Your Walking, Talking White Boy Nightmare

And that would be me, honey.  I'm been so diggin' Macklemore and 'twenty dollars in my pocket' as a smart man told me a long time ago, you never really get more money, you just get better tastes.  While you're thinking that through, I'll be heading to the thrift store because ... I've got twenty dollars in my pocket.

Yesterday got all kinds of hip hop and the trouble with that is white guys acting like black guys and who is acting like what and which part of it is real.

The answer is it doesn't matter because it's a cool beat and it ain't blues.  Even with that lame drum machine, the beat was banging it up pretty good and I didn't even do a bass line.  This definitely requires more experimentation.

Visualize, if you will, Cruise Ship Man, this time with black socks with those sandals, set up on the porch of the Fort Worth Rockhouse.

Cruise Ship Man calls out across the street, "Muddafugga, if you gonna war with me you have got to dance."

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Got twenty dollars in my pocket


There you go.  Sixty-four year old white guy in a rap battle.  Sweet dreams, honey.

Damn, that's a cold-ass honkie.

Yes, the end of "8 Mile" does make me cry.  Why do you ask?  (laughs)

Three Days of Crazy in May

As we have already discovered, the Seagull flies on Wednesday, arriving in the evening.  Thus I can enjoy three more days of crazy prior to that glorious moment.

Establishing your crazy hours is important.  It became clear that the Rockhouse should only be open for crazy between the hours of seven a.m. and midnight.  Any crazy in hours other than those I will make up myself.

Please do keep this in mind for scheduling any spontaneous outbursts, random acts of weird, and / or covering your body with Vegemite for no particular reason.  Whether any or all of these things have happened during this insight into the don't go is not the point as you don't predict crazy, you just fookin' roll with it.


The various campaigns are not sacked.

Save the 2006 Mac Pro - This one is on-hold until the iMac is resolved.  It makes no sense to screw with one computer while another one is still sick.  The People of the Future agree with this but, what the hell, they already know how it will come out anyway.

Save the New Used iMac - This one is on-hold until I can get to the Apple Store but complications will likely prevent that until Wednesday.  It's not killing me although the laptop is slow like molasses in a tarpit.  Moving in slow steps is crucial so I'm ok with the pace.  I don't like but it but the price is somewhat acceptable.

End of the World in Fort Worth - As soon as the iMac comes back up, this rolls again.  The version of Final Cut on the laptop can't read the updated files but it couldn't process that video anyway, not and still finish it in 2015.

Playing Live - Silas is scheduled for Thursday but, given the arrival on Wednesday, it's predictable that Thursday will be unpredictable.  Therefore, I don't think it's wise to make a hard schedule for that date as it could easily poof due to uncontrollable variables.

Working on My Anger Issues - I'm not angry.  It only seems that way.  I worked very hard in my life just as did practically everyone I know.  When I see people are not willing to work hard to learn what is happening in the world, it doesn't enrage but disappoints me tremendously.  My violence is a parody of that which people take for granted in the world and do not seem to wish to resolve.

Pamela Geller Deliberately Provokes Death in Texas for Profit

Pamela Geller, yet another xenophobic Internet cow, sponsored a contest to draw a cartoon of Muhammed.  Her precise intention, despite her shallow and disingenuous protests to the contrary, was to elicit exactly what happened.  Two Muslims took the bait and started shooting.  They are now deceased Muslims.   Following that she screams Muslim persecution in the most viciously cynical voice possible because her Web site, "Atlas Bugs," will profit from it.

Murder is vile but making money on it is an additional dimension of evil that goes far beyond a simple killing.

The headline in CNN was NOW IT'S IN TEXAS.

Yeah, yeah.  It came to Texas because Pamela Geller staged it there.  Too bad that gutless bitch wasn't the one to take a bullet.


Geller's Web site is a variation of "Atlas Bugs" but Atlas wasn't even there, was he.  This bait and switch terrorism is a fool's game and I don't have a damn bit of sympathy for someone who provokes the violence and is then a 'victim' of what follows.


