It's beautiful, BUT in the summer around dusk the mosquitoes are really, really terrible. That caught us by surprise. Other than that, though, great place.

No worries man, it took me many years to appreciate jazz.

A great place to start is the album “Kind of Blue” by Miles Davis. I tend to like the bebop piano style so pianists like Oscar Peterson, Red Garland, Benny Green, and Dave Brubeck are up my alley. Then you get to denser stuff like Thelonius Monk and Chick Corea, that’s pretty advanced jazz.

And that’s ok if it’s not up your alley, like I said it took for me playing it and really trying to learn jazz piano that got me into it.

I mean, lots of rock singers have sung really well into and past their 60’s. Jagger, Bowie, Tyler, Young. Kurdish couldn’t sing before this age but he rapped more so I guess that hid his awful voice.

I mean, I literally play jazz..I feel like I know what a decent solo is at this point. If you think that’s it, then god bless.

Well I still love the other bands of my youth like Bad Brains, Fugazi, Janes Addiction. But then again, none of them are still trying to put out new music.

I did hear the latest album from a band called "Goose" and I gotta say that was pretty great.

Well, I don't know, maybe I expected some virtuosity, maybe an homage to an Van Halen solo, something. It was just like a solo that he played and held certain notes. Not very interesting in my book, and yes, lazy.

You think? What do you like about the lyrics I posted, or Anthony Kiedis' weak singing voice? Is that quality to you?

I still have Sonic Youth on my rotation and their best moments are still really sublime. While some of it sounds like noise, take Tunic (song for Karen) and tell me that isn't still great?