2 more days to Cornerstone!

Just wanted to warn anyone who has used the schedule maker… it seems Cornerstone may have had a reason for taking away their link to it….  It appears it is no longer entirely accurate…. there are several instances where it disagrees with the schedule on the Cornerstone website… so you may want to check there for your schedule making needs.

Just wanted to give you a heads up.

Later.

Last day of work before C-stone… 😉

Sorry, I forgot to post this schedule maker link… here ya go 😉

http://www.moyl.com/music/Cornerstone/SM/CSM.asp

All right, I’m going to try and write this quick, cuz I’m real tired and have to wake up in a little over 5 hours to go back to work. Stupid work. 2 more days of it and then no more till after cornerstone.

Last night I had like a bunch of different weird dreams. The first one was cool, because, while nothing particular was going on, I guess it was some kind of a party or something… something happened in it that I knew was not possible if it was really happening, and therefore, I knew it was a dream. I don’t know who of you have ever had a lucid dreqam before (when you are dreaming and you know it) but they can be a lot of fun 😉 once you know you’re dreaming you can pretty much control it, and do really cool stuff. If you don’t believe me, that’s ok. I didn’t use to believe people when they told me that either 😉

The next dream was about this one girl that I used to like. It was cool because it was sort of like just exactly how stuff was back when I used to like her… kind of a nostalgic feeling to it, I guess. Anyway, at the end of it I realized that really I didn’t like her anymore, and got kind of confused, and then I woke up.

The last dream I remember was about the beginning of school this next semester… I got down to the school, and for some reason 2 of the guys that are supposed to be in my suite next year weren’t there. And for some reason the school didn’t give me the room I was supposed to get in Av, but instead made me take a room in Bauer (the freshmen dorms)… Anyway, I was really confused by why they would do that and spent most of the dream trying to get them to give me the room I was supposed to get.Some odd stuff happened… but I won’t go into that.

Anyway, I actually wasn’t dead tired tonight after Oasis, and so I went and hung out with everybody. It was cool, definately worth it 😉 Hopefully I will be dead tired less often on tuesdays… *makes a mental note to go to sleep early on monday nights…*

Anyway, I WILL be dead tired tomorrow, so I am going to lessen that as much as possible by going to sleep now.

Godspeed.

There are 3 more days of horrible work left before Cornerstone…. But in actuality, There are 6 more days until we leave. It has come up pretty fast…. pretty fast indeed.

So now, I feel that it is neccesary to inform you all of exactly what my schedule will entail at Cornerstone…

MONDAY…

I haven’t a clue what I’ll be doing because there doesn’t seem to be any info up for what is happening that day. Ah well.

TUESDAY…

Is Tooth and Nail day. I plan to try and see the following bands: MAE, Holland, Still Breathing, Slow Coming Day, Dogwood, Figure Four, Dead Poetic, Hangnail, Anberlin, Bleach, Mewithoutyou, Underoath, Squad 5-0. Of course, a few of those probably won’t happen due to wanting to take a bit of a breather 😉

WEDNESDAY…

The first “real” fest day… I will go and see Joel Bell speak, probably. Then I will see Dead Poetic, Sleeping At Last, Anberlin, Arthur Embodyment, Dogwood, Delirious?, Unwed Sailor, and Demon Hunter.

THURSDAY…

I might go see Joel Bell speak again, depending on how intersting he is on wednesday… Then I will try and check out Movies With Heroes, who I constantly hear good things about, but have never actually heard. Then comes Brandtson, and, if I have nothing better to do, I might go see Pillar. Then there is Relient K, Cool Hand Luke, perhaps the Supertones, maybe Starflyer, MXPX, and Zao (no chance I’m missing them).

FRIDAY

Starts off with Cool Hand Luke, and then maybe Joel Bell again (again, depending on the previous days…) Next comes Miranda Stone, which is quite different from anything else I have listed so far. This is as a special favor to Karissa, who can not be there. I am to attend in her absence, I guess ;). Then I think I will try and see Calibretto, Dennison Marrs, and then the Insyderz for the first time in quite awhile…. am somewhat excited to see what their show will be like. and then Divebomber 😉 They are quite hilarious, so… yeah. Next it appears I will be watching Living Sacrifice, MXPX, Relient K, and Squad 5-0 all performing SIMULTANEOUSLY on the main stage. How this will be possible, I do not know. But it should be intersting. Then comes Five Iron… their final Cornerstone show… :(… then either Norma Jean or Blindside… and then Underoath.

SATURDAY…

The last day…. Ace Troubleshooter… MAYBE The Young and the Useless (purely because they are a FL band ;)), another Joel Bell speaking thing… you know the conditions. Brandtson, Justin McRoberts. If Miranda Stone impresses me the first time, I might go see her again 😉 But if I did I would then have to RUN to see Pedro the Lion on the main stage. Then comes the tortuous choice of… Symphony in Peril, Jacobstone, or Joel Bell’s praise and worship set…. Who the crap made this schedule anyway? Then I will catch some Switchfoot…. MAYBE I might catching Thousand Foot Krutch… but I’m really not a big fan ;)… and then of course…… no Cornerstone would be complete without the.. band that is doing their last show ever on the last night…. which this year happens to be Living Sacrifice….


