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Torn between two lovers, feeling like you can rely on the old man’s money
There’s always the misconception that the Mafia is either fake or real.
So we turn to a band’s name for identification purposes:
Charles Pettigrew died of cancer on 6 April 2001, at the age of 37.
[Eddie] Chacon is currently residing in Los Angeles and fronting the electronic duo, The Polyamorous Affair, with Sissy Sainte-Marie. In 2009, The Polyamorous Affair released their album, Bolshevik Disco.
Call forth the phrase, “Dagnabbit rabbit!”
Unobtanium beer is pulling a sentence out of a dream: “I want a case of pickled anger.”
Why? Because of a new storyline, a new personality that says, “Hey, you know what? I don’t need nobody to speak for me. You know why? Cause I own my own business. I’m what they call connected, like in ‘the mob,’ know what I’m sayin’? I’m puttin’ on a show wit’ my girlfriend ’cause that’s just what I wanna do, show her off, tellin’ you fellas that she’s off-limits. You wanna touch the merchandise? It ain’t for sale. She’s spoken for. Yeah, she says she polyamorous but you get close to her, you burn. You know what I’m sayin’. I don’t need to spell it out in frank’n’beans or nothin’, do I, Lee?”
But then, the dirigible crashed into the Alps, spilling Earhart and Lindbergh onto the icy peaks.
The Mad Hatter spilled his tea.
To get out of the oxygen-thin heights, the daredevil flyers decided to put on a dance, mixing the cream components of melted white caps into the overflowing chocolate rivers flooding the Bavarian valleys, creating three new flavours that the people had wished for but never seen — dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate — not to mention Bavarian cream cheese, creamier and cheesier than ovarian, Ovaltine or oval saltines.
Yeah, it’s a crazy night for mixed-up storylines, seeing as the dance rehearsals went well, as intended, throwing the scent off the trail and the hound dogs off their common sense, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle waiting for Conan the Barbarian and Conan O’Brien to share their opinions as constructive criticism disguised as front page news stories, as, as, as, pretending that Jay Leno has any intention to call up Rich Little or Benny Hill to serve a substitute role for Jimmy Fallon who wishes Phyllis Diller was not related to Matt Dillon, Marshall Dillon, dill pickles or pickled relish.
Shaking the pepper shaker out of the Shaker’s household of a head-hold on the no holds-barred barista barristers barred windows, Windows 8.1 claimed ownership of the UI of iOS 7 which laid claims on the gold rush of iPhone sales diverting our attention in the divertimento window of opportunity in opportune opera tunes out of tune with the times listed in the back section of the New York Times hidden behind paywalls that are walled-in nonwalls with narwhals and ne’er-do-wells in wishing wells and cockle shells.
Love is a four-letter word.
Word is a four-letter love.
Letters are words of love for is is is an a.
The typewriter rhythms of grandmothers with multiple mobile phones and boyfriends saying “meow meow meow” like dorks worried they’ll be forgotten when they leave the day before their birthday — what else is of importance when conversations become fermented in the likelihood that a man’s wife is disinclined to dance the blues when she has a costume to finish for her dancing husband, the mannequin, when drunk Jenga games turn skyscrapers into pick-up sticks?
Seduction is not the answer.
The madness of one’s thoughts rules all.
When one dives into the abyss, what is money or love or love of money?
The clock watches the watcher who counts the hours before the next dance practice, wondering if spaghetti dinners are more important than uninvited guests entering the bed chamber.
But a tired perspirer whose partners don’t make him a manwhore make the whole man slimmer, if not younger.
The tick-tock-tap of the plastic keys play songs that drummers and lead singers, even two-to-three weeks’ preggers, can feel the lead beat in one’s core bouncing into the floor rather than bouncing back on one’s heels.
Type, type, type, tap, tap, tap, the music paces itself out of nothingness, into existence and back into the background noise of a universe in flux.
Time lost to hair dye and leather straps, slapped wrists and insanity at the end of madness one step away from workplace report revisions and shoe holes.
