what do you do when someone wont

Posted on April 25, 2016 by tony

hendrix i dont think i would have made a good parent because every now and then i end up making

agreements with people.

like i’ll say something like, fine you can do this, or i will give you that

but youve gotta do THIS ONE THING ONCE A WEEK

and after that doesnt come true i’ll say fine you’ve gotta do this one thing TWICE A WEEK

and that new negotiation is agreed to but then they dont do it and the first thing i do is get angry

because who am i to be fucking with? arent i a nice person? arent i being nice? am i just some asswipe? didnt you agree? if you didnt want to agree didnt you think you could say no, how about i do this other thing?

so when there is just ONE thing that i want, something i get zero benefit from, something that is beneficial pretty much only to that other person, and the agreement is not fulfilled, i get angry because i feel dumb i feel disrespected and i feel not useful in life.

i want to be an aid to mankind, someone who helped others, not someone who was insignificant that life woulda been exactly the same if i didnt exist. for sure i dont want to be dissed. but i feel dissed from time to time and maybe i shouldnt take these things personally but i do and everyone knows i do. if you see me get pissed off once that should clue you in. but how about you see me get pissed like five times. and then you still diss me? what is this a f u tony game? lets do the one thing we know will tick him off the most. something that will turn mr mellow into mr the opposite of mellow? simply because — who knows why?

i do not want to get to the point where i have to put my foot down in a dramatic way. i am the opposite of drama. i am mr chill. i am mr peace love rock n roll. i am mr jesus walked on the water. i am mr lets all try to do the right thing. which is why if i set up something im gonna set up something thats super easy to pull off. i want everyone to win. but most importantly i want you to win. then i win. but when ppl dont even fucking try and when they know what it does to my heart and when they know it turns me into the incredible hulk filled with rage thats when i say

if this agreement is not fulfilled one more time, i pity the fools.

prince doesnt have a star on the walk of fame

Posted on April 24, 2016 by tony

prince because life isnt fair and sometimes people make you pay for things that you really shouldnt have to pay for

and the hollywood walk of fame is one of those places where you have to pay

which is why people like donald trump have stars but perhaps the greatest guitarist of all doesnt

hung out with AJ yesterday hung out with Todd today watched hella tv

but still i tried to figure out Prince all weekend. was he insane? was he perfect? was he of this earth? could we actually do anything that he did?

i have no answers. im leaning towards he was a space alien. in the video of him jamming with tribe called quest he looks soooooo short. but his guitars never seem to be bigger than him like how they do with Angus. someone today said he may have had HIV for years and then stopped taking meds. but i dont know about that. he didnt do drugs and

then someone said he he may have killed himself. but i dont know about that neither because if he was gonna kill himself it would be the most beautiful and amazing suicide of all. it wouldnta happened in an elevator in the middle of the night, alone with no note.

same with the AIDS, wheres the note? wheres the doctors? wheres his church? yeah: WHERE IS HIS CHURCH? why havent we heard from them to talk about his life as a spiritual person?

whatever im sad. prince was amazing and now we dont have anyone even close like him around.

who can i complain to?

all i wanna talk about is prince all i think about is prince

Posted on April 22, 2016 by tony

city hall

yesterday at work i was a mess before i even got to work.

i was on the phone with my mom driving in to work when she learned about it and as i was driving i googled it and saw it was true,

i nearly stopped the car and turned around and went home but as prince embodied in his final performance at his home, the show must go on.

so i went in to work. it was super quiet. it’s been quiet but it was super quiet.

people would be nice and say hi how are you and i wanted to say Prince is dead how the f am i supposed to be?

but i smiled tried to tell jokes and i went on with my day which was pretty impossible

the only actual good i did there was we usually try to at least put a picture up if an Oscar winner or member dies and we try to say something nice but often it’s not as inspired as that one time.

so we all had a quickie little meeting and my boss decided to use prince’s Oscar win video as what we would put up and we did and near the end of the day i saw it had made it to Twitter Moments which is actually an accomplishment because EVERYTHING on twitter yesterday was about Prince

rightfully

so to make it through all of that was actually a little bit of a bright spot in an otherwise dark day

rosario dawson ubered a little. got home. couldnt sleep. tweeted. one of my tweets did super good. weird.

rosario dawson(!) retweeted it.

passed out.

today is friday and if i was a quitter or a call in sicker i would call in sick but im not sick im sad and gloomy and not at all sure why Prince died of the flu. and i hope he didnt have a drug issue no one knew about. because one reason out of millions that we loved Prince was because he was above all of those mortal things.

in many many ways he was holy.

still is.

still was.

now i really dont wanna go to work.

i nearly crashed the car when i was texted the news today

Posted on April 21, 2016 by tony

prince at the troubadour

then through most of the day i asked myself, what purpose is life>?

a guy cranks out so much music over the years. always on tour. always doing new things.

always wearing new clothes, new bands, new hairstyles, new passions

and then what: TMZ gets the scoop that youre dead?

thats why we do this? thats what happens to the best there was?

