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I’ll start this by wishing you and yours a good and prosperous day. The world gets tough and everyone has to put up the I’m OK facade so I hope you all really are OK. I hope that you’re doing more than OK, you’re doing WONDERFULLY. All sappiness aside, it’s a cloudy vegas day and I’m waiting to go in and wrap up the recording for this SOS project. I got a couple other treats in the works to slightly remind cats that this is what I do, so we’ll see how that goes as well.


I’m just trying not to lose my belief in people. My view is probably a little skewed having been in the United states this long, but I know it’s still a trend setting forerunner. And I have a few issues with what I see and hear....

 I wish success for everybody, but can it warrant a little merit? I find it hard to believe Gucci Mane speaks English. And Talib Kweli is one of the many people doing songs with him. I want to be able to sit in a lady or even a dude’s house without having to be subjected to these “reality” shows. Six million ways to watch six million clones repeat the same bad behaviour and glorify the same useless unnecessary self worship six million times over. There’s art, then there’s what Lady Gaga wears, and talented as she is, I’m just going to say the music isn’t for me. I personally equate all this stuff to all that artificially grown food that this great country runs on. Just make it all bigger. The number of real nutrients in it, the negative effects of all it’s chemicals and how plain bad or blandly it tastes doesn’t matter. The bigger it is the better, and the artificial stuff is always cheaper. Even if you’re trying to eat better or more naturally, that stuff will be right there for the day you have less money than usual. For that day that you will be forced to settle for what you can afford.

The irony of it all to me is that for all the self importance and self absorption that runs rampant through this developed society, the general population here doesn’t seem to believe in themselves. Apparently they are who they are. Too many people seem either too tired or too ashamed to have their own unique dreams, too scared of what others would think. Even the groups of youth who pride themselves in looking or being different all act and look alike. Somehow what was once the greatest nation on the planet by far in the eyes of most of the world stopped believing in their common greatness and started to compete for which individual was greater than another. So now there’s only one kind of great, and everything and everyone else is garbage, and they seem to BELIEVE this. The dream place to be stopped finding it okay to dream anymore. That sounds overly melodramatic doesn’t it? Too bad it’s true.

Human beings are the most incredible beings on this planet. This statement stands for every last one of us. We were born equal, and that is how we will die. All the disabilities, birth defects, color pigment differences, plastic surgeries and sex changes in the world couldn’t change that. We all have the same capacity for greatness. But that doesn’t mean everything we do will be great, and that definitely doesn’t mean we can all follow the same dream and achieve the same result. Because don’t let high school clicks and gangs lie to you, we are all also unique, every last one of us. No two sets of fingerprints are the same. No one is like you and you are like no one. No one is better than you and you are not better than anyone. You are the only person you should try to be better than.

May God bring out the best in you and me.