HELLO, Non-Readers!
I am, once again, a SEVERELY broke-ass musician. I am, as always, buzzed off my ass! I have ISSUES! I have ANGST! I am FRUSTRATED beyond BELIEF at my inability to convince ANYONE that I am the one they want to employ! FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
What to do, what to do?
Ciao
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Suicide is painless, and other stupid shit.
Oh, happy FUCKING New Year!! Where have I been? Working my ass off at a minimum wage job since Halloween, to subsidize the "salary" I have NOT been making because I am a VERY talented motherfucker who can't get more than, consistently, 2 or 3 days a week plying the "trade" I am the BEST at -- Music! Oh, what a BAD time we be living in. But, hey --- could be worse ... and here's how!
Couple weeks before Christmas, The Ex's sis-in-law commits suicide, leaving 4 inconsolable kids and a confused husband. Last week in January, my lead singer's boyfriend decides he's had enough of living and offs himself. Last night, The Ex's Aunt, her Dad's Sis, dies from a stroke. Gee, ain't we got FUN this shitty year, or what? Now, all that aside, since nobody really READS all this shit I write here; and since when I DO vent in a "Public Forum" like the drowning pool of hypocrisy, Facebook, where all the so-called Chrisitians I know get to spout off with their vitriolic preaching and opinions to NO ill effect (Best Hypocrite of 2010 -- the "Christian" who wrote how disgusting it was that the US and its citizens were sending so much money and aid to them Haitians, when there are so many people starving and homeless right here in the US of A. Hallelujah, praise Jesus! Stupid bitch!), and where everything I write is scrutinized and chastized and criticized no end, I'm gonna get it "safely" off my chest HERE.
OK, people, it's the Age Of Info! It's the 21st Century --- FEW subjects should be THAT much of a mystery or, at LEAST, with a little research, THAT hard to get a handle on. First and fucking FOREMOST (and, all respect to the dead --- I cared for them all, but what is is what is ... if you just stop and THINK for a minute!) -- suicide is SELFISH! Suicide is the HEIGHT of Narcissism! I drives me BATSHIT when "close friends" of the dead turn their ire and confusion and ignorance on ANY person involved with them at the time of their self-inflicted demise. It's THIS EASY --- if they hadn't done it at THAT moment, with THAT person just HAPPENING to be there to stir shit up, they WOULD have done it at ANOTHER moment, using some OTHER excuse as justification! To hard to assimilate? Try this -- with suicide, it is no one's "fault" except for the one that killed themselves!! They had PROBLEMS! They were beyond help AT THAT MOMENT, and rather than take a step back and think about it, they offed themselves. Sad, tragic, useless, wasteful --- BUT, it is ONLY their fault! Just like it is NOT any Metal band's fault that teens put on long trench coats and go on a shooting spree. What REALLY blows my mind open is that some of the people who are blaming others have LIVED through just as "terrible" situations that the dead were going through, and did NOT kill themselves! Can you ignorant assholes not see the DIFFERENCE here? HEY! You're still sucking in air (and, in my opinion, after the way you acted towards a grieving friend of mine, WASTING air) because you CHOSE to keep doing so --- the one's who killed themselves, not so much.
So, DAMN! Get OVER yourselves! They're gone. If you can't figure out why, well, then grow the fuck up and realize that there just is NOT a neat little explanation for everything that happens in your world...and NEVER will be! But I WILL assure you of this --- it was THEIR OWN FUCKING FAULT!
Well, there --- I said it.
Ciao!
Couple weeks before Christmas, The Ex's sis-in-law commits suicide, leaving 4 inconsolable kids and a confused husband. Last week in January, my lead singer's boyfriend decides he's had enough of living and offs himself. Last night, The Ex's Aunt, her Dad's Sis, dies from a stroke. Gee, ain't we got FUN this shitty year, or what? Now, all that aside, since nobody really READS all this shit I write here; and since when I DO vent in a "Public Forum" like the drowning pool of hypocrisy, Facebook, where all the so-called Chrisitians I know get to spout off with their vitriolic preaching and opinions to NO ill effect (Best Hypocrite of 2010 -- the "Christian" who wrote how disgusting it was that the US and its citizens were sending so much money and aid to them Haitians, when there are so many people starving and homeless right here in the US of A. Hallelujah, praise Jesus! Stupid bitch!), and where everything I write is scrutinized and chastized and criticized no end, I'm gonna get it "safely" off my chest HERE.
