Almost Woke Up With a Song

I've begun writing a few songs while asleep or half asleep, and I almost woke up with one this morning. It was a long anti-war trope, and I was showing it to someone in my dream. I felt quite proud of the song, and I found the lyrics very emotionally affecting. All I could remember upon waking up, though, was a snippet of a reggae or ska groove and the words "Hey, USA, you're headed off to war again". So I hummed the groove and sang these words into the microphone I keep by my laptop, adding them to my growing snippets collection. We'll see where it goes from here.

BLAMF!

After keeping the name Tarpaper Shack alive for many years for my bands, I finally retired it couple of years ago. Perhaps the story of that soap opera will be told someday. When I later heard somebody ask someone "So, are you BLAMF yet?", I asked "What's BLAMF?" When I heard what BLAMF was an acronym for, that little bell went off in my head, and I said "BAND NAME"! So now we are all BLAMF! (with the exclamation point, thank you).

I've since seen BLAMF used by someone else as an Internet nom de plume, which they translated as "Black Like a Mother F'er". In our name, this isn't what the "B" stands for, although this is also a very cool use of the letters BLAMF. We could follow this logic, but WLAMF just isn't a good acronym, and frankly I'd rather leave "race" out of it and not be constrained by a "W". Suffice it to say that the "Buzz" is on about the band BLAMF!! (That's one exclamation point for the band name, and one to puncuate the sentence. Grammatical mechanics have to be worked out when you band's name has an exclamation point.) This buzzin' is, of course, entirely natural and comes from deep within our own spirits and those of our legions of rabid fans.

Yes, most of our fans actually have rabies. It's sad but true. But that is another story...