THANK YOU, MIKE NAGGAR
‘MAVERICK’ JOHN McCAIN BLINKED, JUST LIKE NEW ‘COKE’
Temecula, CA – I find myself in a position much like a Clint Eastwood western character, caught in the middle of a fray, disliked by both sides, with nothing to gain from either one. Some people may be surprised by this next statement, but I really don’t care who wins the upcoming election in Temecula, and the same can be said for the one in Murrieta, but for different reasons. Now that isn’t to say that I don’t have an opinion on who I would like to see win. But I don’t care because whoever wins, they will not see the music world I reside in, the creative thinking ‘out of the box’ youth I know that greet me everywhere or see me at their shows, they don’t know the synergy I experience by ‘hanging’ with the youth who just want a few places to chill and see a $5 show, so the band can make some gas money to the next gig.
Neither the incumbents nor the challengers inhabit the world of live new original music and feel the passion you get from seeing young talent ‘leave it all’ on stage, whether it be to 5 people, a mom, sister, and three school friends, or a packed coffee house, where a group of six female teens sing the chorus, off key, as two musicians play acoustically three tunes, in between loading up their van for their next gig somewhere after a sold-out show. No matter what ‘new’ youth programs come from whoever gets in, my ‘world’ will be untouched and no roof-top concert will change that or be thought of as ‘cool’; sorry Charlie, it’s already been done by the Beatles, back when Hack was a pup. My world will remain untouched because all the ‘kids’ in it, like me, are not ‘ready for prime time’ or the main stream.
We have full sleeve tats, piercings, wild hair styles, thrift store kitsch, in your face T-shirts, and an attitude. And that’s just part of the equation. So, you may be asking, why am I sticking ‘my two cents’ into this election fray? I love a good game, just like that Clint Eastwood character. Am I an adrenaline junkie, well, yes and no. You see, the world I inhabit is not normal; a creative world can never be. So last night, candidate Mike Naggar, in delivering his reasons for staying in office, gave me the catch phrase that I could deliver to a friend today who faces a climax on whether he will lose his business.
Nagger will probably never know it, as I don’t plan to tell him and we don’t hit the same parties. So there you have it, but everything happens in my world for a purpose, whether I know what that purpose is at the time or not. That’s why I’m stuck in the middle with you, for this election, and yeah, also for the adrenaline rush from the blow-back.