rock star

do you think that every young child grows up wishing and hoping and praying that someday when they're older they'll become a rock star?? i know i did! or maybe it was my parents who wished that fate upon me, and exemplified that by dressing me up in a gold rock star mullet wig and leather jacket with junior snake skin pants comeplete with "kiss" make-up around the eyes one halloween night when i was but a lad...or maybe that's why i'm gay...no, just kidding!

it struck me while i was standing in the line-up in the drug store and peered into the "enegry drink" display case and saw the "rock star" beverage standing there lookin' like a rockin' can of (much needed) beer. and i felt compelled to buy it. maybe it was my destiny calling out to me...or maybe it represented something from my childhood; like a memory waiting to be rediscovered. or maybe it was something from beyond that was telling me to be more edgy...not that's not possible, riiight?

either way, it got me thinking. do you think the rock stars of today exemplify the "live hard, die young, and leave a good looking corpse" way of being that was once the way of yesterday's rock stars?

i mean, you look at ozzy and the crue and axl and the way they lived...and you compare that to the "pop stars" of today??? it's completely uncomparable!!

but maybe that's what happens as the genre gets passed down from generation to generation. aspects get lost in translation, and time changes things. the once booze soaked concerts and rampage fueled after-partys of motley's daze, have been replaced by coke fueled ditty's sung by heroin chic bulimics and posh afterhours-vip-members only-night clubs. (i love you lindsay and ashley and nicole!!!)

and maybe that's ok! maybe that's how the party gods wanted things to evolve! but i guess we just have to be thankful that there are still the odd group out there who's always ready to trash a hotel room, sleep with some groupies, pass out on stage, and be willing to be ready to take one for the teams of yore in an all-out rawk fest!!!



cause really, do you want this to be your next rock idol???