August 3 re-cap

I biked down to the SRSS and promptly lost the basket on the front of my bike... I remember taking it off so it wouldn't get stolen but then i lost the bastard... it wasn't until the very next day after i had gone over the failure time and time again even going back to the scene of the crime that i think i figured it out.  After i got off my bike i went to the 7-11 as they have a CIBC bank machine there... i believe i put the basket down beside the machine and left it there.  That would explain why all the people that saw me walk in couldn't understand why i was obsessing about this damn basket... they were sure i left it on the bike because they didn't see me with a basket.  I remember clearly taking the basket off, but then became distracted trying to hide my pin number from the scruffy varmint trying to rest an eyeball on my shoulder.

Knowing the basket was lost raked my concentration and stymied my ability to focus on the show even though i closed the show with a version of "what's in the bag".  Haven't played that song in a long time, but since it was a Cam and Jesse night it appeared like i knew the material well.  Christina Rzepa played some fine cello this night with a particularly scintillating version of the Bob Dylan classic "tangled up in blues".  She was no slouch on "what's in the bag" either and she hung tight on Jessy's song "on a boat" after multiple docking and sailings and a crew of folks working the bailing buckets.

Ahh we like to laugh, yuck it up old sport... Did i mention i was acclaimed poet laureate of China Creek Park South?  So in the fall, If I'm still in this town the SRSS will have some skits and one of the themes i shall explore will be the adventures of SR Jones...  Poet Laureate of China Creek South Park.  For a man who once had a motto, and had he been a man who believed in tattoos, might have had this ingrained on his body... Poetry is a jackass sport, it's a rather stark change.  But not really... positions are all over the maps, but ideals can find a way to string those positions into a working situation.  You are confused right?  That's because politics uses the words "positions" and "ideals" so you have in fact learned that those words are meaningless.  Position in politics means a way to identify with one's base, and ideals means a way to identify with a wider base. Suddenly feeling ill.

To me the phrase Poetry is a jackass sport was a nod to all those fools that made me sit in hot rooms listening to flowery language that had no point but endless imagery, and none of it being funny, so i thought i hated poetry, but i don't...  i actually like it... i would gladly listen to a good poet for hours giggling and chucking to myself at the metaphors presented.  hell if i went out to see local live music and i walked into a room full of people shouting at each other while some racket was screatching away on stage i might take up the opinion that i didn't like music either... Perspective is everything.

SRSS Listings

August 10th-  A Spectre Is Haunting Europe, a prog deathrock band from Vancouver, Canada.
http://www.aspectreishauntingeurope.com/

Aug 17- Classical Revolution- Classical Revolution is a global phenomenon, revolutionizing the way live classical music is programmed and heard. http://www.classical revolution


Aug 24th- King Dinosaur and the Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Orchestra...  King Dinosaur doing Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Kinks and others followed by the Supreme Janitor leading an elderberry Horn Orchestra.