- Please Forgive Me - David Gray
- Love Vigilantes - Iron and Wine
- Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
- Uncle Walter - Ben Folds Five
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
- Rachel Yamagata - Be Your Love
- Say Anything - Alive With the Glory of Love
- Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
- Billy Joel - And So It Goes
- Jimmy Eat World - Dizzy
Monday, June 30, 2008
Shuffle 'Em Up III
Here We Go For Today. Honestly, a pretty good mix this time.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
A Sad Weekend
The mascot for the University of Georgia Bulldogs, Uga VI the bulldog, passed away over the weekend. This is actually a big deal for the South. In fact, Uga V, Uga VI's dad is the only college mascot to ever grace the cover of Sports Illustrated. No matter what anyone else thinks or says, there is something very special and unique about Uga. He will be missed by this Dawg. Here is a link to the story.
Now, for the Shuffle Songs of the day.
Hands Open (Live) - Snow Patrol
Solsbury Hill - Ingram Hill
Light - Ben Lee
Breathe - Greenwheel (This is the real version of the song Melissa Etheridge covered and scored a huge hit with. Look it up.)
Sad Songs - The Frames
The Killer Inside - Better Than Ezra
Hang - Matchbox Twenty
We Used to Be Friends - The Dandy Warhols
Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle - Cake
That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Solsbury Hill - Ingram Hill
Light - Ben Lee
Breathe - Greenwheel (This is the real version of the song Melissa Etheridge covered and scored a huge hit with. Look it up.)
Sad Songs - The Frames
The Killer Inside - Better Than Ezra
Hang - Matchbox Twenty
We Used to Be Friends - The Dandy Warhols
Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle - Cake
That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Shuffle Songs of the Day
Howdy all,
My new friend, Kid Lysol, does this on his blog so I figured why not be a loser and steal it from him. I will post the first Ten Shuffled Songs I get on my iPod just for S and Gs. Here we go.
Undone (The Sweater Song) - Weezer
Marching Bands Of Manhattan - Death Cab for Cutie
Simply Because (Live) - Rooney
Someday Someway - Marshall Crenshaw
Sick Cycle Carousel - Lifehouse
The Trapeze Swinger - Iron & Wine
Drugs or Me - Jimmy Eat World
If It Were Up to Me (Live) - Rooney
Divine Intervention - Taking Back Sunday
New Shoes - Paolo Nutini
Iron and Wine has got to be my favorite pick today. Check out an older post for the lyrics and a challenge for you to figure out what the song means to you.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The Road Is Walked
Alright, so I just put down "The Road". It was great. Sad beyond all imagination, but great. I don't really know what to say right now as my heart is currently sitting beside me after being ripped from my chest. Plus, I am all stopped up and my face is tracked with tears...so I should just say...READ IT.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Rest In Peace
George Carlin passed away this past weekend and I must say that it is a sad time for comedy. In recent years his material was a bit, well, all over the place. However, in his prime he was incredibly funny and poignant. Hell, even about ten or so years ago he had an HBO special that made me cry it was so hilarious. He will be missed. Here is the story.
Here is some of what made Carlin great. I completely disagree with his view of Christianity and I pray that God has mercy on his soul, because he was ultimately a good person just not a believer and I don't feel that a person should burn in hell for all eternity when they are not inherently evil. I know Kid Lysol...I know.
1. Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
2. Swimming is not a sport; swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense!
3. A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
4. Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit, and your shit is stuff?
5. If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
6. Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
7. If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
8. It’s never just a game when you’re winning.
9. The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the jobdone.”
10. The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
11. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
12. Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
13. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
14. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It’s just stale bread to begin with.
15. “I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I do” is the longest sentence?
16. As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.
17. The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
18. When someone asks you, “A penny for your thoughts,” and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
19. Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?
20. Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice?”
21. I don’t like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
22. Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
23. Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.”
24. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
25. Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.
26. Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
27. If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense?
28. What year did Jesus think it was?
29. George Washington’s brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country.
30. Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.
31. In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.
32. Once you leave the womb, conservatives don’t care about you until you reach military age. Then you’re just what they’re looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.
33. People who ask, “Can I ask you a question?” Didn’t really give me a choice, did ya there, buddy?
34. Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.
35. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
36. I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.
37. The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
38. Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
39. So far, this is the oldest I’ve been.
40. Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?
41. When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn’t a lof worth paying attention to.
42. The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren’t quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.
43. I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.
44. If the cops didn’t see it, I didn’t do it!
45. Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.
46. I don’t have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.
47. What was the best thing before sliced bread?
48. Life is a zero sum game.
49. I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
50. The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
2. Swimming is not a sport; swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense!
3. A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
4. Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit, and your shit is stuff?
5. If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
6. Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
7. If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
8. It’s never just a game when you’re winning.
9. The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the jobdone.”
10. The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
11. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
12. Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
13. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
14. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It’s just stale bread to begin with.
15. “I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I do” is the longest sentence?
16. As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.
17. The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
18. When someone asks you, “A penny for your thoughts,” and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
19. Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?
20. Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice?”
21. I don’t like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
22. Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
23. Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.”
24. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
25. Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.
26. Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
27. If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense?
28. What year did Jesus think it was?
29. George Washington’s brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country.
30. Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.
31. In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.
32. Once you leave the womb, conservatives don’t care about you until you reach military age. Then you’re just what they’re looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.
33. People who ask, “Can I ask you a question?” Didn’t really give me a choice, did ya there, buddy?
34. Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.
35. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
36. I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.
37. The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
38. Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
39. So far, this is the oldest I’ve been.
40. Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?
41. When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn’t a lof worth paying attention to.
42. The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren’t quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.
43. I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.
44. If the cops didn’t see it, I didn’t do it!
45. Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.
46. I don’t have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.
47. What was the best thing before sliced bread?
48. Life is a zero sum game.
49. I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
50. The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
This list is from http://www.innocentenglish.com/. Go check them out, it is a great site.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Currently Reading...
Hello,
Well, I picked up Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" today. So far I must say that I am impressed. I will save my final judgment until the end of course, but so far it is really great. In fact, I like his writing style so much that I think I may just have to use it for the story that I've been trying to write for a few months now. Mr. McCarthy's style in this book is so simple and straight-forward. His diaglouge is not separated into different paragraphs and he does not use devices such as 'He Said' or 'he mumbled' that much at all. It is more like reading a play. Anyway, it won the Pulitzer Prize last year and he is the man who wrote "No Country for Old Men" so I figured it was worth my 11 bucks. I'll let you know what I think when I finish it.
Well, I picked up Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" today. So far I must say that I am impressed. I will save my final judgment until the end of course, but so far it is really great. In fact, I like his writing style so much that I think I may just have to use it for the story that I've been trying to write for a few months now. Mr. McCarthy's style in this book is so simple and straight-forward. His diaglouge is not separated into different paragraphs and he does not use devices such as 'He Said' or 'he mumbled' that much at all. It is more like reading a play. Anyway, it won the Pulitzer Prize last year and he is the man who wrote "No Country for Old Men" so I figured it was worth my 11 bucks. I'll let you know what I think when I finish it.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Let's Get Deep, Shall We?
Alright, there is song that I have loved for quite some time and I have always wanted to dissect it's lyrics to find out the true meaning behind it. I am going to post the lyrics and I would love for you to put down what you think it is about. I will wait a little bit and then give you my take on it. I don't want to influence you one way or another. The artist is "Iron and Wine" and the song is "The Trapeze Swinger". If you would like to hear it go here.
