Horus8 & The Werewolves
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5/19/2010 2:10:37 PM
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Don't Be Afraid
First and foremost I want to apologize to Jeff, and
any other person(s) I may have called out or hurt, whether
they are religious, or not, talented or forgettable, that
was not my intention from the get go. We are all all of
thee above at different times. Trying to maintain the
better of the worst for longer durations no doubt, if at all.
I guess there is a deeper issue here (that while
doing yoga) just a few minutes ago dawned on me,
so I ran up to my office and wrote it down.
We are poets, us writers and musicians, and what
a private hell that is, with windows of mural glass stories,
and bird songs and smells of freedom and woe. Life
for each a saga of ups and downs climaxes and flat lines.
Here's where the illusion of heaven and love reeks of danger
and lies. Becomes lessened by greedy war mongers and
media giants of devilish power. Between you, me, and them.
What was once Bob Dillon, Mozart, Bob Marley, Patsy Cline
has turned 30 seconds to Mars and Kate Perry, American Idol.
There is no more poetry, the magic has been completely
commercialized and reduced to baby food for children.
Everybody wants to be a millionaire.
the love of story telling and art has totally been
consumed by the money and sexual fixations
of a few freak men selling teen bombshell boobs,
and man ass. I find maybe 1 out of a hundred artists
trying to say anything of relevance to our current global
crisis.
I'm not saying every artist should solely write
songs about current political or social issues, but when
the dam has broken, and the media is being controlled
to not report the real issues and stories? It is the poets
responsibility to create the revolution and defend the spirit,
possibility, and children of mankind.
Perhaps the apocalypse is not only a war against men,
and lands against lands, but the very beast of self against
the higher knowledge of individual spiritual growth.
When I see men dreaming of fame and riches, women
and drugs and the rock and roll lifestyle I can understand
at first why, but don't you find it funny after awhile?
If I was a black rap artist and became famous for writing
songs that were political and socialy relevant to entire
generations like NWA (and many other artists it just
aint a black or white thing) started out doing,
but upon receiving my first big pay day I played
right into the bling stereotype of money, cars,
and women, I am just giving the money
I think I took from the man right back to the man?
How is that sticking it to the man?
Then the next album is all about being 'rich and cool'
and pretty soon you've forgotten what you were angry
with the man about to begin with.Then your rock and
roll lifestyle gives you AIDS and drug addiction and
you die before you could have ever written any
more songs that could have really rocked the man's boat.
The man has all his money back, and then he
just has to do it to the next naive dreamer.
If you kids, and even if you old timers haven't
figured this anthropological fact out for yourselves
yet, then you really do actually believe Miley Cyrus
and Maria Cary are that stupid, because they are.
It's because the majority of artists suffer from a
need to have a lot of attention and control syndrome.
It's a complete 360 degree trap. you start out innocent
just loving to sing and the next thing you know
you're on the road promoting a record, drinking for the
first time, and recouping money lost from the production
of your first album. Then you're a slave to the label.
A slave to the money, and a program for pubescent kids
who represent 70 percent of the money spent worldwide.
There is no #1 any longer here, there, or anywhere.
This site, and all the rest. Is merely a stop
gap for in between artists like ourselves that got looked over,
or missed the boat, or never wanted to get on to begin with,
to blow smoke up each other's asses like the special
Olympics, "Congratulations, oh no... Congratulation to you".
Jesus fucking Christ. Where is the honor, the integrity,
the god damn fight?
I may be over reacting but at the end of the year I know
only a handful of artists that are supporting themselves
with their art and writing and performing where and what
they want. I also know major artists that are in total destitute,
and no longer even own the rights to their own material.
The majority of artists here, bickering with me, like me,
are hobbyists at best. Great songwriters that nobody has
the time or day for because everybody is too busy loving
themselves to give a shit. Lets face it.
Celebrity and money have turned this world
and our current reality into just another episode
of Kardashians where we are playing ourselves
watching the Kardashians.
Now there's nothing wrong with celebrating our own
little successes and patting each other on the back,
but for fuck's sake we already know our material is good,
and if you don't and need someone to tell you?
Then you should become an alcoholic if you already aren't.
I'm so sick of this struggling artist I don't believe in
myself bullshit. Or the fucking "we never thought we'd be
here receiving this award crap" then why do it?
Why wear the hairspray, Why spend a thousand dollars
on a new suit? We do it because it's fun to pretend,
but at some point in time a little responsibility and discipline
goes a lot further than a million dollars or who
you know, or have met.
So you people that want into the big time?
Stay out, and for you, that are in the big time doing squat?
Get out, buy an education not an 8 ball, and for god's sake
produce a real artist when you go that direction and not
some whore you discovered that can't hold a note in some
strip bar in North Hollywood... Fuck.
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Bryon Tosoff
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5/19/2010 2:46:59 PM
its cool, keep doing your thing, it makes this place somewhat more palatable when you are offering up your take on things, all i say is this, what you said here just now, well that is indeed insightful and tempered with knowledge, a good understanding of life and and sprinkled in with wisdom. few ever get it all those three components of knowledge, understanding and wisdom or have had the experiences you have had, its just the passion that drives you to want to wake people up to the crap that is out there
I get angry too. even though I may come across as an azzhat dude with the life is what you make it thing, just a saying I got taught as a kid, and it stuck, even though maybe times I have questioned that philosophy and my own self made way of living , what ever works. so its all good.
Bryon
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