Hello folks,
Yeah, Frank Brown has begun for me as well. I've already started by turning down gigs. Phil, yesterday I had a phone call from Linda Ponder, asking me to step up into some hosting duties. The first was a thing they are doing for RORY AND JOEY, my friends going through Cancer. They are doing a big show on Thus. for them. They asked me to host, but I turned it down. The main reason is that I will just be getting into town and I have already made dinner plans with a BUNCH of people, who are expecting that to be my "night off." The second, is that I feel really weird about a lot of these things. You see, things like Facebook are seemingly one person after another either whining about their hardships, fishing for sympathy, talking about how terrible their lives are, asking for prayers for this, prayers for that, etc. It really bothers me. And when I put my comments about Rory and Joey, I wanted to make sure people didn't take my words for that. I know them a LITTLE BIT, they are not like my best friends, or we constantly hang out with them. I mentioned some things they had done illustrating their character and what I knew of them. The rest seems self aggrandizing, and I don't do that. So I turned it down and suggested Don and Karen McNatt to host. I am sure it will go well.
Then she offered me three more hosting nights. I am only open for one of them. Wed. might, the 11th, Memorial day. I am already booked just about every night. So much for the "vacation." I swear, one of these years I am NOT going to take all these gigs. Oh well. Nine gigs over 10 days. I guess that is less than my all time high of 14 over 10 days. I have often filled in for people that didn't show up, got drunk and in jail, early morning and late night television and radio interviews, civic speeches, school presentations, etc. I think I have done everything down there, played every venue and I guess I have done them all decently or they wouldn't ask me back.
But this comes at a time I really need to be down there. I miss going down. Up until Hurricane Katrina, I was down there once a month and at one time, thought I would be moving to that area to live. But the damn NSAI people and the teaching thing took me on a different chorus, DAMN ALL OF YOU!!! I blame all of you here! It is all your fault!!!! LOL!
Oh well. This will seem like going home. Maybe I'll be picking out my new place to live. Who knows. One day you might just come here to find me gone. Interestingly enough, yesterday I was doing part of my ongoing cleaning out of many of my files and things from the past years. I am finding old songs and lyrics in my big black binders, going through them, throwing away most of them, and transferring the valid ones to new bigger binders. I found one that has my favorite first line I ever wrote and the song I really like:
Good AS GONE
There's a Yaught stuck in a freeway overpass
Got traffic backed up fifteen miles
What a day, only in LA
My back seat looks like a pawn shop
everything I've saved for fifteen years
Can't look back any way
Rearview mirror broke off yesterday
Friends say don't leave this tow
Why can't you just settle down
CHORUS
I'M GOOD AS GONE, COUNTING THE MILES
GAS IN MY TANK, AIR IN MY TIRES
FREE FROM MY PAST, I'M ON MY OWN
NO LOOKING BACK
I'M GOOD AS GONE
I like that one.
You just never know.
MAB
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