Autobiographical Soundtracks

I always associate music with the years or events in my life. Music has the ability to make me different people within myself. It makes evident to me all the pieces of me inside my head. It goes beyond simple recollection of events and speaks more to the feelings I had at that point in my life. I can remember the exact feeling I had as a 6 year old, watching Vietnam footage on television when I hear “Billy don’t be a hero” by Paperlace. I’m back in as a 13 year in Italy when I hear the Dire Straits …

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Pondering Fate and Destiny.

While I’m a firm believer in the everyone is responsible for where they are in life I can’t help but buy into the theories of fate and destiny. It’s very practical and evident that if you do X and Y you’ll get Z result which is easy to quantify and measure. Those kind of instances can be found throughout life but it’s amazing the coincidence and luck that I find in daily life. My step-father is a pragmatist for whom logic rules. He approaches everything from a deliberate and measured frame of thought. He’s a good man and his approach …

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I’m someone’s Valentine!

Here I been lamenting the whole day…and as I’m putting my key the door to my house my 10 year old neighbor comes outside. She thanked me again for the Hannah tickets and handed me a plate with foil on it.  “I made you cookies and want you to be my Valentine,” she says to me.  What a sweetie!  So, fear not for love finds us all!  I got inside and took the foil off the paper plate and there sat the Valentiniest cookies you’ve ever seen.  I didn’t have the heart to tell her I wasn’t eating sugar but …

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Happy V-Day.

8:22 am Since it’s Valentines day and I don’t really have a Valentine I figured I would talk about Love and what it means to me. Bear in mind I’m no expert in love or the ways of romance, but in my mind I know what really feels right to me, and that’s what I’m writing about. I’m sure this thread will evolve over the time it takes me to actually publish it so bear with me. Firstly, although I appreciate that there is a day set aside for Love, I think the commercialization of Valentine’s day is sickening. That …

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It’s Volunteering Time!

Time to do the repair rounds this weekend. Heading out to the Soldier’s Home to do some network upgrades and make sure all the old guys are all set with email addresses. They’re a great bunch of old guys that really depend on their VERY old PC’s, and I mean VERY old. I’m sure I’ll run into the typical problems of spyware and such but I’m hoping to re-wire some of the ethernet drops so I’ll take the “Nuclear Briefcase.” These men are largely forgotten. Most in there were single throughout life and are used to the institutionalization the Military …

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Haikus.

The snow and rain falls. Telling me to stay inside. Dry toes inside socks. ____________________________ No movies last night. Too much going on I guess. Washing the clean hair? ____________________________ I’m still not smoking. It’s been over 30 days. No sure if it helps. ____________________________ Too pensive today. Too much thinking can hurt. Wondering about. ____________________________ More later. MiH

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I wonder what today will bring?

Since the Hannah Montana tour ended about a week ago it’s been pretty quiet on the support front. I was used to coming in to 300 email from 8 year old girls and now I come in and I’ve got 6 emails from people asking about their orders. I imagine when we get the LucasFilm deal done that I’ll start getting lot’s of email again, and this time it will be about cool Star Wars stuff. I don’t have much planned today, I was going to go out and get a couple of movies during lunch. It’s a Matthew McConaughey …

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How to save a life.

Been working on some music tonight, which has been a trip.  It’s been months since I’ve played anything and I’m getting ready to get my piano back.  I was plodding out chords on my crappy acoustic guitar that has a bad E string.  Memorizing chord progressions for songs I want to learn, messing with the drums a bit…just a lot of fun.  I even pulled out my setlists and went through the music just remembering how songs go.  It’ll be interesting to see how dexterous I am and how long it’ll take me to limber up.  I’m not sure if …

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