thoughts for the day.

thought this pic was pretty funny.

READ THESE LYRICS..freakin rad..from the one and only PEDRO THE LION.


"Magazine"
This line is metaphysical
And on the one side, on the one side
The bad have lived in wickedness
And on the other side, on the other side
The good have lived in arrongance
And there's a steep slope
With a short rope
This line is metaphysical
And there's a steady flow
Moving to and fro

Oh, look you earned your wings
Are you an angel now
Or a vulture
Constantly hovering over
Waiting for the big mistake

Oh, my God, what have I done?
Oh, my God, what have I done?

Wouldn't you love to be
On the cover of a magazine?
Healthy skin, perfect teeth
Designed to hide what lies beneath

I feel the darkness growing stronger
As you cram light down my throat
How does that work out for you
In your holy quest to be above reproach?

LOL

what the hell is tony bennett going to do with a scientology book...HAHAHA...especially coming from a quadbillionare like johnny travolta.. what a deuche bag!!!

mmm perdy...

isnt she sweeet!.. theres a girl for all you single guys...

so screwed up...

why do we as people feel the need to constantly tell other people what they "should" be doing when we're in fact just as screwed up if not more than they are. we're no better than anyone else..so shut the F@@@k up and leave people alone, in the end..just love people, your badgering the fellow man on how they should live their life makes you out to be an "a" hole, and therefor what your saying is stupid, no matter how true you may believe it, life is ideas.. until it can be tangibly proven and touched as a wrong doing, keep your stupid opinions to yourself. i love you..even though i hate you..heh... and remember the only opinion that matters...is mine...cause im always right.. :)

aaannnnddd ... it's over...

so after last night, we've come to the complete decision that this whole venture possibility... is not in our best interest. we would more than likely end up being homeless..and for what?..it's cheaper to live where we're at!!..i'd love the possibilities that were being contemplated.. but it's just adding up to be unrealistic. in all of this, ive searched my soul, i've drawn like a mad man, and come up with a few different revelations. 1. i can draw still, actually quite well, im gonna keep it up. 2. my love for animals is larger than any of the possible side tracking venture oppurtunities 3. i like school, it's hard cause i have to take lots of classes that are mind boggling..like micro-biology..and advanced calc.. but somehow...someway ... i'm good at it..it's not bragging..i'm just as surprised as anyone... so, joe..move on with you chest..come over, lets have a beer...or glass of wine.. i still dont like phoenix but...it could be worse..at least we have a nice house..and we're putting in a pool!

on another note, theres a few CD's i want to make mention of.. the first is one that ive only heard a few songs from, and with any luck..im picking up my copy from my boy gabe tonight..BENEA REACH.. it's the kids from selfmindead for those of you who can remember them..well..erase everything you know about selfmindead..it's not like that at all..as gabe puts it.."its a metal masterpiece"..intelligent balls out rock.. with three guitar players done in a way that no other band can.. and theyre from Norway.. say no more..it's not released state side yet but you can scope it on iTunes..which is where the bengston got it...good boy..seen as if all the sites that do conversions cant decide what the rates from the Norway Kroner to the US dollar..its the way to go for now..
the other cd is two trips around the world away from that one.. and in one word truly amazing..for two reasons.. it has Dangermouse ..and the other ..i really like it..and it's not a cd i'd a thought i'd like (good english!)..Gnarls Barkley.. now before you pre-judge the cd..let me tell you that they have a song that makes mention of Transformers..again..say no more..just to bring to the attention of those who have this album..or have heard of it..there is no one in the group named Gnarls...its two guys from what ive read.. Cee Lo and Dangermouse.. trust me..listen to it like 4 times in a row... it is ..SOOO GOOOD!!

thats the news..reporting live from work this morning.. go oakley!!..hahaha

well..

just when you think all is going well, it all starts to fall apart...looks like we may not be moving..financial reasons.. it sucks pretty bad..but before all this came about lest i not forget that i was a straight A biology student...so all is not lost..i'd just be back in school..and MCC now offers the degree in which i seek..so this all just threw me for a loop...we'll see .. hood'a thunk that 5% could beat 95%? ..