Clarification:  to make this precise.  I don't endorse any of this, neither the provocation nor the killing.  That the attackers did not accomplish their objective doesn't absolve them of anything.  However, I see only one person standing to profit by it and the exhibitors were, in effect, pawns she was willing to sacrifice to that end.

Presenting Facts Does Nothing for Me Other than Hope

My own situation is screwed and it will likely stay that way.  My writing is a convenient way to alienate just about everyone so there's no chance they will buy my CD.  Nevertheless, the information is important and taking action on it will do little to nothing for my life but it can make a huge change for the young.  My hope is that they listen.

The information is difficult as sub-titles are annoying and no-one wants to deal with them but education doesn't come easy.  If you're willing, you know how it goes and you have to work for it.

There was someone earlier saying to relax about Operation Jade Helm, you insult the honor of the military.  I told her it was adorable that she had trust in a military that hasn't won a war since WWII and that was shared with the Russians.  That kind of flaccid thinking is probably not educable and is a waste of focus except as an observation regarding Milgram's obedience experiments.

I've said previously I don't give a rat's ass about Operation Jade Helm as it would be cool to watch the chaos on TV but I give a huge rat's ass for those who will have to live it as this stuff is straight out of the pages of Robert Heinlein and he was writing of fascist future police states sixty years ago.

Concern about children isn't anything new as I've never voted against a school tax levy in my life.  I just don't like being around them that much although they are cute to watch.

"On the Trail of the Troika" or "How Greece Was Looted" (video)

The Troika is comprised of the Eurozone, the ECB (European Central Bank), and the IMF (International Monetary Fund).  Massive collusion between the three resulted in destruction of the Greek economy and no chance to recover from it due to the onerous terms of the agreement.  Note there was resistance within the IMF to what the EU intended but the video documents how and why it was ignored.

Perhaps you consider 'massive collusion' to be an over-statement but more than 90% of the billions sent from the EU to Greece as a so-called assist for the Greek people went, in fact, to French and German banks in Greece which had extended what have been termed 'sub-prime loans' to the Greek government which was known to have little to no ability to repay the money.  Hardly any of the money sent to Greece went anywhere near the Greek people.

The premise is documented by the research presented in this video and also by that of Die Anstalt, presented previously, which corroborates every word of it and which was researched by and developed by an independent source.

This is important work due to the conceptual flim flam surrounding growing economies in that the prevailing philosophy in the West is the idea that austerity will reduce government spending thus permitting the business world to grow unencumbered by burdensome taxes, etc, etc.  We've heard the pitch many times.

However, the actuality of it in practice is nowhere more evident than what has happened to the southern countries of the European Union, most particularly Greece, which, if you'll forgive a bit of CNN style, was gang-raped by multiple countries, only in part through massive arms sales to Greece during the same period it was breaking down.  It's not a question of whether Greece has a submarine but rather how many.  Now perhaps you ask what the hell Greece would do with a submarine.

The Greek government is not blameless and is really guilty of unbelievable stupidity but that's been attributed as the sole source to the collapse of their economy and whereas the larger dimension of it is that, as documented thoroughly in this video and that of Die Anstalt previously, more powerful nations gathered around in a blood feast to drain the country before it died altogether.

The fundamental flaw to any austerity program anymore is that an economy can grow by reducing spending but obviously it can't as no money is being spent and thus jobs disintegrate because there is no need for them to make the products people can no longer buy.

I despise purple journalism so you can take as you will presentation of this material.  What I can tell you is that it's meticulously researched and the journalistic standard in this and Die Anstalt has only one peer in U.S. journalism:  John Oliver.  No-one else researches much of anything and frequently 'journalists' copy content from one news release to use in their own without any validation.


At last report, there were 46.5 million people on SNAP (i.e. food stamps) in the United States.  If you call it ten million people in New York City, that means you could stretch that megalopolis to Washington, D.C, and every single person in it would be hungry.  Some call that recovery but I view that as utter rubbish and the video along with Die Anstalt document the patent falsity and cynical administration of austerity programs.

