Couple of my old bands I played drums for in San Francisco

POISIN JETT GUNS - SUPERFAST RIDE


A review of my other band, milktooth, that I played with in San Francisco and we then moved to Los Angeles. I had to leave Poisin Jett Gunz which in hindsight was probably a mistake although I would of never had such a great time working at Tower Records on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. Couple of fun facts: Rivers Cuomo of Weezer worked at the same Tower Records and I have read in the Guns n' Roses book, "Watch You Bleed" that Axl and Slash worked across the street at Tower video and Axl even slept behind Tower when he was running from the cops as I had to do, when my van was towed. Blurb from the book, "Then Axl heard undercover cops were doing surveillance on their alley, looking for him because Michelle was sticking by her rape claim and wanted to press charges. Axl was a wanted man. He took to the streets. He slept under the canopy of the loading dock at Tower Records. A dumpster behind Sunset Plaza offered shelter".

From: Left Off The Dial

Milktooths EP offering is warm and comforting, and I cannot quite figure out why. It could be the familiarity of Rebecca Hills voice to a band I have seen in the past, though I dont even remember who they were. What I do know is that I dig her vocals, and I think they are a powerful element of the music.




The overall tone of this EP leans heavily to the more aggressive side of the musical spectrum. There is nothing terribly different going on here, but it is all put together well enough to produce a welcome change to monotony that exists in much music these days especially with bands that claim to be heavy or loud rock bands. Sometimes, and in Milktooths case, a progression of fantastic bass lines goes a long way. These are brought to us courtesy of Rebecca Hill. Milktooths other members are Josh Chase (vocals/guitar) and Kevin Sanders (drums).



The press kit for Californias Milktooth reads, Milktooths style continues to evolve, from dramatically moody to experimentally raw. I would certainly agree that their music is dramatically moody and it works for them. Experimentally raw is a stretch though, as there doesnt seem to be much experimentation going on here, unless they are referring to their own experimentation during recording or maybe those synth sounds that pop up on several of the tracks. The one drawback to this recording is the quality of the recording itself. These guys could benefit from a good studio session.



When Milktooth get around to producing a better recorded album, I would check it out. In the meantime, if you are in the Los Angeles area, catch them live if you get the chance.


I'll leave you with this poem:

Written - Jan. 13th, 2013 7:13 p.m.




I AM NOT BETTER THAN THEM

AS A HUMAN BEING

BUT I KNOW

I AM BETTER THAN

THEIR SITUATION



I DON'T KNOW

LIKE THEY THINK THEY DO

WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN THROUGH



ALL I CAN TELL YOU

IS THAT

I HAVE BEEN BLESSED

WITH THIS GIFT

TO WRITE A SONG

TO SING ALONG



EXPLAIN MY PAIN

HOPEFULLY TO RELATE

SO WE CAN ALL

GET THROUGH THE RAIN



I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE

I KNOW THIS IS TRUE



WHY CAN'T WE ALL

JUST GET ALONG

AND MAKE THIS A BEAUTIFUL WORLD



ALL TOGETHER BETTER

COME AS ONE

TO SATISFY

THE HUMAN NEEDS

FOR ALL



AS SEPARATION

LEADS US TO TEMPTATION

UNNECESSARY DISCRIMINATION

CONFLICTING COMPETITION

GETS NOTHING DONE

ONLY REVERSE

THE DIRECTION

WE ALL WISH TO ACHIEVE



WE HAVE TO BELIEVE

IN OUR DREAMS

FOLLOW THROUGH


FOR THEM TO BECOME TRUE

EVEN THOUGH

WE MAY NOT KNOW

WHAT THE FUTURE MAY BRING

WE MUST TRY

IN ORDER

TO SUCCEED



-Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed, have fun and throw away your gun. Hate + Guns = Violence = Death + Destruction = Silence

Shutout Of The Shelter/Old News To Me, Maybe New News To You, Key West Citizen Write Up

