Hey. Had my School Of Rock show yesterday! Went okay. About a six or seven out of ten! Nothing terrible happened! Didn’t knock my solos out of the park personally but all in all we were solid. HEALTHWISE I’m back to basics. Feelin’ fine! About 95%! Just a little congested! My Dad was telling me to blow my nose and stuff. Is that a generational thing? I don’t think I’ve ever blown my nose in my life. I’ve sneezed of course. When I have to involuntarily sneeze I sneeze. I usually enjoy it! But I’ve never manually forced myself to sneeze. I don’t think millennials or Gen Z people blow their nose! OK BOOMER you can blow your nose I’ll just play things as they go. Anyway. A lot of people are leaving the SOR class after this season. Kinda feels like they just don’t like me. That’s what my mind jumps to. Maybe because Body Language and Other Helpful Intuition Hints. I dunno why but in my life almost all people I meet Just Don’t Like Me! On the one hand I KINDA GET IT and on the other hand WHAT THE HELL Is Wrong With Me. It’s a close balance between WHAT THE FUCK and I UNDERSTAND. Anyway. Watching the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. I like these films! I like the BB-8 robot. Cute little guy. Nice name. B’s LOOK LIKE 8’s! So the name really makes you think!
Huh. BB is a musical note or chord. B flat! Don’t think for a second Star Wars didn’t take that into account! Huh. I feel like I said that exact thought last time around I talked about watching this movie years ago. Word-for-word. Deja-Vu’d myself! I assume because of Iraq War we are now calling that phenomenon a Freedom Memory. I’m still bitter about 2003. I can hold a grudge a long time! So can The Grudge! From the movie The Grudge! It won’t go away! Scary! The kids group who preformed before us yesterday’s theme was Grunge! That’s kind of like Grudge! Half their songs were Nirvana! LUCKY. Lucky would be a good band name. Probably several dozen bands have tried it out at some point or another. Anyway. We had a lot of people in the crowd for us but I don’t know where they came from. Most people I talked to in our group said they had no one coming. I had my brother coming and that’s it. All in all it was like sixty or so audience members. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE. I wanted to look out at the audience as I preformed to show I wasn’t scared of them but I mostly looked down. Sometimes at my guitar. Sometimes at the floor. Sometimes at the singer and/or the other band people. Especially as the song was ending. To show them we all know the song was about to end! YEAH.
Alright. Wore my Wilco t-shirt! That’s one way to go. Just wear a Band T-shirt. Band I like. That isn’t the band I was playing. Fair enough! The most high pressure part of the day was tuning the guitar for the one song in a different tuning! Sucks! I should be focused on actually playing the songs, you’d think! WRONG. Most of my mental attention and worry was concentrated on the tuning back and forth for the one song in a different tuning. Making sure I’d have the guitar tuned in time for that one song and back! TURNS OUT I DID. Cool! BAD NEWS I’m still not done with Rolling Stones! Got another show with these songs in a few weeks! Only playing half a dozen of the songs, which I’m on five of! Also it’s a selection of songs I don’t really like! AH WELL LIFE SPINS ON FRIEND. The point is The Rolling Stones made a point of saying they’re not touring this year after saying they would so THIS MAY BE IT. If you wanna hear Rolling Stones this may be your best chance. Probably not your best chance. One of your least good chances, though! If you wanna hear The Rolling Stones this is one of your Less Good Chances! Oh wow cool. Anyway. Time to start working my own music this week. IT’S BEEN time. BEN Solo. That’s Kylo Ren’s name. He has several names. Two that I know of. Adam Driver too in another world. Anyway. “My Name Is Han Solo! Now Listen to this!” and then he does the Michael J Fox too-complex-Johnny-B-Goode riff from Back To The Future that turns off teenagers from the 1950’s.
Okay. I remember when I first saw The Force Awakens in 2015 I was like wow these original stars returning from the original Star Wars ARE OLD AS FUCK. They’re like A HUNDRED YEARS OLD. How are they STILL MOVING. Harrison Ford would have been the oldest at 73 when it came out, not even when it was filmed. Carrie Fisher was only like 59. Mark Hamill was in his 60’s. Anyway. Good movies! Huh. Also I saw Hayden Christiansen show up in Return Of The Jedi! The ghost of Darth Vader pops up at the end as a friendly specter cheering on Luke Skywalker and his friends and NOW IT’S HAYDEN CHRISTIENSEN I guess as a special feature. Seems wrong but what can I do about it. Wouldn’t that just confuse Luke Skywalker. He wouldn’t recognize that as Darth Vader. He’d be like WHO ARE YOU? My Father as a teenager? BUT WHY? If my Dad died and showed up as a ghost to haunt me but then showed up as a 19 year old I would be like Who The Hell Are You. My Dad? Oh. I guess I can see it. Well if you’re happier this way then I’m happy for you. Good. Well how’s death. Anyway. Death can’t be that good if he’s here hanging out with me. My existence sucks. Anything else would be more fun! He’s not here for fun he’s here to help me. Oh Helpful Ghosting. That’s good. Good Dad. Good Young Ghost Dad. I get it.
What else is going on. How dare they close that Star Wars immersive Disney Resort. I wanna go there! They thought we wouldn’t wanna go there but we do wanna go there. They were dead wrong. Maybe they can try it again in the future. Anyway I lost track of what I was talking about. Star Wars. Oh. Yes. The film franchise and assorted other business operations. Whatever. It appears the main hero of the sequel trilogy is a woman. Is that WOKE. Only Mostly Everyone Else is a man! It appears the title of the first film of the sequel trilogy is THE FORCE AWAKENS. Is that WOKE. SOUNDS LIKE IT. The Force is woke! Literally right there in the title! Anyway. Also, rearrange the letters of, “Woke,” ya get, “EWOK!” Those crazy critters! Wonderful. Anyway. What exactly is the dark side. It’s like The Force but also You’re Angry And Scared And Confused About It. Just use the force but compliment it with Bad Feelings. Hmm. Makes sense. George Lucas really thought this one through! I can see how this Force vs Dark Side struggle might really be evenly matched! It’s close but I THINK AND I HOPE Dark Side loses. Cause of Justice and Righteousness and Goodness and whatknot. Anyway. That’s it for today! I’ll see ya later!
-5:17 P.M
JAN 11 2026
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