The Goddess of Red
01.11.07 (10:58 pm) [edit]Dirty face and dirty love, I knew right away
That I had to get my hooks in you, I say yeah yeah
Want to know what a devil is, if you want to make a buck
Boy you gotta be demon, and that ain't all
I need it all baby that's no lie
I need a lover with an alibi
I wanna follow to a love so sweet
Honey baby give me all, I love you
Your pretty face is going to hell
Your pretty face is going to hell
Honey honey I can tell
Your pretty face is going to hell
- Iggy & The Stooges
"Well, Im just a modern guy
Of course, Ive had it in the ear before.
I have a lust for life
Cause of a lust for life"
- Iggy Pop
"She's the Queen of Downtown
She gets around town
My angel dressed in black"
- Warren Zevon
I managed to be relaxed this time. It's not been easy.
This girl Caitlin...
It's like wanting to touch the sun. You know your ass is gonna fry, but goddamn, it looks so fuckin' COOL up there. Ya know what I mean?
I told her I want her to take me skydiving.
"Oh man, I haven't done that in like six months!"
Then she told me the best way to do it. Out of a plane over the Rockies, wearing skis, hoping you hit snow.
I like this girl.
Supposedly having lunch with D tomorrow on my way up for the gig. Friday gig this week. Stay in town and teach Saturday, then a practice to work up new stuff, then back home. Sunday with the Katester.
I picked her up today at the end of her dance class. I saw about ten minutes of it.
I'm stocking up on shotgun shells. My sweet little five-year old who sings songs about not giving yourself a wedgie? She moves like a teenager. It's FRIGHTENING.
And really cool. Knock 'em dead, kid. I can't wait to see what she does from here.
Only a month and a half until Stanhope comes through here. I know I talked about this guy a lot, but I'm very serious now - PLEASE check out www.dougstanhope.com and if you like what you see, spread the word. I'm totally behind this guy's campaign right now. Not that I take it seriously in a true political sense, not that I agree with all the crazy shit he says, not even that I intend right now to actually pull the level for him in '08. I just think we need some fucking ENTERTAINMENT in politics, I think we need some goddamnh HONESTY, and it's long past time that somebody said some shit about the basic human liberties that this country fucks you out of on a daily basis. We are NOT free, people. We may be more free than a lot of the world, but that doesn't mean shit. Religious and corporate interests - who own BOTH major political parties in this country - have created a world totally at odds with human nature, and you dumb bastards have bought into it. Well, shit on you. I don't buy it, neither does Stanhope, and neither do a lot of people who know better but have no voice. There's no way in our current repressed environment to do more than get this guy in a few choice public forums to fuck with the system a little, he'll never make a full-blown difference, but goddammit, let's give the drunken shit a shot at a couple minutes to do his thing before the cameras get thrown off him. We still have enough shit going for us in America to let even the lunatics have a couple minutes, let's give them to one who actually has something to say. Spread the word. Buy his shit or download it. Sick fucks of the world unite. Our messiah has arrived, and he's got a story about a Rubber Fuck My Face to prove it.
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and The Stooges keeping me company this rainy Ohio eve. Back to our favorite place to play tomorrow night. I'm whipping out Heartattack & Vine in the solo set, and quite possibly a Tenacious D song.
The Rock is within me, bitch.
Love,
Dougie
posted by: Spoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooock! (reply)
post date: 01.11.07 (11:44 pm)
The sad truth my friend is that people don't WANT to be free. Yes, they want the illusion of freedom, but they don't want actual freedom.
If they did they wouldn't keep re-electing the same shitstains over and over and over. If people wanted honest representation do you think they'd look to the dregs of humanity for leadership? Do you think they'd sit still for these increasingly invasive laws and regulations those fuckers keep foisting on us? No, people don't want to be free. It's a pattern that runs throughout history. We set up kings and popes and presidents and shamans and let them do the thinking for us.
This is not the greatest song in the world. No. This is just a tribute.
posted by: Stone (reply)
post date: 01.12.07 (6:37 pm)
The Matrix has you...
posted by: Spoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooock! (reply)
post date: 01.12.07 (9:14 pm)
Is that what that is? I thought it was Pac-Man Fever.
Whatever it is, it's driving me crazy.
posted by: swanktrendz (reply)
post date: 01.13.07 (3:53 am)
I love Iggy Pop - do you play any cover tunes of Iggy's? (What a great act to cover, if need be.)
posted by: eraserhead667 (reply)
post date: 01.13.07 (8:08 am)
Not yet, but I'd love to. I think my band could do a kick-ass Lust For Life, but with a CD full of stuff to learn already, fuck knows when we'll get to it.
Maybe I'll have to work on something myself. Of course, there's always Pussy Walk... :)