Okay, is it just me...?

Music-related annoyances...

First off -- Is anyone else annoyed by all of the yellow ribbon paraphernalia that is appearing out there?

Don't get me wrong; while I don't agree with just about ANYTHING that the Sock-Puppet-in-Chief has done, I believe that as long as American troops are fighting overseas, they deserve the best that we can give them. Period.

But, Number 1 - I haven't seen anything that makes me think that the makers of the magnetic-stick-on fake yellow ribbons are donating their proceeds to, say, the USO, the Red Cross, or aid for the GI's families back home, so THEY'RE not really supporting anyone but themselves...

And, Number 2 -- Has anyone who is plastering those fake yellow ribbons around EVER ACTUALLY LISTENED TO THE #^%^&#$&* SONG!??!

The guy on the bus was IN PRISON. He wrote his sweetie a letter that said "I screwed up, big-time. If you're willing to put up with a f*ck-wit like me, tie a yellow, etc.." So the yellow ribbon, here, symbolizes "Yeah, you're a f*ck-wit; but you're MY f*ck-wit!"

So isn't the whole yellow ribbon thing telling the returning troops "Welcome home, moron"?

A suggestion: ditch the yellow ribbons - Red, white, and blue would work just fine and won't send any mixed messages!

Just a thought...
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I Write The Songs

Written by: Bruce Johnston

I've been alive forever, and I wrote the very first song
I put the words and the melodies together
I am music and I write the songs...


So let me get this straight. Barry Manilow didn't write the song, "I Write the Songs"...

That's just SO wrong...
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And that Billy Joel song "Piano Man" has been bothering me for, what, 20 years, now...?

(On the other hand, at least Billy Joel, apparently, ACTUALLY wrote the thing, which puts him one up on Barry Manilow...)

But, again; everytime that I go past a hotel piano bar and hear the thing, I want to go in and slap the listeners upside their collective heads.

Again -- LISTEN TO THE %^$%*()( LYRICS, PEOPLE!!! The singer is going on and on and on about how everyone in the place is a LOSER, EXCEPT HIM! ... And JUST LIKE the rest of them, HE DOESN'T REALIZE THAT HE'S A LOSER, TOO!!!

The whole thing is a paean to drunken oblivion!!!!

Closing thought for today:
"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man will be hunted down by an angry mob and burned as a heretic." -- Me