November 22, 2019 – davidbruceblog #2

Info: “These songs were recorded from the backing tracks that are on our Bandcamp page. The album showcases Chicago blues harmonica. Please download our music. I would download your music.” — Eddie Matthews

Eddie Matthews has other albums that are backing tracks. You can use the backing tracks to practice your own harmonica, guitar, or vocals (write your own lyrics). Eddie Matthews writes, “These are backing tracks for musicians to jam, play and even perform with.”

Price: $1 (USD) for song; $10 (USD) for 20-track album

If you are OK with paying for it, you can use PAYPAL or CREDIT CARD.

Genre: Harmonica Chicago Blues Instrumentals

Eddie Matthews on Bandcamp

https://eddiematthews.bandcamp.com

David Bruce: The Coolest People in Comedy — Money, Mothers, Movies

Money

• Comedian Jackie Gleason was a big spender, even if he had to borrow money to spend. He once borrowed $500 from friend and bartender Toots Shor, then ordered a limousine to drive him and Frank Sinatra fewer than 100 feet to a nightclub where one-armed trumpet player Wingy Malone was playing. Jackie kept giving Wingy $100 bills to play “That’s a Plenty.”

• Comedian Louis Black had a chance to perform at Villanova University, provided that he did not mock the Catholic Church. He replied that if Villanova would pay him $10,000, he would believe that the pope was infallible and anything else that Villanova wanted him to believe. Unfortunately, Villanova turned down his proposal.

Mothers

• Comedian Adam Sandler had a good relationship with his mother as he was growing up. In the first grade, he would sometimes ask the teacher to excuse him, but instead of going to the restroom, he would go home. His mother never criticized him; she would simply make him a sandwich, and then walk him back to school. When Adam was eight years old, he entered and won a Punt, Pass, and Kick football tournament. However, because he wanted his mother to be proud of him, he waited for over 20 years to tell her how he won — he was the only competitor in his age group. Later, after he became a class clown and started getting poor grades, his mother yelled at him, “Why don’t you ever try?” Adam recorded her, and then played the recording back to her. He says, “She laughed for half an hour.”

• Early in his life, Bernie Mac knew that he wanted to be a comedian. His mother was crying one day, the television was on, and comedian Bill Cosby made an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Bernie was present, hoping that his mother would stop crying, and soon he saw that she was laughing at Bill Cosby even though her tears were still on her cheeks. A little later, she was laughing hard, and no one could tell that she had been crying. Although Bernie was only about four years old, he told his mother, “Mama, that’s what I’m going to be. I’m going to be a comedian — so I don’t ever have to see you cry.”

• Lesbian comedian Judy Gold is a mother who is very happy that children today are growing up with less prejudice toward homosexuals than their parents had. One day, a child had a play date with her young son. After going home, the child complained, “Why can’t I have two moms?”

• Comedian Bill Hicks discovered that he could get away with a lot on stage if he had the right comeback line. For example, he would do a joke about cunnilingus, shocking nearly everyone, then say, “My mother wrote that joke.”

• Comedian Bob Hope’s mother was funny, too. One of the jokes his family told was that when Bob was born, his mother shouted to her husband, “William, get the doctor back. He’s taken the baby and left the stork.”

Movies

• Buster Keaton came up with good gags, but he had to throw some of them out of his movies. For example, in The Navigator, he had a gag in which he had to repair his ship underwater, and a school of fish came near him. A big fish had trouble getting through the school of fish, so Buster acted like an underwater traffic cop. He took a starfish and let it attach itself to his clothing like a badge, and he then stopped the school of fish to let the big fish go on its way. (The gag took three days to film, and it took 1,500 rubber fish attached to violin string.) Unfortunately, the audience did not laugh at the gag because it occurred at a place in the movie where the audience thought that Buster ought to be serious — he had to fix the ship in order to rescue the heroine. Because the gag did not get a laugh when he previewed the movie, Buster deleted it from the movie. Don’t feel bad for Buster, however — he put the gag in a trailer for the movie, and the gag got a big laugh.

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A HARD TRUTH

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A truth I don’t want:

I’ve forgotten half my life.

Was it important?

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NOTE: Some of the smallest moments are the most important, and we have forgotten them.

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THIS IS A MOMENT

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This is a moment

Moments are all we can have

This is a moment

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THE GREETING PLACE

Go Dog Go Café

By Charles Robert Lindholm

There is no demarcation zone,
no welcome platform
where we can greet
with fanfare
the arrival
of the newest
and next
moment in time,
Now

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