Ashes to ashes And dust to dust A long time living Leads a man to rust You can smell the sickness Feel it come to call Take your leading hand and swing Into the fall Swing into the fall
Gutters and backstreets Or a penthouse fall Caution lights flashing No caution at all Nothing you can do When your numbers called Take a deep breath and swing Into the fall Swing into the fall
Hope you had a good life I hear you will relive it all To the babies first breath from the swing Into the fall Swing into the fall
================ Back around, a few days before this was penned, there was a bad wreck at a typically busy four way intersection. It happens that way in a small town. Heavy trafficked intersections that have to produce 3.7 fatalities before something more then a caution light is installed are usually magnets for bad wrecks on Fridays.
While I am not certain anyone was killed then, it sounded horrible, looked visibly sickening, and set poised to produce another one of it's kind during the heavy traffic part of the day it was.
Fast forward to today (01/26/2007) and wa-la there is now a four way lighting system installed to aid in correcting whatever it is that makes people run into one another at hi speeds when entering an intersection, in a small town, on Friday.
It just goes to show ya, you are going to die. When and where and how may not be known but it is as certain as constipation from too much coffee and cheese(please don't ask).
So, CA, to answer your question about why this has been sitting around. It hasn't. You asked me and my sparring buddy RB to make some tunes, quite chasing each other around with squirt guns. I recorded this Wednesday 01/24/07.
This one and Ronnie's (I'm the One) are both really good songs - not sure they could possibly be rated on which-is-best basis; they're very different and both very engaging in their own ways.
Thanks for listening, Jack - let's see, counting you and some of the hosts' friends from high school, plus my immediate family and one of the people I jam with....hmm, that makes probably *** AT LEAST 9 PEOPLE ***
I'm reluctant to tell anybody I know about this site.....they would probably start regarding me very suspiciously....
Sharon, sorry I missed you last night. Tried, but just couldn't stay awake (us old folks have to get the hell to bed y'know, and it's an hour earlier up here too). I love Jack's tune as I love yours, and I gave you both a 4, but am a little afraid to sign my comments now, lest I get my eyebrows singed again (haha). Jack, your song cuts through something I can't explain and has a wonderfully haunting thing about, and your voice is perfect for the job. Sharon, I think you have written a classic, timeless song, and you should win this week. Mine (which I wouldn't rate myself) should be a 3, at the very most, because the lyrics are really pathetic. Someone's been very kind! Hey, I'll bet CA is doing one up as we speak!
I asked Monica if it was illegal to record the show, she replied "probably"...but I did it anyway, what do I care right?
Big shot like you may not be interested in all that, but I recorded your playing and all the dialog...had to cut out the ads.
History teacher...makes since:)
Wait a minute....reluctant because of me? Surely you jest.
RB, back in the day, say 20 years ago, the lyrics and the style of song you performed here were "the standard" to shoot for...I rate it as high as it can get and it might beat out the Divine Ms. O...gonna have a littlle trouble knocking me off, but I hear a big stick and a soft footfall could do it.
Ronnie - you totally let me down - if you and my brother had stayed awake, that COULD have raised the known audience count to *** 11***. It was very rewarding that within 10 minutes of leaving the station, my devoted son called to say "you-were-great-we're-out-of-beer-can-you-get-a-12-pack-on-the-way-home -thanks." At least he didn't ask on the CHAT ROOM.....
Recording the show - oh my gawd, they have have probably never been so thrilled -Jack, you made me a STAR by just asking - anyone is welcome to a copy who, for whatever bizarre reason, would want one.... History teacher - no-no-no...just substitute taught it when desparate for $$-- as well as auto shop (don't ever get your car fixed in FL), biology (send all your dead cats here; the dissection instructions were hell), sex ed (those "predator" lists are greatly exaggerated)..... "reluctant because of me" - you are the least of it. If anyone I know in the real world ever saw most of the song comments I get here, they would figure I am a SICK MASOCHIST WEIRDO for ever coming back to this site... I am not ready to come out of that closet yet!!!!
Ronnie - don't even bring up the AW song contest thing; it ought to be scary enough for BC that I am competing for best new FL song and he might get stuck with one of mine blaring on his local radio station during his morning commute - hahaha, that'd be great
ya know what, that really is a great son...and what a swell Mom for gettin' it! You did pick up at air 12 pak idn't ya?
Jack the star maker. Yup, sounds betterun widdermaker.
Here's the thang Ms. ChattyCathy...I recorded it acause maybe you'uns never hered yoursef. It's almost like a live recording at the "fill in name here."
