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Published On: 06-25-2007 10:45 AM
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20...plato_neocons/
Published On: 06-25-2007 10:45 AM
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20...plato_neocons/
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Published On: 06-20-2007 09:33 AM
As you already know, I am a lover of music. All kinds of music. I love the Beatles, I love The Shins, I love Ryan Adams, I love The Roots, I even love that stupid song "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne. Yes, I know, I should have my bamboo strips inserted underneath my fingernails for liking that one. But, I do loath bands that start off way cool and end up selling out in the end. For that, I hate U2. Obviously, this guy on MSN does too. I read this awesome article today and thought, "this guy is right on". It's just not selling out, it is the idolization of the musician that makes it obscene. So read away, yes I am a Beatles fan, I also love Nirvana, but this guy just makes perfect sense in how by sometimes not "selling out" a band "sells out". Where U2 is concerned, they just plain sold out, and really, why the F*@$ is some Irishmen telling me about human rights and what the world should do to end poverty and suffering when his "people" occupied Northern Ireland for so long and continue to to this day. Ok, sorry for ranting, but this guy's article is pretty darn good.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19313280/
Wyld...Out
Published On: 06-20-2007 09:33 AM
As you already know, I am a lover of music. All kinds of music. I love the Beatles, I love The Shins, I love Ryan Adams, I love The Roots, I even love that stupid song "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne. Yes, I know, I should have my bamboo strips inserted underneath my fingernails for liking that one. But, I do loath bands that start off way cool and end up selling out in the end. For that, I hate U2. Obviously, this guy on MSN does too. I read this awesome article today and thought, "this guy is right on". It's just not selling out, it is the idolization of the musician that makes it obscene. So read away, yes I am a Beatles fan, I also love Nirvana, but this guy just makes perfect sense in how by sometimes not "selling out" a band "sells out". Where U2 is concerned, they just plain sold out, and really, why the F*@$ is some Irishmen telling me about human rights and what the world should do to end poverty and suffering when his "people" occupied Northern Ireland for so long and continue to to this day. Ok, sorry for ranting, but this guy's article is pretty darn good.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19313280/
Wyld...Out
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Published On: 06-04-2007 08:37 AM
Hey all my DLive friends! I just wanted to let everyone know who might miss me that I won't be around much this week. I might be able to pop on for a few in the afternoons after work to see whats up. I am coordinateing a Peer Review at my job and it will be a busy busy week for me. Send me prayers and good thougts that everything will go smoothly and all that jazz. I am stressing majorly over it right now, but I know I have perpared the best I can for it. Have a great week, don't miss me too much!
Wyld...Out
Published On: 06-04-2007 08:37 AM
Hey all my DLive friends! I just wanted to let everyone know who might miss me that I won't be around much this week. I might be able to pop on for a few in the afternoons after work to see whats up. I am coordinateing a Peer Review at my job and it will be a busy busy week for me. Send me prayers and good thougts that everything will go smoothly and all that jazz. I am stressing majorly over it right now, but I know I have perpared the best I can for it. Have a great week, don't miss me too much!
Wyld...Out
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Published On: 05-21-2007 18:46 PM
I can't take credit for finding this song on my own, I must give credit to someone that helps me find lots of great music. Scott Register, aka Reg, has a little radio show that is amazing. His moniker or whatever the hell you call it is "helping you build your music library one song at a time". Well he certainly has helped me build mine. Reg believes in real music and real radio, something that there isn't alot of these days. On his May 14, 2007 show he highlights in his blog about a song by Jason Isbell, the former Drive By Truckers songwriter/singer/guitarist. Jason has recently left the group to pursue a solo career, but that is not the subject of this blog. A song that he has written about a highschool friend of his who joined the Corp and never came home is the subject. When I read Reg's blog and read the lyrics to "Dress Blues", I cried. Like Reg says, it really doesn't matter your politics, this song, man this song gets to you. I just think this song replays itself way too many times. Yeah, this happend in WW1 and WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, and yeah maybe we have become too soft, but Jesus, it still doesn't make it easier or right to have a young man or woman come home in a body bag. Just read these lyrics, go to Jason's myspace page, and go to Reg's page too, he had good music. This song is about one of Jason's friends, it is about the South(Jason is from Muscle Shoals), and unfortunatley, it is about the reality of things these days.
Dress Blues
By Jason Isbell
What can you see from your window
I can't see anything from mine
Flags on the side of the highway
Scripture on grocery store signs
Maybe 18 was too early
Maybe 30 or 40 is too
Did you get your chance to make peace with the man
before he sent down his angels for you
Momma's and Grandmomma's love you
Cause that's all they know how to do
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleepin' in your dress blues
Your wife said this all would be funny
If you came back home in a week
You'd turn 22 and they'd celebrate you
In a bar or a tent by the creek
Your baby would just about be here
Your very last tour would be up
You ain't comin' back, they're all dressin' in black
Drinkin' sweet tea in styrofoam cups
Momma's and Grandmomma's love you
American boys hate to lose
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleepin' in your dress blues
The high school gymnasium's ready
Full of flowers and old legionnaires
Nobody showed up to protest
Just to sniffle and stare
Red white and blue in the rafters
Silent old men from the Corps
What did they say when they shipped you away
To fight somebody's Hollywood war
And nobody here could forget you
You showed us what we had to lose
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleepin' in your dress blues
http://www.myspace.com/jasonisbellmusic
http://www.regscoffeehouse.com/
Wyld...Out
Published On: 05-21-2007 18:46 PM
I can't take credit for finding this song on my own, I must give credit to someone that helps me find lots of great music. Scott Register, aka Reg, has a little radio show that is amazing. His moniker or whatever the hell you call it is "helping you build your music library one song at a time". Well he certainly has helped me build mine. Reg believes in real music and real radio, something that there isn't alot of these days. On his May 14, 2007 show he highlights in his blog about a song by Jason Isbell, the former Drive By Truckers songwriter/singer/guitarist. Jason has recently left the group to pursue a solo career, but that is not the subject of this blog. A song that he has written about a highschool friend of his who joined the Corp and never came home is the subject. When I read Reg's blog and read the lyrics to "Dress Blues", I cried. Like Reg says, it really doesn't matter your politics, this song, man this song gets to you. I just think this song replays itself way too many times. Yeah, this happend in WW1 and WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, and yeah maybe we have become too soft, but Jesus, it still doesn't make it easier or right to have a young man or woman come home in a body bag. Just read these lyrics, go to Jason's myspace page, and go to Reg's page too, he had good music. This song is about one of Jason's friends, it is about the South(Jason is from Muscle Shoals), and unfortunatley, it is about the reality of things these days.
