Money Over Music

I am interested in doing much much more than what is expected of me and it seems to make my life incredibly difficult. For one thing, it has been hard to prove my achievements, at least to the neighbours, because of my official status as a person who was not expected to achieve anything, while it has been apparently easy for frauds who steal from me to spread malicious lies about me. One thing I used to like about having a full-time job was that it showed that I was honest. Now because of this crime getting so much attention, I doubt I could find any work outside of the waste management facilities or heavy construction, you know, the kind of jobs no one else wants to do. And here I am with probably more expertise in computer programming than someone else whose bullshit resume got him his web design job. Even on the job, I may find my abilities and accomplishments holding me back rather than propelling me forward. Now it's all out on the web and I couldn't play dumb for others if I even wanted to. And I really don't see any career employer wanting a presence like mine on their team because I'm just too outstanding. Thanks to this internet and the irresponsible way that my work has been handled by it, I am left with no other future to contemplate but as an artist. And boy, is it ever hard for an artist to make money! In over sixteen years of sharing, I don't think I've made a cent from creating and sharing all my volumes of music and poetry and comedy. But Jay Leno has a hundred and fifty million dollars. He has a hundred and fifty million dollars and I have no money. And what does he do? He steals my blogs and tells the world I stole from him. If he wanted to tell people he wrote my blogs and I don't even want to be a comedian, I'm sure I would have agreed to let him use my work if he had offered me a fair price for it. That price would be higher for any works which he wanted to claim as having written himself, but he could have had all the blogs he wanted for probably not much more than what a television writer normally receives for his efforts. I'm sure it's a lot less than 150 million dollars. No, he wanted to steal my work when I'm starving poor and tell everyone I'm the dirty thief for authoring and sharing it. And while I'm at it, how much money does Mick Jagger have? How much money does Mike Myers have? How much does Madonna have? How much does Matt Groining have? All these people are incredibly rich and not a single one of them wanted to offer even the price of a handout to the poor artist whose songs and blogs kept them in business for most of the last ten years. Instead, they left him alone to declare his ownership against the tide of their popularity with the hope that someone in the crowd would rise up and kill him for them. What a waste of money, giving it to people like that. No one needs to tell me why we have a music business. I know why we have a music business and the reason is not to make music but to make money. The very presence of a music business that puts a dollar value on something as priceless as a song from someone's heart shows that most of us like money more than we like music. I am an exception. I would have been happier living in a world that put music above money and offered capable musicians like myself some sort of dignified job similar to that of perhaps a state employed teacher. I'm sure our music would improve immensely if musicians like myself received this kind of support for our efforts instead of having to endure the horrors I report at length in this account year after year. But I must accept that most people like money more than they like music and try to work within that environment without starving to death. It has been a real struggle. As an artist, my primary concern has always been the quality and content of my work. This is clearly not the case for whomever now wants to boast that his illegal attachment of his face to music he does not own makes it 'look better'. He clearly believes that image is everything in music and I just wish people like this had their own songs to help them prove their point instead of always using my songs. This kind of information, which I receive almost daily, threatens to flood my veins with so much plaque that I doubt I will live much longer than my grandfather, who died of a heart attack in his fifties. As for this little trip across the border, it is nothing to get too excited about. I won't be playing any gigs or anything. I just need a vacation from CBC's psychological tyranny and I need to find a good U.S. lawyer and show him a few pieces of evidence he may be able to use. If CBC wants to party with Bill Maher or Seal or Taylor Swift or that comedy creep and his brother or the Crystalids, I'd rather be somewhere where their broadcasts and billboards can't hurt me.
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