Last night was the second night that K.O.T.S. claimed to be full. The rules of K.O.T.S. is that you can't line up until 6:30 P.M. and you have to be there by 9:00 P.M. or you can't get in. The first night, they told me they were full @ about a quarter to 8, so I asked if I could use the microwave to heat up my Wonton soup which they allowed me to do. They will also let you take a shower but you have to leave after your business is finished. As I was heating my soup, Tom, one of the "monitors" gave me a bedroll and told me that bunk A6 was available in a sneaky kind of hush hush way and told me to go make my bunk up, so I did. I told him I needed to get my bag off of my bike as I didn't think I was going to be staying. I came back out from making my bunk to get my soup and he then told me that now would be a good time to go get my bag. I guess one of the other "monitors" was being an asshole or something. I don't know why one "monitor" would say they were full and another found an available bunk. I have no idea what kind of power trippin' drama is going on and I really don't give a shit. I just need a bunk and not to be told that they are full when they obviously were not. Full of shit is more like it. I know sometimes things change and can within minutes. Whatever. The next night, I got there at about 7:30 P.M. and they had the sign out front that reads, "KOTS IS FULL" with the gate closed. Instead of haggling and going through the same bullshit, I just turned around and went to my "secret sleeping spot" and crashed there.BTW it was a little chilly, 66 degrees is cold enough for me. Now I know what you're thinking. You know I am a mind reader. You're thinking, well, why don't you go to K.O.T.S. sooner, dumb ass? Am I right? I knew I was. Well, let me explain. First off, my other homeless compadres like to get to K.O.T.S. right at 6:30 P.M. some even try to get in there sooner and line up. I've done it before and it's not fun listening to the bullshit and the drunks especially if you're sober. I mean, if fuckin Led Zeppelin was playing a show, I would stand in line. But I have vowed, in my own stubborn way, not to stand in line to get into some shitty homeless shelter and listen to the drunken idiots, that band SUCKS, let me tell you!! You get the same vinyl green mat whether you're first in line or the last in line!! (R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio !_!) The same green one, funny enough, as you get in jail. I don't know what these, dare I call them "people", ANIMALS is more like it, are thinking. I rather walk right in, give them my name, they give me a bedroll and a bunk number and I go to sleep. I don't want to listen to the horseshit these people talk about or watch the stupid movie that people talk over anyway without any consideration. I know, I'm a needy, picky bitch that wants to have it his way AND eat his cake too. Actually it's pretty simple. I go to work,unlike some other lazy motherfuckin moochin motherfuckers I know, then after work, I like to drink a couple of beers, smoke a few cigarettes, listen to my tunes and relax. Now is that too much to ask for? I am not going to rush to get into a homeless shelter. If I don't get in, guess what?, I don't get in. Now, I have heard and don't know how much or how it is true but the wonderful people at K.O.T.S. SAY the cops can't "mess" with you if they are filled up. Which I interpret as, they can't arrest you for trespassing but everywhere EXCEPT for my "secret sleeping spot" has a NO TRESPASSING sign, so I don't know exactly how that works....O.K. enough of that,.. in front page news of the Key West Citizen there was a story about a man name Brady...uh,um a story about the Statue Of Liberty entitled, "Dancing For Liberty" about me working the corner as Lady Liberty about a year ago that we have dug up from the Key West Library archives to present to you in it's entirety as it was printed WAY back in March 0f 2012. There were no pictures taken for the article but I have had a few taken while working.

DANCING FOR LIBERTY


So there at Kennedy Drive

and the boulevard, on
the corner by the Circle
K, is what’s supposed to be the
Statue of Liberty holding a sign
that entices
you to file
your taxes

at the place
that shares

the name.



The people
dressed in
the Liberty
get-ups can
be seen not only here, but all
over the country as tax time
approaches, this being a franchise.



But the living statue at
Kennedy Drive is a special case
because it dances like a dervish
and spins the sign like a
majorette; because the person

inside the gown and beneath
the crown likes to do things
his way. This aspect of the
personality belonging to Kevin
Dale Sanders has been both a
boon and a bane so far as his
existence is concerned. And he
is loving the job.


“I get the strangest looks
and I got dogs barking at me,
but I like doing it this way
instead of just standing there
like a statue,” explains Kevin,
a Halloween baby born 42
years ago in Miami, son of a
man involved with greyhound

racing who died by the bullet

six months later and a mother

who is a registered nurse.



Kevin’s mom moved the family

to Marathon after the tragedy

and that is where Kevin grew
up.


He grew to be a drummer
and played with some local
bands, then moved out to
California where he has a

brother and got involved with
music in the San Francisco

Bay area, developing a strong

taste for glam rock. Music


also is involved with his local

street performance. Usually

he’s listening to ZZ Top or
Guns’n’Roses through headphones.


