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everything in this place is wrong
everything is in the wrong place
out of control and out of sorts
out of time out of money out of space
the rewards dont match the effort
so you fidget and bounce on your mark
trying to get those home fires burning
as soon as you find the right spark

you tell every one that all you want is
a place to live
a place to sing
a place to be happy
a place to be alone
a place for friends
a place with out burden
a place to settle down
a place to call home

as soon as the wind change youre gone
no set destination just not coming back
maybe today maybe who knows when
when the cold is blowing through the crack
the way these people stare at you
listening to you explain that no one cares
and the brokenhearted love songs
as you peddle your sadness and wares

you tell every one that all you want is
a place to live
a place to hear the children sing
a place to be happy
a place to never be alone
a place for friends
a place with private burdens
a place to settle down
a place to call when you are away home

looking for this thing you call a home
where time doesnt change a thing
but you will watch as time changes the dream
and the meanings of all those songs you sing
that overwhelming feeling of boredom
will turn into the relief of a quiet comfortable bed
that desire to be the king of the night
will turn into making sure the mail gets read

every one knows that all you want is
a place you can feel at home
a place to bed down
a place to fight your burdens
a place where everyone is a friend
a place where you never feel alone
a place you can feel content
a place where the angels sing
a place to die with a smile

Current Mood: liquid
Current Music: They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul

but to continue...one of the things that gets in my ways of getting things done is power tools. i like power tools. maybe a little too much. but when using them i have to mind myself carefully. that is not to say i practice safety first. i dont because frankly i dont care enough to. it is not lazy as it for most people. it is not caring about my own safety. frequently i get less done then i intend because i start focusing on the damage i can do with whatever tool i am working with. once i realize i am doing this i will normally set all tools down and walk away until my head clears. some times it is a few minutes sometimes it is a few days.

on the other hand there have been numerous times where i have been using a tool and ended up just playing. the whole time thinking 'if a put a mic here an/or here i could get a clear sample of this noise' or something along those lines. what sound does this make against this or that or the other?

then there are the scraps of paper plastic wood whatever that have notes and diagrams for ideas for other things that had to get written down before i forget them. and sometimes i get so distracted by this that or the other thing i run out of working time or just completely forget what i was doing.

but then that happens with everything. a lot.

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"if youre dumb youre dead. you just cant even hack it if youre stupid." -henry rollins

Current Mood: melodrama coming from you seems about as natural as an oral bowel movement
Current Music: dresden dolls - bank of boston beauty queen

forgive me if you will
for dripping blood on your floor
please accept my apologies
for just walking through your door
the cops will be here soon
so i wont have time to stay
since i have your attention
i have a few things to say

anger and fear and
blood and tension
fill my head and mouth
so i must think and speak
quick and clear
and fire with heart

the problem is where to start
with all the problems i left to you
all those stories you heard
what they tell you is all true
i stripped the qilt from your clouds
made sure nothing turned out right
poked and proded at your wounds
adding fresh one each night

anger and fear and
blood and tension
fill my head and mouth
so i must think and speak
quick and clear
and fire with heart

i could tell you i love you
and how sorry i am for that
that would be one more lie
but i must lay it where its at
its true those things you suspect
things you never wanted to see
now if you would please understand
i must take you with me

Current Mood: sickly
Current Music: x - poor girl

finally got this one cleared out and though it did not come out the way i expected (or per the norm wanted it) it is done. perhaps it will be replaced by something less annoying and sucky.

to know is to no

she never explained it
it was something in my eyes
a fortified protected anger
hiding behind a smile that lies

ive got my reasons
ive got my spin
ages and ages of dirty rages
to warm my skin

she is haunted by the horrors
she knew she could never fix
broken and bent and stained
and ideas that never click

ive got my rhymes
ive got my pen
scribbles filling dirty pages
to warn those kin

she is softly amused
trying to get her point across
different but back to the same
no gains no known loss

i dont have the time
i am not without sin
well dressed and dirty sages
to wear me thin

