Interviewing Bassists Stories Pt. 3

[miles'tone]

At some point you have to say to yourself, "The art is good. That's enough."

To know the art one creates is good is the dream isn't it? That's a successful life lived right there.

 

[Arthritic_Tom]

Hey, maybe you want to put this link on your new website:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA0D1A4D1EF823676
That's a list of all the YouTube videos you've either mentioned yourself or others mentioned on this thread and you then endorsed . 191 and counting - there where more but a few have disappeared from YouTube .

Read the newest entry. Tell me if you're cool with it. If not, I'll change it. No biggie:

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[Arthritic_Tom]

To know the art one creates is good is the dream isn't it? That's a successful life lived right there.

From Hallucinabulia:

Although I have an incurable illness and live virtually cloistered, I look forward to each day, because each day I improve a little more. Each day, I learn a little more, understand a little more, and advance a little more. Each day I create a little more art. I believe--and plenty of people think I’m insane for saying this--that I’m given signs of being on the right track.

If I’m insane, who cares? I don’t, and neither should you. My insanity allowed me to achieve clarity, and it helped me see my father through his indescribably horrible death, an experience I could never do justice by trying to describe it to you or even by hiring actors to recreate it. It’s simply beyond your comprehension.

Noreen was a sweet, playful little kitten pouncing on my ankle in comparison to my father’s demise. And there are other things, too, that far outshine Noreen’s efforts to obliterate me. I’ll never discuss them, so stop asking.

But I’m still here, and as my friend Scott Thunes reminded me, I haven’t just survived. I’m a success, because I’m happy.

 

[RoadRanger]

Read the newest entry. Tell me if you're cool with it. If not, I'll change it. No biggie:
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[Arthritic_Tom]

I'm relieved. I tend to piss off a lot of people these days without knowing it.

 

[RoadRanger]

I'm relieved. I tend to piss off a lot of people these days without knowing it.

Hey, what good are friends if you can't rip on them ?

 

[Arthritic_Tom]

Hey, what good are friends if you can't rip on them ?

My problem is that what I find funny others find extremely offensive.

I'll send you something that I'll never publish. Check your e-mail.

 

[RoadRanger]

My problem is that what I find funny others find extremely offensive.

They just don't understand the absurdity of the human condition .

 

[MouseRat]

Hey, leave me out of this.

 

[Arthritic_Tom]

Hey, leave me out of this.

A guy named "Mouse Rat" doesn't understand the absurdity of the human condition?

That's like "Mr. Smoke Too Much" on Monty Python being told, "Well, you'd better cut down a bit, then, " and he has no idea what that means.

 

[MouseRat]

Pardon me, but is this the right room for an argument?

 

[RoadRanger]

I just spent 1/2 hour trying to find an original copy of that sketch with no added laugh track. It's sad that Americans have to be told when something is funny .

 

[Arthritic_Tom]

I just spent 1/2 hour trying to find an original copy of that sketch with no added laugh track. It's sad that Americans have to be told when something is funny .

I listen to a radio show in L.A. hosted by Tim Conway, Jr. Whenever he plays a bit from TV or a a standup routine that he finds funny, he laughs all the way through it and says over and over, "That's really funny. That's really funny. That's really funny." Just to make sure we all get it, I guess.

The term Martin Amis coined was the "moronic inferno," but I prefer what a German soldier in World War I called the Italian front: the "clown apocalypse."

I'm optimistic we'll snap out of it. I could be wrong, but in the meantime I'll write books as though there's an audience for them.

 

[Stumbo]

I ordered Ghosts to find out what all this ballyhoo is all about.....

 

[Arthritic_Tom]

I ordered Ghosts to find out what all this ballyhoo is all about.....

Ain't nothin' but a chicken wing.

 

[MouseRat]

The term Martin Amis coined was the "moronic inferno," but I prefer what a German soldier in World War I called the Italian front: the "clown apocalypse."

And now, we're going to play "Moronic Inferno," the new hit single by alt-post-industrial metal band Clown Apocalypse.

 

[Arthritic_Tom]

And now, we're going to play "Moronic Inferno," the new hit single by alt-post-industrial metal band Clown Apocalypse.

As long as it doesn't have that roaring, puking, death-metal vocal style, I'll buy it.

 

[RoadRanger]

And now, we're going to play "Moronic Inferno," the new hit single by alt-post-industrial metal band Clown Apocalypse.

 

[Arthritic_Tom]

 

[RoadRanger]

Gosh, you're a tender soul. That disturbs you?

I didn't say it disturbs me - it's on my iPod . I'm actually a fan of European Post Industrial.

Awesome!