OK, people, it's the Age Of Info! It's the 21st Century --- FEW subjects should be THAT much of a mystery or, at LEAST, with a little research, THAT hard to get a handle on. First and fucking FOREMOST (and, all respect to the dead --- I cared for them all, but what is is what is ... if you just stop and THINK for a minute!) -- suicide is SELFISH! Suicide is the HEIGHT of Narcissism! I drives me BATSHIT when "close friends" of the dead turn their ire and confusion and ignorance on ANY person involved with them at the time of their self-inflicted demise. It's THIS EASY --- if they hadn't done it at THAT moment, with THAT person just HAPPENING to be there to stir shit up, they WOULD have done it at ANOTHER moment, using some OTHER excuse as justification! To hard to assimilate? Try this -- with suicide, it is no one's "fault" except for the one that killed themselves!! They had PROBLEMS! They were beyond help AT THAT MOMENT, and rather than take a step back and think about it, they offed themselves. Sad, tragic, useless, wasteful --- BUT, it is ONLY their fault! Just like it is NOT any Metal band's fault that teens put on long trench coats and go on a shooting spree. What REALLY blows my mind open is that some of the people who are blaming others have LIVED through just as "terrible" situations that the dead were going through, and did NOT kill themselves! Can you ignorant assholes not see the DIFFERENCE here? HEY! You're still sucking in air (and, in my opinion, after the way you acted towards a grieving friend of mine, WASTING air) because you CHOSE to keep doing so --- the one's who killed themselves, not so much.
So, DAMN! Get OVER yourselves! They're gone. If you can't figure out why, well, then grow the fuck up and realize that there just is NOT a neat little explanation for everything that happens in your world...and NEVER will be! But I WILL assure you of this --- it was THEIR OWN FUCKING FAULT!
Well, there --- I said it.
Ciao!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
A NEW dichotomy!
WHOA, HO, Faithless Non-Readers! You think I gave this UP?!?! FUCK no! I've just been apathetic and uninterested AND VERY time-constrained (well, as far as MY world goes), so "blogging to the absent masses" has fallen by the wayside. BUT, Saturday, October 24, Two Thousand Nine, put a new SHINY wrench into my works (btw, THIS is why, even though it's on the WAY downside, I will NEVER off myself --- 'cuz ya' just NEVER know what's gonna happen next, so why PURPOSELY miss it? In my book, ANY new experience is a GOOD experience! Even if it tears your fucking HEART out! WOOHOO!) Anyway, here's the thing:
I "followed" the Love Of My Life (LOML, for those who just have NOT kept up!) to her Hometown of Roscoe, IL .. yes, against ALL better instincts --- but, HEY .. LOVE will FIND A WAY, right? (btw, NO!). For those less knowledgeable (or, better stated, less give-a-SHIT-able!), Roscoe is a VERY small Burg just north of a Wannabe Burg named Rockford, itself just well less than 2 hours East of Chicago. ONE of its Claims To Fame is that it is the birthplace/growing-up place of the Internationally Known and Revered (OH -- just THAT close to being inducted into the R'n'R Hall Of Fame!!!) band, Cheap Trick. Oh, YES, --- ALL the members of Cheap Trick went to the same or near schools that the LOML went to! In FACT, the LOML's "childhood Home" was SOLD to Cheap Trick Guitarist Rick Neilsen! But, blah-blah .. ya' wanna know a Cheap Trick history, go to Wiki! Here's MY boggle!
While living (and dying) in The Greater Rockford Area, I "met" Robin Zander's BEAUTIFUL and I mean,BEAUTIFUL, TALENTED Daughter, Holland. I casually happened to be in the same ROOM with Rick Neilsen from time to time, since he lived in Rockford and would just happen to come out to the same clubs I happened to in-frequent. I played BRIEFLY in a band who, on the side and before I joined, did an EXCELLENT "Endorsed By Cheap Trick" Cheap Trick tribute band ... blah blah.
I have unsuccessfully applied to a NUMBER of part-time job offerings over the past few months. I AM the proverbial "Broke-Ass Musician." Since I am a "Legacy" (having worked there 2 previous Seasons, much to their Delight) at my Local Toys 'R' Us, I again joined their workforce just yesterday. And ON that FIRST Refresher Day, who should come to my register BUT The Great Robin Zander and his Wife?!?!?!?!!!!!!! LOWEST DAY OF MY PROFESSIONAL LIFE --- I have "met" Robin in passing in the past, I have conversed with his Daughter about songs she wrote concerning her emotional tumult re: being the offspring of an International Always-AWAY Rock Star -- the first time I have to "casually chat" with this Rock icon, I am servicing him as a cashier at Toys 'R' Us!! I have to SAY, "I'm a Musician -- I know your Daughter --- love her stuff!" .... slither, slither, slither, grovel, grovel, grovel, supplicate, supplicate, supplicate. I AM WORM POOP, though a VERY Talented Musician for over 20 YEARS, Motherfucker!!!! THEN, the "curve ball"!!!! Was it commiseration ... was it, "yeah, nice to hear you know my Dear Daughter, but here's REAL problems"?!?!? Now, Robin Zander was VERY polite and seemingly down-to-earth, ESPECIALLY for a Rock GOD! What did he throw out after us discussing how "times are hard for musicians," my only reference point the fact that I'm having to ring up his wife's toy sales because the BAND business isn't paying the bills? With a breath and a pregnant pause (just for REFERENCE sake --- I don't really put any diabolical inference to it) he says, "Yeah --- our tour with Def Leppard just got cancelled ... TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!" YES, Non-Reading Mother FUCKERS ..... "TOO"!!!!!!!!!
