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Pearl Jam, Mike McCready, Crohn’s, Colitis, and Me Part III (Conclusion)

Part III. So, It’s Only A Thunderstorm. It’s Not A Hurricane. Now, What Do I Do?  Conclusion (With Inspiration From Pearl Jam, Max Machowicz, and the late North Carolina State basketball coach, Jim Valvano. )

The mind is grey,... like the city

Packing in and overgrown

Love is deep,... dig it out

Standing in a hole alone

Working for something,.. that we can never hold

A place in the clouds.

Your place to hide oh my oh

I'm flying away, away

I'm driving away, away

The TV, she talks to me

Breaking news and building walls

Selling us, what I don’t need

Didn't know soap made you taller

So I'm riding away, away

Hiding away, away

So much talk it makes no sense at all

So I'm flying away, away

Driving away, away...

It doesn't hurt,.. when I bleed

But memories they eat me

I've seen it all before,..

Bring it on cause I'm no victim

Pearl Jam- Ghost

“Your attitude permeates your entire approach to life.  What does it cost you to start from a point of thinking there are more things going for you than going against you?  What a fantastic foundation to build your attitude upon.” Mack Machowicz

3.  Become open

My experience, is that both traditional and non-traditional medical practitioners can be dogmatic.  If I find what I believe is good evidence that being treated by something might help, I am willing to try it.  I take a variety of supplements that seem to help, the Brascoe and Rubin nutrition plan seems to help, and taking Azasan seems to help.  I am certain that there are those who will argue pro or con with everything I do too treat my condition.  All our bodies are different, and I would not expect that all of us will respond to the same treatment protocol.

4.  Listen To Music, Play Music, Or Both!

Music saved my life.  That last sentence will require many blog posts to explain, and I will explain the sentence the week of  May 3rd-May 9th.  I believe that music can be a life saver for many people, and I’m not the only one who thinks so.  According to research at Penn St. University, any music can improve one’s mood.  Researchers at PSU reported that after listening to music, listeners negative emotions were reduced, and listeners positive emotions were intensified by music.  The lead researcher at PSU said, “Every positive mood except loving rose in intensity after episodes of listening to music.”  For further reading about how music can improve the quality of, or save one’s life, you might want to read how Miguel at the Contrapundist blog says that music saved him from joining a gang.

5.  Set Goals and Have Dreams

Below, are some quotes that explain why I believe that it is important to set goals and pursue dreams. (All quotes came from- http://www.goal-setting-guide.com/quote-goal.html)

“People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.”
Earl Nightingale

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”
Ronald Reagan

“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.” 

Joan Baez

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Goals determine what you're going to be.”
Julius Erving

“Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.”
Marsha Sinetar

Here are a few of my goals:

Maintain remission in my chronic medical conditions.  Become a professional speaker and writer.  I’ve begun using Max Machowicz’ Carver Matrix  to help break down my goals into targets, and have found his method extremely useful.

6.  Treat Depression and Anxiety Immediately

I’ve experienced depression, and I believe that it is more insidious than ulcerative colitis.  Unfortunately, I have experienced chronic anxiety also, and believe that anxiety is just as harmful as ulcerative colitis.  According to the NIMH, suicide is the 11th leading cause of death of Americans, and the 3rd leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds in the U.S.  Depression is the leading cause of suicide in the United States.  Enough said!   For further reading about depression, I discussed depression in two earlier blog posts- “What Millions Of Us Have In Common With Kurt Cobain,” and “March Madness, David Foster Wallace, Elliot Smith, and Broken Windows.”  

“What most people don’t understand, though, is that we don’t win because we are a bunch of bad-asses- we’re a tough bunch of bad-asses, because we do our homework and refuse to quit.” Max Machowicz

7.  Never Give Up!  Never Give Up!

Former Navy Seal, and current writer, TV host, and martial arts expert, Max Machowicz, says that, “Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting.  It is about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in the cause you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.”  Max also states that, “I’m a SEAL now even though I’m not doing the job.  That means not being the strongest, or fastest, or even the smartest.  It’s simply a matter of being the one who does not quit-and that’s an ability available to anyone.”  Those of us with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease are blessed that we have a disease that will not kill our bodies.  We must not allow these illnesses to kill our spirits either!  One of my favorite examples of a human beings who would not allow an illness to kill his spirit is the late North Carolina State coach, Jim Valvano .  If you have never watched his “Never Give Up Speech,”  please consider setting aside  ten minutes to watch it.  Here is the video:  

  

I hope that this post is useful to everyone who reads it, but I hope that the post is especially useful to those who live with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis!  Please leave your comments below, or contact me directly.  (My contact info is in the sidebar.)

