3 posts from December 2008

So our country wants change and has voted accordingly.  As a conservative, he stands against several things I believe.  I'm over it... for at least the next four years.  But now that the election is finally over, I'm whole heartedly ready to support our new president.  But come on Obama... please stop being naive.  Please!  Your own people are beginning to call you out.

First off, during the election you could probably just chalk it up to bashing.  Fine, you didn't know that Rev. Wright was trashing our country during his sermons - or at least you never attended those "particular" sermons.  Yet, during the election, you felt the need to publicly and verbally distance yourself from the man that married you and your wife and baptized your children?  Okay, probably bash politics but nonetheless naive.  You didn't know, right?

Secondly, okay so maybe you didn't know that William Ayers was a radical leftist and domestic terrorist that so happened to bomb the Pentagon during the Weather Underground Movement.  Okay, Obama was 8 years old when the bombing occurred.  Yet they remain close and Obama even launch his political campaign for the presidency in Ayers living room.  To this, Obama says "didn't know the history".  You're unaware of Mr. Ayers radical leftist and terrorist ideologies?  Okay, so now what?  Sever ties w/ Ayers.  Okay, fine... bash politics?  You didn't know, right?

Thirdly, now Obama is our president-elect.  In light of the economic crisis, his own buddies up in Congress are asking, "where you at?"  Dodd and Frank and all of the bastards that got us into this mess in the first place are asking for some presence and input on the issue of our economic crisis.  Go figure, Obama says that he's busy putting his cabinet together.  Just a month ago, Obama was calling out McCain when he wanted to suspend his campaign to focus on the economic crisis, saying that a president should be able to handle multiple issues at a time.  Okay, so let's just ignore it for now and deal with the full brunt of this economic after he's sworn in.

Fourth, this crackdown on the Illinois governor is just insane.  President-elect Obama had no clue...?  Zero clue that this type of corruption exists?  He and his cabinet are completely clean of the issue?  PLEASE STOP BEING NAIVE.  I'M 100% READY AND WILLING TO SUPPORT YOU MR. OBAMA, BUT PLEASE THROW US A FRIGGIN' BONE HERE.  Please show some level of intelligence and/or concern for the shit going down around you.  So far, the only thing I've seen is playing ignorant and finger pointing.  Obama has called for Blagojevich's resignation.  Blagojevich refuses to resign.  This is becoming one big mess.  Hey, but you can't blame Obama, right?  He didn't know!  He just didn't know!

I had a dream about Flamenco Sketches the other night.  It was strange.  Usually, dreams consist of a surreal environment.  This particular dream was just a dream of sound.  The strange thing was that there was no Miles.  No front man.  Just Bill Evans in fact.  And the strange this is that it didn't even sound like a piano.  Weird.  I gotta stop getting wasted at night.

Knocked the dust off my Hendrix CDs recently and soon after made a conscious decision to tuck the semi-hollow body away for a little while.  I really don't know what it is about Hendrix... I really have no clue.  His playing style was so unorthodox, playing a righty even though he was a lefty, half step tuned down guitar (which makes for butter soft string bending capability).  And if you really listen, by the standards of a metronome nazi you would call Hendrix sloppy.  Seriously... anyone decent guiitarist that covers Hendrix is too damn spot on point with the rhythm.  That's fine and all, but it's not Hendrix.  I personally believe that Hendrix was above rhythm.  Whatever was not there in our own feeble and warped sense of rhythm was replaced with pure soul and spirit.  Unduplicable, if that's a word.  With the Experience, he couldn't team up with a better set of musicians that complemented his style.

Okay, now back to me... yes, this is my blog.  So in lieu of the semi-hollow, I'm pulling out my Les Paul.  Yeah, I know, it's not a Strat, but it'll get me there for now.  I'm in the market for a strat though.  I'm not searching too hard though.  I'm still trying to hold fast that the musician makes the instrument and not the other way around.