The Godfather of Go-Go

"So, who's Chuck Brown?" I asked earnestly, cuz honestly I'd never heard of him b4.

"WHAT??? U never heard of Chuck Brown?! He's the Godfather of Go Go, fool!"

And so I was schooled last night in D.C. at the 9:30 club. I wasn't there 4 a concert, but I was actually an extra for a commercial they were shooting for the D.C. Lottery. I had never heard of Chuck Brown, but apparently he's HUGE in D.C. and has fans all over the world.

I must confess the man was 2 cool. He was sportin' some green crocodile leather shoes and a gold tooth and pimp hat, he just needed the cane. I LOVED IT! He had an amazing band and during a break in the filming of the commercial he busted out on his guitar with a gorgeous rendition of that famous song from "The Godfather".

I can't wait to learn how to play the guitar. Yes, I've been saying that shit for years, but I'm finally getting around to doing all the things I've been saying I was gonna do. Plus, it's not like I've never played before. I played this character in a play once who was a guitar virtuso, so I HAD to learn a few songs.

I hope in 40 years people will still be listening to my music and chanting to me on stage and screaming my name ... oh, wait a minute ... they don't do that now! LOL. Not yet anyway. But that is definitely something 2 strive for. 40 years running and the man is still doing his thang! Much much respect!

Oh, and did I mention Shucka Wucka??? She was TRULY Chuck's biggest fan last night. I hope I have a fan one day that's wild 4 me like that ... only hopefully she'll have all her teeth.

"Wind me up, Chuck!" - and so the crowd roared.

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A Sunday Muse

I don't wanna think 2 hard,
but God knows it's heavy on my mind.
No matter life's temporary pleasure,
it's fulfilment that I seek, so elusive and so hard 2 find.

I don't wanna get too deep,
but God's been showing me some things.
I keep running and running and doing everything 4 me,
but no matter where I go, I never find the things I seek.

I don't wanna judge nobody,
but there are earthly kings of wealth and fame,
But they sit on glass thrones
and when the glass breaks, we remember not their face or their name.

I don't wanna go 2 far,
out here everyday proving that I'm alive.
But when this life becomes a shadow,
is it then we see that He's spent everyday proving he's Divine?

I don't know if I believe in Heaven,
I don't know if I believe in Hell,
but Lord isn't it ironic that when the truth is revealed
there's no way and no one that we can tell.

"When U know that Christ is singing in U then the song that U sing will never end." - Commissioned, Strange Land

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Random thoughts of a Scatterbrain

1. Am I corrupting America's youth? I just got propositioned by a teenager. EWWWW! I felt dirty just reading it. Somebody call the law! This goes out 2 all would be courters: please for all things holy and sane, at LEAST be legal. (Or 17 like in my song on Virgin Poet ... yeah, buy it now -- love free promo!) No, just kidding about the 17 thing, I actually like my men to be ... well MEN. In the words of Bernie Mac, "I'm a grown ass man"!

2. While I'm on the subject of would be courters ... I was discussing with someone last night, yes at the gay bar - shut up! - about how a lot of people will write and say, "Oh, Saturn, I think you're hot!" and not say a thing about my music ... even after I ask them to listen. Maybe I AM in the wrong business. Maybe I SHOULD be doing porn instead of music. Then the boys would be like, "Oh Saturn, I wish you had more to offer ... like I wish you were ARTISTIC!" I can never win here, people.

By the way, if you haven't voted yet for which song to keep on my profile, please go vote. I've had 20 votes so far, 2 of which say they hate all my songs. And I actually respect that because I've at least elicited a passionate response. It's better than apathy I suppose. Isn't it??

3. More tunes no money wtf - this summer I wrote a shit load of new music. It was very exciting to be in the zone again, so to speak. Not having a job definitely helped. Alas, I've gone through all my moolah, so I'll be starting a job soon and find myself in the same predicament. A shit load of material and not half the resources I need to record half of it. Fuck it. I'm gonna build my own in house studio before the year is up. U just wait and see. Then it's gonna be like, 'damn, every week that bastards pushin' a new song on us!"