Simply re-arrange the songs and you could put out a new "previously unreleashed arrangement" CD 'bout, say, for a few more years.
I did need to test some configuratiions, so it's just a thought, no stalkin' intended.
Dude, lighten up - it was the teeniest of tiny little internet broadcasts probably going on in the world, and aside from posting the original info, I'd have never even brought it up again. But noooooooooo, Jack had to have something to snip and gripe about so HE had to start up and now here we are, with this thread degenerating into something (once again AS UASUAL) that no one even cares about .....well.... except MEEEEEE.... and since you have it recorded minus the ads (which GAWD KNOWS I don't want interfering with the sheer listening pleasure of hearing MEEEEE TALKING about MEEEEEEE) - could you send me a copy? PO BOX 5307 Titusville FL 32783 Thanks, luv ya
Thanks...listen you know her best, is my olive branch being set on fire?
See if I can reword that...Listen, you seem to not push whatever buttons I seem to push on pretty much anyone else, is my olive branch being set on fire?
Calling someone "Ms. ChattyCathy" and referring to personal anecdotes told in RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS as "a live recording at fill-in-name here" is not offering an olive branch, it's NEEDLING - that and proclaiming his martyrdom as Savior of the Site are his chief roles here.
whatever...it wasn't needling on my side. I have yet to find a way to be able to say "Ms. Sharon O I took the time and resources to level, record and edit your work from an aired program that you were excited about enough to tell the AW hecklers' about. I think it is cool that we are so underprepard in life and yet you dig us! If you would like a copy of the 1hr:44 minute recording for your own it would be my honor to get it to you in whatever way you feel most comfortable with." that doesn't offend.
As to your intepretation of what my chief "role" here is...whatever. You have me way...way out of focus. Lest we forget, we are people that write songs. And songs are not much more then lies with music. Let me rephrase, MY songs are not much more then lies with music. And I enjoy writing...I also enjoy telling good stories. Often I have to take "artistic license" to make a story sound better. That is correct...I tell lies. If the story gets weak...I'll lie to shore it up and steal part of someone elses life to make mine sound more interesting if that needs to be done.
Exactly what are you taking issue with sister?
That I have more thoughts about me, me, me? That in a moment of ignorance I once again opened my font and said something that really, really gets under yer skin...?
I could leave this site and there may be a few sighs of relief, but I believe I am well aware it lives on its' own.
It doesn't need you, RB, CA or even BC at this point. What it was set up to do...it does! Change ALL the players in ALL the positions and ArtistWeekly will go own.
I guess I just don't get you - as in mis-understand or dis-understand or non-understand...maybe even un-understand. When you initially said you listened and recorded the show, I thought, wow, what a supportive thing to do for a fellow AW member. And I thanked you, sincereley, then you said you only did it since,
"Ms. ChattyCathy... maybe you'uns never hered yoursef. It's almost like a live recording at the "fill in name here." Simply re-arrange the songs and you could put out a new "previously unreleashed arrangement" CD 'bout, say, for a few more years."
So then I figure I'm an idiot for thinking you're anything but a prick wanting to show me how stupid you think I sound...so all I get is mixed messages from you. If you meant it in a positive way, sorry for accusing you of sounding like the prick that, to me, you sounded like in your later message. Up until then, I thought it was cool and nice that you even brought up the fact that you listened.
Tell ya what happened...it was RBs' fault! While I was editing the FIRST message, ya know, the message that should have been inbetween your replying with "suspiciously...." and RB steping inbetween with his "sorry I missed you last night." ...then it just NEVER got any better.
It never did.
I felt all "ickey" saying those nice things, trying to fit in, my god, I was trying to remember if I had a myspace account so I could share it...it was insane!
The whole thing! That is one of the biggest things that tears apart a cohesive flowing pattern...other people buttin' in while I'm talkin'!
I have three brothers and 3 sisters and let me tell you it is a freak show trying to get any two of them to shut up so I can talk without them yakin' bout weather Mom needs a leash or not.
Maybe it's fixed, at least for now, until ole RB sticks one of those "in-betweener messages" out. He times that stuff, did you know that? He has to. He's good, oh yea, crazy like a fox swat I say.
Yessum, it's been my fault all my life....can't seem to please no one. CA even wants me to go sit in a snow bank and record something new! BTW, what's a "fox swat"?
AM beer? American beer? Your beer down there's just glorified soda pop. I could drink a case myself and all it would do is make me thirsty! I much prefer scotch anyway. Beer's for you young guys :)