tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650160678722829210.post1520225541702614026..comments2024-03-23T13:46:21.790-05:00Comments on Street Musician Daniel: Not Quite Broken Harp Keeps Me Not Quite BrokeDaniel McKenna IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04157964564856145960noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650160678722829210.post-35614467641370290562016-06-13T14:54:51.287-05:002016-06-13T14:54:51.287-05:00I really applaud you for getting off of alcohol. I...I really applaud you for getting off of alcohol. I tried and was not able to do it without help. I never got into the pot thing but my impression is it's a similar downward spiral. In fact, I know a guy who smoked a lot of pot and got sent by it off into hyper-paranoid woo-woo land. He's gone so far off the deep end that I expect SWAT or some Mexican gang will finish him off in defense of the community. <br /><br />Most "terminal potheads" are not this bad, of course. For one thing they don't have the money to buy tons and tons of the really strong shit. Mostly what happens is, they just lose more and more of their ambition to do anything but sit on their ass and smoke pot and indulge their munchies. The end game is to end up holding a sign saying something like "$1 FOR MARIJUANA RESEARCH" and sleeping behind a dumpster - life just becomes "OK" no matter what, it's all mellow, bro' etc. <br /><br />The only problem with that, because New Orleans is not going to be that greatly affected by your adding to the ranks of the lazy pot-dazed crusties, is that at one time you had aspirations. I remember when you were talking about working through the "real" Mel Bay guitar method book, you were all hepped up about doing recordings, etc. <br /><br />That was only a few years ago. Now ... ?? alex carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458022111793552536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650160678722829210.post-43898189697390375712016-06-12T17:24:48.383-05:002016-06-12T17:24:48.383-05:00Yeah, it seems to make one day run into the next, ...Yeah, it seems to make one day run into the next, too, so I don't feel like it's a fresh new day; If I toke up in the morning, it becomes like: "Wasn't I just here doing this, and got tired of it? Well, I'm kinda still tired of it..." -type of thingDaniel McKenna IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04157964564856145960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650160678722829210.post-56901361342021666972016-06-12T16:19:27.608-05:002016-06-12T16:19:27.608-05:00You seem to be largely off the booze, but the weed...You seem to be largely off the booze, but the weed seems to be taking a toll, financially, in two ways: first, the money you spend on it, then the laziness induced by it that keeps you from putting in the hours behind the guitar. alex carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458022111793552536noreply@blogger.com