Jesus, you'll have to wait

Not sure yet if it is a good thing that the wind has scared me inside today on my 47th birthday, but I am panning through odds and ends in the stream that is the internet.
Poem For My 43rd Birthday
by Charles Bukowski
To end up alone
in a tomb of a room
without cigarettes
or wine--
just a lightbulb
and a potbelly,
grayhaired,
and glad to have
the room.
...in the morning
they're out there
making money:
judges, carpenters,
plumbers, doctors,
newsboys, policemen,
barbers, carwashers,
dentists, florists,
waitresses, cooks,
cabdrivers...
and you turn over
to your left side
to get the sun
on your back
and out
of your eyes.
from "All's Normal Here"

Oh! Ain't it the truth. Bukowski knew the importance of claiming time for yourself.
"I don't have time!" they say. Take it! Make it yours!

I stood behind the bar last night with time to think, but not enough time to do much but serve and maximize the income. Stackin' the cheeze.
"Why is this not pleasurable?" I thought. Around the bar and in the dining room, seemingly EVERYONE else was cussing and discussing something as I stood momentarily idle. Listening in, I again realized that I did not want to be included in any of their "conversations". Soon enough, I would be free to have my own inner conversations in my own time.
You know what though? I never did.
I came home to do some administrative work to try to wrestle the St. Louis public from their couches and barstools; their keypads and screens. I escaped for a bit for a brisk walk around the neighborhood and returned to have some drinks with a friend and later hit South Grand for a pint, a couple jiggers and a crazy-good Cuban at the City Diner. A good night. A very good night, all things considered, but I didn't quite free myself. No epiphanies.
Oh, the poor, fucking prima donna! Ha!
Crashed soon after in the safety of my bed and awoke to send the thickening schedule of the future to various heads. When I finish this bit of jibber-jabber, I will claim my time. A book, a nap, and another walk. If nothing else, the wind today will scare the life back into me.
Enough of this existential pseudo-angst.
Time for some time time time....
But WAIT! DON'T GO YET!!!
Look what's coming up in 2011!
All of this at the Schlafly Tap Room:

January 7th:

Tight Pants Syndrome

http://www.myspace.com/tightpantssyndrome

Bunnygrunt http://www.myspace.com/therealbunnygrunt



Hum Drum http://www.myspace.com/humdrumsound





January 8th:

The Cruel Cuts http://www.myspace.com/cruelcuts


Warm Jets U.S.A.


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Warm-Jets-USA/117258474983109

Paper Dolls http://www.myspace.com/wearethepaperdolls






January 14th:

This City of Takers http://www.thiscityoftakers.com/

The Transatlantic http://www.myspace.com/thetransatlanticmusic

The Otto Modest http://www.facebook.com/theottomodest



January 21st:

Dulad http://www.myspace.com/duladsduelinginfinity

The Smiling Thief http://www.myspace.com/duladsduelinginfinity

Triceratops http://www.myspace.com/triceratopsband



January 22nd:

Beth Bombara http://www.bethbombara.com/



Ne’e http://www.myspace.com/neepop

http://www.facebook.com/kristindennis#!/neemusic
Jes Kramer http://www.myspace.com/listentojeskramer



January 28th:

Black James http://www.myspace.com/littlejenniandthewaterhead


Pelvic Girdles http://www.myspace.com/pelvicgirdles

Last to Show, First to Go http://www.myspace.com/lasttoshowfirsttogo



January 29th:

The UltraViolents http://www.myspace.com/theultraviolents

DinoFight! http://www.myspace.com/dinofightstl

Death of Yeti http://www.myspace.com/deathofyeti


Thursday, February 3rd: Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three all night!


February 5th:
Mil Effect http://www.myspace.com/mileffect


Kuan (pay Bret Nagafuchi) http://www.myspace.com/kuankuankuan


R6 Implant (members of Fragile Porcelain Mice, Yowie and Sine Nomine) (pay Shawn O’Connor)

March 11th:
Theodore http://www.myspace.com/theodoreacoustic

with
NIGHTY NIGHT (from Carbondale)

March 12th:
HumDrum http://www.myspace.com/humdrumsound


Ne'e
http://feeds.feedburner.com/iwtas


March 19th:
Tok


Bunnygrunt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnygrunt

This City of Takers


April 2nd:
Dulad
http://www.myspace.com/duladsduelinginfinity/friends
The Transatlantic
http://www.myspace.com/thetransatlanticmusic
Barefoot Jones
http://www.myspace.com/barefootjonesrocks

April 8th
Zevious (from Philadelphia)
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/zevious.html


Spelling Bee
http://www.myspace.com/beespellingbee (Joseph Hess and Mabel Suen from KDHX' WRONG DIVISION)


Britches
www.facebook.com/britchesbritches
www.myspace.com/britchesbritches

April 9th:
Prairie Rehab
http://www.myspace.com/prairierehab

Corey Saathoff and the Trophy Mule
http://www.reverbnation.com/thetrophymules

Trigger 5
http://www.myspace.com/trigger5country

April 22nd:
Groupthink
https://www.facebook.com/groupthink

Tory Starbuck Project
http://www.myspace.com/toryzstarbuck

Pat Sajak Assassins
http://www.myspace.com/patsajakassassins

April 29th:
Red Squad
http://www.myspace.com/redsquadcommand

Britches
www.facebook.com/britchesbritches
www.myspace.com/britchesbritches

Paper Dolls
http://www.thesixtyone.com/#/PaperDollsSTL/


April 30th:
Bunnygrunt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnygrunt

THE KYLE SOWASHES (Columbus, Ohio)
http://www.myspace.com/kylesowash


Black James
http://www.myspace.com/littlejenniandthewaterhead



May 14th:
Franklin Felix
http://www.myspace.com/7098989

Megafauna
http://www.myspace.com/mymegafauna

Tok
http://www.myspace.com/tokandroll



As I sit and watch and listen to these acts, I wonder if I am in-FUCKING-sane to expect the public to grasp this array. Maybe I would be more successful if there were more scatter-brained, lazy poets with expendable time and cash to come to these shows.
Please tell me I'm wrong...or don't.

Oh, yeah...other folks born on this date:
Rainier Maria Rilke
Crazy Horse
John Cale
Jeff Bridges
Jay-Z
and
BIG POKEY!!