Current Mood: id torture someone in a second if it was up to me
Current Music: tori amos - tear in your hand

spirited filings

haunted by voices
that still ring on
carrying stories
of days long gone

haunted by vices
that filled my past
harboring pains
that will be the last

haunted by ghosts
that walk the floor
carrying on such
still wanting more

hunted by ghosts
that are not there
right now

Current Mood: about
Current Music: Cure - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep

go read this right now. ill wait....man you read slow...forget what you were doing?...i think this is an idea thats time has finally come. with so much of communication being text based and such and so many miscomunications because of not knowing how to read the sentence i think we really do need a snark mark. get some of the cell providers to promote it in a few commercials. sell a few t-shirts. make keyboards that have it in as a standard. etc etc.

and while we are at it can we dithch the qwerty keyboard. please.

hollowed sold
never let em see you sweat
never let em see you regrets
never let em see all the things
you can never seem to forget

all the places youve been
that you never wanted to know
all the open wounds
letting the agony flow
all the days getting ready
just to make the next show

never let em see your best
never let em put you to the test
never let em know about
the ideas that never let you rest

more scars on top of more scars
the damage has been done
yet you never want to tell
who lost and who was the one
let them think they know
while they make thier fun

Current Mood: fuckers
Current Music: Kirsty MacColl - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby

rippers fine post
it was never wrong
but it was never all right
chances taken
with offers refused
hand in hand
in a quite pace
screams for attention
come as the faintest sound
we all know their story
and all too well
times were wrong
and time ended the fight
fears were taken
by emotions bemused
stand the stand
to know thaty face
never ask or answer
of the others around
it will be worth a fortune
when it time to sell
---------------------------------
pair of eyes lost
they will only see
the places in the beginning
are the same ones
the were there for the ending
the same places
the same buildings
the same towns
the same people
the same trains
the same sounds
they will never see
all the cut and crossed wires
are the same ones
that helped put out the fire
a different year
a different state
a different kind of pain

Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004
By Paul Boutin

Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug. [i dont think i would call that friendly advice.]

Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. [it wasnt a bright idea four years ago. by that point it was already old hat. thats just when the terma started getting bounced around be mainstream media outlets] The blogosphere [use that word ever again and i take away your ipood], once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought [and still is if you dont mind looking a little and/or have a nice feed reader], has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge [there is the real problem now skip the rest of the article]. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths [because those are the new big thing and there time has passed its peak.]. It's almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers [not everyone does it to get noticed and not everyone deserves to get noticed]. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose [it takes a hundred times more skill than time and those with the skill become consumed with making the time] is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter [posting bad pictures, worse polls, adds for your band and tiny sentences for the most part does not contitute expressing your self].

If you quit now, you're in good company [if you ignore the hype you are in better company]. Notorious chatterbox [chatter is adds nothing. forced ideas and concepts dont cut it] Jason Calacanis made millions from his Weblogs network [because it is all about the money?]. But he flat-out retired his own blog in July. "Blogging is simply too big, too impersonal, and lacks the intimacy that drew me to it," he wrote in his final post [it is what you make it notwhat makes you.].

Impersonal is correct [so is paid advertisement and corporate sponsered]: Scroll down Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs [you go ahead and do that i havent done it before so it would seem that i have no reason to do it now] and you'll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones [because apples sell better than oranges. and are prettier. and taste better.] . Most are essentially [there is no essentially about it.] that is what they are and like all bad magazines they are slowly sinking as they are running ashore] online magazines: The Huffington Post. Engadget. TreeHugger. A stand-alone commentator can't keep up with a team of pro writers cranking out up to 30 posts a day [never mind the fact that most readers dont want to read that many crap posts at one time just to get to the one or two that may really interest them. they would rather connect with real people instead of writing machines].

When blogging was young [because you know everything on the internet is just so very old], enthusiasts rode high [and a lot of them are still doing the same things because that is what they enjoy doing], with posts quickly skyrocketing to the top of Google's search results for any given topic [except of course for the fact that google was an unknown at the point that things got rolling], fueled by generous links from fellow bloggers [and then google changed there search rules and made a smarter engine]. In 2002 [sorry but that is not even close to when blogging began possibly when the term came into popular misuse] , a search for "Mark" ranked Web developer Mark Pilgrim above author Mark Twain [why didnt you follow the link for the mark 60 and sink this bitch before it ever got out of the dock?]. That phenomenon was part of what made blogging so exciting [that was a fluke that really didnt last that long. what made it exciting was having a place to express yourself and possibly connect with similar thinkers the world over]. No more. Today, a search for, say, Barack Obama's latest speech [Barack Obama's latest speech - i said it are you happy now?] will deliver a Wikipedia page, a Fox News article, [as a serious research tool those are getting closer to where you would want to go to get the information you are looking for] and a few entries from professionally run sites like Politico.com. The odds of your [or anybodys not really all that] clever entry appearing high on the list? [the chances that anyone gives a crap about you commments on the speech or anything else] Basically zero.

