Did I Hear That Right?

(Next blog: Back in Your Face.) Some time ago I was watching a news clip and the announcer was talking about the big three U.S. networks. He listed them with their principle affiliates alongside each: CBS/Viacom, ABC/Disney, and NBC/Google. Go ahead and look it up. That's what he said. Is it true?
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

The Big Secret

People who still want to pretend that I'm not famous should be killed. Back in 2007 it was people like this who led me to think that no one would miss my work if I erased it all from the web. It has since been proven that a large group of TV and music stars were envious of me at that time. Why would they envy me if I wasn't popular? As if I'm going to give up and let them have all my songs and scripts now! There's only one thing dirtier than what the broadcasting media did to me in 2007 by supporting all those frauds who stole my songs and laughs: what they are doing to me at this moment by ignoring me so that people think I'm not famous, hoping I'll erase my accounts from frustration again so they can finish me off. Do they think I'm being arrogant? How blind do they think I am? This has been going on for years. It's fucking unbearable sometimes. Everyone knows my face, damn it. And they're not going to forget me any time soon. Yesterday some stalker waited for me to pass him on my way home so he could whisper a putdown about how I'm 'too egghead'. (Better than being an 'idiot', at least.) Why would he go through so much effort to discourage me if I'm making no impact? Fuck this is ridiculous. I can hardly wait until the rest of the world agrees with me.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

How Oil Men Think

I thought of a reasonable explanation for why oil tycoons seem to have been behind the massive fraud committed with my erased posts from 2006 and 2007. Oil is a nonrenewable resource. Once they burn it all up, there will be no more for your children and grandchildren. Stolen works of music and comedy are also nonrenewable in the hands of frauds. Once they run out, the frauds who profit from them are incapable of producing more and must instead wait helplessly for their victim to share new work on the internet. George W Bush is an oil man, isn't he? And wasn't Halliburton Dick Cheney's company? Do you know what Halliburton is? It is a company that produces drilling technology. In other words, we have used up the reachable supply of oil and now must dig deeper. And if we must dig deeper for oil, I guess we're still dependent on it. Maybe the cars of the future will run on molten lava.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

The Business Hates Artists

Yes, it's Christmastime again. I've been quietly finger picking some Christmas carols on the guitar in my room and may post them if I have time. Years and years have gone by since those stars jumped on my erased posts and turned them into lies. My truth, for which I have sacrificed a great deal of comfort over the years, makes the best lies for lying networks like NBC and FOX. They lie so much that they are always on the lookout for good, honest material to keep them looking honest as they lie to you. In fact, we should change the name of show business to the lying business. It's more truthful sounding. I'm not sure why it's taking so long for me to get ahead when the ones who took my work were overnight sensations with it - like that band who stole Virtue and were playing it on TV only a week or so after I shared it. (How have the last six years been for them? That was a great break Jay Leno gave them by inviting them onto the Tonight Show, eh? Why do you think he wanted them to play my song on his show?) It seems horribly unjust. And all this information coming in about people stealing from me and lying about me is extremely depressing. You must now see the contempt that this industry has for artists. Here I am the author of work they already profited enormously from and I continue to suffer. It's too bad we can't set up a little better conditions for artists. The instant success offered to all these fucking despicable liars who stole my work makes a stark contrast with the stubborn resistance put up against me for seven miserable years - and counting. It tells me that the business hates artists and loves criminals. It tells me that a real artist with real opinions might as well jump off a bridge at the age of ten, rather than face the decades of solitary confinement to be imposed on him for having a free thinking brain. I hope that one day music will be administered in some more reliable way, perhaps by letting artists take care of their own, as Apple tried to do. I know that Apple failed, but I think we can learn from the mistakes and try again. It's a worthwhile goal, taking the fate of artists away from uncultured, overly emotional businessmen and into the safe hands of other artists. If I ever get rich I hope I'll have enough money to start my own label.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

