The VF History of Music & Modern Recording accounts for about 85% of website traffic. It's the project that put others to abandonment years ago, violafair having since become more a fair of musical fare. This project was begun in latter 2011 per wifi at truck stops. I was driving big trucks in the States and Canada at the time. I spent the first couple years attempting to not work on it, not having the time, just "fiddling" around. But I was done with big trucks by 2013 when I began working on the histories full time. The whole Notes section had been completed in draft in 2015, growing from the medieval period in classical (@ 500 AD) to musicians surfacing on vinyl by 1970 in modern recording. I then spent the next five years through 2020 getting myself out of the trouble I'd gotten myself into. The music histories cover the Western hemisphere in ten books on classical, black gospel, blues, country, folk, jazz, Latin recording, boogie woogie, R&B-rock and popular music including ragtime, film and television. I had thought to take the history one more decade to 1980. But after working through a section in seventies rock I figured that would require a couple of years too long to complete in all genres, so I ceased at 1970. The VF History equals two parts: the condensed historically comparative Volume 1 which is Notes for Volume 2 that is the HMR Project begun in 2021. History of Music & Modern Recording Project Classical / Modern Recording / Topics / Chronicle / About.

== Poetry ==

Poetry accounts for only 12% of website use, especially the sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay, way beyond the sonnets of Shakespeare. I gathered Millay together in 2002 upon noting the absence of just such documentation on the internet (likely no more). Shakespeare couldn't but join her (for which I needed the Roman Numeral charts above). The Gypsy's Address at Something Strange is a silly romping comedy by myself, a rhyming heroic romantic science fiction adventure through black holes into parallel universes in big trucks, written in meter and rhyme in 2006 at seventy miles per hour in a Pete 379. Before Obama. Really just a Hollywood action film without much substance beyond humor or discipline (meter and rhyme). Though much I've written over the years including journals and bad or striving novels, there's not much I care to publish since most of it wasn't written to that purpose, being generally an examination of some kind or other. As to literature in general, I was largely preoccupied in younger years with philosophy and psychoanalysis, propelled by sense of responsibility to read and build a library of the world's great authors together with libraries of good films and music. The monumental in my experience were such as Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Derrida, albeit as a writer rather than in philosophical, political or religious identity. I began to pursue writing myself in my latter twenties because it presented what I thought would be the most difficult challenge for me to undertake. (I had read loads of poetry though was not particularly fond of it.) Writing for me has mostly been didactic, a method of learning.

== Vaping ==

Once upon a time VF contained an instructional nonprofit section about making juice real cheap, but became too much a distraction to continue. I myself had started vaping to quit cigarettes in 2013. I stopped some ten years later after one too many cheap batteries wanted me to purchase yet another device. Since juices are commonly marked up to about fifteen hundred percent above cost it seemed that instructions to easily concoct juices by oneself would be helpful. As for equipment, however, after above ten years of vaping I yet couldn't find a manufacturer that produced a product that wasn't intentional junk with quality control purposefully ignored. Vaping companies discourage making your own juice and invariably sell the lowest quality batteries on Earth. Planned obsolescence is in full design by an industry which wants people addicted and spending as much on vaping as smokers do on smoking. Be as may, you can quit smoking via vaping. There are only four simple ingredients to your own DIY juice which doesn't cost so much as a dime per mix (compared to $15-$50): vegetable glycerin (VG) for combustion, propylene glycol (PG) for cloud, and food flavoring. As for nicotine, it is much more powerful by vape than smoke. Use less. Continue to add less as you go to gradually quit, or as I, make a batch completely without and be nicely surprised that you don't need any nicotine at all. No addiction. Vaping should cost only perhaps 10% of what smoking did (especially now when a good cigarette can absurdly cost $20 a pack). Someone who wanted to make a load in this industry could supply a better battery, cut the price of juice in half or more, and design practical and reliable devices for people who vape, not who are looking for novel science projects on a fashion runway.

== Statistics ==

This section isn't updated because it's boring and I've forgotten why it's here.

== Initial Inspiration ==

'Viola Fair' is the name of a website rather than a person, excepting the woman at Inspiration whose name I've imagined to be Viola Fair and on whose back I am writing this. Intellectual property in general, artistic or literary, is copyright of this website, 'violafair.com', and its owner, Larry Tipton, where not otherwise noted.