Jim,

Culture is NOT in the eye of the beholder, it is a real things that guides you through Life. Where I'm from, Culture was the most important thing. Don't know if that's true there anymore, but it once was.

You're right. I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, to you. To me...Oh, no matter. I'm talking to the wind.

I don't much care about what celebrities say, but Eddie Van Halen once said: "You don't work music, you play it!" That's right. We, as songwriters, are oral historians. Like it or not we inform the people who hear us. If you keep saying it's alright to turn your back on Culture, people will. We let them off the hook. We inform people what's accepted. Charles Barkley once said: "I'm no role model." The problem with that is, now he sees that he is and was a role model. Ooops, how do you repair the damage of your ignorance?

Artist use to mean something positive. People used to look up to the people who owned businesses. If all money is worth the same when you bank it is EXACTLY why we have turned off our morality, given up our Cultures, forget the things that brought us to our current place. Then we get to blame others for our short comings. That isn't what I was taught. I was taught that we must own every footstep and what comes of them. You can't blame others for stuff.

Now that seems as confusing as your stance that money is the object, yet you don't appreciate what "things" have come to, yet you say one must conform. Then you say one must adapt. Adaptation is not conforming, it is finding a way to maintain in the face of adversity.

I seem to be a ship lost at sea; my Immram; I've never let my hand slip from the tiller. If I am lost to the horizon then so be it. I'll take my wisdom with me though. I'll share it, with who will listen. There must be a better, smarter, more intelligent way of doing what it is I am doing.

I am Greyfrier's Bobby to my own Culture/Life. That's fine...but there must be a better way.




The sad fact is, we now Live in a Reality that demands you believe in the security of fantasy. - MacIain