When I was at school a kid came up behind me and slapped both my ears. I collapsed to the floor, the air had nowhere to go. It perforated my ear drums and I lost my balance because it damaged my inner ear canal...
When you spend a lifetime with perforated ear drums slowly going Deaf. I think I've got a right to sing the Blues...
Communication...
I remember my German girlfriend telling me she learned English by watching Bowie videos... now that struck me as a simple but effective way for communication...
So the hearing world could learn Deaf Sign Language through Music...!
Fantastic! Just watch a Sign Language interpreter Signing to Pop Music
You'll be amazed how much you'll pick up...
Start a revolution from your skull...
Thanks for reading... now go break the sound barrier...
"See things you would not normally see...
Hear things you would not normally hear...
and do things you would not normally do...
DeafboyOne - Searching for ears... similar skulls and enlightenment
Ever circling skeletal family...
Deaf culture is a term applied to the social movement that holds deafness to be a difference in human experience rather than a disability. When used in a cultural sense, the word deaf is referred to as Deaf with a capital D.
Deaf communities do not automatically include all those who are clinically or legally deaf, nor do they exclude all hearing people. It is not the extent of hearing loss that defines a member of the Deaf community but the individual's own sense of identity and resultant actions. As with all social groups a person may choose to belong to a particular community if they identify themselves as a member of that community, and other members accept them as a part of that community.
The Deaf community typically includes individuals who communicate via signed languages, individuals who attended schools for the deaf, children of deaf parents, and sign language interpreters. Deaf communities also often possess social and cultural norms that are distinct from those of surrounding hearing communities.
1. Most Blues begin with, "Woke up this morning . . . ."
2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you
stick something nasty in the next line, like, "I got a good woman, with
the meanest face in town."
3. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes,
sort of: "Got a good woman with the meanest face in town.
Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town.
Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher, and she weigh 500 pound."
4. The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck
in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch, ain't NO way out.
5. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles.
Most Blues transportation involves a Greyhound bus or a southbound train.
Other OK Blues transportation: used Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs, and
broke-down trucks. Jet aircraft and state motor pool vehicles ain't even
in the runnin'. Walkin' plays a major part in the Blues lifestyle.
So does fixin' to die.
6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet.
Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get
the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii, Vail,
or any place in Canada except the Maritime Provinces or maybe Alberta.
Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression.
Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City are still the best places to have the Blues.
You cannot have the Blues in no place that don't get no rain.
8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the Blues. A woman with
male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg 'cause you were skiing is
not the Blues. Breaking your leg 'cause a alligator be chomping on it is.
9. You can't have no Blues in a office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong.
Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.
10. Good places for the Blues:
a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass
Bad places for the Blues:
a. Nordstrom's
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League institutions
d. golf courses
11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be
a old ethnic person an' you slep' in it.
12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if:
a. you older than dirt
b. you blind or Deaf
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you can't be satisfied
No, if:
a. you have all your teeth
b. you once were blind and Deaf but now can see and hear
c. the man in Memphis lived
d. you have a 401K or trust fund
13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck.
Tiger Woods cannot sing the Blues. Sonny Liston could.
Ugly white people also got a leg up on the Blues.
14. If you ask for water and your darlin' give you gasoline, it's the Blues.
Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a. cheap wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. nasty black coffee
The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. Perrier
b. Chardonnay
c. Snapple
d. Slim Fast
e. Diet Coke
15. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death.
Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to go.
So are the electric chair, substance abuse, and dying lonely on a broken-down cot.
You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or
while getting liposuction...
16. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling
e. Caledonia
17. Some Blues names for men:
a. Willie
b. Joe
c. Little Willie
d. Leroy (pronounced LEE-Roy)
e. Big Willie
18. Persons with names like Michelle, Amber, Jennifer, Tiffany,
Brooke, Brittany and Heather can't sing the Blues no matter how many
men they shoot in Memphis...
19. Here's your own Blues Name Starter Kit:
a. name of physical manifestation (Blind, Deaf, Cripple, Lame, etc.)
b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Kiwi, etc.)
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.)
For example: Blind Willie Lime Jefferson, Jakeleg Joe Lemon Johnson,
Pete DeafboyOne Waller or Cripple Leroy Kiwi Fillmore, etc.
(Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")
20. Regardless of how tragic your life is, if you own a computer...
you cannot sing the Blues...
So there you have it... the idiots guide to Blues...
Pete DeafboyOne
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Cry Baby (Pete Waller) by DeafboyOne
you got me thinkin bout the things that i done...
you made me wonder why...
you got me thinkin well when alls said and gone...
you made me wanna cry...
you made me cry baby
you made me cry now baby
you made me cry baby
you made me cry...
you got me thinkin bout the life that i had...
you made me wanna die...
you made love on a four poster bed...
when you came you lied...
you made me cry baby...
you made me cry now baby...
you made me cry baby...
you made me cry now baby...
baby you made me cry...
The DeafboyOne Project Sign Language...
From early Robert Johnson... to legendary Blues men like John Lee Hooker I have always loved The Blues. This is my small insignificant take on it... Welcome to The DeafboyOne Project... DeafboyOne Blues... woke up this mornin...
"One day all Deaf and Hard of Hearing people will have the same access to and enjoyment of Music as Hearing people enjoy today..." DeafboyOne.
No sleep til dawn... when words and Sign land... though we chase those glowing hours with flying hands! If you can.. ! Read my hands!
All enquiries from TV & Press have been told same thing...
You use "Sign Language" to me in my language...
I will communicate to you in your language...
Subculture Weekend Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November at The Sandringham Hotel, Newtown, NSW. Flash, new! big upstairs room! Mother Truckers all set to rev the engine up on Black Friday 13 November. Hope to see you there!