As with Greece, the GOP blames all the problems of the poor on the poor but "On the Trail of the Troika" goes into considerably greater depth on how the poor got that way and why they stay that way.  Greece is far from the only country in the world being looted.

G.D. Armstrong Electric Bouzouki

Don't mind me as I'm just lusting.

G.D. Armstrong is a luthier in Oregon and Newberg Music is where you can learn more about the instruments he builds.

For my play, the solid-body bouzouki is much preferred as my shoulder doesn't negotiate on that.  The wider body of an electric / acoustic instrument would likely not be tolerated.  However, this instrument is not a compromise as I see pure gorgeosity in her.

This looks like a real luthier's work as they are such artists they don't just feel wood, they hear it.  This one will demonstrate a compelling difference between it and an acoustic / electric model as the sustain on notes with a solid body is significant.  The actual voice of the instrument will be changed beyond making it louder through amplification and some may call it heresy but I call it love.


It would make no sense whatsoever to acquire one of these although I would dearly love to take the time to learn how she likes to be treated, how she likes to sing.  That can't happen so this is a moment of pure lust.  Please do enjoy as you will.  She is beautiful, isn't she.

(Note:  this isn't a back-handed request for assistance.  I'm thoroughly enjoying the lust.)

The Day of the Great Vacuum Cleaner Saga

Astute readers will know already that crazy beat stupid this morning ... but ... you don't know why.

And so began The Great Vacuum Cleaner Saga.

On awakening and only moments after ensuring my innards were at peace with the Universe, I was presented with a brand-new vacuum cleaner and a query as to why it is not working.  I should add the vacuum cleaner was in pieces after doing a peach of job of what vacuum cleaners do yesterday.

My first thought was it does not work because you took it apart, Hippie Girl.  Have we considered that yet?

There was more to the puzzle as often comes in taking things apart, there were parts left over on attempting to reassemble the device.

Thus was my morning occupied as I reviewed Dyson vacuum cleaner manuals whose only claim to being documentation is the presentation of a few marginally useful pictures.

But that failed.

Youtube videos were previewed in succession, revealing to me first something I really didn't need to know:  there is a tremendous enthusiasm for making videos about vacuum cleaners.  As to learning anything else from the exercise, that was not so productive.

So that failed.

Then I thought, aha, this odd unit must have a replacement part serial number.  Surely searching that on Google will at least identify the beast's purpose.

Dyson does not have such a device.


And, verily, came the epiphany.  This (expletive-deleted, expletive-deleted, expletive-deleted) part doesn't even belong to this (expletive-deleted, expletive-deleted, expletive-deleted) vacuum cleaner.

Thus did pass two and a half hours of my life into vaporous nothingness, although now cleaned of dust.

Most White People Don't Know We're Crazy

When you get thread respect from a black guy, you will be ... well, the first white guy in human history who ever earned it ... except for this guy:

When you don't got nothin', you know one thing:  whatever you got, stand up and be proud in it.

You go, cold-ass honkie!


Thank you, Mystery Lady, for an excellent tip.  Cat wants me to wear a blues hat which you already know is a fedora but buying a new one doesn't do it for me plus I don't want to shell out jingle I could spend on gadgets instead of food.  Yevette will be back shortly with an anticipated sharp reduction in crazy around here and she will know where to find a thrift store.  While computers are sick, that could be a great and cheap pastime.

OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 Stands Ready to Kill Again

See the following article about the difference between crazy and stupid.  This one confines itself to stupidity, my own.

Auto-update was not disabled for the laptop and now OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 will load the next time it restarts.  We've seen already what it did to the new used machine as now it's dead on the ground.  It can be fixed; Apple just reamed it with a software chainsaw.

There are two choices:  the first is to let the update proceed for the sake of the diagnostic.  However, not all bugs manifest on all machines so the information would be useful to Apple but of no value whatsoever to me.  Moreover, Final Cut 10.2 will load after it sees Yosemite 10.10.3 is present and then the machine is completely screwed.  (I have no reason to believe Final Cut 10.2 is broken as my thinking it's a victim rather than a perp.  Yosemite crashes without Final Cut isn't even running.)

