my iPhone Podcast- Man on the run August 14, 2009A boo by eddieclay […]
- Intro August 13, 2009A boo by eddieclay […]
- Man on the run August 14, 2009
- VeryOpenMic
- Tonight! Suzi Q & James Robinson JJs Blues February 17, 2010
- Re: bring it back 2 or busking I go... February 15, 2010
- bring it back 2 or busking I go... February 15, 2010
- Bring it back... February 15, 2010
- No open mic at C&Js this sunday January 23, 2010
- Re: Fw:reminder NEW OPEN MIC THIS SUNDAY jan.17th January 22, 2010
- Need a bass player for tonight January 20, 2010
- Fw:reminder NEW OPEN MIC THIS SUNDAY jan.17th January 17, 2010
- Re: WTF? Ball games, Who did that? January 17, 2010
- WTF? Ball games, Who did that? January 16, 2010
manonrun
My answer to Lauper’s “Girls Just wanna have fun” which I played over and over last year but couldn’t get into. Back then there was a sports bar called “Coaches” (still is), I have not been there for a long time since they went UFC, but that place is what I think of when I sing this song....but its actually inspired initially by a guy name Ted. (i) Clayton Weimer 2009
Found myself a bar, bought myself a beer
Look around to and fro, looks like the coast is clear
Bought myself another, not I’m feeling fine
My team just scored up on the screen, that girl she’s looking fine
I’m a man on the run.
Broke myself some dollars, bought myself some songs
Don’t want to sound to petty but free fall’s where my heart belongs
Now I feel the rhythm, now I feel the flow
She comes up to me, now, where do I want to go.
I’m a man on the run.
Found myself a highway, still weigh a load,
lets see what down that next exit
at the end of the road.
Under My Bed
One of the many songs people say I should do something with. What the heck does that mean? Other people should do something with it…so here, I give it to the world…..I will put the Creative Commons Copyright stuff in later. Its late and I am tired.
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Under My Bed
© 2004 Clayton Weimer
Though bad dreams are done and gone,
I lay here waiting for dawn
It’s probably just echoes in me head
but I hear voices instead
There’s a monster under my bed
How can I allay this mortal fear?
When haunting shadows appear
Though it seems I’m running from the dead
I’m motionless under my spread
There’s a monster under my bed
There’s a monster under my bed
And I’ve been, I’ve been, praying to almighty you see
Terror makes it a common course
Somehow, somehow I will beat these fantasies
Oooh, ooh, there’s a monster under my bed
There’s a monster under my bed
Now the storm has lost its sound
The trees are down on the ground
The daylight ached for is up ahead
But darkness feeds my dread
There’s a monster under my bed
There’s a monster under my bed
And I see, I see, movements on the walls, and see
Flashes in the corner of my eye
I feel, I feel coldness coming over me
Oooh, ooh, there’s a monster under my bed
There’s a monster under my bed
(and I’m not gonna get up, it’ll grab me!)
Now the morning light seeps in
And I feel better within
My mind is as heavy as lead
I’m so tired now the ghost fled
No monster under my bed
No more monster under my bed
© 2004 Clayton Weimer
Very Open Mic
Just a reminder about VeryOpenMic.com , a google group site that I founded and manage. Sign up or keep visiting it to stay in tune with the open mic and jams goings on in the south bay.
If you don’t like…
If you don’t like
AND if you like
you won’t like me songs
Searching For “Best” Doctors
My wife suggested to a friend that she talk to me about finding a good doctor, researching the best/worst etc. Why me? I ain’t no Doctor. I don’t even play one on TV.
Well, I have a pretty good track record of researching for my loved ones, so I guess my wife thinks I have some mystical power in this. All I can say is: its hard work. Both my Dad, and Mom In-Law recently had some very rare ailments for example, and it took many days of research, and more, just to narrow down where the best solution would be found (see, I am an engineer, I talk like one, don’t I? At least I didn’t say trouble shoot or bug fix).
Anyway, her friend sent me an email asking to research a couple Doctors for her. This was in regards to her eye surgery, which apparently did not go well by the first surgeon she named. She is now looking for a second opinion, and gave me the name of another Doctor a friend referred her to. Here was my answer (names have been changed to protect the innocent …er, no to protect my ass):
Miriam,
First of all check out
http://www.lasikfraud.com/A google search on “Dr.<name deleted>” showed this link with his name at the top.