Staying In Touch

With Christmas around the corner again I can't help but reflect on what this 'season of giving' has been like for me in the last six years or so. Abysmal. No parties. No fancy dinners. And then I reflect on what Christmas has been like for all those great performers who stole my songs and laughs. How was the Nasco party in 2007? How was it in 2008? Better? I bet it was. How was it in 2009? Lots of people? Lots to eat and drink? Lots of fun? But they invited me to join them in 2009. I'm glad I didn't go. I still find it hard to control my outrage when I think of how these people strutted around with another person's life-work and accepted all the love and praise for it and never gave a single thought to the harm they caused their victim. That's the kind of worthless human being that crooked TV networks and radio stations turn out with their mindless mantra: all that matters is looking good. People lie to each other about themselves every damn waking minute because they're happier with their lies than they are with reality. Those fools who took my work could never know the sense of pride I feel for being its true author. And even though the business showered them with riches and glory for committing this fraud, the reality of their creative failure still haunted them. They knew they couldn't enjoy their success with my music as well as its true author could.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

What I Meant

I can't find the earlier post where I said concerts were silly but I should say that it would give me pleasure to be able to play my songs in front of all the ones who listen to them on the internet. It's just that the business has blocked my way by making stars out of jerks who stole my work and told you to hate me. I can't take a chance that I will get fair treatment from the workers either if I play a show, not with things as they are now. So as long as I'm being prevented from going out and playing my songs after frauds were worshiped for playing them, I don't want the business to think it upsets me too much and try to think of the performance side of my work as ultimately trivial.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

Life Goes On

Today's my last public post for a while as I throw myself into offline activities. I wanted to leave my loyal supporters on a positive footing. I know they count on me to help them get through the day and I don't want to let them down. They know I believe in God and that makes them feel more secure about trusting me. And they know that God has revealed His special plan for us to me and I just wanted to share that glorious vision with them now. God loves us very much and He doesn't want us to suffer. So it will be quick. When that Moon slips out of orbit and plunges to the Earth we won't know what hit us. Don't be sad. These kind of things have to happen every eon or so. Last time it was the flood. That wiped out my people, the Atlantians. But it's all like it says in the Bible, we had it coming, believe me. And it won't kill all life. Just mammals. Life will go on. Something to smile about.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

I'm North American

I need now to discuss what I see as an active threat from large US broadcasting companies to smear Canada's image around the world. American people need not take offense from my words. I like American people and I think that many of them agree with my ideas. My focus is entirely on large American broadcasting corporations like NBC and FOX, and I see the American (and Canadian) people as victims of these monstrous corporations. CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, is low on creative content. This does not reflect the talent of the Canadian population but the drain of creative Canadian minds to the big money and vast career horizons of our neighbour to the south. Many Americans do not even know that some of their finest entertainers are of Canadian origin. In fact some of these artists and performers feel pressure to keep their Canadian identity a secret. Matt Groening moved to Los Angeles to make it big and had a hit with his Simpsons cartoon on FOX. This should have made Canadians proud, but I saw something in one of those Simpsons episodes to indicate otherwise. It was when Homer Simpson said that 'Canada doesn't have a girlfriend', a most insulting statement, and I'm quite sure that it does not reflect the attitude of the American majority. To top it off, I wouldn't be surprised if parts of that episode depended on the erased posts of another Canadian artist, yours truly. And does anyone remember the irreverence with which Paul Martin, Canada's former prime minister, was treated by an NBC reporter when he was being interviewed over the matter of Canada's participation in George Bush's and Dick Cheney's war against Iraq and Afghanistan? They made Martin look more like an errant office temp than a head of state. Then there is the matter of Canadian content on Canadian radio stations. It seems to conform to the false image of Canada as a 'wimp country', projected by networks like NBC and FOX, by being restricted to wimpy sounding music. There may well be U.S. broadcasting dollars behind this unflattering policy. Then I come along and write good, masculine sounding rock and I end up being panned by these Canadian radio stations after much of my music has already proven itself successful in the hands of frauds. At the same time as they call Canadians wimps, they try to make Canadians reject any Canadian artist whose life and work defies their insulting stereotype. Why do American broadcasters need to hurt Canada like this? I'm not sure. It may be that they dislike the idea of a sovereign state so close to the borders of their almighty corporate empires. They want to be in full control of the continent and that 'pesky' political boundary interferes with their designs. For instance, as a Canadian I am able to secure a reasonable income even though I am unemployed. This has been helpful in speeding up my work on the internet as I expose the ugly fraud of these large U.S. broadcasting corporations. In the absence of a Canada and her superior social programs I might be dead by now and they wouldn't have to worry about me. As it is, their only recourse is to get as many people around the world to dismiss Canada as a joke country whose citizens ought not to be taken seriously. Something for Canadians and Americans to ponder this evening as I finalize my blog for its permanent location on Google. In the end we're all just people and the only foreign threat appears to come from irresponsible corporations in our very midst.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

