What really sucks about this hot and humid day

It's not the temperature rising and becoming very uncomfortable as I type in an attic dormer. It's not the blood suck mosquitoes draining me dry. It's not even the high grass pollen count making it difficult to breathe as my nose runs and i have to keep blowing it. It's none of these things.

What sucks about today is not having enough funds to do the things i want to do.

I'd like to be roto-tilling a new garden bed 30x12 as I await deliveries of a top soil/cow or horse manure blend(27 cu yards)and some cedar boards with corners and connectors to create a rise of 2 feet.Call it 3 days of delivery for the soil mix.

Yes I'm willing to wheel barrow 27 cu yards of top soil from one end of the yard to the other some 150 feet or more away. This spring it took 7 hours to move 8 cu yards less than half that distance. Crazy?  Nope, I just like to get things done and like being productive. Could i work as a landscaper for someone else?  Absolutely not no matter how much they paid me.

Would it cost a lot?  Yes and no because it would be a decent investment since there is really no soil in that portion of the yard and the corn would look spectacular all up high like that.

Of course I would probably install a greenhouse over the top to ensure the corns looked spectacular. Green house, even in the summer?  Oh yeah because it's the long term effect and ability to extend the season quite a ways, especially if it was Solexx.

What's the point though?  Besides entertainment watching me kill myself?  It's called being an inspiration to others to create a victory garden of their own.

Although every single one of my previous calls for funding projects have failed, why not attempt another one?
I'm not sure what sort of rewards I could offer. It's not a charity. Although food will be produced the basic idea is demonstrate how one can feed themselves and or their family. It's not a project to feed the homeless. The entire project would lose it's spirit if it were otherwise. Possibly sponsorship but that's hardly to be counted on. Just the same I'm not your regular guy. I've moved a lot of soil into my yard before. 24 cu yards to be precise. As a result  my main bed is doing quite well now that I enclosed it in a raised rock bed. My corn is as high as 6 feet. I expect possibly 7 feet by morning. It is hot and steamy in that green house and I'm going to water all day long.

Unlike the current "victory garden" show my victory garden is much more ambitious and impressive. Takes a long time to turn regular soil into brown gold but I am trying. Really though there are very few people who would even attempt some of the projects I have attempted. Some people probably couldn't even watch me it was such a chore. Now that I think about it, it would probably take 5 days to move that much soil with  rest days in between. I am certainly the one for such an exhibition though.

Need some new toys

Could definitely use some new toys but the cash doesn't seem to be flowing as of yet.

Last night I decided to try a new tuning on my Telecaster. The Nashville Tuning I thing it's called. You tune up an octave. It certainly cuts out the flub. Not sure if 10's are the way to go i'd like to try some 9's and decide which is better. I was a little afraid of the nut snapping, just a little. I wasn't worried about the neck though. I've got a 50's boat neck that suits my big hands fine. It's a brand new workout as well especially for the pinkie finger. However while playing to the radio and just jamming I noticed more headroom despite using the same settings and the guitar stayed in tune better and it sounded a whole lot more like certain classic rock numbers. Strings were definitely not slinky. I use D'addario anyway. It forces you to dig in more in the trenches. That's going to take time. Lots of milk and lots of practice.

I was so excited about the new sound I thought of toys to add to my rig. Definitely high on the list is a Wah Wah, Fulltone Clyde Deluxe. Wah Wah's are tone machines. They allow you to dial in just the right tone to cut through the mix and blend better with bass and drums.

Next up is a Fulltone Deja Vibe for some cool psychedelic modulation. I have vibe on my amp but the pedal is more versatile. This would be more of a luxury. The vibe on my amp is tube driven and very nice. It's Link Wray!

My current pedals are falling all over the place so i really need to buy or make a pedalboard. Along with a board I need some longer cables and better ones. Like to see if Fulltone cables are what they claim to be.

Always need strings. I love strings. Such a cheap thing can bring so much joy.

