Author: Crazysheet

   Hey.  I’m glad you’re here!  Otherwise I’d just be writing for everyone else.  I like everyone else fine I guess.  Either way, I dunno, how am I gonna come up with 5 paragraphs!  I’ve DONE nothing to write about to inspire five paragraphs.  I will be DOING NOTHING to inspire five paragraphs WHILE THEY’RE HAPPENING.  I don’t think I’ll do anything IN THE FUTURE to retroactively inspire these paragraphs TIME TRAVEL-WISE.  Hmm.  I’ve been watching Mad Men.  It’s good!  Don Draper reminds me of Donald Trump because his name is Don Da’ Raper.  They came up with it not me.  That other guy in the office reminds me of Dave Foley from Kids In The Hall.  Just based on appearance! I THOUGHT IT WAS HIM for an episode or two!  Anyway it’s a good show.  It encourages me to be less of an asshole like everyone on the show.  So Far I’m Still Working On It!  Luckily I’m mostly a private asshole!  I don’t interact with people too much.  Certainly not intimately.  Mostly just an asshole in my own mind!  Asshole to myself.  See how I like it.  I DON’T.  What’s a good personality though besides being an asshole.  Hmm.  Who needs a personality.  Just BE.  Personalities are overrated I think!  Take things moment-by-moment!  That’ll get you where you’re going!
   I’d like some consistency in who I am and what I do and how I behave!  That’s what personalities are.  Your overall TREND.  Oh okay very good.  Anyway.  Is Private Asshole a character in Catch-22 or something?  Feels like I heard that somewhere.  I hate all these books or whatever that try to assign meaning to numbers.  Let numbers be numbers!  That’s what they’re good at!  Giving numbers numerology-type meaning is the opposite of what we should be doing!  MATH IS ITS OWN THING.  IT MEANS NOTHING AND THAT’S WHY IT’S BEAUTIFUL.  That’s what makes it cool!  You’re RUINING IT.  But wouldn’t it be cool if 22 was a particular fun number for some reason.  Just MEANT something weird.  Wouldn’t that be kinda awesome.  STOP IT.  YOU’RE PUSHING IT.  Anyway.  I get it.  Started a new book.  About Talking Heads.  The band!  It’s a good book and you know what it’s an okay band.  I like that they sound different!  Sure all bands sound somewhat different and this band doesn’t sound that much different than any band sounds different from any other band but when I listen to this band’s songs I just think Hey These Songs Sound Different.  Even though I’ve only listened to the songs that I Know And Everyone Knows so far.  Which really are The Same when it comes down to it.  Huh.
    Okay.  Talking Heads?  WHAT ELSE would you expect to be talking?  I dunno!  Ace Ventura talks with his butt sometimes.  Not really.  He mimes doing it.  I don’t think he actually achieves speech coming from that part of his body.  Why do people say you’re talking out your ass like it’s a negative thing.  That’d be amazing!  The next stage in human evolution!  People would be astonished!  Anyway.  I got a make-up guitar lesson tonight.  Awesome!  I like that sort of thing.  I am strongly considering working on new music tomorrow.  If I can dream it, I can do it.  And if I can do it, I can do it for a full three or four hours!  And if I can do it for a full three or four hours, I WIN.  I’ll have accomplished what I set out to do!  Things Have Worked Out Exactly The Way I Wanted Them To!  What if I did music for 3-4 hours but it was terrible.  Good or Not Good Music, There Is Not.  JUST IS MUSIC BE.  That’d be easy for Yoda to say the only song he knows is the Star Wars Theme.  Best song of the 20^th century.  I like to imagine the characters in Star Wars hear the Star Wars music all the time in the back of their head and can’t exactly explain why.  Seems right.  Darth Vader himself is consciously thinking the Imperial Death March DUH DUH DUH Duh duh duh DUH DUH DUH whenever he walks around.   
   Alright.  Star Wars was the first song I learned.  On Piano.  I just played the main riff.  YES.  That’s all I could play the first 13 years of my life!  MUSICWISE.  Anyway.  What else is up.  I don’t mean to brag but we own a piano.  There’s a whole ass piano in our house.  I don’t know how we got it in there but it’s here!  Hmm.  WHAT’S THE DEAL with guitar pedals these days.  They cost three times as much as they did when I was a kid!  Exact same pedal that was $40 when I was a teenager is now $120!  Let’s get some Talking Heads complaining about that one.  It’s what people are concerned about!  Meet people where they are!  Makes me wanna not buy a guitar pedal at all.  I already don’t wanna because I gotta do manual work!  Gotta STEP ON IT.  What I gotta do exercises while I’m playing my song?  Don’t I have enough going on?  I DON’T LIKE IT.  Anyway.  All these Talking Heads people went to Art School.  I’ve never been good at visual arts!  Drawing or painting or anything.  Solidly in the bottom 10% at all that stuff!  NOTABLY poor.  I dunno if it’s hand-eye coordination or just hands or just eyes or what!  BRAIN maybe!  Maybe if I was inspired I could draw something interesting but for the most part I suck.  I just look at the world and think HOW CAN I POSSIBLY REPRODUCE THIS.  It’s impossible!  Can’t be done!  I wouldn’t know where to begin!
    Huh.  Let’s see.  “Traditional Art,” starts off as a palindrome but then goes nowhere!  Fun.  Almost!  If you were talking about David Byrne’s of Talking Heads possessions you would say Mr. Burns something or something.  That guy from that Television Thing.  Anyway.  Trying to remember things I’ve drawn.  I think in sixth grade art I once had to draw my kitchen.  And I drew my microwave and window and other stuff way out of proportion.  And everything just looked terrible.  Like a six year old drew it.  Can’t remember if it was drawn from memory or if I even had the benefit of Observation.  Hmm.  Maybe the microwave was bigger because it looms large in my heart.  THAT WASN’T THE ASSIGNMENT.  Anyway.  I understand the assignment!  Draw your kitchen in proportion.  Okay Very Good.  Not a panoramic view.  Not each and every side of your kitchen!  Pick one place to look at!  There are 31 kids in this class teacher can’t go through 124 drawings!  I think my kitchen has more than four walls.  Maybe six.  It is a Corner Kitchen.  It wraps around a corner.  I can’t do the math in my head right now but it’s complicated!  WOW.  Okay.  I just doxed my kitchen.  Next thing you know my kitchen is getting bomb threats.  Is the phrase, “Kitch,” from, “Kitchen?”  OR VICE VERSA?  Either way who cares I’m done with the entry!  See ya later!

-4:55 P.M.