That said, your blog will still draw the Net's lowest form of life: [the hack with that doesnt consider all of the facts when writing bad articles?] The insult commenter [yep the hack]. Pour your heart out in a post [too bad most people dont], and some anonymous troll named [please explain how they can be anonymous and named at the same point. i have to hear this one] r0rschach or foohack is sure to scribble beneath it, "Lame. Why don't you just suck McCain's ass." [and you are so starved for any attention that you cant bring yourself to just delete it and are too well paid by his people to reconsider what you actually wrote] That's why Calacanis has retreated to a private mailing list [i really doubt that was the real reason]. He can talk to his fans directly, without having to suffer idiotic retorts from anonymous Jason-haters [oh i get it, he can preach to the converted and ban anyone that disagrees with him and thinks his ideas are bunk].

Further, text-based Web sites aren't where the buzz is anymore [yet they are still there unlike any other buzz. because the buzz always wears off and all you have left is suicide monday]. The reason blogs took off is that they made publishing easy for non-techies [too easy in some cases. never mind the fact that some people are voyuer pervs that want to know every aspect of some people lives. or that people were doing this sort of thing long before the internet came about] . Part of that simplicity was a lack of support for pictures, audio, and videoclips [because the shinny things help so much in expressing complicated ideas and concepts]. At the time, multimedia content was too hard to upload [now its too easy but you still have to figure out how to link to it], too unlikely to play back [still is], and too hungry for bandwidth [still is and will be until someone figure out a way to make smaller video files that actually stream the way they are suppose too but are not the size of a postage stamp].

Social multimedia [with tos that make it a waste of time and effort to try use them for anything useful or creative] sites like YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook have since made publishing pics and video as easy as typing text [easier actually since typing requires an active train of thought]. Easier, if you consider the time most bloggers spend fretting over their words [yes i do but that is only part of what it takes. but then how many professional photographers fret over there images the way writers fret over there words]. [the following concerns paid advertisement - please ignore] Take a clue from Robert Scoble, who made his name as Microsoft's "technical evangelist" blogger from 2003 to 2006. Today, he focuses on posting videos and Twitter [twatter] updates. "I keep my blog mostly for long-form writing," [but notice he did not say that he had quit doing it or that it was a dead concept] he says.

Twitter — which limits each text-only [wait didnt you just say text based sites werent the buz anymore? yes you did] post to 140 characters ["i have to keep my selfrespect ill never be a star"] — is to 2008 what the blogosphere [boot to the head and no more ipood] was to 2004 [overhyped and annoying as all hell to try to use?]. You'll find Scoble, Calacanis, and most of their buddies from the golden age there [because they really dont have time time or ideas left in them to create real posts]. They claim it's because Twitter operates even faster than the blogosphere [boot to the head and no crackberry]. And Twitter posts can be searched instantly, without waiting for Google to index them [because there is just so much there that is worth search for. kind of like most of the myspace bullitins. vote for me, buy this, we are playing a show tonight half way around the world come see us.].

As a writer [though not a very good one], though, I'm onto the system's real appeal: [free porn] brevity. Bloggers today are expected to write clever, insightful, witty prose [but so few of them ever have and ever will but still they keep trying. and some of them are so very trying] to compete with Huffington and The New York Times [there are those apples and orages again]. Twitter's character limit puts everyone back on equal footing [with crippled access to limited ideas. all bloggers are created equal just some more than others]. It lets amateurs quit agonizing over their writing and cut to the chase [too bad most of them get distracted by chasing their own tails]. @WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google [because its the only search engine out there. long live hotbot.] won't find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards [like those that write gossip columns?]. C u on Facebook [facebook and most of the others mentioned are more disservice than service] ?

