MANESS MUSIC MONDAY

What can I say about Kate, my YouTube friend from the U.K.?

She is funny, interesting, sweet, fearless (when she does her challenges on Challenge Tuesday), and a good supporter of her YouTube friends!

Therefore, I wrote this song about her!

I hope she likes it as much as I like her awesome vlog!

http://www.youtube.com/user/Katest3r/videos

Here it is: 

SILLY SURREAL SATURDAY

These silent cartoons from the 1920's were my favorites to watch when I was a kid! 

Just for fun! Hope you don't have motion sickness!

Reminds me of my trip to Ft. Lauderdale, circa 1972.

This also reminds me of my trip to Ft. Lauderdale.

This too!

My trip to New Orleans

Reminds me of my trip to San Francisco.

Reminds me of Rossie, the crazy girl next door when I was a kid! Except she had tropical fish.

Reminds me of a reoccurring dream I have that ends with the Grand Canyon!

Illustrates why we see a lot of plane crashes today.

Must be an unfurnished apartment.

Reminds me of my trip to Catalina Island. Errrrp!

A fun way to pass the time on an elevator!

FAN FRIDAY

I love the movie Conagher, 

About a lonely widow,

Who tied sweet notes on tumbleweeds,

Where in the wind they'd blow.

She hoped someone would find them,

A handsome cowpoke prince,

When the tumbleweed stopped rolling,

Caught in a prairie fence. 

Conn Conagher, a tough man,

But with an honest tender heart,

Found her notes of loneliness,

And loved her from the start.

Even though he'd never met her,

He was absolutely smitten,

He knew she had a loving heart,

From the words that she had written.

Conn found the widow, Evie,

On her farm with her two kids,

And helped her every way he could,

But he kept his deep love hid.

Conagher fought Indians,

And rustlers to protect her,

He wondered if she loved him too,

If his kindness would affect her.

Mahler wanted Evie,

He wanted to shoot Conn,

But Conagher would use his fists,

He didn't need a gun.

 Conn whipped him in a barroom brawl,

Evie loved one man alone,

She grabbed Conagher by his strong arm,

And said, "it's time to come on home."

What is so cool about that movie, is that Sam Elliot and Katherine Ross are married in real life, and you can really feel the love they have for each other as you watch them play the characters of Conn and Evie.

Now, go watch the movie! 

I don't care if you've watched it before, it's worth watching a million toms...it's a classic! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt1zPfEvLtA

You can thank me later!

THOUGHTFUL THURSDAY

I really don't know what's wrong with me lately.

I created Thoughtful Thursday to be a time of meditation, and relaxation, away from the depressing, demoralizing events of this dysfunctional world that seems to be spinning out of control in a reckless abandon kind of way.

I even use soft, appealing colors in the text, to sooth your weary eyes, and then let them go into your tattered brain, and eventually flow down to your troubled soul.

So, on this Thoughtful Thursday I will avoid talking about Obamacare...

 having your health insurance cancelled...

promises politicians have made and not kept...

HealthCare.gov. website that's not working worth crap...

 a cocaine addicted mayor...

 Anthony Weiner and his sexploits...

 Miley Cyrus and her "twerking"...

Pre-twerking days. The twerking pictures were not suitable for my blog audience! All both of ya!!

Richie Incognito and his bullying...

The ban on trans fats...

Illegals getting free stuff...

The NSA spying on everybody...

The IRS abusing their power...

MSNBC...uh..just being MSNBC...

TINGLES!

Now, children, aren't you happy I didn't depress you, by talking about all of those bad, nasty things?

Well, sure you are!

I'm a bad ole puddy tat!

OUT OF THIS WORLD WEDNESDAY

Here was our hero, Gary the Glirkazoid, surrounded by 10,000 Diozakril-G warships intent on destroying the cute little Glirkazoids whilst they celebrated their non-holiday of Gluck, so innocently and unsuspectingly! 

Fortunately, the enemy could not see his spaceship because he had clicked on his U-Kont-Seamy device to render his craft invisible.

UNfortunately Gary's Disgronificater Eliminator Disintegrator could only destroy one warship at a tom, so most of the 10,000 warships would be able to get past Gary before he had tom to destroy them all!  (Who's Tom?)

While Gary was pondering over what he might do to stop these viscious invaders, Yo 77 popped on to his poop deck!

Ain't she adorable?

This was the last thing Gary wanted!!

He did not need a wet behind the antennas, girly, girl to get in his way while he was trying to save his beloved friends below, on his home planet of Glirka!

Yo 77-"What ya doin'?" Said in a sing song kind of way!

Gary- "Are you kidding me?" "Didn't you see 10,000 Diozakril-G warships out there, poised to destroy our people by turning them into crispy critters with their hideous weapons?!"

Yo 77- "Sho did."

Gary- "Well, what do you mean, what ya doin',

I'm attempting to devise a brilliant plan to recue our people, and I only have about 20 seconds to do it!!"

Yo 77 looks a little bored and unconcerned, then begins to take a compact from her makeup bag and casually looks at herself in the mirror.

Gary- "Are you totally mad, Yo!!" We only have 15 seconds to save our planet, and you are going to apply makeup?!!"