Thanks for stopping by!  Bill

Pearl Jam, Mike McCready, Crohn’s, Colitis, and Me Part II

(With a bit of wisdom from my favorite Navy Seal philosopher- Max Machowicz.)

Part II. So, It’s Only A Thunderstorm. It’s Not A Hurricane. Now, What Do I Do? (With Inspiration From Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready)

Large fingers pushing paint

You're God and you've got big hands

The colors blend... the challenges you give man

Seek my part... devote myself

My small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf

Sometimes I know, sometimes I rise

Sometimes I fall, sometimes I don't

Sometimes I cringe, sometimes I live

Sometimes I walk, sometimes I kneel

Sometimes I speak of nothing at all

Sometimes I reach to myself, dear God (Pearl Jam- “Sometimes”)

“All negative emotions are attached to some fear, without exception.” Max Machowicz

“...The fact that we can change our feelings means we have power over them... Jake was now thinking about the things he could do, rather than dwelling on all the things that he could not do.  His self talk was moving in a productive way.” Max Machowicz

Wow!  It’s Not Anyone’s Fault! - This Just Happened...

Once I got past blaming the government, everyone who had been President of the U.S. in my lifetime, my favorite sports teams (for not winning championships), the Beatles (for breaking up), Guns N’ Roses(for breaking up), big business, my parents, my employers, my friends, anyone I ever met, and the God of every spiritual tradition in the world, I felt much better. Here’s some of what I’ve learned since accepting that I have UC, and choosing to adopt a positive goal oriented approach to living with this illness.

So, It’s Only a Thunderstorm, Not a Hurricane- Now, what do I do? 

1.  Find inspiration Do you find inspiration from famous people? If you do, here are some links of famous people living with Ulcerative Colitis (UC) or Crohn’s Disease.  Pick out a name, “Google” the person’s name with, UC or Crohn’s after the name.  Check out how this individual copes with the illness, then pick out someone else, and do the same thing.  One person, who I find inspiration from is Pearl Jam guitarist, Mike McCready.

A. Mike McReady and Crohn’s Disease

In the following quote, Mike shares one of many “Crohn’s incidents” he has experienced as a member of Pearl Jam: "Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are," he admits. "When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty. It happened when we opened up for the Rolling Stones in 1997 in Oakland.  "It was our first show with them," McCready continues. " Five minutes before we went on, I went up to (Pearl Jam frontman) Eddie (Vedder) and I said, 'Look man, can we play 'Sometimes'? — which is a slower song that I'm not really on. I was in pain. I went running offstage looking for a bathroom, and there wasn't one. Then, all of a sudden, there was one. It was a honeybucket. I heard my band play that song from inside a portable toilet!"

Mike speaks about his personal experiences with Crohn's disease and the importance of CCFA: "I know how devastating these diseases can be. I'd be playing a solo in front of 20,000 people when 'wham!' -- this searing gut pain would hit me and I could hardly play a note."

Being on the road made things even harder for Mike. "I was taking 140 pills a week. Some of the medications caused my face to completely puff up. I was pretty depressed. Then I found out about the CCFA and I realized that I was not alone." Mike doesn’t allow living with Crohn’s disease to keep him from doing what he is most passionate about, and I don’t believe that I should allow my Ulcerative Colitis to limit the things that I am most passionate about either.

Mike's PSA for the CCFA is here.    

B. My Favorite UC or Crohn’s Video (Set to Pearl Jam’s Down)

If you live with one of these chronic conditions, or have a love one who does, it will be hard not to shed a tear when you watch this video:

2.  Become willing to do what you need to do

(I am speaking only about my situation, not anyone else’s.  I don’t know what anyone else should do, but I do know what works for me.) In my case, becoming willing has meant being open to using a combination of “traditional western medicine,” prayer & meditation, and nutrition to maintain my health.  I don’t like taking any medication, but, 100 mg. of Asazan does a nice job of helping me stay in remission.  Last fall, I had a few minor flares, and finally became willing to radically alter my nutrition.  Since I began using the principles in Jordan Rubin and Joseph Brascoe’s Restoring Your Digestive Health, last fall, I have been healthier than I have been since I was initially diagnosed with UC in 1995.   