When he migrated to the
southern portion of the
Golden State and worked at
Tower Records, there was
a long period of living in a
Volkswagen van, but also
sleeping in the store’s back
doorway. Eventually he ended

up back in Marathon and
more recently in Key West.



Kevin has held a lot of day

jobs. One, in San Francisco,
got pulled out from under him
and a bunch of other people
when the messenger service

contracted with an outside

company. There was some taxi

driving in Marathon until the
company went under. His relationship


with alcohol, Kevin
acknowledges, has been more
of a problem than an enhancement,
but has never cost him
a job.



“I have never drank on the
job; never shown up drunk

on a job,” he maintains. In his
down time, however, the beer

gets in the way of productivity

and things that could perhaps

be done to change some of his
more recent circumstances.


“It makes me lazy,” he
admits.


Kevin hasn’t drummed for a
while but he’s been busy with
other things, like a blog that
includes a great deal of information

about his personal history.


“I’m homeless, not hopeless,”
he has written in the
blog, which can be found at
poeticdrummer.blogspot.com.
He’s been sleeping mostly at
the Keys Overnight Temporary

Shelter, or KOTS, and the
Statue of Liberty gig isn’t likely

to change that. It pays $8 an
hour and there is a $2 per hour

bonus if Kevin remains on the
job until April 15.


It would be an easy cheap
shot to rail about the irony
of a guy whose only green is
on his gown and headdress;
who can’t put enough dollars
together for a place to live,
portraying an international
symbol of the American
dream, the iconic welcomer
of the tired, poor, huddled
and tempest-tossed masses.


But Kevin doesn’t want to be
anyone’s poster child, and

he’s been really lucky and has
a lot to be thankful for.


While working he sees the
gulls wheeling, and when he
walks around or bicycles on
his off time he stops to marvel
at the mystery of the green
ocean waters and the sheer
beauty of his nearby environment.



The ability to do this, to
have this appreciation, he says,
is something no job or lack of
one can take away, so long as
he chooses to own it.


“I am a very blessed person,”
he says. “I’ve got the gift
of drums. I see things I wish
people could see. I see the
heron catching a fish. People
drive by so fast, a lot of those
guys don’t even appreciate it,
all in a hurry to get back to
work. I am one of the happiest
guys in the world you would
ever want to meet.”



Story By: jdesantis@keysnews.com



Printed March 5th, 2012 in the Key West Citizen

The only discrepancy of this article I found was that it states that my mother is a registered nurse and should have read, his mother WAS a registered nurse as she passed away from pancreatic cancer when I was 15 years old.

More Life Changing Music

More "albums" that influenced my love of music and playing the drums.




Metallica - .....And Justice For All - My friend Chris Friedof (Facebook friend) turned me on to this album in 1988 and I hated it at first. I thought, "What kind of shit is this?" I had never heard anything like it before. We used to drive up to Ft. Lauderdale in my blue '79 Camaro Berlinetta to see some friends he knew up there and he would constantly put in this album on my car stereo and eventually it grew on me and I LOVE it!! Little side note, which I thought was kind of weird in a weird way, today, 2013, I work WITH LIBERTY tax......AND JUSTICE FOR ALL :) O.K., you can call me crazy now.



Queensrÿche - Operation:Mindcrime - I remember..now....I saw the video on MTV for "Eyes Of A Stranger" and thought it was cool, so what did I do? I bought the album, of course, and it kicks serious ass. It's one of those albums you just press play and go on the journey, like a rock opera that tells a story. Chris, Cory Helms (Facebook friend) and I went up to Ft. Lauderdale to see Metallica (The Justice Tour) with Queensryche opening, At this point, all we knew about Queensryche was the song, "Eyes Of A Stranger". When I saw Scott Rockenfields' drum kit, it blew my mind!!! He had chains holding his cymbals for cymbal stands and they rocked!! After the show, we saw Geoff Tate, the lead singer of Queensryche getting on his tour bus. We stood outside yelling "WE JUST WANT AN AUTOGRAPH!! COME ON!!! WE'RE YOUR BIGGEST FANS!!! So low and behold, Geoff Tate comes out and signs autographs for us. He turns to me and looks at my Metallica shirt and says sarcastically with a smirk, "Nice shirt".I was like, "Uh, thanks,.. I think?". I knew he was thinking if you were such big fans why wasn't I or anybody wearing a Queensryche shirt instead of a Metallica shirt. Well my rebuttal, after the encounter is, if it wasn't for Metallica, I would have never seen you. I came to see Metallica and you happen to be playing before them. The whole point of an unknown band opening for a popular band. It worked!! I bought Operation:Mindcrime and you can bet that the small time it took Mr.Tate to sign his name didn't hurt either. I think he was the first celebrity I met and got an autograph from except for Ernest Borgnine who I met at dinner at what is now Hawk's Cay on Duck Key and I didn't even know who he was, my step father recognized him and had me go over to Mr. Borgnines' table and ask for an autograph!!! I take that back, the very FIRST celebrity I ever met, and I have met A Lot of them since, was Slim Whitman at Eckerd drugs in Marathon, believe it or not.



