American Vestibule Inc.

Based on an obscure joke from ten years ago, I've started another blog that deal with the subject that formally occupied this spot.  The link is:   http://thehomeofamericanvestiuble.blogspot.com

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Another Song Written and Performed by Richard Corey

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http://soundcloud.com/alfred-jarry/can-i-be-the-one-from-the-richard-corey-album-can-i-be-the-one/s-NDBml

Hope you like.  He's playing lead guitar as well as singing.  I love it.

From Spain, With Love (Circa 1979)

I went to a new place, where nobody knew me. One of the rare moments in a lifetime when you get the chance to start over, in another place, with new people.   The bitter truth is that, out of  self conscious fear and without any self awareness, I took on a new persona.  In this persona I was not myself.  Not any self I recognized.  The result was that the new people I encountered met, not me, but another person, the one I was auditioning to be and the person I must have felt I ought to be - an actor in an ill fitting costume.

In truth, I was cheating not merely the new people, but myself, sending people down blind alleys far away from whatever pleasure it is to know me.  I lacked the confidence in those days to put myself out there, to be myself, come what may. 

It is a crime of youth, and for a long while, I ran from myself. Not because of any intentional lies I was telling.  Not with any intention of hurting anyone.  What really made me uncomfortable was not an ill fitting costume but the truth that I was not being myself and only I knew it.  

In time, as always happens, no matter how hard you attempt  to hide it,  the pentimento shows through and people come to know you despite your mighty efforts to the contrary.  You are Sisyphus, asleep at the bottom of the hill, defeated.

Why is it so difficult to simply be yourself with everyone, all the time?  Why can’t these friends meet those friends?   In time,  you come to realize who you are and where you’re headed. When that happens, the courage to be yourself comes easily and the burden, the one you never really had to carry in the first place, is lifted.

"The Kitchen Song" written and performed by Richard Corey

Sung By Richard Corey, just a few days ago

Here, my very dear friend,  Richard Corey (part of James Taylor's gang),  plays a favorite tune written by Eilen Jewell,  a singer Mr. Corey met a few years back: