Spooky Juice or Spooky Tooth

Some people have that nagging question. It's pretty easy. It comes in different forms. Basically, it goes: I can't do ______ because I don't know what I would do.

For example, I can't go to grad school because I don't know what I would major in. Or I can't open a store because I don't know what I would sell.

For me, I can't start a band because I don't know what we would play. Last time I tried, we started out being some punk/metal hybrid. By the second practice, we were southern rock. It's just the way my mind works.

The Beatles kind of had it made. Their music, in pretty much all of their stages, was all over the place. Can Iron Maiden be all over the place? Probably not. I guess Aerosmith could be a good example (up to 'Pump.' After that it's all lost). They could do 'Dream On,' 'Angel,' 'Nobody's Fault,' and then slip in 'Big Ten Inch Record' and somehow it all works. I guess it comes down to the personality of the members of the band.

The band in it's many incarnations has been Zen Fuego. It is a pretty elastic band name. Meaning, unlike Iron Maiden or Metallica or Air Supply you are not stuck with a genre of music because of your name.

As I am writing this I think my main fear is pretty irational. I am worried about creative flexibility over the course of a career. First off, this will not be my career so what's the point. Secondly, if it's not a career, then what the hell do I care if people don't want me to be flexible?

As I let you ponder, and as 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' is on the radio, I will fade away.

Zen Fuego forever!

I'm always split on how I feel about the jam 'Living in America' by Mr. Rev. James Brown, Esq. When I am not hearing it, I think it's garbage. When I am actually listening to it, I think it's amazing. And as my 'spilling the 40 oz. on the curb,' I think we need a Moog version of 'Living in America' stat!

Knowing we don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time, must I Wang Chung tonight in order to have fun tonight?

Does anyone know Wade Boggs home address? I want to write him to let him know his wax figure in the Baseball Wax Museum in Cooperstown is falling apart.

He should use his Avacor money to pay for its refurbishing.

If having a Andy Gibb song stuck in my head is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Have you ever noticed how Ron Wood is so entwined with the Rolling Stones image? Now, consider this: The Rolling Stones have done nothing noteworthy (sans make rediculous amounts of money) while Ron Wood has been in the band. He is like a succubus. He takes all the glory and brings nothing to the table except for the fact that he is like Keith Richards Lite. Has the same moves and is almost as shriveled. Just wanted to point that out.

Also, what's up with the bass player? The same bass player has been playing with the Rolling Stones for over a decade now. And is he in any of the group photos? No! Is he in any of the videos? No!! Again, I blame it on Ron Wood.

Now, yet again, no one cool on the train. However, on the way to the train this morning I saw a guy with cut off jeans, a disgusting white tank top and red hair walk by. He kind of looked like the red haired white gang member in Colors. But resemblance does not butter the bread.

The date. Just not any date. It's an opening. An opening of an icon. 'Supercross - The Movie!' I cannot imagine how amazing this film will be. It is like 'Torque' sans Ice Cube.

My main question is when did motocross become supercross? What is different between the two? Is it because motocross just kinda sit on the bike and ride and jump and supercross riders jump off the bike and flip the bird. Truly that is super.

So until August 19th we will have to live in ignorance.

Why must people feel so compelled to walk down the street rapping? I do not particularly like rap but I also do not have anything against it. However, I do not understand why people do this. I mean, imagine if I was walking down the street singing 'and as we walk on down the road' in my best Robert Plant voice (which, by the way, is awful) you would think I was utterly nuts.

Now, I know what you are saying. The two scenarios are completely different. But are they?

I think what it comes down to is this. I am utterly nuts no matter what I do. Take this scenario: I am walking down the street rapping.

It's not a white/black thing. It's a 'Howie is crazy' thing.

Oh. And no one really cool on the train. I guess I can pick a coolest person. But that might make someone think the person was cool. No dice. I did help 4 Midwestern types get up to Yankee Stadium. So, I guess I was the coolest person I saw on the train.