This is me, talking to you, my imaginary audience.
I don't know why I let some things bother me, but you know, I've been through too much shit in this life to deal with assholes and idiots. It's like there's a fricken plague and the stuff's terribly contagious. Feel like I'm a magnet for these diseased souls and they mistake my kindness for weakness. I try not to let what others do or what their personalities are affect me, people need to work on their own behavior instead of worrying about what everyone else is doing, but it's getting thick down here in the trenches, there's no elbow room, no room to catch a breath of fresh air. It's all just payback, for those occasions in my life when I was less than pleasant, a dick really. Years ago I became a minister of The Universal Life Church, one of those free internet things (I've done one wedding and one funeral). The church has an interesting history though, worth checking out if you're so inclined, and their only theology is "to do that which is right." Simple enough and in my mind deeply profound...and like so many things that make sense, difficult to practice. I have to remember that, no matter what I'm confronted with, I can't let things push me off my path, so hard though, "to do that which is right." To get Old Testament, and Hollywood (Tarantino was underground at the time) simultaneously, quoting Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) at the end of Pulp Fiction, "There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you." Now... I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, that meant your ass. You'd be dead right now. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. See, now I'm thinking: maybe it means you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here... he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. And I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd." That's all a fellow can do right, is try? Okay whining done, this is an age old problem that will never go away, so you just move on to the next set of life events....right? Plus, guaranteed, there some mofos out there who have some real things to gripe about.
I'm thinking circa 1989-90, me with arms crossed, like I had anyplace better to be, with Erio, the better half of the dual vocals in WD40 to my left. At this point in my life with self inflicted brain damage and natural deterioration, I do not recognize any other souls in this picture.
What Lemmy was up to the year I was born, '69 ...playing guitar, apparently... [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAC-TdBXW8E]
A couple more animated shorts in the horror genre, the first pretty heavy, while the second is more silly... "Who's Hungry"
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"Dji Death Fails"
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