JAN 20 2026 

   Hi!  I’m afraid the time has come to ask for a plumber.  This water temperature in my bath is unacceptable!  I was hoping at some point it would turn around on its own and get better but that’s not happening! Give it some more time.  Things like this don’t get just better on their own! You need Mario and Luigi to GET IN THERE and fix it!  I don’t know what to do.  I don’t like causing a fuss!  Also, based on experience, it’ll only crap out on me in a year or two and turn cold again!  Maybe I should figure out how to fix it myself.  DIY.  BYOB.  TMOTTBG.  Byob is a bummer of an acronym.  Acronyms are supposed to be FUN and A BLAST.  BYOB is a reference to a CHORE and something we HAVE TO DO.  Isn’t DIY, for that matter.  DIY is about becoming a better more well-rounded person!  BYOB is about having to make an extra stop at the liquor store before the party.  I wonder if 50 Cent ever thought about Get Rich Or DIY Trying.  And it’s about how he had to do it all by himself or at least A Lot By Himself.  If I were him I would have thought about that a few times.  I never saw the movie but if that’s an actual prominent theme of the movie then that vindicates that theory.  Cool.  Watched most of season II of Stranger Things.  I like watching kids get older.  It feels like at least one of us is accomplishing something.  Feels productive!
   I would LOVE Boyhood.  The movie.  Probably the concept, too!   I’ve never seen the movie and I forget most of the experience.  Wait, something’s coming to me.  I remember sitting in cafeterias with other kids my age.  During lunch time.  That must have been part of it.  Huh.  Chatrooms.  Group Chats and individual Person to Person instant messaging.  It was an important part of socializing.  In my boyhood.  That kind of friendship contact was right up my alley.  I get to be a wiseass from afar without any real intimacy forming to muck up the gears of the relationships.  Really made me the man I am today!  Wait a second…  Whatever!  I should probably do some practicing before my Guitar Class tonight.  Teacher probably is expecting me to have practiced what we went over Last Week.  I DID NOT.  Hmm I could devote 15-20 minutes to that I guess.  First comes Boyhood.  Then comes Manhood.  Then comes Robinhood.  It’s.  The.  ULTIMATE.  I dunno.  Manhood is slang for condom right.  Alright.  I have a really old condom in my wallet.  Not sure where I even got it.  It’s gotta be very expired!  In an earlier draft of that story I told you exactly how old I estimated it was.  Then I was embarrassed by how long it implied I haven’t had sex!  In this draft you just use your imagination.
    That’s fun.  Con the Dumb.  Yep that’s who I was gonna con in the first place but thanks for the tip.  I don’t wanna con the dumb.  They have enough problems as it is!  I think I’ll con the brilliant!  Or maybe the moderately intelligent!  Anyway.  Grateful Dead guitarist died a week or so ago.  He should feel happy about that.  As a synonym or so.  Anyway he was ALREADY The Grateful Dead.  Now that he’s even more dead what is he.  Somethin’ Else.  Somethin’ Different.  I dunno what.  Double dead.  Hopefully double grateful too for his sake!  My guess is I don’t know.  I bet he’s doubly grateful in actual death.  Why not.  He earned it!  HE played guitar for all of us!  I had very little idea who he was before a week ago but that’s on me!  I told one of my new guitarmates who seems fluent in music my favorite kind of music was Indie Rock Alt Rock and Punk and he was like Indie rock, hmm, so like The Replacements? And I was like Yeah Sure!  Cause WHY NOT.  I like The Replacements as one band out of 200!  It’s True!  Also if not them WHO.  I dunno who else I would say!  So SURE THEM!  I wanted to be like Yeah Sure!  HMM Terrible what’s going on in Minneapolis to signal I know they’re from there and to keep conversation going.  But I just said YEAH SURE.  WELL GOODNIGHT instead.
   Okay.  ICE MELTS IN ‘SOTA.  I came up with that.  Probably dozens of other people too.  Also, “T,” = “D!”  They’re VERY close!  I don’t know if it will come true or not.  But my heart goes out to Minnesotans fighting the good fight!  Anyway I guess I need to write two more paragraphs.  I think I’m all caught up on Star Wars movies.  Now I have to watch the series.  Sounds like a big commitment!  Also sounds like I’d have to pay close attention to really follow what’s going on.  Movies are 2.25 hours and I can halfwatch to figure out what’s going on.  Series are 3 seasons of 10 episodes and I’m gonna have to .85 Watch the entire thing to know what’s happening!  DANGIT.  Anyway all this time I’ve been hearing about Baby Yoda and apparently it hasn’t been Baby Yoda at all!  Just a baby who looks like yoda!  At least it has the force not unlike Yoda.  That’s close enough I guess.  Same species, still has the force, is a baby… STILL.  THAT AIN’T YODA.  WORDS HAVE MEANING.  Where’s Baby Emperor Palpatine.  He’s human. That’d just be a baby.  Oh.  I was imagining a baby who looks like an old man.  Hmm.  Anyway sometimes Liz Lemon of 30 Rock says, “A-doy!” and that’s, “Yoda,” backwards. Cracked that code.   
    Also Liz Lemon backwards is Nomelzil which sounds like a prescription drug of some sort.  Okay.  The title of this entry implied there’d be Hot Takes.  Titles imply lots of things!  I guess.  I dunno.  Do you ever think about how People We Enjoy And Admire keep on dying but no one we get anything out of are being born?  I mean I guess people are being born that ONE DAY will be productive in the arts or elsewhere.  But it’s never breaking news that someone was born that’s going to be great.  We won’t know about it for decades!  Probably.  Who cares.  I dunno!  Me!  I want new great people to look up to!  Luckily I look up to almost everyone I meet!  VERY short man!  Anyway.  Must be really weird to be a standard height.  How odd.  You’re just like everyone else.  How strange.  What else is up.  What if I were to get pizza tonight.  Would that make me happy?  Yeah maybe.  Pizza is a metaphor for pizza.  What else.  I remember sometimes having French Bread Pizza in elementary school Hot Lunch.  OOO-LA-LA.  PARISIAN CUISINE.  What is French Bread?  It’s when it’s a rounded off rectangle instead of a circle (or 1/8^th circle shaped).  Pretty sure that’s it.  Cool.  I remember one or two classmates wouldn’t eat their hot lunch and we were more than happy to accept their donations for ourselves.  Looking back what was wrong with them.  Somethings off if you’re deciding not to eat lunch every day for the entire school year.  We should show more concern for our friend.  But at the time AWESOME Double Decker Chicken Sandwich this is a sweet deal.  Anyway.  See ya later.

-3:59 P.M.

