"Post Mortem Birthday Gifts"

1. I read that scientists have successfully sent a musical note(I hope C)a couple of milliseconds into the future. I know it doesn't sound like much but, it is a start, temporally speaking.

2. Jazz hero Charlie Parker and singer/songwriter Elliot Smith both died at the age of 34 but approximately 50 years apart.

3. From 1942-43 there was a strike in the music industry halting the commercial recordings of most popular music at the time which was largely Jazz. This caused much of Charlie Parkers early Be-Bop sessions to go unheard by future generations.

4. In 2003, Elliot Smith shoved a large steak knife into his chest killing himself. At the time, he had been working on an album. The portions that had been recorded were released however, Elliot had not completed this work.

5. I'll be 34 soon and would like Charlie and Elliot to send every unfinished note to me on a post mortem-mix CD entitled "To DJ tiny Tony from a couple of friendly ghosts."

6. It would seem that nobody will ever learn to time travel to the past or we would be getting visits from the future.

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written by Tony Santiago, June 10th, 2010, all rights reserved. And no, I have no intention of finishing this.