Now I understand everyone's in a tizzy over the economy right now. But hey at you can rest assured that I'll be just fine. In fact, you should check me out in concert... in Blu-Ray. Oh yeah, and not to sound like an arrogant, self-centered tool; Check a clip of Usher in concert below.
What a fucked up week for anyone that plays high stakes Lotto, formerly known as Wall Street. Now we've all been watching the news very closely and the Market is in shambles. There's a whole bunch of information being thrown at you and you're left wondering, "what the hell does this all mean?"
Well I hate to be the barer of bad news; it means everyone that told their kids to stop "wasting their lives playing their garage band" and to "go to school and get a good job and learn business" was full of shit. I mean in my pre-RockGod days I was told the same thing. "John, stay in college. Learn a skill like business management. Math, numbers, charts, stop using a Mac. When are you going to grow up and use Windows."
Please. Could you even try to picture JM working a cubicle? Blasphemy!
I'm a true rebel. I didn't "play it safe," I played the friggin' guitar. They said go to school and I said I was done with all the bullshit teachers who couldn't cut it chasing their dreams. Everyone looked to Wall Street as the epitomy of a "safe job" a "chance of making a decent life" for themselves and their families. They flocked to their Ivy League Schools and their stiff suit halls of American Corporation... now they can all flock to the unemployment line.
Rock on you rebels. Those that chased the dream, keep running and piss on all the pencil pushers and their punch-clock promise.
So as we all know, today Steve Jobs and Apple had their big event out in the Left Coast this morning announcing all kinds of iPod goodies. And man were they great. So great in fact that in order to properly introduce them to the world, SJ felt that only the greatest rock-n-roll artists in history could get the message across.
We heard Elvis, Jimmy, and me biiiiiittttccccheessss!!!!
That's right, me and Steve had been rehearsing this for like 3 months now. It's not an easy task to make the world melt with my smooth out-ness and Dear Leader himself ask me to consult on what we were gonna play. I mean do you really think it was a coincidence that JM gets air play not once, not twice, but three times.
Man it was an honor. B. Lam, editor at large over at Giz, I was there. Maybe not in the physical, but I was soooo there. Steve and I ripped the show... Johnny I & co wowed you with his design; but like SJ said, it's all about the music.
I'd like to give a big shout-out to the homey Michael Phelps; seen at right training for the next Olympics' latest sport: The 100 Meter Ass Grab.
Thank you Radar for your shameless debauchery and endless canonization of the paparazzi; and God Bless strippers, groupies, sleazy men, and alcohol... which hath made all this goodness possible.
So I think we're all sifting through all the bullshit from Election Fever. Barry Obama did tear the roof off the Mile High City; and from one Rock God to another, "DUDE YOU TOTALLY ROCK!"
It was an amazing week and it was awesome to be amongst it all. It's the kind of week that truly inspires the soul. Teddy K came out of his death bed to sing the praises of the Big O. The Clintstones buried their hatchets and let the world know who is who and what is what.
The tallest order of week however came from Bam himself; proving to the redneck, cracker population that the Obamas are an ordinary American family. Well after being an actual witness to the DNC I can safely say is that they surely are anything but ordinary... They're the Huxtables.
With all the wonderful things to say about the Dems over the last week, I was still left with a serious feeling of abandonment. With all the political mega stars on hand there was a noteable absentee. John Edwards.
Now we already now the sad story of how Edwards lost the nomination on account of a $400 haircut and his career over $2 trim. Seriously? His career for some (ugly) pussy. Damn!!!
As horrible as that sounds by itself; the saddest story is the voice on an all important issue that was lost. In my lifetime there hasn't been a single politician, Black, white, green, or orange that has stood bravely before their fellow man and speak for (not down to) the poor.
Although it bore the fruit you worship (John Mayer), over 10% of the people in this country live below the poverty line. These are people that working, struggling and hustling trying to see where the ends meet much less actually meeting them.
The one viable voice that the Dems had they threw under the bus along with his illegitimate child. Look, I know the pressures of being in a different city every night. I have pussy thrown my way all the time. And sure I take it; I deserve it. But to throw out your voice? That's like me throwing out my guitar and playing clarinet for the rest of my career. Sure I could but would I still be a Rock God? Probably not. To that end, can the Dems truly say they are for every American? It's questionable.
So go ahead McCain and you Repube bastards; the Dems aren't perfect. But should the goings on of a person's bedroom be indicative of their ability to govern effectively? I mean I guess it's easy to talk when your nominees never had an extramartial affair or children conceived out of wedlock. Oh that's right, they have.
So by now we've all seen and heard McCain's introduction to his 3rd wife. Errr, scratch that; his running mate. An although I love a gun-totin', pro-life, beauty pageant winning MILF as much as the next guy; is this the kind of change we're looking for?
For the last 6 months we've been fed the bullshit of how Obama's waaaaaaaay too inexperienced; now we're to believe that a person whose resume includes mayor of a "city" with a population circa 8000 is qualified to be #2. Well then quite frankly I'm fuckin' qualified to be Emperor.
Seriously, I was playing for more people back in Fairfield as a teenager. I was a friggin' Blues Man.... ever heard of me?!? Of course you have.
I'm JOHN MAYER!
But I digress. Unfortunately, the now desparate Republican Party is doing anything in hopes to generate buzz for the aging McCain. The GOP is hoping women will vote with their hoods instead of with their heads.
John's for the ladies and I know the ladies will vote on the issues and not the poli-tricks.
