- mama trish

January 1, 2005
written by: Rob Solarion
From the unbelievable chaos of the Tsunami disaster comes an incredible tale from Jim France of the Pavilion Hotel Group in Bangkok. At a resort on Phuket, one of the most popular attractions is (was) elephant rides.

As many as eight people on one elephant, first into the surrounding forest, then down to the beach, to lunch at a fresh water lagoon, then back to the hotel.

The elephants (nine) were kept chained to in-ground posts, not because they needed to be, but because it made the mothers feel better because their children seemed safe from a tromping when feeding the beasts.

About twenty minutes before the first wave hit, the elephants became extremely agitated and unruly. Four had just returned from a trip and their handler's had not yet chained them. They helped the other five tear free from their chains. They all then climbed a hill and started bellowing.

Many people followed them up the hill. Then the waves hit.

After the waves subsided, the elephants charged down from the hill, and started picking up children with their trunks and running them back up the hill; when all the children were taken care of, they started helping the adults. They rescued forty- two people. Then, they returned to the beach and carried up four dead bodies, one of a child.

Not until the task was done would they allow their handlers to mount them. Then with handlers atop, they began moving wreckage.Many Super-Human and Super-Sentient capacities were being exhibited through these Wonderful Elephant Beings including Divine Love for one another and their fellow humans through the transitions they were going through.

perhaps if you use that little stick on the side of your steering column before you slam on brakes and come to an almost complete stop to turn your bumper wouldn't look like that.

just sayin'...

civilization as we know it began with the purse. not a stylish number, mind you, but a pocketbook just the same. i don't have time to share my theory right now, but i will come back to this. i'm not shittin' you. this is not a joke. i'm just not an anthro student anymore, so i have no outlet for my strange and wonderful scientific ideas anymore...

Q: what do you want to drink?

A: i'll have an amstel light, unless i'm hungry, and then i'll have a guinness. although, vanilla smirnoff and ginger ale tastes just like cream soda. yum!

Q: where do you get your ideas for songs from?

A: from my life. for example, i went to my highschool reunion and 2 jackasses in the 8th grade were still jackasses, and still in the 8th grade, only now one's a preacher and the other's a deacon. ("harrumph!")  they were mean to me. so i took the high road, (as i so often do not...), went home and wrote the song man-bitch. ("why ya gotta be such a little man-bitch? why ya make me wanna give ya knuckle sandwich?")  my songs reflect what i'm going through at the time. ever piss me off? mebbe you'll see yourself in them. mwahaha! *cue ominous music*

Q: how did you get started in all this business?

A: i started singing when i could talk. i got a plastic guitar at age six. when my folks saw how hard i tried, they gave me a real one. my aunt gave us a piano when i was 12, and i picked out the notes on the guitar, figured what they were on the piano, and taught myself. i played every morning and every night until i got yelled at to go to bed. at 18, when i moved out and no longer had a piano at my disposal, i picked up the guitar again. i didn't want to be a guitar player, i just wanted something to sing to.

Q: what kind of guitars do you play?

A: i have an aluminum and graphite martin alternative X acoustic, a hamer electric (sweet blonde wood with abalone and mother of pearl inlay,)  and a taylor acoustic which is my pride and joy. they're all great instruments, but i didn't pay more than $700 for any of them, though one's worth over 2 grand. i guess i've got good guitar luck.

Q: if you could be any animal, what would you be?

A; hmmm... mebbe a dolphin... but with all the pollution in our oceans, i don't know how i'd like that. or an owl, if we weren't cutting down all their natural habitat and putting in stupid strip malls and crappy housing. gee, that's a tough one. i guess if i had to pick, i'd like to be a pitbull with a really cool owner who let me sleep on the bed and go for rides in the truck. (incidentally, those are two of my favorite human pastimes...)

Q: how do we hire you? or buy your music? or get the rights to do it ourselves and makes us both a pile of money?

A: if you are a venue that is in need of my services, a famous singer who likes my stuff, or a movie producer who needs original scores for your films (y'know, it's cheaper that way...) then just click here and drop me a line. i always need work.

Q: what is the meaning of life?

A: to be happy. as long as you're not being an asshole to people, lying, cheating, stealing, wasting and fucking things up, if you're happy, that's what counts.

if you have any other questions you'd like to see answered here, feel free to holla at me!