What I like to do is first lay down a kind of

a syncopated beat that isn't so much about

what it is altogether. It's more about the modulation and what it is

once it starts. It's a little bit of a groove

more than it is a rock beat. I do a flamm rest

flamm rest flamm rest

followed by sort of kind of an intricate African

thing on the low drums. So it goes like so the pattern is

you ride on this tom here, hopefully you've got these 17 toms,

and it goes something like this.

First of all, you must wear pants for this.

I'm sorry I don't want to go to serendipity and drink frozen hot chocolates

with your uncle's girlfriend who is a stewardess

named Ellady. And I definitely definitely don't care about putting on appropriate pants

because one can really go through their whole life wearing shorty shorts and

offend almost nobody. She was a shake dancer, she did the hoochie

coach. I don't believe you're seriously considering listening to these

movies. Luckily for me, I've processed all my feelings and I've gone through

the five stages of grief, denial, anger, internet commenting,

cat adoption, African dance, cat returning to the adoption place,

watching all the episodes of Murphy Brown and not giving a flying fart.

How many stages is that?

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