Whitee - Purveyor of Fine Beats...Provider of Lyrical Treats
Music, culture & politics. We'll also update Whitee's recording progress.Saturday, January 22, 2005
I really don't mean for this to soiund maudlin, but I just bought a used DVD, The Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog from Conan O'Brien. I'm not here to say it's the finest comedic work since...uh...Morey Amsterdam - Live at Budokan, but it just reminded me of the "good ole days". Back in the day, I'd write bits for "WPUD", get drunk and have friends & family perform them. Again, they weren't MALAB, but it was my own little Saturday Night Live, the early years.
So as I'm sitting on the couch (!) watching these Triumph bits...it made me think (between laughs)...man, I've really lost my chops. I'm having a tough time writing Whitee songs...I don't think I could write a bit if my life depended on it...all my mental energy goes into so-called "saving the world". My sense of humor's the same...I still laugh at the same kind of stuff. I still have a sense of humor in my interactions. But I can't sit and write bits/skit/jokes/songs like I used to.
Comedy serves a definite purpose, but it doesn't put food on people's tables and it doesn't get people jobs. It's a distraction. One of the things I would love to do is to get an "old time" radio show going - a National Lampoon kind of thing but with a political bent. But it would be a more self-centered goal. It would be an intellectual distraction for folks, but it wouldn't affect any real change.
But on a self-centered tip...I miss it. There was some dumb...almost regrettable stuff, but there were some good bits. So I thought I'd give you a taste of some of the so-called good old days. Here are some audio clips. (I'm going to try to post the script to them in the next day or so)
So as I'm sitting on the couch (!) watching these Triumph bits...it made me think (between laughs)...man, I've really lost my chops. I'm having a tough time writing Whitee songs...I don't think I could write a bit if my life depended on it...all my mental energy goes into so-called "saving the world". My sense of humor's the same...I still laugh at the same kind of stuff. I still have a sense of humor in my interactions. But I can't sit and write bits/skit/jokes/songs like I used to.
Comedy serves a definite purpose, but it doesn't put food on people's tables and it doesn't get people jobs. It's a distraction. One of the things I would love to do is to get an "old time" radio show going - a National Lampoon kind of thing but with a political bent. But it would be a more self-centered goal. It would be an intellectual distraction for folks, but it wouldn't affect any real change.
But on a self-centered tip...I miss it. There was some dumb...almost regrettable stuff, but there were some good bits. So I thought I'd give you a taste of some of the so-called good old days. Here are some audio clips. (I'm going to try to post the script to them in the next day or so)
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