Nov 26, 2009

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Hello friends, cohorts and those that aren't either.  i just stopped by to wish you all a SUPER THANKSGIVING



EAT, DRINK AND BE THANKFUL AND PASS THAT HAPPINESS FORWARD


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Nov 23, 2009

MONDAY MORNING WISHES

THE WEEKEND HAS COME AND GONE



AND NOW MONDAY REARS IT'S UGLY FACE


AND THAT MY FRIENDS DOES NOT MAKE ME HAPPY



MATTER OF FACT, IT MAKES ME FEEL A LITTLE HOSTILE



SINCE MONDAY'S UGLY MUG



AND I...



WELL SINCE WE ...



I'LL BE GOING BACK TO BED



I'LL BE BACK WHEN IT'S NO LONGER MONDAY...



AND WHEN I DON'T FEEL LIKE



UNTIL THEN







My CD and Book recommendations

CD

Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Are You Normal?


Book

The Gunslinger - The dark Tower Book 1 by Stephen King




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Nov 22, 2009

SONG OF THE WEEK 2

I'll hear some amazing song on a commercial or at the end of some TV show, that just blows me away.  So I do what anybody with an I-net connection does.  I go searching for it, like Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom.  Albeit, while searching for this amazing song, I more often than not, get distracted.

INTERMISSION
This is a common occurrence for me.  My soon to be ex-wife says I have "OOOOH SHINY" syndrome.  Which means well...you know how you can usually distract small children with shiny objects?  Well then you get the idea.  Anyways...
END OF INTERMISSION

For example, I'll hear this song, and it's by some new or unsigned band.  I think to myself "Self, this is a major discovery!"  So, I end up searching for everything on the web by them so I can give them a fair shake.

Like most people, depending on my mood at that moment, my music tastes may change, usually at the drop of a hat.  So what I once thought was a cool song gets forgotten, because I may not have cared for the rest of what I found.

Or worse...if it's an established artist, and I go looking for some other song of theirs that I like, and suddenly I have forgotten the first song.  Then just like that the songs I was searching go the way of the Bermuda Triangle.

A little while ago, I heard this song at the end of the TV series "Mercy", I looked for it, found it, and put up a little blurb about it.  I did this mainly because I was absolutely exhausted, and I wanted to really mull it over a little later, and this way I wouldn't have to search for it.

This made me happy when I woke up later that day, because there was the song in it's easy to reach container.  So with all that said, here it is...the official SONG OF THE WEEK...

Guess what I was doing when I heard this song?  Yup watching HULU.  Bones to be precise.  At the end of this episode this song starts to play and it is such a beautiful piece of music.  So off I went to the web,  where after minutes of searching I find it.  So boys and girls, enjoy...



The song is called 'My Ghost' by the artist known as Glass Pear from the album "Streets Of Love"




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Nov 21, 2009

MOVIE REVIEWS 2

You know what has always bugged me?  Movie reviews that take a "I'm so much smarter than you" route.  Every movie review I have ever read takes this approach.  They sit there and with a fine tooth comb and condemn every aspect of the movie or they praise the intellectual aspects of this cinematic experience.

Me, I just want a simple review.  Did the movie achieve it's goal.  How was the acting?  Was the script/story any good.  Was the movie entertaining.  Add a positive comment.  Add a negative comment.  Finally make a simple scale and rate that movie accordingly.

It's not asking for much.

Reading a movie review shouldn't have to be a chore.

So let's make that scale

   1. Will never watch the movie again
   2. If I HAVE to I'll watch the movie again
   3. I will watch the movie again
   4. I look forward to watching the movie again
   5. I'll watch this movie everyday

Now let's review some movies...


2012


Story line was average. The acting was decent, no one really stands out, and the characters were all your run of the mill cliche's. The special F/X were awesome. That being said, if you're looking for a movie that pushes the cinema into a new era, this is NOT the movie to watch. But if you just want to be entertained, watch this movie; It's a fun ride.
3/5


The Invention of Lying


WOW.  This movie is amazing.  Wonderful story.  Wonderful acting.  Strong script.  The movie was funny when it was supposed to be and very dramatic when it was supposed to be.
5/5


The Tournament


This movie is exactly what you would expect. Multiple story lines with predictable outcomes. Ultra violence, with a lot of blood, guts and gore. Not for the squeamish but it was an entertaining way to waste 90 minutes.
I give it a 3/5


