I guess on one hand it's good to have people reading blogs, for good or Ill, but i happened to take numerous complaints about the last little blogaroo... people can get real touchy about their cell phone use, even if it's framed within the context of my lack of cell phone use. They are suppose to be rock and roll people, but when you say the wrong word they get real touchy like they got a big stick in their ass... Quoting Smash talking to Carl Fatman.
Having a bank of readied quotes is a fine game in my life... like cover songs by artists that nobody knew existed. I was a Monty Python quoter in high school.. that was our era... only cause i didn't have my own material at that time... and i was a fucking idiot. Meh, water under the bridge, acid off a ducks back... i mean water, water off a ducks back... yes we quote "the far side" too. Actually my first band "The Van Gophers" had a song that just ran punchlines from the far side in between musical interludes... the band had other problems, although we did get on the radio with a song that generated a great deal of notoriety. As we have pointed out.. Notoriety, can really hurt you when you want to be pro... from the song Saskatchewan, which is set in a car in the middle of Canada, with another member of the Van Gophers, on our way to be Knockin' Dog. For the record, knockin' Dog is a Trinidadian expression, meaning laying around doing nothing. Dr. Ken Rodney walked into the house, looked down and saw a big mess of shoes and other items and said "Look at all this stuff here, my money, knockin' dog!" Clearly it's a winner, i won't even take arguments on that one... It would be ideal if i could dig into the tapes and find some of the Rehearsal tapes from Undertones... there is a pretty killer version of Chicken in there... the studio version, despite admirable efforts... actually now that i think of it there is that 2 plus minute "Stairway to Chicken".. fucking unbelievable. If you are ever in a band with somebody and they start trying to tell you that samples and studio gimmicks will save the day, do yourself a favour and punch that person out! Seems a little violent for sure, but don't be fooled, you would be doing a service to anybody in witness range to smarten the fuck up. But in reality, if your strengths are lyric writing and song melodies, and being one king hell weirdo who speaks the truth with authority... then don be a jackass thinking you can learn to twist knobs real cool like. (hybrid quoting the drumheller boogie)
I think i remember what i was writing about in the last paragraph, but i just took a big music break.. played a bunch of tunes... one of them was a Bruce Cockburn number. Not sure i want to revisit the tangent i was on. why write and then post it then?.. think of it as a big text to Mule, who happens to be reading this in his underwear for all i can imagine a certain line of therapy might suggest. For the record i was referring to the idea that one way to overcome stage freight, so they say, is to imagine the audience in their underwear. Personally i don't suffer from stage freight, although it would do me good if i had some of that in me... i suffer from stage indifference which is highlighted by sniffing on a different trail.. A little stage freight would keep you on your toes... although in reality I'm rarely on a stage that people actually want me on... I'm usually this disturbance in the other side of the room interrupting conversations and text messages... gives you a bit more of a stage loathing than stage freight... freight is good is Adrenalin... Adrenalin is a fine drug... might even be banned one day... Sir now we are going to have to remove your adrenal gland... we don't want anybody getting excited in this society for obvious safety concerns... but officer what will then regulate my heart rate , blood pressure and air passage diameters... Have no fear son her are some vouchers that will get you %15 off ePROphine™ at participating pharmacies...
Another deep end... i just googled "ePROphine™"... looks like it can still be trademarked... might be a good dollar for the person who nabs that one now.
There was some recent controversy on Gay Marriage last week... some rich hypocrite hiding behind the Lords message that has been twisted to suit his needs came out in support of traditional marriage only, perhaps to boost sales in his fast food business, or perhaps he believes he is more right and more holy than other citizens that he has prejudged without knowing at all... apparently there are many traditional marriages in the bible, some allow the woman to be stoned if they don't act right... i am told. Interpretations of the bible are everything of course, so some people believe that it is imperative that this union only be allowed between a man and a woman in a society, where marriage provides great privilege, but yet is taxed on a person to person basis. Am i for gay Marriage? I'm more of an anti-Marriage person myself... i just see it as an industry than lands good people in hot venues in wool suits to listen to a pile of garbage, while people go broke throwing a party that they can't even enjoy because it is innately trained into them that it HAS TO GO PERFECT... My advise... simple wedding and put the money into a down payment and start living that blessed life with your love.
I have been to a few good weddings for sure, and i missed a fine on up on a mountain where there was a skating rink and some good rock and roll... actually going to a good one next weekend where it said "we want you to wear something comfortable cause we want you to play games"... I'll have fun... but most people don't roll that way. The thing that kills me about this anti gay marriage crusade... is to take the right of others in a society to have the privilege of being able to produce a marriage certificate to receive societal gains... and that's what its about... It should be about children if you ask me... the children are the future of our society the will be left to "drive our economy"... it's the child's benefit to help make their life better, to help make society better... who cares about the sexual orientation of the parents. I'm pretty much agnostic, if i were to define my religion, it would be that... although i am working on my own religion... for the record i will be the only follower... I don't believe or disbelieve in any deity, but yet people are more than happy to marry me to my wife under the eyes of a deity, apparently, if i pay the fee, and in the end if i ever have any immigration issues, a quick flash of my marriage certificate calms all officials. Now i know a few gay parents with children, my children have played with their children, i can be very sure in saying that i have met far far far worse heterosexual parents... probably due to simple math, knowing a greater sample size... i have met heterosexual parents where i just shake my head and feel so sorry for the child being delivered this warped sense of love and values. But on paper when you draw lines like that you make terrible mistakes. Denying certain families the opportunity to show that piece of paper when it comes to claiming societal benefits is just downright mean and nasty. And doing it in the name of God for the good of a clearly corrupt society is just beyond comprehension in my view.
Many men are different, and few do see, that it's not what we represent, but it's who we may be.
"frustrated man"
should probably just delete this, but it's what i thought
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