That’s why they call him "The Boss"
Current mood: elated

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. What a show. 2nd only to The Kids in the Hall Reunion for the year.

Its really something amazing to hear "I'm On Fire" live. And an amazing tribute to Joe Strummer. Happy birthday, hope you felt it.

Currently listening : Another Perfect Day By Motörhead Release date: 2001-09-11

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be in my video
Current mood: the song lyric "A fool who thinks he’s clever

It looks to be such a beautiful day. I don't know how I did it, but there is an uneasy feeling with me today.
Anybody want to be in a video? I got my video camera the other day, and I'm looking for people interested in displaying character and emotion. Doesn't have to be you, you can pretend as much as you want.
Its a project part for my own interest and creative curiosity, but also for the consideration of going back to school for film. I have already learned that, once on camera, the idea of being just yourself, fades into being how you want to be seen. The art of acting is running away from yourself while maintaining your emotional palette from which to draw the life and reserve of a character you are creating. I do need at least two people for a short film I must submit to the college for enrollment, the deadline is very close and I may not make it, but I have the itch to try.

Three months left in this year. My tour of Europe has been cancelled, but always in the back of my mind. I may have to go anyway. Anyone interested?

Currently watching : Dancer in the Dark (New Line Platinum Series) Release date: 20 March, 2001

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I miss my love
Current mood: honestly, drunk

The hills are alive with the sound of feedback. Soft, delicate feedback, loud biting melody, orchestrated distortion, and lulling mids with cranked presence to a steady beat.




I want a quartet with marshall stacks behind them. and film of us blitzed and lovely, living life in the moment.




not alot to ask for, I think.


PLaying - The Red Sparrows

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Christian Taoism, anyone?

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion....In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

-William Ellery Channing

I am pretty big on quotes, but this one today really seemed to be what I am feeling lately. I am reading this book, called The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton, and it is pretty amazing. Here's some highlights that caught my fancy:

"[T]he hero of virtue and duty ultimately lands himself in the same ambiguities as the hedonist and the utilitarian. Why? Because he aims at achieving 'the good' as object. He engages in a self-conscious and deliberate campaign to 'do his duty' in the belief that this is right and therefore productive of happiness. He sees 'happiness' and 'the good' as 'something to be attained' and thus he places them outside himself in the world of objects."

"All deliberate, systematic, and reflexive 'self-cultivation,' whether active or contemplative, personalistic or politically commited, cuts one off from the mysterious but indespensible contact with [God]...One of the things that cause [someone] to be so utterly frustrated is precisely that he shuts himself up in a cell and tries to cultivate qualities which he thinks desirable and get rid of others which he dislikes."

"A contemplative and interior life which would simply make the subject more aware of himself and permit him to become obsessed with his own interior progress would be no less an illusion than the active life of the 'benevolent' man who would try by his own efforts to impose his idea of the good on those who might oppose this idea....this means abandoning the 'need to win'."

"Chuang Tzu's Taoism is nostalgic for the primordial climate of paradise in which there was no differentiation, in which man was utterly simple, unaware of himself, living at peace with himself, with [God],...But..this paradise is not something that has been irrevocably lost by sin and cannot be regained except by redemption. It is still ours, but we do not know it, since the effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not."

"[T]he superior work of art proceeds from a hidden and spiritual principle which in detachment, forgetfulness of results, and abandonment of all hope of profit, discovers precisely the tree that is waiting to have this particular work carved from it. [T]he artist works as though passively, and it is [God] that works through him."



I just got back from The Abbey of Gethsemani, a monastery about 2 hours from here in KY, and I had an incredible time. Truely, I had never felt silence like that before. Everyone was really nice, though a little put off by my tattoos. I forget how I must look sometimes to the average Kentuckian, but I should find comfort in that the tastes of someone else never crosses my mind in application to my own life, if that makes sense. I just take notice more and more. I promise I am not becoming a monk, I realized while I was there, that I do love the conviction and dedication of a monk, but I know I wouldn't be happy. I just love doing my thing too much. I love driving on the interstate, late night nudity in bars, Six Feet Under, blessed tom-foolery, music and everything with it. Hopefully I am not too obsessed by Chuang Tzu's definition.


Currently playing - Jesu:Conqueror

In memory of Great Grandma Mimo

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Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are.

"Some one ought to do it, but why should I?" -- "Some one ought to do it, so why not I?" Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

- Annie Besant

just thought i would share some pleasantries.
its all going to work out. here's Tom with the weather.

Currently listening : Stoner Witch By Melvins Release date: 18 October, 1994

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Down on the Upside / or something i hearing is waiting
Current mood: receiving a surprise

Upon The Sand

Said one man to another, "At the high tide of the sea, long ago, with the point of my staff I wrote a line upon the sand; and the people still pause to read it, and they are careful that naught shall erase it."

And the other man said, "And I to wrote a line upon the sand, but it was at low tide, and the waves of the vast sea washed it away. But tell me, what did you write?"

And the first man answered and said, "I wrote this: 'I am he who is.' But what did you write?"

And the other man said, "This I wrote: 'I am but a drop of this great ocean.'"


Kahlil Gibran, "The Wanderer"




Music :[ipod shuffle]

TV on the Radio - "Playhouses"

Nick Drake - "The Thoughts of Mary Jane"

PJ Harvey - "Electric Light"

Shiner - "Pills"

Currently watching : BILL VIOLA: HATSU YUME (FIRST DREAM) Release date: 08 November, 2006

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What Kind of Day Has It Been

ok I am done.  I have a had a horrible day, I am looking at some unpleasant times ahead.  So I am making a decision, a year from this January, mark your calendars, its on.  What will happen, I don't know, but its time.  I think I am ready now. 

music - "Can You Take Me High Enough" - Damn Yankees (via Nathan's ring tone)

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S w i (op.3)
Current mood: grateful

A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream. - David Steindl-Rast

Currently watching : Maria Full of Grace Release date: 07 December, 2004

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I'm free now...flexing like a heartbeat
Current mood: artistic

I have successfully moved all of my stuff into my new apartment now.  its very small, quiet and small.  but its done.  I am without a computer and a TV for now.  I may not get a TV, its funny how a little box with moving pictures has become such good company in the late hours of night. 

Lets go get a drink.

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Example 1

If the past is unredeemable, and the future unpredictable, what more practical course is open than to safeguard the present by constant rememberance of the divine?
Paul Brunton
Notebooks


I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman


If standing for Love sends me to hell, then it is hell where I belong.



Theme : Life Between Love

(the way I play is to select a theme into Google Images and thus choose the exhibit according to the theme.)










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PLaying:

Rolling Stones - "Moonlight Mile", Sticky Fingers

Mono - Are You There

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