Brain Damage/Eclipse

We drummers are a fairly weird lot. Although I haven't picked up them sticks in such a long time I doubt I fit the "we", but im digressing. As I was saying we're quite an eccentric bunch. Used frequently as bottle openers, joint rollers, cigarette lighters and powder monkeys among other thing, by all and sundry. You'd think that being able to operate all four limbs independently might indicate well co-ordinated processes upstairs in the grey matter as well. Au Contraire, as most drummers will vouch for or rather all drummers friends definitely will, the ability to tattoo out a rhythm is accompanied by a couple of kinks in the mental armor. These are a couple of mine, so as to be better prepared for when they come after me with a straitjacket.

• Travelling long distance i blink every time the car is exactly inbetween 2 light poles, traffic lights etc.

• Evens are Right and the Odds are oh so wrong. A perfect example is the volume on the system in my car. It can only ever be on even numbers, or better round figures. A 5 or 15 are no stress, but god forbid it ever comes to rest on a 11 or worse 17.

• Right is Might, quite literally. Im biased in favour of my right limbs. Not in regular activities like eating or smoking, but while crossing a tiled floor only my right foot will cross over the boundry between two tiles, right foot goes up the first stair, you get the drift.

• No matter which side of the bed faces the wall, if im on my left, im facing one. If im on my right, im not.

Thats about all i can seem to remember right now. Kind of coroborates a discussion on the Hotdrum Forum. Which discusses how all drummers seem to suffer from OCD, or that they think they do, which may not necessarily be the same thing.