here i go again

man....twice in one week. what is getting into me?

so i am back on the phones for Dell. strangely enough, out of the tens of thousands of calls we get per day, i had a business acquaintance from my summer of booking concerts end up on my phone last night. we had a nice chat, which will no doubt lead to someone somewhere at dell checking out the sale, to see if i gave my friend any un-authorized discounts.....ahhh corporate america.

i have recently become very fascinated with some new music....americana. no, not the starflyer 59 album, but the genre.....americana, alt-country, whatever the cool term is this week. you know....folks like john prine, steve earle, buddy and julie miller(and of course, the vigilantes of love are an old favorite),....also some other great song-writers...townes van zandt, van morrison, jerry jeff walker, elvis costello. this is all good and well, but i have noticed that these fine artists are all fairly...well....liberal. lot's of anti-war, anti-republican, hippie kind of stuff. i suppose this would be ok, if i weren't such a died in the wool southern baptist conservative pro-gun republican. the issue is, with these people, the words of the songs are the point, as opposed to most modern rock, where the words are just something to scream over the loud guitars. so can i listen to this wonderful music, support these extremely talented people, whose politics i so firmly disagree with? i hope so, because i surely dig the music.

speaking of me being pro-gun.....i had the opportunity to go to a pistol competition this past weekend. it was amazingly lacking in testosterone, and was just a bunch of really nice folks who love shooting guns. good solid citizens. i met several police officers (always good for a person of my checkered past), and other assorted people, and all in all had a great time. i think i may shoot in the next one.....i need another expensive hobby, because music just isn't sucking my wallet dry enough......

well....that's enough for today. i had some great ideas for new witty content, but seemed to get off onto some rant about music and politics and what not, which derailed the humour. maybe next time. until then......

so let it be written, so let it be done