WOW!
Ciao!
I "followed" the Love Of My Life (LOML, for those who just have NOT kept up!) to her Hometown of Roscoe, IL .. yes, against ALL better instincts --- but, HEY .. LOVE will FIND A WAY, right? (btw, NO!). For those less knowledgeable (or, better stated, less give-a-SHIT-able!), Roscoe is a VERY small Burg just north of a Wannabe Burg named Rockford, itself just well less than 2 hours East of Chicago. ONE of its Claims To Fame is that it is the birthplace/growing-up place of the Internationally Known and Revered (OH -- just THAT close to being inducted into the R'n'R Hall Of Fame!!!) band, Cheap Trick. Oh, YES, --- ALL the members of Cheap Trick went to the same or near schools that the LOML went to! In FACT, the LOML's "childhood Home" was SOLD to Cheap Trick Guitarist Rick Neilsen! But, blah-blah .. ya' wanna know a Cheap Trick history, go to Wiki! Here's MY boggle!
While living (and dying) in The Greater Rockford Area, I "met" Robin Zander's BEAUTIFUL and I mean,
I have unsuccessfully applied to a NUMBER of part-time job offerings over the past few months. I AM the proverbial "Broke-Ass Musician." Since I am a "Legacy" (having worked there 2 previous Seasons, much to their Delight) at my Local Toys 'R' Us, I again joined their workforce just yesterday. And ON that FIRST Refresher Day, who should come to my register BUT The Great Robin Zander and his Wife?!?!?!?!!!!!!! LOWEST DAY OF MY PROFESSIONAL LIFE --- I have "met" Robin in passing in the past, I have conversed with his Daughter about songs she wrote concerning her emotional tumult re: being the offspring of an International Always-AWAY Rock Star -- the first time I have to "casually chat" with this Rock icon, I am servicing him as a cashier at Toys 'R' Us!! I have to SAY, "I'm a Musician -- I know your Daughter --- love her stuff!" .... slither, slither, slither, grovel, grovel, grovel, supplicate, supplicate, supplicate. I AM WORM POOP, though a VERY Talented Musician for over 20 YEARS, Motherfucker!!!! THEN, the "curve ball"!!!! Was it commiseration ... was it, "yeah, nice to hear you know my Dear Daughter, but here's REAL problems"?!?!? Now, Robin Zander was VERY polite and seemingly down-to-earth, ESPECIALLY for a Rock GOD! What did he throw out after us discussing how "times are hard for musicians," my only reference point the fact that I'm having to ring up his wife's toy sales because the BAND business isn't paying the bills? With a breath and a pregnant pause (just for REFERENCE sake --- I don't really put any diabolical inference to it) he says, "Yeah --- our tour with Def Leppard just got cancelled ... TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!" YES, Non-Reading Mother FUCKERS ..... "TOO"!!!!!!!!!
WOW!
Ciao!
Sunday, September 20, 2009
DISAPPOINTMENT ... and other realities.
Hello, Non-Readers! I'm SURE you have been wondering just WHERE the fuck I have been these past few weeks, haven't you? Oh, YES, as much as I've been wondering if Universal Health Care is JUST around the corner --- read: NOT!
Okay, so here's tonight's rant and rave and, HEY, wouldn't you like some CHEESE with that WHINE? BITCH! Oh, where to start!? Well, let's talk about OTHER peoples' problems first, 'k?