The other option is don't restart it.  Apple machines, so long as they don't have OS X 10.10.3 on them, will stay up for quite long periods.  It is a viable option to leave this machine in the current state while the new used machine goes off to, I guess, the Apple Store for their diagnostics.  That looks like the most (cough) conservative approach to the situation and is likely how it will proceed.


So, nah, this one isn't too funny but coolness, apart from barking looneys, generally prevails.  Only coolness will solve this as my dream machine, tiny li'l iMac though she may be, is stabbed in the heart and the rescue won't be dramatic as those kinds of solutions almost invariably make things worse.  When it gets this bad the best thing you can do for yourself is slow down.  So, it's slow.


If you're looking for entertainment, this article may serve you better:  the difference between crazy and stupid.

The Difference Between Crazy and Stupid

After some time with Full Bark looney, it became clear to me that boundaries are required for soon you, Guitar Boy, will be dribbling on yourself as well.

The regulars know already that I like people ... I just don't really want to talk to them that much.  I have my work and I want to do it.  I can't muster much enthusiasm for Bruce Jenner adding or removing parts as why should I care.  In other words, I'm anti-social like a Gila Monster.


There is no sleep with looneys ... as opposed to sleeping with looneys, which means only you are a looney as well.  You saw "Fatal Attraction," yes?

So there is no sleep as everything has to happen now.  Don't you understand this is important!!!  Yes, in fact, I do understand and that's why I'm not doing anything.  That we did this same routine five minutes ago doesn't change the outcome now.

Then I realized, I have the cats for the Rockhouse Defense Force outside but there is no defense once inside ... unless ... I lock the damn doors.

So I did lock the door and can cheerfully report no-one came to tell me about rattlesnakes in the house or other bizarro gibberish between midnight and seven thirty in the morning.  Blessed silence.

On waking, I took care of my morning priorities in expelling that which no longer wished to enjoy the company of my mortal frame and returned to awaken the computer.


That's when the looney appeared.  I wasn't so much annoyed as amused ... how the hell did you get in here??

She replied that she went out the front door and came back in the back door to get around the locked entryway.  Therein, dear readers, lies the difference between crazy and stupid.

The GOP Dream Date for 2016

The ideal for the GOP is when Clinton runs as the Democrat and Sanders decides to go Independent.  At that point the vote is seriously split and the Presidency is handed to any of the Three Stooges.

Clinton is about 90% cellulite cliche and 10% complete indifference to humanity ... or it's the other way around.  It doesn't make any difference.  She has built a massive machine for it but the only one of the Clintons to express any wisdom about things is her husband.  I've heard nothing but special interest throwaways from her so far.  So what if she supports gay marriage.  It will happen anyway.  So what if she supports reefer as that will happen anyway also.  When her world view is being another drone bomber, her opinions on love and spirituality don't matter to me.

The variable is whether Sanders as an Independent can be destructive enough to Clinton's campaign to improve the odds for low quality of GOP candidates and still have an actual chance of winning.  A secondary variable is would he do it knowing he would likely torpedo anything even close to a left-of-center win.


It looks like Perry has the lead for the GOP which isn't particularly good news for them as he adds more depth to the definition of 'politically hackneyed' than any second-rate Republican ever did.  He plays a stupid game as he says he wants to play with guns.  So what.  Clinton hands it to him and walks away.  He sputters in the dust.  He's easy and apparently people think he's the best they've got.

Note:  I've listed first-rate Republicans previously and Perry is definitely not in that class.


Some still blather about the Affordable Care Act but what will they do with it ... give it back to the insurance companies that have it already.  The much-anticipated collapse of Western economy due to Obamacare didn't exactly happen so that's a problem when the system more or less works and the stock market goes up.

The biggest GOP theme is wasting terrorists.  Clinton is already a confirmed bomber and Obama has been blasting so many that he even nails hostages so there's really no qualitative difference.  GOP candidates can say they will do it more but the detail on that will fall apart as the military is scattered all over the place.

