47 Rides – #40 Vince
I convinced Vince to drive to Penticton
Had a brief stint at Strickler’s grape pickin’
Got enough cash to cover my ass
now gotta get me to Van City fast
Vince, who I based that lyric on. He didn’t drive to Penticton and I didn’t try to convince him to. And I didn’t make any cash at Strickler’s. But Strickler’s is in Penticton and I do need to get to Van City fast.
Vince only drove me to Peachland which I actually could’ve ridden the right bus to but it’s the thought that counts. He was a christian and a young guy. 20 something probably. He asked me about my religious orientation and I told him I grew up christian and my parents are big christians. He gave me a god bless as he dropped me off and said he’d pray for me. I told him my parents had been praying for me plenty and I’ve had good luck so far.
I don’t believe. I think an open mind is wiser. Christianity puts a lot of pressure on your condition when you die so that it’s better to die young and innocent. I can’t buy into that.
47 Rides – #39 Brian and Peter (again)
We were at Stricklers Grape Orchard in Penticton hoping to make some money for the weekend but apparently the checks don’t get cut until Monday and a $30 advance is out of the question.
So me and this guy Peter who I walked up to the Orchard with were offered a ride to Kelowna from an old guy named Brian (different Brian, different Peter. Strange patterns of names on this trip: I met two Eleanors and a Rebecca in Regina and two Lauras and a Rebecca in Calgary and now another set of Brian and Peter. I wonder what it means about how the world works)
Brian was a ‘you should’ve been there’ smoker. An old hippie with some traveling stories of his own. He told me how he got stuck in the rain hitchhiking one night so he went off the side of the road to sleep, wrapped in a few garbage bags to stay dry, and woke up to an ambulance and some guys coming down with a stretcher. Apparently there had been about 4 calls that night about a dead body stashed on the side of the road.
Brian and Peter were both very eccentric, going off on individual tangents that would end them up talking about completely different things by time the listened to each other, frustrating and confusing both of them and thoroughly entertaining me.
We picked apples in Kelowna for a middle eastern family who didn’t speak english very well, frustrating and aggravating Brian to no end. I refered him to an apple farmer I had worked for earlier in the week who was very friendly and white and didn’t pay as much but is probably who Brian will go work for on Mon. He’d been off the sauce for 10 days and counting and was very indecisive causing Peter, who was very opinionated and outspoken, to lose it at every snap decision.
Another night a the Kelown hostel..
47 Rides – Interlude
I’m nearing the end now. This time for real I swear… Maybe straight to Vancouver from here but I’d imagine no longer than a week at the very most. I’m hoping for some great finale..
47 Rides – #38 Big Al
Big Al! Save my life. I thought I’d never get out of Peachland with the sunset and all. Or at least to the hostel in time for check in. Big Al had a smooth, relaxing voice that raised in pitch mid sentence making a calming tone. The door handles inside where missing and the wind whistled past the door crack the whole ride which I didn’t bother fixing. He knew the guy working at the hostel that night and actually had travelled to Victoria with him. I think I’ll live in Victoria instead of Vancouver. I got the member discount for coming with Big Al. Cool Shit!
1)This town is burning down
now exit as directed
Made a sound when it hit the ground
though the damage was deceptive
The people flee in anarchy
there seems to be no sanity
Lets get these stubborn souls some safety quickly
2) Surprised to find
the fine line
between the hippies
and the hustlers
Scared and Ashamed
Climate Change refers to human activities affect on the worlds temperature. Unless you don’t believe scientists. The world does look flat and the sun appears to revolve around the earth.
But I came to a realization recently that was sparked by this email “scandal”. Since most of the press is based on the idea and not the content and it seemed impossible for people to actually buy into that. A blip on the credibility of one model that doesn’t even show any evidence of Global Warming.
And then I realized what should have been obvious: People are scared and ashamed. And afraid because they have to change the only way they know how to live. It’s hard for people to change. But we simply must and it’s not as scary as it sounds.
Don’t be scared, don’t be ashamed but take due responsibility. A far better world is possible.
