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Janitor Joe
I love Janitor Joe, it is so imaginative! Enjoy listening to it over and over in the loop of the Early Access.
For me it’s a song about someone longing for freedom, dreaming about it so passionately, and then one day finding the means to do it, and blasting off!
It brings back the feelings I had some 30 years ago after completing my 1 year probation at my new job, going on my first vacation, hopping into my shiny new mustang, 2 weeks off, and no particular plans other than heading south and getting lost, to discover some new crazy adventure. Packed the car in the middle of the warm night and hit the road because I couldn’t wait for the morning. Freedom, incredible wonder and awe!!! To feel so alive!!!
The song has such a wonderfully catchy melody that plays in your head long after it’s over, and evokes your imagination. Brilliant song writing.
Flying through the universe…..
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I love this new song, for all its Groovy music merrits, from the lyrics, vocals, instrumentation. Best of all, I love how their originals are open for individual interpretation for everyone. Each of their originals holds a meaning, but may not be interpretatrd likewise by all, and that’s the beauty, Everyone should take from the song what it conveys for them in particular, not necessarily as to be a general consensus as that is how the song was supposed to be interpretated, Team MLT has their idea of meaning, while everyone else may share or have their own takes from the songs, but in the end, all is enjoyed no matter how one interpretates… That is my thoughts on this. ☮????
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Hi Jacki, well said, couldn’t agree with you more. MLT originals for me like June, Nothing Is In Vain, Close To You, Sweet Lorraine, Club 27, Janitor Joe etc… make you feel something and evokes your imagination. When a song can do that it is powerful and accomplished it’s mission! MLTs originals all do that which is very special.
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I still favor One Upon a Time.
And I don’t know birds.
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When I listen to Janitor Joe on that repeating loop, I imagine that I’m playing the new MLT album in its entirety. As it fades out I think, “I forget which song comes next. (Pause…) Oh, Janitor Joe! I LOVE this one!”
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Watching this video of the first private citizen Joe going into space, I just couldn’t help but hum “Janitor Joe” in the back of my mind. Janitor Joe can be a reality one day. I like what Richard Branson says as he looks out into space. This song is so relevant to the world today.
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A cool view of our mysterious and fascinating universe, in the spirit of Janitor Joe.
Flying through the universe puts things in perspective.
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That’s really neat, Jung!
I first saw the following video in my high school chemistry class, and it absolutely blew my mind. When I found it for sale on VHS a few years later I scarfed it up and watched it over and over for hours. Despite the tremendous advances in computer graphics since it was made, I still haven’t found a better depiction of the scale of the universe.
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David, wow I’ve never seen that video. It blows the mind for sure from outer space to inner space. Seeing this, it makes me wonder what is the universe? When we get out to the cluster of galaxies and beyond what is out there. Does it go out to infinity, and in the opposite scale, what do we get as we keep splitting matter and go deeper into inner space. Is that infinite too? Or does inner and outer space all blend in a loop of space and time.
Is the universe a giant loop? Perhaps Janitor Joe will find out one day.
Here is an interesting video about that. Happy mind blowing everyone, you have to check this out!
https://youtu.be/MzGRkXrfMyM?t=1
I think Christopher Columbus pondered all these questions about earth back in the 1400s wondering what is at the edge of the world, before he set sail with the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria.
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Janitor Joe has been getting me in the mood to go out late at night into the backyard and gaze out into the universe. Caught Jupiter again with it’s 3 moons this time . Maybe if I had a stronger zoom lens I could catch Janitor Joe flying around! 🙂 Janitor Joe, where did you go?
You see pictures of stars and moons all the time, but when you see the details of another planet and it’s moons with your own eyes, it’s just a lot more real and amazing and impactful.
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You said it, Jung. I especially enjoy telescopic views of the Moon and Saturn, because you can actually perceive the depth of the field: the craters are clearly holes, the maria are clearly flat, and the rings clearly pass in front of the planet. You can’t get that 3D “you are there” experience from photos.
Your Jupiter images are remarkably well-focused. Was your camera mounted on a tripod?
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David, I did these free hand with the view finder on the camera. I tried on a tripod but the ones I have are too cumbersome and hard to adjust finely enough to capture such a small subject in the frame. They are cheap ones I got 20 years ago, so I should get some proper ones. Yeah, Saturn would be cool to capture with its rings. I will keep an eye out for Saturn.
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Great! Saturn is a little to the west of Jupiter in the sky, and is optimized for viewing right now because it’s about as close to the Earth as it ever gets, looking slightly smaller than Jupiter. Also its ring plane is currently tilted from our line of sight by a large angle, so the rings should show up really well.
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For the next few nights you might want to get your headphones and listen to Janitor Joe while gazing up at the night sky. The Perseid Meteor Shower will reach it’s peak Aug 11, 12, and 13. If you are in the northern hemisphere, you can catch the meteor shower from midnight to dawn, look towards the north east. You might catch Janitor Joe fly by! 🙂
From mid-northern latitudes, the constellation Perseus, the stars Capella and Aldebaran, and the Pleiades cluster light up the northeast sky in the wee hours after midnight on August nights. The meteors radiate from Perseus.
1. No special equipment, or knowledge of the constellations, needed.
2. Find a wide-open sky. These meteors will all come from a single point in the sky, their radiant point. More about that below. But, as you stand watching (and depending on what time of the night it is), you’ll see meteors streak across the sky in front of numerous constellations. A wide-open sky will give you the best show.
3. Watch from midnight to dawn. That’s when the part of Earth you’re standing on will be heading into the meteor stream in space. So you’ll see more meteors. By dawn, they’ll be raining down from overhead. Be aware that the Perseid meteors will start to fly in mid-to-late evening from northerly latitudes. South of the equator, the Perseids start to streak the sky around midnight. Here’s an added bonus for evening observing. If fortune smiles upon you, the evening hours might offer you an earthgrazer, a looooong, slow, colorful meteor traveling horizontally across the evening sky. Earthgrazer meteors are rare but memorable. Perseid earthgrazers appear before midnight, when the radiant point of the shower is close to the horizon.
4. You want a dark sky for watching meteors. In a dark sky, you may see up to 60 meteors per hour at the shower’s peak. Will you see over 100 per hour, as in some years? Perhaps. But you won’t know unless you look.
5. Enjoy the comfort of a reclining lawn chair. Bring along some other things you might enjoy also, like a thermos filled with a hot drink, and headphones and Janitor Joe, I Bought Myself a Politician, Summer Rain and MLT playlist.
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Thanks for the reminder for August star gazing. When we were kids my brother and sisters would sleep on our back deck in August so we could watch for shooting stars. Well, not every night. I can remember a couple of nights when they were pretty frequent. I think most nights we fell asleep after seeing the first few.
I think I will go out into the night and have a look. “Sounds of Silence” will definitely be on my playlist. That reminds me, I have a Simon & Garfunkel greatest hits on my phone. The original “Sounds of Silence” came on the other day and my first thought was MLT do this song much better. ????
“Vincent” is appropriate for tonight’s viewing. Starry, starry night…
JP
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