4. Speaking of TX , my little business is picking up some serious momentum down there ... now if I can only match it here in Baltimore. Anybody wanna make some serious lifetime dough? Email me today with this special tagline --> "Saturn, you're hot! But I don't care, I just wanna get paid." :-)

5. I'm on a mission to go out and mingle more, go listen to more local music ... I used to be really into this but it all kind of got buried beneath all my burgeoning responsibilities. Well, that's all changing. I love music too much to not go and hear it all the time. Any body wanna chill with me?

6. There R many things I'm good at .. but even more things that I suck at. 4 instance, I suck at sports and I REALLY SUCK at promoting and computer tech stuff. I need to find someone who is good at promotion and will work really cheaply. I have some new music coming out the pike here soon and I want the world 2 hear it, but I don't wanna have to go to every blog and beg 4 a listen. *sigh* therein lies my dilemma. It's kind of like that saying, "if a tree falls in a forest, does anyone here it?" I always kind of had this picture in my mind of this lumberjack man standing there oblivious to the tree falling until it landed on him, thus making him go SPLAT!!! That amuses me. I blame the RoadRunner cartoons 4 this.

7. I truly admire and stand in awe of independent musicians who say FUCK IT and just go out on balls and faith to pursue what they love no matter what, with no safety net. I'm a fucking coward in that regard, but I'd like to say hats off to Tim Kaye, Tori Fixx, and Aaron Carl, all exceptional musicians whose music I love and all friends of mine who are doing what they know they were put on this earth to do.

Now, what the hell am I here for? I got it! I should make a porno musical!!! I've found my calling! LOL.

No, maybe I'm just in the wrong market. I think I'm going to take a cue from Queen Madge and make an album of children's lullabyes.

"Should I carry on, will it matter when I'm gone? Will any of this matter?" - Madonna, How High

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Eat, Drink, Repent, Repeat

So, I'm driving home last night from the most GHETTO Six Flags I've ever been 2 in my life (lawd, that's a whole post by itself!), and when we get back into the city my sister asks, "what are the three things you will always find in Baltimore?"

I quickly answered, "a chicken box!"

"Yeah, that's one! And you know what else? A Liquor Store and a Church. I don't care where you go in Baltimore, you'll find some damn liquor and a church!"

And I'm like, "yeah, so you can be a drunken high mess all week and then go to church on Sunday to repent."

We were only sorta joking. But then we thought it would be fun to count the chicken box joints, the liquor stores and the churches we saw all the way home. Y'all, it wasn't funny no more.

On EVERY SINGLE BLOCK for the next 5 miles, there was AT LEAST one asian owned chicken box/cheesesteak/chinese food joint, one or more liquor stores and one or more churches! I've lived in this city for 6 years now and this still surprised me. Not that I didn't know how the inner city breaksdown, but on every block??

In some cases, the liquor store and the church were SIDE BY SIDE! In one case, they were actually connected!

But my favorite of them all? We passed a store called: FAMILY DISCOUNT LIQUORS WTF?! So, DeDe and her ten kids can all go to the liquor store and they don't need coupons? What the hell do they sell, beer bottles for infants? Pacifiers that dispense milk and kahlua and cream? Spiked Red Kool - Aid for Johnny and his friends?

I can write a hundred pages about all the shit that is wrong with Baltimore City, and it would probably be the same thing for a whole lot of other inner cities too. Eat, Drink, and go to Church and give 'em your last dime so U get your blessing next week!

Anyhoo, I know I've been out of pocket here for a month. LOTS has happened in that time, no time to blog. I should be getting back to pretty regular entries now though kiddies.

The EP is sounding better and better by the way!

"We need 2 stop chokin' on the truth and start smokin' on a plan, man." - R. Kelly, As I Look Into My Life

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