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JOK-lyn

I'm your Huckleberry

About Me

I tend to live my life through lyrics. Something happens, I refer to a song. At each stage in my life, I’ll undertake a new melody. A new theme. Certain piano songs make me cry. Movies don’t. I would die for loyalty and its very meaning. I love adventures. I will sometimes get too caught up with my day to day life and go mad. I’m not moody, I’m not morose, I never will be. I'm kind, but not a pushover. I often need to be outside just to feel free, even for a moment. I love the human touch. The feeling of being caressed, embraced, kissed. I live for hidden smiles. I believe in balance. Life can not exist without it. From bad comes good, and sadly all good things must come to an end at one time or another. Feel free to prove me wrong, I’d love to believe otherwise.
The sun is setting on the century and we are armed to the teeth. We're all working together now to make our lives mercifully brief. And school kids keep trying to teach us what guns are all about. Confused liberty with weaponry and watch your kids act it out. And every year now like christmas some boy gets the milk fed suburban blues, reaches for the available arsenal and saunters off to make the news.
And the women in the middle are learning what poor women have always known. That the edge is closer than you think when the men bring the guns home. Look at where the profits are, that's how you'll find the source of the big lie that you and i both know so well. By the time it takes this cultural death wish to run it's course, they're gonna to make a pretty penny and then they're going to hell.
He said the chickens all come home to roost. Malcolm forecast the flood. Are we really going to sleep through another century while the rich profit off our blood? Yeah it may take some doing to see this undoing through.
But in my humble opinion, here's what I suggest we do:
Open fire on Hollywood
Open fire on MTV
Open fire on NBC and CBS and ABC
Open fire on the NRA and all the lies they told us along the way!
Open fire on each weapons manufacturer while he's giving head to some republican senator...

And if I hear one more time about a fools right to his tools of rage, I'm gonna take all my friends and I'm going to move to canada...and we're going to die of old age.

My Interests

"Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right."

Love the creative mind. Double takes and giggles. Love being shocked and then forced to ask, "What did you just say?!" Piano. Outside. The sun on some days, rain and snow on most. Overcast. Cold weather and sitting by the fireplace. Books. Art. THE ARTS. Coffee and independence. Exploring, hiking. Being called sweets. And pumpkin pie.

Don't use the word love unless you truly mean it.

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Henry David Thoreau



"...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
-John Milton



"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."
-Aaron Copland



"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds."
-Bob Marley



"Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together."
-Ovid



"Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?"
-Henry James



"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-H.L. Mencken



A few of my loves.

Meggie and I, we even sleep alike.

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Music:


Aerosmith, Andrew Bird, Al Green, Alanis Morissette, Ani Difranco, Augustana, Badly Drawn Boy, The Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds, Ben Harper, Ben Kweller, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Cat Stevens, Cary Brothers, Claude Debussy, Frederic Chopin, Coldplay, Colin Hay, The Cure, Damien Rice, Dashboard Confessional, David Bowie, Dave Matthews Band Death Cab for Cutie, Depeche Mode, Dispatch, Don McClean, The Doors, The Dresden Dolls, The Early November, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Eric Satie, Eva Cassidy, Explosions in the Sky, The Format, Frou Frou, Gary Jules, Goo Goo Dolls, The Honorary Title, Howie Day, Imogen Heap, Interpol, Iron and Wine, The Killers, Janis Joplin, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Johann Pachelbel, John Elliott, John Lennon, John Mayer, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, J.S. Bach, Jude , Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Louis Armstrong, Ludwig Van Beethoven, The Mamas and Papas, Minus the Bear, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Murder by Death, Muse, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, OK, Go, Oasis, Otis Redding, Patti Griffin, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, The Postal Service, Queen, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, The Ramones, The Righteous Brothers, Rilo Kiley, The Rolling Stones, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Cooke, Sarah Mclachlan, Scott Joplin, She Wants Revenge, The Shins, Sia, Simon and Garfunkel, Snow Patrol, Stevie Wonder, Styx, Tchaikovsky, Tom Petty, Tori Amos, Travis, U2, The Umbrellas, Van Halen, Van Morrison, The Verve, The Verve Pipe, Wesley Willis, Wilco