I hope that you found this post useful! Please leave your comments below, or contact me directly.  (My contact info is in the sidebar.)

Thanks for stopping by!  Bill

Friday:

Part III. So, This is Only a Thunderstorm, Not a Hurricane- Now, What Do I Do? Continued

Pearl Jam, Mike McCready, Crohn’s, Colitis, and Me

(With a bit of wisdom from my favorite Navy Seal philosopher- Max Machowicz.)

Part I. It’s Only A Thunderstorm. It’s Not A Hurricane.

“Down. Fall by the wayside no getting out.
Down. Cry me a river dried up and dammed.
The names can be changed but the place is still the same.
I am loaded. Told that all's for naught. Holds me down.

Rise. Life is in motion. I'm stuck in line.
Rise. You can't be neutral on a moving train.
One day the symptoms fade. Think I'll throw these pills away.
And if hope could grow from dirt like me. It can be done.

Won't let the light escape from me.
Won't let the darkness swallow me.”

So long.  (Pearl Jam- “Down” )

“Still alive, can’t quit.” Max Machowicz

“Always remember that you are trying to master yourself, not find a master for you.” Max Machowicz

Once upon a time, I went to a Crohn’s and Colitis support group. (If you don’t know what Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are, you may want to go to the bottom of the post and read- “I Don’t Know What Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis (UC) are,” and then come back and continue reading.)   It was one group, in one city, on one day, and I am sure most of the groups are not like this...  At this group though, no one was finding a way to be positive, the glass was not half-full, it was not half-empty, it was less than half-empty,  and everyone was whining.  No one was talking about anything that he or she had found helpful in keeping Crohn's or Colitis in remission.  I began to feel depressed.  Why in the hell did God or whatever allow me to have Ulcerative Colitis?  Why in the hell would God or whatever give someone Crohn’s Disease or any other medical condition? 

Wow!  I don’t have cancer... That’s great!   

When I started having colitis symptoms, I thought I had cancer.  So, I was initially very relieved to “only have ulcerative colitis.”  Unfortunately, my initial joy in “only having colitis” did not last, and I began to feel bitter and depressed.  Going to this “support group” 100% filled with non-positive people, threw jet fuel on my sullen mood.

For me, that was yesterday, and this is today-  On my better days now, I believe that I live in the presence of a rain shower, not a hurricane.  Just as a thunderstorm can cause damage, at times living with UC has been painful and inconvenient.  Still, I don’t believe that rain showers and thunderstorms are as deadly as hurricanes, and I don’t think that living with the inconveniences of Ulcerative Colitis compares with living with a disease that is fatal.  I am blessed to have health insurance, in a country, the U.S.A., where 46 million people do not have health insurance.  My  insurance pays for many of my medical expenses, and my wife and I are blessed with enough income that I can afford  a very healthy diet that helps keep my illness in remission.  I live in a neighborhood where I don’t worry about experiencing a drive by shooting when I walk down the sidewalk.  I don’t worry about my wife’s safety when she needs to come home after dark.     On my healthy emotional days, I realize that the people in the pictures immediately below this paragraph have genuine problems.  I do not have genuine problems; I have “inconveniences.”  If you go to a support group, any support group, where there is not one positive person, please consider doing this- DON’T RUN AWAY...SPRINT AWAY!!!

GENUINE PROBLEMS PRESENTED VISUALLY

I DON’T KNOW WHAT CROHN’S DISEASE AND ULCERATIVE COLITIS ARE. (IF YOU LIVE WITH CROHN’S OR UC, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP THIS SECTION.)  HERE’S A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THESE ILLNESSES FROM THE CROHN’S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA (CCFA)

“Ulcerative colitis is a chronic (ongoing) disease of the colon, or large intestine. The disease is marked by inflammation and ulceration of the colon mucosa, or innermost lining. Tiny open sores, or ulcers, form on the surface of the lining, where they bleed and produce pus and mucus. Because the inflammation makes the colon empty frequently, symptoms typically include diarrhea (sometimes bloody) and often crampy abdominal pain.

The inflammation usually begins in the rectum and lower colon, but it may also involve the entire colon. When ulcerative colitis affects only the lowest part of the colon -- the rectum -- it is called ulcerative proctitis. If the disease affects only the left side of the colon, it is called limited or distal colitis. If it involves the entire colon, it is termed pancolitis.

