Marty Floyd’s Weblog

The year 2009 is coming to an end. Christmas is next week. A new decade starts January 1, 2010.

I have been playing songs on my computer in the background while I “worked”. A couple of weeks ago I came across an old music DVD I made from my Beatles “records”. I know it is hard to believe people still have them. They keep company with 8-track tapes.

While looking for some of the “old” great guitar players I ended up on YouTube.

I selected some of them to put onto my computer.

You can check out some of my “favorites” in this blog. Obviously that is hard to do when current music changes with the culture and thinking of the times. So I have made no special attempt to get my best-loved music in this blog. 

Click on the little piece of film on the left of the URL address line and watch the music video. Then do it again on the next URL address line down. Of course you can play the same one over if you want. You can even play more than one at a time though it probably distorts the physical and chemical process that works on your brain so you can hear and see.

You can of course go on reading the blog  while enjoying the music video or just read the blog entry and come back when you have some time to go into the music videos.

These will definitely make your day a little different. They are not the Christmas songs you start hearing before the goblins of Halloween have all been quietened.

Let It Be - Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBPFvp750sc

Come Together - Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vAqekT-GuA

Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNpkTY8kwFQ

Miss You - Rolling Stones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOf0FsA0Fio

Professional Concert Version - Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMjzxHzZnnI

Listen To The Music - Doobie Brothers

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/music/watch/v294452pMYWAJkc

Why Worry - Dire Straits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im2SoltmZEc 

Cocaine (good music) Eric Clapton  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYS732zyYfU

Shout (professional looking concert) - Tears For Fears   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI9lo5BRJmg

I Shot The Sheriff - Eric 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10qLYy6hiFQ

George, Eric, Ringo, Elton (jammin)  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aLLHFSM7i8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxEX__YXmDs  

John Lennon (Stand by Me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4_ghOG9JQM  

And now some music by one of my all-time favorites Michael Jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Z8k5ChsX8 

Michael Jackson said “make a better place for you and for me.” 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGwo6ZdEYMs

Two versions of the music video Earth Song follow; the second with Michael’s singing.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Hcd60VoRM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZcAzZOyOg  

Power to the this season, the year 2009, the decade, and music. Listen/watch these and see if you can remember some thoughts and memories or a time in your life associated with a particular song. When finished with a song just close the video (Apture software window) you are using to play the music video.You can repeat the song on the video software. “do it again” Dire Straits said in one of their best songs or you can come back to this post over and over to watch and to listen.  Enjoy the holiday season with whatever music makes you happy, gives you good memories or touches your soul. 

Give thanks to those who really do care for the environment, culture, mankind and how to best preserve our civilization. “Play it forward” because you can pass it on and know you are helping another person as you have been helped. A giving heart is what the Christmas season is for me other than the celebration of Christ’s birth. You can give of yourself whether you give material gifts or not. I have heard many times that helping others without expectation (other than knowing you made a difference) is what we could all do more often. The spirit is clearly moving and providing a tingling charge, like when you hear a song that makes you feel electric. Because it captures your soul and you have a profound sense of purpose,

I sometimes choke up myself and my skin starts to tingle and then feel as though I am being shocked by some low voltage electrical power source. A good power source for sure. There is a great feeling to see and hear a hit from our good times. It seems to identify you as having been right there “experiencing history”. I hope you enjoy these songs. They are meant to get into your head for a while, to make you smile.

Why would anyone (who has the historical perspective of what happens when you do not keep your vows) go ahead and have an adulterous affair anyway?

I have an opinion. Everyone is capable of doing anything given the right circumstances, or triggers. We are both the best of and the worst of humanity. Adultery is almost a given potentiality when a person has a vanity problem, a superiority complex, or simply believes they can do whatever.

I remember commentary once about why Tiger would want to date a “blond-haired white girl” and the response was because he could. It did not appear to be a racial commentary but a factual one. That seemed almost to be an omen of what was to come. How many egos have felt they could do anything they wanted? Many.

How many times have we heard of athletes not being accountable, not to themselves or their families, nor to the people who pay for their efforts, for their product endorsements. It should be a given that public figures like Tiger present the best values and ideals to people, since they are advocates for and to so many people. Most especially their impact on the children who revere them as a role model (for the life and qualities they aspire to possess).   

News broke today (from Tiger) that he has had affairs, one for years. The highest paid, most competitive, “pressure composed” person in professional sports “is only human”, “is not perfect”, “regrets tremendously what has happened”.

I remember reading about this guy Solomon who had the same problem - vanity.

Damn Tiger, I can hardly believe the news.