Internet Dating

I have never met a couple that met via an Internet dating site. Still, I wanted to know who these people are. I've been checking out the gals on Yahoo personals. I've gone through many profiles. One thing that they all have in common is that they all claim to be warm, down to earth and the life of the party. I'm calling shenanigans on these girls. They write tag lines like "Girls just want to have fun." or "Looking for love." What they should be saying is "Bitter raging bitch with kids and no social skills seeks rich guy who is also perfect for serious commitment." The truth is that they are not looking for what most men are looking for. Men are looking for a companion for social events and sex. Woman on these sites are looking for their knight in shining armor, whatever the hell that is.

My advice for women looking for a man is to simply say hello to them and start conversations. I know, I know, but Jim, you have to sift through too much garbage to find what you're looking for. Welcome to life and stop being lazy. Lazy is NOT attractive.

Women on these sites bitch about drama and head games. Most of the men I know aren't smart enough to play the head games that you women think they are playing. Here's how the "head game" goes. The woman says to the man that she needs more of a commitment or she's out. The man says he isn't ready and that she should see other people. Instead of making a clean break from this man she will "see other guys" and still hope the original guy will get jellous and make the commitment he isn't ready for. In the process, other guys meet this woman and will give her what she wanted from the other guy but she doesn't want it from them. She wants it from the original guy. So who's really playing head games here?

Weekend

Crazy turn of events over the weekend. Camping was canceled, my sister-in-law was sick. My apartment started crawling with Arizona Bark Scorpions. My lease is up on April 29th so I will not be staying there. I will be moving this weekend so I have too much to accomplish in a few days. The only thing that I hate more than moving is scorpions. What finally did it was that I found several over the weekend and last night I found one in the room that I sleep (slept) in. I'm staying on friend's couches until next Sunday.

Four Twenty

Today is April 20 otherwise known as 4-20. Pot smokers rejoice. I wondered why today is so significant to the Mary Jane friendly world so I did what any logical person would do, ask a stoner. For the sake of this entry we will call him Chong. Chong is a man in his late twenties with red eyes that I met outside of Taco Bell. His explanation for 4-20 is "Man, that's police code for marijuana possession." According to Wikipedia, Chong's definition is urban legend. So where did it come from? Again, according to Wikipedia, a group of high school students in San Rafael, California would gather at 4:20 p.m. to smoke cannabis. It caught on and now April 20th has become a sort of cult holiday.

In my Internet search of 4-20 I learned that April 20th was Adolf Hitler's birthday. It is also Joey Lawrence's birthday, whoa! Today is the eighth anniversary of the Columbine shooting. With all that considered, maybe smoking a little green stuff isn't so bad.

My advice for a happy 4-20? However you decide to spend it, don't commit genocide, murder in any form, get arrested for being stupid or shave your head and dance with the stars.

More Pictures

Above:Eddie's mom Sheila.
Below: Eric messing around with Kimberly and Ann.














Below: Troy the bartender













Front row: Dom and Jeremiah Back row: Mark and Eddie


I still have pictures from the weekend that I didn't publish yesterday so I thought I'd put them in today's post.

Last night was fun. My brother, sister-in-law, Eric, Paul, Deneen, Gary and myself went to one of those places where women take their shirts off and dance around poles. I believe they call them "gentlemen's clubs" although most of the men there were not acting like gentlemen. I met a nice young entertainer that called herself Kim. She asked me if I was a cop. I told her that not only am I not a cop, I never played one on t.v. either. She then asked me if I'd like to sleep with her for money. I said first of all, you'd probably hog all the covers and second of all I wouldn't charge you to sleep with me but I prefer to sleep alone. I'm only kidding. She did ask me if I was a cop though, I wonder why. Was she selling drugs?

Friends, Old And New

Top picture: Jim and Eddie Elliott. Middle picture: Jim and Mark Tipton. Bottom picture: Bob Makela and Jim.

It was a big weekend. My friends Bob Makela and his special friend Tamale came out from California for Eddie's cd release party. They stayed at my place while they were here. I wish I'd have had more time to spend with them but I had to work all weekend. We still managed to have a good time with the little time we had. We went to dinner on Friday night before we caught Eddie's show at the Dirty Drummer. I really liked Tamale, she says what she thinks and I like that. She clued me in on women that were flirting with me, I'm clueless about that sort of thing.

Eddie's show at Cave Creek Coffee Company was great. He packed the Camp. The area where they do the live music is called the Camp. Eddie had his brother Dom playing bass as well as open the show. Jeremiah was there playing guitar and mandolin. Dave (Kates) was on the drums and Mark Tipton was lending his talents on the horn. Mark was also on the new album. I was expecting an older guy but I think he told me he is twenty six. A few of the people in the crowd remarked that he looked like the prop comedian Carrot Top. I admit that I had thought of that but I expect that he might have heard that a time or two, so why be ordinary? Once he starts playing you forget all about Carrot Top anyway. The great songs that Eddie played are too numerous to site here but there is a new one that didn't make the album that I like a lot. I think it is called Dreaming Gets Me High. Maybe we should do a pre-production recording of that.

Tamale got a bottle of red wine for us to enjoy during the show and it was most enjoyable. After the show Bob, Tamale, Eric and I went to my place. Eric and I ended up having a dart tournement until four in the morning. Good times. There was so much going on last weekend that there was never a dull moment. Last night I went to bed at 9:00 and slept until I had to get up for work.

Eddie Elliott - Without Blue

My good friend Eddie Elliott is releasing his new cd next weekend. It is called Without Blue. This album is particularly special to me because I was there for the conception. Eddie and I did a lot of the pre-production at my home studio. It was about two years ago when we started the project. I don't know as of yet what tracks made the final cut but they were all good. Eddie added a horn player on some of the tracks and it's very tasteful. Dan Jenks (I hope I spelled that right) recorded the final masters and as usual he did a fantastic job. He did the last two Eddie albums Moving and This Time.

Singer, songwritter, entertainer, the real deal, my friend Eddie Elliott.