Good stuff: I'm sincere, kind, tolerant, compassionate, curious; I enjoy learning; I'm trustworthy, I have a sense of humor, and I dream in color.Bad stuff: I can get very angry, I can be incredibly lazy, I'm a terrible procrastinator, an insomniac, a worrier, and I can be shy.I ended up with a MySpace page because of my children. My kids both had pages, and instead of banning MySpace (like a lot of misinformed parents are doing) I did the research, made an informed decision, and chose to keep an eye on things rather than dictate an outright ban. MySpace is getting a bad rap from people who do not understand that Internet safety is NOT about shutting your kids off from one particular site, it pertains to the web as a whole. The kids know I am up here, not to spy on them or anything, but giving them a little safe supervision and guide them in the right direction if they need it. I love my kids - they are the best!Once I started poking around at MySpace, I discovered the terrific assortment of music available. It took me back to a day when music was an all-important part of growing up. Now that I am rediscovering what I've missed while raising kids, it is like uncovering buried treasure! It sounds so trite, but there really is a joy to be found when music speaks to a person. Be sure to search for types of music that appeal to you, as well as sample some stuff outside of your usual choices. Unfortunately, I am not blessed with any musical talent, but I love music very much. In the past year I have been exposed to all kinds of great music, both new music and old stuff that I missed out on the first time around. I guess my musical blessing is that I'm a good listener, and I truly appreciate that gift. I love and enjoy many different kinds of music. Ska, punk, rock, and Mozart are my favorites.
I am on staff at Punkmusic.com, contact me here:
[email protected] at SKAspot.com, covering the Northeast Area, contact me here: [email protected]
PLEASE NOTE: Regarding my Friends List - I do not randomly add people and bands that send a request. All of the bands listed in my
Friends List are ones that I have checked out, listened to, reviewed, and think
highly enough about to recommend to others.
Listed
below you will find a random, collection of lyric snippets that appealed to me
one way or another, some quotes, and some advice. Maybe there is something
that was put here to speak to you directly, something for you to learn, some
little bit of comfort.
You never know what you may find...
"Static pulse inside of music bringing us escape
It's always temporary changing nothing in its wake
Just a second where we're leaving all this shit behind
Just a second but it's leaving just this much in mind:
To resist despair that second makes you see
To resist despair because you can't change everything
To resist despair in this world is
what it is to be free"
Sound System - Operation Ivy"Cardiff-By-The-Sea"The sea has become profoundly red as wine
The skies they bleed with fleeting passion tonightCome sweet euphoria your light is blinding to thee
You feel as comforting as a mother's warm embrace
But still you're just as lonely as the seaWe gaze out upon the crashing waves
From this hillside graveyard masqueradeSweet terrible angel, embrace my soul with light
Is it honesty inside my lungs and it's dying to get out
But still I'm helpless as an orphaned childCan you cure this loneliness in my heart
My heart
Can you cure this loneliness in my heart
In my heartEuphoria, euphoria"
Cardiff-By-the-Sea - The Ataris"I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all"
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
"War is going on right now
And I'm not doing anything about it
Without a crowd I'm not so loud
I can't do anything by myself
But that's just another lie"
Life During Wartime - Pinhead Gunpowder"Be positive, not negative and you will get by
It's easy to say and much harder to try
Get out of this rut that I'm circling in
'cos the walls are tall and they're closing in
No it never ends and it kicks you down
It makes you a stranger in your hometown
You've got to look forward, not try to look back
Try to be strong and you're on the right track"
Keep
Trying - The Dead Pets"powers of the night
in a blue nocturne
gather in mists
and await your return"
Long
After Lights Ou t -
Common Rider
"but in this world, in this world,
so many bright-light people end a whole lot dimmer
And in this world, in this world,
my very blackest days you could never call tragic"
Never Fit - Squirtgun"My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Till then I walk alone"
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day"So dear friends
Your love has gone
Only tears to dwell upon
I dare not say As the wind must blow
So a love is lost
A love is won
Go to sleep and dream again
Soon your hopes will rise and then
From all this gloom life can start anew
And there'll be no crying soon"
Dear Friends - Queen
On Music:
If a man
does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or
far away.
~ Henry
David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854
And it came to pass, when the
evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took up a harp and played...
so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him
~ 1 Samuel 16:23
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures
on silence.
~ Leopold Stokowski
Music expresses that which
cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
~ Victor Hugo
Music produces a kind of
pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
~ Confucius
Music washes away from the
soul the dust of everyday life.
~ Red Auerbach
Songs are like colors,
you may prefer one over another - but they are each glorious to someone.
~ Me
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one lie the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
~ Emily DickinsonBe not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of standing still.
~ Chinese Proverb
"The U.S.
Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to
catch up with it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
American statesman, scientist & printer
"When you achieve one dream, dream another."
Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger (1948 - )
former Notre Dame football player, motivational speaker
"Change is
the law of life, and those who look only to the past and present are certain to
miss the future."
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
35th president of the United States
"There's
only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your
own self."
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
English writer, author of Brave New World
"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
George "Papa Bear" Halas (1895-1983)
American football pioneer, coach, owner & player
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
Maya Angelou (1928 - )
American poet, writer, historian, educator
You cannot escape the responsibility of
tomorrow by evading it today.
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
16th President of the United States
"Suit the action to the word,
the word to the action."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
English playwright and poet
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
(German Philosopher, 1788-1860)The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen ParrThe life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Saul SteinbergBoredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.
Leo SteinBoredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
American social activist &
stateswoman
(First Lady: 1933-45; ambassador to UN) :
"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down" "In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." "Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this." "It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."