Paul Boutin {paul@valleywag.com) is a correspondent for the Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag [oh sorry i didnt realize you werent a real journalist].

they published this instead of one that talks about the slow death of aol? aol has closed aol pictures which never should have existed in the first place. then closed home town thus killing thousands of web pages in one striking pass. by doing so they have killed one of the most positive things the service had left to offer. they have also cut back on the number of free installation cds, the number of service employees, and who know what else. if they kill or lock down aim they will be gone in monhts. if they dont do some serious restructuring they will be liquidated in a matter of two years at the most. but thats just a guess. but it would have been a much more informative piece.

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Current Mood: looks like somebody shit in their cereal
Current Music: they might be giants - whistling in the dark

to show our solidarity as americans, let's all get together and support for the candidate of our choice. yes, it's high time that we come together, democrats and republicans alike:

if you support the policies and character of senator obama, please drive with your headlights on during the day.

if you support john mccain, please drive with your headlights off at night.

******************************************

gerry and ken, two elderly friends, met in the park every day to feed the pigeons, watch the possums and discuss world problems. one day ken didn't show up. gerry didn't think much about it and figured maybe he had a cold or something. but after ken hadn't shown up for a week or so, gerry really got worried. however, since the only time they ever got together was at the park, gerry didn't know where ken lived, so he was unable to find out what had happened to him.

a month passed, and gerry figured he had seen the last of ken, but one day, gerry approached the park and -- lo and behold! -- there sat ken!

gerry was very excited and happy to see him and told him so, then he said, 'for crying out loud ken, what in the world happened to you?'

ken replied, 'i have been in jail.'

'jail?' cried gerry. 'what in the world for?'

'well,' ken said, 'you know jenny, that cute little blonde waitress at the coffee shop where i sometimes go?'

'yeah,' said gerry, 'i remember her. what about her?'

'well, one day she filed rape charges against me; and, at 89 years of age, i was so proud that when i got into court, i pleaded 'guilty' and the judge gave me 30 days!'

'you only got 30 days for rape?'

'nah... for perjury.'

[this one was sent by my grandmother. O_o]

Current Mood: see you on the trip side
Current Music: fucking nightboat

living in the abandon

we could prenten its all ok
and that first time
was just like the first time
of all the things i could have said
i am sorry was what came out
as much as it still hurts
i still remember
but now it all seems like a skin
to a frame that was never there
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that quiet click
as your you dry lips seperate
slowly seperating tissue
that masks the desperation

something old
someone knew
someone burried
and you untrue

those single stray hairs
captured by the light
raising the resistance
the way you raise the lie

something told
someone new
someone borrowed
and hearts gone blue

patches of dry skin
at the top of your nose
hold a lifetime of stories
of eyes that missed the show
. . .
its the little things that get me
and the little things that stick
the little things i got lost in
that constantly make me sick

Current Mood: sharkhead blasto pal
Current Music: beatles - fixing a hole

i so want to do this but never will but...a shirt with seed beads that spell out in braille 'stop reading and start squeezing'. ok so i thought it was funny. the fact that the number of people who can actually read braille by eye is so small is what really makes the idea work. but the main working factor is definitely location.

audio flies - getting burned for good

if you are one of those people that likes to have loads of music available may this will help you save some money. if you are one of those weird ones that only has a very small collection of songs you still might benifit from this one.

so you are getting ready to take a trip (around town or across the country - it doesnt matter) and you want to take your music with you. if you have one you might normally take your portable mp3 player with you. maybe it broken. maybe you never had one. maybe if you are lucky it is going to be a longer trip than your batteries would ever last. so you have to step back into the world of cds.

if you have a cd player capable of playing mp3 then you are one of the very lucky ones. but even with that car cd players are evil badly designed things. this goes for cd changers as well. the design of these devices causes surfaces scratches starting with the very first insertion and continues to the point where your cd are no longer playable. i have seen cds that were dragged on concrete that had less scratches that one played in a car player. aside from not using them there is no way to get around the damage they cause. you can however cut your losses by large amounts.

never play that brand new cd you just got in one of these devices. the quickest way to dodge this is to pop it into your computer as soon as you get home and hit copy disc and then shelve the original. there are some cds (such as dual and enhanced) that may cause you problems with doing this but as a rule straight copies do not generally cause problems when taking this path. contrary to what the music industy may try to tell the world this is perfectly legal under us copyright laws as long as you possess the original even in a damaged condition.

