Absolute music Puns

He goes online, trying to find some local up-and-coming bands. He finds a couple of okay options: some country, some rap, some metal… Nothing really sticks out as the next big thing to him though. He keeps at it for an entire weekend, struggling to find something he really likes.

He then stumbles upon this video of an old man, playing the acoustic guitar on his front porch: a beautiful rendition of ‘’Stairway to Heaven’’. Gentle, touching, absolutely gorgeous. The bar owner can’t help but cry. He immediately knows this is the man he wants for his bar, and gets in contact with him.

The musician, over the phone, thank him over and over again for the amazing opportunity. He explains that he’s a retired judge who was pressured to go into law by his parents, over 50 years ago. In his heart, he’s always dreamed of being a musician and to perform in front of a real audience. This is the first time he’ll ever get to do it.

The bar owner is even more touched by his story, and decides to immediately sign him on for 10 night shows. The old judge is over the moon, this is everything he’s ever dreamed of! The two men leave the call, happy and content.

That night, the bar owner hypes all of the regulars, telling them about this amazing new act that they’ll get to see tomorrow. He tells them to bring some friends, bring some family, no one has ever heard music like that before. The patrons are excited and promise to bring everyone they know.

The night arrives, and the old judge gets on stage. The bar is absolutely packed, people give him a standing ovation before he’s even started. Beaming with joy and trying his best not to cry, he calms the audience down. ‘’Thank you, thank you so much, everyone. Thank you to Jim, the owner, for believing in me. I know he loved my cover of ‘Stairway to Heaven’, but tonight, I figured I’d do some original compositions. I hope you like them.’’ He sits down and starts playing.

He slams down on his guitar and lets out a piercing screech. Everyone in the room freezes

For the next half hour, without ever stopping, he plays dozens of discordant chords while yelling incoherent words like ‘’pineapple sauce!’’ and ‘’love and hate are second cousins!’’. He screams then whispers, playing notes that don’t make any sort of reasonable sense.

The audience is stunned. No one dares to say a word. The sweet old man seems so sincere in his rendition, yet it’s just… horrendous.

The owner has a million thoughts racing all at once. How could this h

His act had him using his body to transmit electricity to a lightbulb. He was really cool and all the people were amazed. But one day the lightbulb started to grow dimmer and dimmer before it eventually never lit up. As such he was removed from the circus.

A few months later he calls me to tell me his music passion paid off and he was hired to lead an orchestra! But at their first concert everyone got lost on the sheet music and the audience all went home with headaches. He was let go shortly after that as well.

Eventually he got this new job, but he called me a few days later as an absolute wreck, sobbing to the phone about how he was fired from that job as well, and he was so sad because it had him in a train and he loved trains.

I wasn't really sure how to go about telling him he was a bad conductor.

A while ago, I had a funny interaction when I called the lift to go to my flat. In it, a deeply apologetic clearly German neighbour. She had it absolutely filled to the brim with assorted pots and vases.

Standard greetings, "no worries", and found myself a corner in which to stand in-between pots. Queue the jazzy lift music.

"So, what are you? Some sort of pot dealer?"

"Nein! Diese are from a Freund!“