Marcie's pretty good and has an extensive collection of Youtubes that the piano student, hobbyist or pro can view. Anyone who does something other than duelling pianos these days is worth listening to. [Search youtube for marcie]
VACATION? I still find it incredibly unbelievable that ENOUGH people have ENOUGH money to take time out to go on cruise ships... huge mothership type cruiseships bigger than any starships on Star Trek. These behemoth white elephants loaded with slave laborers have all sorts of fancy things that you would normally expect only on land for landlubbers. I don't understand how and why cruiseships are getting this way-- or HAVE been this way for what I think has been happening MORE for the past 15 years. Of course, cruiseships have been around much longer but it's getting ridiculous lately. For more on the dark side of cruise ships, google [the dark side of cruise ships]CRUISE SHIPS SCALED UP TO RIDICULOUS... Below, you see the Titanic-- a big boat that apparently sank but was called unsinkable. Next is the Loveboat of the 1970's tv show. The pianist above is on the Crystal Symphony in the 3rd square below. From there, we see increasingly bizarre gargantuan giant "unsinkable" boats that "entertain" people with piano music, college type courses, dancing and full scale shows normally found in Vegas or on Broadway. These boats go around in circles on the water. I don't get it. GROW OR DIE. I would refer readers to this reference to understand the complete inanity of growing cruiseshi+]
APARTMENT BUILDING ON WATER. Here's an apartment building I lived in Toronto in the 1980s. It seems to me that if you put floats on it, you'd have the makings of what passes today for a cruise ship, more or less-- configuration wise. You can imagine being in a cruise ship while living in the apartment building below because it's located in Toronto where there are piano lounges, broadway shows and lots of other entertainment. I can't sink... or shouldn't at least-- on firm ground. And you can vacation there every weekend after work.