My Dear Little Sis is going through MAJOR upset and tragedy, and I REALLY wish I could be there to help her out. But I can't, and I won't be .. which sucks and tears my heart out, but that is just part of the Life On Your Own Life, right? Right. Anyway, here's a BRIEF synopsis --- she had to deal with and DID deal with and SURVIVED a Breast Cancer Scare last Fall --- YAYYY!!! COULD NOT be HAPPIER, especially since genetically, she really didn't stand a chance. But, HEY, DURING all that, her partner/hubby of 25+ years decided to deal with her fear and angst and anger and worry and emotional turmoil by fucking a silicone-enhanced psycho bitch from hell (which, I know, is actually being redundant! NOT one to stereotype in ANY way by nature, EXPERIENCE has shown me silicone and head problems go hand-in-hand ... sorry, that's just the way it IS, guys! BE WARY!!!). Well, HELL, My Little Sis found out early in '09, he fessed up, he did "all the right things," promised to cut it off, apologized, even told the KIDS about it, and begged for forgiveness --- and they were "working it out." Well, SHOCKER, come to find out a week or so ago, she contacted him via email or whatever, and even though she hasn't been sucking his cock lately (and, hey guys, isn't that REALLY all it takes? A good, "closing" blow-job? How SAD is that?), they HAVE been carrying on a covert writing/calling campaign. Well, Sis found out again, and she kicked him out. GOOD FOR HER/what a DUMBASS HE was to think that was OK -- but, not so uncommon. I'm a guy, so I KNOW guys SUCK, although I have lost The Love Of My Life because she did the same thing on the other side --- SHE was the cock-sucker! ANYWAY --- moving on! My heart bleeds and cries for my Little Sister, whom I would throw my fat ass in front of a TRAIN if it meant she could live another day.
MY end. I am in band which normally involves three people cranking out the tunes and rocking the house. When we're rockin', we ROCK THE HOUSE!!! PROBLEM is, the band is mostly booked by the chick singer who has WAY overly-developed delusions of grandeur (to be fair, that depends on what day you catch her on), who has always wanted to be a Country Music Star, and has about as much chance of doing so as Britney Spears has a chance to win Mother Of The Year (in other words, not LIKELY --- but FAR from realistic!). A few days ago, she "asks" me to remove pictures from a MySpace site, which I maintain for the BAND (read: a band that has been around since 1986, and has MANY fans from "the old days"), as opposed to HER MySpace/dot-com site that is ALL about HER, oh, and a MENTION of the band that ALLOWS her to sing for a living, since (NOT trying to be mean, really) the BEST she could do WITHOUT us is to what she did BEFORE us --- make a few bucks here and there singing to Karaoke tracks! I say no, she says, Oh yes you WILL!, I explain WHY I said no, she says, oh yes you WILL, because I SAID SO, I say fuck off, etc., etc., etc. In other words, petty, but a matter of pride. This is a LONG going problem -- she, being a Princess, raised to believe the World OWES her, believes that age-old idea, "You work for me, therefore you must RESPECT me, and DO WHAT I SAY, no matter what;" myself being raised with the thought, "you work for me, do what I say ON THE JOB, but to get your respect, I know I must EARN it." Nothing new under the sun, that VERY old concept of, "respect is EARNED," but this wench is too self-involved and indoctrinated by her condescending Daddy to understand that.
BOTTOM LINE: The "core" of my band ismeeting Monday night to hash this out. There will be (for ME, whether I outwardly acknowledge it or NOT) one of two outcomes --- The Bitch will agree, she is SADLY lacking and needs to EARN respect and stop treating me like her BITCH; OR (the MOST likely), The Bitch will hold to her thought that I should NEVER question her orders, that SHE is the LEADER of the band (and don't even get me STARTED about how far she fails in THAT respect!!) and I am but a lowly SUBORDINATE --- AND ....
I'll pack my bags, get ready to go ... I love my BEST FRIEND, RON, but I can't take no more. I really hate to think that I MUST go!! So, hug me, and cry for me --- tell me that you tried for me ... I'll believe that, but I'll let you go. I'm leavin' on a jet plane, don't know if I'll be back again ....
Ciao
Okay, so here's tonight's rant and rave and, HEY, wouldn't you like some CHEESE with that WHINE? BITCH! Oh, where to start!? Well, let's talk about OTHER peoples' problems first, 'k?