As the biceps in my right arm twitch ceaselessly and involuntarily from all the mouse clicking I've had to do with these 1400 or so pages of online content, I can't help but wonder how pampered those fraudulent flakers were for stealing it all and using it to make the world hate me.

Flake Off Tina

They thought they could get away with taking my scripts by giving them to someone who would be polite enough to tell you 'I sock' rather than 'I suck cock' when she lied to you about me. This kind of watering down of words to gain your trust must really annoy you. I bet they don't think so. It's too bad that their sockers are so spineless because then they could come up with their own work instead of stealing mine to try to make themselves look cool. It's too bad that I'm the only one who shares his heart on the internet while these flaking broadcasting buzzards only know how to copy and paste and the business turns them into stars for it. It's too bad because it drives real talent from the internet, as you will soon learn, though this account will remain online for the benefit of my lawyers and anyone else who cares about the truth.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

Getting It Straight

I'm going to take a break from my copyright stamping to discuss my latest poetry post, The Veteran, a tribute to my father and all veterans of honest wars. When I speak of honest wars I'm making a distinction between fighting for our survival as we did in World War Two against the Nazis, who threatened the whole planet, and that last war in the Middle East, which I call Halliburton's War of Acquisition. (It's a damn shame if any of my music was used to boost the morale of pilots as they bombed innocent civilians and I'm sure God will punish this offense.) I normally let my readers take their own message from my poems, but since these works of mine have been in other hands up to now, some clearing up of their meaning may now be necessary. The first verse talks about the age of soldiers. They are usually young. My father was only in his teens when he went overseas. The second verse attempts to depict a combat soldier's job with realism. Chewed up flesh might look good in movies but in real life it is most unpleasant to behold. Combat is an ugly job. The drowning land was the land of the Scheldt Estuary, which was flooded by the Germans to slow the Canadian advance. Many of our troops succumbed to disease from this tactic. The third verse is based on a real account. Imagine being pinned down on a bloody field thousands of miles from home, seeing your friends get shot and waiting for a bullet to come crashing through your head. Horrible. I tried to end the poem on a positive note in the fourth verse, but I felt it necessary to add one more verse to explain that great things can happen all the time in the absence of TV cameras. In fact, TV cameras often point to events of only passing significance while great things are happening elsewhere. By capturing those heavily defended V-2 launch sites in the Low Countries, the Canadian Army saved countless lives of Londoners. Maybe one of those Gerry rockets would have fallen on Mick Jagger's house and killed him in his crib if it weren't for men like my father. It's something of which we Canadians can always be proud. On a slightly different note, I've heard of being unrecognized and unappreciated for an achievement, but it took my online experience to teach me about being insulted for doing something good. When such insults extend to the achievements of my dying father, I know that banks and corporations are behind them. Banks and corporations think we are worthless pawns on a vast playing field which they own. They do not hesitate to start wars unnecessarily when it can boost their profits. They are dismissive of our sacrifices and suffering, thinking of us as lower life forms for lacking fabulous wealth. For these reasons they are incapable of writing popular material of their own and must stoop to stealing it from the internet from hapless individuals like myself who do not even want to be stars. They are cold blooded reptiles, as their treatment of me and my father should now sufficiently prove.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

