Violin in C Sharp

 Music you may not have heard, but should Song: 내 방을 여행하는 법  -  (Fly To My Room) Written by: Cosmo's Midnight, Joe Femi Griffith, RM, Suga, J-Hope Performing Artist: Suga, J-Hope, Jimin and V  (BTS) Album: BE Released: 2020 (yesterday night) Spotify link:   Fly to My Room YouTube link:  내 방을 여행하는 법 Yes, this is K-Pop.  Yes this is a BTS unit song. Ok, let's get the K-Pop conversation out of the way.  Rather than posting all my thoughts on that here in this post - you can find them here:  (my blog on being a k-pop fan)   It's just easier and cleaner that way. Right - now that that's out of the way.... BTS dropped their new album last night around 9pm or so.  The big push from the band and the label is focused on the "Life Goes On" track  - which is a good song with a good video - but if you dig into the album only one track further, you find this gem sung by 4 of the 7 members. Musically, I like the stripped down instrument...

I dabbled slightly in K-Pop before the Quarantine started, but I didn't self-identify as a K-Pop fan.  Now?  Now things are different.  Now I self-identify as ARMY, CARAT, MOA, ENGENE, and starting to even work into becoming STAY as well. For those of you not up to speed on the K-Pop lingo, that was a list of band fandom names.  BTS fans are ARMY, Seventeen fans are CARAT, Tomorrow x Together (TxT) fans are MOA, Enhypen fans are ENGENE, and Stray Kids fans are STAY. I don't have a long history of being a devoted fan to many bands.  I tend to chose my music by song and not by any sense of loyalty to an artist or group.  Over the years, there have been a few exceptions - The Corrs, N'Sync, anything by Cirque du Soleil - but I never followed any of those artists to the degree that I've started following these K-Pop bands during Quarantine. I listen to songs from these bands EVERY DAY.  I watch videos of their performances, their interviews, their variety ...

 I don't remember a time when I didn't understand what death is. Isn't that strange?  I'm sure there must have been a time when I didn't understand - after all, none of us are born with an understanding of the concept that we too must one day die.  Still, I can't remember when the moment was that such understanding came to me.  Nor do I remember any point in my life when death wasn't with me fully. When I forgot to give my pet hamster water too many times and he died of dehydration, I knew fully the scope of what I had done to him.  I knew with certainty that my negligence was the cause of his demise, that I was entirely at fault and that he was thus gone forever.  I still feel guilty over it even over 30 years later. When my grandmother gave me her ring and explained that she was doing it because she was going to die soon - I had no confusion over what the moment meant.  Nor did I believe for a second that she wasn't telling me the full truth.  I...