My Dear Little Sis is going through MAJOR upset and tragedy, and I REALLY wish I could be there to help her out. But I can't, and I won't be .. which sucks and tears my heart out, but that is just part of the Life On Your Own Life, right? Right. Anyway, here's a BRIEF synopsis --- she had to deal with and DID deal with and SURVIVED a Breast Cancer Scare last Fall --- YAYYY!!! COULD NOT be HAPPIER, especially since genetically, she really didn't stand a chance. But, HEY, DURING all that, her partner/hubby of 25+ years decided to deal with her fear and angst and anger and worry and emotional turmoil by fucking a silicone-enhanced psycho bitch from hell (which, I know, is actually being redundant! NOT one to stereotype in ANY way by nature, EXPERIENCE has shown me silicone and head problems go hand-in-hand ... sorry, that's just the way it IS, guys! BE WARY!!!). Well, HELL, My Little Sis found out early in '09, he fessed up, he did "all the right things," promised to cut it off, apologized, even told the KIDS about it, and begged for forgiveness --- and they were "working it out." Well, SHOCKER, come to find out a week or so ago, she contacted him via email or whatever, and even though she hasn't been sucking his cock lately (and, hey guys, isn't that REALLY all it takes? A good, "closing" blow-job? How SAD is that?), they HAVE been carrying on a covert writing/calling campaign. Well, Sis found out again, and she kicked him out. GOOD FOR HER/what a DUMBASS HE was to think that was OK -- but, not so uncommon. I'm a guy, so I KNOW guys SUCK, although I have lost The Love Of My Life because she did the same thing on the other side --- SHE was the cock-sucker! ANYWAY --- moving on! My heart bleeds and cries for my Little Sister, whom I would throw my fat ass in front of a TRAIN if it meant she could live another day.
MY end. I am in band which normally involves three people cranking out the tunes and rocking the house. When we're rockin', we ROCK THE HOUSE!!! PROBLEM is, the band is mostly booked by the chick singer who has WAY overly-developed delusions of grandeur (to be fair, that depends on what day you catch her on), who has always wanted to be a Country Music Star, and has about as much chance of doing so as Britney Spears has a chance to win Mother Of The Year (in other words, not LIKELY --- but FAR from realistic!). A few days ago, she "asks" me to remove pictures from a MySpace site, which I maintain for the BAND (read: a band that has been around since 1986, and has MANY fans from "the old days"), as opposed to HER MySpace/dot-com site that is ALL about HER, oh, and a MENTION of the band that ALLOWS her to sing for a living, since (NOT trying to be mean, really) the BEST she could do WITHOUT us is to what she did BEFORE us --- make a few bucks here and there singing to Karaoke tracks! I say no, she says, Oh yes you WILL!, I explain WHY I said no, she says, oh yes you WILL, because I SAID SO, I say fuck off, etc., etc., etc. In other words, petty, but a matter of pride. This is a LONG going problem -- she, being a Princess, raised to believe the World OWES her, believes that age-old idea, "You work for me, therefore you must RESPECT me, and DO WHAT I SAY, no matter what;" myself being raised with the thought, "you work for me, do what I say ON THE JOB, but to get your respect, I know I must EARN it." Nothing new under the sun, that VERY old concept of, "respect is EARNED," but this wench is too self-involved and indoctrinated by her condescending Daddy to understand that.
BOTTOM LINE: The "core" of my band ismeeting Monday night to hash this out. There will be (for ME, whether I outwardly acknowledge it or NOT) one of two outcomes --- The Bitch will agree, she is SADLY lacking and needs to EARN respect and stop treating me like her BITCH; OR (the MOST likely), The Bitch will hold to her thought that I should NEVER question her orders, that SHE is the LEADER of the band (and don't even get me STARTED about how far she fails in THAT respect!!) and I am but a lowly SUBORDINATE --- AND ....
I'll pack my bags, get ready to go ... I love my BEST FRIEND, RON, but I can't take no more. I really hate to think that I MUST go!! So, hug me, and cry for me --- tell me that you tried for me ... I'll believe that, but I'll let you go. I'm leavin' on a jet plane, don't know if I'll be back again ....
Ciao
Friday, September 18, 2009
I'll never BLOG again....!
Until someone leaves a comment. On ANY of my posts. Yeah, I do this to vent ... but if NOONE is looking, fuck it!
Monday, August 31, 2009
DON'T INSULT ME!!!
