"Learn as if you were going to live forever;
live as if you were going to die tomorrow."
Many times I wonder
Did I really fly
And flirt with towering cumulus
In that wide expanse of sky.
Did I really loop and roll
And twist and turn and spin,
Or is it just another dream,
Another sign of old age setting in.
Was I ever really young
With so many friends I knew.
Were they ever really there
So strong, steadfast and true
Will I really learn the truth
The day I pass away,
Or drift into oblivion
With no further say.
And does it really matter,
In those vast halls of time,
That once I was really happy
In life's long upward climb.
- Doug. Atkins. 2005. -
Que sera...sera
"I can't lie to myself"
butt I do...
"I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive"
The ad said, "Brazilian waxing - work from your home..."of this...
I'm certain.
I know nothing.
"God Damn right I got the blues..."
Still...learning to fly
"Don't believe everything you think..."
No hope
of "Approval"...
"MY" insanity
Like a blind dog
chasing cars
hear the roar of the traffic
racing by
just trying not to
get hit and die...
It only hurts
til
it stops...
"Clean up on aisle 69..."
If you're gonna go...
round and round
hope you're tucked
into the "blue groove",
or out in the cushion...
spraying dirt on the railbirds,
or don't bother playin...
Everyone wants to go to heaven,
but no one wants to die
Everyone wants to live...
butt no one wants to try...
Doubt is not a pleasant condition,
but certainty is absurd - Voltaire
Is it fear of death
or
fear of life,
that holds you immobile,
awaiting fate's call...
on the wild, wild, web...
the truth
is not kind
"I am a die-hard Libertarian from the Ayn Rand school of thought. I am pro-choice, pro-guns, pro-legalization of drugs..."
two out of three ain't bad...
I just thought about flying and the next gig...
in retrospect, flying has whored me out
and taken more of my life than it should have,
and deserved...
a passion in your caress, ain't gonna flow through your finger tips... motherfucker...
NO OTHER LOVE...
MOMMA...
I'M FLYIN...
Nickelback - Rockstar
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**to the tune of Rockstar by Nickelback**
I’m through with waiting in line to take off runway ten
Sitting next to a student that stinks like gin
This job hasn’t turned out quite the way I want it to be
I want a brand new jet that I can learn in the sim
And a crashpad I can play Tetris in
And a king size case that’ll carry all my charts for me
I’ll need a Sallie Mae loan that’s got no limit
And a nine leg day with no lunch break in it
Gonna raid the galley cart so I can just get some food in me
I want a dark crew bus with no suspension
Ride with a dozen other pilots who don’t have pensions
To some cheap hotel where the mattress smells like pee
I’m gonna trade this life for flying a plane
Might even wear sunglasses and frost my mane
Cuz we all just wanna be airline stars
Live in slum flop houses driving old junk cars
The girls run screaming but my callsign’s sweet ...
And we’ll get kicked out of the hotel bar
Eating ramen bricks and a candy bar
Every flight attendant’s gonna think I’m square
Every Ipod wearer with the frost-tipped hair
Hey... hey... I wanna fly an R...J
Hey... hey... I wanna fly an R...J
I wanna bid each month and try to hold a line
Get stuck on reserve every single time
Commute 19 hours so I can live with my parents for free
I’m gonna dress up in the latest Sporty’s fashion
I’m running low on socks so I’d better ration
Gonna work on holidays and never have a weekend free
I’m gonna trade this life for flying a plane
Might even wear sunglasses and frost my mane
Cuz we all just wanna be airline stars
Live in slum flop houses driving old junk cars
The girls run screaming but my callsign’s sweet
We’ll all stay skinny cuz we just can’t eat
And we’ll get kicked out of the hotel bar
Eating ramen bricks and a candy bar
Every flight attendant’s gonna think I’m square
Every Ipod wearer with the frost-tipped hair
And we’ll hide out from the FAA
With the latest regulations and a 110A
They’ll take away your cert with that evil smile
Everybody’s got an ALPA rep on speed dial
Hey... hey... I wanna fly an R...J
Gonna shoot an ILS and pray for FD capture
Gonna get bent over by some dispatcher
Get stuck in an arrival sequence 12 planes long
Let the autopilot fly so I don’t get it wrong
Cuz we all just wanna be airline stars
Live in slum flop houses driving old junk cars
The girls run screaming but my callsign’s sweet
We’ll all stay skinny cuz we just can’t eat
And we’ll get kicked out of the hotel bar
Eating ramen bricks and a candy bar
Every flight attendant’s gonna think I’m square
Every Ipod wearer with the frost-tipped hair
And we’ll hide out from the FAA
With the latest regulations and a 110A
They’ll take away your cert with that evil smile
Everybody’s got an ALPA rep on speed dial
Hey... hey... I wanna fly an R...J
Hey... hey... I wanna fly an R...J
Princedietrich
Retired Starchecker flightinfo.com
The word for today kids is evisceration, can you say eviscerate...
You can "exist" without passion...
But, don't call it living...
..."Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
...and nothing else matters..."
"Payin' anything to roll the dice
Just one more time...
Some will win
Some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues..."
What memory of..."Life Before Insanity"
Well did she make you cry
Make you break down
Shatter your illusions of love?
Is it over now? Do you know how
To pick up the pieces and go home?
- Stevie Nicks
Child Of The Earth
As I stand here searching for the right words
I know that wisdom comes from despair
And I realize it's harder to find your own voice
Than to follow one already in the air
And as our time draws nearer
I wonder just when we stopped being young
And I know my greatest deeds will go unnoticed
And our treasures were here all along
Child of the earth hear my confession
Please don't tell me that it's overdue
And from the four corners of the universe
I will make my way to you...
All I see are faces, a sea of faces
Surrounded by the memory of life before insanity
Hard to explain the hunger, if you don’t feel it
What I really need is your breath raining on my skin
And I’m so tired, tired of feeling sorry for myself
And I want more...
- Life Before Insanity - Gov't MuleGive me your heart, make it real, or else forget about it...
Are you just a figment of my imagination,
a piece of my "reality",
or
life before insanity...
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence."-- John Dryden --
Well they're some sad things known to man...
But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown... when there's no one around...
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing..if you can fake that, you've got it made.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Women should be obscene and not heard.
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others - Groucho