Ulcerative colitis differs from another inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn's disease. Crohn's can affect any area of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, including the small intestine and colon. Ulcerative colitis, on the other hand, affects only the colon. The inflammation involves the entire rectum and extends up the colon in a continuous manner. There are no areas of normal intestine between the areas of diseased intestine. In contrast, such so-called "skip" areas may occur in Crohn's disease. Ulcerative colitis affects only the innermost lining of the colon, whereas Crohn's disease can affect the entire thickness of the bowel wall.

Both illnesses do have one strong feature in common. They are marked by an abnormal response by the body's immune system. The immune system is composed of various cells and proteins. Normally, these protect the body from infection. In people with IBD, however, the immune system reacts inappropriately. Mistaking food, bacteria, and other materials in the intestine for foreign or invading substances, it launches an attack. In the process, the body sends white blood cells into the lining of the intestines, where they produce chronic inflammation. These cells then generate harmful products that ultimately lead to ulcerations and bowel injury. When this happens, the patient experiences the symptoms of IBD.

Neither ulcerative colitis nor Crohn's disease should be confused with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a disorder that affects the motility (muscle contractions) of the colon. Sometimes called "spastic colon" or "nervous colitis," IBS is not characterized by intestinal inflammation. It is, therefore, a much less serious disease than ulcerative colitis. IBS bears no direct relationship to either ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease.”

I hope that this post is useful to everyone who reads it.  Please leave your comments below, or contact me directly.  (My contact info is in the sidebar.)

Thanks for stopping by!  Bill

Tomorrow:

Part II. So, This is Only a Thunderstorm, Not a Hurricane- Now, What Do I Do? With Inspiration From Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready

MLK, RFK, and The Greatest 48 Hours of Communication in the 20th Century (48 Hours Of Speech As Art With Lessons For Today)

“And another reason that I'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today...”

Martin Luther King Jr.- April 3, 1968- “I’ve Been To The Mountaintop” Speech

“For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with -- be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times...

...What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.” Robert F. Kennedy-  Indianapolis, Indiana April 4, 1968- “On The Death Of Martin Luther King” Speech

On Saturday, April 9, 1988, I impulsively went into The Book Rack near my home in Irving, Texas so that I could add the dust from a plethora of old books to the ragweed clogging my nose.  As I walked around a corner of the bookstore, I noticed a book called To Seek a Newer World , by Robert F. Kennedy.  I guess all those episodes of The Wonder Years were getting to me, because I took this forgotten piece of my childhood from the shelf and immediately purchased it.  It’s one of the best purchases I ever made. To Seek a Newer World was my door to the events of April 3-5, 1968. I believe that April 3rd through April 5th, 1968 were the greatest 48 hours of public speaking in the 20th century.

My Favorite Quotes From RFK’S To Seek A Newer World

“The first task of leadership, the first task of concerned people, is not to condemn or castigate or deplore, it is to seek out the reason for disillusionment and alienation, the rationale of protest and dissent- perhaps indeed to learn from it.”

“Our answer is the world’s hope; it is to rely on youth- not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.” 

“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” 

Stephen Sondheim

“Minor art expresses only the specifics of reality; each day is different, & so is each artwork. Great art, however, expresses fundamental reality through its specific manifestations. This gives the work of the great artist a continuity which that of a minor artist lacks.” Peter Roberts

The April 3rd-4th Speeches of MLK and RFK as Art

I believe that real art does not care about political party, income level, race, religion, or any of the myriad ways that we sometimes choose to divide our world.  Real art breaks down and transcends every vestige of separation that divides us.  If my definition of art is correct, then the speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy gave on April 3rd and April 4th, 1968 qualify as works of art.  

Do you agree that these speeches qualify as works of art?

“...We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles. We don't need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, "God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you.”  Martin Luther King Jr.- Speaking to striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee on April 3, 1968- “I’ve Been To The Mountaintop” Speech

“Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay.  This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

This is the breaking of a man’s spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all.” Robert F. Kennedy- April 5, 1968-Cleveland Club, Cleveland, Ohio “Mindless Menace Of Violence” Speech

Expanded Definitions Of Poverty and Violence

Dr. King and RFK both expanded my definitions of poverty and violence.  While many of us may have never experienced poverty, violence on the streets, or even racial discrimination, I believe that all of us have experienced poverty and violence in some form. 

