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Saturday, January 3rd, 2004
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12:49a - Afraid? Unwilling? Come on. What is it?
I suppose I'm in sort of a sad mood today...not sure why I guess. Strangely, I really would love to go back to school. I miss it. Christmas break is sort of tiring this year. I guess it's because I am spending alot of time talking to Amanda. I love talking to her but it makes me want to go to NCU right now. And the more I want to get away to Minneapolis, the more I become dissatisfied with my life now. Friends, school, everything. I'm ready for change. I'm ready to get out of my Morris, Peace Chapel, Christian bubble and start doing something with my life. They say, "Don't wish your life away." Well, I'm not about to wish it away. I just wish it would start. It's like, I don't even want to be around my friends anymore. I just want to work and save money and get all the distractions away from me. Even my friends are a distraction. It's hard to just talk to people anymore. The only friend I have in Morris that I can really talk to is Heather. I hate that. All the rest of my friends are wierd about it. None of them ever want to talk about God or where they are spiritually or anything. It's like they are trying to keep it to themselves. Why? I don't know. I need to talk about it. It helps me to grow. Why is it that every time, I bring it up or start talking about something that is soo important, the replies are always, "Mmmm hmmm." and basic, I-don't-care answers. Well, it matters. It matters alot. If you can't talk about it now, will you ever be able to? I'm serious. Look at the times that you spend with your best friends. How often do you just talk about your relationship with God. How often? My leaders tell me that I need an accountability partner. Do you know why that is? Because all of my Christian friends are too stupidly afraid to talk about Jesus with me. I mean, if I was to have accountability partners, they would be ones that don't even live around here. I'm closer to people 8 hours away then people 5 minutes from where I sit at this very minute that I have known for years. It's sad. Well, guys, there you have it. My frustration for the day. It's sad. Let's work on it....
current mood:  frustrated (1 comment |comment on this)
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8:05p - When words fail, music speaks
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
--Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
--M. Aumonier
Look at the stars sometimes. They are only notes They are music.
--Pat Conroy
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
--George Jean Nathan
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
--E.Y. Harburg (Edgar Yipsel) (1898 - 1981)
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
--Anais Nin
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.
--Steve Goodman
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
--Joan Baez
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
--June Masters Bacher
Without music, life is a journey through a desert
--Pat Conroy
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
--John Cusack (Rob Gordon) High Fidelity
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
--Yehudi Menuhin
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
--Igor Stravinsky
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'
--Bob Newhart
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHOO WOOT WOOT!!!
Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive.
--Chet Atkins (June 20, 1924 - June 30, 2001) Mister Guitar in Zen Guitar
It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.
--Chet Atkins (June 20, 1924 - June 30, 2001) Mister Guitar in Zen Guitar
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
--Eric Anderson
I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.
--Josephine Baker (1906-1975) French dancer
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The trouble with real life is that there's no danger music.
--Jim Carrey from "The Cable Guy"
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
--J.S. Bach
Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.
--Unknown
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
--Albert Schweitzer (01/14/1875-1965)
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
--Victor Hugo
Where words fail, music speaks.
--Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish short-story writer, poet
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
--Maya Angelou
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
--Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960)
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
--George Szell
You are the music while the music lasts.
--T. S. Eliot
current mood: musical
current music: anything! look at the topic!! (comment on this)
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8:18p - So simple, yet so profound
Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.
--Theodore Epp
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them.
--Charles West
God always answers in the deeps, never in the shallows of our soul.
--Anonymous
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread.
--German Proverb
The winds of God are always blowing, but you must set the sails.
--Unknown
We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.
--Harry S. Truman
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
--Billy Graham
You do well to believe in God. Satan also believes...and trembles.
--James 2:19
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car
--Laurence J. Peter
God's answers are wiser than our prayers.
--Unknown
Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.
--J. Hudson Taylor China Inland Mission
current mood:  satisfied
current music: " Bridge Over Toubled Water " (comment on this)
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8:23p - Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
--Jack Handey
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.
--Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes.
--Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, "Hey, can you give me a hand?" You can say, "Sorry, got these sacks."
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WOOT!! WOOT!! WHOOO!!!
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk. If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what REALLY throws you into a panic.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank"and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
If you go flying back through time and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like now.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
If you're a cowboy and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don't run with wooden stakes.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head."Normally you would think that "Fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
I think a good product would be "Baby Duck Hat." It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then all of the sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man those ducks really take off! Also Baby Duck Hat is good for parties.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
Somebody told me how frightening it was how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
current mood:  amused
current music: Weird Al (comment on this)
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8:30p - Famous Last Words
Are you sure the power is off?
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Don't be so superstitious.
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Double dare me!
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Help!
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He's probably just hibernating.
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Hey, watch this!
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I can make this light before it changes.
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I'll get a world record for this.
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I'm making a citizen's arrest.
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It's probably just a rash.
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I've seen this done on TV.
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I wonder where the mother bear is.
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That's odd.
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That stuff only happens in the movies.
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The odds of that happening have to be a million to one.
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These are the good kind of mushrooms.
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This doesn't taste right.
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This planet has an atmosphere just like on Earth.
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Well, we've made it this far.
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What does this button do?
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What duck?
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What time does your husband come home?
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I'm going to go over and kiss that cute tiger.
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OH CRAP!!
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I think it's dead.
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It's only a little one.
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It's not loaded.
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Does this go any faster?
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It's not that shallow.
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The water will break my fall.
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No Tony I don't have your money.
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I wont tell anyone.
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Bikers suck.
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I built it myself.
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I don't need a helmet.
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