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(Next blog: I'm Free.) I want my money because without my money I feel like the biggest chump in history. That's why it's against the law for shows like Saturday Night Live to use my work and leave me unpaid. Maybe I still have a shot at suing them for defamation. I'll ask a U.S. lawyer about it. Now let's talk about me wanting my own work. They say that it's okay to use my work for profit and leave me unpaid if I don't want it. First of all, if I don't want it, what's it all doing here in my account? I erased it from the web because I didn't want Tina Fey's boyfriend to have it, not because I didn't want it. Did I ever tell you about Paul Gaughin? Brilliant post impressionist painter. You know what he did with the paintings he didn't want? He sold them. Maybe the SNL gang thinks he should have given these paintings away to others so they could pass them off as their own, but they were Gaughin's paintings. He owned them. And besides that, HE LABOURED OVER THEM AND HE INVESTED HIS MEAGER FUNDS INTO PAINTS AND CANVAS AND HE NEEDED MONEY. Isn't it a laugh? Those Gaughin's hanging in the Louvre are his rejects. Through his eyes, they were failures. As for his favourites, I'm told he burned them all on his deathbed. Let them haggle over the rejects, right, Paul? I understand you. Next blog: The National Bullshitting Corporation. |
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Thursday, June 6, 2013
For Want of Justice
The Questioning Question
| Are my poems still up on poetrypoem.com since I first posted them there in 2004? I went to look today and I couldn't find them. I wrote some good poems that year. I remember one called Poetic Justice. | ||||||||||
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Down with Depression
| March 27, 2013: I got rid of a few old blogs about me crying about my poverty. I figure no one wants to read them. | ||||||||||
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Between the Lines
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Who Wants to Be Next?
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Is there still another poser on the loose? It's against the law for anyone to perform my songs without my authorization. It's against the law for anyone else to take credit for my writing. Are the rumours true about a certain psycho butchering my music with his non-existent singing voice? If so, incarcerate him. Any witless wonders with my laughs on their web page? Incarcerate them. Remove all unauthorized videos of my songs (all but mine) from the internet. Leave a notice that they were removed by my authority. Remove all unauthorized copies of my blogs (all but mine) from the internet and post the same notice to explain their disappearance. I'll be back in a month or so to make the same request. |
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Breathing Easy
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By stealing the profits from my work and leaving me to reside in Vancouver's notorious downtown east side, I guess the business hoped that their crimes against me would end up LOOKING LIKE the right thing to do. This neighbourhood is designed to punish its residents either for breaking the law or for not having a job. Drug use is rampant there, and every resident is expected to have some kind of serious character flaw. After trying so hard to keep up a decent image all those years I lived in that overpriced apartment, it was a tremendous blow for me to be forced into a bug infested room in the downtown east side after I fell behind in my rent from so much unpaid recording and writing. This is how the business rewarded me for writing the songs and the laughs it took from me, the same business that put the jerks who stole them in limousines and made you all think that they were stars. So when I hear lies such as my recent 'eviction' from my room, I don't blame the creeps I was living with in that God forsaken building back in Vancouver; I blame the business. Maybe you think it's funny that the business that dictates your thoughts and actions is so utterly evil, but you'll come to the end of your life one day because you have no control over it. And when you draw your last breath, you may find that you have even less control over what happens next because you invested all your faith in lies from your TV. You'll hear me laughing then - when it counts the most. I thought that by returning to my province of birth, I might shake off the stigma of living in close quarters with social misfits. But my current living conditions often have me feeling like I never left Vancouver. I still don't LOOK LIKE the great artist who composed all that work. After six years of this insulting treatment I suspect that if I ever do LOOK LIKE that great artist, it will be while I am on a private flight to some far off, uncharted island, never to return. |
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Cancel Your Cable
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I think that there has been more lying and cheating and backstabbing in the attempt to deprive me of the rights to my work than was used in the last four U.S. elections combined. And I'm not a conservative, but we'll need more prisons for all these copyright violators and their accessories, which brings me to my main point. It's come to my attention that lawyers have taken some of the blame for my misfortune. (My note to the prime minister pointed to the legal system, not to individuals.) Why do you suppose that this has happened at a time when I rely heavily on legal support? You see how my adversaries fight against truth and justice? And they never give up. As long as my lawyers are waging an effective strategy, they're 'culpable'. Then if I try to say that they are helping me, that makes my lawyers heroes and me their sad dependent. The problem here is not the lawyers. I wouldn't need lawyers if NBC/FOX/Comedy Central/etc wasn't so heavily in the wrong. They steal all my comedy, cash it in, and wait for the crowd to finish me off. Then when I stage a musical comeback, they feature it on Dateline as though it were a scandal. Great. Now every jerk with a guitar thinks he'll have groupies if he steals my music. This inhibits the production of my new songs. My new songs are further discouraged by my old blogs as trusting TV viewers attack me for thinking I am robbing their favourite shows, thanks to broadcasting corporations which scooped my original posts and paid themselves for it out of the belief (and hope) that I would never relive and rewrite them. I often wish I hadn't. If I authored a hit, I shouldn't have to stay at a homeless shelter. If everyone knows I authored it and that they thanked a band for stealing it from me and for using it to make my life Hell, maybe it's time they released their minds from television's evil influence. |
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