In Books I Find More Life Than in Life

I've only read like three chapters of The Fountainhead, but I can already tell that I'm in love with this book. Howard Roark astounds me.

Give it time.

The lake below was only a thin steel ring that cut the rocks in half. The rocks went on into the depth, unchanged. They began and ended in the sky. So that the world seemed suspended in space, an island floating on nothing, anchored to the feet of the man on the cliff.

It's As Simple as Somethin' That Nobody Knows

Tonight was the first time in my entire life I've ever actually mixed anything with anything. I can see where this could get quite addicting. This sound clip is also going to play in my profile.... I will continue to try to make improvements, but I really need to be focusing on the volumes of "IRL" things I need to be doing, like

• Getting another job
• Reading everything Ayn Rand ever wrote... Ok... Maybe not everything...
• Continuing my self-taught guitar lessons
• Continuing in these fun and educational recording/mixing endeavors
• Keeping up the (thus far) superbly dedicated workout routine I've established for myself
• Helping Sheriff Wolfe get elected
• Evidently being Clark Kent by day, Superman by night.... quite exhausting if you ask me

So I'm going to do what's good for me and go to bed, even though I could stay up all night recording things. Thank you, Jack Johnson, not only for helping to create a memory with Linzeroo, but also for being so gracious as to let me use your song to try to figure this stuff out. Much obliged.

Flip! Flip! Flip! Flip!

Real quick post before I go accomplish things.

Double Dizzee sent me a few pictures, the most important of which I believe to be the first picture I've ever had of the two of us together.... So now, for your viewing pleasure, Lil' Flip and David David David David Banner!

Next to Nothin'

I'm pretty exhausted right now, so I think I'm going to crash without saying much, but I just wanted to direct your attention to some of the changes I made. You won't really be able to see some of them, but I believe most or all of the ones you can see are going to be in the "nav bar" dealie to your right. New profile, etc.... I'm not too pleased with my "Portrait" just yet, but I'll put some more work into this later. I guess mostly I was just trying to see what all I could do with Blogger. It's really not too bad at all. Let me know what you guys think of what I've done so far!

No work tomorrow... gonna try to get over to the brother's house and pick up my laundry, play with the kids, and the whatnot. Who knows? Maybe I'll bring pictures back ;-) Everybody loves pictures.

Speaking of pictures, I'm missing Huntington a little bit right now, so I was looking through some of the old ones, and I found something that reminded me of last summer... I present, from left to right, Jimmy Metal, Gor, and Jimmy Metal's Mom ala Remedies :-).


Goodnight!

I Got Nothin'

Way too late.... Need to go to bed....

Both as a mandate for myself and as notice for all of you, I'm going to start doing some things with this blog..... making it feel a little more like home, if you will..... I have some really good ideas. We'll see what happens.

Sweet dreams.

Bovine Inspiration

God doesn't need us. We need God. All of this is starting to come into focus. We were dead, and we were given life. Our lives will be taken away. We get to participate in this, God's creation, for a short time, and all He asks of us is to live these borrowed lives consciensciously while we can. This whole mundane world can be a blindfold, distracting us from simple, enumerated truths, or it can be utilized, as I believe God intended, to enlighten ourselves and bring to bear mortal, flesh-laden guardians of the word and will of God to protect his worldly creation.

The vast universe of knowledge within which we as mankind have immersed ourselves has caused me to feel torn between scientific truths and the doctrines of the Christian faith. I've come to realize that the perfection and beauty of the natural laws that sustain this universe in seemingly flawless equilibrium are, in fact, the highest testaments to the encompassing wisdom of its necessarily and obviously divine Creator. No new knowledge that we may encounter could be construed to negate His wisdom or disprove His supremacy, but would only stand to firm the grounds on which that supreme wisdom is based. What we learn, He has already known, engineered, if you will, and only gives to us as we mature to accept it.

God doesn't want to make it hard for us to please Him. He doesn't want to weigh us down with obfuscated rules or loads we cannot carry. On the contrary, He wants it to be the easiest decision we've ever made to recognize, not decide, that our lives are, have been, and always will be His.

Go ahead, folks...... Rip this apart. I want..... no... I need a challenge.

So If I Seem a Little Out of It, Sorry

Tonight is a very Elliott Smith night.

The spin of the earth impaled a silhouette of the sun on the steeple
And I got to hear the same sermon all the time now from you people
Why are you staring into outer space, crying?
Just because you came across it and lost it

Do you think you took the easy way out? I think you're a genius. And a coward.