****Dec. 11,1920 - Jan. 30,2007 **** I miss you Dad !!! *~*~*~*~*~ *********Now.... **Good music** A lovely woman....and to close my eyes and pretend we're somewhere sunny with white sands and crystal clear waters. I have a feeling she will agree. I try and make each day as simple as possible. Too complex and i'm reaching for the Tylenol...and that's not a good thang. Can someone tell me what happen to America "LAND of the FREE" ??? And why Bush is still in power ? Is everyone blind ? Ahhhh HECK !! don't get me started on politics. But folks...it's time we WAKE UP !!! Gee ever wonder why there is a never before seen astronomical number of Americans applying for Canadian work visa's ? Americans are moving away !!! Land of the free ?? Our Government sensors everything they dont want us to know. They don't want the Nation in a panic. Dont look for your news stations to broadcast anything out of the ordinary because its ALL sensored It's a shame that so many of us dont see whats going on. I use to love this country and i still do, however i'm getting pretty fed up with the way the 'Land of the Free" is slowing dwindling into BOLIVA...It's a shame to see our soldiers over in a country in which we really have no business being in. However that's 'ole Bush and Cheney who's making millions off this bogus war. WMD ???? where !?!?! I am one of many thousand i'm sure that have ties here in the States that keep me here or else i would be applying for a work visa to somewhere ! So anyhow enough of that jibberish. What interests do i have ? hmmm... I like good music, I like everything from AC/DC to ZZ TOP. I like jazz, reggae the blues even like some symphonies such as Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. Country i love Dwight Yoakam have all his stuff and the Mavericks. But Rock-n-Roll stirs my soul. I love Motocross racing 4x4's old classic muscle cars ('69 Z-28) baby ! I love sports, love to write songs, poems. And taking road trips which i haven't been able to do, since i take care of my ailing Father.(R.I.P) Reading, drawing and just making folks laugh with my off-the wall sense of humor. Laughing IS the best Medicine !!! Do I hear an Amen !? (APPLAUSE SIGN FLASHING)Am a funny guy, just you try me.My Momma always told me "NEVER !!! climb any trees !!!...because the squirrels will mistake me for a NUT" !!! (R.I.P.) Mom ! Been lonely since my Dad passed away. Here in the house with my daughter Sierra's two RENEGADE KITTIES !!!! UGH !!! But their adapting to the new homestead. Their okay kids.
Another year has come and gone but nothings changed
I've wasted another year doing the same old things
I want to break out of this and turn my life around
I'm going to make a vow to repent an turn to you.[CHORUS:]
I'm crying out to you now as I make my new years vow
I'll tell you I love you and I'll honor you somehow
Hear my promise to you in this new years vow I give
You all of me
You'll be all of my life and I'll never think twice to
do all that you have for me
In my new years vowLord I'll do my best to do, all that I say
I'm not perfect but I know, that's OK
If I stumble you won't condemn my shame
I'm going to make a vow to repent an turn to you[CHORUS]Its a new year this year is different
From the other ones
I'd like to meet:
All the U.S. Troops I possibly could meet and hug/shake their hands.**Jim Morrison Dwight Yoakam Ed Harris Eddie Vedder Adam Sandler Lewis Black Samual L. Jackson Harrison Ford Tom Hanks Gary Oldman Robin Williams Johnny Depp John Cusack Richard Prior Jim Carrey Steven Tyler Joe Perry ** Bobby Slaton Alice Cooper Kevin Kline Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon Sigmund Freud
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Bang Tango - Untied And True
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Add to My Profile | More Videos FAMOUS QUOTE: “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.†Jim Morrison..of The Doors.
