re: Let us write a million selling country song

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no matter that it excuses asian racism.

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It doesn’t excuse it. It provides context for WHY he was like that.

Think Gran Torino. And maybe how people aren’t quite as they seem at first evaluation.

Also, I’m working within a very limited constraint to tell a story over 4 generations. I could do a whole song just about how a racist old man isn’t quite as racist as he seems to be on the surface. About just because someone says “bad words” and uses non-pc language by today’s standards, that perhaps their actions don’t really tell a story of deep seeded hatred. Or how men can change.

I mean isn’t that what life is about? Growing, changing our perspective when our experiences don’t line up with the narrative we’ve been fed? How men that have done wrong can do acts that redeem them ultimately?
Think Big Bad John

Probably way too young for some of the subjects I write about and older Than I should be for others.

I’m a storyteller. A bullshitter. What I enjoy about songwriting is it forces you to compress all the aspects of what you are trying to convey in a neat package.

It doesn’t (usually) let you ramble on, so you have to choose each word for maximum effect. It’s laconic. Compressing paragraphs of story into a line or two.

I was signed up but was injured before I could serve. I wasn’t trying to insinuate that I had, it was just a story.
Most of my stuff that touches on those conflicts is more about what a waste of lives those were.

I don’t usually choose what I write about. It kind of just comes to me. I’ll get a booger in my brain, sometimes a line, sometimes just a word and i just see where it goes and what Story it tells.

I write a lot of WW1 stuff. Or earlier. TBH I’m more interested in history than modern so that may effect the ideas I get.

It doesn’t really matter I guess. Nothing I write is going to go anywhere. It’s just pointless rambling

I’m many things. Reactionary is a fun word. Paints me into a corner, doesn’t it. I’m actually a rather avid student of revolution as well. The point where the Cossacks turned against the tzar fascinates me.

That whole idea of the entrenched military wing turning against the authoritarian rule in favor of the people is a constant thread in history and often marks the place where the tide turns.

I may ruminate on that

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That whole idea of the entrenched military wing turning against the authoritarian rule in favor of the people is a constant thread in history and often marks the place where the tide turns.

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Thank Allah democracy doesn't figure into your fantasies.

My baby stole a steak from Walmarks and moved in with my paw.

Her tits hung loose like the balls of a moose and her hair was calf turd brown

Good one froggy!
Hat's off and good morning

My sleeve is tattooed with your name
Your love is tattooed on my heart
C’mon little darlin’
Love me like I’m WalMart!