerning quality, a $60 experiment and so here's hoping for the best. It was painful to have to try and explain the Traveling Piano once again to help "sell" the need for contribution with as few words as possible. Only I know what is needed to steer people in the right direction concerning what my journey is about. And you can be sure... people go in many different directions that create misconceptions and that just do not work for me. The old argument that people will not read it all and in todays world have short comprehension spans... Well, I thought about that alot when creating it. Clarity for those who care enough to read and comprehend is more important for me.  |
July 04, 2026Las Vegas, Nevada
Happy 250th Birthday. Happy 4th of July to everyone! I have always loved my country the USA and what it stands for as the experiment it is. A country with a set of ideals which can never be destroyed. The United States is the best form of government ever conceived. It has a built in civic responsibility created by the people, for the people and worth fighting for. Our Declaration of Independence outlines goals of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It states unalienable rights given to "all" which our government was created to protect. Fight for that! The USA's Declaration of Independence is a representation of hope and opportunity to achieve a more perfect union for all of humanity. I must be active in my government and have a say in all ways possible. We must use our rights together. Celebrate that! This photo was from my once upon a time files back 13 years ago, lol! |
July 03, 2026Las Vegas, Nevada |
July 02, 2026Las Vegas, NevadaSomeone sent me an email asking what happened to all the public pianos that I put out onto the streets. I replied... Most died. They lasted a year which was pretty good. One was moved to a final resting place until it is completely unusable. Another is now a planter. One is upstairs at a local bar. Also, I could only do so much by myself in taking care of them, no one stepped up to the plate and so people began to sleep, tag and socialize with them while leaving their trash. That was not good for the business owners who were allowing them to be outside their properties. Another is behind a shop in an ally. I am going to take it apart for fun, it no longer plays. Two were stolen. But a year... acoustic pianos... 24/7 on the streets... It was awesome! |
July 01, 2026Las Vegas, Nevada |