one step closer....mmmmaybe

well, we've got potential lookers. we're one of three contenders and we're the cheapest and have the bigger yard..so hopefully we'll be sold off the unsane real estate market, only then to enter back into it in a different area, different but similar.
the longer it takes the scarier it gets, i realize i havent revealed the bigger picture on my blog, other than we're planning on moving and i'll be helping run a tattoo shop. its just there are things, abilities, that i have that i never toyed with in the vein of venture that i'm to endeavor upon. i guess in time i will be solidified in esteem to share with all the things that i will do.
sunday we went to cottonwood, saw the new shop and looked at a dozen or so potential dwellings. it's nuts. the shop is ginormous, it has like 10 rooms plus a big area for clothing, a piercing room, and a coffee area with a set of it's own doors to the outside. its pretty bad arce, everything is like a khaki tan with black trim, pretty sfelt..oh and nice wooden floors.
as far as the houses we looked at, well, it's nothing like the house we live in now, which is really nice, and big.. but, then again we live in the middle of nowhere and have to travel like 50 miles one way to get to places of employ, so this move will bring us closer to where we need to be, in turn saving like 3k in gas a yr along with affluent maintenance charges for things like oil, tires, brakes..etc..etc..

im scared... but... without bold moves comes atrophy..oh..and we have a baby on the way..so lets heep on the fear...

holleee pooooohhh

so it's like a thousand degrees in this forsaken city... and now that the humidity has sky rocketed do to the nice monsoon season that gets added to the equation, it's absurdly miserable. so lets add on to that..why not... traffic here sucks so bad we might as well be in downtown NYC..the congestion isnt do to the population congestion, as it is in NYC..it's the road construction, you get detoured onto streets that are under construction..so what the f*@ks the point?..sure that road might have been under severe construction..well how bout we focus efforts onto one street..and leave the other streets the hell alone so we can have at least one way to commute to and fro?? why do you morons have to clog up everyway, every street, and every freeway??..
oh and it's not over there... this city (as large as it has become) doesnt have a descent radio station.. every station i turn to blows goats.. i can believe that there are so many so called artists that group together and make the horrible noise they do and have the balls to call it a song..then the dumb ass radio stations suck up and play it 5 times in the hour... thank God for the iPod..
boycott radio..boycott phoenix

hmmmm

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..last night i had the strangest dream...

dont want to break my stride...nobody gonna hold me down..oh no.. hahaha..no for reals though.. i had a dream that cole and i's baby was already like old enough to hold a conversation and stuff...weird...awesome...weird...although not scary...

if the babies a boy..his name will be Noah Michael
for a girl..well we have a list.. from Ema to Zoey

so..anyhow...the house hits the market hopefully this week... and we've already found some potential dwellings up north..so those of you that still live within driving distance (gabe and fam..curd bird and fam..joe and fam... garret, jeremiah..etc) come on up.

well well well....

so this past year has been probably the most confusing years of my life..and for those of you who know me well, knows that that statement... is pretty profound. see, im basically an 18 yr. old kid, stuck in the body of a 30 yr. old with the responsibilities thereof.
in saying all of this, i need to acknowledge the fact that i am one with many ideas, done many things, succeeded, failed...and keep trying. in the latest venture of my life-capades, nicole and i have made a decision collectively (which is cool, cause it's usually just me..talking her into different directions) to put our house on the market, and get the hell out of dodge (i would say "get the hell out of phoenix" ..but the hell that resides in phoenix will not leave..only us, well..and joe and his family, gabe and his family..etc..etc..). nothing is 100% yet, but i will tell you this ...its around 95% a go...
now..you may ask, why...and maybe where... well let me tell you what i can without sounding like a nut job (anymore than i do). first, we're heading up to the verde valley area (ie. cottonwood, clarkdale, sedona) and second, our goal was to have it work out so that my wife doesnt have to work so that she give our kid a good rearing, keep in mind that our original plan doesnt add up to a good family life, cause there is a lot of HAVE TOO'S in the mix, then along came my good friend rick. rick owns a tattoo shop in jerome up above cottonwood, well he's moving his shop to old town cottonwood. his shop will be (starting aug 1st) one of the biggest shops in az..4200sqft of mayham..he's blowing up, turning the shop into a clothing store complete with stuff like lucky brand and whatnot..and an espresso bar. so... it's gonna be revolutionary..(think big screen tv's music videos, and coffee)..bad ass.
anyhow..nicole and i were up hanging out and rick offered me a career..a job..within all this radness..(more on that at an other time) but i just thought i'd throw that out there to the 4 or 5 people that read this..anyhow..hope everyone else is swell.. and if anyone wants to buy my house..heh heh...let me know..

how dee doo

so, this past weekend was super cool, no tattooing done.. but it was nice to see rick and the family. he's moving his shop off the hill in Jerome and into old town Cottonwood. it's pretty bad arce.. he's got over 4k sqft. and is doing more than tattooing... he's moving in a coffee shop, a clothing line ... plus many more things ... his wife and him have some friends that are lucky jeans reps so...the clothing line should be really nice. anyhow..

