Saturday, April 01, 2006

The Facts



the harm you pray against has come
your soul cries out for answers
there are none
face it with strength you must
with breath catching and stomach clenching
you trust
must not think of it too long
overwhelming fear at the facts
please make them be wrong
it is wrong, it is all wrong

db 04/01/06


Thursday, March 30, 2006

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Sing Along - Please Remember Me - Tim McGraw

This is a beautiful song and it reminds me of an old love. I hope you will sing along. Click on link to see video.
http://launch.yahoo.com/video/default.asp?vid=2144627

http://music.yahoo.com/ar-256961-videos--Tim-McGraw

Please Remember Me

(rodney crowell/will jennings)

When all our tears have reached the sea
Part of you will live in me
Way down deep inside my heart
The days keep coming without fail
A new wind is gonna find your sail
That’s where your journey starts

You’ll find better love
Strong as it ever was
Deep as the river runs
Warm as the morning sun
Please remember me

Just like the waves down by the shore
We’re gonna keep on coming back for more
’cause we don’t ever wanna stop
Out in this brave new world you seek
Oh the valleys and the peaks
And I can see you on the top

You’ll find better love
Strong as it ever was
Deep as the river runs
Warm as the morning sun
Please remember me

Remember me when you’re out walkin’
When the snow falls high outside your door
Late at night when you’re not sleepin’
And moonlight falls across your floor
When I can’t hurt you anymore

You’ll find better love
Strong as it ever was
Deep as the river runs
Warm as the morning sun
Please remember me
Please remember me

<---added for chiefbisquit!

http://whospackageisit.blogspot.com/2005/12/guessed-packages-ten-eleven-and-twelve.html

Sunday, March 26, 2006

takers

For Dex. I am reposting "Takers" for one of my blog mates. There are some bad folks in the world and everytime they hurt or use someone they add another brick of bitterness to our collective wall. I wrote this about those sociopaths.


Takers

In the dank, dark, lousy cells of your mind
Do you find from time-to-time a respite

Do you burn all the day
Do you hate all the night

or

Do you sometimes suffer from fright

Have you cried a tear that was not for show
Had a moment when you stubbed your toe

Was there ever a time when you did not lie
No, that would take effort - you would have to try

Your one of the mean ones
The takers - the spies
Stay away from me
You make me cry

db

Saturday, March 25, 2006

pathetic




pathetic

useless
no reason to be

kaleidiscope
i don't see

wounds
blinding me

drained
apathy

db

original post 12-08-2001

Monday, March 20, 2006

Mario Contest

I was a Mario fanatic. I had the first Pong game and thought it was great and then Atarti and I thought it was fantastic, so you know when Nintendo came out, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I made everyone I know mad playing Mario Bros so much. There was no save, so you didn't want to turn it off. It took me forever to do what these guys do in minutes. I still play with every new system that comes out, but Atari and Nintendo changed my world for awhile.

Car Prank

The rain has stopped. Thank goodness for that. We were all starting to float away. I prayed for rain, but didn't want to turn the streets into rivers.

I noticed the Redneck video wasn't working, at least for me, so I found a replacement video. This reminds me of my cousins. Boys are so mean. (and funny)

Friday, March 17, 2006

Neil Young - Prairie Wind



Neil Young has a new album out (yes, I still call them albums!) It is titled "Prairie Wind" You can listen to the whole thing at http://www.neilyoung.com/prairiewind.html
I think that is nice. They don't just let you hear a snippet. You hear each song in it's entirety.

I am listening now to a song called "The Painter" and I like it. This sounds like classic Young. O I like "No Wonder" even more than the first one. I will be buying this one fer sure. I have not bought an album since I don't know when. I just download songs now and burn the cd's. Below are the lyrics to a favorite old Young. I hope you enjoy. I used the "Harvest" album for the picture, because it was such an outstanding accomplishment. My favorite Neil Young album so far.

"Don't Let It Bring You Down"

Old man lying
by the side of the road
With the lorries rolling by,
Blue moon sinking
from the weight of the load
And the building scrape the sky,
Cold wind ripping
down the alley at dawn
And the morning paper flies,
Dead man lying
by the side of the road
With the daylight in his eyes.

Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning,
Find someone who's turning
And you will come around.

Blind man running
through the light
of the night
With an answer in his hand,
Come on down
to the river of sight
And you can really understand,
Red lights flashing
through the window
in the rain,
Can you hear the sirens moan?
White cane lying
in a gutter in the lane,
If you're walking home alone.

Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning,
Just find someone who's turning
And you will come around.

Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning,
Just find someone who's turning
And you will come around.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Napoleon Dynamite Dance Scene

I thought this was cute. This guy is so funny and he can dance! Have you seen this movie? Can you dance?

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

WILD ABOUT WILDE


I love Oscar Wilde! Here are a few favorite quotes:

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."

"I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to."-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

"Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."-- “An Ideal Husband”

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."-- “The Duchess of Padua”


"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."-- “An Ideal Husband”

Faktion - Take It All Away

Check out this new release by a band out of Dallas/Denton area."Faktion" I feel some Pantera influences. I think this will be a hit with the Metal Peoples. Good luck Faktion!!
I like it too.


WWW.MYSPACE.COM/FAKTIONDALLAS

Monday, March 13, 2006

Annie Lennox -"The Thin Line Between Love And Hate"


"The Thin Line Between Love And Hate"

It's a thin line between love and hate
It's a thin line between love and hate

It's five o'clock in the morning
And you're just gettin' in
A knock upon the door
A voice sweet and low says (who is it?)
She opens up the door
And she lets you in
And never once does she say "where have you been?"

She says "Hold it,
Are you hungry, did you eat yet,
Let me hang up your coat now"
And all the time she's smiling
Never raises her voice
It's five o'clock in the morning
And you don't give it a second thought

It's a thin line between love and hate
It's a thin line between love and hate

The sweetest woman in the world
Could be the meanest woman in the world
If you make her be that way
She might be holding something in
That's really gonna hurt you
One of these fine days

There you are in the hospital
Bandaged from foot to head
In a state of shock
That much from bein' dead
You didn't think your woman
Could do something like that to you
You didn't think she'd got the nerve
Accidents speak louder than words
Louder than words
Louder than words
Louder than words

Come on
Come on, baby, baby
If you won't give a damn about me
Come on baby, baby
You don't really care about me

Hear what I say
Hear what I say




I love Annie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Lennox

http://music.msn.com/artist/?artist=16090051&partist=16074648

So Tired


I want to throw things and break glass
Scream at the top of my lungs
I want one tiny teeny little space where it is not ugly
Loud, unfeeling and hateful
I want I want I want

Repost: Please Dont Judas Me
PLEASE DON'T JUDAS ME

Please don't Judas me
Treat me as you like to be treated
Please don't blacklist me
Leave me as you'd wish to find me
Don't analyze me, sacrifice me
Please don't judas me.

Please don't chastise me
Show me just one shred of kindness
Try to help me see
Guide me in my eyes of blindness
Don't despise me, categorize me
Please don't judas me.

No, no don't judas me
No, please don't judas me

Please don't headshrink me
Don't disguise your innuendos
Make no lies to me
I can see the way the wind blows
Don't deface me, annihilate me
Please don't judas me.

Please don't number me
Don't betray my trusted promise
Please don't anger me
I find it hard to bear no fairness
Don't frustrate me, manipulate me
Please don't judas me

No no don't judas me
No,please don't judas me

http://music.yahoo.com/track/1608551?ovchn=GGL&ovcpn=YMU&ovcrn=
Nazareth+Love+Hurts&ovtac=PPC

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Banned Mastercard Commercial

I know I am being lazy, but things have been overwhelming me of late. Not just doom despair oh misery on high stuff, but real reality stuff. I have no energy left to write. You may have seen this, it is not new, but it is funny. I haven't gotten tired of the "Priceless" gags yet. I hope you laugh.

Banned Mastercard Commercial

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Great Sing-A-Long and thanks to Google we have the video of Queen and the Lyrics.
Crank it.



Bohemian Rhapsody
written by Freddie Mercury

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody - I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooo - (anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning - very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo Figaro - magnifico

But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go - will you let me go
Bismillah! No - we will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let me go
Will not let you go - let me go (never)
Never let you go - let me go
Never let me go - ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no -
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
for me
for me

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby - can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out - just gotta get right outta here

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters - nothing really matters to me

Anyway the wind blows...