I'm basically just posting a post I was GONNA elsewhere in response to a former co-worker and supposed "friend" and, at LEAST, "partner in crime" in this Bullshit Cutthroat business of Music we are BOTH involved in and STRUGGLING with ... BUT ... the motherfucker pissed me off, dissing my Life's Work for NO other reason than to promote HIS sad-ass, TRULY useless, unprofessional, SLIGHTLY, at BEST, talented band! BUT, rather than be like whom I'm blasting here, I'm ONLY posting it here, my blog that's never read!! And, here it is:
And here I swear: I shall NEVER disparage ANY band that "stole my gig," because (in a twist on those those ridiculous Love sayings), if I was doing MY job, you COULDN'T "steal it." I shall NEVER feel I am being "oppressed" by "The Man" (read: Club Owners) because my percs were cut, or my pay was cut -- because HE has a BUSINESS to run, just as I do. Is it ALL my fault folks don't come out EVERY week to see my band? NO --- BUT, if I do NOTHING to PROMOTE my band, I will NOT get shitty about a club owner who busts my ass about low attendance! I shall NEVER bitch about ANY band, especially during these Obamanation Days of Financial Despair, doing WHATEVER, negotiating WHATEVER to GET THAT REGULAR GIG we ALL drool over. BUT, BITCH!!!!!!.... If you DO "steal my gig," for WHATEVER reason, all I ask is what I would do for you: In your promos, PLEASE, ESPECIALLY since we have thrown you Benjamin after Benjamin BEFORE you (or, if you want to stay "benign," one of your "representatives" ... blah, blah, blah semantics!) threw the right bug in the right person's ear at the right time (the SECRET to "success"!!!), with NO more expectations other than showing UP, QUIETLY enduring your lack of interest in OUR project, lack of work to LEARN our material even on a SIMPLE level, lack of real appreciation of the fact that you were basically garnering "Local Musician's Scale" of $100 for REALLY just being, by YOUR level of involvement, a "Chair Filler, a la, The Oscars," ESPECIALLY if you treated us as friends and equals --- BUILD YOUR BAND UP, withOUT cutting OURS DOWN, FUCKER! FUCK YOU if you post ANYWHERE, do ANY promo that states, emphasizes, or even IMPLIES that before YOU got the gig, WE (who BROUGHT YOU IN and paid you GOOD money) SUCKED SO hard that YOUR New Presence is gonna make their world BETTER!! SHOUT out, "WE'RE HERE!!!!" SHOUT OUT, "WE'RE FUCKING AWESOME!!!" SHOUT OUT, "WE'RE GONNA MAKE YOU PARTY YOUR ASS OFF!" SHOUT OUT, "WE ROCKED This joint and That joint," but, REALLY --- do you have to PISS ON US, saying that BEFORE you got this gig, the night you now have was BAD, SAD, and UNBEARABLE?!?!?! PLEASE, Dude! Do NOT compel me to go on and on here and there and EVERYWHERE, just as YOU have SO publicly, about just how hard YOUR band sucks (and, it DOES ... BUT .... just as YOU have so indiscriminately done of late, implying MY band sucks -- I could post a NUMBER of comments, with DETAILS, that would cause folks to stay away in DROVES from ALL your gigs! BUT ... I won't, you ridiculous self-involved over-stuffed half-assed so-called musician). It IS just business --- do NOT force me to make it a WAR, which you will SADLY lose to the detriment of your calling and your family's needs! I have NOTHING to lose --- you DO! ADJUST your POSTS, dammit --- not because we're on the receiving end of a hole in our calendar (because, I ASSURE you, we shall rise above this "loss" ... will YOU? Your ENTIRE personnel list is tenuous -- not so much MINE!), but because it is THE RIGHT THING TO DO!!!
Ciao!
And here I swear: I shall NEVER disparage ANY band that "stole my gig," because (in a twist on those those ridiculous Love sayings), if I was doing MY job, you COULDN'T "steal it." I shall NEVER feel I am being "oppressed" by "The Man" (read: Club Owners) because my percs were cut, or my pay was cut -- because HE has a BUSINESS to run, just as I do. Is it ALL my fault folks don't come out EVERY week to see my band? NO --- BUT, if I do NOTHING to PROMOTE my band, I will NOT get shitty about a club owner who busts my ass about low attendance! I shall NEVER bitch about ANY band, especially during these Obamanation Days of Financial Despair, doing WHATEVER, negotiating WHATEVER to GET THAT REGULAR GIG we ALL drool over. BUT, BITCH!!!!!!.... If you DO "steal my gig," for WHATEVER reason, all I ask is what I would do for you: In your promos, PLEASE, ESPECIALLY since we have thrown you Benjamin after Benjamin BEFORE you (or, if you want to stay "benign," one of your "representatives" ... blah, blah, blah semantics!) threw the right bug in the right person's ear at the right time (the SECRET to "success"!!!), with NO more expectations other than showing UP, QUIETLY enduring your lack of interest in OUR project, lack of work to LEARN our material even on a SIMPLE level, lack of real