so i know...

i've not posted here in a while, i have been concentrating on my other blog, since that is linked to the shop site, and i've felt a little more responsibility to post there (who, what a run on sentence). so my apologizes.

recently a few friends of mine found out that i used to play bass, and they want me to play with them. no matter that i'm really not that great. but i am able to follow directions. so why not? they tell me what to play, and i'll play it. so i nabbed a bass from my sister-in-law, and i've been messing around with it for a couple of days now. i used to have a couple basses, but since i stopped playing i sold them all. stupid. i should have kept one. lesson learned.

anyway...i've been looking for inspiration. and where else better to look than to manowar...the kings of metal. if you don't know manowar...you don't know metal. period. and then i stumbled upon these guys. they are like a conan soundtrack. man, the finnish kick ass. it makes you realize that american metal really does suck. granted there are a few, and yes, technically manowar is from n.y., but their home is in europe...but the metal that comes out of finland, sweden, and other countries like that are just so intense.

death to false metal....

amitabha....

as i've been riding...

my bike to more places, and not just going for a ride, i feel safer on my bike than i do driving my car.

the other day i was in my car, and i was stopped at a light. i was making a right hand turn. the lanes to the left of me were full. meaning that there were cars there that were planning on going straight. the traffic straight across had the right of way to make their left hand turn. so common sense dictates (and so does the law) that they have the right of way before i am able to make my right hand turn, on red. now from here on in, i'm going to be nice...a gentleman on a motor bike decides that both laws (the law of common sense and the legal law) do not apply to him. and he decides to pass me on the left, and cut me off and make a right hand turn. i'll give some time to let that sink in...

yes, 'pass' me on the left and make a right hand turn. just like something out of grand theft auto. i am able to catch up to him at the next light. i shrugged my shoulders and give a 'w.t.f.'? and he starts bitching at me. at me! i'm not the one who cut anyone off. i'm not the one who broke any laws. i wasn't a ass. but he starts bitching at me. for doing nothing. i could have argued. i could have bitched right back. but two things popped into my head: one this guy is always going to be a jerk, and nothing that i say is going to change that; two, my wife reminds me these people might be packing, and you never know. so i moved on.

but it keeps going through my head...why would that guy be pissed with me? why? i didn't do anything. i wasn't wrong. then i remember the 'philosophy' that has taken over the american people...subjectivism. relativism. my truth is the only truth. my right is the only right. me. me. me.

i wanted to stop driving. i feel safer on my bike. more control. cars seem to be more aware of me, and want to avoid me. to get away from me. my wife thinks i'm nuts for saying this, but then i remind her she doesn't know what i experience out on the street on the bike like i do.

cars have become too safe. and with this safety people forget, or don't care as much about their driving, and what they're doing. they just don't pay attention to what is going on. cars that now alert you if you are too close to another car. what? multitasking while driving. no. just drive. that's all that you have to do.


anyway...be safe out there.

[amitabha...]