From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017062910404234273-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > You're Killing Me .... jhahahahaha   
      
   Ebo Walker is a good song, and so are the rest of their tunes.   
      
   > The Darlings are EXACTLY on the point.  I was talking to band girl earlier   
   > this week about how many people actually BELIEVE that portrail of rural   
   > musicians.  It's absolutely amazing to me that people don't understant the   
   > show was making fun of rural folk.   
      
   I wouldn't say making fun of, maybe stereotyping a little, but only a   
   little.   
   And it wasn't that there were folks like the Darlings, but rather that such   
   people were being Hyped into a stereotype rather than recognizing that there   
   were plenty of other different kinds of people from those parts, and plenty   
   of other parts too.   
      
   > The Darlings are how 1960's vintage city / urban people were led to   
   > believe what people who didn't live in cities were like.  The social   
   > reasons for this probably run deep, there are many. A lot of it, tho,   
   > would seem to be the governement trying to convince people who were forced   
   > off their farms in the 20's and 30's that moving to the cities was a good   
   > deal.   
      
   There was and always ARE attempts to manipulate, but it takes Fools to go   
   along with it.   
      
   > Making rural people look like rubes was part of that mind control.   
      
   Has the opposite effect on me - I almost always regard nonconformity as a   
   good thing, because it usually is, particularly in view of the alternatives!   
      
   > He followed it for about a year and a half, then decided having enough   
   > money to pay his rent was more important.   
      
   Doesn't sound like following a dream, but rather giving it up for a   
   Nightmare!   
      
   > Some was.   
      
   That's cool! Originals are always a great idea!   
      
   > We were meeting with, and auditioning for one of the big major labels when   
   > this happened.  Didn't get signed by them. Oh, well. That's how it goes.   
   > Looking back, that made sense. I understand a lot more about record   
   > companies now than I did then.   
      
   But HOW wasn't explained, as in WHY you didn't get signed.   
      
   > He got older.  Lost a lot of money on the stock market. Went thru a   
   > divorce.  Had a heart attack.   
      
   Did all that happen to him while he was in the  band or after he gave it up?   
      
   > That's one way to look at it.   
      
   > Another is, and this is my personal thoughts, the " big time " isn't   
   > nearly as sweet as it looks from the outside.  Having a stable life counts   
   > for a little bit.   
      
   Depends on what you mean be 'sweet', and 'stable'. For myself, making a   
   difference is *sweet* and enjoying the trip is *stable*. And of course, that   
   takes Indomitable Resolve, which I wrote a tune  about on the Ignite The   
   Sky Album:   
      
   10. All Right (I Will)   
      
   verse1   
   I'll see how this works this way   
   but I don't know if I'll try it out today   
   yes I will and I hope I'll love it more tonight   
   'cause I've finally got it set and I want to think it's   
      
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
      
   verse2   
   that's the way it's always been   
   needin' every effort gettin' out or gettin' in   
   but I will no matter how intensely fierce the fight   
   'cause there's no second place and I wanna make it   
      
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
      
   bridge1   
   plowing out the path of another day   
   'til it's finally enough to go ahead   
   wishing for a pleasant and better way   
   enduring constant hardship instead   
      
   where others are fearing to tread   
      
   instrumental   
      
   bridge2   
   forging ever onward at every chance   
   no matter what the risk or the cost   
   in spite of all the feelings of hesitance   
   at every new bridge to be crossed   
      
   still yet another chance to be lost   
      
   verse3   
   so be it if that's my lot for now   
   but it doesn't have to stay when I discover how   
   and I will 'cause it's time for heavy hearts to be light   
   to be rid of all the pain and finally come to know it's   
      
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
      
   > Good luck. You'll need it.   
      
   What I Need are Blessings, but I've got the Faith!   
      
   > Bj, one of our cats is leaning against my leg ( on flip out leg part of   
   > the sofa ) cleaning his front paw and ears.  He's my buddy. Follows me   
   > thru the house all day. Where I go, he goes.   
      
   My kitties did that too, particularly with me because they know how I like   
   to eat and that if they're around, they'll get to eat too ;)   
      
   > We have a new crop of shunks under one of the buildings.  They're cute. So   
   > our stupid shoot anything that moves neighbors haven't succeeded in wiping   
   > them off the earth. As someone said, God will make more.  We just feed   
   > them.  And that is after one sprayed the dog just a while back. The dog   
   > learned something in that.   
      
   Jim   
      
   I never got the chance to get to know a skunk that well, but I wouldn't mind   
   meeting some, and they don't spray unless they have to, and even then,   
   they'll give some kind  of warning first.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)