10.8.02

mom picked up an espresso/cappuchino machine...i'm gonna be wired for days. but my mocha whups starbucks' mocha, hands down. i'm a bad mofo coffee maka.

right.

spent an evening at home. it was relaxing. i can't imagine doing it every night, but it was nice. i wish i was playing.

bedtime.

be good to the one you're next to...you never know when they might decide to move.
posted by Aaron Brown on 12:01:00 AM

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9.8.02

i'm making a mix cd for folds. it's called "good times these are NOT." a bunch of pretty depressing stuff. here's the track listing:

1.) Newfound Interest in Massechusettes - The Get Up Kids
2.) I Do - Jude
3.) A Girl Like You - Pete Yorn
4.) The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon & Garfunkel
5.) Valentine - Old 97's
6.) At The Stars - Better Than Ezra
7.) Operator - Jim Croce
8.) everytime - simoncalledpeter
9.) Pleasing You - Soul Miner's Daughter
10.) 44 - Heritage Cherry
11.) Solar System - Bill Malonee & Vigilantes of Love
12.) Twin Falls (live) - Ben Folds Five
13.) Hold On Hope (live) - Guided By Voices
14.) Newfound Mass 2000 - The Get Up Kids

feel free to hunt these tracks down and make your own ultra-downer disc. i think they help sometimes.
posted by Aaron Brown on 1:22:47 AM

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8.8.02

If the Son of God is born into my mortal flesh, is His holy innocence and simplicity and oneness with the Father getting a chance to manifest itself in me? What was true of the Virgin Mary in the historic introduction of God's Son into this earth is true in every saint. The Son of God is born into me by the direct act of God; then I as a child of God have to exercise the right of a child, the right of being always face to face with my Father. Am I continually saying with amazement to my common-sense life - why do you want to turn me off here? Don't you know that I must be about my Father's business? Whatever the circumstances may be, that Holy Innocent Eternal Child must be in contact with His Father.
-- Oswald Chambers

it's funny how we can sometimes surprise ourselves with our own inability to see beyond our own noses. when we spend our time railing against someone else for their shortfalls, we miss our own, and sometimes we fall short in exactly the same place but call it by a different name.

my drama means nothing. i am provided for. i am accepted, and there's nothing anyone can do or say to remove that acceptance. it just takes me a little while to remember that. to "live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness."

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
-- e.e cummings.

May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is Father, Son and Spirit
-- larry hem

If I make too much of the fact that I am Thomas Merton, then I am dead. If you make too much of the fact that you are in charge of the pig barn, then you are dead.
-- thomas merton

just a little wisdom i have stumbled across when i didn't expect it.
posted by Aaron Brown on 11:21:39 AM

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dang. penumbra just closed down. that sucks. no more cool place for the band to play. turn one over for mux and the boys. and you know the worst part about it? some loser hardcore kid worte an email trashing the place, saying he represents the whole scene. someone's been watching too many 90210 reruns, cause the drama is getting too much. not a fan of people who think they're all better than everyone else. we all suck, get over it and move on.

crap.

bedtime.
posted by Aaron Brown on 1:10:29 AM

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6.8.02

been a long time since i posted...things get crazy.


posted a new song @ http://simoncalledpeter.iuma.com, in case anyone reads this thing. it's called "everytime." a cheesy love song for the forlorn among us. i introduced it thusly at the last show: "this song is for all the people who are in love...cause i envy you."


i can always count on myself to get me into the worst relationship scenarios. for example: boy meets girl. boy talks to girl when he has enough brains to call her back. boy goes to amazing rock show with girl. boy realizes he really likes girl. boy also realizes girl lives very far away. boy also realizes that life just isn't fair.


Cold October Fall, at the outside of a VFW Hall,
I said I minded distance
but distance would define us, define us all.
A tree in Nichol's Park, I carved a broken heart.
I said I minded distance but distance owned us from the very start...
it's every song....every song
There's dividing lines between east and standard time,
so promise me...you'll still be mine.
Will this come between us as I doubt all of the pages I pour out?
When our doubts become regret, don't ever forget...
my only, you own me, if you'd only see.
-TGUK


boy is miserable. boy needs a vacation. maybe to south carolina....


boy needs sleep.


be good to the one you're next to...you never know when they might decide to move.
posted by Aaron Brown on 1:02:37 AM

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