Here we are! The Ides of October! I have a few things on my mind now.
One: Barbed Wire Valentine has had the great good fortune to be invited to open a show for my good friends and fellow rocknrollers, The Strangers. It's November 2nd at the fabled Forestville Club; the venue that has been the launching-pad for so many…shall I list their names?…Naaaa, you know who they are.
Be that as it may, y'all need to make it to the Forestville Club, 6300 Front Street, Forestville, CA to see The Strangers rock and roll the place, and Barbed Wire Valentine starting things off at 8.
Two: Why isn't everyone listening to Jack Whites new record, No Name?!?! And why isn't it on Rolling Stones list of probable nominees for best rock album at the Grammys? Dolly Parton? Hackney Diamonds?
Three: Thinking about how Revealed Translation of John's Revelation (The Book) has found its way into many of my songs. Here is an excerpt that is an example of this. It's from Chapter 18, which discusses the fall of the government of The United States and had a strong influence on my song, Critical List.
“ This time the contention arising because of dissatisfaction with the rule of men will arise in its fury and sway man toward submission to God’s law. Whereas in ages past it always resulted in the utter abolition of the standards of men. This would come again, were it not that revelation reappears to protect man in the midst of the great strife and confusion that is to envelop the world. And this ordinance of revelation concerns this action and the voice of Angels in the will of God which will warn men by their wisdom and lead men by their guidance speaking through the consciousness of men who will be prepared for that purpose. This is the voice that John speaks of which shall be heard from Heaven, saying: “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues.” Were it not for this warning voice, and this helping hand, which will be heard and received by numbers and by scores, men would indeed fall victims to the consequences that will soon arise as a result of the world’s sins and selfishness of men. And were men to fall victims to the consequences of it, the destruction of the human race from the face of the earth would follow. But the protecting hand of God is over man; therefore these evil consequences which would otherwise be, will be swayed even as the tree is swayed by the wind. And men shall not realize how critical was their condition until the time is past, and men turn their hearts to the purposes of the Infinite and Allwise.”