| random pics ive taken |
[Feb. 23rd, 2005|03:55 pm] |
heh...i'm scanner happy today. these are just some other pics ive taken...
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| Tickfest 2004 |
[Feb. 23rd, 2005|03:27 pm] |
Here are some pics i took last summer at a free music festival in arkansas called 'tickfest'. i'm just now getting around to scanning them, but such is life...
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| Hindsight is just like Foresight without a future.... |
[Nov. 12th, 2004|05:38 pm] |
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| | sufjan stevens | ] |
...Boston is where he is. A friend of mine from high school, and still a friend to this day. few people have influenced me as much as Michael has. as i know him, he is exceptionally bright, thoughtfull, and full of emotion for everything and everyone around him. we dont speak much, but when we do, it is always memorible. we have always shaerd similar views on many subjects, politics included. the other day i got an e-mail from my bostonian friend concerning the recent election. amidst all the noise about the whole ordeal, his seemed to stand out to me--maybe because i have so much respect for him. maybe because i feel the same way. in any case, this is what he wrote:
It's quiet in Boston today.
After the chaos and revelry following the Red Sox's victories, the
silence that reigns in the city is deafening. The mood around the
country is mixed, with some people basking in the re-election of
George W. Bush, and some feeling the weight of another four years of
the same.
What in the world happened? Exit polls, major pollsters, news agencies
were predicting the same thing: President Kerry. The truth emerged in
nightmare fashion during the course of the night, however: Bush was
winning Florida, and looked solid in Ohio. The more numbers came in,
the more solid the President looked.
Say goodnight, John. It was good knowing ya.
While the dust settles from this epic battle between the Senator from
Massachusetts and the "plain-folks" President, the pollsters and
pundits are all scrambling to figure out just what, in fact, happened.
It seems pretty clear upon consideration, and William Saletan of Slate
had part of it when he said it was the simplicity of Bush's message
that carried the election: Fight terror, stay the course.
Arguably, however, it wasn't just the simplicity of his message. It
was the directness. Bush made his positions clear, even if how he
arrived at those positions was more than a little shady. His position
on Iraq, for instance, was very clear: stay the course. What he didn't
talk about was why we HAVE to stay the course: because Bush led us
into an unnecessary war, which is now a mess.
It may not be politic to say that, but just now "politic" is a bit
distasteful. So let's go a bit further. What we have now is a
President who has been farcical, divisive, secretive, and dishonest -
but he's simple. The people understand him. People LIKE him. People,
against all reason, seem to TRUST President Bush.
Here's the hard part. Here's the thought that is blanketing Boston,
and pervading all the "blue" states. Now, we have to come together.
The people have chosen George W. Bush, and those of us who find that
decision distasteful have no choice but to deal with it. We have a
responsibility to do what the President himself cannot: we have to
work with the other side. For the sake of our nation, for our
children, for the world, we have to do our part to reach across the
aisle.
It WILL be hard work, Mr. President. Cleaning up the divided mess
you've created is serious business.
We don't have to like it, but that's the hand we've been dealt. And
all across the nation, like here in Boston, people are looking at
those cards in silence, shaking their heads.
Four more years.
--
Cacticus Tacticus Vexatius Optimus Maximus
"I'm not a Jelly doughnut, but I am a Roman."
...there ya go...makes sense to me. |
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| how to bite your own teeth... |
[Nov. 2nd, 2004|01:25 am] |
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| | sufjan stevens - seven swans | ] |
i am cold and hot at the same time...this happens to me every year. i get thrown into a strange binge of introspection...i think it's harder on my friends than it is on me. some people make resolutions on new years--i do it when the trees finally decide to sleep and there is less daylight to distract me. ill stay up late searching for a shred of myself in a new song or ill clean and re-arrange my room, 'cause maybe if i think about it hard enough, i can re-arrange myself too. if school were a job, i would call in distracted.
i need something new and beautiful and sad and angry and powerful and naked...and i find peices of these in music--the only thing that i ever allow to completely consume me. or do i swallow it instead? ...then my ears would be my mouth...my soul would be my stomach...and ill deficate my own sad attempt at self-expression, which somehow on the way out has lost it's meaning...