When my Mom came up with cancer in 1995 I went to the library and discovered a few large mutli volume books which are updated every year. They were very helpful, and in hindsight have been very accurate. The first was called “Best Doctors in America…”. This survey is peer to peer ratings, i.e. doctors who rank other doctors. Its pretty interesting, almost like asking a group of physicians who they would go to if they had a particular ailment outside of their specialty. This book is updated every year and I am sure you can find it at a major library.
These days of course, they have a website which you have to be a member to. Might be worth it.
http://www.bestdoctors.com/corp/index.html
This is actually the best thing you can do yourself. If you know a GREAT doctor in one specialty, ask that doctor who they would use for another specialty…
My Mom’s oncologist (and Kelly’s) is the best, a perfectionist, and we often ask him who he would recommend for such and such. The wrong question is to ask a doctor what he thinks of another doctor. Won’t work.
There also was a book back then called “Questionable Doctors…” . It ranked based on disciplinary actions and/ or I guess, law suits. It was also very helpful. My Mom’s original oncologist was not only a bad doctor, but probably a bad person, and his history in that book proved it (I discovered later than I would have liked).
Their online website at www.questionabledoctors.org
but it sounds like they no longer publish the book and defer to
which of course charges for each inquiry.
There are a lot of Public/consumer sites for review and rating doctors. They are hit and miss. The best I think, is
Your <name deleted> does not have a review there. http://www.healthgrades.com is another website to check.
Dr <for second opinion> in Hayward does have one Good review.
I also check their web sites and publications. I read their bios, and history. This Dr <for second opinion> looks alright to me.
Yeah, googling for Doctors, that works. Soon we’ll just google the ailment, and download an update, forget these middleman doctors.
ObamaMan
This is to the tune of Charlie Rich’s “Mohair Sam”. , the song that Elvis was playing on a bass in front of a TV when the Beatles came by to meet him. So I was just playing around, watching MSNBC going gaga for Obama, and figured, awe what the heck. I just recorded it, DBO (day before obama)…
Hey someone should put this to video and post to youtube, should be a hit.
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Stage Fright Pills
One of this suggestions I heard for people who suffer stage-fright is to take atenolol or some other beta blocker (normally used for high blood pressure).
So, a few years ago, when I had stage fright (actually I was more of afraid of havin stage fright), I borrowed some from someone with high blood pressure). I took it before an open mic, and yeah, it works. Ever since then I have wondered about its effect on brain and body. Besides dampening the “flight or fight” syndrome of keeping our adreneline in check I always suspected a negative side effects memory and cognitive abilities (like being able to focus). This from my own experiences and observance of others. Its very slight, not obvious, but has always been a suspicion. So today, (I finally remembered ;-) to google it out. More than I suspected there is a ton of studies that identify the symptoms and have initial results validating these suspicions.
Just google it:
OCarina?
Ok, I might be getting out of hand, but I think the touch platform by Apple is going to rule the world. Because even the most obscure ideas, are so dang cool.
Here’s what I am talking about…
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1863793_1863800,00.html#
and dang it, look at this:
Mariner Jones: Story In Songs
Well, I uploaded a first translation of Mariner Jones, so much more to do… I have melodies to all of the songs, and I will upload and link as I can, I have done this with some of them anyway (like “I’m Doomed” in the My Songs section…etc…)…
I played “Drink it up” (the last song, last chapter) last night at an Open mic for the first time…I was out of tune, someone said it sound great out of tune, kind of like a sitar – like, hmmmm.
anyway, this will be a work of lark for the years. I am always looking for help and suggestions, and mostly encouragement 
Mariner_Jones:_A_Story_In_Songs
#9 Save It For Monday
More stuff from the old PC, wrote this in the summer of 2006 at Del Mar. Wanted it to sound like Johnny Cash but I missed the mark, oh well…Play “Save It For Monday” – 3.8 MB
Save It For Monday – 2006
Save It For Monday by Eddie Clay is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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