The Muse and Whirled Retort April 2023
 Hey Everybody! I am SOOOOO sorry. I have no idea what happened with that last email I sent - if you got a blank copy - we can't figure out what happened. I am trying this again. I think I have it figured out. Please know - I really try to only bother you once a month, and I have been sending this since the dawn of email. SO! LET US TRY THIS AGAIN! Hey Everybody! It's that time Again! Paul and I are doing a short little run very excited about that - so if you are in Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Tallahassee, Athens, or Ashville Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a wild ride. I am going to spare ya the crass comercial announcments till the end. I know many of you are looking for an April fools joke. - but there isn't one. I can't do it every year, I would never fool you. But I am still a little high over the last time I did it... Boy o Boy Y'all can be guilable. Perhaps dat's why I love you so. Here is a little poem about being on the road - I hope you enjoy it. It is from the "So, Where Ya Headed album. Enjoy! ******** T.H.E. .M.U.S.E. .A.N.D. .W.H.I.R.L.E.D. .R.E.T.O.R.T. Austin, Texas April 1, 2023 American Idle I have seen the best minds of my generation... writing ad copy. Tonight as I drown my sorrows in a beer ad, I think of Elliot, of Yates and Molière. What would they have made of it all? I wonder if they would be today's poets? The ones writing "This Bud's for you,” “I love you, man,” “and It don't get no better than this?" You know, the classics? Or would they be writing the TV shows them selves? Would they write "What biggest looser slouches down project runway waiting to be lost."
Would they be sitting at the right hand of God. That’s the one where he holds the remote control. Because, since the moment that God said, "Let there be light." And he hit the universal remote and a little white dot appeared on the giant surround sound television screen in the sky,  in their little fig leaf bathrobes on their little Fred Flintstone couches watching God's first mini-series – Known as The constellations – and the stories began to unfold – and just like today, they would fall asleep to stories on TV. And the stories would dance in their dreams. They would be passed on from generation to generation. Until today, we get Dancing with the Stars. In fact, the constellations were the longest running show in human history. Longer than The Guiding Light, longer than The Simpsons But then it got cancelled. Replaced by a new show called Smog. So now people go to sleep watching shows like American Idol where the premiss is for the people to become "stars" that no longer exist. But our definition of star has become as distorted as our view of the night time sky in downtown Los Angeles. Why do you think every body in LA wants to be a star? Because there are no stars. But people still fall asleep watching that crap – and they dream a retched dream - poorly written, probably medicated, involving a creepy butterfly that flies into your room so you can play chess with Abraham Lincoln, a talking Gopher and a mute guy in an antique diving bell Then, you wind up in a threesome with Bob Barker and Drew Cary and a mysterious stranger shouting "Come on Down!" And your a smart person, an observant one, So you noticed that Johnson Floor Wax retails for the same amount of money as Jiffy Pop Popcorn and noticing the innocuous anomaly you are asked to spin a giant Catherine Wheel, which looks like it may have belonged to Liberace himself. Until you find your self shouting, “The price is NOT right!”  – we worship our entertainers – as long as they're famous. It is not like the days of the bard. Where the wondering minstrel strolled from township to town, encampment to camp fire singing the stories of the village just over there. Long before they were written down. Stories like… , The Torah and The Quran.  a false American Idol? And when we watch that crap America IS Idle! … and the famous? They’ll do anything to stay famous. They will go on talk shows to talk about how hard it is to be famous. How hard it is to be on the road... and they will stab each other in the back to take jobs as insipid game show hosts. Or judges on contests that make no Talents... Famous… So I say, "Fame is for sissies!" Hell, It would be easy to be on the road for thirty-five years if you were famous. Doing one night stands. Staying in hotel rooms. Maybe a week in Vegas. Hot showers, Meals. Try doing it for thirty-five years when your passing the hat in a coffee house in North Dakota. It’s true with anything you love. And it’s not about fame. You may be the best widget maker in the world - and no one notices - so the guy in the assembly line next to you gets the promotion. You still have to find a way to keep being the best widget maker in the world. The only way to do that is to keep being the best widget maker in the world And tell stories about BEING a widget maker to your kids. **************** A.N.N.O.U.N.C.M.E.N.TS.  Paul and I are going to be doing shows in early / mid April in Austin, Houston, 3 Shows in New Orleans, Tallahassee, Athens, Asheville. I hope you can make it. Most of these will be a house concert it should be intimate fun don’t miss it it has been a minute since we played in this neck of the woods. We will be touring in support of our terrific new album “Don’t Go Back to Sleep.”  I want a copy of the new chandler and Benoit CD or Pasting https://chrischandler.org/product/don-t-go-back-to-sleep/ It's really good, I promise! ********* You may have noticed I am not playing lots of live shows these days. There are lots of reasons for that. I would like to keep this little show touring along and I could use your help! 
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Friday, April 7th, 2023 8:00 PM Austin The Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit Show in Austin Green Man Coffee Saturday, April 8th, 2023 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM Houston Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 ON LINE 7 PM CDST The Poem of the Week Live streamed on FaceBook
House Concert At The Home of Michael Wegner 179 Virginia Ave |
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