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I've met 7 U.S. Presidents as in talked in conversation.
I ate in a town I have no recollection of the name in a little rat hole diner next to a famous musician and had no idea. INTLS BD) until 15 years later.
I stood up in a diner in New Orleans at breakfast and my leg fell asleep and i fell over taking the table next to me out with the dishes and table, the chair and the person siting in it. I was on top of Peter Jennings.
Back in the day of travel agents I stopped the day before Thanksgiving and said, "ONE, what do you have leaving in the morning?" I got to stand on the equator, while my family showed how much they hated each other.
I had to ride a donkey because the bus to the island left in Mexico. "Si, Si, just up my cousin." Just up was 5 hours.
At 26, I took money, via accounts worth millions and millions over from John Gotti's pockets.
My favorite person in the whole world was named James and he was 4. I never met a funnier smarter kid.
I'm not as old and crotchety as my C-D username implies.
There are more years in the "used" category, as opposed to the "available" category. It's time to get busy living!
For the curious:
I can play brass instruments, sing like a lark, and can do impersonations.
Have an appreciation for the left-brained among us; I can't change a door lock.
Love to cook, read, and travel.
No one enjoys a joke more than me.
Married, divorced, and widowed (not necessarily in that order).
Familiar with the pain that life can entail, but more grateful and astonished by the good, beautiful, and unexplainable graces that it bestows as well.
I've not lost faith in my fellow man.
I adore the dogs and cats in my life, both past and present.
My family and friends are my rock.
The belief in a Higher Power has gotten me through dark times.
I stand in silent support of all those on this forum who are suffering and struggling.
Familiar with the pain that life can entail, but more grateful and astonished by the good, beautiful, and unexplainable graces that it bestows as well.
I've not lost faith in my fellow man.
I adore the dogs and cats in my life, both past and present.
My family and friends are my rock.
The belief in a Higher Power has gotten me through dark times.
I stand in silent support of all those on this forum who are suffering and struggling.
My online name here lionking, a Cuban coffee place I use to go to in Miami to get my Cuban coffee the owner use to call me "lionking" because of my long hair my photo is in my profile album section, ha ha! In my profile the "in my imagination" is because I think a lot about stuff.
Whatever various things I do or am, first and foremost I think of myself as a guitar player first. A few years ago my friend and music mate of thirty years contacted me and said "let's start a band again and write a album". I said "hell yeah" and we started. Then a year later or so the bomb was dropped he had stage 4 colon and liver cancer. Various musicians we were looking for to complete the music bailed out because. My friend and I continued as long as we could. I lost him March 2019 and I have been lost of focus about music since and then COVID hit last year didn't see a point in even getting in a band but I'm starting to get back into it slowly.
We managed to complete a couple songs of ours before the chemo took its toll, I have two albums worth of half finished songs that hopefully I will get going someday, here is one we completed in his trailer using Reaper program to record, he did the singing since we couldn't find a vocalist to join he did the mixing , we shared guitar parts, I did the acoustic lead in the middle.
I also write lyrics when inspiration hits me I tend to write deep thinking lyrics sort of like Neil Peart did. Here is one I did, the music to it is in my head but haven't made it actually to the lyrics yet. I tend to try to put myself in others shoes with empathy, or write about other people more than me. I have known a couple people with opiate addiction problems and why it came to be these lyrics are about that...
Song is called Down, it will be a Godsmack type metal song at least that is how I hear it in my head
verse 1
I know even if it goes unspoken
carrying the weight of a soul that is broken
concealing yourself in lies and deception
when you come down there is still no redemption
Down………………..Down
verse 2
I know I can see it in your eyes
that little devil has got you hypnotized
how long can you pretend you're someone else
you hurt me when I see you hurt yourself
Down…………………Down
chorus
I can believe in love, I’m trying to believe in you
But I can’t save you, you have to save yourself
Because there is no one else
Verse 3
I know you think it will always be the same
Just another entry for your diary of pain
You know this is not the way it should be
Forgive the hurt and break yourself free
My at the time girlfriend, first time I went to her place I sat on the sofa and her roommates two cats jumped on me and cuddled and fell asleep on me I was told they never do that to anybody. Her roommate told me she needs to get them a new home BTW because her dog was starting to get mean with them. I guess it was fate, five years later they are my buds, Jax and Zeke I can't imagine being without them now. I guess it's true that cats choose you , you don't choose them and the slogan "who saved who?"
is true.
Girlfriend is long gone, my cats are with me for the duration through thick and thin.
I've attended 57 Grateful Dead concerts; have every ticket stub! Many mail~order too.
Jerry Band, and Weir Wasserman gigs too.
MAGA, and Save America! Those gigs wouldn't be possible without FREEDOM....LIBERTY!
Woot!
I lived in Marin when was in school, and I used to deliver pizza to Jerry Garcia on a regular basis.
I have a nice picture of us together, which wasn't easy to get because there were no camera phones back then. I saw the Jerry Band 3 nights practically every month, at the Warfield, which I liked better than the Dead shows.
Now that I think about it, another surprising thing about me in the same vein, I live in the same neighborhood as Alec Baldwin out on the East End, and we talk pretty often, but he has no idea I am a conservative.
I just steer clear of any subject that looks like it might turn political.
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