JAN 15 2026                  

   What’s Up.  At some point I started confusing Website Content with Just Talking About My Life.  Yes that is an Often Overlap but it’s Usually Wrong and I’m sorry.  Problem is I don’t know what to say most of the time.  Talking about my life Gets The Words Flowing.  Flow.  In the first draft of Star Wars Obi Wan was to teach Luke about The Flow.  Use The Flow Luke!  The Flow is all around us.  Providing strength and balance to every living thing.  Use the flow to Pick Up Rock for practice and whatknot.  Pick up rock and put it back down.  Or just pick it up and let gravity do the second part No One Would Be The Wiser CHEATER.  Anyway Emperor Palpatine looks like the most powerful person in Star Wars to me.  He can electrify people. Gonna fuckin’ point his fingers at you and start cookin’ you alive.  Seems like the go-to move as far as I can tell.  Somebody must stop him!  Somebody did.  Darth Vader threw him off a cliff.  Then some other people also killed him again.  It was climactic!  Anyway.  Maybe we should call Global Warming, “Climactic Change,” so people would be more engaged.  Now I’m even less engaged then before.  Oh okay good.  I’m guessing there’s a big overlap between people who don’t believe in Global Warming and Flat Earthers so is it possible they’re actually just objecting to the, “Global,” part and not the, “Warming?” part?  Maybe there’s more common ground to be found with these Idiots than we thought!          
    Okay.  Anyway.  Here’s a pun I’m kicking around—Abolish ICE But it’s actually the polar ice caps melting from Global Warming.  Still working out the kinks on that one.  I’ll get around to it.  Anyway the ICE on everyone’s mind is terrible but ICE IN SODA is a nice microtreat.  If I drink soda at home as I do all the time I would never put ice in the glass myself.  But if I go to a restaurant and get ice in my soda as they always will put it in, WOW!  Nice bonus extra!  Really makes things seem special!  Before ICE: The Horrible Agency Which Will Go Down In History As One Of The Worst Things America Ever Did, regular ice was great here and there!  Ice could mean something similar to smh in texts.  “I Can’t Even.”  Just one man’s opinion.  Gonna have to come up with SOME new text abbreviations If I Want To Be The New Shakespeare!  I think I’m just all caught up with Abbott Elementary.  I didn’t realize they still have K-8 public schools in other parts of the country!  Also Philadelphia isn’t that far from my part of the country.  I could practically walk there if you gave me enough time and allowed me to rest and could afford food and lodging and whatknot.  Sounds like fun.  Let’s do it.  And what happens at the end?  The reward is in the journey not the destination.  Well surely there must be some sort of payoff in the destination.  Nope.  Just the journey!  You’re not gonna like the destination One Bit!  
    Okay.  Started my new round of music for School Of Rock.  It’s all assorted blues songs!  The group got 5 songs for now and I GOT FIVE SONGS for now.  We’re down to 3 guitarrists and the other 2 are brand new to the group!  I guess because of seniority it worked out that I’m on all five songs either in rhythm or lead capacity.  Ugh.  I like rhythm!  It’s easier!  Playing chords is kinda my thing!  I do like sometimes when I’m improvising the lead on some songs IN THEORY.  Sometimes I enjoy it because it’s fun, Doing it makes me get better at it, and it’s what I signed up to do more or less IN THEORY.  But also that’s when Pressure Kicks In!  So I don’t like too much of it!  Anyway.  I like a balance!  If it were up to me I’d like to play majority rhythm and then some lead and the lead I play would be mostly improvision and the non-improvised lead should be EASY to play.  IF IT WERE UP TO ME.  I gotta take the workload that’s given to me!  That’s what bands are all about!  This is sort of a band.  DNA BAND TOGETHER. Is that the start of some wonderful anagram/palindrome?  Cause they do.  Double Helix.  Something like that.  We cloned Dolly The Sheep in the late 1990’s.  Whatever happened to that clone.  Just BEEN livin it’s life I guess.  If anything particularly terrible or particularly wonderful happened with it we would have heard about it! 
    Begun the Clone Wars have.  That’s how Star Wars II ends, with Yoda Saying That.  And then I never heard about the clone wars again.  I guess they may have been going on in Star Wars III but I didn’t really notice anything about Clone Wars really!  For all this talk about Clone Wars here and there in Star Wars I DIDN’T SEE MUCH ACTUAL CLONE WARS.  Whatever.  Took a break from watching The Star Wars Franchise to watch Spaceballs.  It’s… okay!  About as good as I remember it!  I’m excited for Spaceballs II though because I Love To Laugh and I Laugh To Live.  Whatever.  The only Mel Brooks movie I had on VHS as a kid was Robin Hood: Men In Tights.  We rented some of the others multiple times.  But I watched Robin Hood: Men In Tights dozens of times.  Lots of laughs in that one!  IT PARODIES Robin Hood Movies.  Which I have never seen then or now.  But I get the idea.  It takes place in Medieval Times!  British!  Robin Hood is A HERO.  Sheriff Of Nottingham is A ZERO.  Also that’s how I already liked Dave Chappelle by the time I was seven years old.  And now I don’t like Dave Chappelle as much now that I’m thirty seven years old.  I DIDN’T CHANGE HE DID.  I’m still the same person I was when I was seven.  Maybe a little dumber all in all.  I dunno.
   Okay.  I’m surprised Dave Chappelle joined the cast of Men In Tights seems like crossdressing would be a bridge too far for him!  Anyway.  What else is going on.  I should be writing TWO entries a week not THREE.  And/or ZERO entries a week not TWO.  Who needs any of this.  Either way what else.  Apparently Rick Moranis is making his triumphant return to acting in Spaceballs II after 2 decades off (3 decades if you only include live performances).  This is very exciting!  I WONDER if John Candy or Joan Rivers will return from the dead.  That would be the real kicker!  Somehow Joan Rivers Returned.  Okay.  I don’t think there’s any subtitle to Spaceballs II.  They had a few ideas but I guess they couldn’t commit to one so they just said FUCK IT if we can’t pick one WE’RE GOING WITH NOTHING.  I guess I can’t argue with that logic.  But it feels like they shoulda gone with SOMETIN.  These movies tend to have SOME Subtitle!  GOTTA PICK SOMETHIN.  But Michael who cares what you think.  Good counterpoint.  Anyway.  Do I need to see DUNE to get Spaceballs II.  I might need to watch All The Dunes.  I get it they live in Sand.  What more do I need to understand.  Possible there are sandworms like in Beetlejuice.  Sure!  Anyway.  That’s all.  See ya later.

-5:30 P.M.