Dented

How's the TV? Did they come up with a new reason to blame me for why they won't pay me for the mountains of work they stole again? Am I, their victim, expected to defend my reputation again? Why bother? Go watch them some more. I started writing a new song but I'm not going to finish it because it sounds like one of those metal songs that were used by creeps to fuck up the last six years of my life to the present day. My heavy metal heart has been severely dented from this experience. It's funny how stars are so loved because the ones who took my work are severely flawed in character. I think this is the result of being spoiled rotten. I used to admire them too, but I'm sitting here now with a hundred and fifty or so songs of which only one has not been passed off as belonging to some fucking fraud. Besides thinking they're greedy and arrogant, I think they're dumb for not being able to produce their own work. I think they're lazy for not wanting to do their own work. I think their network or label are evil for supporting them.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

What I Dislike the Most

You know what I dislike the most about the bad stars who took my work? Their greed. They're fucking rich and they didn't want to write me a cheque. Fuck that's cheap! They probably thought it would have diminished their precious image to be associated with me. I didn't even want to be a star! I would have accepted money in exchange for such a disassociation. I would have made it onto my island by now and I'd be happily painting my masterpieces instead of typing out old work here.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

Happy What's Left of My Birthday

Looks like I made it to my forty-eighth birthday. Thanks everyone who sent me birthday greetings. Don't forget to wish Roger a happy birthday because it's his birthday, too. Roger has two birthdays. Don't believe me? Ask my brother Bernard. You can trust Bernard. Don't believe me? Just ask NBC. They'll tell you that you can trust Roger and Bernard. Did someone say NBC? Why do I have that network on my mind so much? Do you think it's because so much of their content came from my mind? That may be part of it. I heard someone mention the word 'gentleman' as I passed by him yesterday. I got the impression that some people are excusing NBC's crime because of the polite and pleasant manner in which they committed their fraud - pleasant to you, at least. To me they are scum. I don't care how polite they are. It is behaviour which defines a person and not superficial appearances. All these mealy-mouthed liars belong in a prison cell. And their polite faces should never again be allowed onto the public airwaves. Actually the very worst lies are the politely spoken ones for they are the most readily believed lies. That makes polite liars the lowest of liars. Instead of excusing them for lying in a polite tone, you should be burning them at the stake. NBC is such a criminal. I can't believe it's still on the air. They must have committed over a thousand counts of fraud with my scripts. They must have made a fortune off my erased blogs. And it's my birthday today and I just spent my last nine dollars on a pack of smokes. It will be weeks before I have money again. And on top of that they tried to make me share my birthday with my brother. And they ruined my Canada Day. And their sister corporation CBC tried to put that blog stealing jerk back on a stage this summer. It's too bad all anyone looks at is their superficial appearance because underneath that flimsy covering lurks a hideous beast from Hell. It's too bad no one can see their true colours but their victim.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

Halloween Humor

It's the time of the year to love monsters and killers and to crack jokes about their victims. Tell them to kindly get it all out of their systems by tomorrow.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

Thankless Effort

As I plod through the last stages of my online work I reflect on how little of it I was able to share in person over the last six years. At fault is a greedy, dishonest presence in the music business and, perhaps more insidiously, a commonly overlooked flaw in our culture: the pursuit of instant gratification. Fast food is the most common example of how this want is answered by our capitalist economy. I think it creates a mindset of spoiled consumers, the worst of whom expect stardom to be handed to them instantly. The business approach has only been to answer these consumer needs, not to question them. As long as people need instant stardom, business will try to sell it to them. As for the talent, well, I'm the talent.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

