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Well, I guess I was about 5, maybe 6, when I first heard “Invisible Touch”. I was at a friends house and we were listing to his tape collection… and I was suddenly grasped by a rapture of drums and vocals like I had never experienced before. I loved the song and I had no idea what it was about. I remember proudly proclaiming to my friends at 6 years old that “Invisible Touch” by Genesis was my favorite song. I bought the tape, I still remember the funky looking graphic design hand on the jacket, and I proceeded to wear it out in my trusty Walkman. Those were the days of complete awesomeness in music… I could just like music… just because; INXS, Bon Jovi, Salt and Pepper, Bruce Springsteen… it did not matter.


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It does feel good to back in town.

It’s all the little things that happen amongst friends that make life not just bearable… but rather, pretty darn sweet. I know it’s just a concert, but Andy and I have been to three of them now… all of a sudden it’s a tradition. How could you not enjoy an evening of singing along with Paul Revere and getting extra loud when your favorite lyric hits…

The Sun is beating down on my baseball hat

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It’s the haaat part that needs to be especially emphasized. They went ahead and renamed the State Theater to the Fillmore. Someday we will get together and tell stories about seeing concerts there when it was still the State. Europe was a great experience… but regular old life is still pretty grand… (especially when your best friend springs for a set of sold out tickets on e-bay and calls you up)


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No mercy for the distracted…

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I looked away for 2 seconds, but that was just enough time to have my hours of rubixing completely undone. Paul felt terrible once I explained to him how hard I had worked to get it to the point of complete solution except for the top layer.

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But it was too late, the damage had been done…


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21st century America likes its witchcraft civilized

The Boy Vs. The Cynic, Chapter I
John Rueben

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Why is this my life, is almost everyones question

ST. ELSEWHERE, Just a Thought
Gnarles Barkley

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#479) The sun is beating down on my baseball hat

Licensed To Ill, Paul Revere
Beastie Boys

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Don’t breathe too deep.
Don’t think all day
Dive into work,
Drive the other way
That drip of hurt.
That pint of shame
Goes away. Just play the game
You’re living in America
At the end of the millenium
You’re living in America
Leave your conscience at the tone
And when you’re living in America
At the end of the millenium
You’re what you own

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This is one of my favorite songs right now (last couple of years). It seems to capture everything about this stage of life that frustrates and hampers what could have been a meaningful existence as a 20 something person. Many of my friends can’t seem to bring themselves to listen to it, mostly because it is a rap by a white guy from Ohio, but I think more so because of how it uncomfortably describes the type of people we tend to be. I am sure that Dylan and Bono have voiced this sentiment already, and probably more eloquently, but right now I appreciate John and his bluntness…

Time to Leave, John Rueben

Taught young, the world’s wisdom
I was told life’s a game, the earth will be your stadium
Be alert, pay attention
(One day) Even your friends will become the competition

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I was in college, Cedarville College…. now Cedarville University. Cedarville is a Christian liberal arts college. We had mandatory chapel every day. Most of the chapels were great, but after a while they became rather trite and were viewed, by the less than completely spiritual folk, as a bit of a necessary evil as part of going to college at Cedarville. Two chapels stand out quite vividly in my mind. The first and greatest was the chapel when Dr. Dixon, the president, found one pour sap sleeping and decided to unfurl his rage so as to make an example of him. The second was the chapel on post modernity. I don’t remember how it exactly started out, probably with the usual singing and announcements and so forth. But then they had some crazy video graphics up on the screens and some guy came walking out on the stage with a “big hair” wig on. He proclaimed himself “Post Modern Dave” and said he was from MTV. Well he was actually a professor of physceology at the college. He went on to introduce us to the latest evil that had been concocted by the world to thwart decent Christian thought and the progression of the gospel. I remember a few main points from is talk… 

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Started last year with “American IV: The Man Comes Around”
I liked it more than I anticipated, then I found out most of the songs were cover songs… especially surprised by the most personal feeling song “Hurt” being a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song. I was affected the most by “I hung my head”, covered from Sting. This one really spoke to me about moments of regret, it connected me with the feeling of remorse and when it’s too late to make something right. One day I was driving around and I just started crying as I listened. I have never killed anyone, but I believe I may have contributed to a couple of suicides. Perhaps more on that later…

I set off running to wake from the dream
My brother’s rifle went into the stream
I kept on running into the salt lands
And that’s where they found me, my head in my hands
The sheriff he asked me “Why had I run”
Then it came to me just what I had done
And all for no reason, just one piece of lead
I hung my head, I hung my head

Recently I have started listening to everything he’s got through Rhapsody, picked up after I saw the movie last week. I think I am a lot like him in some ways. His struggles to be honest and comfortable with himself. his need for approval, especially from his father. He arrived at this gritty double sided honesty that I long for. He was honest about the difficulty and injustice of life and living, but also identified with the inherent joy and good of life…

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