I Thought Of This In The Shower... This Pretty Much Explains Wall Street... I Think.

Okay, this is either going to make all the sense in the world, or this is just going to be a stream of conscious idea that contains enough malarky, that if harnessed and used probably could provide enough power for a relatively small country, due to the gaseous spew coming from my mouth. Actually, in this case fingers. Since this gaseous spew is coming out of my fingers, I just probably get that checked out.

Anyways, I think I figured out Wall Street. More importantly, I figured out the "mystique" of Wall Street.

I realized that Wall Street is a lot like this...

Picture a scene at a campfire. There are people sitting around this fire, together. All is well, and nothing is going wrong and in the minds of the people at the campfire, nothing can go wrong. Then one of the people picks up a flash-light and they begin to tell a story. You can say that this person who tells the story at the fire is either a person who works on Wall Street or is one of the financial "experts" on Wall Street, or who make appearances on all the news shows claiming to know all about Wall Street.

This person with the flashlight (people on Wall Street) begin to tell a tale to any one who will listen around the campfire. But, the problem is, they do not know the story themselves. They are more or less making it up as they go along. They can tell that the people around the fire are not scared, so they sensationalize and exaggerate the story. Even though they know everything they are saying is a lie.

But, some people at the fire believe them. The person with the flash light says that there is an evil axe murder in the woods and some of the people believe them. The person with the flash light says that they are not safe and some of the people believe them. The person with the flash light continues to go on and on because they have spotted the gullible people at the fire.

So, they begin to make the story more intricate. They begin to add more plot twists and fear. They warn of what could happen to people who go in the woods. To the point of completely detouring people from going into the woods, even if those people really wanted to.

They tell them what part of the woods is safe, what parts of the woods that no one will hurt them. They tell them of "safe" parts. Parts that one one could ever find them in, and protect them from the evil axe murderer.

But, at the same fire there are the people who can sense that the person telling the story is making things up. They can see and hear that the person with the flash light has no clue as to what they are talking about.

They try to convince the others that the story is a lie.

But, all the others are brainwashed.

They believe that everything in the story is true.

Even though it confuses them.

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At the next fire, the people who believed in the story began to share it with a new group of people. The only problem was, was that they forgot exactly how the story went. They too began to make up the story as they went along. To the point that it was a completely different story.

Instead of an axe murderer, it was now a bear that would take their tents and food.

And some people believed them. While others still could sense that the story was a lie.

In fact these people who did not believe the story began to ask questions.

They questioned the story tellers on the exactly what happens when the bear gets to them.

One person at the fire said that he was there before and knew that was not how the story went.

The story tellers became very anxious and concerned. They were afraid that the jig was up and they would be exposed as liars.

That there was no axe murder or stealing bear.

But, before they were almost about to be held accountable for their actions. Just before they were going to tell the truth.

The brainwashed people at the fire wanted them to continue the story.

They wanted to hear more.

They found themselves enthralled with the story to the point that they could not even separate themselves from it.

You can almost say that situation, those brainwashed people bailed the people with the flashlight out.

Warm Tea

I tell you what, it feels good to randomly get the urge to write stuff based off one thing that pops into your head the night before...

My iced tea is warm again,

I've been told I hold on to things for too long.

I have the rhythm of a symphony,

But, I could never write a song.

I believe I can control an entire army fleet,

Though the troops would think I'm too headstrong.

I go from place to place and home to home,

In hopes of finally being able to belong.

Then I met you, the most beautiful girl I have seen on this Earth,

I have been called many things, but never was called I wrong.

So, I Bought A Few '45s...

1- Garage sale.
2- Record stores.

And this happened:

The Kingsmen: The Jolly Green Giant/Long Green
The Supremes: Love Child/Will This Be The Day
The Beach Boys: Babara Ann/Girl Don't Tell Me
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown: Fire/Rest Cure
Simon & Garfunkel: Mrs. Robinson/Old Friends/Bookends
The Grass Roots: Midnight Confessions/Who Will You Be Tomorrow
Queen: You're My Best Friend/'39
The Kinks: A Well Respected Man/Such A Shame
Joe Walsh: Life's Been Good/Theme From Boat Weirdos
Neil Diamond: Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)/Dig In
Looking Glass: Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)/One By One
Frank Sinatra: My Kind Of Town/That's Life
Frank Sinatra: Strangers In The Night/Summer Wind
Frank Sinatra: Theme From New York, New York/That's What God Looks Like To Me
Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody/A Million And One
Cheech n Chong: Basketball Jones/Don't Bug Me
Glenn Miller: Moonlight Serendade/Sunrise Serenade
Sammy Davis Jr.: Candy Man/I Want To Be Happy
Gary Wright: Dream Weaver/Let It Out
Lynyrd Skynyrd: What's Your Name/I Know A Little
Starland Vocal Band: Afternoon Delight/Starland
Sonny & Cher: I Got You Babe/All I Ever Need Is You
Sonny & Cher: The Beat Goes On/What Now My Love
New Edition: Count Me Out/Good Boys
Tommy James And The Shondells: I'm Alive/Crystal Blue Peruasion
George Harrison: All Those Years Ago/Writing's On The Wall
John (Ono) Lennon (with the Plastic Ono Band): Instant Karma (We All Shine On)/Who Has Seen The Wind?
Electric Light Orchestra: Strange Magic/New World Rising
Soft Cell: Tainted Love/Memorabilia
Fats Domino: Blueberry Hill/Bo Weevil

30- '45s.
60- Songs all together.
8- Dollars spent for all of this.
Infinity- The amount needed to measure my happiness.

Looks like I get to play basement DJ all day today...

Free Bird.