TV SERIES CRITIQUE.

TRUE DETECTIVE "NIGHT COUNTRY".

TOUTED AS "AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL  TRUE DETECTIVE". THAT IS NOT TRUE.

IN "NIGHT COUNTRY", THERE WERE A FEW UNUSUAL CHARACTERS BUT NOTHING LIKE THE POPULATION OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES AS DEPICTED IN THE ORIGINAL "TRUE DETECTIVE."

I KEPT WAITING FOR SOME MOMENTOUS REVELATION OR EVENT TO MATERIALIZE BUT ALL THERE WAS WAS A CREEPY UNSETTELLING  APPREHENSION.

THE MUSIC WAS VERY GOOD. 

PERFECT DANCE AT SUPERBOWL LVIII

USHER CAN DANCE AND HE SUNG VERY WELL DESPITE THE BLING AND THREADS.

USHER ROLLER SKATES JUST GREAT.

I DID SKATE AROUND VICTORIA STOPPING TO PLAY HARMONICA WITH BUSKERS, ROLLERBLADING IN TO PLAY SOME HARP AND THEN ROLLERBLADING AROUND AND RETURNING TO PLAY SOME MORE HARMONICA. 

HE DANCED WITHOUT ANY AWKWARDNESS, WITH PERFECT BALANCE AND WITH NO VULGARITY.

BLACKULA A 1972 MOVIE

Blacula

1972

Blacula

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I DID NOT THINK I WOULD WATCH IT BUT I DID. THE MOVIE WAS OK AND THE MUSIC WAS SPECTACULAR.

I BELIEVE MOST OF THE MUSIC WAS ORIGINAL. THE CLUB SCENE WITH BLACK SINGERS AND DANCERS AND A WHITE ROCK BAND WAS REALLY GOOD.

THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE THE VARIETY AND QUALITY OF THE MUSIC WAS VERY GOOD. THE CARS WERE GREAT ALSO. THE CITY SCENES WERE AUTHENTIC.

GREEN DAY AT THE GREY CUP CANADIAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IN HAMILTON ONTARIO NOVEMBER 19 2023.

I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU VIEW THE GAME WHICH WAS THE BEST FOOTBALL GAME I HAVE EVER SEEN.

GREEN DAY WERE REALLY GOOD. THERE WERE TWO PLACES I HAD TO PLAY THE CLIP OVER AND OVER.

ONE SEGMENT OF THE MUSIC WAS THE ACCELERATING CACOPHONOUS DRUM CRESCENDO IN THEIR FIRST NUMBER AT 1;38 IN THE TELEVISED GAME.

THERE WAS A REALLY DEEP TONED MULTI GUITAR BREAKOUT AT 1:45 -1:47 (I WALK ALONE)WHICH CULMINATED IN A SPECTACULAR SOLO ON A 335 GIBSON WHICH I HAD TO WATCH OVER AND OVER, PARTLY LISTENING, PARTLY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW HE DID IT.

THE ATTACKERS SUCCEEDED. THEY KILLED POLITIC ROCKER AND LINDON'S OTHER FACETS AS AN A-POLITICAL ARTIST AND ARTISAN.

I WAS SURPRISED TO BE ATTACKED.

WHO WOULD ATTACK A CRIPPLED MAN WHO PLAYED HARMONICA WHERE NONE OF THE ATTACKERS LIVED, ACROSS THE GEORGIA STRAIGHTS IN VANCOUVER BC.

A FEW FAMILY MEMBERS WOULD HAVE HEARD ME PERFORM IF THEY WERE AT MY HOME AT SOME TIME IN 1971 TO 1980.

IN 1980 WHEN I BOUGHT LOT A AT OTTER POINT THERE WAS A SUNNY GREEN FIELD WITH BIRDS AND BEES AND BUTTERFLIES WHICH WAS ENCLOSED BY LINES AND LITTLE FORESTS OF TREES.

IT WAS WARM AND SUNNY AND QUIET UNTIL A REDNECK TRUCK ROARED BY.

"THERE IS A GUY IN THERE WHO DOES NOT WORK, ALL HE DOES IS WORK ON HIS HOUSE". THIS WAS JUST THE FIRST OF AN ENDLESS RANT OF DEFAMATION.

NONE OF THE REDNECK NEIGHBORS HAD EVER SEEN ME PERFORM OR MET ME, WHO ATTACKED ME AT OTTER POINT, WHERE THEY STOLE EVERYTHING, EVEN THE PLUMBING AND MY JEWELRY AND THEN ONE OR MORE OF THEM BURNED MY HOUSE DOWN. THEY ALSO WORKED MY INSURANCE COMPANY AND THE REGIONAL DISTRICT TO IMPEDE MY RECOVERY FROM MY TOTAL LOSS.

