Kick Veterans In The Ass Day

 Well it's Veterans' Day or as I like to call it, Kick Veterans In The Ass Day it seems it's always a bad or inconvenient day for me. It's a rain day and I'm still in pain haha. 

Other than the high blood pressure pill and the muscle relaxant, the stuff I'm on is over-the-counter stuff so for meds, I'm OK. I have plenty of gabapentin due to Ken, and don't think I'll need or want to wangle any more. 

OK so last post I was talking about my doing little-kid songs and every silly or sarcastic song I could come across and in the 1970s, there were plenty floating around out there. Like, to the tune of "Frere Jacques"...

"Marijuana, Marijuana, LSD, LSD

Doctors make it, teachers take it,

Why don't we? Why don't we?"

We weren't sure what these things were, but we knew it bugged the adults and that was enough.  I was a regular little Alam Lomax writing these things down, but my mom had a habit of finding the Composition Notebooks I had them written down in and making them "lost". 

So it was a sick little 1970s version of Elvis singing his gospel songs and Johnny Cash singing his gospel songs, but maybe it takes more than gospel songs in this world we're heading into. 

A day or two after the election I was looking at some post by someone somewhere and they were despairing over the election as we rational people are, and at the end he appended a couple of YouTube clips, of which I listened to the first, Bob Dylan singing "Everything Is Broken" and I thought, as much as I love great classical music and rippin' Steely Dan solos and ground-breaking electronic music, as grand as all that is, maybe the music that has the most impact is that of people like Dylan, a lot of the '60's rock bands when they got political, bands like The Weavers, that kind of thing. 

Not saying I don't want to sing fun songs. I've got a notebook of parody songs, the one that comes to mind right now is taking "Slip Kid" by The Who and doing one called "Fit Bit". Not that I don't love "Slip Kid" and think it's a great song, but hey, fun! Come to think of it I could do one called "Slip Stick" for the slide rule fans out there, very niche but they'd love it. 

This stuff can be done endlessly. 

I have a pain-y night but somehow, being upright in front of the computer here at 9AM I feel fairly good.