A friend of mine, who has been wealthy her entire life, describes the environment she grew up in as emotional poverty.  She says that she would gladly have traded away her families material wealth for the attention from her parents that she witnessed many of her middle-class and working-class friends receiving. 

“Students learn that positive thoughts lead to positive actions, which lead to positive feelings about yourself, which then lead back to positive thoughts. They also learn that negative thoughts, actions, and feelings follow the same cycle to make them feel bad about themselves. This Thoughts-Actions-Feelings Circle is the basis upon which students learn positive behaviors for the physical, intellectual, social, and emotional domains.” (Positive Action website, “Violence and Bullying Booklet.”)

Research by UW-Madison psychologist , Dr. Richard Madison suggests that emotion regulation deficits may be a smoking gun in impulsive violence. So, violent internal thoughts may not only damage us, but may lead to acts of violence against others.   

What is your definition of violence?  What is your definition of poverty?

It will be a great day when the words that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy spoke on April 3rd and 4th, 1968 are no longer relevant.  Unfortunately, that day may not come in the lifetimes of any of us reading these words.

QUESTIONS FOR TODAY

“Ah Wolfe can't see
Ah that's no good
He can't see the tree
For the wood”  (Steve Kilbey)

1. Am I seeing the full picture?  Am I seeing the world as it really is? 

Martin Luther King went to Memphis to speak, despite the death threats he received.  Robert F. Kennedy was warned by then Mayor, Richard Lugar, that it was too dangerous  to speak in the African American part of town after King’s assassination because of the potential for a riot-  Kennedy spoke on the night of April 3, 1968 anyway. 

2.  Will I do what is right even if there is the threat of injury or death?

I think that King’s and Kennedy’s speeches are timeless.

3.  Will what I am doing with my life add meaning to the world in 40 years?

Dr. King’s Christian faith was prevalent in his message in Memphis. (I believe Senator Kennedy’s Christian faith was present in his speeches also, even if he did not explicitly make a statement of faith.)

4.  Do I take my faith into every situation I encounter in life?

LINKS

Three minute video clip of Dr. King’s “I’ve Been To The Mountaintop.”

The first ten minutes of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech. (Photos, but no video.)

Text of MLK’s last speech.

RFK’s “On The Death Of Martin Luther King” video.

Text of RFK’s “On The Death Of Martin Luther King.”

Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s “Mindless Menace Of Violence” speech set to the tragic events of 4/16/07 at Virginia Tech, University.

Left, Right, And Center Video Of Mindless Menace Of Violence-

 To quote RFK, “This is not a day for politics...”  The author of this video, does an excellent job of presenting all sides of the political spectrum in a positive manner to the words of “The Mindless Menace Of Violence.”

“Mindless Menace Of Violence Unplugged.”

  I love Emilio Estevez movie “Bobby.”  I’m not sure why Mr. Estevez, chose to “pump up” one of the greatest speeches ever, by amping RFK’s voice and adding strings to his speech at the end of “Bobby” though.  I like the “raw version” of the speech better. (This link is the full speech, audio only.) 

ON A LIGHTER NOTE-

The Top 15 singles from the first week of April 1968:

“(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay” by Otis Redding

“Young Girl” by the Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett

“Valleri” by the Monkees

“La-La Means I Love You” by the Delfonics

“(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone” by Aretha Franklin

“Cry Like A Baby” by the Box Tops

“Lady Madonna” by the Beatles

“The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde” by Georgie Fame

“Love is Blue” by Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra

“Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro

“Might Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)” by Manfred Mann

“Simon Says” by the 1910 Fruitgum Co.

“Scarborough Fair/Canticle” by Simon & Garfunkel

“Dance To The Music” by Sly & the Family Stone

“Kiss Me Goodbye” by Petula Clark

The Top 10 albums from the first week of April 1968:

The Graduate by Simon & Garfunkel/Soundtrack

Blooming Hits by Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra

Aretha: Lady Soul by Aretha Franklin

The Dock Of The Bay by Otis Redding

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme by Simon & Garfunkel

Valley of the Dolls by Dionne Warwick

John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan

Disraeli Gears by Cream

Axis: Bold As Love by the Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly soundtrack

I hope that this post is useful to everyone who reads it.  Please leave your comments below, or contact me directly.  (My contact info is in the sidebar.)

Thanks for stopping by!  Bill