And there you have it.


In other news, I bought a book called Ender’s Game yesterday, After being told that it was good. So far I really like it a lot, and am glad I bought it.

I also did something that I haven’t done in several years yesterday…. I bought a comic book. 😉 That’s right… Anyway, it is an X-Men comic, and it actually is pretty cool…. is a series in which they restarted the storyline, so as to make it less confusing… But there is no Gambit! AAA!! What is the world coming to when there is a complete lack of Gambit in both the movies AND the comics? Oh well. What are you gonna do?

Now all I have to do is refrain from buying anything ELSE for 6 more days…… Darned spending entirely too much money. Oh well, at least I don’t have to spend it all on stupid GIRLS like some people 😉

ummm.. I don’t feel like typing out lyrics, so you don’t get any this time around. I am way tired and am gonna head to sleep in about an hour or so I think.

Later.

“Real Fact” # 140
Holland is the only country with a national dog.

I wonder what the dog is?


Q: How do you make time fly?
A: Take your watch on your next airplane trip!

Q: Why did the turkey cross the road?
A: To show he wasn’t a chicken!

ahaha… aaaahaha…

String cheese jokes are pretty funny. That first one is like… a really stupid offtake a joke that was really stupid and not funny to begin with… remember when the punchline used to be “throw it out the window!”????? yeah, well the airplane trip thing is the punchline for the new millenium. Remember when everyone used to be all about the new millenium? I haven’t heard anything about the new millenium in awhile. Did the effect wear off already? I guess this isn’t a new millenium anymore. I mean, it’s a whole 3 years old (4 if you’re one of those people who think there was a year 0 A.D. (stupid class of 2000… they’re the only ones dumb enough to try to pull that crap off ;)) But yeah, I mean… I don’t know what I mean. Yesterday’s news I guess.

In other news, Cornerstone is in 9 days! I only have to suffer through one more week of work before it! Of course, then I have to come back from it and suffer through several more… but ummm… I’m in denial about that part for now.

In some more other news, it is ALSO Karissa’s birthday in 9 days. She shared this with me in an IM earlier today, so I figured I would pass it on, as she fails to mention it on her site. Be sure to wish her a very happy birthday.

In yet other news, I am going to finish redoing the colors of this site shortly after I submit this post. So if you are around in the next few minutes after I make it, and see some really hideous colors or anything like that, don’t fret… I will fix it eventually 😉

And now my kiwi strawberry Snapple is all gone, and that can only mean one thing… that it is time for this post to come to an end.

I leave you, as I almost always do, with a song…


“When deadbolts awak you from deja vu dreams,
At four in the morning you know where I’ll be,
Out running red lights asleep at the wheel,
The sirens feed my nightmares.
I just close my eyes and I’m already here;
It’s already too late.
I know it’s nothing but lies
But they sound so sincere;
I find them too hard
I find them too hard to hate.
And she calls from the doorway,
“stolen water is sweet,
So lets drink it in the darkness if you know what I mean.”
And I’m almost sure that I’ve been here before,
That this is not the first time I’ve stood in front of this door,.
With an overwhelming feeling that I shouldn’t go in,
But it seems this is a battle that I never could win.
And you, my true love,
You call from the hilltop,
You call through the streets,
“Darling don’t you know, the water is poison.”
And I say, “Come on and give me my poison.”
What have I done?
Is it too late to save me from this place,
From the depths of the grave?

We all are those who thought we were brave.

What have I done?”

“Deadbolt,” by Thrice

I got a fortune cookie today. I forget it’s exact wording, but what it said was basically the fact that I have a future. Which is a good thing, and yet, completely pointless, because I already knew that I had a future. However, it is slightly more encouraging then that time I opened up my fortune cookie and there was no fortune inside….

In other fortune-related news… my Jones Soda bottle cap I got today says “Your love-life will be happy and harmonious.” I wonder how accurate these things are… and if it is speaking of like… real soon.. or far distant future…. hmmmm….

I bought Thrice’s other cd today… The Illusion of Safety. I like it… I think even better then their first.

Later.

“True friends stab you in the front,
And keep you from getting what you want
When one more fix could kill you.

They help you realize that
You’re more or less then you first had believed.
You’ve so much to give and there’s so much you need.
Shortcuts through graveyards and a brand new way to breathe.

Three thousand miles just to learn,
Alltaht’s gold does not all shine
and helping words aren’t always kind,
When one more kiss could kill you.
Three thousand miles just to learn
How to let my guard down
Accept the fire that has spread among us.
And if you’re feeling all right,
You’ve got to play it again,
You’ve got to play it again…”

-“The Beltsville Crucible,” by Thrice

yay. i get paid tomorrow. and cornerstone is just like… a week and a half away.

and i am really tired, so i am going to get ready to go to sleep and stuff. Yeah, it’s only 7:30 sothat’s kinda sad… but hey, at least I’ll get a decent amount of sleep for once! 😉 (it’ll probably be at least 8:30 by the time I actually sleep though, so… I guess that makes it a little berrer…)

Well, I’m real tired, and it’s real late (not really, but when you wake up at 5:40 a.m., real late comes pretty early ;)).