*sigh*...well...i guess i feel better...
time for bed. |
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| traveling at the speed of an ending.... |
[Aug. 15th, 2004|10:15 am] |
ahh....what a night it was...but ill save it for my other primary journal...(there's a link here somewhere)
also, i think im gonna continue my little sappy adventure of un-earthing what my friends mean to me in my other journal, for those who arent lucky enough to have a lj account....
short post...
oh well...
back again soon. |
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| chama chama chama chama chama chameleon..... |
[Aug. 14th, 2004|01:54 pm] |
To the elite lj ring* (see footnote), and anyone who happems to stumble across:
my excitment is building! im so ready to go back to school! i miss all you guys a lot....i wish i didnt have to leave anybody i cared about ever, but it seems that's gonna be the trend for mine and everybody else's life...there's really not much one can do about it. i guess it helps weed out the bull-shit. the people you keep in touch with after you've been seperated are the ones that really matter to ya... im really glad i have to spend the summers away from TN sometimes, cause it gives me time to contemplate the previous year...lets me discover in my own mind what really matters to me. its so easy to get caught up in a routine that isint consistant with your own true persona....or something like that. so anyway...given that i have spent much of the summer thinking about my friends from school, and coincidently many of them have lj accounts, i figure i should update everybody on my thoughts about them : ).....heh..i hope this isint a bad idea...and now that i think about it....it seems kinda cocky of me to assume you guys care what i think about you, but fuck it, im bored.
by the way, this is in no particular order, and it seems they get shorter as i go, which is cause im getting tired, and i have some other junk i gotta do....the expanded versions of all of these will be presented verbally the next time i get way too drunk around you guys....which im sure is gonna happen sooner or later : )
to jen:
ahh, jen. you actually are the one that convinced me to get a live journal account. rock on for you : ). i can remember when i was a freshman and you came to visit mtsu to check it out...i can hardly believe how much you've grown as a person, but when i think about it, the experience of goig to college seems to promote change in most everybody. i guess the trick is to change for the better--you've definately handled it very gracefully. like most of the people i consider friends, you are a major source of inspiration for me. i need people like you around to keep me on the right track...it seems i depend on primarily females for this assistance....huh...intresting. but ill let frued think about that one... like most people i am still searching for my better half--but often times it is difficult to know what ya really want, so i seem to borrow qualities from several different girls i know and construct with them my idea of someone i could be happy with (which my be part of my problem). anyway...jen, for what its wotrh, you possess many of the qualities that i seem to borow. you are caring and nurturing, creative, patient, and possibily above all, open-minded without comprimizing your values. so rest easy--at least one person in this crazy world thinks you're awesome : )
well, when i think of jen i cant help but think of heath...
to heath:
hey bro. ahh...what would i do without my heath. ya know that poster you used to see on highschool counselor's doors or in a social worker's office that had the bird trying to eat the frog, but the frog was choking the bird on the way down, and it said 'dont ever give up'? well my friend, you are that frog....except with way more hair. you've been there from the begining buddy....and i hope you're around for a good while longer. ill never forget the time we went to that girl's cabin man....somehow i've forgotten her name...it was one of my first crazy college adventures. dont ever give up buddy, you're a bad-ass guy, and anybody who needlessly criticizes you can suck my nuts.
to tony:
well well well....i honestly have to say that i dont know ya as well as i'd like to man...you're one of those people that i guess i dont have to know too well to know that we have a lot in common...or at least i think we do. you just make sense to me....its kinda like, ya ever meet someone, but feel like youve known them forever? yeah, thats sorta it. dont ever abandon trying to explain yourself, and your mind. none of us can ever completely do it, but i think the closer we get, the better we are. hit me up this semester, man--we need to talk deep, and PLAY SOME MUSIC!
to brooke:
wow...where to start : ) i've often not known what to think about you...but after a summer of thinking about it, i think maybe i finally know how much you really mean to me. you're absolutely crazy brooke, but thats what i love about you. i know you worry sometimes about what people think about you, weither you want to admit it or not, but just know--when i look at you, there is absolutely no judgement being passed. i look at you and i wonder what you're thinking. i wonder what you think of me. i wonder what i can do to make you happy, to break through these hard outer shells we have seemed to form around ourselves, to prevent us from getting in too deep. i know you're way smarter than you let on sometimes...its a side of you i wish i could see more of. i want to be as comfortable with you around as i am when i'm alone...which i know is impossible, but maybe we can get close.
it may have taken me a while to reach this point, but this is definately how i feel now. please, dont think im throwing myself at you...i imagine you dont want to be smothered as much as i dont. to sum it up, i guess i just wish i knew you better.
to lexi:
*bawl*! i cant believe you're gone...i wish i knew sooner... you never know how much people and things mean to you untill you've lost them. lexi, ive never known you to be rude, or negative, or unpleasant. when i see someone else that it seems can face anything with a smile, it makes me feel i can do the same. i wish more people could follow your example. you, lexi, are destined for greatness. dont let negative people get in the way or drag you down. and dont worry about not knowing anybody way over there--as awesome as you are, you'll have freakin' tons of kick-ass friends in no time. someone i know has always told me, 'your friends are all around you--you just dont know them yet'.
well...sadly, i need to go...there are several people who mean the world to me that i have left out cause they dont have a lj. but you will all recieve the same at a later date, i promise. : )
...for now...goodbye.
*all the people i know on lj are my buddies in TN at school. this journal was primarily established to address them. you rock guys. : ) |
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