Oh, I'm such a dweeb. I was gloriously riding along on the assumption that what one of my high school orchestra teachers told me was correct. However, after reading luna's post, I kept playing "WTWNN" in my mind, and I couldn't get past believing it had some multiple of three in the numerator of the time signature. Unlike Justin, I am not insomniac, but trying to get five beats per measure into that song was keeping me awake. So, I pulled my lazy self out of bed, looked up the music, and, lo and behold, luna was right again. It is a 3/4 time signature. I stand corrected. I even remember the orchestra teacher counting out the beats.

I'll say I'm a victim, rhythmically damaged by the substitute orchestra teacher who demoted me to third chair because I played a rhythm correctly. Then, to add insult to injury, when the real teacher came back, my friend Carol and I played the rhythm correctly on the tryout piece, unlike first and second chair, and the teacher told us as much, but said the substitute must have had a reason for putting us in third and fourth chair, so he kept us there, and I spent the remainder of the year playing whole notes.

Actually, I'm micro-aggressing because I'm not in England.

Bacharach is famous for changing key signatures. In some songs it is obvious, like in "Anyone Who Had a Heart." I have a friends whose compositions include things like dotted thirty-second notes. In that context, we can fit anything into whatever key sig we want. I am shallow. I like rhythms with fives, but beyond that, stuff approaches noise. There were a couple bands in the '80s the kids were all falling over because they did 7's or 13's in the numerator. It feels like somebody is stretching my cardiac muscles when I listen.

Back to Justin, he had another nice interview. I'd love to ask him questions. I didn't know Georgio Moroder did "Nights." Georgio is big among local Moogers. I'll have to look that up along with that version of "Question."

As for tuning, I could have sworn the band transposed everything down in Phoenix, but nobody else seemed to think so. My brain was probably just out of tune.

I liked what the band produced under Pip Williams. "The Voice" was the first song I heard by them. It was really big with my generation. We are probably the Lost Generation because the first wave of fans are associated with the first eight albums, and then the new wave came along with "Wildest Dreams" and "Icky Otts." The holy and haunting vibe returned when I heard "Blue World" coming across the river from CKLW in Canada. After that, I started collecting albums, much with the help of gifts from my brother. I pray I never forget that evening driving home to Clarkston when I first heard "Icky Otts" on the radio. Greg St. James was doing a smash and trash on The Riff. I heard "that sound" and felt the chill up the spine, and I couldn't wait to get home to a phone to vote. The forest that lined I-75 back then is now all mowed down and built up. It happened again after I moved to Asheville. Zeb Lee's tremendously indy radio station played "SIWL" as I was driving down the road. I pulled off to finish listening to "that sound." After that came the age of the Internet and fan clubs, and so I haven't been stopped dead in my tracks by the radio since. Sometimes, though, I'll be in a grocery store or a mall and hear Justin's voice on MUZAK and go through the whole emotional thing again.

I really hope I'll be able to see a few shows this upcoming tour. That is, I'd better.

lunazure said All this serves no purpose, and I don't know why I can't sleep but here I am again.

You can't sleep because Justin can't sleep and you're more a groupie than you confess. Actually, I'm just lying to while away the hours. I hope it isn't a health thing. I don't sleep because I work obnoxious hours, and it's just as well because I don't need my brain for anything anymore.

lunazure said I was reading Oscar Wilde's children's stories tonight.... a gorgeous book I picked up in Ireland, then played mental bean bag with the lyrics to "In Your Blue Eyes" some more. I've decided IYBE belongs to that genre of erotic poetry from the Isle of Lesbos. Justin worked very hard on that. I'm so glad I don't have blue eyes, because I would faint if someone wrote a poem like that about me, and sang it on stage. Like TMI.... there are times when love and pain and drama are just over the top. Oscar Wilde was very very dramatic too.... sad and passionate... religious.... really for a deep sleepless night sort of word usage....

I don't try to involve myself in lyrics like that. It's not my affair. In fact, I usually don't pay much attention to lyrics. Chord transitions are my thing, something at which Justin excels. I also make a point to listen to his lyrics because I find a lot of truth and love in his insights. Yes. I'm an unofficial flower child and I really do hug trees - special ones.

lunazure said I'm just not cut out to be a head over heels groupie type. I still think it's a huge joke.... not sure if it's a joke on me, or a joke on humanity in general.

As I walked the Evo this morning, I thought how lovely Justin's voice was, and how heels-over-head I go when Justin sings low. His normal range is inspirational, but the lower registers make me feel a stage rush going on. I've rushed stages before, as a joke, and always with the performers' wives present.

lunazure said yes take a little time and go see a show.

Now, if you're one of Justin's people and reading this, I mean no harm by my impudence, but if it is at all possible, could you please set a good seat aside for some of the shows? My sitchy-ations are too precarious right now to consider buying tickets. As I've said, I've made some commitments with fans. Other than that, I'll break away as I can, and hopefully that will be a positive number of times. Just put a ticket in an envelope and tell the box office manager its for the inappropriately-dressed girl with the starey eyes and very long nose.

lunazure said
Go read Justin's twitter, take two aspirins. Etc. yes take a little time and go see a show.

I still refuse to do drugs, so I won't do aspirin, but I guess I'd better go to Twitter. I tend not to like the posts on social media. I think that venue is narcissistic. I don't quite understand what Justin meant about it being voyeuristic. Everybody seems to be broadcasting without receiving a whole lot. Aw, chalk it up to projection. Me go twit now.

Thanks for sharing. I've been watching all the recommended videos that show up, and I can even watch them while I write this. That's cool. I liked the blue and aqua backdrop, and Justin's hair was very pretty. I appreciate the folks who sacrifice being in the moment to post vids. It's the next best thing to being there, I guess.

Dream Theater was the band that first stretched a time signature to my consternation. Now you have me counting time to all I hear. Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic" was of interest. It was 4/4, but divided interestingly.