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I now remember the song I had online in 2008 when Bill Maher complained about a white musician who played the blues. It was Under My Umbrella. I guess he took that for a blues song because I added a few blues notes to the 'E' when I played it. He must have been happy to see Beyonce take illegal possession of it for her race. I said that this song was kind of boring to play on the guitar because it's just four chords strummed over and over from start to finish, but I now I hear that they're saying my new songs are too complicated. Business, for instance, is in 13/4 time and no one can figure it out unless they work really hard on it. But that ten-year-old girl really liked Business when I first shared it as Psych. She loved it. She didn't care about the difficult phrasing. She just appreciated the superior quality. Too complicated? Not for her, a child in Grade Five. Leave it to a bunch of dull, spoiled, lazy industry 'professionals' to criticize me for being too complicated instead of criticizing themselves for being too simplistic. Some of that music they're peddling is so empty that it probably retards the brain. But big business doesn't care about that. They just want you to be smart enough to drive your car and go to your job so you can give your paycheck back to them when you shop. When I posted my children's song Clouds in 2010, everyone liked Tina Fey's comment that maybe I should try doing Baby Love. At the time, the Crystalids were on the radio with my Arise, which is equal in sophistication to anything I'm doing now. Why wasn't it too complicated when they had it? And how did I go from being too slow to being too intelligent? I'll tell you how: by way of a broadcasting industry that lies through its teeth about me and by the failure of our justice system to permanently remove their offensive broadcasts from the airwaves. |
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Sunday, October 5, 2014
Too Much
You Call That News?
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The media is obviously connected to the racket that calls itself the entertainment business. Let me tell you what they are doing right now by panning the story of how all these frauds who stole my songs, scripts, and poems are being prosecuted by the law. They are creating a vacuum that is sucking every wannabe star on Earth into my accounts to try to steal something from me and get their fifteen minutes of fame from it. They are encouraging more fraud made out of my honest music and writing. They should all be fired and replaced. Can you imagine how hard it was for me to have to tell the world that Jay Leno was ripping me off? Not only was he trusted at home, he was connected to every star in Hollywood. People and shows that stole my work or played a role in the crimes against me include: Beyonce, Bill Maher, The Crystalids, Taylor Swift, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, the band that stole my song 'Virtue', Coldplay, George Carlin, Jay Leno, Ellen Degeneres, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O'Brien, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Jon Stewart, Dateline NBC, FOX News, CBC's David Frum, CBC's George Strombolpoulos, George W. Bush, Jonathan Torrens, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Madonna, and Leonard Cohen. With this many high profile offenders, I'm sure there are many others I'm leaving out. And I have to give the fans of all these stars the news, myself, because the media won't do their jobs right. Oh, but how about that OJ Simpson from 1994! Isn't he a monster! |
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Saturday, October 4, 2014
Class Dismissed
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I know I lampooned the Queen a little bit in that last post but I have nothing against her. Actually I heard she's a pretty nice gal. I do not object to power when it is in good hands. The Queen takes her job seriously. She accepts the responsibility that goes with her power and she was groomed for her job from an early age. But naughty children behave better than all those phony stars who paraded around with my songs and my scripts and poems. They were clearly unfit for power, at least for the kind of power that I would have had in their place. I wouldn't have taken my limo through the poor neighborhood to play pranks on the unfortunates like they did, I would have just used it to shield myself from the glares of strangers. I wouldn't have blown my money on tasteless hate parties and crack cocaine like they did, I would have made large charitable donations and perhaps invested in the development of an honest television network. The Queen is also well known for her charitable efforts. She deserves more credit for helping the poor than I would because she has never been poor. People who've never been poor often have trouble finding sympathy for the unemployed. It's too bad that we can't give the poor the benefit of the doubt when it's quite obvious that they suffer. The Queen is innocent with respect to the demise of Diana. The Queen loves her grandchildren too much to hurt them like that. She also gives us too much freedom to suddenly turn around and murder someone who may embarrass her. But if you're looking for culprits in Diana's case, I wouldn't put foul play past those greasy paparazzi. Look how the media conspired against little old me and almost got me killed with my own music and writing. Framing victims for sensational stories is one of Dateline's hobbies. Maybe it's a common practice with the paparazzi too. It might well explain that drugged driver. Or perhaps their motive was simpler. Maybe the paparazzi just wanted to disable the driver so he would pull over and let them close in on Diana with their cameras. I've learned that they can be quite ruthless in how they go about acquiring a shot. |
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The Monarch