Black Crowes - amorica - I discovered this album when I worked at Peaches Records & Tapes on Sunrise Blvd. in Ft. Lauderdale. I had a co-worker who LOVED this album and played it constantly in the store as we worked and it grew on me. I love it as I love ALL of the Black Crowes albums. Tied with this album though is "Southern Harmony and Musical Companion". You know what, just get "Sho' Nuff" the box set and you'll be southern fried satisfied, it'll cure what ails ya!!



Journey - Departure - I know, "Escape" is the classic, great album. I LOVE it too. But as far as "roots" go, this album shaped me as a drummer starting out. I remember listening to this album on my Walkman cassette player, yes it was the 80's, and I would set up 5 gallon plastic buckets behind the American Legion in Marathon, turn the tape player on and play to the music, using tree limbs as drumsticks. This was one of the first tapes that I can remember doing this with.

My favorite song, "Homemade Love". Another interesting fact, at least I think so, I went to school and was friends with Shamala, Steve Perrys' daughter, the lead singer of Journey, at Marathon High School. I didn't know it at the time of playing to Departure but found out later when I broke my leg and she visited me in the hospital and told me who her father was. I didn't believe her at the time but looking back, she did look like a female Steve Perry with a perm. 30 years later, I would meet her father while working at Tower records on Sunset Blvd. More on that later, when I write my memoir book which, at the current rate I am going, should be done by the year 3000.



Led Zeppelin - Box Set - There's no way in hell I can narrow down one classic Zeppelin album. John Bonham is my all-time idol. A drumming madman that hit the drums like he meant it. He played and made a different beat, it wasn't just 4/4. It was syncopated. To do what he did with just one right foot is amazing alone!! I heard a story how he try to mimic, if you will, what the drummer of Vanilla Fudge, Carmine Appice, I believe, was doing. Mr. Bonham was trying with ONE foot all the while Carmine was using TWO feet with a double pedal kick. Mr. John Henry Bonham achieved with ONE foot what Carmine had accomplished with TWO feet. No easy FEAT!!! Sorry, I had to. R.I.P. Mr. Bonham, I can't wait to meet you in Heaven. Hell, you're the only one in the band I haven't met. Until then, I will hit the drums as hard as I can. Thank you for the lesson, I owe you!!





Motley Crue - Theatre Of Pain - This one is close to my heart for a number of reasons. One, this is the first real concert I attended up at the Hollywood Sportatorium in Hollywood, FLORIDA, during the Theatre Of Pain Tour with the band, Autograph opening up and I really believe that the hand at the end of the Original (Not the Black and White video) "Home Sweet Home" video is mine!!! Not that it really matters, but when I was at the show, that is what my seating view was and I was constantly throwing my arms up in the air with the "rock n roll" horns. But I've heard that they didn't shoot any footage from the South Florida show. But I still think differently. Not that I'm going to get a royalty check or anything, I just think it's kind of cool. I mean, what video is your hand in. I know my hand like the back of my hand. (O.K. that was bad). I had the CD cover signed by Tommy Lee, another drumming idol of mine, and Nikki Sixx when I worked at Tower records in Hollywood, CALIFORNIA some 25 years later that I have since lost in my travels. I think "Shout At The Devil" was my first experience and album of the Crue and of course, I love that album as well. A little tidbit in connection with "Shout", at the Theatre Of Pain show, they ran out of Theatre Of Pain T-shirts and I had to settle for a Shout at the Devil Tour jersey with Allister fiend on the front. While I am on the subject of shirts, an amazing thing happen to me when I was walking to work at Tower records one day while wearing a Motley Crue "Too Fast For Love" shirt. A silver Porsche pulled up next to me and the passenger said, "That band SUCKS!!! I turned and said, "I know, I can't stand this band, they get on my FUCKIN' NERVES!!!! The car driver and passenger drove away laughing. They made a U-turn coming back towards me. The driver was smiling and held his arm out the window with the "rock n' roll" devil horns formed on his hand. The driver was Nikki Sixx. (Bass player/Songwriter for Motley Crue for those of you dumb assess that don't know.) The passenger was Tracii Guns. It was during the time they were playing together with Brides Of Destruction and they did an in-store signing @ Tower about a month after my encounter. The next Motley show I saw was the Girls, Girls, Girls Tour at the Hollywood Snortatorium with Guns N' Roses opening up. Those 2 hour drives each way up to Miami and back to Marathon were not an easy hop, skip and a jump to go see a show but well worth it and we had a hell of a great time. I miss those days!!!

