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Status: Single
City: I've Been Everywhere Man
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 11/3/2006

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 

Current mood:  awake
So I realize the irony in writing this.  That being that I'm totally advertising for this song, but the sheer stupidiy of it has had me baffled for days.  Is this really what is passing for the Flavor of the Month?  Anywho, the lyric(s) in question is "I'm 3008 or 2000 and late" or some shit like that.  Yea, that's about as dumb as they come but we're just sitting around ingesting stupidity, freely.  Feeling fine, sip the wine, drink the punch cuz it's never too much.  Werd (lol)
Currently listening:
Everything Is Possible: The Very Best of Living Colour
By Living Colour
Release date: 2006-01-17
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 

Current mood:  focused
Category: Life
Just saw an interersting quote from Gandhi.  It said, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".  Although the old adage still leaves us with one eye intact, we are still left with some seriuosly skewed depth perception.
Currently listening:
Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962-1968
By Thelonious Monk
Release date: 1998-06-09
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 

Current mood:  cynical
Category: Life
Ode to the boob-tube and our hi-fi and low-beams and all other sorts of technological advancements.  I realize the irony of the whole situation as well, delivering this sermon from hi atop a laptop.  I almost wonder if Marx (not the Bros.) were around today if he would still view religion as the opium of the masses...or if technology would be regarded as the new opiate...I could go into further tirades about this whole thing but I'm feeling a bit acerbic about a seemingly moot point.  Although I guess that is the point, if only that were the case...
Currently listening:
Renegades
By Rage Against the Machine
Release date: 2000-12-05
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 

Current mood:Disgustipated
So I came to the conclusion today that a future as a chainsaw massacrerererer...er would probably not work out too well.  I came to the drastic realization whilst hacking to pieces a poor defenseless walnut tree that had fallen in my yard.  Those damn chainsaws are pretty friggin' heavy and I'll be doggone-dagnabitted if I'm gonna run around for hours chasin' bitches who are inevitably going to get sliced to ribbons just to get b-side off'd by the hero at the end so i can come back for a cheesy sequel (all the while carrying , above said heavy ass chainsaw).  The whole situation was only compounded while I listened to some rant about how carrots have souls and stuff.  Who knows, I guess it's all necessary.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 

Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Writing and Poetry
So in lieu of the post that I posted last night I began to think about grammer rules.  Not that I choose to follow them at all, (for an example look at the beginning of this sentence).  However just to be a jerk I decided to end the whole post with a bunch of prepositions, something that when Winston Churchill was told that you couldn't end a sentence that way he kindly told the lady, "That madam is something up with which for I will not stand".  Although I love this example, I just thought of another example that may be a little easier for people to understand, "going up".  Stick that in your pipe and smoke it (up).
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 

Current mood:  imaginative
So based on the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, energy is neither created or destroyed.  Now, this may get disconjuctive but bare with me.  Now based on the basic principles of both physics and metaphysics as well, everything is made up of energy.  Think about all those tiny atomic and subatomic particles swirling and having fun.  It's kinda like a night out at a crowded bar and depended upon the density of the material I guess we could argue that capacity has been reached.  Now, if energy is neither created nor destoryed, my question is this, does everything already exist already?  Even the things that don't, the things that still only exist in pre-pre-preconceived notions.  I guess you could say that if you light a match, the energy created by that match is lost immediately after the match blows out.  Now I could go into the 2nd Law of blah blah blah, but that wouldn't be any fun.  The whole match thing as kinda taken care of here.  Anywho though esquire the first, we would like to say that the energy from that match is lost but wouldn't it more so be heating the air around it, which is also in motion trying to get it's groove on with other little air particles, giving it a little heat and so on and so forth...holy crap...I just realized that air is the biggest prostitute in the world.  Hmmmm.  It's been around forever and it loves to give those gifts that keep on giving.  So yea, little by little all that heat that was generated by that match way-back-up-there-ago just gets passed on down the line like an aweful pyramid scheme but it's still there, thus conserved.  Uh, can anyone tell me why I started writing this in the first place...Ah yes, I think I just went cross-eyed.  So if energy is neither created or destoryed and everything is made of energy then does everything already exist?  That would mean that all the thoughts that people have, all buildings that are around, everything is already here, but kind of over there because energy can be transfered.  Think about the inspiration for a song or art.  That was energy that existed somewhere that was transmitted to the receiver to be transduced to the preceived via the preceiver (fucking, I've used a ton of those "I" before "E" except after "C" bullshit in this post, stupid grammer rules).  Like wise, the Egyptian Pyramids and even the chair that you're sitting on.  Ugh, it's getting too late to think about this anymore.  Too much energy expediture.  I think in simplest terms, Tim Rice said it , per the vocal stylings of Sir Elton John, It's the Circle of Life.  Well, I hope I made you're head hurt or at least inspired a bit of thought.  If however you felt that this was little more than insipid, nonsensical ramblings, then take comfort in knowing that the energy that you feel you just wasted already existed pre-priorly over there, then more concurrently right here...still right here and now what was here is on it's way over somewhere else but rest assured that it is still with us, it's just over there up upon with which.      
Monday, March 09, 2009 

