SAy YeaH

Imagine Bruce Springsteen

20 years younger...

more of a nerd...

a bit shorter...

rockin' indie style...

Clap your hands!

Run the lip off sunshine shore
Betray white water
Delay dark forms
Slap young waves on wooden bones
Don't touch the laughter and away we go

and away we go...

What a super show!

Ode to the snow

As a tribute to one of the best seasons of snowfall EVER, I wrote this little poem.
Hope you like it.

He Hum (throat clearing noise)

Oh snow how I love thee.
You make my snowboard glide
Down the hill…WEEEEE!

Soon reality will be dealt with
As you’ll be melted.

And all the water molecules will be set free.

Ps - I hope you don’t mind if I cheat on you with the pavement this summer.

Sunday Funday adventure #33: snowmobiling with shwilly

Alert the media

At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, aslide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, US Attorney General John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of maths instruction.

"Al-Gebra is a fearsome cult," Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like 'x'and 'y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined they belong to a common denominator ofthe axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'there are 3 sides to every triangle'."

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of maths instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes".

you ain't a beauty, but hey, you're alright

I got home on Monday from taking my dad skiing. His determination never ceases to amaze me! So much shit has happened to him, but he still keeps getting up and trying again. When I walked into his room to pick him up on Friday morning I said, “hey dad, what’s goin’ on?” And he looked up at me and said, “only good things.” Skiing next to him on Sunday was probably one of the best days of my life.

It takes four hours to drive to Monte Vista from Denver.

There and back is eight, plus there and back again is 16.

Eight I am alone and eight I am with my dad.

When I am alone I rock out Belle and Sebastian. Or I sing at the top of my lungs to Rilo Kiley. Sometimes I cry (like as sissy emo kid) to Bright Eyes. And on occasion I drink a lot of coffee and/or Red Bull and put on my old punk rock cds like Stretch Armstrong or Suicide Machines. I also tend to think too much about life, but mostly about what to write on this silly blog.
A couple years ago I made him a cd with close to fifty of his favorite songs from the Beatles, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, and John Denver. When I’m with him, that’s what we listen to. Somehow the song about the day the music died made it on the cd. Neither of us know who sings the song, but every time it comes on he will tell me the widowed bride is Yuko Uno, and the hands being clenched in fists of rage was when the Hell’s Angles did security for the Rolling Stones and someone died. And we can both sing every single word.

He likes to point out good lyrics. Like Bruce’s Thunder Road, “you ain’t a beauty, but hey you’re all right.” We laugh at that one. When we’re driving in the mountains and the view is nice, he’ll look at me and quotes John Denver, “I love the life within me…I feel apart of everything I see.” And when the Beatles, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds starts to play, he looks at me and says “LUCCY!”
(because he knows its my nickname)

I've always liked the taste of vinegar.

This is a figurative painting from ancient China. Each of the three men represent one of the three teachings of China. The vinegar they are tasting represents the essence of life.

The first man has a sour look on his face, the second wears a bitter expression, but the third man is smiling.

To Confucius, life seemed rather sour. He believed that the present was out of step with the past and that the world would be a much better place if there were strict rules. Confucius emphasized a strict order which ruled the affairs of all in his land. Anything that did not fit into the established order was considered bad.

The second figure in the painting - Buddha - considered life on earth to be bitter. He saw this world to be filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering; a setter of traps, a generator of illusions and a revolving wheel of endless pain. In order to find peace, Buddha maintained that it was necessary to transcend this world. The Buddhist sees the path to happiness constantly being interrupted by the bitterness of this world.

Lao Tzu is the third man in the painting. According to Lao Tzu, the world was governed by the laws of nature, not by those of men. He maintained that the more man interfered with the natural order of things, the more out of balance the world became. As things became unbalanced, trouble followed. Lao Tzu is smiling because sourness and bitterness comes from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.