TOP Influential Albums Of My Lifetime..So Far

Influential, not the best by other standards but nonetheless some of my favorite albums. I usually don't like the most "popular" ones with, of course, some exceptions. This is a list in no particular order of "albums" that have influenced me throughout my life. I usually get tired of the popular albums and /or songs played over and over and over and over on the radio. Here is a underrated list of albums that I like.

1. KISS - Love Gun - If I had to pick with a gun (no pun) to my head just ONE KISS album I would have to pick this one.
2. Eagles - Very Best Of - I can't just pick one album that I like every single song on. So I'll take an easy,  cheap shot and pick the best of.

3. Van Halen - Diver Down - Although I love ALL of Van Halens' albums, if I had to pick, this would be the one that had the most impact growing up.
4. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind - Great title, great album and probably one of the biggest influences of my childhood. Kick ass Metal with melody.

5. Nazareth - Hair of the Dog - I was going on a field trip with my teacher up to Miami and asked a friend what cassette I should get while I was up there because Miami had a better selection than Marathon and he told me to get Nazareth, Hair of the Dog, which I had never heard before. On our way back from Miami, my teacher, who drove us up there in her car, had a cassette player in her car, so I asked her if I could
play the tape and she said,"Sure". I put it in and the music starts, "Dern Dern Da Derna Derna Dern Derna Derna" (guitar playing) the chorus comes on and John McCafferty sings with that rough voice of his, "Now, you're messin' with a son of a bitch, now you're messin' with a son of bitch". Shocked, I looked over at the teacher driving and her mouth dropped. I said, "I'm sorry Miss Wilkinson, I didn't know anything about this band, a friend of mine told me to pick this tape up". I quickly ejected the tape and put in my other tape I bought, which I knew was safe, Barry Manilow. It wasn't Barry Manilow, you silly kids, it was John Denver. No it wasn't John Denver. I fooled you again!! It was actually RATT Out Of The Cellar.



6. Scorpions - Love At First Sting - Not just because I am a Scorpio but I actually like this album. "Big City Nights" being one of my favorites on this classic as well as "Bad Boys Running Wild" and "Coming Home" but all the radio plays the shit out of is "Rock You Like A Hurricane".
7. AC/DC - Powerage - I think one of the most underrated AC/DC albums. All you hear about is "Back In Black" and "Highway To Hell",don't get me wrong, both are great. But, I like this one better because it hasn't been played to death by everyone and radio.
8. Night Ranger - Midnight Madness - Yes, "(You Can Still) ROCK IN AMERICA" and yes, you can keep "Sister Cristian" because I've heard it a million times. Great for them, they got a HUGE hit that put them on the map. But all you really need to do is just press play and listen to the WHOLE album.

9. Def Leppard - Pyromania - Sure, Hysteria is a great album but if I hear "Pour Some Sugar On Me" one more time, I'm going to scream and cut off Rick Allens' other arm!!!! (I am surely going to HELL for that statement) Just kidding, Rick!! I love you, man!! It took a lot of balls and strength to come back and play drums after your tragic accident. You're an inspiration!!! Rock On!!
1. Eminem - Eminem Show - I know, you're shocked. After all this kick ass rock n' roll I listed. I threw a curve ball and put some master rapper that can dice you up with his pen and paper. You can't deny the flow of the Eminem Show. Case Closed.

