hmm. you gotta wonder what this world is coming to. is there nobody out there
more qualified to lead this country than that beady-eyed son-of-a-bitch texan or
that war hero who evidently lost his personality in nam? my god. you'd think
those other idiots would quit and not make fools of themselves, but for some
reason even morons like al sharpton seem to think that they've got a legitimate
chance at being president. you gotta give 'em one point at least for having the
chutzpah to think so i guess. heh. but on the good news front, it seems that
michael eisner and that ever-so-proper holier-than-thou bitch martha stewart are
finally gonna at least get a little scared, if not their comeuppance. hee hee. i
don't really care about martha, she's just like those other rich folks who feed
off of the lower classes and think they can do whatever they want. i suppose
deep down in side most of us would do the same things she's done if we were in
her position. eisner, however, destroyed something near and dear to my heart by
changing disney into disney, inc., the walmart of amusement parks. oh where is
all this bitterness coming from tonight anyway? just sick of the corporate world
i think ... and the total short sighted focus on profits in the here and now, no
matter what the social and personal consequences in the coming years. i don't
know what happened to that kinder, gentler america we were all promised, but it
seems to have left on the same boat as reasonable gas prices, jobs, and
security. aerosmith had it right .. eat the rich.
tonight's raving is brought to
you by rex goliath and his 47 lb. rooster by the way. links of where to
find it are on the alcohol page, or you can just go to cost plus.
hmmm.
i wouldn't have even been on
here tonight, but i broke a string. my second! woo hoo. not really in the mood
to restring the axe tonight, though it really needs it by now. spent the last
week planning and building the pedal board from hell. too much money, too much
time. if i'd of thought about the consequences of this all a month ago. i might
have gone for that digitech 2120 i wanted but was too afraid to dump all the
money at once. so instead i spent more in smaller portions. groan. on the upside
though it does have lots of lights, switches, and some pretty intense sounds. i
still don't sound like stevie ray, but i do have one spot left as soon as i find
the "sound like SRV" pedal. on the success front, seven nation army is
coming along nicely, and i'm acquiring quite a taste for the slide ... mmmm.
on other fronts ... still
hurting like hell from the mosh pit two weeks ago tonight. supersuckers and
throw rag ... a deadly combo. one bruised or fractured or separated, or whatever
else you can do to it, rib, beat up elbow, leg, and far too many sickly yellow
bruises to count. the hangover didn't help matters either, but at least that's
gone. so i've been thinking to myself these last two weeks ... even during the
one show where i sipped mostly diet coke and stayed away from the pit ... that
maybe i'm getting to old for this shit. don't want to admit it, don't want to do
it. but i look in the mirror now, and don't see the youngster i saw there a year
ago. maybe it's just my mind protecting me ... we'll see. throw rag's coming
with the circle jerks in a few months ... maybe i'll have the lack of
sensibility to do it all again. or not. i seem to be getting a bigger thrill,
lately at least, from actually playing rather than watching ... someplace i've
wanted to get to for some time. but on the other hand i do miss the fun, the
makeup, the loudness, the sweat, the jostling ....
on the other fronts, everything
is pretty much the same. lame job with most of the people there wanting to walk,
a little bit of guitar, a little bit of exercise, and entirely too much food.
there's someone special who keeps knocking at my door from time to time (hi you,
cuz i know you'll read this eventually), so life's pretty good on that front. i
do find myself beginning to question myself more these days in terms of where i
want to go, what i want to do, blah blah blah. don't really have the answers,
but i do have four new joseph campbell books to read, which may or may not help
me out. also picked up kurt cobain's notes (which will probably do more damage
than good), and a new read on physics and the origins of the universe.
what else?
gotta see the passion of christ
... just for kicks i think ... besides someone wants a book report of my
feelings on the subject, lol. reading crime and punishment, or listening to it
as the case may be. gay marriages keep going on. which is a sad subject in and
of itself. so what if gays want to get married? let 'em i say. there is no
sanctity of marriage in any event with a 50 percent divorce rate, and from my
own personal experience, it seems as if most people don't really consider that
until death do us part portion of the program very seriously. the other
side of me says they shouldn't be doing it because it's currently illegal, but
that should be changed through the normal channels. this crap is going to do
nothing but further alienate the queer nation from the rest of the world.
well, it's late folks and i'm at
the bottom of my little glass of wine. sigh. it feels good to be back here again
and actually get some shit off my mind so to speak.
