Hello to my old friends on my/barack.obama.com. You know me from coming over to our house (Owen and Mary Lou's) to watch our guy take on the heavyweights in primaries and debates. We ranted and cheered and felt at home with one another, even though we had never met, we were different ages and came from some very different worlds. We loved every second of it all the way down to the thrill of seeing Barack Obama sworn in as 44th President of the USA.
It was such a relief to see the end of an 8 year nightmare and welcome a guy so wonderful in so many ways, it was hard to believe he ran and got elected. I don't know about you, but I relaxed and no longer felt the strong urge to get onto the Obama netroots page and talk about politics. I knew our country was in good hands.
Today, I'm back because of a remarkable development in my personal life. During the second term of Bush and Cheney, Mary Lou was diagnosed with cancer and ended up spending a lot of time at MD Anderson in Houston getting treatment. Thanks to getting the best, Mary Lou is healthy and cancer free today. But during that difficult time, I had a great deal of time at home alone. One day a Muse visited and I found myself writing a novel that covered the events and impact of my era, the 60's. The novel, still unpublished, is full of music, because the narrator listens to music, hears music on the radio, goes to concerts and hears music playing in his head pretty much nonstop. I even wrote several original blues, R&B, rock&roll and rock tunes specifically for the novel.
In 2008, during the campaign year, I recorded 12 songs including 9 originals with some excellent musicians I know at a great indie studio, John Keane Studios in Athens, GA. One of these was a heavily satirical number about guns and violence in America, using the music of Chuck Berry's immortal Sweet Little 16 but satirizing the Beach Boys copycat version of Sweet Little 16, Surfin' USA. Mine is called "Murder USA." I entered this song (under the name of our band, Dr. Morpheus) in the Land Shark Lager 2009 Battle of the Bands online contest and to my shock, the tune was accepted!
So, I'd like you to follow this link to my band page in the Land Shark contest, Dr. Morpheus and see if you'd like to vote for us in the contest. Besides being a rockin' tune, Murder USA makes a statement about the casual way Americans often shoot one another for no good reason. It's not anti-gun but it is ant-senseless violence. Please check it out. If you get what I'm doing here and like it, I would really welcome your support and assistance in our campaign to get into a live face-off concert in Nashville, TN on Sept 245. Voting in Round 1 of the contest last through Aug 10- you may vote once daily from as many email addresses as you have. If you vote, you will receive a confirmation email and YOU MUST ENDORSE THE CONFIRMATION EMAIL FOR YOUR VOTE TO COUNT. It is likely the confirmation email will go into your SPAM folder and you won't realize what it is, so please pay close attention. If you want to get involved with our campaign (please get involved with our campaign!), contact me through this site or my email drscott@psychclinic.com We have a great campaign going but we need a lot more help to make it to the concert. BTW, the grand prize includes a 2 page ad spread in Rolling Stone magazine! Should we go all the way, I commit here to display Obama gear prominently in my outfit when I go to the photo shoot.
Thanks for checking this out. And whatever you may or may not do with the contest, keep in touch with Mary Lou and myself. We miss you!
All the best,
Owen
PS Can we do it?
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