Random Thoughts

I was surfing around Netflix this weekend, trying to find a movie.    Netflix can  just be another TV wasteland, but occasionally if you surf enough,  you can find a pony in a pile of shit.   I found a documentary on Paul Williams.   I passed by it several times.   I knew who the guy was, and anyone who lived in the late 70s and 80s knew too.   he was everywhere.    Paul Williams, is a funny little guy.

Remember Smokey and the Bandit?

Paul Williams is that short dude.   You may or not remember him.

When I was a kid, Paul Williams was everywhere.   Fantasy Island, Love Boat, Beretta, Match Game, The tonight show more than a few times….    Stuff I remember as a kid.    He was a TV personality.  I never knew him as anything else.    I always wondered why he was there.

But, the guy had a serious talent for writing music.    Like, more than most.   Like, what most musicians dream of.    I don’t know much about music, but check out that melody and how it rolls around in your head if you let it.    Its a fairly good song, methinks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkkgYjazSkk

He wrote this one as well for 3 dog night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkkgYjazSkkHere’s another one:   From the Muppet movie in 1979.   If you ever bring this up again that I posted this, or said I like it I will punch you in the throat.   For hell sakes… I was twelve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2DTLbTQj0I

He wrote this for a local bank Commercial.   He was just trying to make a buck at the time , then it got found.      This is a great song, and is still the #1 wedding song to this day.

He wrote a bunch more you might recognize.

Anyway, just a thought about the guy.    An influence on his generation.

People are interesting.   Everyone is trying to make their own way, in their own time.   The underdog great ones inspire me.

 

 

Lots of things to do today.   I gotta take a few tests, get a few things ready for the tour next week, help a few clients out with their websites, and whatever else I’m forgetting.    It’d be cool to work a movie in there, somewhere.   Or something.

Why, Happy Saturday!

This song has been on for the last week on the way to work.    It seems like an omen to me.    It’s kind of got that Ska thing going…. Might have to make the playlist for the ride…

Just got off work.   Kicking back in my garage like I always do, decompressing from a day.   I get off work a couple hours earlier than the wife, and I got my little setup in here where I can sit by my bike, see whats going in the world on my laptop that seems to stay out here.   Turned out,  Its an impromptu man cave, but it does the trick.

The tour is looming.    I’m not sure how many more days, but enough that I need to get a few things ready.  Get some bike music together, download the latest maps for my GPS,  do some research.   The truth is, that shit takes an hour. It’s just fun to anticipate and think about the thing you like doing the most in the world.   I can’t wait.   I’m gonna milk this whole preparation thing like a cow.

Want some Doobies?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kl0rAnLvJs

 

If you have to ask your wife if you can have a Harley, you shouldn’t have one.

I’m proud to say my wife and I work out most life decisions together.   Except for Bikes.

For the people this means something to.     I’m a fan.      Ride hard, ya pricks.

 

I haven’t posted for a while.     Everything is going pretty well.   Work, BACA, Family,  everything else.

When things go good, it feels like things need to be stirred up.    Complacency has never really served me very well.     It means you’re ignoring something you need to do.   Somewhere.

Some good things are happening though.    I’m on deck to lead a tour for Eaglerider for the Easy Rider Tour next month.     We’ll see how it goes.     I’m stoked they asked me, and I love that part of the country.    We’ll see!

 

 

 

 

Turns out, Cecil the Lion was no choirboy. Photos have surfaced of Cecil in the act of killing and eating Gary the Gazelle. Gary was a favorite of both locals and visitors at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, where he delighted onlookers with his trademark leap, while clicking his heels. Gary was 12 years old and leaves his beloved wife, Greta Gazelle, and their 8 (unnamed) offspring. Gary’s long-time friend and confidante, Zeke the Zebra said, “A lot of people are crying over Cecil lately, but, let me tell you, I’ve lost a lot of friends and family to him. He was an animal. I won’t be crying no tears.”

Kicking back today, and I was watching the history of the Eagles.   This same came on, and I had to find out what it was.   Kinda jammin, in a 50’s sort of way.   Ya gotta appreciate the masters.

“46 years ago today, we walked on the Moon for the first time. We just saw Pluto up close. Humankind does great things, when ideas get off the ground.” – Bill Nye, the Science Guy.

 

With all the shit out there in the world, and things you can invent to bitch about — I just like this quote.   It can fire ya up, if you let it.