This is a very rough recording of a very rough confrontation I witnessed earlier today. Set to the very fitting tune of a song that I am working on learning how to play on ukulele. I was working on it on my front porch, (The ideal practice space for such things) when a fight broke out between 2 neighbors from different sides of my street. No one was hurt, but there was some VERY intense screaming/threats/etc. and the throwing of a metal table into the street. It was pretty ugly for a while. I thought a brawl was going to break out in the street between the 2 opposing "gangs". I had to bring my kids inside and postpone my practice session until much later this evening. Cops were called, but didn't show up until almost an hour later. Which was well after all the intense action had ended. The police only talked with one of the parties involved and I could hear them tell the cop their side of the story. (Which to be clear, varied widely from the reality that I witnessed.) I know this doesn't sound inspirational so maybe it doesn't belong here, but then again, maybe it does. I just wanted to make some music, and in the end, I did end up doing that. So I guess I could look at it this way: Despite the fact that we clearly live in a "Mad World" and perhaps even because of it in many instances, beautiful music can still be created to capture those moments, even the bad ones, and Music makes us look at them from an entirely different perspective, a better one. Don't let the world keep you from being creative. Don't let the negativity stop you from trying to make the world more beautiful, even if that just means sitting on your porch and playing some ukulele music for a troubled neighborhood. https://soundcorset.com/r/HzlTqOvT-z

trying to remember how to do this