Tony Sheridan Dies At Age 72

People talking in movie shows –

People smoking in bed

People voting Republican

Give them a boot to the head

Boot to the Head – nyaah – nyah

Boot to the Head – nyah – nyah

Boot to the Head – nyah – nyah

Boot – To The Head

The Cashier who can’t calculate my Bill

Politicians who can’t Think

The Salesman who won’t leave me Alone

The Waiter who forgot my Drink

Boot to the Head – nyah – nyah

Boot to the Head – nyah – nyah

Boot to the Head – nyah – nyah

Boot – To the Head!

People say that stupid is as stupid does.  This morning at breakfast was another of those long, protracted waits before the main plate arrived– and somebody complained about and was told by staff “What’s the problem.  Have you got an appointment to go to or something?” and I got to thinking “That’s not exactly the Point – is it?  And I remarked to John Powel that a popular restaurant would be committing economic suicide if they did what we do around here.  Every minute there are customers sitting around twiddling their thumbs – just waiting - - they would be losing money because there would be no customer turnover and people would get backed up waiting and get frustrated and take their business elsewhere”.  And John said “You sound like you used to be a business manager” and I said, “No, it’s just common sense”.  Congress doesn’t have a lot of common sense these days.  There is all this impending stuff that needs passing.  We hear that there is an Immigration bill in the pipeline and I thought I heard that “It will get through congress – is President Obama doesn’t do something stupid like try to change it at the last minute”.  I would ditto that.  If the Republicans have a mind to actually pass something – popular pressure or not- - just thank your lucky stars and sign whatever gets placed before you.  Of course Stephanie has a lot of gem nuggets on her program this morning.  It seems that the NATO meeting - - conference later this week will have to be conducted without a sitting Secretary of Defense.  Apparently the whole delay is just some sort of “pay-back” for some imagined grudge John Mc Cain has against Chuck Hagel.  We’ve had other tea baggers say that “Chuck Hagel has taken stances on issues to the left of President Obama”.  I’d like to know what?  It seems that George Zimmerman’s brother was being interviewed and in an unguarded moment admitted “Without the presence of a gun - - this whole thing would be just another case of a guy losing a fist fight”.  Just think about that.   Of course the Republican tea party has an adage of “The very fact that a certain event HASN’T happened - - is in itself Proof that it Will Surely Happen”.  Hence we have arguments saying the president is coming to take your guns.  And by the way- the mere fact that Jesus hasn’t returned yet is in itself Proof that he surely will.  They misquote the President as giving some kind of leftist manifesto.  But all the President is saying on the guns issue is “Bring the thing to a vote- - one way or the other”.  But some republicans don’t want to go on record as having voted down even a modest gun regulation bill.  Of course back to what I was saying- - the logical thing for Congress to do when they have a lot on their agenda- - is to take the next week off.  Certain things, after all- - such as vacations - - are sacrosanct.  The President is speaking out on other issues, apparently - - such as TV shows about Sixteen Year Olds who get pregnant- - and obviously - - Rich - - from being on the program.  Hence you have the undesirable instance of where being irresponsible is financially lucrative.

It’s a Sacred and Undeniable Principle with the Tea Party that “The very fact that a certain fact predicted by us has NOT come to pass – is in Itself- - the very Proof that it Will.

Prove that you’re not just Any Man

President Obama – Yes You Can

Through the village and in the square

The tolling of the Iron Bell

Calls the Faithful to their knees

To Hear the softly spoken Magic Spell

What shall we do to fill the Empty Spaces

The places – where we used to talk

How shall I fill the final tiers

How should I complete the Wall

No one told you when to run

You Missed the Starting Gun

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me

Than have to have a frontal lobotomy

She grabbed my coconuts – and then she ran away

Why did the banana go to the Doctor?

Because he said he wasn’t peeling well.

Now one day Dooley spied a growth on his dick

And he decided he better make his will out quick

He said “Just before the angels come to carry me

I want it down in writing how to bury me”

Ozzie:  “Honey- you know our son just said I had a head like a watermelon - - and you know that isn’t right”

Ricky:  “I didn’t say it was a watermelon – I said it was shaped like a kasaba mellon”

Ozzie:  “OK - - Well in that case- - I feel a lot better”

“Would you haggle with me as you would a seller of melons in the marketplace?”

Response No One:

“To tell you the truth – the price of melons has dropped markedly ever since they took Amos and Andy off the air”

Response No Two

“Well- -  that is - - unless you’re one of those G’D kind of people- - and in that case I wouldn’t Dream of it!”

Response No Three

“Well, obviously I’m here doing it now.  So - - that is your First miscalculation right there!”

Behold the path Not Chosen - - has no ability over you at all to impart any of its potential Karmic Sin –  To You.   Believe it or not - - there are some would be detractors who "Don't get it".  They want to tar you with the Guilt from something from a path you never chose.

When you’re in dire financial straits- - go to Pete Speegler, for the Best deal in Town - - or at least in this building.  (Selah)

None of us has the power to take back any bad choice we ever made.  We will all have to suffer the consequences for our own Mistakes, and that includes Neil Savedra- - whether he wants to face that basic fact about himself or not.