Yo 77- "You need to chill, Gary." "It's all good."

At that, Yo 77 breaks the mirror into 10,000 pieces on the interior cull shield, and pours them into the top port of the Disgronificater Eliminator Disintegrator and fires away!

The pieces of mirror multiply the effect of the weapon 10,000 times, and ALL of the Diozakril-G warships are blasted out of the sky with one shot!

Gary just stands there looking at the empty space where the warships had been.

His mouth is wide open, his elongated eyes are drooping, and he is stuttering, and muttering things like "b..b but... how...wa..wa..wha..happen..I can't believe..."

Yo 77- "Not bad for a girl, huh, Gary?"

Gary gains a bit of composure and weakly declares, "uh, um, yeah, not bad."

Yo 77 could see Gary was feeling a little emasculated and felt pity on him.

Yo 77- "Gary, I'll bet you were ready to do the same thing, weren't you?" "You are the Captain of this ship, so I should have waited for your order."

Gary-"Thanks for that, Yo, but I didn't have a clue. You know, you're pretty cool!"

This came to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

PUZZLE ME THIS...WHY IS MY "SAD DEPRESSING SONG" WAY, WAY MORE POPULAR THAN ANYTHING ELSE I'VE WRITTEN IN RECENT MONTHS?!

Published "Gounderus,The Funniest Guy On YouTube" on July 3, 2013...as of today, May 26, 2013...51 views.

Published "Second Time Around" on June 8, 2013...as of today...52 views.

Published "Went To Arizona" on July 29, 2013...as of today...30 views.

Published "Getting Close To You" on Aug. 5, 2013...as of today... 95 views.

PUBLISHED "MY SAD DEPRESSING SONG" on Oct 27, 2013...as of today...
4o3 views!! 

What gives? What is so special about a depressing song?! I don't get it!

Oh, well, I guess I shouldn't complain about mysterious success. 

Or should I?! 

MADNESS MUSIC MONDAY

Soft, loud, please the crowd,
Makin' music on a cloud,
Hearin' things that touched my soul,
From "Yesterday" to Nat King Cole.

Chills, emotions, shedding tears,
Songs of love flow in my ears,
Lyrics written by my peers,
All through ever quickening years.

Guitar, sitar, ukulele,
Johnny Cash to Pearl Mae Bailey,
Singin' in a higher key,
Symphony 9 by Ludwig B.

Pink Floyd, Yellow Submarine,
Blue Oyster Cult, Green Day, Queen.

The notes become a million feelings,
Colors dancin' on the ceiling,
Tiny hammers strike my brain,
Gently driving me insane.

The madness of a better kind,
To totally seduce my mind,
And make me see exquisite scenes,
On the threshold of my dreams.

Hearing that precise clear sound,
When two notes meet, together bound,
And make a simple symphony,
We call the miracle, harmony. 

By Danny Maness

MY BLOG IS FOR ME

 ME

I keep forgetting my blog is not for you. It's not to entertain you, or make you laugh, or inform you about things.

It's for me. It's a kind of therapy for me, a catharsis.

ca·thar·sis

kəˈTHärsis/

noun

1. 1.

   the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

   synonyms:

   emotional release, relief, release, venting;

   So, why should I feel down when I only get a handful of likes or views on my blog?

   
   

   I desperately need to release my strong or repressed emotions whether you care or not.

   
   

   I am happy when one of my blog posts touches a heart or causes a smile, but I selfishly write this blog for me.

   
   

   Besides having a loving, forgiving, understanding wife, family, and friends, sharing my feelings this way has been one of the best things I've ever done to keep my fragile sanity. 

   
   

   The privilege of prayer, having a church family, and building my faith in God has been truly amazing. Being able to share my deep love of Jesus through my singing at Christ Bible Church has been an undeserved blessing beyond anything I could have ever imagined, and letting what's in my heart flow out of me is true healing for my soul.

   
   

   So, I'll keep writing, singing, and sharing for my own mental health reasons, and if someone else can relate, find encouragement, or laugh a bit, that's awesome!

   
   

   
   

GOCE IS FALLING

I keep hearing caterwauling,

That a satellite is falling,

GOCE is the acronym for Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer,

It may seem very strange to us,

But scientists adore her!

They say it's falling from the sky,

Cause it ran out of gas,

It may crash in the ocean,

And it may crash on your,

 Ask me now no questions, 
And I'll tell you now no lies,

If GOCE smashes up your house,

Don't say you were surprised,

We've all had ample warning,

That the satellite is dropping,

It has no anti gravity brakes,

It has no way of stopping!

If it breaks up in to pieces,

Of 30, 40, or more,

There's even a much greater chance,

One you can't ignore,

That a part of it lands on your head,

Weighing in at 200 pounds,

That squishes you so very small,

Your eyeballs can't be found!

You'd think they could devise a way,

To destroy it before crashing,

Europe sent it up there,

So wouldn't that be smashing?

What ever happened to the term,

We now will self destruct,

The explosion would be awesome,

And it wouldn't dent my truck!

So, let the shards fall where they may,

I hear "Chicken Little" calling,

The end is coming close to thee,

For I'm sure the "sky is falling!"