Dress Blues
By Jason Isbell
What can you see from your window
I can't see anything from mine
Flags on the side of the highway
Scripture on grocery store signs
Maybe 18 was too early
Maybe 30 or 40 is too
Did you get your chance to make peace with the man
before he sent down his angels for you
Momma's and Grandmomma's love you
Cause that's all they know how to do
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleepin' in your dress blues
Your wife said this all would be funny
If you came back home in a week
You'd turn 22 and they'd celebrate you
In a bar or a tent by the creek
Your baby would just about be here
Your very last tour would be up
You ain't comin' back, they're all dressin' in black
Drinkin' sweet tea in styrofoam cups
Momma's and Grandmomma's love you
American boys hate to lose
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleepin' in your dress blues
The high school gymnasium's ready
Full of flowers and old legionnaires
Nobody showed up to protest
Just to sniffle and stare
Red white and blue in the rafters
Silent old men from the Corps
What did they say when they shipped you away
To fight somebody's Hollywood war
And nobody here could forget you
You showed us what we had to lose
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleepin' in your dress blues
http://www.myspace.com/jasonisbellmusic
http://www.regscoffeehouse.com/
Wyld...Out
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Published On: 05-16-2007 07:49 AM
I've been running quite a bit lately and working out and eating better. Some people that know me might say, "Why are you doing that?" Well it makes me feel better---Most of the time! Hills are evil I say....Running up that hill in 85 degree temperature is one of the most atrocious things EVER! But I've got to do it, you can't always run downhill. I guess it is that way with life too...Got to go up the hill to get back down to where things are easy again. Hills are still evil!
I am finally getting back to the point in my life where working out and running are part of my routine. If I don't do it, I feel worse than I do when I do it. Except for today, apparently I didn't take in enough protein and good carbs yesterday and my legs are paying for it. My abs hurt too. I am doing a killer ab workout 3 days a week after my normal workout. Killer isn't even a word for it, it would be easier to tie, torturous and self mutilating is a more correct description of it. Insert another cliche-No Pain, No Gain!
Eating right pretty much sucks too! I am a boredom eater and I also really like chocolate and icecream and cokes. Cokes have been the toughest to give up. If my Daddy can do it, I can! I do like fruit-growing up we always had peaches, strawberries, watermelon, plums, fresh pineapple, or other fruit around the house. That part is easy, it is the cutting out of the crap and eating more of the stuff that my body can use that is the hard part. I am slowly learning to make my meals count. Put things into my body that it can use. I still can't do it all the time every day, but I am getting alot better. It is hard sometimes, because we are so busy, to eat good all the time. I can really do good at breakfast, snacks, and lunch, but dinner is pretty difficult sometimes. Slowly, as it becomes more of a lifestyle, it will become easier.
I am not trying to loose weight, just gain some muscle and definition. I want to be healthy, I want to be strong, I want to feel good about myself-plus looking good isn't too bad either.
Hills are evil, but life can't always be downhill!
Published On: 05-16-2007 07:49 AM
I've been running quite a bit lately and working out and eating better. Some people that know me might say, "Why are you doing that?" Well it makes me feel better---Most of the time! Hills are evil I say....Running up that hill in 85 degree temperature is one of the most atrocious things EVER! But I've got to do it, you can't always run downhill. I guess it is that way with life too...Got to go up the hill to get back down to where things are easy again. Hills are still evil!
I am finally getting back to the point in my life where working out and running are part of my routine. If I don't do it, I feel worse than I do when I do it. Except for today, apparently I didn't take in enough protein and good carbs yesterday and my legs are paying for it. My abs hurt too. I am doing a killer ab workout 3 days a week after my normal workout. Killer isn't even a word for it, it would be easier to tie, torturous and self mutilating is a more correct description of it. Insert another cliche-No Pain, No Gain!
Eating right pretty much sucks too! I am a boredom eater and I also really like chocolate and icecream and cokes. Cokes have been the toughest to give up. If my Daddy can do it, I can! I do like fruit-growing up we always had peaches, strawberries, watermelon, plums, fresh pineapple, or other fruit around the house. That part is easy, it is the cutting out of the crap and eating more of the stuff that my body can use that is the hard part. I am slowly learning to make my meals count. Put things into my body that it can use. I still can't do it all the time every day, but I am getting alot better. It is hard sometimes, because we are so busy, to eat good all the time. I can really do good at breakfast, snacks, and lunch, but dinner is pretty difficult sometimes. Slowly, as it becomes more of a lifestyle, it will become easier.
I am not trying to loose weight, just gain some muscle and definition. I want to be healthy, I want to be strong, I want to feel good about myself-plus looking good isn't too bad either.
Hills are evil, but life can't always be downhill!
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