Welcome To The Pickin' Parlor
You're invited to pick on anything here; any instrument, any subject, any idiot public or private. Toss me any ol' idea and watch what I do with/to it.
Stupidity is one of my favorite subjects and I'm a quick study and skilled at condemnation. I hate lazy cliches and abbreviations. The way that the word NEED has become a meaningless cliche these past few years is particularly annoying. It used to be a fine simple word, but through misuse and abuse and laziness by the masses, it means nothing now when someone tells me, "You really need to see 'The Sopranos'!"
No, in fact, there is NO television show any one "needs" to see.
This is why the word idiom so closely resembles the word idiot.
Labels are another idiomatic* cluster fuck. Indeed, what most folks refer to as Country Music is not at all Country except perhaps for the steel guitar accents on an otherwise pure pop arrangement. "Country Music" is just simply Nashville Pop; Popular Music with hats and boots. You'll find all the real country you seek in the darker recesses of "Americana" ( whatever that is), but don't expect to hear much of it on the radio. Players grouped in this "genre" are often too full of Truth for the palates of the masses. And that can be "scary"...BOO!
Nonetheless, I strongly encourage all readers to seek out the likes of Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, Hadacol, Old 97s...find 'em and they'll lead you to more. If it were up to me anyone who ever picked up a guitar or sang would be his/her own "category". Then all we'd ever "need"/want/have to know are their names.
*(Ah, 'idiomatic', I don't particularly care if that's really a word or not. It serves our purpose here.)
And don't forget folks; If It's On Television, It's NOT REAL...especially the "news".
But, The Truth is a subject for another time....many other times.
I feel better already.
-Uncle Dinty
Stupidity is one of my favorite subjects and I'm a quick study and skilled at condemnation. I hate lazy cliches and abbreviations. The way that the word NEED has become a meaningless cliche these past few years is particularly annoying. It used to be a fine simple word, but through misuse and abuse and laziness by the masses, it means nothing now when someone tells me, "You really need to see 'The Sopranos'!"
No, in fact, there is NO television show any one "needs" to see.
This is why the word idiom so closely resembles the word idiot.
Labels are another idiomatic* cluster fuck. Indeed, what most folks refer to as Country Music is not at all Country except perhaps for the steel guitar accents on an otherwise pure pop arrangement. "Country Music" is just simply Nashville Pop; Popular Music with hats and boots. You'll find all the real country you seek in the darker recesses of "Americana" ( whatever that is), but don't expect to hear much of it on the radio. Players grouped in this "genre" are often too full of Truth for the palates of the masses. And that can be "scary"...BOO!
Nonetheless, I strongly encourage all readers to seek out the likes of Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, Hadacol, Old 97s...find 'em and they'll lead you to more. If it were up to me anyone who ever picked up a guitar or sang would be his/her own "category". Then all we'd ever "need"/want/have to know are their names.
*(Ah, 'idiomatic', I don't particularly care if that's really a word or not. It serves our purpose here.)
And don't forget folks; If It's On Television, It's NOT REAL...especially the "news".
But, The Truth is a subject for another time....many other times.
I feel better already.
-Uncle Dinty
posted by Uncle Dinty @ 8:03 AM
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