(Piacenza) Take 13: Sunset Boulevard

Take 13:  Sunset Boulevard


In this life of "Show-biz", entertaining,  (always writing)..
& indulging in ALL the vices of Rock & Roll...
on a less than an ARENA show scale -
and happier for it/"Small is beautiful" -
...and in my travels...
where in each new town I was/am, always considered,
 by the local-yokels, "the New guy",
much to my chagrin;
my past prestige
amongst these perpetual Philistines
meaning nothing:
these Philistine-Rock & Roll "wannanbees",
today,
having ALL become Lawyers,
Journalists
or Caretakers of the Public Convenience;
I, nevertheless, once did swim down a tributory of humanity
...and met a "tribute" Dude.
 (Yikes!...The Horror! The Horror!)

Not a "Tribute" BAND, but a Tribute Dude.
(Y'all getting this?)

This particular fella?
a John Denver look/sound-a-like,
greeting everyoneone with a "joi de vie",
nevertheless aging, but still on the ball,
who could/can sing "Rocky Mountain High"
or "Annie's Song" at the drop of a hat,
and IN these United States of America
is actually celebrated
for his duplicity!

(Hamlet): "When do we get to laugh? Or for that matter, the opposite?"

(Ophelia): "Shaddup and count the frickin money..... ya prick!"


Introducing: (Ozzie Osboune):

"Dave? What are you trying to say, man!?"


......Many years ago
(actually, last wednesday)
I had the honour of meeting William Forsythe.
A Hollywood Thespian.
He's a fine man.Same age as me:
21.
And I adore his dynamic, no less his acting skills.
Together, after a night of revelry in the Hollywood hills,
(last Wednesday)
satiated with all that Los Angelos/Angeleeze could offer,
we retired to a fellow Thespian's mansion,
lush with surrounding Palms,
the "de rigeue" flood-lit swimming pool and adjacent Cabanna,
fully stocked,
with which even a country like Eritrea
could forget it's troubles... (yawning)...

...the point being?
William (Forsythe)
- last Wednesday
- asked me...would I like to write songs,
re. a film project he had in mind
about THE STORY OF ELVIS?

....to which, for the life of me:
I don't recall,
I replied: "No."

(Y'all getting this?)


c 2011/daveedelacroix/lord borgo/got beer, got smokes/gotta pot roast for sunday/pissey weather/piacenza/italia