The camping trip was fun, except for mosquitos and sunburn. I actually hardly got burnt at all, some other people got it pretty bad… especially Adam. Anyway, most all of this has been covered on other people’s sites…. I don’t think anyone mentioned the horse with it’s neck cut like.. in half. That was pretty nasty. In addition, Jason B and Karen and John and I went walkiung on the beach one of the nights after we thought everyone had gone to sleep….. it was really cool… anyway, there was a cold breeze at first, and then mysteriously there was this warm breeze… like it was seriously a 10 degrees difference… at one point we could walk in and out of it… it was pretty neat. And Jason B apparently fulfilled one of his life goals. You can ask him for more info on that.

I got paid again today… was supposed to last thursday, but i took off work that day. But that’s actually a good thing, as it kept me from spending some money I otherwise almost surely would have spent. I really can’t wait for Cornerstone. I look forward to it all day everyday at work. I don’t have much else to think about during those 10 hours of box moving.

I don’t really know what else to write about. I need to updqate my picture on here… and finish changing my colors… they seriously look real nasty. Maybe tomorrow I will do that.

Hope you have a great day.


“you were once a sweet little girl
so innocent and pure
your eyes were open and sure anyone could look right in
and i look closely at your gaze
you looked up towards the sky
But I watched your face drift away
other things caguht your eye

the magazines the media supplied you with their plastic protocol
and maybe music television really is the devil after all
but all i can say is i knew you before,
you were beautiful back then
Before you grew up
Before you gave in

You dream of sharing your heart
instead you share your bed
and the pain you feel doesn’t leave with the skin that you have shed
And you dream of baring your soul
Instead you bare more skin
and you wear dark glasses to keep anyone from looking in.

the magazines the media supplied you with their plastic protocol
and maybe music television really is the devil after all
but all i can say is i knew you before,
you were beautiful back then
Before you gave up
Before you gave in
But all I can say is i knew you before,
you were beautiful back then.
You could be beautiful again.”

“Folk,” by Thrice

Thank God I don’t have to go back to work tomorrow 😉 4 days off…. ahh…. hopefully it won’t rain too much when we are camping tomorrow 😉

The bridge to this song is the coolest in the history of song bridges. Mostly for the lyrics, but you have to hear the lyrics being sung in order to get the full effect… oh well 🙂


“image marred by self-infliction
Private wars on my soul waged
Heart is scarred by dual volitions
Juxtaposed and both engaged
Kindle flame, a test of faith
Pray help me see it through
I put all my trust in you

Refine hate and love
Fall afresh on me
End this crisis of
Identity

Draw this darkness out like poison
Stab, retrieve, again decline
Help me drive the dagger deeper
Trace with me explicit line
Take this blade, a test of faith,
And strike me deep and true
I put all my trust in you

Refine hate and love
Fall afresh on me
End this crisis of
Identity

This is my voice, all shadows stayedthis is my heart, upon the altar laid
Please take all else away, hear my cry, I beg, I plead, I pray
I’ll walk into the flame, a calculated risk to further bless your name
So strike me deep and true, and in your strength I will live and die both unto you.“

-“Identity Crisis,” by Thrice

Wow… it is late. I have to wake up early tomorrow for another long day of work. I do not want to, but alas, I must. Luckily, I have thursday off and will be going on a camping trip and such.

Work was pretty annoying today, but the rest of today was good. I bought 2 new cds… Finch “What It Is To Burn” and Thrice “Identity Crisis”. I like them both, but I haven’t listened to Finch all the way through yet.

I get lots of time to think while I am at work… and I got to thinking about how somebody said something I think last year about maybe taking a trip to Cedar Point sometime. I was thinking that that was a darn good idea. I checked the website upon getting home, and apparently you can get a 2-day pass for $64. So sometime… probably after Cornerstone…. I think I will try and convince some people to do that. I think it could be a lot of fun.

Anyway, I’ve got that whole work thing tomorrow, so I am going to end this now. I hope you all have far more entertaining days then I will have tomorrow… just remember… whatever you’re doing… it could be worse…. you could be putting thousands of cardboard boxes into 90 degree trucks for 10 hours… 😉 I guess there’s probably something worse then that too. I will have to think of what that is while I am at work tomorrow… maybe it will make it not seem so bad then….

“In my head everything is perfect,
and every note resounds in harmony
But all I seem to offer up are dischords,
and every note I sing sounds out of key.
And every time I play with passion I start breaking strings.
And my voice cracks when i sing from my heart
Guess that’s the price I gotta pay to know that I’m alive
This melody its tearing me apart.
So now what do I have to show,
and what price do i have to pay
For like a saiyan I won’t grow unless I’m battered in the fray
Cause we’re all in the same machine,
each one with his own broken dreams,
passion gives way to failure,
so lets all try and understand,
you take my hand and I’ll take yours
We’ll let our passion bleed.”

-“t&c,” by Thrice