Paranormal Activity


This movie could have been awesome.  It could have been truly frightening.  It had the potential to be one of the greatest horror thriller movies ever made.  But the story was weak.  The acting was tolerable.  The fact that most of the "events" take place off camera, which let's your imagination run wild, was very smart.
2/5




My CD and Book recommendations

CD
Dwight Yoakam - Last Chance For A Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits From The 90's



Book
Watership Down by Richard Adams





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Nov 19, 2009

AWESOME APPAREL THURSDAY 3

Salt & Pepper Productions


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Lush Laundry



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My CD and Book recommendations


CD
Garbage - Garbage
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BOOK
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

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Nov 17, 2009

ONE RANDOM THOUGHT

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“This -- this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.” -  Louis L'Amour


I've been in my head, mulling over my existence over the last few weeks.  Where I've been, what I've done, where I'm going and where I need to go, but rarely do I think about the present.

This exact moment.

And I don't know why?

The present is the easiest place in our place in time to think about.  It takes no amount of energy because it's happening at this precise moment.  The facts are easiest to recall, because they are happening to you with every breath that enters your lungs.  It's happening as every ounce of blood travels through your body; feeding, nourishing and healing.  At this specific place and time, while you sit and read these words, it is the only moment that should exist.  To live, grow and experience the exact instant that the universe happens.

That seems to be the only place that I can't seem to live in or grasp the concept of.  I can talk and remember the past and I can speculate about the future but I am at a loss when it comes to enjoying the present.

If you take a moment to stop and look around yourself, you can really see the world and yourself in the purest form.  You can see yourself alive.  You can see what is so completely important and vital to really understand yourself and the world you live in.

How glorious is that?

And how heartbreaking it is to know that it's just slightly out of reach.

I've spent so much time, energy and emotions thinking about everything else.

Like most of us, I've never stopped to realize what the world has to show me.

How often have we taken the time to be completely lost in the exact moment of any given experience?

When you think of nothing but the kiss and you don't have thoughts like I hope my breath doesn't smell.  When you hug a loved one and enjoy the closeness and surrender of that person, and you don't think about how crappy your day has gone.  When you have a good laugh and enjoy that moment of bliss, without feeling selfconscious when no one else seems to laugh as loud or as long.

I wonder how much of the world I have missed by not paying attention to the here and now.  Even as I write this, I have a foot in yesterday, contemplating what I have missed.

I have been in so may diverse situations that had I been in the moment, I could have really opened my eyes to each every wonderful and painful moment.  Instead I have wasted so much of myself in the "could have's and should have's", that I wonder if I even know how to live in the moment.



My CD and Book recommendations

CD
Lords of Acid - Lust



Book
Belinda by Anne Rice





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Nov 16, 2009

MONDAY MORNING WISHES

IT'S MONDAY FOLKS...



WITH THAT SAID "HEY MONDAY!"



AND "KISS MY

!!!"


I'M GOING BACK TO




I'LL BE BACK TOMORROW...

WHEN I DON'T FEEL LIKE



UNTIL THEN







My CD and Book recommendations

CD

Saturday Morning - Cartoons Greatest Hits


Book

Kingdom Come by Elliot S! Maggin based on the story by Mark Waid and Alex Ross




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Nov 15, 2009

SONG OF THE WEEK 1

I'll hear some amazing song on a commercial or at the end of some TV show, that just blows me away.  So I do what anybody with an I-net connection does.  I go searching for it, like Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom.  Albeit, while searching for this amazing song, I more often than not, get distracted.

INTERMISSION
This is a common occurrence for me.  My soon to be ex-wife says I have "OOOOH SHINY" syndrome.  Which means well...you know how you can usually distract small children with shiny objects?  Well then you get the idea.  Anyways...
END OF INTERMISSION

For example, I'll hear this song, and it's by some new or unsigned band.  I think to myself "Self, this is a major discovery!"  So, I end up searching for everything on the web by them so I can give them a fair shake.

Like most people, depending on my mood at that moment, my music tastes may change, usually at the drop of a hat.  So what I once thought was a cool song gets forgotten, because I may not have cared for the rest of what I found.

Or worse...if it's an established artist, and I go looking for some other song of theirs that I like, and suddenly I have forgotten the first song.  Then just like that the songs I was searching go the way of the Bermuda Triangle.

