Saturday, February 13, 2016

Operation 365 2... Blog 51

Operation 365 2 - Jefferson Jay - Covers – 51 “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats


A few days, I was all fired up doing my videos and I recorded a while bunch of stuff that, at the time, I thought was OK. Well, days have passed and as it turns out I’ve decided to post almost every bit if it. Maybe the idea of playing “Safety Dance” in a pile of balls wasn’t as disastrous as I thought. Yes, I love this song and it IS possible that I could have played it “better” (as if there even is such a thing. It’s quite subjective.) had I not been perched on a pile of balls, but it was meant to be and we’re here.

Sometimes finishing old work is just a lot more doable and fun than starting new work. I believe now is one of those times. Someone’s gotta play on a pile of balls. Apparently, today, that someone is me.

Operation 365 2 - Jefferson Jay - Originals – 51 “A Clean Mind (Paradise Found)” by Jefferson Jay

I wrote “A Clean Mind (Paradise Found)” in 2012, I believe. I had a whole collection of happy, lovey songs I wrote then that hasn’t really been heard by anyone. Part of the reason I wanted to do this 365 was to share some of the songs I wrote since the last one that I may never have shared otherwise. From some reason that’s important to me. It’s like the old maxim, “if a tree fall is the forest an no one is around, does any one hear it?” If a song sits in my brain and my computer, will anyone hear it? No is the answer.

Will anyone hear it here? I don’t know that either, but that’s a question for someone other than me to answer. A clean mind is paradise found. It’s a nice message for a song if I say so myself, which I just did, so I do.

Operation 365 2 - Jefferson Jay - Words – 51 “Porn vs. Prostitution”

It occurred to me, as it doesn’t from time to time that there are just some things I don’t understand, particularly as it pertains to the law. For instance, the one that’s had me apoplectic today is the idea that there’s any difference between porn and prostitution. It seems to me the only difference is that, there is video proof that people got paid to have sex in porn while there is not in standard “prostitution” whatever that means.

If I didn’t know better, and I don’t, it would appear the porno movie provides evidence that people had sex for money. There are tax records too, I imagine. I just don’t get it. I’m not stating anything for or against either of these things as much as I’m pointing out the absurd imaginary lines between what’s legal and what isn’t. I love our Bizzaro World despite all it conundrums and peccadillos.

One final example to just slightly overdo it:


“According to Gawker’s Adam Weinstein and his very helpful map, you may not have anal or oral sex of any sort — even if you are in a good, old fashioned, hetero marriage — but you may engage in sexual intercourse with a corpse in Louisiana and North Carolina.

Louisiana (whose politicians are ALWAYS pillars of the moral community) recently upheld its ban on sodomy, even though the law was ruled to be unconstitutional.”

Just a teensy tad difficult to take laws seriously when laws like this still exist in the 21st Century. Maybe it’s time for an overhaul legal review…

It has been brought to my attention this week, for the first time, through the Trump and Sanders campaign and media coverage of them that people are outraged with the status quo. Well, it’s about damn time, Where ya been all these years?  Maybe ya been there all along and it’s just that the media can’t conceal it any longer with it’s reality TV and nonsense, which incidentally, is how we got into this whole Trump situation in the first place, but that’s another story for another non-today day on Operation 365 2.


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