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Voice: She was the kind of ruler who believed in tradition. (Royal court. The Monarch sits on her throne.) Prince: But Mumsie, I love her! Monarch: You will marry your cousin and that is final! Voice: Her judgement was fair and impartial. (Judicial court. The Monarch sits on the bench, wearing a wig of white locks.) Monarch: Of what is the prisoner accused? Barrister: He is accused of accusing you of the murder of your daughter-in-law. Monarch: Off with his head! (She slams down the gavel.) Voice: Her struggle against the nosy paparazzi was well known. (A crowd of reporters huddle outside the gates of the royal palace.) Reporter #1: Can you see anything? Reporter #2: (peering through binoculars) Just that helicopter up there. Reporter #1: Helicopter? (An army helicopter descends on the group and mows it down with machine gun fire.) Voice: But her subjects loved her for the generous freedoms she bestowed upon them. (A birthday celebration. The Monarch opens an envelope and reads a card.) Monarch: (reading) You stink! Who wrote this? Speak up! (Silence.) All right then, no dessert for any of you! Guards! (Enter guards.) Show our guests to the door. This party is over. Voice: When you've done watching this movie, you'll never see your banknotes the same way again. Don't miss The Monarch, an exclusive presentation of the High Brow Oligarchy. |
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Glad to Be Here
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When Beyonce came to Vancouver, everyone was so excited! I remember it. And I liked Under My Umbrella so much that I looked up the lyrics on the internet and copied them onto my computer. I couldn't remember authoring the song yet. I invited a young woman to sing them as I accompanied her on the guitar. I thought she did a pretty good job. I think this girl is as talented as Beyonce. When I walked past a production last week, one of the workers pointed to me and said, 'this guy's lost!' I guess he thought I was lost because I won't go and beg the business to give me a break after they raped my music and writing and screwed me out of millions of dollars in profits and made me the most hated person in history when I was innocent. But people trusted me precisely because they knew I am not in this to be a star, but that I am merely being myself. I'd rather have the trust of the population than be some phony-balony star. And if the only way to be a star is to blow the business, there really isn't anything to admire about the stars on your TV, radio, or large stage right now, they're just a bunch of servile wimps. I know I sometimes complain about my life and say I wish I weren't here, but I honestly don't know if I'll look back later as a success and pine for this life. At least it offers a host of creative ideas - unlike those comfortable stars who so thoroughly depended on me to do their jobs for them. |
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Unashamed
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My latest song, Passion, is for my music fans, like all my songs. The melody has a conciliatory feel, which called for conciliatory words. With the recent exposure of another major crime with one of my songs, I wanted to let the misled fans of the culprit know that I don't hold it against them. However, if they only supported Beyonce from the outset because of the outstanding views she received on YouTube with my song, they should not support her now. There's a good chance that she would still be on YouTube if she had not ripped me off. For that reason, I reject any fans she might still have following the exposure of her fraud. I have often said that I don't watch television or listen to radio, but perhaps I haven't explained clearly why. I don't trust myself in the face of their overwhelming hypnotic power. Had I tuned into Saturday Night Live when they were stealing from me, I would have fallen for their fraud the same as anyone else, just as I fell for Beyonce's fraud when I heard her on the radio with Under My Umbrella. Since I am just as vulnerable to mass media manipulation as anyone else, I can't hold it against them or call them 'stupid' when they succumb to it. It is only after the fraud is exposed that the fog clears from the head and the silliness of the beliefs that supported the fraud becomes apparent. Let me illustrate such silliness now, with a little fiction: I stole Size from Charles Manson. He is not allowed to write hit songs because he's in prison. Actually, it was just a hit verse to begin with, consisting of two lines: I'm not any better, I've had bloody trials... From this I was able to develop it into a full song. Manson was arrested because he confessed his crimes through his music. The last song he authored before Size was I Slaughtered Sharon Tate: I slaughtered Sharon Tate/Man and did it feel great/Blamed it on the boy next door/Hoping to start a race war... This is the kind of silliness that may pass for fact when an artist's life-work is turned into fraud by the mass media. |
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Friday, October 3, 2014
Helping You See
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I'm hearing a lot about what things look like and I'll tell you exactly what they look like: they look like the opposite of how they really are. I'm the victim but I'm living in a neighborhood notorious for crime. They're the criminals but they're on TV. I'm innocent and have never been incarcerated and people think I'm indecent. They're guilty and have all been to jail or prison and people think they're decent. I'm good and children are instructed to walk away from me. They're evil and children are encouraged to love them. I have authored hit songs and most of the best comedy scripts on TV in the last seven years and I'm poor. They have done nothing but steal from me and go to parties for the last seven years and they're rich. In my hands, my songs and writings collect dust on the internet. In the hands of filthy frauds, my songs, scripts, and poems were broadcasted all over the universe. My mind is at peace with nothing on my conscience. Their minds are in a constant state of torment from all their repressed shame. If you're a fan of mine, don't you worry about all this foolish posturing by the networks. All the pretending in the world won't save them from the punishment that awaits them. The police have thoroughly interrogated these superstars and have built up an impressive store of information. Maybe one day they'll share this information with me so I can move forward with my lawsuit. I think I'm going to have to sue my enemies to get them out of the way before I can play. It'll slow me down but in the end we'll have our justice - and our party. |
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