Clinton kills any thought of increased belligerence easily by asking them if they would bring back the draft as how else will they get sufficient troops to engage in such aggressive military behavior.  Agreeing to a draft is political suicide for the GOP so they're screwed.  Making promises on something you obviously can't deliver is political suicide as well.  Check and mate.

The trouble with all of this is, except for Sanders, they're all poll-driven sluts and they treat this like a game, all the while striking that Presidential pose.


The premise behind all of the war talk is Middle East peace but no-one has made clear why I should care if Iran and Saudi Arabia battle.  Anyone slutty enough to sell them weapons can even turn a few dollars on it but I'm damned if I see a reason American personnel and equipment should be engaged in their religious civil war.  Yah, they're brutal.  Sometimes people get like that and, in a religious war, all you can do is get out of the way.  Who cares if Shi'a or Sunni wins.  The fate of the world doesn't hang on it and most people don't know the difference anyway.  Perhaps without outside interference they even come to a rational peace.

ISIS attracts people and conservatives ask why, why, why.  ISIS uses generally the same technique as  the Church (cough) of Scientology except in reverse.  While the Scientologists in Cincinnati would send a pair of hot babes to troll the campus for initiates, ISIS uses their stud male warriors.  The girls they attract do not seem typically to be poor and stupid but rather educated and seemingly well-off or at least not suffering.  Their disenfranchisement is from the false spirituality of the West where God is proclaimed but money is king.  The falsity is transparent and they walk.  The purity of ISIS belief, no matter how apparently depraved, is an attractant to them.  Bait them with some stud warriors and you'll get mail-order brides all day long.


The other bait and switch act is in 'getting tough with Putin' but he's already laughing.  Send Perry up against him and he will be on the floor pounding his fist into the ground because laughing is making his stomach hurt.

So, Perry, you vant to war with me, da?  I tell you what, comrade.  I drop Tsar Bomba on London.  Fifty megatons poison England for thousand years and prevailing winds off Atlantic carry fallout all over Europe.  Your move, cowboy.  I could wait until 2017 or so when the F-35 is supposed to start working as that makes it more fair.  Your call.

On second thought, comrade.  I have fastest fighters (MiG 31) and biggest bombs.  Fuck you.


The Green Party takes it seriously and has a nearly perfect platform but they have no chance against the big political machines.

Russell Brand advises when no worthy candidates are available then don't vote.  The problem is anyone intelligent enough to understand him favors the GOP by failing to vote and you still end up with a duck in the White House.


This blather is prompted by a surprising level of support when Sanders announced he would run along with an interview showing he has excellent clarity in identifying problems.

Presumably conservatives pray just now that Sanders is their new Ralph Nader as I really don't see they have a chance otherwise and I suspect some who might have run are standing back as why subject yourself to a political bloodbath.  It's a surprise Paul Ryan isn't in it and that may be the first wisdom that arrogant pup has ever shown.

Der Frieden kommt ... am Mittwoch (English ... mostly)

Alternate title:  The Seagull Flies on Wednesday

Peace flies to DFW and it's relief of reliefs on a big jet plane.  There's enough complexity in the background to keep The Riddler busy for the rest of his life.  It's not like taking acid, it's like life became the acid.

There are difficult things in multiple convoluted packages and this will change the convolution but ameliorate one aspect in a tremendous way.

(Break to play as it's time.  Sometimes that happens suddenly.)

Dragon riding makes one fine kind of tired.  It's sounding good with some misgivings about balance between guitar and synth.  Overall it was trips but I didn't record it.  That will come when I light a stream as that is always recorded.  Doesn't mean it won't suck but it will be at least sucking on-disk.

Everything is melody.  Scales are what come without it so always there is the thinking to make melody and don't go mountain climbing.

Freiheit ist alles
(Freedom is everything)

Therefore, freedom is melody?

You tell me as it's your freedom to decide, it's melody or it's rubbish.

Frieden macht Freiheit.
(Peace makes freedom)

Krieg macht nur mehr Krieg.
(War only makes more war)

Nur in Stille sind wir besiegt.
(Only in silence are we defeated)