To Jay Leno of the Tonight Show

Well, you seem to think it's just hilarious when I accuse you of being a gangster, but I heard about those Jay Leno cops. That's right, Jay Leno cops. Who are the Jay Leno cops, Jay? That sounds like your hired hands dressed up in the uniform of police officers. Who else impersonates police officers, Jay? The most famous example is Al Capone for the execution of his Valentine's Day Massacre in the 1920's. And Jay, a malicious program invaded my little corner store computer a couple weeks ago and scooped all the files off my memory stick. It renamed my files with the letter 'j'. Since you are such a stupid, self obsessed individual, I have a strong feeling that that 'j' stood for Jay Leno. Am I right?
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

Not Again

I'm getting tired of hearing these jerky performers say that they made me great by stealing my work. What did they do to my work but erase my name and face from it and supplant them with their own? Ask anyone who doesn't watch TV about my scripts and they will tell you that they are very enjoyable. On another note I would like to complain about the misuse of penetrating cross examinations to determine copyright ownership. Why were these not applied to the bands and actors who stole my work six years ago? They let these people commit fraud for six years and then they cross examine the victim. What good is a good system if it is administered by corrupt people?
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

Unforgotten

The sketches I'm surest of sharing in 2007 are the ones I saw as YouTube clips of television programs years later. I saw all of the Saturday Night Live ones in one sitting. I recall seeing a lot of sketches that were made out of my commercials. As a viewer who at the time had no conscious memory of having created was he was watching, I enjoyed them. But they didn't make me laugh. There was an eerie suspicion holding me back. George Carlin, on the other hand, had me completely fooled, for I had even less of a memory of the earlier erased work he took from me than I did of the erased show whose commercials Saturday Night Live took from me. I laughed out loud for Carlin's HBO specials and I praised the comedian online, right up to his demise. With Carlin out of the picture, I need only explain how I can still call my work original after seeing it on Saturday Night Live as one who did not remember authoring it. This is quite simple: I forgot seeing it on Saturday Night Live. By the time I got around to rewriting those sketches, my mind was simply reaching for them from their original source. I had a roughly similar experience with my songs. I don't listen to the radio at home so I forgot hearing them on the radio outside of my home as I rewrote them from my personal life. It took the reconstruction of each of my original works to recover the memory of seeing it on TV or hearing it on the radio after I voluntarily departed from the internet in late 2007.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

How Generous

I heard that the only one of my precious new songs which wasn't taken from me was Rules. I think I know why. Rules starts out with an admission of guilt: I might not be acting responsibly. Of course, I was only talking about things like leaving my bed unmade or perhaps mismanaging my money, but I did not elaborate any further on it. And the last thing people who steal songs want to do is to admit any sort of guilt. Instead they try to pin that on their victims.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

All He Wants Is Money

I heard that they were saying all he wants is money. Dear God in Heaven, am I ever up against some stupid hypocrites in this struggle. So this is their latest comeback, is it? Very well, I might as well defend myself against their horrible accusations. 1) I worked to produce my material. How do we pay people for work? By their reasoning we should all quit our jobs because we are only in them for the money. 2) This statement makes money sound like some kind of triviality. If money is so unimportant, why don't they just hand it over to me? I guess I'm not the only one who wants it. 3) This statement is meant to erode my fan base. I would remind my fans that I walked away from my music and laughs six years ago without expecting to receive a cent. Since then I have been forced back online by the copyright nightmare imposed on me by those who stole my work. Now that I am a high profile person, a certain amount of money is needed to insulate me from the more unruly elements of the population. 4) In a money culture like ours, people respect the rich and despise the poor. For seven years people have been pointing to me in the street and saying if he's so great, why is he on the street? Money would get me off the street. 5) For seven years I have been called a liar for sharing my own thoughts and my own experiences in my own words. I deserve compensation for these deep personal injuries. The traditional form of compensation is a cheque.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

