Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

I continue to explain that plot inconsistencies in B movies are consistent, and should not be allowed to undermine one's enjoyment of the action, nor the fundamental credibility of the storyline: the good & bad guys are clearly delineated & easily recognizable, the hero duffs over the baddies, things blow up loudly & spectacularly, the good guy wins. Entirely credible.