the added advantages to this are numerous. the primary one is that you dont have to spend x numer of dollars replacing that cd due to scratches. nor do you have to replace due to packaging damage or theft. life in a car is a risky one for any size collection. i dont know anyone why does eat or drink in their car and we are all aware of what happens when liquid and paper meet.

only a stupid thief would waste time stealing a stack of burned cds. most thieves still for profit and as a rule people wont waste time with buying burned copies. pawn shops and such wont because of the numerous legal coplications that can arise from such. personally i would but at the price i would pay (10¢ per cd) would make it a waste of time for anyone tying to sell to me.

lets do a little math on that point. suppose you have 20 retail cds swiped out of you car. insurance companies vary on how much they will allow for replacement value so i will use $7 as the cost. that has you out $140. plus $150 for a new window. and what $2000 in gas driving around town trying to replace them. these cost are for example only and will vary wildly depending on location. so you will file the claim with your insurance and they will tell you that the $290 you will spend is all out of your pocket because you have a $500 deductible. and no they dont cover gas costs.

now if you had just lost the same 20 cds as burned copies well first youd probably still have your window as covered above but if not that would be the only real loss other than time. amazon curently has a 50 pack spindle pack for $18 so well go with that. that comes out to 36¢ for each cd. which comes to $7.20 in loss. and look you still have 25* blank ones sitting next to your computer.

another plus to carrying burned copies is gifting. ok yeah you could give the original to someone else as a gift but thats cheap and tacky. ok so maybe your friends are like that but thats your problem not mine. what i am talking about is when you are hanging out with your cheap and tacky friends and you happen to end up discussing that so very album that just came out by such and such wicked cool band. they havent heard it and you happen to have your copy handy. so you let them have the copy you made. if they dont like it they can give it back to you and neither of you have lost anything. if they do like and decide they actually want to buy it then everyone wins. the artist got there 2¢ and the record company got there $19.97 and you and your friend have just found another bond.

addionally by doing this you will feel more comfortable having more cds in the car. now you can be silly and have one of those hundred cd binders packed to the pins but those are bulky and expensive (and $700 in replacement costs). very hard to manage in a quick and easy manner. what i prefer is to use several of the 10 or 20 binders that are readily available at various dollar stores. if it helps they too are usually cheap and tacky. you can get several different colours or just label them with a sharpie to identify what is each one. this one is the really good stuff. this one is jazz and blues. this one is stuff i havent decided if i actually like or not but is stuff people said i might like. this one is good house ebm and trance - wait why is this one only half full? you get the idea. just keep them easy to find.

now here is where the problem gets worse and takes us full cirlce. those cd binders also create scratches on cds. they are nice for keeping things compact for the more you stuff them the more likely you are to get major scratches. but you still want to use them for copies because anything is better than just letting the cd fly in the wind. even if they do it so nicely.

*there are always screw up of one kind or another when doing mass burns. i know i would not let that stack just sit there untouched.

Current Mood: i have been badly misled
Current Music: unknown artist - track 03

audio files - living the club life

we all know that music clubs are evil evil things. x number of cds for a penny sounds like a great deal until you factor in the small print. you have to by so many cds over the next few years and pay ridiculous shipping and fondling charges. canceling is not an option until you have met terms of the contract. the only way around this involves doing things that could very possibly lead to a series of crimal charges.

the selection of these clubs used to be sadly lacking in variety. this was improved by the expasion of available catalogs they could list on their web sites. i am not saying its as good as a good store but much better that the days of printed catalogs. and less waste as well. however this took a step backwards at the point that bmg and columbia house became part of the same company.

i love cheap music. however i got my lesson on these in junior high and have aviod them every sense. this was not the way to get more music for less. i figured hell would freeze over before i would ever join a music club. they are the main reason i never signed up for things like the sub pop or simple machinces singles clubs. you get what they send you and thats that.

well a few years ago bmg started your music.com. i read the small print. reread it. then read it again. with the exception of it being run by bmg it seemed to be acceptable enought to give it a shot. the main factor was not present in any words hidden or otherwise. there was no years long contract. you could join for a month or for the life of the concept. so i joined. and remain a member.