Thursday, March 02, 2006

The Apprentice Donald Trump VS Charlie Manson Video

Blogging (scroll down for Trump video)

I am not a very social person. I am happiest with my computer, Tv and a good book. I care little or nothing for going out and about or participating in events or activities, but I sure like to blog. I started this one in 2001. I didn't publish it for years though. I just posted my bad poetry and used it to grouse when I was depressed. It was called "Ramblings of a Manic Depressive" back then. I thought I was so original - till I Googled the name. There was a book published in the 70's by that name, rut roh, so I being the original person I am - stole from Pink Floyd, my favorite band ever. I figure that whatever medium I choose to use, the bad poetry, music lyrics, art or video, that I am revealing my self and therefore am blogging. The things I post, show who I am at the time I post them. I am not always pretty. I find I like and watch for a comment. It is interesting and somehow validating, knowing that somewhere, in some way, I connected with someone.
I am enjoying YouTube.com at the moment. I love a good video. This is not new, but is kinda funny if your an "Apprentice" fan. Trump Vs Manson.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Ghetto Bachelor

Flava Flav is a nice guy. I really believe that, but his show "Flavor of Love on VH1, is so ghetto. It is like "The Bachelor", except Flav gives the chosen girls a Big Clock instead of a rose. They are down to the final three and as this clip shows, things are getting UGLY. These woman are low life girls. Not all, but most are. I believe that spitting in someone's face is low low low as you go. I might not like "New York", but I would have stomped a mudhole in that biatch "Pumpkins" butt too. Watch this! I know I shouldn't be watching such trash, but I am hopelessly addicted to all Reality TV.

I Say Good Day!


It is a good day in my world. I stand with arms unfurled. Ready to embrace the ones that poke me.



09/13/05

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Don Knotts - Dead at 81

Don Knotts

I was watching an old Andy Griffith episode when I looked at my home page and saw that Don Knotts had died. I loved him, especially as Barney Fife,( Barney Fife was one of the greatest character's in the history of television) but also from all the funny movies he made. My favorite was "The Ghost and Mr Chicken" He was great as Mr Furley on "Threes Company" too.

http://www.interestingideas.com/ii/knotouv.htm

LOS ANGELES -
Don Knotts, who kept generations of TV audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show" and would-be swinger landlord Ralph Furley on "Three's Company," has died. He was 81.

Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, said Sherwin Bash, his friend and manager.
Griffith, who had visited Knotts in the hospital before his death, said his longtime friend had a brilliant comedic mind and wrote some of the show's best scenes.
"Don was a small man ... but everything else about him was large: his mind, his expressions," Griffith told The Associated Press on Saturday. "Don was special. There's nobody like him.
"I loved him very much," Griffith added. "We had a long and wonderful life together."
Unspecified health problems had forced Knotts to cancel an appearance in his native Morgantown in August.
The West Virginia-born actor's half-century career included seven TV series and more than 25 films, but it was the Griffith show that brought him TV immortality and five Emmys.
The show ran from 1960-68, and was in the top 10 of the Nielsen ratings each season, including a No. 1 ranking its final year. It is one of only three series in TV history to bow out at the top: The others are "I Love Lucy" and "Seinfeld." The 249 episodes have appeared frequently in reruns and have spawned a large, active network of fan clubs.

As the bug-eyed deputy to Griffith, Knotts carried in his shirt pocket the one bullet he was allowed after shooting himself in the foot. The constant fumbling, a recurring sight gag, was typical of his self-deprecating humor.
Knotts, whose shy, soft-spoken manner was unlike his high-strung characters, once said he was most proud of the Fife character and doesn't mind being remembered that way.
His favorite episodes, he said, were "The Pickle Story," where Aunt Bee makes pickles no one can eat, and "Barney and the Choir," where no one can stop him from singing.
"I can't sing. It makes me sad that I can't sing or dance well enough to be in a musical, but I'm just not talented in that way," he lamented. "It's one of my weaknesses."
Knotts appeared on several other television shows. In 1979, he joined the cast of "Three's Company," also starring John Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt.
Early in his TV career, he was one of the original cast members of "The Steve Allen Show," the comedy-variety show that ran from 1956-61. He was one of a group of memorable comics backing Allen that included
Louis Nye, Tom Poston and Bill "Jose Jimenez" Dana.
Knotts' G-rated films were family fun, not box-office blockbusters. In most, he ends up the hero and gets the girl-a girl who can see through his nervousness to the heart of gold.
In the part-animated 1964 film "The Incredible Mr. Limpet," Knotts played a meek clerk who turns into a fish after he is rejected by the Navy.