JAN 13 2026

   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

   Okay.  Hey!  Been sick the last two days.  I think.  I feel sick!  I just bought a thermometer and it’s telling me I am not feverish.  Can you be sick without a fever?  I’m sick in the sense that I’m ill.  By which I mean I’m dope.  I used to love getting fevers or the flu as a kid.  SURE it’s unpleasant feeling under the weather but I get to skip school!  That’s a net positive outcome!  Watch daytime TV.  Forbidden Zone!  People my age aren’t supposed to see this content!  What about during the summer.  Hmm.  I dunno.  Anyway.  Got a double Guitar Lesson today.  Regular lesson followed by make up lesson.  This lesson is gonna take forever!  Last two nights have been when Weakness and Discomfort really kicks in, too!  Hopefully not tonight!  THE SHOW MUST GO ON.  Well Preparing For The Show Must Go On.  Well Guitar Practice Must Go On.  You get it.  Huh.  Been watching the original Star Wars trilogy.  They’re okay!  Feels like Luke Skywalker loses some spunk over time.  He starts off with some attitude on Tattooine!  As he learns the force and becomes a Jedi he loses some of his gumption!  Kinda seems like he’s making Backwards Progress!  Anyway.  The Forrest Gumption Of A Nation.  What’s happened to us!  I don’t like it.  Didn’t bother to think too much overnight while feeling sick last night.  Too busy feeling shitty!  That’s one positive.  Just lie in bed thinking about trying to fall back asleep because I felt bad.  There was no thought for thinking about anything else!
     I bet Yoda and R2D2 would get along.  On account of dwarfism.  Anyway George Lucas really knocked these names out of the park.  So many memorable names.  Gimme a main character name that ISN’T amazing.  Princess Leia.  Kinda only OK.  But then again maybe that’s because Lucas intended for her to be a Kind Of Only Okay Character because of misogyny.  Anyway.  Star Wars is a Space Opera.  Does that make Fight Club a Soap Opera.  Not sure.  Hmm.  ANYWAY.  Michael what if you said stuff what was good.  Entertaining or funny.  Maybe relevant.  I can’t THINK.  I feel SICK.  What if I started to think soon.  Then maybe I’d stop feeling sick.  Good. Great.  It’s a problem!  What’s on my mind is the Fascism!  The government is killing us!  The media is enabling it!  Powerful people are turning a blind eye!  And the small voice I do have, I don’t know what to do with it!  Oh okay I get it Good One.  Anyway.  They want us to be scared.  Hey they did it!  I’m scared!  Maybe they want us to not just be scared But also the opposite, to be indifferent and ignorant, too.  Well I’m kinda those things too!  Whatever it is, We’re Not Doing Good Enough!  Unless you are.  Maybe you are!  SOME PEOPLE are probably doing good enough!  WELL DONE.  Anyway.  The Force is all around us.  Just put my faith in that, right?  That’s what Yoda would say.  Not sure that’s accurate though.  Interesting counterpoint.
    Anyway.  Kinda seems like The Dark Side is all around us.  Maybe It’s Just Me. Anyway I bought two new pairs of pants.  And they arrived today!  What’s the point of the half a dozen tags and stickers and whatknot that they attach to new pants.  Seems like they’re just giving us busy work to deal with.  Think of all the better things I could be doing rather than taking off these plastic tags!  I could be lying in bed in pain with my mind off for once!  Make the most out of this current debilitation.  Just LAY.  IN.  BED.  I don’t get it.  I dunno.  Had a make up guitar lesson with a different teacher on Tuesday and we were jamming together and dude really emphasized what I was doing was FYRE.  Not sure he intended it as Fyre or Fire but either way he seemed genuine in his praise.  I didn’t think what I was doing was all that good.  Seems like he mighta been blowing some smoke!  WHERE TEHRE’S SMOKE THERE’S FIRE THOUGH so either way it’s accurate.  Anyway.  If Star Wars is a Space Opera that means it has ads for Space during the commercials.  That’s my opinion.  I wouldn’t mind going into space these days.  In the past Astronauting seemed dumb and pointless but NOW I get it.  Get me outta here.  Anyway.  You can’t survive for long times in space.  Not yet.  You can only visit space.  Is that accurate. I don’t know.  I wouldn’t want to raise a family in The International Space Station though for example.  People WORK there.
   Okay.  Maybe being sick and playing guitar will compliment each other.  2+2=4.  I’ll excel at Guitar Lesson Practice.  I won’t feel good but you can’t argue with the results!  What are some good songs about Feeling Sick.  Hmm.  I dunno.  Not sure I know too many songs.  Only about 2 or 3 dozen when it’s all said and done!  NOT A HUGE MUSIC BUFF.  I’ve gotten in the habit of playing the guitar while in the lobby waiting for my lessons.  I saw other people do it before and I figured I could do that too!  I’m always 10-30 minutes early because Why Not.  So I just get there early and play guitar by myself.  People seem to probably not enjoy it but nobody says a thing!  FREE CONCERT FOR THEM.  I like what I play!  Maybe when they go to sleep at night they’ll think back to what they heard earlier and go YA KNOW WHAT ACTUALLY I KINDA LIKED THAT.  That’s good.  Should probably wear a mask to Guitar Lesson. As a kindness precaution.  Hmm.  I don’t THINK I have covid.  But then again I don’t THINK at all.  I TOLD YOU that’s what makes this illness so delightful!  Anyway.  I’m Chevy Chase And You’re Not.  Catchphrase kinda lost all it’s power once we figured We Were Okay With That!  YEAH.  WE KNOW WE’RE NOT.  COMPLETELY COOL WITH THAT.  Anyway.  I’m Not Chevy Chase And You Might Be.  That’s WHAT I SAY. 
   Alright.  I guess.  There’s other Chevy Chases out there.  Even Chevy Chase himself must say I’m Chevy Chase and You Might Be.  Surely there’s more than one!  But I guess Chevy Chase just doesn’t care about the other people named Chevy Chase out there in the world!  Chevy Chase Erasure.  WOW WHAT AN ASSHOLE.  Anyway.  My show is in two days.  Good odds I’m Over My Illness by then!  Got a practice session with my Clashmates tomorrow night.  We’ll see how sick I am then!  I DUNNO. I have no choice but to show up for the show!  This is it!  Been working on this since September 2025!  Without me 9 out of 14 songs WOULDN’T MAKE SENSE.  What else is up.  I had one or two drinks of alcohol before Summer’s Show.  Classmate had a bottle of something!  I forget what!  I partook a little bit!  I think it didn’t hurt and maybe helped.  Not sure if I should do it again if he offers again.  Maybe I’m a Sober Songster this time around.  Although in general I do like to drink!  HMM.  If I’m still SICK I probably shouldn’t drink.  Feeling Ill + Drinking = Multiplier of Badness For Guitar Playing!  Alright then.  I don’t like it.  What.  Mostly everything.  You know.  That sort of stuff.  Alright! See ya later.

-5:18 P.M.

JAN 8 2026         

   Okay Good.  I’ve got bad news, I’ve been identifying with Darth Vader.  I was watching the Star Wars prequel trilogy the last few days and I’ve been enjoying it.  So there ya go.  I think they’re pretty good films!  You see Jar Jar Binks is so annoying as to get us really angry and turned off such that we Identify With Anakin While He Turns To The Dark Side.  They’re LAYERED movies!  I’ve seen these films a few times before but I’m paying slightly more attention this time.  I still don’t like the pre-amble for any of these three films.  For at least two of the three, the text that appears in the beginning that sets up the plot for the film, although it presumably is simple enough that a children can understand it, I’m left thinking WHA?  HUH?  I DON’T GET IT.  THESE 3 PARAGRAPHS CONFUSE ME.  I DUNNO WHY BUT MOST OF THESE WORDS MAKE NO SENSE TOGETHER.  MIGHT JUST BE THE ANGLE THEY’RE AT.  CONFUSING ANGLE.  WHY.  Maybe my problem is it’s cause there’s so much pressure to read it while it’s passing by.  I gotta read it before it leaves the screen and I’m panicking because I don’t operate well under pressure!  Maybe cause the plot is always confusing.  THE SENATE IS DOIN SOMETHING.  CHANCELLOR UP TO NO GOOD.  SEPERATIST SOLAR SYSTEMS OR SOMETHIN.  YOU’LL SEE.  I guess my reading comprehension is POOR.
   Anyway.  They’re good films though.  Quite the spectacle!  I can get into this!  I really liked Episode One: The Phantom Menace.  WHO is the Phantom Menace.  I have several guesses.  The truth is there might be multiple phantom menaces.  No, the title is pretty clear there’s a singular Phantom Menace.  Oh okay.  Anyway.  What else is up.  Am I committed to binge watching All Of Star Wars after I finish Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith?  No I don’t think so.  I could stop whenever I want!  Do I want to stop then?  I got nothing better to watch!  Sure, there are other things to watch on the TV.  STRANGER Things perhaps.  After my show on Saturday I promise to start working on music again.  To myself.  You can accept that promise if you want.  But it’s really a self promising. Music will really only be for myself, too!  You won’t get much out of it for now!  You won’t even be able to listen to it for who-knows-how-long/ever!  Anyway.  Softcorn Porn called Jedi Nights.  Softcorn?  Yeah like when the band Korn Goes Acoustic.  Anyway.  I’m still inadequately fucking around for parts of 2-3 songs out of the 9 I’m on for my SOR show.  Just hopefully barely making sense musically are the notes I’m playing for those 2-3 bits of songs.  But ALL IN ALL I feel comfortable with how much prepared I am for the show.  The amount I’m prepared is to be Barely HOLDING MY OWN!  That’s GOOD ENOUGH I GUESS.
   Wow.  I identified with Darth Vader in Episode I because I am the same height as a nine year old.  What more do you want from me.  Anyway.  I don’t see myself Going Towards The Dark Side.  I don’t WANT to be evil.  Get off my back about it!  Just use the force.  Listen to Yoda.  Pretty simple stuff.  How come Yoda has had thousands of students but none of them adopt his way of speaking.  He speaks in a very specific sentence structure, and I assume he’s taken on lots of PERSONAL MENTORSHIPS, and I’m pretty sure all of them Talk Unlike Him But Like Everyone Else.  Seems like if I was mentored by Master Yoda I’d come out of it Speaking Like Him.  If he was really my Main Master for the long run.  Talk Like Him I Would.  Otherwise how deep is this apprenticeship really!  Anyway.  I dunno.  Halfway through the entry.  Halfway through my life, maybe.  Probably!  Bought new jeans online.  For some reason my jeans keep ripping in the crotch area.  The bottom/back of the crotch area.  Takes about 3-5 months but it’s inevitable!  Same with socks.  Takes about 6-8 weeks for socks!  But a sock’ll tear in the toe area at some point, you can bet on it!  You can bet on anything!  It’s encouraged!  Not sure how I feel about that.  I’m all for personal freedoms but it seems like not the best use of your time and/or resources!
    Whatever.  What were the odds Michael Complains About His Clothes Ripping.  80:1?  WHO WON BIG MONEY ON THAT?  Why is that something people do.  Anyway maybe I should be identifying with The Incredible Hulk. Off the top of my head His Clothes Rip Too. Rest In Pieces, The Incredible Hulk’s Clothes.  They’re dead cause they’re broken.  Tattered.  No longer useful as clothing.  Anyway.  How are there THIS MANY aliens in Star Wars.  LOOK in real life Humans would be shocked to find out ONE Kind Of Aliens!  In Star Wars there’s, what, TENS OF THOUSANDS kinds of aliens?  Hundreds of thousands?  Already thousands SOLAR SYSTEMS populated.  Exponentially more aliens you’d think.  I dunno.  What’s the ratio of Pretty Much Human Aliens to Weird Lookin’ Aliens.  1:1?  2:1?  1:2?  I HAVEN’T PAID ATTENTION ENOUGH.  Anyway.  I remember seeing Star Wars IV re-released in theaters as a kid as well as The Exorcist re-released in theaters.  Both were fun experiences!  Any other films re-released in theaters Michael?  HMM.  ISN’T TWO ENOUGH FOR YOU?  I guess to make sure I’m not forgetting anything I have to Browse A List Of Every Movie Ever Made.  Meh.  Or find a list of Every Movie That’s Ever Been Ever Popularly Re-released.  That’s a fraction of a fraction!  YEAH.
    OKAY.  Not Sure what t-shirt to wear to my show on Saturday.  That’s a tough one.  HMM.  I don’t wanna wear my Rolling Stones t-shirt.  We’re doing a Rolling Stones show!  PER MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WOULD BE LAME.  Anyway.  The good news is I’ll probably stand in the back corner again so no one will be able to see me either way.  They’ll be none the wiser that I’m even there!  They’ll know 2-3 times over the course of the 14 songs that Something Sounds Off but they won’t be able to quite put their finger on it!  Sure they will.  Guitar.  People know what a guitar sounds like.  One of the guitars will sound off.  Oh Okay Good.  Anyway.  When pressed to choose between Star Wars and Star Trek, I’d always identify more with Star Wars content but Star Trek fans.  Star Wars is a little more engaging but Star Trek fans are smarter.  They’re NERDS LIKE ME.  Per my understanding. Trek is a nerdy word!  Let’s go on a, “Trek.”  Only a nerd would say that!  And I like it.  Anyway.  There’s a Wilco album called Star Wars released roughly 2015.  Seems like a real choice to use that title.  Really gotta wonder what Wilco was going for.  It’s not ABOUT Star Wars.  Unless it’s in the subtext.  I dunno.  Is it possible to read into the supertext of something.  My guess is No I Don’t Think So.  Alright.  I’ll see ya later.

