ROCK RULES

I WAS THINKING OF RULES WHICH GOVERNED OUR BEHAVIOR  AS MARIJUANA USERS AND SCORERS.

THERE WAS TO BE NO FREAKING OUT ON PEOPLE OR ON THE POLICE. OLDER SMOKERS CONVINCED US THAT ANY BAD OR CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR WOULD BE A SOURCE OF UNWANTED ATTENTION BY AUTHORITIES. AS MARIJUANA AND HASH CONSUMERS ANY OF US COULD EASILY BE ARRESTED AND JAILED. WE WERE NOT TO DRIVE LOUD OR DILAPITATED VEHICLES TO ANY PLACE WHERE WE MIGHT SCORE MAJIJUANA OR MOSTLY HASH THEN, DRESSING INCONSPICOUSLY AND MOST OF ALL NOT CONFLICTING WITH POLICE.

This reminded me of `` Rock Rules``, a series of guidelines which were designed to keep music dynamic interesting and moving. I will write about this subject after I read my notebook from 1990 or so. Many of the rules developed from eliminating the tendancies which undisciplined musicians and under rehearsed musicians fell under the influence of while playing live, writing or jamming on old tunes or working out new compositions.

Keeping the beat and keeping the speed up and not digressing and failing to return to the root progression and composing leads relavent to the melody and the lyrics just to start with.

I have to write something else now which I will post as the rules of Behavior in the Marijuana Culture might have been useful to Musicians as well. Perhaps it would have kept some of the Rowdiest out of trouble.

MARIJUANA CRITIC

MONDAY, 13 JANUARY 2020

MARIJUANA RULES

I AM ATTACKED, ACCUSED OF HAVING BROUGHT MY OWN POLICE AND BY-LAW PROBLEMS ON MYSELF.

I DID NOT DO THAT, I CAREFULLY FOLLOWED ``MARIJUANA  RULES``

Many of the Rules were common sense and involved obeying laws and social conventions. In addition, dress codes and vehicle operating behaviours were formulated and justified. There was a prohibition against buying stolen goods or being involved in any way with Hard Drugs like Cocaine or Heroin.  There was to be no violence, particlarly no violence against women. No hitting them back.

Of course an unenforceable code is what the Rules were. If you broke the rules your ability to associate with other Smokers and to score could be curtailed. That was about it, however, as violence and extortion were also prohibited.

MANY PEOPLE BROKE MANY OF THE RULES AND SOME GOT THEMSELVES OR SOMEONE ELSE  ARRESTED AND  EVEN IMPRISONED. I BROKE THE RULES WHEN I WAS YOUNG BY DRIVING WILDLY AND FAST ON MY MOTORCYCLES. I ALWAYS TRIED TO RUN AWAY FROM, NEVER TO BE A TOUGH GUY WITH POLICE.

HERE ON VANCOUVER ISLAND I CONTINUED TO FOLLOW THE SAME RULES AS I HAD FOLLOWED IN VANCOUVER WHERE POLICE WROTE BACK TO THE SOOKE RCMP AS THEY SEARCHED FOR DIRT ON ME, `` THE ONLY THING KNOWN ABOUT LINDON COLLARD IS THAT HE IS A MUSICIAN``.  

EVERY ``TOUGH GUY `` AND `` HE HATES `` ACCUSATION WAS MADE UP HERE ON VANCOUVER ISLAND WHICH I MOVED TO IN 1979 AND SELF-FINISHED A DERELICT UNFINISHED AND STRIPPED BY VANDALS HOME FOR MY WIFE AND CHILDREN, AND ME WHEN I WOULD NOT BE AWAY WORKING AT MUSIC AND ART AND WRITING AND VIDEOGRAPHY. 

IRRATIONALLY MY EX-WIFE THE ``HE HATES`` INVENTOR SAID TO POLICE, ``ALL HE CARES ABOUIT IS HIS MUSIC``.  I DIDN`T LOVE HER OR I WOULD HAVE GIVEN UP MUSIC, FOR HER. SHE SAID ``I NEED A SLAVE, WHO WOULD DIE FOR ME LIKE THAT (SNAPS FINGERS.) I SWEAR, I ONLY SOUGHT OUT WOMEN FOR SEX OR WORK. I WAS NOT  LOOKING FOR AN IRRATIONAL NARCISSISTIC OVERLORD. 

I RIGOROSLY OBJECT TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO CONTROL ME IN ANY WAY WHO IS NOT SUPPLYING ME WITH A VALUABLE BENEFIT.

I DID NOT CARE FOR OR ABOUT POLICE, WHO I THOUGHT WERE DANGEROUS JERKS AND THE SAME WITH ALL THE WOMAN`S SUPREMACY. I DID NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR IMAGINED POWERS AND NARCISSISM  AND THEY HATED ME FOR IT. IF ONLY ALL THOSE FOOLS WOULD JUST HAVE REALLY NOT CARED ABOUT ME AND LEFT ME AND MY PROPERTY AND MY PROSPECTS ALONE FOR ME TO DO.  NOTHING THAT WAS MINE BELONGED TO ANYONE ELSE. 

I met a couple of women at the ``Princess Mary`` Friday Night dance in 1997. 

I OVERHEARD THEM,``SO WELL DRESSED, SO POLITE``

I WAS STILL FOLLOWING THE ``MARIJUana  rules".