Orange
That’s right! Orange MuthaFugruckas! There are tons of thing you can rhyme with orange for the purposes of music:
Forage
Storage
Porridge
Borin’
Snorin’
Door hinge (by extending the consonant sounds out with more syllables makes you clever)
Dalorean
Form
Warm
Storm
Born
Norm
Gorge
Even going beyond these examples, the “g” sound at the end can be rhymed with similar sounds such as “sh” or “t”
That’s all I’ll give for now. I challenge you to post more orange rhymables
47 Rides – #37 Epiphanously
The decision came abruptly and almost epiphanously as I grit my teeth to put up with Brian’s mouth running with his brain parked at the question mark that ended all his sentences. I was going to West Bank, where I had stashed my gear with a buddy of Brian’s, to bring back to the hostel which we could afford after picking apples at an orchard all day. I did some lucrative busking out front of the liquor store too. What a great way to make money. As I was leaving I joked, “Maybe I’ll just grab my stuff and take off.” The idea was so appealing I barely considered any other course of action after the words left my mouth. Carrying everything you own on your back is a lot like living on a house boat. If you don’t like your neighbours you just pick up and leave. It’s real freedom, not the kind of freedom you hear people up in arms about all the time. Real freedom is not having a closet full of junk you hold onto because it might be useful someday.
But anyway, I walked to the last set of lights leaving West Bank, Kelowna and got a ride to the first turnoff in Peachland. 10 minute ride tops. This guy wants to learn how to play the guitar. Good for him (sorry I’m so cynical).
Greed is ugly
Here is a Colbert-esque post for Townhall.com on an article about Al Gore’s “agenda”
Greed is ugly
It makes me sick that enviro-dogooders like Gore want to hack into the profits of the oil companies and other “big time polluters”. Oil is a limited resource and we need to strike while the irons hot. The future of oil supplies is counting on oil that we can discover through new technologies for finding it. But if there’s none to find we could be at peak oil now!!
This is the worst time to further tax the oil companies! It doesn’t make any sense to switch to renewable electricity and electric vehicles while we still have oil. One day we wont have any oil and then there will be lots of time to use these renewable sources (assuming the sunspot which is currently heating up our planet doesn’t continue in which case we are simply doomed and there’s nothing we can do about it)
Profits are what make our system work. Companies need to grow to remain viable. Imagine what it’s like for huge companies like oil companies have to grow constantly! The more you make you have to make even more next year! Lets not hamper their growth with “green” mumbo jumbo. That’s just ugly.
VanCity, Baby
Hey everyone!! I’m workin on a song called VanCity, Baby about my 47 Rides trip (soon you wont have to read all 47, you can just listen to the song!)
What I need from you is to be a part of this song by recording yourself yelling, singing, saying, whatever: Van City Baby. Send me the audio file (wav or aiff prefered) and I’ll put it in my song! I need enough voices so I can put it together to sound like a crowd so do a bunch of different voices if you like. Whatever material you can give me would be great.
Click on the link for a preview of the song to get an idea of what I’m goin for
Send audio files to DoGooderRecords@gmail.com
Thanks for the help!!
Antithesis
Here’s a good word that I’ve been hearing a lot lately so lets rhyme it.
.. suspiciousness
.. ridiculous
.. ambivalence
.. admits to it
.. and misses it
.. and this is it
.. magnificent
.. possesses us
.. is limitless
.. in listlessness
Notice how the rhymes don’t necessarily rhyme with each other. This “shaping” of the rhyme can be very useful. You can start with one word in a song that has, say, 4 lines in a row that rhyme, and shape the rhyme to be completely different by the end. Example:
So Bush was bad and Obama’s the Antithesis
Left or right and still the media possesses us
Left to fight through propaganda increasingly scandalous
Til we forget the part about pursuit of happiness
So that’s kinda American themed and me being Canadian. It’s not my fault The Daily Show is so great!
And maybe that’s also not the best example of “shaping” a rhyme but I think it’s pretty good for making it up on the spot. And you can see the importance of rhyming loosely to say what you want to say.
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