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I [heart] Music. I play bass in The Afterwhiles Knows the meanings of really big words; and isn't afraid to use them. Misspells the word 'maybe' at least once a day. Excited about becoming an adult and growing up; becoming the kind of man that God wants me to be.]]> Virb 2.0 (@jimmybond8) en I hope we don't hear Marley's chains we forged in life http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/text/5743856
     I've been spending a good deal of time observing people around me. I've always been fantastic at watching and listening. Its action that's always been my weak spot. A day late, 5 bucks short, shoulda, coulda, woulda. I see how they deal with things; how they get knocked down and then get back up. Some in a week, some in a month, some the next evening. They just put things away, and get back to business as usual. I don't understand it. I don't know how that works. How do you just put away things that mean something? How do you just forgive yourself for your mistakes, then go and make them again? Is tripping in the same hole over and over really any different from finding totally different holes to fall in?
     They say that 'You are your own worst critic'; and I know that's true. But really, can you learn from one mistake while taking part in another? Is that the answer? Lose yourself in something else till the pain subsides; while making someone else the bandaid to be tossed out when the wound heals? Or is it this sabbatical time alone that is a mistake? Is spending time with my own worst critic making sure I understand the mistakes actually a mistake? I don't know. I don't have answers. There are only questions. Questions with more questions and even smaller questions attached. Stare a little closer and you'll see tiny leaf questions hanging from those questions. A microcosm of questions. Just like everyone else in this world has. Except maybe for opossums. However, they get hit by speeding cars; so I'm not entirely sure they have it figured out either. Maybe they're just smart enough not to questions.
]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:53:09 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/text/5743856 I know I'm unlovable You don't have to tell me For message received Loud ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/5378074 I know I'm unlovable
You don't have to tell me
For message received
Loud and clear
Loud and clear
Message received
I don't have much in my life
But take it - it's yours
- The Smiths (Unlovable)

]]> Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:14:52 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/5378074 Greatest Adult Swim Bump ever! http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/links/5334231 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:25:34 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/links/5334231 Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/5334207 Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed
- Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:24:39 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/5334207 Once Upon a Time.... Crap hit the fan http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/text/5307189      I think a more fitting title would be, "Once upon a time, everything changed." Things were one way, then they became another; and now something story worthy is happening. It doesn't have to be a bad change, though it often is. It doesn't even have to be a good change; its the basis of the change that makes the story noteworthy. Lets face it, regardless how we personally feel about change, its integral to a story. No one would have been interested in watching 10 seasons of 'Friends' without something changing. All those people living next door to each other for 10 years, no major life changes.... boring!
     Relationships are the same way too I suppose. 'Once upon a time' they begin, things go fine and things are wonderful or comfortable. Then 'Once upon a time' they fall apart. With a few words or events, another story has an ending. One more book for a shelf. Maybe its one you want to read to be reminded. Maybe its one you never want to see and so you hide it in the back so it won't surface anytime soon. But still its an inevitable. Every 'Once upon a time' requires an end. Stories have an ending. All things that start must stop.

    I did something yesterday I haven't done in over a year. I'm not going to say what it was, though its not something secretive or in need of all this deception. Its something you typically would only do once a year and this is certainly the season for it *hint hint*. But it felt very foreign. Like that first time you go to a family vacation spot without your family; its familiar, but feels so entirely different. A year ago circumstances were different. I was different. But things have changed. Once upon a time....
]]> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:58:51 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/text/5307189 Because Mad Men is a fantastic show... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/links/5086470

I present an endless loop.

