{"id":902,"date":"2014-08-30T02:36:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T02:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/?p=774"},"modified":"2014-08-30T02:36:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T02:36:27","slug":"fiesta-a-fighters-of-foo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/fiesta-a-fighters-of-foo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiesta &#038; Fighters of Foo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;There is a Friday Night Fiesta going on in San Angelo. Sounds like lots of $s changing hands. &nbsp;Good. &nbsp;It&#8217;s good for the industry. &nbsp;I was going, but then it was like, &#8220;You dumb son-of-a&#8211;, WHY?&#8221; &nbsp;Sometimes, you just have to step back, and realize, there is enough going on at home. &nbsp;STAY HOME! &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;And I did. But the Dragon Lady left for the evening. &nbsp;Just Duke and I at home. Ungh!? &nbsp;She left for a GR8T reason. &nbsp;One of my all-time favorite people is flying into OKC on this Friday evening. The Dragon Lady GLADLY volunteered to pick this person up and head home to paradise. &nbsp;Can&#8217;t wait! &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;It&#8217;s no secret that I like music. &nbsp;I really like good music. Although I love George, Willie, Waylon, Merle, Alabama, the Oaks, Garth, etc., when it is time for me to get right in the head, I prefer it LOUD!!! &nbsp; If it&#8217;s too loud, then you&#8217;re too old! &nbsp; I grew up in the music video age&#8211;Madonna, Michael Jackson, the BOSS, Wierd Al, Van Halen, etc. &nbsp;I still love a good music video even though they are few and far between. &nbsp; My college years is when music started to change. &nbsp;Hair bands were done, grunge took over and country learned about videos. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>The biggest band in 1991 was Nirvana. &nbsp;HUGE! &nbsp; Too big. &nbsp;I lliked them, got sick of &#8220;Smells like Teen Spirit&#8221;. &nbsp;But they had talent. Then the lead singer bites the end of a 12 gauge and that was the end of that band. &nbsp;But, the Foo Fighters emerged. &nbsp;The frontman and lead guitarist for the Foo Fighters was Dave Grohl. &nbsp;He had been the drummer of Nirvana. &nbsp;WTH? &nbsp;How does the drummer front a band and shred guitars and now starts directing the music videos for the band? &nbsp;The guy is wicked good and wicked cool. &nbsp;Dave Letterman&#8217;s favorite band is, as he calls them, &#8220;The Fighters of Foo&#8221;. &nbsp;I haven&#8217;t seen them live, but it is in on my short list. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I like quotes, so here is my favorite Dave Grohl quote. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never took lessons to learn how to play the drums, and I never took lessons to learn how to play the guitar, I just sort of figured it out. &nbsp;I think that if you are passionate about something and if you are driven and focused, that you can pretty much do anything you want to do in life.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I love it! &nbsp;It doesn&#8217;t make a rat&#8217;s donkey if it is music, sports or showing. &nbsp;If you REALLY want to do it, you will figure it out. &nbsp;Try it, mess up, try it again, ask somebody for help, screw it up again and then you realize that nobody ever got better without trying. &nbsp;And once you try to DO it right, O S, it works. &nbsp;Now, you can do it better. &nbsp;Don&#8217;t stop. &nbsp;Do it again. &nbsp;Next thing you know, you are an expert because you screwed up several times, then did it right a whole bunch of times. &nbsp;But you did it and didn&#8217;t quit till you figured it out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I had to learn this goat deal on my own. &nbsp;And now, I&#8217;m relying on others to help stay current&#8211;Flush, Sync, etc. &nbsp;It&#8217;s a good circle and I like to have some tunes playing while trying to figure stuff out. &nbsp;Spark up some Foo Fighters tunes and rock out with your&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Play some good music, chill out, get fired up or whatever knocks your socks off. &nbsp;Just do whatever it is that you want to do better than you&#8217;ve ever done it before. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Right now&#8211;I am realizing that I am the best in the world at knocking one back while writing a blog listening to the &#8220;theme from Rocky&#8221; on an evening that I actually used a lawn mower and the Dragon Lady is not home. &nbsp;YES!! I am a WORLD CHAMPION!! &nbsp;Yes, it is an obscure award. &nbsp;But a win is a win. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;There is a Friday Night Fiesta going on in San Angelo. Sounds like lots of $s changing hands. &nbsp;Good. &nbsp;It&#8217;s good for the industry. &nbsp;I was going, but then it was like, &#8220;You dumb son-of-a&#8211;, WHY?&#8221; &nbsp;Sometimes, you just have to step back, and realize, there is enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}