Lemme see what else. I was trying to look for an affordable(along the lines of a Fender Blues Jr.) bass amp but could find none. Then I started looking into direct boxes. Wide range of prices. One option I haven't tried is my Golden Age Mic Pre. It might be the ticket with a few plug ins.

Need a few honking devices so a bunch of harmonicas will come in handy.

Tried kickstarter, indiegoogo but no go. I'm afraid the $700 or so mentioned above is going to have to be earned. Halloween sales are dead. Interest is picking up though.

Living in the burbs

So much material available from my neighborhood I don't know where to start. Amazing amount of paranoia that can certainly be exploited to embellish lyrics. A living breathing evolving song.

I'll never forget my dog when she was younger kept going under the fence to see the other dog next door which was being neglected by the neighbors. It was severely overweight and the kid it was purchased for wanted nothing to do with it after it became a dog. My puppy went over there so much the neighbor got the idea I was trying to bang his wife and her gray teeth. One day to profess his love in front of me mind you he kissed her. It was so awkward. I thought no wonder she wants me to bang her. The kiss was so primitive and without feeling save for the percussion of impact and friction upon the enamel. I waited for their lips to fatten up after such a display.

His idea to keep her satisfied was buy her a 12 pack of bud light, some whiskey, money for scratch tickets and a car. That's love where I come from.

Well one day there was yelling. I was like oh goodie domestic violence. The dog bit the female. Same thing happened again this time it bit the kid and the owner beat the thing. Then I noticed it was gone. He didn't have the balls to do it himself so he ordered his "bitch" to put the thing down.

I'm not so sure the kid got bit or wasn't at fault. You see his older brother got bit by their previous dog. I saw the whole thing. Crocodile tears. He didn't get bit at all he was looking for attention or sympathy  he would never get from his father who only cared about sports and beer. Years later he would bang his girl but 1st take the dog and tie him by the leash to the basketball pole in 3 degree weather. The dog howled.

But back to last fall the neighbor went away and his women all crying came to tell me all her problems about how she had to put the dog down. She was freshly bathed and had on some kind of lotion. Her idea was a fuck. She was drunk. I was high. Somewhere in her mind she invented a fantasy world that the songs I was singing were some how directed at her. I used to sing to the clouds. I often sang country tunes which deeply disturbed my neighbor. Lot of country songs are about real things. They're adult music well old country is. It's not for zit popping night as a sexually frustrated teen or I should say insecure teeth that only likes the hard stuff. Some of the hardest stuff i've ever heard is the things that are hardest to say.To quote the Flying Burrito Brother "we've all got wheels to take ourselves away, we've got telephones to say what we can't say".  Other neighbors it's the same thing. They only want to hear lies.

Being a very creative person with a bohemian beatnik spirit they should have observed some discretion with the crap they say. At least have the courtesy to wait until I'm out of hearing range. That would be about 1000 yards. Thought of a good idea for a song..."Don't blame me when your wife cheats on you". It's really going to sink in when i work out the details, syntax etc as they sit on their porch eating some kind of roadkill. They won't be able to take it and will turn on the radio and play the same crappy songs of course that will continue the conflict as the father will want some pimple popping metallica  and his son will agree and the wife will go along but deep down she'll never be touched. I bet she's never had an orgasm with him...the dog is a different story but he's gone.

I predict a shot gun or rifle is pointed at me soon enough.

'65 Vox Pathfinder, MJM London Fuzz, and Van Amps Sole Mate Jr. Demonstration

Having fun with a vintage '65 Vox Pathfinder. The signal path is as follows:
Me-Fender Wildwood Custom '52 Telecaster(love the smell of nitrocellulose in the morning), MJM London Fuzz pedal(love it, nasty) into a Van Amps Sole Mate Jr. Spring Reverb tank(wish it was heavier, think I'll glue on a heavy base because having heavy bass is good, it really drives the song).