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:23:33 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/links/5086470 Prophet? Seer? Aruspex? That black lady from the Matrix? http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/text/4893894      Today, my auspex again came to be true. A prediction I made a long time ago came true. And well... It sucks. Those bad events happen in your life, and you think things that you shouldn't. After you get past those mad moments you think, "I really hope that doesn't happen." Then you watch in horror as they come to fruition in vivid frightening color right before your very eyes. Makes me think of Star Wars: A New Hope. Feeling like Leia on the Death Star watching her home planet get blasted to bits because of her decisions (Oh the nerdy-ness of my example). Its that crushing weight. *bleh*
     Hopefully, someone else recalls the hundreds of times we were told as kids about 'Saying you're sorry' and 'Admitting you were wrong' and 'Everyone gets a second chances'. Those all may be true when you're 7 and Santa Claus still brings you presents and eats your little dutch butter cookies. But in adult land, they just don't seem to be applicable any more. There are lots of times where second chances don't happen, nor do first chances. And admitting your mistakes and saying you're sorry won't undo whatever it is you did wrong. From domestic abuse, all the way down to forgetting a birthday.
     We're all guilty of it. We let some things slide, and then crucify someone else for the same indiscretion. I guess it just comes back to we're all sinners and we're all unable to view things in the correct way; without malice and a twisted sense of justice. But it's unfortunate, and I don't like it. I'm guilty of it, but still I don't like it.

    In times likes this I think of one of my favorite monologues from Castaway. I've probly posted it here before, and I'll continue to post it because I really like it. So I leave you wit this:
I had power over *nothing*. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring? ~ Chuck Nolan (Castaway)
]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:31:54 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/text/4893894 This isn't who I am. From confidence to self doubt in 60 seconds. http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628983 This isn't who I am. From confidence to self doubt in 60 seconds.
- Bayside (They Looked Like Strong Hands)

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:39:58 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628983 You said, 'Hello, do you have the time?' Well, It's not mine for me to ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628970 You said, 'Hello, do you have the time?'
Well, It's not mine for me to keep
You smiled and you said, 'Let me buy you a drink'
Well, I just can't trust a girl that does the buying
- Umbrellas (Angel or Demon)

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:39:15 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628970 Let's call it off, let's take the memories and run I'll be the villain, ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628960 Let's call it off, let's take the memories and run
I'll be the villain, the man with the smoking gun
I guess this is goodbye!
So have a nice life!
See you at the replay lounge
- The New Amsterdams (Bad Liar)

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:38:33 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628960 A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628497 A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
- Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:14:33 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628497 A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628480 A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

- John Updike (Assorted Prose)

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:13:32 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628480 <em>(Watching a riot in a South Korean congress)</em> It looks like ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628451 (Watching a riot in a South Korean congress)
It looks like someone is about to introduce a bill...
(Somebody throws a folder full of papers at the judge)
And there it is.

- Jon Stewart (The Daily Show)

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:12:35 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628451 There will come a time in your life when you will become infatuated with a ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628277 There will come a time in your life when you will become infatuated with a single soul. For this person you'd do anything and not think twice about it, but when asked why... you have no answer. You'll try your whole life to understand how a single person can affect you as much as they do, but you'll never find out. And, you'll love this person without regret, for the rest of your life.

- Anonymous

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:06:20 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628277 Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628150 Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
- Dennis (Monthy Python & The Holy Grail)

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:59:19 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628150 I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628113 I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
- Pietro Aretino

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:57:58 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628113 It's all so complicated with the flowers and the romance and the lies upon ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628104 It's all so complicated with the flowers and the romance and the lies upon lies!
- Dr. Zoidberg (Futurama)

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:56:29 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628104 Morbo congratulates our gargantuan cyborg president. May death come quickly ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628095 Morbo congratulates our gargantuan cyborg president. May death come quickly to his enemies!
- Morbo (Futurama)

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:55:49 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628095 <em>On Brian Wilson:</em> Pet Sounds is an unbelievable record. It's like ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628087 On Brian Wilson:
Pet Sounds is an unbelievable record. It's like classical music. Wonderful compositions, beautiful singing. I think the compositions stand up to any kind of interpretation. I've heard "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" played on the cello and it sounds like a piece music that's been with us for hundreds and hundreds of years. It sounds like it's always been there. And I think maybe in a hundred years' time people will be playing their songs on the piano trying to work out where they came from.

- Elvis Costello

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:54:51 -0700 http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628087 The two candidates were said to have spent the evening poring over the ... http://virb.com/jimmybond8/posts/quotes/4628065 The two candidates were said to have spent the evening poring over the complex and detailed Supreme Court ruling. But whereas Gore was poring over it with his eyes and mind, Bush was pouring a glass of juice over it because, quote, "I don't want to finish my juice."
- Jon Stewart (The Daily Show)

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