I know, I should not read "Street Musician Daniel's" blog, but it's like watching a train wreck, it's hard to tear your eyes away.
His latest post is SMD distilled to his essential essence. Calling everyone the N-word, expressing hatred for everyone who's not white and right-wing like him.
Why do I keep running across these types in the busking world? Ohhh yeah... the buskers I've encountered have been of two types, generally. White working-class and black working/middle-class. Leroy was some sort of "engineer" for San Jose State U. I think, and the guy with the guitar I don't know much about except that he served in the military for a while and seems to have his head screwed on right.
Red, the flute player is/was probably a crack head. Recorder Guy was more into begging and drugs than playing the recorder or his idiotic little drum. Rabbit Trumpet guy (these last three guys all white) has probably the shittiest attitude of all the buskers in San Jose.
Leroy is no Charlie Parker but he's out there trying his honest best, and he always dresses his best, and never says a bad word about anyone. Guitar Guy likewise really is out there trying his best to put his best music out there on the street. I also met another black guitar guy, playing by the Starbucks at San Pedro Square, who was really good. I watched his stuff while he found a bathroom and frankly I'm impressed that he trusted me with his very expensive guitar and amp. I also met another black guy playing tenor sax, who told me he was practicing for many hours a day and sounded like he was going to get very good, very soon.
It's a pretty simple dichotomy really, black or white, good person trying their best or shithead. It may have been much easier back in their days for Benny Goodman or Elvis to find white musicians to hang out with and learn from, but maybe all they ran into were shitheads too.
So Street Musician Daniel, because he's a goddamn shithead who thinks the world owes him a living, and already has a free apartment and enough food stamps to eat like a king, is feeling just slightly threatened and the inner white snowflake supremacist comes out.
A normal person would look at the resources they have: free apartment with free utilities, free phone, free medical care, free... free... free... then think, OK, what do they not have? Maybe a music studio which the shithead is too lazy to turn a room in his place into. Maybe some of the more "gourmet" foods, etc. The answer is probably to go out busking, set up lessons-for-donations in the park, something. But not your typical white shithead. Nope they're gonna get on their sheltered snowflake high horse and go on about Arabs and Blacks and everyone who's not just like themselves, disregarding that if you got rid of all the non-white people hardly any work would get done and there'd be cannibalism within weeks.
Anyway, from reading SMD's trainwreck blog (I mean, I used to read a blog on a site called FAEM years ago, so I guess I like reading weird stuff) I've learned that Blogger is going to bring in their new format, which is just about unusable. So I need to think about changing over to Wordpress if I keep blogging at all.
When I change over to Wordpress, I should probably center the blog more on my development as a trumpet player, and also on a line of products I want to produce, namely, brass cleaning instruments that aren't shit. Whether you're playing a cheapo Jean-Paul or a several thousand dollar Monette, it seems there's one choice in cleaning materials like pull-throughs and snakes: The same cheapo stuff you got handed in 7th grade Band. There are some good pull-throughs out there, but they cost close to $30 shipped, and I don't like the design that well (plus you have to be an active member of Trumpet Herald to even know they exist).
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