The Joy of Dyslexia

Can’t have a post without a photo.  Here’s “Bill Mensing’s Router”.  You might say it’s a lathe or a planer.  Don’t bother me with that.

  Over the 4th we were talking about the uke, the banjo and a band called Beirut.  I suggested a trip to YouTube to see:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRxgDAC-4kI&feature=related

This is one video out of many.  Then the conversation turned to Balken music and diatonic scales.  When I went home I was pumped up to listen to more Beirut.

   When there is a band I want to listen to I often go to Pandora.  When I want to listen to a certain musician I create a “Station”.  Then when I am playing that station Pandora plays not only that specific musician’s music but other things like it.  In this way I get exposed to sounds similar to the sounds I’m currently digging. Then I get to dig more.  

  This system is limited by the skill of Pandora and my typing skills.  I must type in the correct name of the band or musician.  This time dyslexia kicked in and I typed in Beruit.  Pandora did not correct me.  Suddenly my station began playing roots and dub ragae.  Desmond Decker type stuff. Very nice for music to cook a bachelor dinner to.  If I had not been a little dyslexic I would not have typed in the strange name.  

   I later Googled Beruit.  Nothing.  It kept redirecting me to Beirut.  All I can think of is that Pandora must have thought I was searching for Roots.  As in Roots Ragae.  Maybe that rut at the end of Beirut was enough to signal this strange trip into Roots Ragae.  I’m loving it.  

  I suggest you go to Pandora and create a few new “Stations”.  Don’t worry about spelling.