appreciation of the fact that you were basically garnering "Local Musician's Scale" of $100 for REALLY just being, by YOUR level of involvement, a "Chair Filler, a la, The Oscars," ESPECIALLY if you treated us as friends and equals --- BUILD YOUR BAND UP, withOUT cutting OURS DOWN, FUCKER! FUCK YOU if you post ANYWHERE, do ANY promo that states, emphasizes, or even IMPLIES that before YOU got the gig, WE (who BROUGHT YOU IN and paid you GOOD money) SUCKED SO hard that YOUR New Presence is gonna make their world BETTER!! SHOUT out, "WE'RE HERE!!!!" SHOUT OUT, "WE'RE FUCKING AWESOME!!!" SHOUT OUT, "WE'RE GONNA MAKE YOU PARTY YOUR ASS OFF!" SHOUT OUT, "WE ROCKED This joint and That joint," but, REALLY --- do you have to PISS ON US, saying that BEFORE you got this gig, the night you now have was BAD, SAD, and UNBEARABLE?!?!?! PLEASE, Dude! Do NOT compel me to go on and on here and there and EVERYWHERE, just as YOU have SO publicly, about just how hard YOUR band sucks (and, it DOES ... BUT .... just as YOU have so indiscriminately done of late, implying MY band sucks -- I could post a NUMBER of comments, with DETAILS, that would cause folks to stay away in DROVES from ALL your gigs! BUT ... I won't, you ridiculous self-involved over-stuffed half-assed so-called musician). It IS just business --- do NOT force me to make it a WAR, which you will SADLY lose to the detriment of your calling and your family's needs! I have NOTHING to lose --- you DO! ADJUST your POSTS, dammit --- not because we're on the receiving end of a hole in our calendar (because, I ASSURE you, we shall rise above this "loss" ... will YOU? Your ENTIRE personnel list is tenuous -- not so much MINE!), but because it is THE RIGHT THING TO DO!!!
Ciao!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
OMG! A HAT TRICK for Mr. Death!!
Good Evening/Morning, Faithful Non-Readers of my Stealth Blog! Home again from a Gig, high on the sense of accomplishment, frivolity, socializing and, most recently, the Juice Of The Sacred Agave Cactus!!:)
WHAT A FUCKING DAY!!!! Personally AND Globally! THREE, count 'em, THREE LARGE, culturally, HISTORICALLY Everlasting Public Figures succumbed to that Never-Ending Sleep today! AND, this EASILY trumps the most recent occurrence I can think of, the DUAL passing of (pretty much, in my opinion, FAR overblown, or at the least, VERY suspect in CHARACTER, but weighted by the fact that, to me, even strongly indicated SUPPOSITION of crimes against CHILDREN FAR outweighs any suspect actions towards those who have come of legal age .. not that I do not PITY the latter ... but I FUME at the taking advantage of the FORMER!!!) M. Jackson and Ms. Fawcett.
For August 26, 2009 -- SECOND RUNNER-UP in the Death Follies: Dominick Dunne at age 83(who, I SO sadly found out tonight is SO "obscure" in the public's mind!! STUNNED, would be a better word! I don't see myself as a "star-fucker," knowing the details of myriad luminaries' lives simply out of voyeurism --- but, I guess SO, to an extent --- NOBODY I talked to about it tonight even knew who D.D WAS!!!?!?! Let alone his personal tragedies and tribulations and "crusades" -- THAT made me almost as sad as his passing!). The BRILLIANT author of numerous novels, a highly regarded journalist, the Father of Griffin Dunne, the brilliant actor and director; MOST affectedly the Father of the murdered, fledgling Actress, Dominique Dunne, of (VERY sadly, ONLY Major Movie role!) "Poltergeist" fame, her life stifled at the tender age of 22 by her twisted boyfriend, J.T. Sweeney, the long-term violent asshole who STRANGLED HER TO DEATH because Dominique would not agree to reconcile with him after a lengthy term of abuse. He, due to defense attorney wrangling, got convicted ONLY of manslaughter in GREAT part because his history of violence was excluded from the murder trial --- AND he was sentenced to a LOWLY 6.5 years, of which he only served 4!!!! Long story sort, this sent her Father, Dominick, on a path of writings and Civil Involvement that included his VERY visible presence at the O.J. Simpson Trial/CIRCUS, acting as a "reporter," but actually making himself a VERY visible advocate of Parents STRONGLY Opposed to Men Who Abuse Their PARTNERS!
FIRST RUNNER-UP: Ellie Greenwich, the co-author with the now-NOTORIOUS genius, Phil Spector, and ex-hubby Jeff Barry of such GREAT, LASTING songs as "Chapel Of Love," "Be My Baby," "Leader Of The Pack," "Da Do Ron Ron," "River Deep, Mountain High," and so on and so on; at the YOUNG age of 68. Why do I place this Lady a step above D. Dunne in my "pantheon of Important Passings?" In the world of "REAL, EMOTIONAL, HUMAN" affect -- D.D.'s story is tragic and intense and anything BUT "fluff;" but, let's face it --- folks will be listening to Ms. Greenwich's artistry LONG after the last human has forgotten D.Dunne, don't you agree?