2. RUSH - Moving Pictures - I was surprised that such a great drummer, Neil Peart, also wrote most, if not all, of the lyrics. That's a rarity. Usually the egotistical "Lead" singer usually writes the lyrics. Listen to YYZ (secret: code of the Toronto airport) amazing drumming and surprisingly NO LYRICS!
They don't call, Mr. Peart, the Professor for nothin'. Side note: My brother was just promoted from mere doctor to Professor!!
3. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple - Every song great. Driving force. One of my favorite "grunge" bands. I even like them better than, dare I say, Nirvana!!! oops. I still love Dave Grohl though. He's the Neil Peart of the 2000's. Plays kick ass, hard hitting drums and writes his own songs.
Eric Kretz of STP is great too. As well as the DeLeo brothers and Scott Weiland.



***Note: There is a method to my alphabetical madness*** I don't have any prizes to give away***

More to be included, stay tuned!!!



 

Mostly Broke and Almost Famous

I started my job as the Statue of Liberty with a rough start as I was "sick" my first day. Too much Vodka, to tell you the truth which I NEVER do!!! I NEVER miss work on account of alcohol but I guess I got carried away by the Murphy and Vodka influence and drank too much and didn't show up for work as I slept in the grass on College Road until the sun was going DOWN, not up. When I finally woke up, I felt like I got ran over by a Mack truck. Fortunately for me, my boss, John is a very cool and understanding dude and put me to work the next day. I have since cleaned up and with some common sense, swore off drinking Vodka ever again....again! Once I get paid (because Murphy only drinks Vodka and won't loan me any money and I want to get a buzzZZZZ....zzzzzz AND Murphy will give me some Vodka in exchange for my company) I can stick and go back to my usual daily 4 pack of beer in which I've never had a problem with and resume my regularly scheduled buzz programming and make it to work everyday happily ever after.
In poem news, I wrote a new poem last night, do you want to read it? O.K.... here we grow......again!! Almost sounds redundant, doesn't it?... Huh?... I can't HEAR YOU!!!!

STORY BEHIND THE POEM: I guess looking back on the words I wrote, I am getting a lot of people staring at me on the streets and I'm not even in my monkey suit, uh, Halloween costume, I mean, Statue of Liberty dress, ha ha, if you will. Everybody likes to make the joke of me, a mere male in "Lady Libertys'"dress, gown whatever the F you want to call it. I personally don't give a shit but others get a kick out it. It doesn't mean that I am GAY for you ignorant fucks out there it just simply means I am comfortable in my own skin and gown as well as my own heterosexuality. And a lot of the "hecklers" and head shakers are my fellow homeless idiots that walk by and chuckle. To them I say this, GET A FUCKIN' JOB YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHITS!!!!! or sit on your ass and get your "crazy" and/or "crippled" check and move on... I don't mean to toot my own horn but I think some of the looks are out of jealousyor envy, not that I am all that and a bag of chips, which of course, "we" all know that I am..TooT TooT...ALL ABOARD!!!!  It's kinda cool that people outside of my costume know me as Lady Liberty and say that I do a great job!! For those people that "get it" I thank them. But I could not do my dancing and prancing and spinning the sign without the great MUSIC I hear on the radio. Thank you to all the musicians and D.J.s who know and play GREAT MUSIC, my life savers. I feel like I'm accepting an award and this is my acceptance speech, please forgive me, I almost thought I was famous there for a minute ;) The music also blocks out the "rude" stupid comments that ignorant fucks make while they cowardly drive by. For the most part though I get waves and smiles and a few dogs barking at me but I guess that comes with the territory. The other day was strange. John my boss got a call while I was spinning the sign and walked up to me to tell me that he had just received a call from a lady that said I was pissing, yes you read right, PISSING in broad daylight in my can't miss Statue of Liberty costume on the Circle K sign!!!! Something is definitely a rye at the Circle K...and it wasn't me pissing. I wouldn't do that if I was drunk off my ass at 3 o'clock in the morning let alone in broad daylight in a Statue of Liberty monkey suit.. Are these motherfuckers on DRUGS??!! If not, well then, maybe they should be!!! O.K. enough of bitchin' and moanin' I got to get back to work..BTW my current favorite song is "Youth Without Youth" by Metric...that song kicks ass!!!



