(SORT OF a joke...) But according to the Luboffs

[tedsingingfox]

...as songwriters, it is our right (even our DUTY) to pay close attention to the conversations that go on around us. That's supposed to be one of our best sources of lyrical concepts.There may be some merit to that concept. No, no... there truly IS some merit to the idea.But what happens when you've become so jaded that you think all the people you hear talking around you are nothing but idiotic, retarded morons without the sense God gave a potato? The more I pay attention to what "they" are saying, the more I want to become a hermit in a cave somewhere... And that's AFTER beating the crap out of them and then screaming at their lifeless bodies to let them know WHY they're laying there, unconscious and bleeding.Again, I am NOT a violent person. As a matter of fact, I'm one of the biggest pacifists I know. I cringe at the thought of confrontation, and have only struck ONE other person --on purpose-- in my entire life. And it made me so sick to my stomach that I threw up for hours afterward.But I'm seriously worried for the future of the human race, if "these people" are supposed to be what I use for inspiration.Am I the only one who thinks we're in trouble? OR, there's also the flipside to this, which is:Ted, you seriously need some way to vent on a regular basis. Help me to see a bigger, better picture... PLEASE.