And, the CROWN goes to the UNDISPUTED Champ of "WOW! That's sad --- and, omg, look at his life and what's he's ACCOMPLISHED in it!!!" Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy!!!! Kennedy played a major role in passing many laws that affect the lives of all Americans, including the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the National Cancer Act of 1971, the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Ryan White AIDS Care Act in 1990, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Mental Health Parity Act in 1996 and 2008, the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997, the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, and the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act in 2009. (Source: Wikipedia). And that's just the TIP of the iceburg of events he has had to suffer through, endure, rise above, etc. his ENTIRE life (simply --- just imagine carrying on in a HUGE way ... after two of YOUR siblings were BRUTALLY murdered!!!
The "personal" stuff? Believe it or not, I think I'll put that aside until later --- these "PUBLIC Tragedies" truly take precedent.
Ciao.
WHAT A FUCKING DAY!!!! Personally AND Globally! THREE, count 'em, THREE LARGE, culturally, HISTORICALLY Everlasting Public Figures succumbed to that Never-Ending Sleep today! AND, this EASILY trumps the most recent occurrence I can think of, the DUAL passing of (pretty much, in my opinion, FAR overblown, or at the least, VERY suspect in CHARACTER, but weighted by the fact that, to me, even strongly indicated SUPPOSITION of crimes against CHILDREN FAR outweighs any suspect actions towards those who have come of legal age .. not that I do not PITY the latter ... but I FUME at the taking advantage of the FORMER!!!) M. Jackson and Ms. Fawcett.
For August 26, 2009 -- SECOND RUNNER-UP in the Death Follies: Dominick Dunne at age 83(who, I SO sadly found out tonight is SO "obscure" in the public's mind!! STUNNED, would be a better word! I don't see myself as a "star-fucker," knowing the details of myriad luminaries' lives simply out of voyeurism --- but, I guess SO, to an extent --- NOBODY I talked to about it tonight even knew who D.D WAS!!!?!?! Let alone his personal tragedies and tribulations and "crusades" -- THAT made me almost as sad as his passing!). The BRILLIANT author of numerous novels, a highly regarded journalist, the Father of Griffin Dunne, the brilliant actor and director; MOST affectedly the Father of the murdered, fledgling Actress, Dominique Dunne, of (VERY sadly, ONLY Major Movie role!) "Poltergeist" fame, her life stifled at the tender age of 22 by her twisted boyfriend, J.T. Sweeney, the long-term violent asshole who STRANGLED HER TO DEATH because Dominique would not agree to reconcile with him after a lengthy term of abuse. He, due to defense attorney wrangling, got convicted ONLY of manslaughter in GREAT part because his history of violence was excluded from the murder trial --- AND he was sentenced to a LOWLY 6.5 years, of which he only served 4!!!! Long story sort, this sent her Father, Dominick, on a path of writings and Civil Involvement that included his VERY visible presence at the O.J. Simpson Trial/CIRCUS, acting as a "reporter," but actually making himself a VERY visible advocate of Parents STRONGLY Opposed to Men Who Abuse Their PARTNERS!
FIRST RUNNER-UP: Ellie Greenwich, the co-author with the now-NOTORIOUS genius, Phil Spector, and ex-hubby Jeff Barry of such GREAT, LASTING songs as "Chapel Of Love," "Be My Baby," "Leader Of The Pack," "Da Do Ron Ron," "River Deep, Mountain High," and so on and so on; at the YOUNG age of 68. Why do I place this Lady a step above D. Dunne in my "pantheon of Important Passings?" In the world of "REAL, EMOTIONAL, HUMAN" affect -- D.D.'s story is tragic and intense and anything BUT "fluff;" but, let's face it --- folks will be listening to Ms. Greenwich's artistry LONG after the last human has forgotten D.Dunne, don't you agree?
And, the CROWN goes to the UNDISPUTED Champ of "WOW! That's sad --- and, omg, look at his life and what's he's ACCOMPLISHED in it!!!" Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy!!!! Kennedy played a major role in passing many laws that affect the lives of all Americans, including the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the National Cancer Act of 1971, the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Ryan White AIDS Care Act in 1990, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Mental Health Parity Act in 1996 and 2008, the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997, the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, and the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act in 2009. (Source: Wikipedia). And that's just the TIP of the iceburg of events he has had to suffer through, endure, rise above, etc. his ENTIRE life (simply --- just imagine carrying on in a HUGE way ... after two of YOUR siblings were BRUTALLY murdered!!!
The "personal" stuff? Believe it or not, I think I'll put that aside until later --- these "PUBLIC Tragedies" truly take precedent.
Ciao.
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