There is a refrain in that one Demento album track where the guru says "You gain wisdom, my child".  And wisdom, like Love, can be found in the strangest places.  For instance on the Archie Bunker show, Archie's daughter Gloria once came to him and said "You know what I am.  I've figured it out.  I'm a female eunich!"  To which Archie quipped, "You can't be a eunich because the what'ch-call-it you have to Lose to Become a Eunich - - - You Ain't Got!"  We are told that Jesus Christ GAVE his life for us on the cross.  Well- -if he really did that- - then he doesn't HAVE it any more, does he?  You know what that makes him - - Dead.  You remember what Tom Leykis said about Jim Morrison once, "He's Young, He's Sexy, and he's Dead".   There's a little riddle I was going to share- - well there's no "Going To' about it since I'm DOING it now.  I was going to say "Mark Campbell was never my house mate, but he Was my roommate".  You ask' How can this be?  Well, do you remember that little sub plot in Sunset Blvd where that young lady at the Studio who was a "Reader" was sharing with Joe Gillis alias William Holdman about this Novel she was working on about a sexually frustrated school teacher called "Dark Window".  And there was a chapter in there about a man and a woman who shared the same apartment - - in fact they shared the same bed- - but in shifts, of course.  She worked in the day and he worked at night and neither one, at least in this improbable story - was aware of the other's existance.  I guess they both thought they were just getting a "furnished apartment".   I wanted to talk about the poor and their work ethic.  Dennis was telling me his woes with advancing cancer and now the drugs mess you up if you take drugs like Dilaudid for too long.  How your stomach is kind of vaguely uncomfortable all the time.  I know the feeling.  I had that from alcohol every time I hadn't had a drink in many long hours.  He spoke of riding a bike for miles just to "keep his mind off the pain" and "It's sure better than lying around in bed all day".  He spoke of poor Black people gathering cans all night to raise money, and Chicanos on the corner who can't get work.  He spoke of that Black guy being either routinely robbed of his cans or they would be conthiscated by the authorities before he could take them in and redeem them for money.   But I also wanted to make a Cosmic Correction or at least Addendum.  We talked about the "Agathenians" - - or "The silvery people' referring to mineral mining according to Romulan sources.  Well, there is a Sixth group we didn't mention in that list of five hard cord Punk rock groups- - - the one we left out was "The Clash" so if you're a Clash fan - - you haven't been forgotten.  You're one of the true blue.  I wanted to talk about Burt Lombard a little too.  He's not gay- - but like Ted Nugent- - he doesn't have a problem if YOU want to screw your brains out butt-fucking another man.  Just don't mess with HIM.  Burt Lombard abhors guns and violence, yet he recognizes the "Right' of people like Ted Nugent or David Koresh to "go as nuts as they want to with guns" and it doesn't bother him.  It's their right- - and Burt Lombard believes his his sacred duty to Defend that right.  Burt Lombard has spoken highly of Ted Nugent over the years and once described his guitar playing as "subline perfection".  Personally he's one of my highest ranking Guitar players- and his singing isn't bad, either.

Tony Sheridan - - singer whom the Beatles recorded with in Hamburg in June of 1961, died Saturday – a British newspaper reports.  Sheridan put out “Tony Sheridan and the Beatles” in 1962 or – how it was released here.  It originally had twelve songs on it but when the CD came out that I bought, two more songs were added - - “Ready Teddy” and “Kansas City”.  For a cosmic breakdown of some of the groups covered - - Ray Charles is a Sirius “0”  - - and Chris Montez is a North Romulan - - as Tony Sheridan is himself.  Dion and the Del Satins are from “The Belmont Group”,  “Ready Teddy” is Sirius “0” again, and Wilbert Harrison is unknown.  The sound quality in that Hamburg studio is better than George Martin used.   Years later I bought “Live Peace in Torranto” on my birthday in 1969 I think.  And Pete Richards was listening to me play that album in the mid summer of 1970 – and then we put on an album I had just bought of  “The Early Beatles’ and immediately Pete Richards noticed the marked degredation of sound quality saying “They didn’t have the technology back then, did they?”  Of course even more recently you get sharp differences in sound.  On one CD outing in the spring of 1990 I bought the albums “Freedom of Choice’ by Devo - - and also the debut album by the B 52’s and the B 52”s blew Devo right out of the water - - sound quality and engineering wise.  It’s really hard to believe these albums came out only a year apart.  I wanted to hit just one more cosmic thing here.  We said a while back that the permanent residents of Sirius “0” were mainly imported workers in the mines- - - kind of analagus to people going to Alaska to find good paying work.  And we said “They were bored with the whole idea of earth rock and roll”.  They were tagged “home boys” which added to the confusion.  There most certainly ARE a whole lot of pro rock and roll people on Sirius “0”.  But as Stewart says “You get a lot of ghettoized people in one place together and they think they are the whole world and can somehow speak for everybody”.    There are a whole lot of Sirius O people with a “high attrition rate at death” meaning they are sponsored or governed by Sirius 0 while they were alive, but when they die, they revert to something else.   We once told you the class of people Brian Epstein and Pete Best were from were “North Romulanized Sirius O people”.  Do you remember that episode where Dr. Crusher did this analysis of Commander Reyker’s brain and after he had that transporter accident and split into two separate people- - that the whole biology of their brains changed.

Well we’d like to wish everyone a happy and satisfying President’s Day.  This guy on the radio said that when they made Martin Luther King Day a holiday that they made some deal that there would NOT be another day off for Americans so they combined Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday into one holiday.  That isn’t how it happened- - but it makes a good story.  Last night I was truly in dire straits looking for a cigarette and didn’t want to keep doing this till Tuesday, but I had had a few successful experiences of Pete Speegler lending me money for cigarettes till Tuesday.  Last night I woke up just before midnight.  I thought of doing this blog posting last night but that wouldn’t have worked.  My brain had turned off and just wouldn’t turn off so I went out and smoked a cigarette and a half- - and I gave the remaining half to Glen.