A Piano Beat

So I made a drum track that was speaking to me.

Then I decided to bust out the concert piano synthesizer.

And I thought it was so cool I made this movie.

Enjoy.

My Brother

I know it's a little late for Halloween pics. But my brother was a nun this year, and I just found some of his pictures, and they won't really do him justice, but check em out.... he is too funny.

We naturally do it.

I'm sick of that word. Why do I say it? I'm sick of a lot of words. I'm so sick of the word sick right now.

I'm so ailing, bedridden, broken down, confined, debilitated, declining, defective, diseased, frail, ill, impaired, indisposed, laid-up, and wobbly of the word.

Here's some other words and why I hate them.

Naturally - I actually love the word naturally. I just don't like how there aren't other ways to say it. Most people use it. If you didn't say it people would ask you..."do you mean like....naturally?"

"that's how he naturally does it?"

So instead of replacing it with another word, I'm thinking about replacing it with some short gibes which are more my style than quips:

"And so just like all the other blood sucking maggots he drank the blood."

"And like all busy beavers, her shit was for sale."

"And so it came to him as if it were something out of nature. Yes indeed like something that was natural. And so he broke it."

How about those things that you say, that you don't even know what they mean? They're like social cues that somehow shoot without warning out of your mouth.

Things like the phrase loud and clear.

"How well can you hear me?"

"Oh I hear you LOUD_N_CLEAR"

We even change the way we talk to say things like that. To a more kind of guy in a fire station yell. "LOUD N CLEAR"

Have you ever really heard someone loud, or clear? No you just say that because once you actually tried to say something original in it's place. You said something else like "I hear you just fine."

You were being silly thinking that you with all of your cleverness you could even fathom how many eons of languages it took to perfect the phrase LOUD N CLEAR.

But they don't understand. They think you're not hearing them fine. They're asking people around them, "Did he say loud, woah?!? did he say.... clear?" They're waiting for a LOUD N CLEAR. And you're forced to give it to them.

Or what about that game we all play, called "How are you doing?"

Has anyone ever wanted to know how somebody else was doing? Really? Somebody that just happens to be walking down the same hallway as you. Sometimes it's not you though, it's them. They start the game. It doesn't matter who starts, you're playing now.

"Hi how are you doing?"

"I'm....doing great!"

"Oh well that's nice, Yea you know who else is doing great....me yea."

"great."

"yes and it's great you're great too."

(and then as you walk away)

"Hey, next time we're in the hallway....?"

"Oh most certainly. We must do this again."

Here's another version of "How are you doing?" This is the version that you've been down before with some really good hallway buddies in the past. The one that makes you kind of realize that things like this aren't ever meant to be.

"Hi how are you?"

"Oh hey what's going on?"

"Hey we see each other in this hallway a lot don't we?"

"Like totally!"

"Do you wanna meet in another hallway sometime?."

"YES!!!"

"Or what if? Like say, I didn't want to see you in a hallway at all? What if I wanted to see you in something that had like 4 walls and shit?"

"Yes, you could."

"Could I say hi?"

"Sure, unless unless... I say it first."

"Oh I will say it first. Because you are so cool."

"I dunno because I think you're cooler than me."

"Well we'll see who's cooler. When we (beat) hang out!"

"Oh we will. We will sooooo hang out."

"We are so hanging out."

"I don't even need your number, because I'm already going to be at your house."

"I will not be there, because I will be knocking on your door."

and then a week goes by......the two of you meet again. Neither of you has kept any of the promises from the previous engagement. Which you have to address. Because there's no secrets between hallway friends.

"Dood I have been meaning to call you."

"No it is I who has been meaning to call."

"I'm sorry, it's just that life outside of this hallway is very hard."

"I know it's hard for me too."

"You're not judging me?"

"No man, I love you."

"I love you too."

(you embrace)

"Ok so we are definitely hanging out now right?"

"I mean we just hugged in the freaking hallway man. You complete me."

"So it's on then?"

"Like Donkey Kong. I don't even know what that means, it's like Jesus just mouth raped me."

"No I say it too. It's OK."

"It is OK, to say those things sometimes. Things you don't mean."

"Sometimes those things just come out of your mouth."

"Yea, hey wow you really understand me!"

"Are we going to get like matching tattoos?"

"If we don't somehow figure out how to just inhabit the same body."

and then another week goes by.....And you still haven't talked to this person again. And when you see them, and they see you you both kind of hate yourself. And so just to be polite. You feel it's best to just tone it down. And over time not even talk anymore. Because well, you need to be able to walk down this hall way and not have a five minute conversation with everyone. And they in turn need it too.
And this time, you both try something.

You just start ignoring each other. And it's working, and it's beautiful. And it's a great place to be sometimes. And that goes on and on, until one of you brings it up.


"Yea I knew it"

"Knew what?"

"That we could be more than hallway friends."

"Oh no we could never be more than that."

"Why not?"

"Because you're some just freak I met in the hallway."

"Oh yea well hey! So are you."

"You're creepy. Talking to someone in a hallway. What is wrong with you? I could be a serial killer.

"Well are you?"

"No."

"Are you?"

"No."

"Good keep it up."

"Yeah you keep it up too."

You see you'll never be friends. And if you are, then you'll have to tell people that you met in a hallway. And then all those questions are going to start up.

"Well what were you doing? Just standing there. Cuz that doesn't make any sense."

"Yea I was just there man. And so was he."

"He was just standing there too?"

"Dood it was like destiny."



What words do you hate?