Music:
DWIGHT YOAKAM AEROSMITH QUEEN Jim Morrison and The Doors RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS ! YES INXS Motley CRUE THE BeaTles Tom Petty TheYardbirds CREAM Grand Funk Railroad SKYNYRD! RUSH SUPERTRAMP THE CULT NINE INCH NAILS WAR BABIES Daivd Bowie ALICE in CHAINS Mad Season Humble Pie Marvin Gaye The Who Tower of Power Collective Soul Faith no more Steely Dan Maroon 5 Robin Trower Rod Stewart U2 Green Day Buckcherry Bad Company Soundgarden Stevie Wonder AL Green EARTH WIND and FIRE SHOTGUN MESSIAH STP Offspring BANG TANGO ROYAL COURT of CHINA Geared and Primed Old VAN HALEN with Diamond Dave The Smithereens FASTER PUSSYCAT AUDIOSLAVE THE ALARM Havana 3am 38 Special everclear Lenny Kravitz AC/DC Don Henley CCR Jeff Beck Styx Crowded House Gregg Allman The Outlaws Def Leppard Southern Culture on the skids The Fixx Killer Dwarfs Patsy Cline Fastball Steve Earle George Benson Fleetwood Mac Lee Michaels THE J.GEILS BAND THE STONES FRED and BARNEY get it its a joke ppl T REX Los Lobos LED ZEPPELIN ALICE COOPER Joe Jackson Los Lonely Boys Brother Cane The Mavericks,ZZ TOP Group...LIVE.
Movies:
Blow Unforgiven The Sentinel The good shepherd Babel Tommy Boy The Departed FIGHT CLUB Heat The Green Mile A fish called Wanda Clear and Present Danger No way out Castaway The Negotiator Monty Python's "Holy Grail" Austin Powers Bridges of Madison county Leaving Las Vegas Analyize ThisThat The Thing Shanghi Noon The sure thing NWO, more of what UFO shot by NASA
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Television:
A and E s Cold Case files, American Justice, City Confidential and the Discovery channel,OVERHAULIN',FBI Files,SNL.CNN Deadliest Catch Family Guy STEWIE ROCKS !!! Two and a half Men. Travel Channel.
Books:
Ann Rule books Stephen White Joseph Wambaugh and Truman Capote Foerensics Beckett guide Baseball America They are sensored by the government Sigmund Freud might concede that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar But on the larger issue he was adamant a dream is never just a dreamThen what is a dream The question has divided students of the mind for a century Freud argued that dreams are windows into an otherwise inaccessible mind, the royal road to the unconscious But others have contended that they are mere static the random firings of a dormant brainA century ago a dream was a will o the wisp a tantalizing glimpse into a spirit world where truths were revealed and events foretold But Freud changed all that with a bookThe Interpretation of Dreams published on November 4 1899 re created dreams as a powerful probe of the unconscious mind Suddenly they were messages from a landscape entirely within us and yet totally unknownBefore Freud you would say that dreams were considered as spirits as otherworldly things messages from the other world They were dealt with in religious and philosophical ways says psychoanalyst Leon Hoffman Through his study he came to the idea that the mind worked outside of our awareness and that dreams had meaningA century later, science is putting Freud to the test New brain imaging technologies allow researchers to see which parts of the brain are active during a dream and which are dead to the worldThat is helping in being able to test all of the ideas in a scientific way in a reproducible scientific way says Edward Nersessian a psychoanalyst in New York CityFreud argued that dreams are a persons most deeply held wishes expressed in symbolic form Their purpose To keep the unconscious drives that constantly pop up within us from waking us in the nightThat was the essence of Freuds theory that dreams protect sleep says Mark Solms a neuroscientist at St Bartholomews and Royal London School of MedicineFew psychoanalysts believe that today But Freuds more basic idea that dreams are messages from a part of the mind beyond our conscious control is stronger than everHe used dreams to try to get at what unconscious processes were and how they work Harvard University psychiatrist David Westen saysScholars didnt always support that idea In 1953 researchers discovered a stage of sleep called REM for rapid eye movement During REM sleep much of the brain becomes as active as it is during wakingThe eyes dart around behind closed lids as if following an action packed sporting event Most intriguing people awakened from REM sleep almost always say they have been dreamingThat led researchers to equate REM sleep with dreaming When they looked for the part of the brain that controls REM they found that its source is the pons a primitive section of the brain stem that has more to do with reflexes like breathing than deeply held wishes desires hopes and fearsSo Freud must have been wrong they concluded Dreams are nothing more than random images conjured up by a senselessly whirring brain and any meaning we associate with them is imposed by the conscious mind not generated by the unconsciousBut recent research has shown that REM and dreams are