  

WHEN MY HOUSE AND MY BUSINESS INVENTORY AND EQUIPMENT WERE ELIMINATED, MY HOME AND ALL OF MY POSSESSIONS WERE NOT LESS GONE THAN A BOMBED BUILDING AND ITS CONTENTS ARE.

WHEN I ATTEMPTED TO REBUILD, WHICH MY INSURANCE COMPANY FORCED ME TO DO, IN THE PLACE THE REGIONAL DISTRICT FORCED ME TO REBUILD, THE REDNECK NEIGHBORS CUT MY TREES DOWN, STRIPPED MY TOPSOIL AND DUG A 17' DEEP HOLE AND FORCED MY BUILDER TO BUILD IN IT. THEY ALSO DUG A 17' DEEP UP TO 100' WIDE DITCH THROUGH THE ONLY FLAT LAND I HAD FOR 300'.

WHEN ALL OF THE TREES AT THE SOUTH EAST FRONT ACRE OF MY PROPERTY WERE CHOPPED DOWN AND TRUCKED OFF AND THE SOIL WAS STRIPPED IT LOOKED LIKE A BATTLE FIELD.

I REMEMBER THE DITCH THE REDNECKS DUG TO RUIN MY MEADOW, IT WAS DEEPER THAN A BOMB CRATER.

ON FACEBOOK, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST OTTER POINT HOUSE MARKS THE DEATH OF THE POLITIC ROCKER PERSONA OF LINDON COLLARD WHOSE MUSICAL AND POLITICAL ACTIVITY WAS THE MAJORITY OF LINDON'S LIFE.

View Politic Rocker here.

THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN THE USUAL POSTS

 

THE POLITICIANS ARE PERFORMING.

Thursday, September 28, 2023

THE DANGER TO THE WORLD PRESENTED BY THE PREVAILING METHODOLOGY FOR SELECTING POLITICAL LEADERS.

WHEN I SEE THE POLITICAL LEADERS AND I WATCH THEY ACT I DO NOT SEE THE RIGHT KIND OF PEOPLE WHO WILL TAKE THE RIGHT ACTIONS TO PREVENT THE GROWING DAMAGE TO AND THE DANGER THE WORLD IS IN WHICH IS BEING  CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE.

THE POLITICIANS' SHRILL COMBATIVENESS AND AUTOMATIC REJECTION OF THE FACTS ABOUT VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING ARE NOT CONDUCIVE TO WORKING OUT SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE.

WE NEED TO PUT A DIFFERENT TYPE OF PERSONS IN CHARGE OF THE SAVING OF OUR PLANET FROM BURNING UP AND KILLING VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING.

PERFECT.

THERE IS A NEW TACO BELL COMMERCIAL. A FEMALE VOCALIST INTRODUCES  THE COMMERCIAL, SINGING "ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR", PERFECTLY.

I DO NOT KNOW WHY THIS SINGING IS SO PERFECT, IT JUST IS PERFECT.

WAS IT THE SINGER? WAS IT THE SOUND ENGINEERS? IS IT AI?

I TOLD EVERYONE ABOUT WHAT I WANTED TO DO TO PURSUE ART, WRITING AND MUSIC AS EARLY AS 1964 AND I WORKED AT DEVELOPING MY CREATIVE PROJECT FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES IN PLAIN VIEW OF MANY PEOPLE. IT WAS NOT A SECRET.

 

LINDON COLLARD TOTAL RECALL

Saturday, September 23, 2023

ORDINARY LIFE WHEN I LOOK BACK AT IT, WAS JUST A WASTE OF TIME.

I LAY THERE THINKING: "WAS I BRAIN-DEAD OR STUNNED"? WHEN I REMEMBER THE TIME I SPENT NOT DOING WRITING, ART, AND MUSIC. I WENT TO WORK, I RODE MY MOTORCYCLE, I HAD A GIRLFRIEND, I SAT AROUND WITH GROUPS OF PEOPLE, WHO WERE SMOKING AND DRINKING AND WE WERE TALKING AND LAUGHING, BUT IT ALL SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN POINTLESS.

FAMILY LIFE RANGED FROM HORRIFIC BETRAYAL TO CLOYING TIME WASTING.

THERE WERE MOMENTS OF JOY RIDING MY MOTORCYCLES AND LAUGHING AT THE ROUND TABLE BEFORE IT HOSTED MORE SERIOUS DISCUSSION WHICH I ENJOYED EVEN MORE AND WHICH DID WORK TO FURTHER DEVELOP AND INSPIRE ART, WRITING AND MUSIC.