-4:39 P.M.

JAN 6 2026

   Great.  Gotta write five paragraphs of some sort of content.  Judge me not on the color of my skin but on the content of my paragraphs.  Also Should we be judging people on the contents of their characters, either?  Maybe we just shouldn’t be judging people at all!  Unless we’re judges!  That’s a special case!  I dunno I judge people on the content of their character all the time.  It’s a big part of my life.  Without it I don’t know what I would do!  Society judging people on the content of their character encourages people to have better characters!  So it sounds like a productive social activity I guess.  ANYWAY.  Tobey Maguire: Don’t Judge Me On The Content Of My Character.  Me: You Mean Spiderman?  What else is going on.  Spiderman is a character not just Tobey Maguire plays but one that Tobey Maguire As Peter Parker plays.  Discuss.  Hmm.  Here’s a thought—If Zohran Mandani was a baseball player and he hit a homerun a sports color commentator might call it a, “Mamdinger!”  Wow.  Here’s a thought—A right wing news color commentator might say, “With Zohran as mayor we are all in Mamdanger.” Great.  WELL those are the Two Puns you can make out of his last name!  See ya later!  What else is up.  What’s the over/under of Mamdani playing himself as Mayor Of New York in at least one major motion film in the next four or eight years. 
     Spiderman Films would possibly be appropriate!  Spiderman lives in New York.  Unless Spiderman tweeted out in August he’s leaving New York if Mamdani wins.  I don’t think Peter Parker would do that!  Maybe Black Suit Spiderman would do that.  EVIL SPIDERMAN/Venom would vote for Cuomo and threaten to leave if Mamdani won. Anyway.  Why would Peter Parker be on twitter.  Can’t get enough of Grok like the rest of us.  Oh okay.  Unless Peter Parker is gearing up TO FIGHT Grok then I don’t get it.  Anyway.  Re-watched Adaptation last night for maybe the 25^th time.  This time I got even more out of it!  Each time I watch it I generally get a little more out of it than the last time.  It’s one of those movies that somehow improves with age!  My age!  Not so much its age!  Maybe its age, too, I guess, I dunno!  Hmm.  Also it STARTED OUT as one of my favorite movies of all time.  So for it to always improve on that over and over is pretty cool!  Keep in mind that in 2003 when I first saw it I still primarily wanted to be a screenwriter.  KEEP THAT INSIDE YOUR MIND for a few seconds.  I’ll let you know when you can stop.  OK now’s good.  NOW think about anything you want!  FREETIME.  Play Space!  Go Wild!  Lady’s Choice!  Have Fun!  Now start paying attention to the next paragraph.
     OKAY.  If I wanted to be a screenwriter how come I never wrote a screen.  Or a script.  Or any sort of Film at all.  Same reason I’m not doing music right now.  Cause I was and/or am is AN IDIOT.  Not too late for me to write a screenplay NOW in 2026.  But I don’t want to anymore.  NONSENSE.  The thing you want to do when you’re 12-14 is the thing YOU REALLY wanna do.  You just FORGETTABOUTIT as a teenager.  But Preteen Dream is really what you’re meant for!  I read about it in a Hot Take somewhere maybe on the internet.  Also I never really got about how Screenplays are supposed to be detailed and elaborate.  I just always thought they were People Say Things Along With The Barest Amount Of Bones of Stage Directions Happening.  But NOW I think they’re supposed to be really detailed and imaginative and provocative.  I don’t… I can’t… that’s not… I don’t even want to… SORRY.  Hmm.  Besides I’m on a Music Kick.  I FANTASIZE about Making MUSIC.  BUT ENOUGH ABUOT ME.  What are you fantasizing about right now?  Kinda thinkin about the Ludacris song, “What’s Your Fantasy.”  Because that’s how my brain works.  Words remind me of the same word and THAT’S HOW MY CREATIVITY MANIFESTS.  What a vivid imagination!  Anyway I gotta do SOMETHING this year.  This is the year of DOING SOMETHING.  Multiple Things seems like what I’m aiming for but Something might be the more responsible way to go.  I don’t want to overextend myself! That’s a good way of putting pressure on my joints!  Disjointing myself!  Don’t do it.
    Fuck.  Anyway.  I got bad news the water in my bath/shower is very cold.  Luke warm at best.  It’s not pleasant taking a bath or shower because of it!  I don’t know why this keeps happening.  I blame The Way Of Water.  I assume this is what the second Avatar movie was about I wasn’t really paying attention.  Anyway.  I’m looking at my old middle school’s website and I don’t see ONE of my old teachers still teaching there.  I graduated middle school just a year or so before I saw Adaptation for the first time!  That is a long time I GUESS.  But at the same time it’s not that long ago!  24 years.  Okay yeah but so what.  Teachers teach!  What’s your point.  I dunno.  FOR TE RECORD none of my elementary school teachers are still there, either!  WHY is the world moving on as if I Never Existed!  ALL PROOF OF THE WORLD I INHABITED IS GONE.  It’s like What I Experienced Didn’t Even Happen!  Pretty sure most of my classmates are still around.  They can testify that my K-8 years occurred!  Oh good.  Who cares.  It’s a part of Michael’s History.  In my presidential library one day we’re gonna want everyone to know the full story!  I WANT to know the full story!  I forget most things.  I want someone to remind me. I remember 30 other kids and 1 teacher at a time.  And the teacher would try to teach.  And I would try to be a Smart Alex.  And that’s about it!  I think the term is Smart Alec.  How many Alec’s do you know.  Alec Baldwin, that’s all.  The term is Smart Alex, thanks!
   Anyway.  Google’s definition of Smart Aleck is different than mine.  I’M JUST GONNA GO AHEAD and assume everyone is on board with Mine though.  Seems foolish.  Yeah!  Also I’m NOT saying I was a Smart Aleck.  I was a Smart ALEX.  I TOLD YOU.  Different thing!  Well anyway.  Anyway now I’m a Dumb… Jerkoff.  I dunno what name to go along with Dumb.  Just Jerkoff’ll do I guess.  We go through different phases as we age!  It’s the circle of life!  Smart, Dumb, whatever!  It all comes out in the wash!  Also Dumb people are some of the smartest people I know!  You can be dumb and be really smart sometimes!  I’m basing that on Hope.  On account of Because I’m Dumb.  So that’s good.  Anyway.  What’s the next holiday coming up.  Valentine’s Day?  I gave a girl a valentine once.  In third grade.  Girl in my class named Stephanie.  I forget if it was just a personal card or if I gave some sort of minor gift whatever it may have been.  Either way I don’t remember ever getting any sort of response so she must not have cared at all.  And that’s the furthest I’ve ever gotten Romantically with someone.  Sort of!  We were friends beforehand.  We would laugh about things in class and whatknot.  But she apparently couldn’t give two shits about my deep heartfelt feelings for her.  Just acted like it never even happened!  It’s POSSIBLE I never gave her the Valentine.  I just thought about doing it.  Hmm.  Anyway.  That’s all! See ya!

