Rossi Rant: life is weird

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Saturday, February 22

life is weird

life is weird man

i've just been catching up on the terrible news about the 95 people just killed in that fire
at the rock concert in rhode island

just a little club concert for by heavy metal band 10 years past their prime
and 95 rock fans are dead

the news flipped over to my home town's stomping ground and the club "the stone pony" where the manager complained that the band had used illegal pyrogenics during their show their as well

someone's gonna go down for this one you know it

it's sad to think of 95 lives lost just because they wanted to re-live some 80's style rock

while i was watching the news, i drifted back to my teen years and to the stone pony

the stone pony wasn't a legendary club when i was growing up on the jersey shore
it was just a sleazy rock and roll, biker club that my friends and i didn't go to because too many fights broke out there, too many big drunk jerks hassled women.. and we knew damn well at least one of us would probably get gay bashed there...I don't remember anything great or sexy about the stone pony

its amazing what 20 years can do a place
just by not changing
its become one of the most famous clubs in the country

i even feel a pull to go there

as to the boss
i always hated him when i was growing up
but then that might have something to do with how crammed down my throat BRUCE was
i've been well almost kinda liking him now
maybe its because he hasn't changed that much in 20 years either

this morning i was perusing my web site
and i went back to one of my first posts

the one i sent in the morning of september 11th just a few minutes before i found out the planes had hit the towers

i was light and bitchy and airy and dry and I was rolling in my usual sarcastic NYC bad ass crap

then
well
you know what happened then

everything changed
and i scrolled through randomly some of my posts since then

the whole tone had changed
never quite went back

sometimes i wonder if september 11th hadn't happened if i would be like
the boss or the stone pony

not a whole lot changed in the last 20 years

i was a punk rock rebel when i graduated high school
20 years later
i was an anti-establishment sorta east village chef, writer, painter

hmm not a huge ass switch

who am i now?

softer?
harder?
meaner?
stronger?
confused?

but you know the boss changed too since 911
actually the CD he put out in tribute to september 11th
was the first one i really liked

i played his song "rise up" many times
cause thats just what i wanted to do

Rise UP

come on and rise up

i still think he sings like he's constipated though
come on
you gotta admit it
look at his face

life is weird man
and so is this post

im in a mood

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