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maybe it's just the weather taling
2003-11-13 07:55:11
But the boards have really been tasting of elitism lately. Maybe I'm just hitting the wrong threads...
Alice Donut is back together. Final Fantasy Xi is my new life. My illness is at it's worst right now, but at least it waited until I was done with the traveling I did. -
It's a Tiny Ugly World
2003-11-11 23:18:51
Spotlights gleam across a Star Search nation.
A million cries of "me" drown out the cruel frustrations of a normal life.
It's a different kind of thinking.
A whole new way of telling lies 'til they're true.
When you're waiting for the light.
And we're all waiting for the same light these days.
A job well done is not enough without a front page photograph.
Death comes quickly to the poor and obscure.
Booby prizes for the kind and unsure.
When they're standing in the light.
40 channels of a daydream stimulation.
Help me to forget myself and raise my expectations of a better life.
I'm ready to be special now.
Get what I deserve and shine for an hour.
Standing in the light.
And it would help if you could die.
It's a tiny little world
Something fast and tragic at an early age.
Guilty soon as you try.
Teeny tiny little heroes
Get a sense of history put yourself on the page.
It's an ugly sight.
In a tiny ugly world
When everybody's on the stage.
She's got a face to launch a thousand supersonic jets.
A waitress in another life, how easily she forgets.
Looks back with a sigh to simpler days.
She's not ungrateful, just caught up in the chase.
Still waiting for the light.
And it would help if you could die.
It's a tiny little world
Something fast and tragic at an early age.
Guilty soon as you try.
Teeny tiny little heroes
Get a sense of history put yourself on the page.
It's an ugly sight.
In a tiny ugly world
When everybody's on the stage.
Think of me.
It's a tiny little world
Watch what you do. Watch what you say.
Drink with me.
Teeny tiny little heroes
I'd be so grateful, if you could think of a way to pay.
Don't dream of me.
In a tiny ugly world
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huh
2003-10-30 08:02:27
I think I'm tired of making videos. Maybe I just need a better idea, but I haven't really cared for working on my last two pieces.
Ah, well, I have been "busy" playing Breath of Fire II and Chronos Cross. Lord, I need a job. Not. -
And this too shall pass...
2003-10-28 10:49:24
One day Solomon decided to humble Benaiah ben Yehoyada, his most trusted minister. He said to him, "Benaiah, there is a certain ring that I want you to bring to me. I wish to wear it for Sukkot which gives you six months to find it."
"If it exists anywhere on earth, your majesty," replied Benaiah, "I will find it and bring it to you, but what makes the ring so special?"
"It has magic powers," answered the king. "If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy." Solomon knew that no such ring existed in the world, but he wished to give his minister a little taste of humility.
Spring passed and then summer, and still Benaiah had no idea where he could find the ring. On the night before Sukkot, he decided to take a walk in one of he poorest quarters of Jerusalem. He passed by a merchant who had begun to set out the day's wares on a shabby carpet. "Have you by any chance heard of a magic ring that makes the happy wearer forget his joy and the broken-hearted wearer forget his sorrows?" asked Benaiah.
He watched the grandfather take a plain gold ring from his carpet and engrave something on it. When Benaiah read the words on the ring, his face broke out in a wide smile.
That night the entire city welcomed in the holiday of Sukkot with great festivity. "Well, my friend," said Solomon, "have you found what I sent you after?" All the ministers laughed and Solomon himself smiled.
To everyone's surprise, Benaiah held up a small gold ring and declared, "Here it is, your majesty!" As soon as Solomon read the inscription, the smile vanished from his face. The jeweler had written three Hebrew letters on the gold band: _gimel, zayin, yud_, which began the words "_Gam zeh ya'avor_" -- "This too shall pass."
At that moment Solomon realized that all his wisdom and fabulous wealth and tremendous power were but fleeting things, for one day he would be nothing but dust.
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Alpha Omega
2003-10-27 10:39:47
on the morning you went away
the air was humid and the sky was gray
i had boiled peanuts for breakfast from cairo, georgia
the air was wet, my face was wetter
the pink flowers along the western window made me feel better
i turned the air conditioner on
found the note on scented stationary
you were long gone
i had boiled peanuts for breakfast from cairo, georgia
i popped the top off of the aluminum can
let the brine slide down my fingers, man
it was warm, it was warm on my skin
but i felt the cold blast looming on in
i had boiled peanuts for breakfast from cairo, georgia
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