-4:32 P.M.

JAN 2 2026

   Hey!  What in the world am I gonna talk about today.  We all just had a New Years. Everyone could relate to that.  We’re all following the same calendar more or less.  Except for Chinese people.  And Jews.  Vietnamese now that I think about it.  Probably most people don’t follow these New Years.  Oh.  Well everyone knows WHAT IT’S LIKE to Have A New Years.  So you may not have just celebrated with us last night but you GET IT.  Church Of Ladder Dais Saints don’t celebrate New Years.  It’s frivolous.  Leads to sin.  Hmm.  I like New Years because I prefer being in this part of The Solar System.  The other side?  In July?  Way on the opposite side of the sun?  I just don’t like that part of space!  Just SUCKS around there.  I CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCES.  I CAN TEACH YOU TOO.  FOR PRACTICALLY NOTHING I’LL TEACH YOU.  I don’t think that’s what astrology is, is it?  It’s a lot like astrology.  It sure sounds like I’m talking about astrology.  I thought I came up with something new.  I haven’t come up with something new since 2024.  That was YEARS ago as of today.  I ordered me some sock.  White socks.  Kind of like the baseball team.  Sort of.  First time in years I’ve gotten white socks.  For at least four or five years, and probably more, I’ve worn exclusively black socks.  Also sort of like the other baseball team.  Nope. 
    Anyway.  When you search Black Sox it produces results because The White Sox scandal of 1919, they called it Black Sox scandal as a FUN PUN.  Because Black meant, “Bad.”  They did something Wrong or Improper.  Like in the Rolling Stone song it means Paint It, “Incorrectly,” or, “The Way You Shouldn’t Do It.”  I might disagree with that.  Michael Jackson was famously black and he made an entire album called, “Bad,” so put two and two together!  2+2=2!  What are we supposed to be painting it black.  In real life.  Off the top of my head Border Wall comes to mind.  Parts of sports courts?  Basketball or something?  I think you paint black lines or something onto court!  Huh.  The point is for a brief period of time writing the last paragraph I genuinely thought there was a team called the Chicago White Sox for a second and then the next second I briefly entertained the idea there was a team called the Chicago Black Sox.  Speaking of Terrible Jokes I watched Ricky Gervais’s new special yesterday.  I guess I’ll give him a 3/10 but that’s because 1/10 is too low and I can’t find my 2/10.  Oh right I gave MYSELF the 2/10.  Then Shouldn’t I Have It Somewhere?  Touche.  I can’t regift the 2/10 though anyway.  It’s Been Given!  No Re-Giving Ratings!  Anyway.  I ended up getting Supreme Pizza from Pizza Hut last night.  Because I always like to Eat the last thing I saw in theaters.
     Apparently MTV is no more.  I liked Music Videos.  I went through a couple of phases of regularly watching MTV for the music videos in my life.  By the time I came of adolescence though MTV was already less, “Music Television,” and more, “EMPTY ‘v” whatever V stands for!  Just FELT DEVOID OF SOMETHIN, PURE ARTISTIC EXPRESSION, I DUNNO.  Too commercial.  Too mainstream.  Too catered to teenagers.  And even though I WAS a teenager I didn’t like what they were doing!  And of course by the time I was a was an upper teenager most of what they were showing had little to do with music.  Just reality shows.  Which I watched some of!  I liked BUSSED.  What was that one called?  NOT IT?  QUICK DATE?  NEXT.  It was called Next.  People go on micro dates waiting on busses and then one of them can say NEXT at any time they feel like its not going anywhere and then their date is replaced by someone else.  I always liked it when A New Guy Would Appear and the woman would go NEXT immediately within the first 2 seconds cause the guy happened to be short.  And everyone really digs into him because it’s a reality show and they’re mean to a point.  Happened every third episode.  That always increased my teenage confidence!  Anyway.  Why are people so mean.  Oh well I learned an important lesson.  Don’t go on reality shows.  In fact don’t live in reality.  Stay clear of that mess altogether.
   Anyway.  Yeah.  Fuck MTV!  It looks like MTV still might exist to some extent.  Huh.  Just no music videos.  Great.  So only the bad stuff. Good for them.  Gotta show the VMAS somewhere!  It’s an important event!  Remember that time… slime…. Wait that’s the Kids Choice Awards… you get the idea!  Anyway.  I dunno.  If I were slimed by Nickelodeon at some event FOR WHOM am I suffering this ultimate humiliation?  Is it really for the kids?  I don’t think kids really care to see me or anyone really embarrassed like this!  I think it’s some sad adults who decided to slime me and hide behind oh the kids would think its funny.  But it’s really the adults that are doing it.  And one day they’ll pay.  Anyway.  DID YOU ever watch Nick growing up and see any poor sap get slime poured on them and go YES IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING FOR YOU ADULT.  CHLIDREN SUFFER INDIGNITY ALL THE TIME AND NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS.  I dunno.  Whenever I saw someone get randomly slimed, adult or kid, I think I always just felt, there’s already so much pain in the world.  Why add to it.  What are we doing here.  HERE?  RIGHT NOW?  Not much friend.  I’m still trying and failing at getting up in the morning instead of at Noon.  Once I can figure out how to wake up when I’m supposed to, everything else will fall into place!   
   Okay.  I GUESS.  It’s a good guess.  Wasn’t a huge fan of Dave Chappelle’s latest Comedy Special either.  It just Wasn’t That Great!  Coulda been better.  I don’t really like 90% of anything I see, but Gervais and Chappelle underperforming stands out because they’ve highly entertained me in the past!  Gervais more in TV than standup.  But anyway I’ve thought I identified with them!  But then it turns out sometimes they’re unfunny jerks sometimes!  AH WELL.  Life goes on!  That’s a good title for Gervais’ next special.  Write that down.  This is written recorded medium.  Yeah.  YEAH.  Anyway.  Who cares.  I could have watched two Better Stand Up Specials the last two weeks though instead of the ones I watched, though.  I didn’t!  I’m sure they’re available to me somewhere.  Must be an APP for that somehow.  Stand Up Streaming for free somehow!  Some specials that I’d like a lot.  Something NEW AND FRESH but also in line with my past tastes and sensibilities.  I don’t want anything too challenging!  Huh.  Maybe I should just watch old comedy specials from classic comedians I already know and love… That sounds good too.  I dunno.  I already seen that it sounds like.  Probably should watch something I haven’t seen!  HMM.  Anyway.  I’ll see ya tomorrow.