not the same Solms has studied patients who have brain damage to the pons which renders them incapable of REM sleep Yet those people still dream Other people with damage to higher parts of the brain cant dream But they do experience REM sleepResearchers have also found that REM sleep is not the exclusive province of dreams Although most dreams happen then people also dream at other times during sleepThe recent discoveries have led researchers to the conclusion that REM is merely a trigger for dreamingREM sleep is the best place for dreaming says Ernest Hartmann a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University in Boston It is not the only placeIn the last few years new imaging technologies have shown what parts of the brain are most active during dreaming Allen Braun of the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders studies sleeping people with a technology called positron emission tomography or PET scanning What he is finding can be used to test some of Freuds ideas about dreamingWe can see if the patterns are congruent with his ideas Braun says For example during dreaming the parts of the brain involved in emotions and emotional memories are active That explains why dreams can feel so intense and powerful The areas involved in recognizing objects and processing images are also active which is consistent with the strong visual nature of dreamsMeanwhile the areas that Braun calls the executive regions of the brain are deactivated That might help explain why dreams are often illogical irrational and out of sequenceAll of those observations are roughly consistent with Freuds idea of dreams as messages from the unconscious mind But contrary to what Freud might have predicted the part of the brain involved in processing symbols is relatively quiet during dreaming Freud believed that dreams were full of symbols that had to be decoded to reveal the innermost workings of the mindDreams may be meaningful but they're not meaningful in the way Freud thought Braun says He and several of his colleagues believe that the meaning of dreams is right on the surface In other words a cigar is always just a cigarHartmann, who actually met Freud during the 1930s also thinks Freud got dreams mostly but not completely rightThey tell me Freud patted me on the head Hartmann says of his meeting with Freud He was 80 and I was 2
Freud might not react so warmly to Hartmann today I think Freud was very smart Hartmann says But I do not believe every dream is the fulfillment of a wishHartmanns own theory relies on the modern idea that the brain is an intricate web of connected nerve cells During dreaming we explore that network in ways that are impossible while awake making broader connections and associations than we otherwise wouldThat may explain why artists often find inspiration in dreams Hartmann argues But both experience and research show that logical thought is almost completely absent from dreams Even the most brilliant thinkers rarely find themselves doing arithmetic or solving complex problems in dreamsWe do less A B C D Hartmann says We do more fanciful stuffNOTE Funny how nothing is mentioned about Freuds cocaine addiction. hmmm interesting" A Soldier's Prayer"
(Larry Walker, Tommy Oliver)One hot desert morning at dawn's early light
While trudging through the sand
I found a piece of paper
Clutched in a young man's handAnd upon that paper the words he wrote
Were not filled with despair
Just thoughts from the heart of a brave young lad
He called it, "A Soldier's Prayer"I took the paper from his hand and read it aloud...Will there be a place in heaven
For a person such as me
Who, through youth and the love for life
Isn't all you'd have me be?I've been a man but a short time now
And I'll ask you this, if I might
Isn't fighting for freedom's cause
A fight that's always right?The men I've killed, some things I've done
Are not things I've wanted to do
But a job I believe had to be done
By we who believe in youI had those thoughts upon my mind
When I heard that deadly sound
Then, all around me, one by one
My friends fell to the groundSomehow I knew before it hit
Fear ran up my spine
I felt the blast tearing my side
I knew this one was mineThere'll be much grief for loved ones at home
when they learn that I am dead
Please ease their pain and let them know
These things that I have saidTime's run out, I can feel death's sting
Oh, God, please hear my plea
Let there be a place in heaven
For a person such as meLord, this is the chaplain, I'm here with this lad
Our country's given the finest it had
We who are older and have studied your word
Know this boy's prayer is more than just heardIt is answered with your love
And the promise that there'll be
A special place in heaven
For a person such as he.
Heroes:
My Father (R.I.P.) and Mother (R.I.P.) for putting up with me Our U S Troops past and present And the ones who gave their lives for our country God Bless all Dr Martin Luther King John F Kennedy.
