this may be entirely incoherant and lacking reason and logic but nonetheless:
i am so freaking sick of listening to music played at high volume. i am tired of my street full of drunk loud people going back to their cars to drive home (free parking on our street). i am tired of clearing litter from my front garden three and four times every day. i am tired of LJT falling asleep at 11 o´clock every night, and in the two hours leading up to his passing out i am tired of hearing him crying and pleading "please turn the music off mama i want to sleep".
i am upset that the bluesfest comittee didn´t deem it worthwhile to send our neighbourhood a courtesy letter informing us of the dates, the hour that the show would end, maybe inviting us to attend so that bluesfest was a positive thing rather than something negative. i can´t afford tickets they are way too expensive, but i get to experience all the negative aspects.
last night i almost snapped. the combination of INXS and metric blasting directly into my livingroom was too much. the heavy rock distortion and bass combined with synthetic organ cadences was too much. metric has been deleted from my itunes folder i can´t bear it anymore.
yes there were a lot of bands playing that i like. most of them weren´t blues mind you. i like blues. i was raised on blues. i want to hear blues music. i remember when there was a new orleans stage and the musicians gave afternoon workshops and it wasn´t two bloody weeks long. i remember when every musician passing near the ottawa region wouldn´t necessarily play at the festival. why? because they weren´t blues musicians. i remember when there was no cisco, and you couldn´t send text messages to the big screens during the show informing the world that your mate just peed his pants.
bla. my stepfather is rolling over in his grave. may the ghost of larry "the bird" mootham haunt the organizing committee forever ...