life is interesting. .. alot of people are telling nicole and i that we're having a boy. funny thing is..we have one boys name ... and like 10 girls names..so if it is a boy..it's a done deal... if its a girl..then we have some decisions to make. i'll announce the name when we find out. and for those of you that know ... i'll kill you ..i just want the moment to be right.

keep my wife and i in you thoughts and prayers as we do you... we have some interesting propositions to decide on....very interesting ... more on that later too.

werd

happy mid yr. holidays

ahhh yes... ye ol' holiday weekends...now that im not in the service industry i actually have it off... and we're heading to
jerome for the the weekend. just wanted to wish you folks a happy 4th... and werd to you mom, i came to drop bombs...

dr. appt.

well, all went well today at the dr. they determined that we're about 5 weeks in and it'll all go down at about feb. 20th or so of 07... and for those of you who know us real well this will make more sense but.. nicole hasn't thrown up once... werd

fight the good fight
(i bought a shirt at wallie world with that on it...pretty cool)

peas and carrots
matt

the vast uncle and aunt ratio that my kid will have...

so i was thinking of stuff this morning..and i was actually thinking about joes little girl..(who, by the way, is absurdly cute...like
joe for reals..get her in commercials..) ..something really simple stuck out about the whole situation.. joe always introduced me as "uncle" matt... now it's not the idea that im an uncle that is touching..cause i have blood nieces and nephews ... the touching part is ... i havent seen joe, nor his wife and baby in yrs..in fact i never met his baby till a few weeks ago. but man... does that guy know how to punch you right in the preverbial belly.. when he introduced me as uncle matt.. and adam as uncle adam... it hit me... we're bros.. same goes for my future baby... i was thinking of the vast family i have joe, his wife and baby... adam(the kingpin), gabe, ana, and their baby, jeremiah, paul howalt, his wife and kids, matt beem(the songster) garrett(the gambler), curtis, and his lovely new wife, travis(the t-bird), little jay and his soon to be family:), BJ#1 and his new wife, Ben "the Hammer" and his wife (or fiance.. call me man), Rick "the ink slinger" Wyckoff, his wife and baby, Tom and Shannon and the Thrashdaddy crew...
there are more... i know it.. but i just wanted to let you guys now.. youre my fam. youre all uncles, aunts and cousins in my book.

i love you guys

check this out..

my wifes pregnant... pretty rad...

unbelievable...

i am TOTALLY disgusted... offended.. nautious ... and just about speechless over that web site i posted below... i cant believe people like that still exist.... im saved .. i believe in God...and im aww struck...

i want to go fight someone..hahhaha...that made me smile..

all is well.

just a check in. went to a show last night with my good friends gabe and jeremiah. i cant honestly say that i enjoyed the show, however, if gabe, jeremiah and i went somewhere and just hung out.. that would have made the night 10 x's better... and less sweaty. zao is good and all... even great at moments.. but i'd rather sit in AC and crank it up loud.. then i dont have to worry about getting mowed down by an overweight security guard who cant pass his test into the police dept. the other odd part is.. when you look around at shows anymore all you see is the bottom of the barrel freaks..chics that could make some serious cash up on van buren... and oddly enough.. youth group kids and elementary school kids... what a cluster f*ck of a crowd. where we were standing there was even a lady holding an infant (maybe toddler..no oler than 2 though)!!!! i was shocked and oddly somewhat offended... i mean yeah it's good music but come on now... he's (or she) is a kid, not even fully developed and your gonna make him deaf.. not only that but what a rancid array of human bacteria just lingering in the air... i guess alot of hillbillies breed .. just like their hero.. brittney...

holy crap, literally just now i was doing a web search to find a nasty pic of britney spears..and found this web page... im speechless... im gonna go throw up..

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0100/chatgirl.html

d-lemon-a

what a week, waken at 5am blows goats. it's nice to rock out early though, i got admit that. my new skillahs is sweet. i handle millions of dollars worth of shades everyday. some are hot, and some are narly disgusting works of pooh. all and all it's a rad gig.
so my boy gabe (the king of blog lurkers) keeps trying to get me to farm out the beard. i dont know..im gonna post some pics.. and let a vote take place. see who likes what. it's dumb..but im bored and i like to hear from you guys (all 4 of you...damn lurkers).

heads up to anyone who wants to roll the show on sunday (demon hunter, zao....) give me a squirk.

vote...beeeyaatches..hirsute..or shine...