A little while ago, I heard this song at the end of the TV series "Mercy", I looked for it, found it, and put up a little blurb about it.  I did this mainly because I was absolutely exhausted, and I wanted to really mull it over a little later, and this way I wouldn't have to search for it.

This made me happy when I woke up later that day, because there was the song in it's easy to reach container.  So with all that said, here it is...the official SONG OF THE WEEK...

Guess what I was doing when I heard this song?  Yup watching HULU.  The Daily Show with John Stewart to be precise.  Then some save the world commercial started and I began to play free cell again.  I play free cell whenever there's a commercial...I mean what else am I supposed to do for those 15 to 32 seconds while the commercials play?

Well this save the world commercial starts playing and I hear this song and it was such an amazing song, so off to the web I go.  I was absolutely thrilled when I found it.

I was even more thrilled when I found out it was the AMAZING Tom Waits.

Tom Waits makes you feel things that are almost impossible to put into words.  To me Tom Waits is like a Charles Bukowski story set to music, it's rarely pretty, but always powerful.

So here is the song...



Never Let Go is avaialable on the album called "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards"



Book recommendations

Post Office by Charles Bukowski




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Nov 14, 2009

MOVIE REVIEWS

You know what has always bugged me?  Movie reviews that take a "I'm so much smarter than you" route.  Every movie review I have ever read takes this approach.  They sit there and with a fine tooth comb and condemn every aspect of the movie or they praise the intellectual aspects of this cinematic experience.

Me, I just want a simple review.  Did the movie achieve it's goal.  How was the acting?  Was the script/story any good.  Was the movie entertaining.  Add a positive comment.  Add a negative comment.  Finally make a simple scale and rate that movie accordingly.

It's not asking for much.

Reading a movie review shouldn't have to be a chore.

So let's make that scale
  1. Will never watch the movie again
  2. If I HAVE to I'll watch the movie again
  3. I will watch the movie again
  4. I look forward to watching the movie again
  5. I'll watch this movie everyday
Now let's review some movies...

He's Just Not That Into You




This move has a solid plot and an enjoyable, interweaving storyline.  The acting was good and the actors fit their roles in a believable manner.  This is one of the better ensemble cast movies I have seen lately.  Although the movie is fairly predictable I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed this romantic comedy.

I give it a 4/5.

Law Abiding Citizen



A very strong script and well written story.  The acting and the actors were superb.  Although the end of the movie fit the story, it was the only true weak spot.  This was an "A" movie with a "C" ending.  Other than that this was a very good action whodunit film.

I give it a 4.5/5.

Zombieland



This is one of those quirky movies that has some funny moments, some silly moments, a few laugh out loud situations and it even has a few dramatic points.  This is not a movie you ever need
to analyze.  As a horror movie it is an epic fail.  But as a movie that just entertained the bejesus out of me, than it was an epic success.

I give this a 4/5.



My CD and Book recommendations

CD

Cheap Trick - Woke Up With A Monster



Book

Cybill Disobedience : How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood and The Irrepressible Urge To Say What I Think - by Cybill Shepherd with Aimee Lee Ball

Nov 13, 2009

GROWING UP TAKES TIME

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- there were times when we dreamed together, when we laughed and cried together. As I look back on those days, I realize how much I truly miss you and how much I truly love you. The past may be gone forever...for whatever the future may hold." - C. L. Purdy


Hello boys and girls and adults of all ages.  Wow, how time flies when one is feeling sorry for themselves.  Of course, when I mention "one", with an ounce of shame and a good pummeling from reality I mean me.  That's right ladies and gentlemen, I have been crying into my root beer.  I have been salting down the sarsaparilla with selfish sobbing.  I have thrown myself a month long pity party with a few "woe is me" moments thrown in, for good measure.

Let me tell you the slightly abridged version of the history that led me to the deep end of the "I'm a selfish prick" pool.

My marriage had been on the cliff side of rocky for a while, mainly because I never really matured into an adult.  Being the stupid ass that I am, I didn't see this.  As far as I knew we were just going through a rough patch.  I was not only wrong, I was blind too.

Season on the other hand, knew where we were heading and she was enduring it as long as she could.  She tried to tell me in many different ways what was happening.  But I never heard a word.

I mean, it's not like it was MY fault.