WHEN I LOOK BACK AT DOING PAPER MACHE' OR LOST WAX CASTING OR MUSIC COMPOSITION AND PRACTICE, I THINK OF THAT TIME AS TIME WELL SPENT IN THE PURSUIT OF A CAREER AS AN ARTIST EVEN THOUGH, SADLY, THAT DID NOT GET TO HAPPEN.

I THINK THAT SEVERE INJURY AND THE VIRTUAL PARALYSIS WHICH FOLLOWED WAS EXACERBATED BY THE CONTINUAL BETRAYAL BY OUR SOCIETY'S INSTITUTIONS THROUGH THE DENIAL OF NECESSARY SUPPORT  FOR MYSELF WHICH I HAVE ALWAYS PAID FOR WITH PREMIUMS AND TAXES.

I AROSE SLOWLY, BIT BY BIT, FROM TONIC IMMOBILITY OR SHELL SHOCK  OR A PERIOD OF WORSENED " STIFF PERSON SYNDROME" AND I WAS PROBABLY HAPPY WITH BEING UP AND AROUND AND MAKING A LIVING AGAIN.

WHEN I NO LONGER HAD TO WORK TO MAKE A LIVING, FROM 2001, TO 2016, WHEN I WAS BADLY CRIPPLED AGAIN, I DID THE MOST VALUABLE AND IMPORTANT WRITING, ART, COMPOSITION, MUSICAL PERFORMANCE, PAPER MACHE' AND ITS ANIMATION AND VIDEOS FOR YOUTUBE.

THERE HAD BEEN PREVIOUS TO THIS A FEW PERIODS OF TIME WHERE I DID A LOT OF ART OR MUSIC COMPOSITION, LYRIC WRITING AND RECORDING THAT.

THERE HAD BEEN A FEW YEARS HERE AND THERE WHERE I WORKED ON MY LIVE PERFORMANCE ON HARMONICA.

ALL OF THE AFOREMENTIONED SKILLS HAD TO BE COMBINED TO SUCCEED AT WHAT I SOUGHT TO ACCOMPLISH. 

THE STYLES OF HARMONICA PERFORMANCE I EMULATED

BLUES CENTRAL WAS AT THE YALE IN THE 1990'S, DOWNTOWN ON GRANVILLE IN VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA. 

I WOULD SAY"I WILL PLAY TONIGHT IN THE STYLE OF FAMOUS HARMONICISTS.

MY AMPLIFIERS WERE MARKED TO ACHIEVE THE VARIOUS "SOUNDS".

I HAVE THE BOOK OF SETUPS KEYED TO THE MARKINGS ON THE MUSICMAN R 65 AMPLIFIER I USED THEN. ( I USE A RIVERA RESEARCH TWIN COMBO NOW.)

I WAS INFLUENCED BY ALL OF THE HARMONICISTS LISTED HERE SOMETIMES EVEN UNKNOWINGLY.

• Charlie Musselwhite

• James Cotton

• John Mayall (Bluesbreakers

• Little Walter

• Mark Hummel (The Blues Survivors)

• Paul Butterfield

• Sonny Boy Williamson 

• Magic Dick

• Paul Oscher (Muddy Waters Band)

• Stevie Wonder

• Alan Wilson (Canned Heat

I WOULD STAND UP AT THE YALE AND PROCLAIM: TONIGHT I WILL PLAY IN THE STYLE OF: LITTLE WALTER, OR JAMES COTTON, OR CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE OR SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON, OR WHO I THOUGHT WAS "MUDDY WATERS" WHO WAS ACTUALLY PAUL OSCHER, OR PAUL BUTTERFIELD WHO WAS AS I WAS THE PREFERRED HARMONICIST OF BLACK MUSICIANS. 

NO ONE WANTED TO PLAY THE SET FOLLOWING MARK HUMMEL. I WAS HAPPY TO DO IT. MARK REACHED DOWN AND PULLED ME UP ONTO THE STAGE. I SAID "THAT SECOND NUMBER WAS QUITE SPECTACULAR." "COME AND SIT WITH ME AFTER YOUR SET" HE SAID, " I WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO DO IT".

AT THE END OF MY CAREER, BEFORE I WAS HIT IN THE CHEST BY MY STUPID PUSSY WHIPPED BROTHER ANDREW I WOULD STAND TO PLAY ANYWHERE AND DECLARE " I AM THE WORLD'S GREATEST HARMONICA PLAYER AND I AM GOING TO PROVE IT NOW". 

EXCEPT AT THE YALE WHERE I SAID "NOW I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU HARMONICA MUSCLE."

This is an animation of one of my 1990's harmonica compositions and performance.