back from whence ye came!

Heh… if you’re not looking too closely, the title like looks like "back from whence ye camel"  So… Yeah.  The pipes froze over last night.  Just goes to show how often we Texans expect it to freeze, even in the middle of winter.  I just thank me lucky stars and me lucky charms that I’m a boy so I can run outside and pee on a tree.  The other day Joey called me to inform me that we had been signed up (by him) to perform at a music festival thing in March, downtown, for unsigned local acts to be picked up by record labels.  Is that not cooler than a skiing kangaroo’s butt?  It is.  It’s supposed to be over spring break so I fully expect all you with the same spring break to be there, or you can be L7.  I swear, it’s gonna be the most scene thing since Manatee.  Makes me wanna get crancking on the cover art for our CD.

Which reminds me that I never wrote about meeting Stone Cold Steve Austin.  He’s a comic book artist I met through this guy, John, at work.  Jesus Hemmingway Christ, I love working at a frame shop. (I bet none of you knew waht the H. stood for until now.)  Anyway, we seem to have worked out a deal where we’ll be getting all original, L33t-as-fuck comic book art for our CD cover, 4 page insert, and back page.  The idea is that we use random lyrics from all the songs on the album to create a comic to be the background on the insert AND IT’S MY FUCKING IDEA AND I THOUGHT OF IT FIRST DAMMIT!  SO I OWN IT!  So dont’ anyone dare steal my idea until after we’re done with it.  So, yeah I’ll be drawing up ideas and I’ll be scanning them to send to Steve, so I might as well let you few get an insider’s peek.  When you buy the album, you can compare to see just how orgasmic real comic book art is compared to my own.

Today was Ira Gershwin’s birthday.  On the radio John played that Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World medley by that big happy hawaiian dude that plays ukelele.  You know…… Israel Kamanotagonnaremember’isname.  *looks it up real fast* Israel Kamakawiwo’ole… like I said.  this guy:

The song "Over the Rainbow" was NOT entirely written by Ira after all.  Ira Gershwin wrote the bridge section "One day I’ll wish upon a star… etc."  Good good song though.  I’ll have to dedicate a page to Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s version though.  but not now.

I, after 2 contributions to KUT, have decided that I’m going to become infamous (more than famous) for making silly pledge challenges druring the KUT fund drives.  Things like
"I challenge all fencers to a duel of pledges!"
"If you always thought that Hoboken, New Jersey was a silly thing to name a town, then call KUT now and pledge"
"If your favourite planet is the sun, let us know by donating to public radio!"
"If all your base are belong to KUT, you are hereby challenged to move zig to the phone and pledge"
"If you’ve ever run for mayor, you are challenged!"
"If you’ve ever called out a challenge during a pledge drive simply to say something rediculous on the radio, we need your pledge!"

That way Wal-mart can keep its dirty corporate contribution money and raise worker salaries.  Today it was brought to my attention just how close Wal-Mart sounds to Voldemort, Harry Potter’s evil satanic nemesis.  Henceforth, from this day shall I ever refer to Wal-Mart as Voldemart, or that store which shall not be named.  I can feel the scars they leave burning whenever I am in thier presence.

I sure am glad to be writing more in this diary thing.  It makes me feel both accomplished and like I have finally foudn one thing I can stick with.  It helps my creative juices too.  I write lots of songs down in here.  One day I will hit a creative brick wall and I’ll be able to look back in this document of my life and go "Oh, yeah!  How did this song go?"  Fucking.        A.     or as they say in Canada:  Fucking,      eh.

My mom is going to make a Star WArs fan film of Darth Vader singing "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash.

She’s going to show lots of footage of him sinking in liquid hot magma.  HAHAHA!  If I loved my mother any more I’d be a Jew.  As it stands I’m not a Jew…. but I’m jew-ish.  I dig on kosher foods but I just can’t bear to give up bacon and pork chops.  I’m quite circumsized but I question the wisdom of that decision.  I spout random bits of Yiddish, but I can’t fluently speak the language.  Anyway my dad is awesome too.  In light of my sister’s marriage (see prepare yourselves for the strangest day of my life…) he refers to Hector as her "first husband"  XD  He also says he wishes he was gay so he could wear silk kimonos around the house.  My dad fucking rules.  Anyway.  Shalom!