CIRCUS CLOWNS AND A FISH FRY........

This weekend has a bit of everything..........tomorrow, friends and family gather to celebrate the 62nd birthday of one of the most colorful characters i've ever known, Mr. Mike Grover....this is a man who narrowly escaped death as a very young man and has gone on to squeeze every last drop of joy he could get out of life.......we're gonna fry up some fresh fish,recently plucked from the Savannah River and Clarks Hill Lake(around these parts we refuse to acknowledge the fact that the lake was renamed after Strom Thurmond)........lots of food,acoustic guitar,family,friends and booze.........now that's a fine way to spend an evening.........

Sunday afternoon I head for Charlotte,NC..........i play a stand up drum kit in a band(i use that term loosely) called THE HELLBLINKI SEXTET.........it's a loose conglomeration of musicians that play a vaudeville,old timey,piratey mix of styles.........the leader of the band plays guitar while singing and simultaneously playing drums with his feet(nice gimmick, but his meter and sense of tempo are for shit)............my association with this group is tenuous at this point, but that's another matter altogether..........i've been in this band for two years and it's been interesting, but blah blah blah.........i regret that my interest is waning right at the time when a larger following is amassing around the southeast...........

at any rate, the point i was getting to is that i'm playing with HELLBLINKI in Charlotte.........we're playing at THE VISUALITE THEATER...........the show is being put on by CAMEL CIGARETTES for Charlotte area F&B folks..........damned shame i'm no longer a smoker..........might've gotten a free carton of smokes out of it..........however, the best part is the fact that we are opening for THE BINDLESTIFF FAMILY CIRCUS........look em up on the internet............interesting stuff..........aerialists,clowns and whatnot...........

on a sidenote, today i performed at cookout for the mentally retarded clients we work with on my job.............never will you find a more appreciative audience..........and no one smiles wider in response to a bit of good music............and oh how they danced..........picture if you would, 50 mentally retarded people dancing and partying like it's the best day of their lives........believe me, it's EXACTLY like you picture it in your head........they looked pretty damned silly(a sense of rhythmn from pluto)...........but they could care less about looking silly...........THEY WERE HAVING FUN............and that's all that mattered...............my heart was warmed and i felt like i gave back a little.................

To whomever reads this...............hope your weekend is chock full of retarded dancing.........

Rock it like you're trying to commit murder..........