I mostly had the tone all the way down on my Tele with the volume maxed, the Fuzz was fuzzed out and the level at 11 o'clock P.M. . The Sole Mate's Output and Dwell chicken heads were around 11 A.M. For the Pathfinder I had the volume on 3 but it only goes up to 6! lol Treble was on 5 but strangely enough the Bass was on 7! lol. The tube Trem or Vibrato or whatever you call it was off. It's a nice effect but I only wanted the sounds I chose. 

Keep one thing in mind I'm not a guitar hero I just like to have fun. So spare me the critiques about my less than perfect playing. People who don't like to have fun and abuse things probably listen to Kenny G! Ha! 

As for me i love how I was abusing this amp. Granted it was only my camera's little microphone. In person it was much thicker and and robust. All coming out of an 8 inch speaker!(not the original but a replacement Celestion from the 80's(I looked it up on Ancestry.com) "Clowns never laughed before bean stocks never grew...I banged Mrs Brady and Marsha too". 

Seriously fun amp for groovy psychedelic charged garage rock sounds. You won't get this sound out of a 7 inch single though you better cut your garage tracks on 12 inch vinyl. Seriously warm but you have to make it that way. That's the key to irritating the neighbors with less shrill. EL-84 tubes or tube in this case coming from a 7.5 watt amp have top end shrill. Fine if you're trying to start a group called the Beatles but not for obnoxious garage rock that make old ladies wet their depends. Funny though this amp was built for Vox in Californ'eye'aye by the Thomas Organ Company to cast in on Beatle mania. Little did they know but the Beatles were about to meet Bob Zimmerman(Think he shot Trayvon Martin not sure though or was it the Sheriff?)and lose all their chime. Soon after this was built(hand wired tube amp)they switched to crappy transistor amps. Trust me you're not going to wake up the dead with transistor amps...you're just going to attract mosquitoes. 

A very smelly amp but a very nice sounding one. Minus the Trem I think Dr. Z makes kind of a copy of one with a few extra things. Not sure but he does make a couple low watt EL-84 amps. This amp is probably more than likely not to be confused with re-issues made by Vox. They just don't have the musty stank this amp possesses.

I need some amusement funds

Oh I have a few ideas but need better ones. As I work toward my goal of colonizing Venus I find obstacles in my path. They're loud obnoxious creates. Do they not know i am a narcissist?  I feel as those I was chewing on sugar coated ice cubes with a toothache when i chance to hear them attempt to be witty.

It would seem with hardly trying I have dissected and nullified their very past and existence.  i've also opened the door for intense hypocrisy. I'm talking raging hypocrisy. To borrow a line from Vincent Price House on Haunted Hill, it's a pity when they started out to play their deadly game they didn't know i was playing too.   Or something like that.

I came up with some better ideas. So if there are any millionaires out there who like amusement just send cash. How much coin do I need?  Not much it was so painfully apparent I could get by with very little. However the more the merrier. It's like my own kickstarter/indiegogo project only thing is it has little to do with manufacturing a project but rather carrying out a part.

I could go into such great detail of how we arrive at hypocrisy but that would too spoil the fun.
I'm a fan of improvisational skill. I like the fresh moment of creation. When I perform I like to think of myself giving birth to an idea. Symbolic costuming is very important.

Who is the character?  He is an eclectic from the 60's. He was iconic and no he doesn't work at 711.

Many would not approve of my performance and call it childish but I have news for all we all return to the cradle. I just want to do things stylistically. I like the beatnik rhythm. I've always been a bohemian. So to me the performance is never wasted because it is what that is. I can't change that for now even though I carry on simultaneously on a different path. Liken it to a lark but a funny one in deed. It's part of the western mythology. It's utterly fantastic if i could tell of my supporting cast(as if they knew they were playing). It's nothing to be taken too seriously in the sense it's not a life long project. Rather it's a coming to grips with the past in order to move forward. It's also necessary to make damn sure those who pointed the finger see what they once were or claim to understand.

Ashes to ashes, flesh to clay, I am the Lizard King I could go for a glass of milk and a ring ding.