dude played like Hendrix, danced like James Brown, sang like… no one else

looked like no one else, acted like no one else, probably smelled like a freshly laundered unicorn

only guy in the world who could wear exactly the same clothes your girl was wearing

down to the shoes and the purse

and steal yr girl.

i saw him in san jose, staples, coachella, the forum and the troubadour

was better than even bruce because he never let ANYTHING tie him down to a structure.

only thing he HAD to do was play purple rain and guess what, at the Troub he didn’t play Purple Rain and people didnt give one f. except me because as ashley* said way back when im never satisfied and shes right.

for the exception of at the forum. he played for 55 hours. half of the audience left after the 18th encore. he had leased the building out for the entire month. he was on Prince Time, not our time. so he would play, make an exit and come back in 10 minutes and play more hits. it was a marvel. he was a marvel. he was the exception of all rules.

he was the maestro, the genius, the master and unlike many who are like that: he had soul for days.

soul is the reason for life.

how do we take care of our soul.

how do we tickle the souls of others.

and how do we stay sexy until our very last breath.

prince did it and i hope we never learn how he died because i wanna believe he just turned into a dove and flew away.

i knew she was a model right away

Posted on April 21, 2016 by tony

model she was tall, skinny, carefree. made me wait.

i got pinged about 7 minutes away. i was in venice. i forget why. who knows.

it was surging almost double the normal price so i accepted it.

youd think if you ping an uber and 7 minutes later youd be ready, but think again. life isnt like that. youre gonna wait. the pin was dropped on a lifeguard station on the beach so as i went down as far as i could on the street i called.

hey this is uber

hi yeah, can you wait just a minute, im in the candy store on the boardwalk.

did this piss me off? of course. it’s my fatal flaw. it’s the thing that will probably kill me one day. it’ll give me a heart attack. for some reason i believe that if when you order your uber and it says he will be there in 7 minutes, you should be outside waiting when it says he will arrive.

NOT omg i have 7 minutes, lets browse and then BUY THINGS at the candy store.

so as i waited in an alley right near the beach i took a snapchat of the scene – which was beautiful – the sun had set – the seagulls had descended – the shops were closing up – the tourists were strolling

the palm trees were saying just enjoy where youre at, tony,

not where you think you should be

so i did.

and she emerged from the candy store, a tall

skinny

dark figure with good hair and a little bag

she got in behind me

said, wanna gummy bear

sometimes i know whats going on

Posted on April 20, 2016 by tony

ice cube and axl sometimes i dont know whats happening at all

last night a pretty girl came over and said lets make crazy love.

i said omg lets watch this movie about Tower Records first.

this is what happens when you get super olde, btw

so she was just happy to be there so she said fine and we turned on the tv and she made popcorn and we watched the movie

just as i thought, she fell asleep about 20 minutes into it because she was too young to remember when record stores mattered, you know when they were the center of the universe and if you really loved music youd know where they all were in every part of town and which ones were great at used records and which ones were great at singles and which ones were cheap and which ones were perfect for imports

the tower records story was fascinating. i didnt know anything about it. it pretty much mirrored the trajectory of records in general. the dude started by getting a part of his dads drug store and he bought 45s in frisco and drove them to Sacto and sold them and drove back and bought twice as many and sold twice as many

then one day he was all fuckit, let me get a big ass location in frisco and make “the biggest record store in the world” and he did and it was a success and every time he built a record store it was pretty much a success. and everything went well until the industry a) stepped away from singles and got greedy and tried to shove albums down everyones throats for $16.99

and b) didnt pay close enough attention to napster and itunes and the ipod.

but one magical thing happened: Japan. tower figured out how to make it happen in Japan early on and there are still Tower Records stores there to this day.

which is something no one would have predicted (none in the US and tons there) which tells me its ok not to know things. its ok to rise and fall. its ok to live life filled with love and wonder.

and rock n roll may die, but all those great tunes never will.

im going to the dentist in 15 minutes

Posted on April 19, 2016 by tony

babe if it seems like i go to the dentist a lot it’s because i do go to the dentist a lot.

like michael anthony hall in sixteen candles, fresh breath is key to my life.

i also have bleeding gums like bleeding gums murphy

an old xbi ailment when then used to punch us in the face repeatedly so as to see if we really could not feel any more pain.

the only pain i feel these days is in my soul.

i look back at the things i did or said and i think was that the right choice?

did i do the right things?

should i have?

shouldnt i have?

i dont read old busblog posts because they can haunt me

for whole minutes.

i dont even like to be haunted for seconds.

i like to enjoy this little breath of time that we have together on this magical planet.

i like to feel love and be loved and eat and taste and dance the body electric.

i dont have time for the flim flam pajama waltz of times gone by

theres a reason they went by.

now is the time of the zip zap.

today is the day we should be on jet packs.

the only reason we aint is because we dont believe we can.

and some dont believe we deserve it.

you deserve it sweet souls of today

we all have earned the good

simply by being

children of the creator

mirrors of his soul

light of his life

defenders of the boogie.

now open up and say fuck yeah

i am a half million years old

Posted on April 18, 2016 by tony

work of art and on this journey i have seen a million beautiful images. these eyes. oh boy. what theyve seen.

ive gone to museums, rock shows, wonders of the world.

