Country Music, and other stufffff

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I had one of my classic Zach’s a dumbass moment today while I was unloading some equipment at Home Depot. I was trying to take off a bungee cord that was being stubborn, so I leaned down to take a closer look. Just then I had an interesting thought: man, if this thing broke and flew off with my face right here….that would probably suck. That was the voice or reason, and I heard it about one eight of a second before the bungie came flying off the hook. It landed about 10 feet from my truck before I realized that it smacked me right on the bridge of the nose. I ended up with about a half inch gash right on on the bridge of my nose. I’m hoping I’m lucky and wake up with out two black eyes from the blood draining overnight. Dumbass!!!

OK…so I have to admit that that I’ve started listening to a little bit of Country music again. I had all I could stand of Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stephani, and Fergie (neither of whom have called me in at least a few months… the nerve!!!) on my usual radio stations and looked for a change. Remember, I am a Texan. While I’m pretty much a city boy, I was in fact born and raised in the great state of Texas and if you don’t listen to at least some country every few years they can kick you out of the state. So, anyway I have been listening to a little country, and I’m not afraid to admit it!

I used to think that country music was a song writing step above Pop. You have to admit there is some stupid crap written into Pop songs that sound like they were written by 9 year olds : Example: My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely lady lumps (Check it out).
Lovely lady lumps? Even coming from the curvy Fergie, that just doesn’t sound appealing.
But I heard a country song that made me think otherwise. It starts off pretty well with a guy singing about how he wants to run away with this girl, take her out into nature etc. But then the corus is…. I wanna check you for ticks.
What? Really? come on!!!!
Yea…. you’d have to get naked to check for ticks…. but that’s not sexy!!! You have to get naked for a colonoscopy… but would you sing a song about wanting to check you for polyps? Did that songwriter use that as a pick up line? Did it work?

Advertisement works by the way. I started listening to a station called the wolf just because one of their DJ’s (who I don’t think I’ve even heard yet) is cute. I digress. There is still a lot of country that I can’t handle. A lot of the things everybody makes fun of country about holds true for probably %30-40 of what I’ve heard. I can’t handle the really slow songs or really depressing songs… but some of the other songs are ok. The bonus for me is that since I haven’t really listened to country in several years, even the old songs are new to me.

One last thought on Country Music… They need to come up with a moratorium on new songs with the oldest trick in the country music lyrics book. No more songs can be written where there is some little cute tag line that is used through out the song, and at the end of the song it’s used by someone who is dead, dying, by God, a boy who has become a father, a girl who has become a mother, or anything similar. You guys know what I’m talking about! It’s over used, and we need to slooooow down.