-6:25 P.M.     

   Hey!  Today is New Years Evening!  It’s one of my favorite holidays.  In the top three or four!  I don’t know why I get excited about The New Year.  I guess my default mode is sometimes being a generally Optimistic guy.  I feel like the next year, more often than naught, is gonna be A GOOD Year!  I THINK things are getting worse all the time.  But I FEEL like Hey Who Knows Not Me.  Anyway.  I saw Marty Supreme yesterday.  I was disappointed that it wasn’t about pizza!  I THOUGHT some guy named Marty was gonna be ordering a Large Supreme pie or two!  You know when there’s some vegetables and some meat toppings!  It was a good movie anyway.  Just had all the plot and characters and etc. that you want!  I don’t wan’t to spoil anything for you, but there’s several people and they each do several things over the course of the film.  Well some of the people might only do one or no things.  But you get the idea.  One problem I had with it—I wanted more ping pong.  There’s a lot of ping pong but I wanted EVEN MORE ping pong!  That’s how much I enjoyed the ping pong!  Now that I think about it, more ping pong might have cheapened the ping pong that was there that I enjoyed.  Filmmaking is tough I guess.  Could have been a 3-D movie, too.  Most 3-d Movies don’t need to be 3-D movies, but this is a 2-d Movie that really could have benefited from it!  Marty Supreme Ping Pongs DIRECTLY AT THE AUDIENCE.  Imagine it!  No.  YOU imagine it.
    Another cast member of The Wire died!  They’re dropping like flies.  Which are notorious for dropping dead out of the sky all the time.  How often are going about your day and you notice flies dropping from midair to the ground because they just died!  This new The Wire dead is the guy who says Sheeeeeit!  I could LIE and say he inspired my website name!  I think I created it before the first time he said it.  The first time I know of is in The 25^th Hour which was released in 2002.  I BELIEVE I registered the domain in 2002.  But I probably didn’t see the movie until a year or two later.  What would the purpose of that lie be.  Some people are compulsive liars!  It’s fun for them!  Maybe they’re onto something is all I’m saying!  The motive for compulsive lying is Compulsion.  And I don’t have that.  I might decide to make Lots Of Lying something I want to do but it still won’t be COMPULSIVE lying!  YEAH.  Huh.  I think I’ll be okay for my show a week from Saturday.  My strategy is turn the volume low so people won’t hear my mistakes, but everyone else’s mistakes! Anyway.  Substitute teacher on Monday was saying that for my guitar solo in one of the songs the singer should be like GO MIKE and then I step up from the background and make a show of it.  That’s CRINGE.  I don’t like it.  The good news is he’s Substitute.  He has no authority here.  I dunno, though! Maybe it helps get me in the mindset of Good Solo.  Oh everyone’s on me now okay now It’s Time For Me To Go GO FINGERS GO.  It could help more than it hurts in its cringiness All In All.  MAYBE TEACHER SMART.
     Whatever.  The word Cringe is cringe to me!  I don’t remember saying Cringe when I was a kid!  Seems like a Gen Z thing!  THUS the word Cringe coming out of my mouth FEELS Cringe!  When we were kids we didn’t care so much about Cringe Or Not Cringe.  JUST LIVE YOUR LIFE.  DAMN.  GET OVER YOURSELFS.  I guess we cared to some extent but not so much that the word Cringe had to rule over our lexicon!  Cringe is the title of first song on the first Alkaline Trio album.  That’s pretty much my main association with the word when I was in high school!  Good.  I like the name Alkaline Trio.  Alkaline.  It makes me think of Alcohol AND cocaine without mentioning EITHER.  Do some coke and then augment it with alcohol.  ALK A LINE.  WOW.  You can do liens of many drugs besides cocaine.  If we’re Family Fueding Lines, though, Cocaine has gotta be at the top.  Apparently It’s My First Guess at the very least!  I like cocaine because it makes me think of Coca leaves and innie belly buttons.  I like coca leaves because it makes me think of coca cola and leaves.  I like coca cola.  DIET.  But as long as its diet, sure, I like Diet Coke!  I’m on rhythm guitar for Paint It Black but what about the song Dye It Coke.  Not sure what we’re even doing here.  I saw it on Apple Mus and now apparently everywhere I look the song is being stylized as, “Paint It, Black.”  WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN.  I could swear it always used to be, “Paint It Black.”  That makes a thousand times more sense than, “Paint It, Black.”  This is some sort of gaslighting conspiracy of the Nth level, right?  Paint It, Black?  What the fuck?
   Huh.  Google says it was intended as, “Paint It Black,” but the label added the comma by accident Way Back When.  Okay.  Fine. Fuckers.  I’m gonna start a campaign to take away the comma from, “Paint It, Black!” retroactively! Certainly we can form a consensus on this one!  Once we have the will we’ll figure out the way!  Okay great.  Remember that Smiths song Girlfriend In A Comma.  Is that relevant here.  OH IS THIS what an OXFORD COMMA is?  That’s an actual song!  I never learnt it up though! Sure I listened to the song enough times but I learned nothing from it!  I might see Anaconda this weekend.  I might not!  Depends on how I feel.  PAINT IT, JACK BLACK?  Sure.  Jack Black should play that famous TV Painter For Kids.  Jack Black should play whoever he wants.  I’m not here to tell Jack Black who he should and shouldn’t play.  Bob Ross.  There’s that negative expression It’s Like Watching Paint Dry but they still decided to make that into a TV show anyway!  And it became a CULTURAL PHENOMENOUN!  But it’s not just paint drying.  You get to see the paint being applied in the first place.  And you get to see The Guy Do It!  Watch Him Have Fun And Narrate His Actions!  Not my favorite TV Show.  Where’s the conflict! Where’s the drama!  He always ends up with a halfway decent painting And That’s Pretty Much All That Ever Happens.
   Huh.  I need to have a New Years Eve Private Personal Party tonight.  Right now all I can think to do is Eat Something Fun For Dinner.  I was thinking Whtie Castle or something, but maybe Chipotle is even more fun.  Despite there being less of it.  One Burrito is less food than A Whole Lot Of White Castle… but it still might be more fun!  I’ve given myself a lot to think about.  Eat a bag of popcorn later late at night.  Eat the popcorn.  Not the bag.  I could watch Special Things I guess tonight.  Something fun.  The show is called Stranger Things not Special things.  NO I meant I wanna watch something that would Be A Real Treat.  Something I would get a particular kick out of…  Hmm.  There’s always Twilight Zone Marathon!  There’s always Abbott Elementary which I’ve been binging lately!  There’s always Stranger Things which I’m also working on!  There’s always actual Special Things which may or may not be out there!  Ring in the new year by working on music.  Maybe.  I can do that.  Sure.  Maybe.  I guess.  Why not.  Anything is possible.  It’s a big multiverse with lots of differing future threads.  Or maybe it’s a small world, only getting smaller!  I DON’T KNOW.  Seems like a relatively big world.  It’d take me 80 days to get around it by balloon more or less.  Per my understanding.  Anyway.  I’ll see ya later.