This story has a beginning...and it had nothing to do with Season.  It had to do with the past.

I had some bad breaks as a kid.  I grew up in a shitty household with some shitty people as parents.  Throw in some abuse, alcoholism and just a pinch of neglect and TADA...crappy childhood.

Now a smart person would have asked for help to get past "the past".  A strong person would have sought out help so that they could grow into a functioning well adjusted adult.

I have gone on record a few times stating that I am not a smart man nor am I a wise man. I had to prove myself right.

You see, I believed I was (in my own mind) a better person than all those around me because I survived that nightmare.  I was strong.  I was resilient.  I was wise.  I was a rock.  I was a survivor and a victor because I came through unscathed from all of those horrible moments.

I was an ass, and I was wrong, dead wrong.

Instead of getting better, I became a self righteous prick.  Instead of letting go of all that baggage, I carried it around as a "feel sorry for me" banner:
  • "Look at what I went through."
  • "It's a miracle I'm as good of a person as I am after trudging through those trials and tribulations."
  • "You have no clue how much better you had it."
  • "What are you complaining about?  Your childhood was SO much better than mine, you have NOTHING to bitch about!"
Thanks to my infinite depths of wisdom (which in truth is a very small, very shallow puddle), I was destroying my marriage.  Whenever we had arguments I would say the dumbest things possible in such a way that would...well let's just say that my drama queen status is not only alive but flourishing.  I would also say things that in the end would become a self fulfilling prophecy:
  • "We should end this marriage."
  • "You deserve better than me."
  • "Well you're going to leave me anyway."
  • I'd take off my wedding ring and throw it at her and say "I can't do this anymore."
Basically I was being a two year old in a 30 + year old body throwing a tantrum of epic proportions.

After a few years of this, she did what any intelligent and sane woman would do.  She left.

This is where my story goes from sad to pathetic.

After she left, we started talking a little bit.

This is the point in the story when a mature reasonable person would've started getting help and apologizing for their behavior.  They would have began a course of action to change their ways.  They would have started the growing up process.

But this is me we're talking about.

Instead of saying all the things I mentioned in the previous paragraph, I said "If you aint coming back I want a divorce."

Now saying that once once would be understandable.  The pain of all of this was still very fresh and very raw.  I had a chance to not only do the right thing but to set in motion a series of actions that could have ended with positive changes.

Except I didn't.  Not only was that statement said more once, in fact I made that statement and others very similar to it on more than four or five separate occasions.

I compounded this development by saying nothing.  For over a month, I said nothing.  Nothing at all.

There are millions and billions of different word combination's that all say and mean the same thing.  I'm sorry, I'm getting better and I love you.  There are an infinite amount of actions I could have taken that could have started the healing process.

Instead I said nothing.

Instead I did nothing.

So last month when I got the email saying that once we get our financial obligations in order, the divorce papers would be filed.  I was shocked.  I was surprised.  I actually asked why is this happening to me.  Then I went into that "I have been crying into my root beer.  I have been salting down the
sarsaparilla with selfish sobbing.  I have thrown myself a month long
pity party with a few "woe is me"
state of being.

Well I'm done with that.

I am tired of feeling sorry for myself.

I'm tired of throwing away good things in my life because I have never had the strength or courage to grow up.

I am tired of not being able to look in the mirror because I am ashamed of the being whose visage faces me.  But mostly I am tired of not moving forward.

Through words, deeds and inaction I caused the dissolution to something wonderful.  Through words, deeds and inaction I lost the chance to salvage anything from something wonderful.  I lost my marriage, my wife and my best friend.  Now it's time for me to grow up and accept that the only person to blame is me.

I may not be able to do anything about that, but it is in my power to pick up the tattered remains of myself and begin to make something out of that.  Life doesn't stop because the path changes.  And it's about time I start walking again and for the first time down that path.


My CD and Book recommendations

CD

Pearl Jam - Ten


Book
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Nov 12, 2009

AWESOME APPAREL THURSDAY 2

International Electrophonic Unit




My CD and Book recommendations


CD
Wednesday 13 - Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead




Book
Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb



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Nov 5, 2009

AWESOME APPAREL THURSDAY 1

International Electrophonic Unit


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My CD and Book recommendations

BLACKFISH - BLACKFISH
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BOOK

MOTLEY CRUE - THE DIRT - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx with Neil Strauss

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