1. If you can only hear one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Bridge over Troubled Water. Specifically, the one from their Central Park show in 1980.
2. What one song would you like to be played on your funeral?
Angel, from Jimi Hendrix. Not that crap studio one, either. I want the acoustic version. Carlos knows which one, ask him.
3. What one song that is best to describe your feeling right now?
So tired (Beatles – White album)
4. What one song would you like to hear when you’re sad and depressed?
to mourn, I use only one song. Samba Pa Ti – from Santana III.
5. What one song that you wished you have written?
the best song ever written – Born to Run
Ok,
I didn’t post the fives this week. Sorry. I was out of town, so far into the mountains… there was no internet anywhere. A proper Colorado vacation. Anyhow, I came home and found out that you bastards killed Billy Mays. Yeah yeah, I know about Micheal Jackson, but this one may have hit me harder. I really liked Billy Mays. He was genuine and passionate about what he did. Anyhow, how about a re-run? This is something I wrote about Billy last year.
Ok, I keep hearing about banking and all these bailouts and other jibba jabba. So, I have been trying to wrap my mind around it. How we give them our money, they use that money to give other people money… pocketing a small portion for themselves. Then, they say ‘we are broke, give us more’. It seems like this:
So, I borrow my friend Jeff’s car. He has a couple, so it’s not a big deal. He trusts me. Then, he finds out I wasn’t using his car. I was renting it to my next door neighbor for $200 a week. Jeff seems concerned that I am making money off his car. He asks me why I don’t just buy my own car to rent out to people. I explain to him that it is too much risk. Only a sucker would do that.
He says he wants his car back then. I explain to him that I can’t. I crashed it, and I need $6,000 from him to fix it. He says “Why would I pay to fix it? You broke it, you fix it!”
I explain to him that I don’t have any cash to fix it. He says “what did you do with that money you made renting it out?” I explain I used it to invest in a boat, which turned out to be stolen. I explain to him what I really need is a boat to get this business off the ground. How about you and I go in on a boat together?
He says go to hell, and tells me to fix his car or else. So, I just called his mom (the Government) and explained the situation. She is not only paying to have the car fixed (so I can keep renting it out), she is taking 5 grand out of his college fund to help me pay for the boat.