WRITTEN - JAN. 13th, 2013 @ the side of the Cow Key Bridge



STARE AT ME

LIKE I AM SOMEBODY

JUST ANOTHER NOBODY



DO NOT ASSUME THE BLESSING

JUST SEEMS LIKE A DREAM COME TRUE



ACCEPT THE WAY

I LIVE MY LIFE

LOOK FROM THE OUTSIDE

YOU HAVE NO IDEA

AND NEVER WILL

WHAT I HAVE INSIDE



SO SORRY FOR YOU



DON'T DISTRACT

MY MISSION

GET A LIFE OF YOUR OWN

LEAVE MINE ALONE

YOUR LIES HAVE

ALREADY BEEN TOLD

YOUR MISERY

WILL NOT

GET MY COMPANY

PLEASE ACCEPT

MY APOLOGY



I HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED

YET TO THE BLIND EYE NARROW MIND

IT MAY SEEM THAT I HAVE NOTHING

THERE'S MORE THAN YOU PERCEIVE



YOU DON'T HAVE THE MIND

I THINK



I BELIEVE



I DON'T WANT TO ASSUME

AS YOU KNOW

WHAT IT DOES TO YOU AND ME

BUT THEN AGAIN

MAYBE YOU DON'T



AN OLD CLICHE THAT NEVER STRAYS

I HATE TO GIVE MY POWERFUL SECRETS AWAY



MY MIND IS UNDER LOCK AND KEY

GIVING YOU CLUES

TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY

IT'S UP TO YOU

TO PLAY SHERLOCK HOLMES

DIG IN THE GARDEN

OF MY BRAND NEW HOME

LESS

EVIDENCE TO FIND

WHAT HAS BEEN LEFT BEHIND

BARS

CAUGHT AT THE SCENE

OF THE CRIME



HAVE A DRINK ON ME

HAVE SOME DINNER TO EAT

AVOID THE PAPARAZZI AS I LEAVE

I AM NOT WHO THEY SAY I AM

I'M JUST A REGULAR GUY

TRYING TO MAKE ENDS MEET



SURE I PLAY THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

BUT NOT ON T.V.

I'M WORKIN' LIKE A HOOKER

ON THE CORNER OF

KENNEDY

DRIVE BY

BUT DON'T SHOOT

AND I WILL GIVE YOU A TREAT

YOU CAN LAUGH AT THE MONKEY

DANCING IN THE SUIT OF ARMOR

DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YA



THEY SAY IT'S A SIGHT TO SEE

BUT I CAN'T SEE IT

I'M BEHIND THE TIMES AND SCENES

I JUST MOVE

TO WHAT THE MUSIC TELLS

ME TO DO

AUTOMATIC

NO BRAINS NEEDED

TO THINK ABOUT IT



JUST LISTEN

DID YOU HEAR THAT?

WHAT DID YOU SAY?



NO I DIDN'T

COULD YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION?