some of the most amazing women have said hi busblog and stripped down and hugged me.

ive read amazing books, been taught by some of the brightest teachers.

and living in california most of my life ive seen more than my fair share of gorgeous landscapes, sunsets, and skateboard tricks.

most of the time i say, why have you given me this, Lord, why me? who am i?

and every now and then a little voice will whisper: because you will write it down.

im reading Acts right now which is one of my favorite books of the bible because shit gets cray in there. some weird magical stuff goes down and people are all wtf! after all of that i went to the movies with a pretty girl who in the middle of the movie asked me to squeeze her bare leg, so i did. it was the best part of the film.

i get disappointed easily because i have high hopes. especially for movies. especially for movies directed by ppl who rarely make bad movies.

but perhaps one reason i am so thankful for when i get to see or experience something super good

is because i sit through so much crud.

Everybody Wants Some was crud.

if bro wanted to make a gay movie, he should have. but maybe he thought it would be ok. it’s ok bro.

that movie i sat through last night was not ok.

like many my age, Angus Young is my favorite guitarist

Posted on April 17, 2016 by tony

angus young caricature because i’m the luckiest man alive, i got to see the Back in Black tour when i was in high school.

i was blown away.

duh.

ive followed them ever since, ive seen them maybe 10 times since and loved them with all of my heart.

the band has an amazing history and part of their uniqueness is, for whatever reason, they don’t play with other bands.

angus has never laid down a solo for any other band.

and brian johnson, only once, sang with another band live after he joined ac/dc, and that was with Billy Joel (!) onstage because billy wanted to do Shook Me All Night Long with the singer during one of his Madison Square Garden shows.

brian also was on a Sting song once but that was so bizarre that even in a blog that says “nothing in here is true” dare i even mention it since the reader might think this whole thing is farcical.

sadly it is not.

yesterday AC/DC put out a cold-hearted press release wishing Johnson farewell. they said that it was due to doctors orders. they claim medical professionals said Brian could permanently lose his hearing if he continued to tour with the hard rock group that he has fronted since he did the impossible: fill the shoes of Bon Scott in 1980.

not only did Brian take over for Bon, but his debut with AC/DC was Back in Black, one of the best selling records in the history of records which sold over 50 million units world wide.

my interns are telling me Back in Black is the 2nd biggest record of all time next to Thriller.

and then he fronted the group for 36 years, every record they made with brian sold millions of copies, every tour was a mammoth world wide arena filling moneymaker

how do you say goodbye to your singer with a short press release after all of that?

if angus wanted to do something he’d never done before (play with a new singer for a few gigs) did he really need to fire Brian to do it?

adios brian ac/dc granted, things are tough for Angus right now, his brother and long time co-writer and BFF malcolm has slipped into dementia and is close to death.

AC/DC’s latest record Rock or Bust is the lowest selling album the band ever released. barely a half million units were sold in the US despite headlining Coachella last year and filling baseball stadiums around the nation.

at 61 years old he doesnt fly around the stage as fast as he once did

which must be depressing.

but could it be as depressing as being kicked out of the band and replaced by a screeching Axl Rose who is clearly only doing it to a) bring attention to the Guns n Roses “reunion” tour b) avoid Slash c) distract himself from making the Guns show the best it can be.

meanwhile Brian is saying he was kicked out. that as soon as he told the band what the doc said that they didn’t even listen to him when he told them that the doc wanted to figure out a way to work with the issue. all his stuff was shipped to his door and it was over.

bye felicia.

so i have mixed feelings about last night at coachella when during the guns n roses headlining performance they brought out angus for two songs.

of course it’s great to see him and hear him and have him back in the desert where they rocked two, two-hour sets last year. and despite the fact that axl didn’t know parts of Whole Lotta Rosie, he did sound good.

but it all felt like a royal F-U to loveable brian

how am i supposed to like this, let a lone love it?

and why wasn’t Slash allowed a solo?

is angus losing his mind too?

is angus not a nice guy?

did malcolm balance him out and thats why we never heard or saw any of this?

now i gotta buy Brians book from 2009 and see if there are any clues.

i’ll have plenty of money because now i wont be buying any tickets to see ACDC with Axl fronting it

saving bree

Posted on April 15, 2016 by tony

save bree

Bree Olson is a former porn star.

but in real life she is also a

person.

her name is Rachel Oberlin from Indiana. she has feelings. she has thoughts. she has dreams.

she wants to be a nurse.

unfortunately she was super good at the thing she got famous doing

and no nursing institutions will let her be a nurse now because sex is bad, apparently

especially if a camera is rolling, even though thats totally legal.

she’s sorta losing her mind now and wants to go to rehab.

she says she drinks too much and takes too many anxiety pills.

she says a medium price joint that specializes in former adult performers

costs $100k for 90 days. so she put up a GoFundMe last night and told everyone about it

through a heartbreaking Periscope video.

I hope one of her famous admirers pays a good chunk of the bill.

or the multitudes of her fans chip in $5 or $20.

i gave $25 because ive seen first hand – well, second hand – how effective rehab can be for a girl.

Long live Bree. Long live Rachel.