Pounding The Keyboard

       Life is truly unpredictable.      You can be a doctor, rich and popular, who does nothing but advise people on how to live longer and live a healthy life, on how to avoid illnesses including cancers, on what to eat and what not to eat, on what to do and what not to do your body to stay healthy, and on why it is very important to avoid stress, as stress will make you sick and even kill you.     Stress will make your mind and body feeble, you can't stress it enough, so you regularly spew out ways to avoid stress.     People are saying that you'd probably live up to 150.      Then, tragically, suddenly, you are diagnosed with a rare and deadly disease (so deadly one would be so lucky to survive a year after diagnosis). And the reason you developed the illness? Stress. You claim that you've been dealing with stress most of your life. How you were unable to avoid stress is what beats a l...

       David Gilmour, former Pink Floyd guitarist and vocalist, released a new album yesterday, September 6, 2024. Entitled Luck and Strange , it is his fifth studio album. Last time he released an album was 2015 ( Rattle That Luck ). David Gilmour reportedly said that he considered Luck and Strange his best work since Dark Side of the Moon, which is considered by many as Pink Floyd’s greatest album, and which I consider the greatest album of all time ( The Wall comes close).      I listened to Luck and Strange yesterday, and nope, the album doesn’t come close to DSOTM , or to The Wall , for that matter, or to Wish You Were Here or Animals or even Meddl e. But don’t get me wrong, Luck and Strange is a good album. “Scattered,” “Sings,” “The Piper’s Call” and “Between Two Points (which his daughter sang)” are good. It would just be sacrilegious to say that it as good as the aforementioned Pink Floyd classic albums.   ...