Come in touch with something new today

The human brain is a cataclysm of comfortable past experiences. You are an emergent entity, that changes overtime from the inside out. Have you really become all that you can be? Or are you stuck in a state of acceptable stress, or acceptable identity?

You are who you are only because you taught yourself to be this way. But what if I were to tell you that you could change the past by influencing your own future? You have the ability to re-wire or remap your own brain. You have an enormous potential to change your life. You only need to believe that you can do this. The first step is letting go of yourself.

It could all start today. You could start letting go of all of your baggage right now if you wanted. You feel compelled to be yourself only because you are addicted to your emotions that are chemically produced when you are.

I challenge every person who reads this message to start making the shift from "me" to "one."

Today is an opportunity that you're never going to get again. A singular point in time and space where you can start the creation of your own reality.

Do something uncomfortable today! Create something new today, get in your own face. Let go of and challenge your own morality. Step outside of that comfortable little box you've created. There is no wrong no right there is only you. You have to become it, to know what you should become.

That which we are most afraid of, is what thrills us the most.

A little song I was working on this morning

Just a little improv because I was up early...

There are a couple of weird mic pops in it, I've got to get a better mic for the house. It is what it is.

While it's not a necessity this song sounds bad-asstical in headphones.

Inspired by a conversation...

It's never a planned out thing really. You're most definitely not sitting there at work watching the seconds go by thinking about it. You're not in your car on the way home telling yourself : "OK I'm gonna shower, change my clothes, and then flip it on".

What I'm talking about is watching a porno-Esq flick on your television.

It starts out innocently enough.





You're watching that re-run of Seinfeld. The one you've seen a million times, called "Not that there's anything wrong with that." You're laughing and have a great time. Then a commercial hits, and instinctively you press the "guide" button to see what else you could be watching.



You scroll down through the endless list of nothingness that you're paying ungodly amounts of cash each month for. The commercial break is un-seemingly long and now you're down in the movie channel section.

Two words stand out to you on the screen for some reason. Fatal Attraction! You start to process what those two words mean. A curious voice in the back of your mind starts probing your frontal lobes. "Isn't there some tittys in that movie?"

And then being the good detective that you are you have to find out.

And after further examination there aren't just tittys in that movie, there are fantastic tittys in that movie.




And nobody is around. And before you know it, it's 3am. And now you're watching ....

Sex Games Cancun 3.



And no you didn't set out to do this. But you did this because you're a dirty male, with a dirty mind. And you're a slave to testosterone.

Are you ready for some change?

I hate to be the bearer of perceived bad news. But because everyone I talk to thinks that Barack Hussein Obama is going to change their lives, I must deliver some. Basically everyone I know voted for him. And I can totally understand being passionate about your candidate. But when I hear the aspirations and beliefs of devout Obama followers, and see that just drank the poisoned Jones town kool-aid look in their eye, I want to slap them. But I'm not a slapper, I'm a blogger.

You honestly think you voted for change. And I cannot for one second hate on that. You really think that you helped yourself and your country. And that is an admirable quality. To bestow your hopes and dreams into yet another politician is what I don't understand though.

I seem to remember another president elect that was suppose to change America, reform Washington and leave no child behind. His compassionate conservatism and executive experience were destined to lead us into the new frontier and make us a bolder better country than we had ever been before. What was his name again? George W. something.

You were standing there at the rally pledging your allegiance and shouting those three little words yes we can. And it was this big swirl of emotions and deep feelings and tears. Did anyone stop and ask the important question? Can we? Can we really bring about the social reformation that we all deserve? I doubt it.

I'm sorry but I seriously doubt it. Every election cycle we basically elect the same government. The faces change, and so do the issues. But the greed, power, and bureaucracy still exists. And I don't for one second think that America has changed at all. It still smells like a rat. It still looks like a rat. So it must be America.

Let us not forget that Barack Obama is a politician. And beyond that he belongs to a political party. You didn't vote for change. You voted for a Democrat. A Democrat who exists within a political system that is only interested in self preservation.

As long as we keep electing these life long politicians to elected office we will never rid ourselves of the problem. I'm fearful that you're expecting a new America, and all we're going to get is a fresh coat of paint. When what we really need is a brand new house.

Do you even know what kind of change you want? Change is such an ambiguous term.



I'm not all gloom and doom. I want the new president to succeed. I hope he is the man that you really thought you voted for. In fact I have high hopes. I presume innocence like a good citizen is supposed to.

I think it's important to know what kind of change you want though. Most Obama supporters who voted so fervently for it, don't have an answer to this question. Here are some changes that I want.

1) A return to the gold standard of monetary policy, as dictated by the supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution.

2) An end to entitlement programs such as Welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Department of Education.

3) A return to Free Trade policies.

4) The disbandment of the Federal Reserve System.

5) The abolition of the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution, the Income Tax amendment. As it was never legally ratified, and is unconstitutional because it is an un-apportioned tax.

I don't know if the changes I listed above would fix America. But I didn't claim they would. Those would be real changes though.

I will let Barack Obama take office and put things in motion before I judge his Presidency. I will give the alleged changes a fair amount of time to work. But so far the only changes I see on the horizon are the following.

1) The color of the skin of the president.

2) A $1,000 tax cut for couples, and a $500 dollar tax cut for individuals. However because an income tax in the first place is unconstitutional this change is mute.

3) Some minor tweaks in health care.

4) Talking to Iran.

Did I miss anything?

I do sincerely wish you the best Mr. President Elect. Our country is broken. Would you please fix it? We don't need band-aids anymore. We need drastic surgery. And I'm concerned that the status-quot will win because of greed, money and corrupt able power....just like it always does.