MONTHLY FREE SONG    GIVEAWAY PAGE    (For March 2025) This Month's Free Song: Incident In The Stratosphere (Copyright 1996 by Charles Adrian Trevino) _________________ Right, it's the third month of the year 2025 already, and time for the second installment of the infamous Monthly Free Song Giveaway Page  from  chucktrevino.com,  featuring a song that I gave away on this website many years ago.  That song was, and still is, a composition which I titled "Incident In The Stratosphere" (Copyright 1996 by Charles Adrian Trevino, just for the record, again).  That free giveaway was backed by a typically invective, boldly assertive, and unfortunately very accurate (as usual) narrative webpage condemning, among other things, the infamous Branch Davidian "Waco" debacle (the military-style attack upon, and ultimate incineration of scores of innocent inhabitants of a non-offending church compound, of all things!  Fine, fine world we live in...  but that's just life in the big city, as the wise sagacious philosophers used to say.  Also included in that tirade, um, I meant to say learned and profound narrative, was even more vitriol aimed at the bold, intrepid (if not somewhat spaced out) officials and proponents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), whom I chastised by the supreme and majestic authority vested in me by, well...  me,  for rushing their space programs through completion in a very irresponsible deadline-influenced manner, which resulted in spectacular fiery airborne explosions which caused the sad deaths of several astronauts, as well as some far too trusting civilian passengers.  If I remember correctly, I also questioned the actuality of the famed moon landings in that accompanying narrative, based on an abundance of information then available (still is, I suppose, but who cares anymore) which seemed to imply that the technology of the time wasn't really up to the astronomical task of safely landing good old carbon-based human beings on a planetary object rather unlike good old planet earth (or even getting them through annihilatory death-zone conditions in order to make said landing).  I also made so bold as to "poke fun" at some of the space-headed arguments proffered by the spatial media spin-doctors in defense of that somwhat hard-to-believe lunar claim.  But really, what do I know about it?  What do I know about anything, for that matter?  Nothing, that's what. That's right, I'll admit it;  Charles knows nothing about anything... especially nowadays, having been brain-bashed, bombarded, and bent over a barrel backwards by the powers-that-shouldn't-be, which may even include some of our friendly "gotcha' by the balls" NGO's (non-elected governmental organizations).  This seemingly punitive abuse, which I now realize was comparatively lighthanded in the more "friendly" days of yore, shortly preceded the November 2024 presidential election;  it was almost as if someone, or something, was trying to tell me, in a sort of not-too nice way:  "Don't do it, Charles." I did it anyway...  and the real fun began.  I really don't want to go into the more sordid details, but I feel that I have been very hard done by, poor me, at the paws of some of the aforementioned powers-that-be (and shouldn't), for some mysteriously unstated reason, which may or may not have to do with some very serious political and financial setbacks now being sustained by those bad 'uns.  While these "setbacks" are good news for most people in general, I myself am finding it a bit hard to enjoy them as fully as I ought to be, considering my present condition of health.  I have to wonder why these bigwigs see fit to vent their anger at some poor little sap who writes perfectly legal things, that are protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?  Isn't that why the Founders made that law, to keep small-time knobs like me from being tortured for running off our big mouths?  Really, you bad 'uns...  you ought to try to exercise more restraint. As I said, I feel that I've been hit very hard, for whatever reasons;  and I must use this opportunity to strongly advise any like-minded readers to take utmost caution when criticizing (castigating?) the very devil, especially if you have an audience that can reason.  Reason does still matter, it would seem, judging from the concerted restorative efforts now being set in motion by an administration honestly voted into power by an apparently very concerned populace rendered nauseous by the absolutely insane events of the last four or five years.  For starters, the newly-appointed Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) has set their goal of slashing a frighteningly huge one billion dollars per day of useless pork-barrel spending... and they say they can do it!  Take a moment to think about that;  one billion dollars a day of unwarranted taxpayer mismanagement, dollars most likely being undeservedly doled out to those held in favor by the the bad 'uns.  Not surprisingly, the "robbed" robbers are using all of their mainstream media power to make it look like the taxpayers are actually the losers in this effort, and some errors will probably be made (and hopefully corrected) in this rush to plug the hole in the dam;  but when one considers the fact that the interest on the national debt, all by itself without even touching the principal, has now surpassed the astronomical annual U.S. military budget, you have to admit it, no matter what political party you support;  this madness needed to be vigorously dealt with, immediately if not sooner. As for myself, after suffering the tortures of the damned, going on many months now, several times a day with little or no respite, I don't think I'll be capable of writing any more songs;  not with a non-stop toxic headache (among other pernicious ailments) that can go from manageable to almost unbearable.  If I do manage to produce any more of my own music, it probably won't be very good;  but it won't be as bad as their "Guns and Roses" feces!  That's easy enough to promise.  Needless to say, I'm not too happy about my present situation;  however, I will continue to give away songs that I've already recorded, approximately one per month as promised, as long as I am able to do that.  And who knows, maybe this madness will end before I do, and the angels will minister to me, and heal me (they have before!)  If that should happily happen, then we're back in business;  however, I wouldn't bet on it.  But no matter me;  I believe that good things are happening in this country, to counter some of the bad things that have happened.  My compliments to all (heroes) involved;  you people make it all worth it, I think.  And maybe I really should learn to shut my big mouth up.  Nevertheless, I feel certain that a hell of a lot of people are going to have to answer to the Lord, and then to Satan, their master, for their crimes.  And I'm going to try like hell not to be one of them. ************************************************ APOLOGY In my January 2025 Free Song Giveaway Page, I made reference to a certain guitarist in what might be construed as a negative light, having forgotten that this poor person had perished in a horrible airplane crash.  I sincerely apologize to anyone who may have been hurt or offended by that mistake.  These bastards have made me mean, but not that mean. Click the link below to download your free song: Incident In The Stratosphere Click here to go back to Index Text copyright March 2025 by Charles Adrian Trevino.   The song "Incident In The Stratosphere" Copyright January 1996 by Charles Adrian Trevino.   This is chucktrevino.com.