Current mood:Zenful
Category: Writing and Poetry
Monkey's flinging poo
Should come as no real surprise
Relative to us
Currently listening:
Kind of Blue
By Miles Davis
Release date: 1997-03-25
Thursday, February 19, 2009 

Current mood:  hungry
Category: Religion and Philosophy
Got this off of a friends page but oh how true it rings:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but
shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend
more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses
and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more
degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more
experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink
too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive
too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too
little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our
possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom,
and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life.
We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to
the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new
neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done
larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but
polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We
write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've
learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more
information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less
and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men
and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are
the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken
homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway
morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do
everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is
much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when
technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose
either to share this insight, or ignore it. Life is not measured by the
number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away


Monday, February 09, 2009 

Current mood:  amused
Category: Music
That's right folks, yesterday we were on a U.K. internet radio broadcast and will be again on Wednesday again as well as part of their (Radio Gets Wild) Indie & Unsigned Artists show.  Then after that a few of our songs will be going into regular radio rotation on their daily broadcast.  Pretty cool to be on U.K. radio, eh...eh...eh.  We just want to thank Dee and everyone else over at Radio Gets Wild who had us on the show yesterday.

Cheers,

Upshot


Tuesday, January 20, 2009 

Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Blogging
Alright, I know this may seem a little remedial but often we forget about the simple things and then life gets complicated and that then tends to complicate things.  Hmmm, rather transcendental...anywho, back to chaos.  Generally when we think of chaos we think of disorder and disarry, people running through the streets throwing trash cans through windows (hopefully sans Oscar) and all the other general reveries that go along with drunken Irishmen at a soccer riot.
See the thing is though that chaos is meerly an agent of change.  Something that has happened out of necessity.  If everything is "all is well" well, that's all well 'n good but, well "all is well" isn't all that good, right?
Think of it this way, every single invention that has ever been made has been borne of chaos.  It comes from some poor sap getting so pissed off that he/she does something about it.
Take for example shoes.  Some primative cave man probably got sick n tired of having to walk across the gravel in the morning to get the paper cuz those old stone tablet news papers fucked up Dino's neck n now he's got to go to the chiropractasaurus.  Anywho, old cave dude finally says, "fuck this shit" and fashions himself some booties outta some animals ass and then becomes the rage of all his neighbors.  Then it just reverberates through the ages till we get to now.  We may as well have shoes that crap out double quarter pounders with/without chz.
The thing is, do we ever take the time to realize that we have shoes?
I introgressively transgress (Shakespere coined words, muthafuka).  What the whole "Chaos Theory" thing comes down to is the fact that everything effects everything, no matter how large or small the action.  A random act of chaos maybe opening the door for someone, perverbially helping an old lady cross the street, or maybe when a homeless person ask for money, instead take them into a McD's or somewhere and get them a bite to eat.  Or we could just keep it simple and smile at eachother.  I know it's hard for us being humans and all but I think if we all start small we can see this "Chaos" working in some pretty cool friggin' ways.  So with that bit of homersapient vomit let's all go out and make some chaos.

Cheers,

Upshot
Currently listening:
10,000 Days
By Tool
Release date: 2006-05-02