-4:56 P.M.

DEC 31 2025             
      
               

   Hi!  I pretty much worked out Buying Music Making Software with my Dad.  Should Actually Get It tonight or tomorrow and MAKE SOME MUSIC this weekend!  I’ve been assuming it’s a download but maybe they ship me some sort of physical thing, I dunno!  WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY BE.  Can’t be a CD.  Can’t be a USB. Can’t be a MICROCHIP.  No it must be an Instant Download!  Anyway.  Gonna see Marty Supreme with my brother in the city on Tuesday.  I know it’s supposed to be a good movie, but I dunno!  I liked Timothy Chalamet so much as Bob Dylan that I don’t wanna see him in any other role!  Also I am so jealous of his success that I don’t want to see him in any other role!  His career should fizzle out immediately ASAP IMO.  Dummy is apparently knocking it out of the park professionally and socially and culturally.  Seems wrong on the outside looking in.  Yeah!  Anyway.  He’s okay.  I guess.  He puts the work in!  I couldn’t do what he do!  I could barely do what I do and Nobody Is Asking For What I Do!  Anyway don’t put too much stock into How I Feel About Timothee Chalamet because that way you go into each of his films with a blank slate so we can appreciate Timothee Chalamat’s delightful characters All Over Again!  Our impressions of Timothee Chalamat: The Actor may vary over time but his characters will never change or something.  Huh.
    I could be an actor.  I AM an actor.  I’m pretending to be like everybody else but in my own way.  WHY.  I like the idea of being relatable but somehow unique!  HEY.  EVERYONE GETS ME BUT I’M KINDA DIFFERENT.  NOW WE’RE TALKING.  What a delightful scenario!  I dunno.  Am I just playing Myself?  Is that how Life works for me and/or everyone and/or some people?  I dunno!  Kinda rings true! Might be oversimplifying things a bit!   What’s so intrinsic about any part of my personality.  NOTHIN’.  Mostly any part of my persona I’m willing to adjust or compromise on in theory!  Michael it sounds like you’re just a sociopath.  NO I’M JUST WILLING TO, “YES, AND,” YOU I LEARNED IT IN IMPROV.  It’s an improv game!  It’s for fun!  It’s a for fun game!  Looks like we might get a lot of snow tomorrow.  Could be 2-4 inches.  Could be 3-6 inches.  Could be 4-8 inches.  JUST LIKE MY DICK.  Huh.  No Spoilers Please!  I dunno.  Looks like the movie about a Neil Diamond coverband is getting astronomical reviews.  Positive astronomical reviews!  Go figure.  Does that count as a music biopic?  Is Biopic pronounced Bi-op-ic?  I feel like I hear it pronounced that way pretty often which is very wrong!  Google says Official Pronunciation is The Way I Like.  Looks like I win again!
   ALRIGHT.  Watched Harry Versus Sally last night.  You know what I mean.  That Rob Reiner movie.  It’s an okay movie!  Leads off with a reference to some random person last named Kornblum.  That’s my last name!  I can’t remember seeing a Kornblum show up in a Major Motion picture before.  EVER.  Suddenly feels Really Jewish all of a sudden.  OLD AND JEWISH.  Such an Elderly Jewish last name.  Last names can’t be OLD.  Yeah they can.  This last name should have died out with the Holocaust or something, I dunno, something like that.  Either way I dunno.  I might be happier with a different last name but I do like the idea of Honoring My Ancestors so THERE’S THAT.  Anyway.  It’s an okay movie.  I can honor my ancestors in a different way.  What if I get KORNBLUM tattooed somewhere on my body but change my last name.  Bodies come and go but lastnames stay forever.  OKAY I tattoo Kornblum on my Kids’ Bodies and make ‘em promise to do the same?  Does that work?  I dunno.  I don’t wanna force my kids to Tattoo.  It works as a temporary solution, Me Doing It, but then it falls apart. What if I just live my life in such a way that people don’t think anti-semetic thoughts even when confronted with my last name.  Just really disarm ‘em somehow.  Make that the goal of my Persona.  Then it sounds like I’d be a self-hating Jew.  Oh that doesn’t sound good!
   I’m not a self hating Jew.  I’m just a Jew who wants to hide being a Jew in fear of being hated by OTHER people!  Anti-Semitism is on the rise!  Really catching on these days!  Scary stuff!  Anyway.  What if Jews were right all along?  WHAT IF JUDIAISM GOT GOD AND THE REST OF RELIGION RIGHT EVEN WHILE BEING PARTICULARLY HATED ON THIS WHOLE TIME.  Our picture of everything actually turns out to be 90, 95% Totally Accurate.  Odds are against it!  All religions are nonsense!  But on the off chance The Jews Were Right That’d Be A Real Kicker!  Anyway.  I dunno.  I don’t get the title When Harry Met Sally.  They Met in the beginning.  It was okay.  Wasn’t really the main part of the movie. WHO CARES about When Harry Met Sally. It was KIND OF important but not SO important.  Maybe I’m missing something.  What do I know.  Nothin’.  We’ve established I’m barely a real person.  How am I supposed to properly consume entertainment designed for Real People!  Gotta be tough!  Also why is this title so Harry-centric.  When HARRY met Sally.  How about a movie When SALLY Met Harry.  Why is Harry being given all the agency in this title.  Doesn’t seem right.  If you wanna be neutral the title really should have been When Harry and Sally Met.  Real catchy title, too!  Shoulda been titled When Harry And Sally The Two People Met.  Hmm.  How about just The Meeting.  Leaves something to the imagination!    
   I dunno!  I guess.  I bet if I never heard the line I’ll Have What She’s Having before I saw the movie I’d be like HAHAHA THAT’S THE FUNNIEST SHIT I’VE EVER HEARD when I actually saw it in the movie.  I can only IMAGINE what it must be like seeing it for the first time actually watching it in the film.  What an experience that must have been!  Anyway.  The Meeting sounds like an M Night Shyamalan film.  Or maybe a Tommy Wiseau film.  You know people who have made movies that started with, “The,” before.  Ah I Get It.  Hmm.  OH I KNOW.  I figured out what guitar pedal which might go well with my bass guitar to make it sound good recording it onto my computer!  The EQ pedal.  Off the top of my head that might work!  Distortion for Bass is dumb. Flanger or something like that would be pointless.  But EQ might hit the spot!  So that’s good.  What else is up.  There’s SEVEN levels on this EQ Pedal to adjust.  Think of all the different levels I can adjust!  Seven!  Make it sound like the bass is in the foreground or the background or some sort of middle ground, I dunno.  Either way I’ll figure something out.  Am I supposed to watch Stringer Thangs.  I know apparently Everyone is watching it.  I never seen it at all.  Not episode one!  I guess it’s time for me to watch Stringer Thangs.  I guess I’ll give it a shot!  I’ll see ya later.   

-5:38 P.M.

DEC 26 2025