Tune Out/Drop In/Hold On

With thousands of paid writers and with millions posting work on the internet, how did so many end up relying on one? Why is it more impressive for someone else to have one of my works when I created all of them? Why would a singer look more talented than I am if he doesn't draw or write and if he's only using one of my songs? Why would a comedian appear greater than I am if he doesn't sing? It seems that being on TV - for any reason at all - bestows a false aura of splendour. Viewers are hypnotized by the illusion so that they will automatically accept the information they receive while they are in their relaxed, happy state. Did a musician try to get more music fans by being funny? Must be true if that's what the TV says. We turn on the TV to tell us who committed a crime. What happens when the TV commits a crime? Is it let off the hook so people can keep trusting it for all their other information? I guess I'm the only one who worries about it. You can't expect anyone else in the world to care about you when they can't relate to your suffering because they didn't share your experience. Where am I going to find a support group of artists who've been as severely ripped off as I was? Who else on the planet has a beef as big as mine with TV? I get to cry and complain about it to dispassionate strangers every day for the rest of my life. I was singled out when my work was taken. My life alone was destroyed by this crime. So no one else needs to feel troubled by it, they can just laugh about it. Someone said the business needed to steal everything I ever did because it came from someone who utterly rejects them which made it cool. But the only way they wanted to sell it to you was by passing it off as a lie. Now they know it's my work and they leave me here to write blogs after they had everyone thinking of imposters as rebels. And how much did they take? Can I have a look at that work I shared? Why not? I want to see if I'm wasting my time recording this new song. I want to skip ahead of the tortures I already wrote about, the ones I'm left to suffer over and over and over by a business that thinks I don't deserve money because I have talent, a business that made people think I was a criminal while it made stars out of criminals with my work, a business that everyone still blindly trusts more than they trust me. Corporations spend billions of dollars on image and reputation. Why do they need to do that? Wouldn't it be more cost efficient to simply behave in a morally responsible fashion? If they make a mistake, isn't it cheaper to correct than it is to cover up? Think of all the profits I could have earned by now with their support. They'd rather spend money on lawyers and PR. It's bad business all the way around. They want me to suffer a bad reputation when I'm in the right instead of supporting my work which they've already cashed in. It's wrong and unprofitable. Did I ask for all this attention? Others post songs and blogs and no one notices them. What makes me stand out? I haven't been actively pursuing friends and supporters. I erased my posts from '06 and '07 believing no one was viewing them. I posted work expecting it to be lost in a vast ocean of data and it returned through the radio and TV. No one consulted me. Now I better stay online from dawn to dusk if I want to defend my reputation. Forget about music. I have to keep going until I write something new so I can have it for myself - at least for five minutes. Sure wish I could jump into my car with my fans. I have to walk. Does everyone know I'm homeless again? Great. And this business which opposed me from the beginning, which singled me out, which profited from me and left me destitute, and which won't admit any wrongdoing sets fashion trends. This business dictates pop culture. I'm an artist, but they're the authority on beauty. Good luck with that. I know why you don't get too excited around me right now: I'm not on TV. I can see how you'd accept a rebel like me once you saw me in a music video on a commercial network. I wish I couldn't because I'm not on TV and I'd rather not be ashamed of it. Why do I feel shame? Because they paid someone to go on TV in my place. How selfish of me. And because everyone was brainwashed to hate me with my own songs and stories. That must be why I wrote them. Do people need a 'rebel'? Is rebellion all they trust? Or do they need to see someone getting punished by a brutal system so they can feel more secure in their jobs? Maybe a little of both. I just wanted to play and sing my songs. I don't have to do old ones. I can always write new songs. And I hope that I can add enough text to my posts in the coming weeks to open a new chapter in my life. It should be easy with that huge gap to fill left by the corporate media's so-called coverage of my affairs. Let me guess: they told you a star was arrested but they didn't say why. Of course. They don't want you to know too much when it happened on their network. And why the discussion over 'civilizing' me? I thought you wanted me to be a wild man.
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