Movies:

Not in any order...Swingers, Grindhouse, 28 Days Later, To Kill a Mockingbird, Garden State, Youn g Frankenstein, Dumb and Dumber, The Lor d of the Rin gs, Mou lin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet (Baz Luhrman's version) Big Fish, The Phantom of the Opera, Edward Scissorhands, Big Trouble, Singing in the Rain, Dodgeball, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Monsters Inc, Tommy Boy, Roman Holiday, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Some Like It Hot, The Three Amigos, Office Space, Spaceballs, Chicken Run, Empire Records, Anchorman, Emperor's New Groove, The Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremecy, Monty Python, The Sting, Finding Nemo, The Great Race, 28 days later, Clue, Signs, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Any Tim Burton movie .

Television:

"TV is, after all, the modern day Roman Coliseum-- human devastation as mass entertainment."

If I do actually sit down to watch the tellie, this is what I'd see...

The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Scrubs, Family Guy, Simpsons, American Dad.

Books:

Ivanhoe, The Great Gatsby, America (the book) by John Stewart, Schindler's List, Lullaby, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Beauty Trilogy.

Love Chuck Palahniuk and David Sedaris. Don't leave home without them.

Heroes:

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My Blog

When you're walking and the streets are full of strangers.

Oh Joni.You can kill. Sometimes sting.   I just filled out my forms for Scotland. I'm not going to lie, I'm a bit nervous. Excited. But nervous. This independent spirit is taking over. Say goodb...
Posted by JOK-lyn on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:35:00 PST

Checked out.

It's raining outside. And I'm in love. I will go through days, some miserable, some wonderful. It really depends on what surrounds me these days. I find I'm falling more and more in love with the simp...
Posted by JOK-lyn on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:28:00 PST

Just enough pathos to keep me hypnotized.

Recycled air. Recycled relations. Recycled moments. The happiness of being back home lasted for one day. It was that feeling of being so far away from all that is familiar, all that you call 'home.' T...
Posted by JOK-lyn on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:25:00 PST

Nice things turn bad out there.

The mornings have been hell for me. Honest to God hell. I wake up, and I feel a sense of no hope for that day. Of course I'll make myself get out of bed, go through the daily routines of getting ready...
Posted by JOK-lyn on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:02:00 PST

Heavenly.

It's a beautiful day! I don't know why really. I'm sitting here listening to my favorite piano song, looking outside and longing to be in that sun. Sadly I'm at work and that just won't allow it to be...
Posted by JOK-lyn on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:03:00 PST

There's a fire just waiting for fuel.

So I'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty it takes more than eyes to know.   I wrote a song today. It's not much, but I think it's beautiful. I have no lyrics to it yet, and I'm okay wi...
Posted by JOK-lyn on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:13:00 PST

Alone a symbol is meaningless.

I don't really know the purpose of this blog. I just felt like writing. It's amazing when you see an awe-inspiring movie, or listen to a single song that could give you so many tears. Each tear r...
Posted by JOK-lyn on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:05:00 PST

oh memories

It was an odd day. Very. I spent the majority of the day thinking of the easy days. The days when my biggest worry was how late will mommy let me stay up tonight? Will she let me watch quantum leap wi...
Posted by JOK-lyn on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:30:00 PST

Oh dream maker, you heart breaker.

I don't know what broken mirror I walked under, or remember a certain black cat that crossed my path. but these ugly days of bad luck won't end. they won't leave me. My dog is 3 years old. And he's dy...
Posted by JOK-lyn on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 06:31:00 PST

A little bit of humor please.

I was bored. 1. I ___ Jocelyn.2. I want to _____ Jocelyn!3. Jocelyn  is ______.4. Jocelyn and I are _____.5. If I was alone in a room with Jocelyn we would probably _____.6. I wish...
Posted by JOK-lyn on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:15:00 PST