Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Deal or No Deal Bozo

I just have to post an entry here and say that the lady who was on tonight's Deal or No Deal (CNBC) was very likely the most annoying, obnoxious, retarded person they've ever had on. Man, was I hoping she'd lose big time, but she took a deal of a little over $150,000 and made out better than anyone expected.
I've only recently begun watching the show with any degree of regularity and they've had a few hyperactive, crazed bozos as contestants, but this dingbat took the cake.

Thursday, January 4, 2007

A Meaningless List and a Funny Photo (Not in that order...)



Nuns with guns...I find that concept to be quite humorous, don't you?

Nothing to do and no inspiration to write I thought I'd up my post count by presenting this meaningless list of all the books that currently occupy the top level of the bookshelf that stands next to my computer desk.

~~~"Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials" by Douglas Wayne Barlowe
~~~"Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy" by Douglas Wayne Barlowe
~~~"Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever, 1997" (10 years old now, I should dispose of it, as outdated as it is...alas, it takes up space)
~~~"Selected Poetry" by John Keats
~~~"A Basic Guide to the Prado" by Jose Rogelio Buendia
~~~"Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste" by Gillo Dorfles
~~~"The Norton Scores, Volumes 1 & 2" edited by Roger Kamien
~~~"The Wordsworth Dictionary of Musical Quotations" compiled by Derek Watson
~~~"Springsteen: Point Blank" by Christopher Sandford
~~~"From Metal to Mozart: The Rock and Roll Guide to Classical Music" by Craig Heller
~~~"Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties" by Ian MacDonald
~~~"Alternative Rock" by Dave Thompson
~~~"The Enjoyment of Music" by Joseph Machlis
~~~"The World of Twentieth Century Music" by David Ewen
~~~"Music Hound: Rock (the Essential Album Guide" edited by Gary Graff (this one's as outdated as the Video Hound guide...why do I KEEP these???)
~~~"Milton Cross' Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music Volume 2" by Milton Cross and David Ewen (No, I do not own volume 1...:(...)
~~~"Music of the Twentieth Century" by William R. Martin and Julius Drossin
~~~"Backstreets...Springsteen: The Man and His Music" by Charles R. Cross
~~~"The Waiting Father: Sermons on the Parables of Jesus" by Helmut Thielicke
~~~"City on the Palm of Silence" by S. D. Carpenter (a collection of poems by a friend of mine that he had published)

And remember, it's KILLING time, NOT wasting it.
:)

Breathing the Mystery

The distance between universes is
Thin as skin, fragile as the evening
When the sun sets

Severing the mortal coil you
Kiss the ground that holds you down
That engulfs you

Gravity is your enemy as you struggle
Hard for balance, faltering
Submerged in vertigo

See that freight train a-coming
Halfway down the tunnel
A change of heart sacrificed
To the seconds that are left you

Step Inside

When all of your opinions fail and you've built your wall too high
And all that you've believed in falls like suicide
Your mask is too familiar, you've forgotten what it hides
Step Inside
Close your eyes and step inside

The fields of autumn half-remembered in the night
A million miles away from darkness and light
So far removed from wrong and right
Step Inside

Step inside and leave behind your father and mother
Step inside and leave behind your sisters and brothers
Step inside and leave behind your sons and your daughters...
It isn't easy, is it?

Lorelei of the Dark Side

Catch the million innuendos
When she looks your way
What you find in between the lines will be
More than words could ever say
Take her down to the water's edge
Make your wish come true
But just you try to look her in the eyes, she's gonna
Make a fool of you

Lorelei of the Dark Side
Lorelei of the moon

Cast her clothes to the side of the road
Be sure to wipe everything clean
If you're careful no one has to know
If you know what I mean
This kind of thing doesn't happen everyday
And anyway it's only a dream
A bad dream that won't go away
Coming apart at the seams

Lorelei of the Dark Side
Lorelei of the moon