Please, remember me
Happily
By the rosebush laughing
With bruises on my chin
The time when
We counted every black car passin'
Your house beneath the hill
And up until
Someone caught us in the kitchen
With maps, a mountain range
A piggy bank
A vision too removed to mention
And
Please, remember me
Fondly
I heard from someone you're still pretty
And then
They went on to say
That the pearly gates
Have such eloquent graffiti
Like "We'll meet again"
And "Fuck the man"
And "Tell my mother not to worry"
And angels with their gray
Handshakes
Were always done in such a hurry
And
Please, remember me
That Halloween
Making fools of all the neighbors
Our faces painted white
By midnight
We'd forgotten one another
And when the morning came
I was ashamed
Only now it seems so silly
That season left the world
And then returned
And now you're lit up by the city
And
Please, remember me
Mistakenly
In the window of the tallest tower
Call them passers-by
But much too high
To see the empty road at happy hour
Gleam and resonate
Just like the gates
Around the holy kingdom
With words like "Lost and found"
And "Don't look down"
And "Someone save Temptation"
And
Please, remember me
As in the dream
We had as rug-burn babies
Among the fallen trees
Happily
By the rosebush laughing
With bruises on my chin
The time when
We counted every black car passin'
Your house beneath the hill
And up until
Someone caught us in the kitchen
With maps, a mountain range
A piggy bank
A vision too removed to mention
And
Please, remember me
Fondly
I heard from someone you're still pretty
And then
They went on to say
That the pearly gates
Have such eloquent graffiti
Like "We'll meet again"
And "Fuck the man"
And "Tell my mother not to worry"
And angels with their gray
Handshakes
Were always done in such a hurry
And
Please, remember me
That Halloween
Making fools of all the neighbors
Our faces painted white
By midnight
We'd forgotten one another
And when the morning came
I was ashamed
Only now it seems so silly
That season left the world
And then returned
And now you're lit up by the city
And
Please, remember me
Mistakenly
In the window of the tallest tower
Call them passers-by
But much too high
To see the empty road at happy hour
Gleam and resonate
Just like the gates
Around the holy kingdom
With words like "Lost and found"
And "Don't look down"
And "Someone save Temptation"
And
Please, remember me
As in the dream
We had as rug-burn babies
Among the fallen trees
But fast asleep
Aside the lions and the ladies
That called you what you like
And even might
Give a gift for your behavior
A fleeting chance to see
A trapeze
Swing as high as any savior
And
Please, remember me
My misery
And how it lost me all I wanted
Those dogs that love the rain
And chasing trains
The colored birds above their running
In circles 'round the well
To where it spells
On the wall behind St. Peter
So bright on cinder gray
And spray paint
"Who the hell can see forever?"
And
Please, remember me
Seldomly
In the car behind the carnival
My hand between your knees
You turned from me
And said, "The trapeze act was wonderful
But never meant to last"
The clowns that passed
Saw me just come up with anger
When it filled with circus dogs
The parking lot
Had an element of danger
So
Aside the lions and the ladies
That called you what you like
And even might
Give a gift for your behavior
A fleeting chance to see
A trapeze
Swing as high as any savior
And
Please, remember me
My misery
And how it lost me all I wanted
Those dogs that love the rain
And chasing trains
The colored birds above their running
In circles 'round the well
To where it spells
On the wall behind St. Peter
So bright on cinder gray
And spray paint
"Who the hell can see forever?"
And
Please, remember me
Seldomly
In the car behind the carnival
My hand between your knees
You turned from me
And said, "The trapeze act was wonderful
But never meant to last"
The clowns that passed
Saw me just come up with anger
When it filled with circus dogs
The parking lot
Had an element of danger
So
Please, remember me
Finally
And all my uphill clawing
My dear
And if I make
The pearly gates
I'll do my best to make a drawing
Of God and Lucifer
A boy and girl
An angel kissin' on a sinner
A monkey and a man
A marching band
All around the frightened trapeze swinger
Finally
And all my uphill clawing
My dear
And if I make
The pearly gates
I'll do my best to make a drawing
Of God and Lucifer
A boy and girl
An angel kissin' on a sinner
A monkey and a man
A marching band
All around the frightened trapeze swinger
Monday, June 16, 2008
Hands and Feet Inside Please
Well, well, well...
Here I go again trying to start a blog. I have been down this road more than twice. (Sorry Sheryl Crow) Anyway, I can't tell you how often I will lay down a post. However, I hope you will check back at least once a week just to see. I am going to go out into the blogger world and search for readers because that is why I am bothering to type out my thoughts. If I just wanted to have some sort of cathartic release or what-not I would buy a journal. No, I want readers. I want comments. I want you to want me. I need you to need me. (Sorry Cheap Trick) If you happen to fall upon my little nook in the blogger world, please just drop a note that says hi. I promise I will do the same for you. Thanks for reading and here we go.
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