When it was announced in 1998 that
Jim Carrey would star in a "Limpet" remake, Knotts responded: "I'm just flattered that someone of Carrey's caliber is remaking something I did. Now, if someone else did Barney Fife, THAT would be different."
In the 1967 film "The Reluctant Astronaut," co-starring
Leslie Nielsen, Knotts' father enrolls his wimpy son -operator of a Kiddieland rocket ride in NASA's space program. Knotts poses as a famous astronaut to the joy of his parents and hometown but is eventually exposed for what he really is, a janitor so terrified of heights he refuses to ride an airplane.
In the 1969 film "The Love God?," he was a geeky bird-watcher who is duped into becoming publisher of a naughty men's magazine and then becomes a national sex symbol. Eventually, he comes to his senses, leaves the big city and marries the sweet girl next door.
He was among an army of comedians from Buster Keaton to
Jonathan Winters to liven up the 1963 megacomedy "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." Other films include "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" (1966); "The Shakiest Gun in the West" (1968); and a few Disney films such as "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (1974); "Gus" (1976); and "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo" (1977).
In 1998, he had a key role in the back-to-the-past movie "Pleasantville," playing a folksy television repairman whose supercharged remote control sends a teen boy and his sister into a TV sitcom past.
Knotts began his show biz career even before he graduated from high school, performing as a ventriloquist at local clubs and churches. He majored in speech at West Virginia University, then took off for the big city.
"I went to New York cold. On a $100 bill. Bummed a ride," he recalled in a visit to his hometown of Morgantown, where city officials renamed a street for him in 1998.
Within six months, Knotts had taken a job on a radio Western called "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders," playing a wisecracking, know-it-all handyman. He stayed with it for five years, then came his series TV debut on "The Steve Allen Show."
He married Kay Metz in 1948, the year he graduated from college. The couple had two children before divorcing in 1969. Knotts later married, then divorced Lara Lee Szuchna.
In recent years, he said he had no plans to retire, traveling with theater productions and appearing in print and TV ads for Kodiak pressure treated wood.
The world laughed at Knotts, but it also laughed with him.
He treasured his comedic roles and could point to only one role that wasn't funny, a brief stint on the daytime drama "Search for Tomorrow."
"That's the only serious thing I've done. I don't miss that," Knotts said.
Knotts is survived by his wife, Francey Yarborough, and two children, Karen and Thomas, from his first marriage. Knotts and Yarborough married three years ago, Yarborough said.
___
Associated Press writer Vicki Smith in Morgantown, W.Va., contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Twisted - Joni Mitchell - Sing Along

~click here, scroll down to Twisted, pick your player and sing along~


TWISTED

My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
The way he described it
He said I’d be better dead than live
I didn’t listen to his jive
I knew all along
That he was all wrong
And I knew that he thought
I was crazy but I’m not
Oh no

My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
He said I’d need treatment
But I’m not that easily led
He said I was the type
That was most inclined
When out of his sight
To be out of my mind
And he thought I was nuts
No more ifs or ands or buts

They say as a child
I appeared a little bit wild
With all my crazy ideas
But I knew what was happening
I knew I was a genius...
What’s so strange when you know
That you’re a wizard at three
I knew that this was meant to be

Now I heard little children
Were supposed to sleep tight
That’s why I got into the vodka one night
My parents got frantic
Didn’t know what to do
But I saw some crazy scenes
Before I came to
Now do you think I was crazy
I may have been only three
But I was swinging

They all laugh at angry young men
They all laugh at edison
And also at einstein
So why should I feel sorry
If they just couldn’t understand
The idiomatic logic
That went on in my head
I had a brain
It was insane
Oh they used to laugh at me
When I refused to ride
On all those double decker buses
All because there was no driver on the top

My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
But I said dear doctor
I think that it’s you instead
Because I have got a thing
That’s unique and new
To prove it I’ll have
The last laugh on you
’cause instead of one head
I got two
And you know two heads are better than one.



Joni Mitchell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell
"It was Court and Spark (1974), a hybrid of pop, rock, and folk with a jazzy sheen, that proved to be a huge success, producing such classic songs as "Free Man in Paris" (inspired by stories told by her producer and then-friend David Geffen), "Car On A Hill" and, most notably, "Help Me", which, to this day, remains her best selling single (it reached the Top Ten).

Court and Spark was also notable for the first echoes of the influence of jazz on Mitchell's work, and despite the commercial success of that album and the subsequent live record "Miles of Aisles," backed by the 70s pop-jazz outfit LA Express, she would spend the rest of the decade following that muse and creating more free-form, jazz-inflected music."
I can't express my love for Joni Mitchell enough. Court and Spark is one of the Best Recordings ever made. What I would give to be able to write one line as well as Joni does. Twisted is a silly song, but it was one of my favorites off this album. I could relate.

original post Feb.22, 2006