" If You Could Relive One Day From Your Past, Which Would It Be, And Would You Do Anything Differently?"

When I was in grade school I had long hair. (it was the mid-seventies, and I thought this was a particularly cool look) I went to my babysitter's house for lunch and she decided to give me a haircut. What she gave me was a crew-cut (I make a distinction here because in my book, a crew-cut does not meet the criteria required to technically be called a haircut) and I was utterly humiliated and thoroughly pissed off. I went back to school wearing my hood over my head to hide this grotesque violation and kept the hood on in my classroom. Eventually the teacher asked me to remove it, and I said no. She kept insisting and I kept refusing, at one point I even told her I didn't have a shirt underneath and needed to keep it on. (She wanted me to take off the jacket) In the middle of this exchange between the teacher and I, a classmate behind me suddenly pulled off the hood and exposed my hideous shame. I snapped. I turned around on him, grabbed him by the shirt-collars and threw him over four desks and against the wall. I ran out of the schoool and all the way home, where I sat in a playground alone until my mother came home. The boy had broken his arm in two places, and I wasn't invited to come back to class. If I could relive that day, I think I would have to do the right thing - and kill the little son of a bitch.

To Joey

Joey,


Thank you for your insights, very well put. I agree that Human Beings are merely a tiny part of a larger, ever changing and all encompassing energy.
I have studied Geology, which strongly influences my opinion that the planet would survive virtually any Human activity on it's surface and the related by-products of said activity. In the context of geological time Human Beings haven't been a part of the equation very long at all, and we will most surely disappear. The Earth will last far beyond our period, and flourish despite the vast amounts of garbage we may well leave in our wake.
This is a special planet within our own solar system, because it can support and create life. But I would agree that it is nothing particularly special within the entire universe.
The people who claim to support the save the planet movement are most likely scared of quite a few things I would think, and oblivion would certainly top their lists - but not complete oblivion, only the oblivion of the Human Race - which is my point.
Our reality is absurd, and by absurd I do not mean ridiculous or silly, I mean it is incongruent with our own nature. We have managed our existence in completely the wrong way, and you're argument that we have separated ourselves from the natural world is a shining example of just how absurd our reality is.

Not only do I embrace it, I yearn for it.
It's almost amusing that people are always so eager to reach the end of things, to be first at the finish line - except when it comes to our own existence.

An Analysis of Slogans - Part One of a series examining the deeper meaning of a simple, yet deceptively powerful device employed by popular movements down through the ages - the almighty slogan

SAVE THE PLANET!

I think it's about time we called a spade a spade. 


Those in favor of saving the planet are not genuinely worried about the planet - they are in fact worried about the survival of the Human Race. Global Warming, or Climate Change (whichever catch phrase you prefer) is, at best, an insignificant threat to the planet itself, but it certainly does seem to make things increasingly more difficult for the living creatures on it's surface...including the Human creatures.  
So when I see a bumper sticker on a beat up Volvo missing it's muffler that reads, "Save the Planet", I know that what it really means is "Save the Human Race". And, as it has always been with the Human Race, it is only our own necks we are concerned about. So enough with this save the planet talk already - and if you're heartfelt desire really is to save the planet, then I suppose your aim should be the complete extinction of the Human Race, because ultimately, we are really the only thing that is wrong with this planet. 

"If there is a God, then he really fucked up when he made people." - Frank Vincent Zappa -

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A Joke

The Salmon Salad Caesar

Have you decided, Sir?

Yes...I'll have a Caesar Salad Sandwich.

That's fine, Sir...would you like Parmesan?

Yes.

Croutons as well, Sir?

Of Course.

...Bacon Bits?

Yes...Of course bloody Bacon Bits!

Of course, Sir...very good choice....and can I get you anything to drink with your meal?

Yes...I'd like a Salmon Salad Caesar.

First Blog

Welcome to my new Blog for 2010

Well, it seems that almost everyone I know has got themselves one of these Blogs, and now that we are almost a full decade into the 21st Century, I felt the time was right to start Blogging...so here we go.

This will likely end up being a very random assortment of my thoughts and opinions on a wide range of topics, but I will occasionally include details of recording sessions and any relevant updates on the activities of my recording projects, From Secret Locations and Victory by a Landslide.

Happy New Year! (When it gets here!)