Waves in oceans turning water molecules and colloidal suspension into conflict, resolution, drama, comedy and tragedy as atomic energy is recycled, the medium medium tasting like one’s breath fresh with the cigarette taste of a lover’s lips or the scent of bath gel.
The substitute role of a trumpet player or the renewed role of a professional’s professional plays into one’s hands on the keyboard of life.
Microcosmic cosmic revelations.
Word.
Friday night fun
Ed contemplates his first dance step
Master’s theses require personal YouTube videos these days?
Bill Nye and I have one thing in common?
We both put the duh in dancing — thank goodness for great dance partners named Nye!
Watch “Dance showcase 2013 09 16 practice 04” on YouTube:
Three’s company on Sunday for a swan dive
Who’s shooting whom?
“I want to play you like a piano in this scene.”
Blogging in bright sunlight
Yesterday: an auspicious beginning, the novel.
I exist in a thought bubble that illusion sometimes make [semi]permeable.
For decades now, as my acceptance of external cues that we call education has given me an internal workshop of sharpened tools, I’ve tried to figure out why I feel like I’m numb all the time, like there’s a pillowed barrier between me and whatever is not-me.
I don’t know how many people have told me, “Don’t you know what [he/she/they] said they think about you?”
I don’t feel special.
I feel unformed, my connectors created for a different set of receptors in my daily interactions.
Must I externalise my internal universe to show that I am and am not any different than every other person who lives solely as an imaginary being?
I am neither sane nor insane, learning long ago that sanity is a matter of conviction about your illusions/beliefs in relation to the generally acceptable set of illusions/beliefs professed by the people in your proximity.
I look straight ahead and see an image that makes perfect sense to me, a computer graphical representation of electromagnetic transformation in process that we call the change in the state of bits on a hard drive better known as a set of files being copied:
At the same time, images from yesterday flicker and change — Canada geese flying overhead, a turkey vulture circling a mobile phone tower, duck feathers floating on the surface of a pond inside which carp/koi drift, waiting for food,
a real spider web next to a roped spider web, temporarily capturing the captured image of an acquaintance…
Is it insane to see a few pieces of rope tied together and imagine a spider web?
Is it crazy to move houses built in the 1800s into an enclave in order to preserve the appearance of a way of life that may or may not have existed the way we imagine?
“If image management is all you’ve got going for yourself, your only set of skills a desire to control your image by manipulating the [re]actions of people around you, are you any less out-of-your-league than a moth, its image well-camouflaged against a tree that about to be consumed in a large wildfire?” — that question bothered me every day I worked as a midlevel manager at a global corporation where I overheard employees below me in the corporate hierarchy complain about forces working against them (including conspiracies about the “Black Mafia” and the “Church of Christ clique” that I found little in the way of evidence to support), my going on to meetings with fellow managers about whom the employees had specifically complained and wondering why people complain about others — saying people in upper management only spend time managing their image instead of doing real work — rather than act in support of their personal self-respect and positive self-image that is reflected in their “real work,” which includes their voiced thoughts and opinions.
Is that last paragraph nonsensical?
I can only do what I can do, having not done a lot of things I haven’t done.
These set of thoughts in this blog represent my celebration of freedom, willing to write about behaviours that I would and wouldn’t do because the universe is much grander than our subcultural expectations — in the seven-plus billion of us, sanity is as much crazy as the illusion of the self.
For instance, should an atheist who believes we are truly only sets of states of energy in temporary confluence care at all about the concept of caring, saying that what is socially taboo, such as rape, incest, bestiality and paedophilia, is as perfectly normal as a comet indiscriminately destroying every ecosystem on Earth, all social concepts an illusion of proximity rather than immutable laws of the universe?
Yesterday, I showed up at a local civic center to join a group of people, some whose faces looked familiar but whose personal lives I knew nothing about, to jump around, somewhat in unison, in order for a person (or persons) to assemble a collection of motions captured in bits and bytes into a coherent story told in dance and music — a person’s “vision” turned into what our culture (and most subcultures) would call a sane, socially-acceptable reality.
No one is going to look at the resulting music video and accuse the director of witchcraft.
Should they?







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