Suppose I was to tell you that there is a train station in Japan that had a stray cat living there. Suppose I also told you that someone decided to put a hat on that there kitty and proclaim him a “Super Stationmaster.” Then suppose that this cat in the hat became a national superstar, responsible for pumping over $10 million into the local economy and saving the train line from bankruptcy as a result of Japanese tourists traveling from near and far just to see the cat.
You’d laugh and say, “Oh, there’s that Jason again, making up funny stories. I think this is the first one that didn’t in some way involve poop!”
But repent, my friends, for the end of the world is nigh! This cat actually exists! His name is Tama, and he’s the biggest feline sensation to hit Japan since Hello Kitty!
I couldn’t even make up a story like this if I tried. Although I did once try to convince the regular visitors of a different website to send me a diamond plated cockring so that I could put it on a monkey wearing a tuxedo.
So maybe fiction is a little bit stranger than the truth, but not much. Still waiting for that cockring, though…
Hey! That’s so wonderful that a Japanese cat named Tama is highly overrated. I know some Japanese drums named Tama that are highly overrated. If you were a drummer, and not a total douchebag, you would understand that joke. I’m not saying that you are a total douchebag, but that if you were a drummer you would be a douchebag. Well, not just if you were a drummer, but if you were a drummer who didn’t know any better than to like Tama drums. Then you would be a total douchebag.
Actually, now that I think about it, I AM a douchebag. All the REAL musicians I know get to play pentatonic scales and altered chords. They get majors, minors, dominants, and augmenteds. They get arpeggios and fortissimos.
What do I get?
The flamadiddle.
Fuck you, Gene Krupa’s ghost.
I agree. I wuv u 2! <3
Aren’t all drummers douchebags? Just slightly more so than all bass players?