The Kintners Music Time is not an investment.

I like Nile Rogers a lot. I talked to him before on instagram. He really seemed to like the song “Kentucky” I had recently made at the time. bkbirge who collaborated with us knows Nile’s music too. Was a fun day. He was very warm and genuine. Not the case with most famous folks I have met, but certainly with him.

“I’ve been doing this too long to quit.”

Today I find myself thinking about folks in office, at jobs, on personal missions, and folks who play music who say, “I’ve been doing this too long to quit now.”

This is not a flex, to me. It means you’ve struggled at it a long time. So long, that you don’t see the point in not struggling anymore. “Struggle” has become your life and you’ve no sign of letting up, what I hear in that.

Get while the getting is good!

“I got out when the getting was good,” much cooler to me. To each their own, but struggling and suffering ought to be avoided where I’m at in life. Doesn’t matter if I’m right or wrong, or spent time in either route. The time now matters. If it’s going to make me miserable, it goes away. Nothing is worth years of futile struggle. Nothing. Go outside, break rocks. Same thing.

Fight! You? Me? Doesn’t matter, let’s fight!

We have a hard time fighting each other in this society because it’s just bizarre to admit being wrong these days. We treat ourselves the exact same way. We don’t need the help. It’s simply doing life wrong. All that fighting each other does so much damage, if each one of us is fighting ourselves, aren’t we damaged too?

A song about some folks. It is the most recent The Kintners tune. We are making an album for Christmas time. Can’t wait.

Meatballs.

My major issue with religion is all the fighting. They fight other religions, but with all the contradictions, hypocrisy, and lack of evidence, they make their members weak by making them fight themselves internally. When Christianity was new on the scene in Beowulf, for example, the Christians were laughed at for how puny they were. Many didn’t even fight. Just said, “here’s my head.”

Don’t you think the inner conflict we are encouraged to endure needlessly makes us easy targets? Meatballs? Is that good? Part of the plan? Who can say? I did read ALL of project 2025 last year. Something is wrong with folks who sign up for that. They all go to church.🤷

Time spent plucking is time well spent. It’s fun.

I feel very fortunate that time spent on my music helps me get better at music. It’s a better deal than most places. I not only enjoy listening, I walk away better than before I began. It’s a great deal! Better than church if you ask me.

A friend in NFTs made this for me. I made music and everything for it. I asked him if it was an NFT and he laughed and said no. Still don’t get it.

The NFT bros.

I had friends in the NFT thing. One of them said, “I got 5 years in this, I ain’t about to stop now.”

That kind of thinking is asinine to me. Just because I burn my hand on a stove for 5 years every day doesn’t mean I have to keep doing it! Jeebus.

What I had to do, but your solution may be different.

I don’t know what the answer is, probably different strokes for different folks. For me, I had to stop looking at time as an investment. My time in doing things makes no difference, my enthusiasm does. If I’m suffering, enthusiasm goes out the window.

This is by design. But it does not take into account eternity. Considering J-Dog gets all of time before and all of time after earth with the head honcho, and gets to do stuff and be the right hand and all that, a measly fucking 33 years with 3 years of ministry and a horrid death don’t really seem all that bad. How bad is dying when you know you’re going back to where you were practically yesterday? I mean, isn’t J-Dog getting off easy here? And besides, don’t rich folks prosper more when we feel we need to suffer for their plans? Not into suffering at all.

Suffering does not beget art.

Many artists, (I blame Jesus), feel strongly that suffering in some shape or form facilitates great art. The is a huge big giant lie on any artistic industry. It’s so you quit. Or it’s so you’re cheaper. It might even be so you’re free. But it’s never for your own good, or art. Never. Suffering is NEVER good or necessary for artists, got that? Simple logic there, it’s not good for any other humans, so.

When you work with tons of musicians, you see many hopeless cases of pickers and writers who believe this. It’s just real sad, trying to imagine life that way. I don’t know if they believe in some kind of balance with suffering and success that doesn’t exist or what. But it’s sad.😢 Many folks who aren’t religious still believe in some kind of balance. I only see chaos here.🤷.

Dino DiMuro is a huge influence on me. I’m not after his sounds or style. But I’d love to be that much fun.

How about jammin’ for fun on music you dig? (No suffering.)

Practice makes performances better usually. That’s not an investment of time. It’s doing something you like, hopefully. If it’s not, don’t fucking do it. Whoever’s in your brain saying you have to, tell them to fuck off, you’re on a funk phase now. (That’s just me, you might have different tastes.)

PS: if by chance, you do ever feel “Fuck off I like music,” you’re probably ready for funk. That’s kinda’ the message of the greatest funk tracks I know of. Good template.