My longtime friend Captain John Alvarez uses some of Cirque du Soul's music in his videos, which focus on fishing.

So the government thinks I'm a terrorist for supporting this man huh.....

http://voice-usa.blogspot.com/2009/03/ron-paul-supporters-are-domestic.html

http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-bob-barr-chuck-baldwin-considering-legal-action-over-miac-document.html 

http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2009/03/the-modern-militia-movement-report-libertarians-ron-paul-supporters-as-potential-domestic-terrorists/

http://www.infowars.com/police-trained-nationwide-that-informed-americans-are-domestic-terrorists/ 

http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/ron-paul-supporters-terrorists

Anyone know where I can get a few more stickers? I'd like to start my own little Jihad against this kind of shit.

(thanks Mom for the links!) 

Why is it that everytime I call my bank to talk about my account, I get transferred overseas? Believe me, I have nothing against our "bretheren across the water" but COME ON. Americans are losing their jobs, their houses, their ASSES and the very banks that hold the populace in financial gridlock has the utter AUDACITY to ship jobs across to the Philippines, India, wherever?

Please, do not view me as a racist or bigot, for I am neither. I am a citizen of the United States who is appalled at seeing their jobs/money/lives being "outsourced" to other parts of the world. What the banks are doing is finding ways to hold us hostage in our own country. We have to pull together to overcome this nightmare brewing for our GRANDCHILDREN, never mind us in the here & now! 

Social Networking...what a concept! I get to stay up until 4 or 5 am "doing stuff" to extend my ever-reeking cyberstench. I've got a MySpace, I've got a Facebook. I've got a YouTube, There's a Creative Commons Page. 

ALso, I was voted "Member of the year 2007" by http://drumsmylife.com, a website that is 7200+ members strong at the time of this writing. Yeah, I get it.

One thing I like about all of this hoopla is that enables me to connect with people to the point that I can transcend the need for "mainstream press". I am not "Flavor of the Month" material. Rather, I am an incredibly active denizen of not only the stage of the local choke & puke but also a very highly-evolved netizen that is patched in to many areas. 

I gave up on getting into drum magazines a long time ago. I suppose they don't notice me because I don't have a bone through my head, I don't have a hit record, I don't look like I just fell out of an inkpress.

However, I've played on over 100 albums, won a grammy award, am at the forefront of an internet music revolution, and I just turned 40 and still ride a skateboard. Meh... It's not like I don't have a story to tell. I toured with the guy who started Rock-n-Roll...what more do you want? 

It's comical at this point to me. I guess I expect too much from what a career is supposed to give, seeing that I don't make a boatload of cash doing this. Really, I do it for the shits & grins.