Not Amused

Last night I played a great show at Main Street Crossing in Tomball, Texas with Jack Saunders and Dan Scott. We had a real good turn out and an overall great time. I got some wonderful feed back from the folks who came out. Its nights like these that keep me going with all this music stuff and working the old “nine to five”. Sherri and I got home around 11:00 pm and I quickly made my way to bed. It took me awhile to wind down but I finally drifted off to sleep. At some point in the night a wonderful lyric came to me. I was singing a song with a great hook and I became conscious to the fact that I really needed to get up and write it down. Well being the lazy ass that I can be, I told myself that I would surely remember it in the morning when I awoke and would jot it down then.
Of course this morning I awoke and all I could remember was that the hook line had the word “man” in it twice. So now there will be pen and paper on my nightstand or maybe a small hand held recorder to catch what I’m sure would have been a trillion dollar hit. The first time my muse has visited me in my sleep and I just blow her off. I hope she’s not pissed. I hope she will come back. I hope she’s reading this.

Miley To Save The Earth

I was so glad to read today that Miley Cyrus is thinking about the planet. Seems she was getting tired of driving the black Porche that she got on her 16th birthday citing the fact that the Porsche was too big and bad for the environment. Her achy breaky father surprised her the other day with a brand new black Prius. Miley said she likes it better because it’s good for the environment and plus it’s adorable! She then went on to say that the first thing she’s gonna do is get some Hello Kitty floor mats. Well move over Al Gore, Miley has joined the ranks of the other gazillion celebrities who want all the commoners to know just how much they care about the earth. We can all rest easy as we watch them tear out the inside of their mansions and replace everything with earth friendly materials and buy brand new hybrids of all shapes and sizes. Then we have to listen and watch as they cook with strictly organic foods and wines.

Don’t get me wrong, all that is stuff everyone would like to do if they could friggin’ afford it, but Joe Blow can’t afford bamboo floors and hybrid cars and “save the rain forest” cabinets. Anybody been to Whole foods lately? The most I can manage to afford in there is the $3.99 spring rolls, which is still a rip off. I have a suggestion for all these folks: Quit tearing your houses up and quit buying new hybrids. Does anyone think about the energy it takes to make all this stuff and the energy used to get rid of it in the landfills? There are too many cars in the world anyway. New car buyers should be banned from buying another new car for 8 years. That probably wouldn’t be good for the automakers but hell, there’s too many of them too.

I feel better now.

Fiat Blackmails Chrysler

Apparently the people that run Chrysler are even more stupid than I thought they were. Seems Chrysler has been working on a deal where they would give Fiat a 35% stake in the company under the condition that Chrysler pays Fiat $3 billion dollars. Huh? Let me see if I have this right. Someone wants to aquire 35% of my company but I have to give them $3 billion first? To make matters worse, Chrysler needs the good old US government to give them the $3 billion so they can give it to Fiat. Of course for the $3 billion Fiat would provide technology and vehicles that Chrysler could build and sell in the US. Well that makes sense. Everybody knows how great Fiat cars are. WTF?

Inauguration Day

Like most everyone, I hope, I was inspired by the historical ceremonies that took place today in Washington. It was cool to see the Bible that was used for the Lincoln inauguration up close. Obama is one hell of a speaker and I hope he can make all of those terrorist sons-a-bitches fall in love with him the way the rest of us have and decide to call it quits. The most interesting tidbit of the day for me was Dick Cheney's little accident he had yesterday while moving into his new digs. Is the fall from grace so drastic that the ex-vice president has to pick up and move his own friggin boxes?