Five Questions Quiz

1. What’s the best concert you ever went to?

I know that out of fan loyalty, I should say the John Denver concert at Madison Square Garden in the autumn of 1976, but honestly I think that honour really goes to a Beach Boys concert in Saratoga Springs in the late 1980’s. That was enormously fun, with giant beach balls being bandied around, and people dancing in the aisles and chillin’ with each other. I gotta’ say, that concert was a real blast. Pity that the Beach Boys stopped doing many concerts after that, I’d love to re-live that experience again.

2. What’s the worst concert you’ve ever been to?

Oh, afraid that not so great honour falls to the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. It’s not that I don’t like symphony concerts. As a matter of fact, sometimes I do. But, on this occasion, their Autumn Concert Series featured original works by one of their own composers…and, well…yuck. It was awful. It seemed a mish-mash of musical notes, which really didn’t make much rhyme or reason to me. Okay, let’s be American blunt: It was two hours of sheer torture. Now, truth-to-tell, I like hearing new music. I never followed my old high school music teacher’s axiom of: “People don’t know what they like, they like what they know.” I always thought that mindset was very one-dimensional and sheer balderdash. And, a prime example of why America’s public educational system is, for the most part, such incredible rubbish. Anyway, I like listening to, and learning about, new music. However, I have not now, nor will I ever cotton to, discordant music. In fact, there’s a certain type of jazz, (“free jazz?” “modal jazz?” I can’t remember what it’s called) that is so disconnected to me, that listening to it actually makes my stomach queasy. That’s sort of what the VSO concert was like, on that autumn night in 2004.

3. What time is it right now, as you are writing this?

It’s exactly 2:18 in the afternoon, Eastern Standard Time

4. What did you--or will you, have to eat, today?

A bowl of honey-nut cheerios and milk, a slice of toast with apricot jam, and diet decaf sweet tea.
2 slices of left-over pizza for lunch, with a diet orange soda pop.
Dinner will either be a chicken pot pie and maple -glazed carrots, or maybe a hamburger with onions, corn, and some fries (chips),.

5. What was the last thing(s) you purchased from a shop?

A packet of 2 freshly made hamburger patties, a Vidalia (sweet) onion, a jug of cold diet decaf sweet tea (orange flavour), a packet of chorizo sausage, a box of rice pilaf, frozen corn, frozen peas, toilet paper, foot powder, shampoo, Pear’s soap, and a $1 bargain book, a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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