We interrupt this posting of the 12 songs I wrote in two
hours last Tuesday to bring you an emergency song I wrote last night. What is
an emergency exactly? Well like Chris Rock said during his Oscars intro
monologue Sunday night, “There are different kinds of racism.” I may have
paraphrased that. Well, the same applies to emergencies. There are real
emergencies, like when you’re trapped under a truck that’s about to explode and
then there are other instances when time of the essence but life or death does
not hang in the balance. This was one of those.
When the inspiration for a song, or any other art form I imagine, arrives, the artist must
seize it or risk not finishing said inspiration when creation time finally
arrives. So, we sat down for dinner, discussed order options, and the
inspiration came. I waited briefly, before finding paper, a pen, and making the
magic happen. Like I do.
So, shout-out to Matt and Maggie (mentioned lyrically) and
Ranchos, who fixed Matt’s shiitake for inspiring this fine future hymn, “Piece
of Shiitake,” which, if you hadn’t gathered already, is based on a true story…
like Fargo… and The Big Short.
Operation 365 2 - Jefferson Jay - Words – 69 “Can We Handle
the Truth?”
This morning, I went to take my lunch and was greeted by a
sky that looked like no sky I saw as a child. I wish to give the government or
whoever is scribble-scrabbling fake clouds in the air, the benefit of the
doubt, regardless of how little they deserve it. I like to think that id the
powers that be are going to spray the sky indiscriminately with chemicals
without even acknowledging that they’re doing so, that there is some sort of
good reason for it. One can hope and pray, right?
Perhaps this “geo-engineering” as its called on the rare
occasion it’s publicly addressed is to actually protect us from global warming
as some allege. Others, like the GOP, don’t even agree there is global warming.
Still others, like those who made the YouTube hit “What in the World Are They
Spraying?,” allege that these are particles of aluminum and other metals
theoretically aimed at reflecting some of the sun’s rays back into space… OK…
You see, I watched that movie, and I was swayed slightly,
but I acknowledge, I have no idea what’s happening. The main reason for that is
the government won’t say. I’m here to say, I wish they would. I can take it.
What I can’t take is looking up at a sky that looks doodled on with white puffy
lines that escape a plane’s asshole and spread over the sky. So to fight that,
I just stopped looking up for the most part. Great, right? What I’d prefer is the truth. Unless
this is some top secret thing, which it shouldn’t be, it’s everyone’s sky, I
thought. I ‘d love to know the truth. I’m a big boy and believe, perhaps erroneously,
that I can take it. I’d love to live in a world where the authorities trusted
the people enough to tell them the truth and loved the people enough to now
secretly poison them. That one’s more meant for our food supply and Monsanto,
but who knows? We’ve maybe all been breathing poison for years. It’s hard to
know when there’s smoke everywhere and all our leaders do is insist that
there’s no fire.
Operation 365 2 - Jefferson Jay - Covers – 69 “Summer of 69”
by Bryan Adams
Welcome to Day 69 of Operation 365 2, all 1, 6, 75 or
75,000,000 of you. Let’s face it. Nobody knows what’s going to happen so
there’s no sense in guessing, I say. I was trying to come up with the best “69”
song I could and believe it or not, I landed here.
I remember 7th grade at Memorial Junior High
working up a little dance number for this tune, fake surfboards and everything
as our “section, Section 7-9 battled the other 7th grade sections
for some reason I can’t recall. It bonded me with this jam somewhat, as did
being a child of the 80s. Bryan Adams was ubiquitous back then, Lots of
Canadian folks were: John Candy, Rush, Jim Carrey, “You Can’t Do That on
Television,” Rick Moranis, Alanis Morrisette, hockey dudes, Mike J. Fox, Pam
Anderson… These guys crushed in Canadian-style into the 90s.
This continued through the first half of Michael Myers
career. Then the 2nd half of Myers career ushered in the
not-so-great Canadian superstar. Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Jim Carrey, Anthony
Bennett, others I can’t be bothered to look up I think. I guess this dude Drake
is trying to push it back in the other direction, Andrew Wiggins and too, but
as you probably realized, I stopped paying attention ages ago.
So I just checked my work and apparently many likable stars
these days are from Canada, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Rachel McAdams (whoever
that is), Seth Rogen, Michael Cera, Elisha Cuthbert (I like her). Then again
the guy who played Anakin Skywalker is also Canadian, so I guess we’ll have to
go back to judging people on their own individual merits and not by their
nationality. Sorry, Donald Drumpf.
So here’s some “Summer of 69” for ya, mate, I mean ya hoser,
or whatever they say in Canada.
Shout out to my 2 Canadian friends, future wrestling
superstar, Nick Price and high-class executive, Hazel Valencia.
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