ha ha, I deleted your nice tits post in NVG. sssssshhhhhh.

It's the 'shrooms. Either that or he just got married and is still giddy from the honeymoon.

Booze it up- the weekend is here and life is short!

Good advice, Zeno. Tempus fugit, also.

and drink bud or coors or something regular and not those yuppy , upscale micro brewery muddy tasting gobs of wheat.

I have 10 minutes to decide if I want to drink tonight. Fires burning 20 miles west and it's cold outside.

Where I may be going, they only sell yuppie beers.

???

Yes, the Tao. Quality. What is good and what is not good. One's soul intuits it, right?

The Lord Mayor's coach travelling up Fleet Street is a fine sight. No surplus of Yahoos about to spoil everything, either. Everyone waving and high-fiving, it's fun. They even have Gog and Magog for the Pagans:

https://lordmayorsshow.london/history/gog-and-magog

Except they're allies of Satan. WTF?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog

I get blasted by some for not having one. Or for claiming not to believe I have one.

My take is that guy must have looked a long time to find thirty-three wise gentlemen able to tame thirty-three unruly daughters. And that America needs this sort of mythology.

Inspiring, but it probably would be more festive if they kept the human sacrifices.

I went drinking last night! I only had 2 yuppie stouts and I feel like **** today. I'm starting to think I'm not able to drink anymore.

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In a semi-related note, I've been booking more shows. I also got in with a local promoter who seems to be offering me a bunch of gigs at some well-known spots.

My show is a total wreck right now. I've been working on building out backing tracks to play against, and this is buggy at the moment. It's pretty difficult to get the live and recorded music balanced out right.

I've also finally given up on finding people to collaborate with. The alternate idea is to just bring in hired guns. I have enough real songs to fill about 50% of the set, so I'd have someone on stage doing whatever and singing. I figure I could pay someone $100 per gig, which isn't awesome, but is more than people have given me for side and recording work at times.

The idea then is having the bill like "[my project] with guest singer [X]" I'm thinking I'm going to hire on a different vocalist for each show.

To put this idea to the test, I asked some girl who hosts a local open mic. My reputation is that I only improvise and have no actual music, despite having 30 pieces of music on YouTube. Due to this reputation, this girl sometimes jumps up on stage with me and does whatever singing she can come up with, to various results. Some of it was just downright beautiful.

I asked her if she would be willing to be a hired gun for one of the shows and before I could even say it all, she came back with "yes, I'm interested. When's the show?"

Well... there are likely going to be options, so there's 1 "yes" and I may have to fill in another 5 or 6 in the next 2 months. I know who I'm going to ask next, but beyond that, I have no idea.

sometimes its best to perfect your act with the same person, so you work together hand in hand. think of all the duo acts in the past and how they got to the big time.

good luck seems like you are progressing.

The clock's past midnight here in the UK, so Europe is now on 11th November 2018.

100 years ago, that bloody war ended.


In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Just wanted to mention that five of us, old high school and college friends, were part of a group text this morning. It's nice to still have old friends.

It would be nice, but I'm kind of thinking this idea will end up with more interesting results. Plus if I get people who have an actual following, the combination of both of us is stronger than either of us alone. Also, I think it'll be interesting to see the interpretations, and hopefully, I can play other people's music with my own interpretation. Going solo as a non-singer is sooo boring.

I contacted person #2 and got an immediate yes, that's 2 yeses and 1 no.

There is no way to describe how incredibly frustrating and time-consuming it is to find other's to work with. Maybe someone will decide we ought to be partners, but I need vocals more than I need new music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKy7CMExLC8

the great song from the last war to everyone thought to have been fought. it didnt work that way.
and film from it

for you die and charlie

What's amazing is how little they learned from the Great War. I'm not sure we're any smarter now.

I think the best book on WWI is Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory. Although it's often called literary criticism, it's really cultural history. One of the more influential books I've ever read.

It's gratifying to know that there are people reading Fussell.

This, my friends, is how you get your name known by the world:

http://www.metalsucks.net/2018/11/09...U2-zgwskWvadqk

What's even more amazing is how little mankind has learned in the past 5,000 years. Gibbon did a fine job of recording a small chunk of that history. A reading in Chinese history from ancient to modern reveals the same patterns.

Will have to put this on my to read list. I've never read Fussell but have read about him - Described as a curmudgeon. A polite way to imply something else.


paul-fussell-curmudgeonly-essayist-and-scholar-dies-at-88

Can't let this pass without comment. First you drink Coos or Bud at the end of a night of drinking, if at all, when you can't taste anything anyway. And America is now stuff to the gills with excellent micro brewery beers. My favorites are IPA's and pale ales; lip-smacking beers packed full of lusty flavors.