Steve Lin - Classical Guitarist

I’ve been on a PBS thing lately. First I saw “King Corn” (or is it King Korn?) on Sunday, which was very thought-provoking. I’m glad to say, I’ve never developed a habit of drinking sodas and eating mega-chain fast foods. Sodas tended to be too sweet for me, and the the mystery meats between the mystery buns never sat well in my system.

Then I started watching “Carrier” which was incredibly fascinating. After a few episodes you begin to learn about people’s lives, the diversity, the craziness it must be on that “floating high school.” It was like a reality TV show, except… real. I’ve always had a thing for boats, maybe because my grandfather did too. I was on a cargo ship once, something around the 4000 TEU capacity, I think. One can only imagine the kinds of goods that get loaded onto those ships from Asian ports, that find their way into the US a week or two later, that after many more hours by rail and road, finally hit our shelves.

Thinking about that is kinda like tracing corn’s destiny–starting from a plot of land in Iowa, ending up as feed for cattle or as nutrition-less processed food.
Where does music come from?

Today I finally woke from my hibernation and played guitar outside for the first time in ages. And the fact that it’s raining now means that very soon we’ll be seeing leaves on the trees again. I can’t wait to sit outside again. I even feel my moods getting better. Soon the city will be glowing with a different kind of life.