Note on Indexes

My indexes are far from complete. There are more comedy scripts to add to my indexes and I plan to make an index of all my personal and legal statements, as well. As I said I let my new creative ideas fill my notebook for now. Perhaps one day in the future it will be safe to share them with these online posts.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

No More Erasing

Last night I was thinking about how any grammy awards won by bands who stole my songs are worthless. And I was thinking about how any Peabody awards won by news programs who tried to frame me are equally worthless. And it reminded me of a sketch I wrote this year called 'The Institutional Awards' which was also a parody of the 1973 Academy Awards in which Marlon Brando allowed a pretty native woman in full costume to accept his award for him by proxy. I was thinking of how much that sketch expresses my heart on the subject of awards and I went looking for it in my blogs. I looked and looked and looked for hours but could not find it. So I wonder what happened to it. Looks like I will have to restore it to what I guess to be its original location. I no longer erase my work, even when I am in error. All of the scripts in my index were online when I listed them and they should still be online. My notebook is filling up with fresh new humorous insights which I no longer share online. At least when I leave them offline I only have to write them once. If this sketch is still online somewhere and I missed it, I apologize for the implications I am making here. If, however, it has been removed by some tampering hand, perhaps it was the same hand that added false publishing information to my YouTube videos earlier this year. AMENDMENT: I have just found the missing sketch in E.M. Forced Her. Even though I was wrong to suggest that it had been removed by someone else, I am leaving this blog online.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.

Worth Repeating

How to Detect Fraud I'm going to gamble that there is still old work out there waiting to be exposed as fraud when I rewrite it here, so I'm going to talk about obvious signs of fraud. Chronology: Whomever shared the work first is the author. If I had access to that original blog, I could sue because the dates would show that I wrote it all first. But isn't the human memory capable of remembering who shared the work first without any visual aid? I hope so. Disputes: Individuals versus Groups It is unlikely that someone would steal his work from hundreds of others. Furthermore, it is unlikely that hundreds of others would all share the same copyright dispute with just one person. If their work was good enough to steal, it would have been stolen by many others, not just the same guy every time. Disputes: Amateurs versus Professionals Professionals are under pressure to produce new material, while amateurs may work at their own pace. Professionals need new material to stay employed, but amateurs work for free. Therefore, in disputes between professionals and amateurs over copyright ownership, the professional is more likely to be the violator. With respect to my personal situation, I am unemployed and use my writing and music to stay active. Stealing my work from others would only reduce my activity. Disputes: Volume of Work 'He wrote those hundred and fifty songs but he stole this from me!'? Don't let them insult your intelligence. Disputes: Coveting An artist doesn't covet his own work. A song featured proudly on the front of a fraud's web page might be buried deep and gathering dust in the author's collection. People steal songs to show off with them. Disputes: Individual Experience An original artist's work is usually descriptive of his individual experience. It's a sure way of guaranteeing originality. What kind of lives did the performers have? Did their material match up with their individual experiences? For people who've used my work, were they lonely and isolated? Were they depressed and suicidal? Were they poor and rejected? Did they have to work in menial jobs? Prior Convictions: People caught committing fraud can no longer be trusted, no matter how popular they were. New Work: An artist is usually consistent in style and quality. If anyone doubts that I am the author of my old work, they should compare it to my new work. I think they'll find that any new laughs I've produced are as effective as anything I wrote in the past and that my new songs compare favourably with my old songs. But look at what happened to Saturday Night Live in mid 2010 when they couldn't help themselves to my writing any more. I don't watch the show but a woman walked by me at the time and said 'Their show sucks without you.' I gather what she meant. And I think I may have already heard what that band from last year sounded like in 2010 without my songs. (Did they use those tiny solid state amps?) Absolutely atrocious. Labour Hours: Creating original work is time consuming. If someone has a lot of material, he should be spending a lot of time working. Otherwise, he's probably a fraud.
Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems
More Statements Scripts Songs
© 2007, 2013. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.