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.
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