the basics are you go through and que up the cds they will send you each month at $6.99 per cd. it was $5.99 at the time i joined but it is still a reasonable price considering that price includes shipping and handling. i really love their use of a flat rate pricing plan. the price is per cd. if you find a two cd set you want it will cost you $13.98 a four cd set will cost $27.96 and etc. at that price two cds is still cheaper than most stores charge for a single cd.

because it is run by bmg the selection is still iffy but several times they have made hints that that limitation is caused by being unable to reach agreeable terms with the artist and or label. if you are looking for the latest top forty or country band you will most certianly find it here. when it comes to the more obsure acts it comes down to the label. no offspring. singles and the queen is dead are the only offerings from the smiths. 9 different titles available from the cure including join the dots plus a listing of numerous soundrtracks and complilations they appear on. 3 listing for trail of dead. i would suggest you browse the site before joining to see what is and ist there to see if it meets your personal needs.

join the dots is a good example here. as a four cd set it is $27.96 from yourmusic. new from amazon it is $32.97 with no shipping since it is over $25 and qualifies for supersaver shipping. from amazon sellers there are 53 available for $28.50 plus shipping charges. itunes has it availabe for $39.96. from rhino is is listed at $54.98. ok so its most expensive coming straight from the pachyderms mouth but still...

the queing is an interesting thing. you pick the tiles that are sent to you each month. you can only add single cds to your que but this includes many cds that are dual discs and a few that have bunos dics that are not consider part of the actual package for one reason or another. titles that are mutiple cds can only be order as seperate orders but still at the same flat rate pricing.

when i first singed up i added everything i could find that i wanted just to find out how that was handled. i was comforted by the fact that i was never told that my que was full and laughed when i looked at the list and it showed titles listed until something like may 2012. after a recent updating of seleions it is now set until july of that same year.

since joining i have recieved numerous emails telling me a title would not be available on the proposed ship date or was not longer available. this is too be expected since inventory turn over happens in any stores. supplies are always limited everywhere. i consider it a good thing that they notify you of these changes via email as well as on the page that lists your que.

a couple of negative factors are that there is no easy way to find if you have a cd queed more than once. this is likely to happen when you are spending any amount of time adding titles. and you really want to. if at any point your que becomes empty you still get charged and get nothing to show for it. no cd. no credit. but frankly if you cant keep up with it you should be there in the first place. i dont see many people having this problem happen but i get the feeling that those who do think it is not their own fault.

the fact that this is an auto debit subsciption may be a problem to some but for that you may want to join for only a month. join make your order(s) and then cancel. there are no adverse effects to doing this since long term membership is incouraged but not contractual. its just a pain in the butt o spend the time doing it but its still easy enough to do.

since monthly orders are sent wrapped in the typical crapass bmg cardboard wrap case cracking is a common problem. though i have never taken them up on it there encourage you to contact them for a replacemant if you receive your order with a cracked case and they make it easy to do so. now if i did this i would be contacting them after getting every second or third order. i appreciate the attempt to limit packaging enough that i wont bother. plus the fact that i have extras around.

i realize a lot of this sounds like i am trying to sell it and yeah i am. because it is a good deal. sure iy you happen to metion i refered you i would get free credit. but then you would have to know my yahoo address to do that [;-)] so i wont list it here. i have remained a member because they built a good plan and have maintained it without any major overhauls or annoying mailings. i fully expected to end up getting tons of mailing and emails from them a month. they do occasionally send them out plus a single sheet join the real music or movie club with every monthly shipping. it has never gotten to the point of excessive or annoying.

one of my main goals in life is to spend less on music so i can get more music and from my point of view this one is a help.

Current Mood: embalming people with coffee
Current Music: johnny cash - personal jesus

unrelated and imcoplete chunks that should probably be chunked

im living a lie
that i will live that dream
that i always dream
that will be my last
and these delusions of candor
only grow grander

i am happy to know
you are so happy
but i wont be heartbroken
to find out you are

doing more than you should
too smart for your own good
merry meats and happy feats
witch is the finer points

Current Mood: if were still here hes gonna shit twinkies
Current Music: me first and the gimme gimmes - seasons in the sun