What I have found fascinating in my study of music is that the truly great music is actually based on very simple progressions of notes. The melodies that you find yourself humming or whistling to yourself are these simple melodies.

I’ve found that this repeats through every generation and style of music.

Well, far be it from me to “rain on our parade” right off the bat. But I must point out that it really isn’t the start of the next decade, at least not yet.

My reasoning? It’s simple math (Math 101). The very first year was year one, not year zero. So when you count to ten (a decade), the highest number ends in a zero.

One of the things the explosion of the Internet has brought to us is a bombardment 24/7 of content. What do I mean?

Content is all that “stuff” we see not only on our TV, desktop computers and smart phones, but unfortunately everywhere we look.

The word spectacle is derived from the word spectacular.

How do you know you are witnessing a spectacle? Easy, first and foremost you should feel a chill or goosebumps. That is your body telling you that you are seeing something special. Something you don’t normally see.

Since the widespread implementation of the Internet many of the things that have been in our lives for 50 years or longer are undergoing a radical change. Television is one of them.

I was a kid when wide scale nationwide television became a reality. I recall our first TV set.

I grew up in NY City with three major league teams: the Brooklyn Dodgers (before they moved to Los Angeles), the New York Giants (before they moved to San Francisco), and the New York Yankees (still playing in The Bronx).

At this time of year, many NY City schoolteachers would roll a TV into the classroom to view the World Series.

The title of this article comes, of all places, from that old rock and roll song: “Up on the Roof – by the Drifters.” The words from the song are (in part): “On the roof, it's peaceful as can be, and there the world below can't bother me.”

This is the 300th column I have written for the News of Mill Creek. While that in itself is not really so interesting, the things I’ve seen and heard over the time I’ve been writing the column really have, on occasion, brought me up short.