LIKE A BROKEN RECORD



I WAS GUIDED

BLINDED

BY THE SUNLIGHT

DRIVEN THROUGH

THE POWER OF THE MUSIC

PROVIDED

ONE DOOR CLOSES, AS ANOTHER OPENS

Well, well, well I am not psychic but I saw this coming as no surprise. I was "let go" from my duties as a newspaper hawker for the Key West Citizen because I couldn't mustard up enough sales to garner my 5 dollar a day bonus they pay you if you sell 1 to 24 papers, if you sell 25 to 49, you get 10 dollars a day and so on and so forth. Hell, my record was only 12 the whole 2 months I was there. You get .25 cents on a fiddy cent paper and get to keep your tips but I would only sell on average, 2 - 4 papers a day so the Citizen didn't think that since I only turn in, say a dollar on a good day, for their cut of the daily profits that paying me that 5 dollar "bonus" didn't make sense which I kinda agree but still contest that for that measly 5 dollars, I would be out on the street corner by 7:30 in the morning (I tried going out there earlier but the traffic just wasn't there and not worth it, at least as far as I was concerned. I could of been out there at 5 o'clock in the morning like the other "freaks" but it didn't make sense nor a difference. With the Internet and home subscriptions with free months enticements, I think the days of the hawkers are numbered. Except for the "freaks" (Please forgive me lord) who have been doing it for years and have a loyal following. God bless and more power to them, they deserve every penny they get. I am not bitter or jealous, although, I know I may sound like it, but I really am happy for them, they have a dedication that I am not willing to devote to, especially not for, what amounts for me working 3 hours a day, 7 days a week, for what equates to about 2 dollars an hour. Homey don't play that. So as the title suggest, that door is closed....and now for the door (I'll take door number 2, Monty) to open and it's a door I have already been through before. That door is the Liberty Tax door and I walked through it today after being FIRED !!! (there I said it, I am finally, sniffle, sniffle, officially past the denial stage) from the newspaper business. I noticed that my former bosses, John and Theresas' car was out in front of the Liberty Tax office and stopped in and I officially start back as the Statue of Liberty on Monday, January 7th, at 8 a.m.... My co-hawker at the Citizen, Lloyd, wanted to do the Statue too, so I told him I would put in a good word for him, so he will probably be out there doing it as well. O.K....enough of that. I received a gift from Pastor Omar. A pair of real drumsticks and a opportunity to play a real set of drums at the old Douglas school in Key West.. I'll keep you posted when more details appear..Speaking of appearing,(Drum Roll, please, thank you) I just checked the Sheriff's website and saw that Murphy, yes that Murphy, the "star" of the Murphy Show on YouTube has...... BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL!!! (Cymbal crash here) Lock up your liquor cabinets and stay off the beaten path or whatever path Murphy decides to go down because he's loose once again and he will be around town!!.....Next I have a poem burning a hole in my back pocket and if I don't put it on here, I will lose it (not mind-wise, paper-wise, silly) Here we go...again.. I really have too much time on my hands but I must admit, I have fun with that time I spend, I certainly don't have MONEY to spend...




I DON'T HAVE A TITLE, YOU CAN MAKE UP YOUR OWN DAMN TITLE,



Written (for some reason) on 12/29/12



THE IDIOTS THAT DON'T GET IT

CAN'T BLAME ME

FOR THEIR IGNORANCE

NOT MY FAULT

THEY MISSED THE BOAT

WHEN THEY WERE

PASSING BRAINS OUT

POINT THE FINGER

AT SOMEBODY ELSE



I REFUSE TO BE

THEIR SCAPE GOAT

GOT ENOUGH PROBLEMS

OF MY OWN

KEEP ON MOVIN'

DOWN THE ROAD



YOUR EXCUSE

HAS WORN OLD

LIKE A BROWN SHOE

THAT NOBODY WANTS TO WALK

LEFT ALONE

UNDERNEATH

A

FULL MOON





O.K..... I think I am referring to the friggin homeless idiots that I am constantly surrounded by. These motherfuckers (excuse my fuckin language) are the NEEDIEST, GREEDIEST pieces of dirt I have ever seen. I laugh when people bitch about the homeless in the Citizen's Voice. I say to myself, TRY LIVING with these scumbags. You poor thing you, you have to look at them and they take up space...I gotta go..

Angels In Heaven/Career Change

I wrote this in dedication to the families of the children and teachers who lost their lives in the senseless act in Newtown, Conn. that should of never happened, but unfortunately did happen.




ANGELS IN HEAVEN



THE ANGELS

ARE IN HEAVEN

RESTING IN PEACE



WAITING PATIENTLY

FOR YOUR ARRIVAL

TAKE YOUR TIME THOUGH

YOU STILL HAVE WORK

ON EARTH TO DO



JUST KNOW

THEY STILL

LOVE YOU

A FAMILY REUNION

WILL RETURN SOON



STAY STRONG

DON'T LET GO

OF HOPE



WE WILL ALL BE HOME SOON

TIME TO REJOICE



FOR THEY ARE NOW

IN GODS' ARMS

SAFE FROM HARM





Written - 12/29/12 - Kevin Dale Sanders





I hope you all had a Happy Holiday and didn't get into any trouble! Speaking of trouble, Murphy has a court date tomorrow and should get out of the jailhouse rock. So beware and let the madness begin again!!!!! He's hell bent on getting another bad motor scooter and he should have 2 checks waiting for him when he gets out. Don't say I didn't warn you. ...Work wise for me, Friday, will probably be my last day at the Key West Citizen as I can't for the life of me sell 25 papers. My record is 12 in one day. BUT.. by then I should be returning as the Statue of Liberty, working for Liberty Tax soon after.