It's Friday the 13th. I've been to the gas station, there weren't many people there. It was very cold so of course I was wearing the lighter clothing that I should have had on when I was in the city on Wednesday. Some asshole almost ran into me at the freeway entrance, but apart from that nothing bad has happened so far. I don't expect it to either.

In Norse mythology 13 is regarded as an unlucky number because the he trickster god Loki arrived uninvited as the 13th guest at a dinner in Valhalla, leading to the death of the beloved god Balder. The Last Supper had 13 guests, with Judas Iscariot being the 13th to arrive and betray Jesus, who was crucified on a Friday. I could go but I won't.

"At the office where the papers grow, she takes a break
Drinks another coffee and she finds it hard to stay awake
Du-du-du-du, du-du-du, 
Du-du-du, du-du-du, it's just another day"

What a dreary bloody song.  But it's Paul McCartney..wooo!

Let's face it, I have nothing to say today. I was thinking about it this morning. Every day I write words here and a few people read it, but I could keep doing this for another twenty years and nothing much would change. This is the musical and journalistic equivalent of weeds growing on the side of the highway somewhere out in the backwoods of obscurity. Nobody is ever gonna see it apart from a few people, and even the road maintenance crews don't care. Nobody comes down here much. 

I still have a lot of things to do before the Falltacular musical summit. I have to drag all the equipment out of the room and rearrange it so that everyone can fit in. Then I have to test all the audio cables to make sure everything is being recorded. I have to organize my video recorders, otherwise nobody will ever see it. In fact, few people will anyway.  

For example, a shitty "tribute" band of a mediocre group like Aerosmith (I don't care, I don't owe them anything) will get 6.5 k views on Youtube for a cover of a dull rock song by somebody else. Let that sink in. I'm lucky to get any  views at all for an original song which is as least as good as, and perhaps even better than something Aerosmith spewed out as a B side or an album track. 

When I'm done with all this videoing, recording and mixing, I'll be lucky if 50 people watch it. No wonder I'm jaundiced about the entertainment industry. Only if it's shoved up the nose of the gatekeepers of popular culture, or they stumble over it on their way to somewhere else, will they even find it in the first place. At that point they'll have to compare notes with some other cloth eared gatekeeper who agrees with them.

If you enjoy the sights and sounds of weeds growing by the side of the road, stay tuned.

Happy Friday the Thirteenth

5k views - Brown Sugar performed by Johnny Depp's Vanity Project, the Hollywood Vampires- a bunch of superannuated rockers wearing too much plumage, scarves jewels and accessories, posturing and flailing about..That's Entertainment.......Yeeeeah!