ROAR! It hit me like a tiger.

Oct 21st, 2008 2:31pm
Atlanta, Georgia
Terminal E, Gate 11
Well,
By the time I get to post this I will be in another country, which blows my mind.
On my flight from Dallas to Atlanta I set next to this Mexican Indian man who told me about how he owned a ranch north of Dallas and that in five years he would be done with the rat race and be able to live out there permanently with his wife. He was an IT man who worked and lived in the city and he hated it, but on the weekends him and his wife (who did pharmaceutical work) would go out on the ranch and he rounded up his cows and took them to auctions and fished in his pond. His eyes bled youth, but he was pushing 50. He told me that I was living my retirement now and said, “I guess it’s kind of like a coin some of us flip it and get heads and some of us get tails.” After our ten-fifteen minute conversation I promptly fell asleep and woke up in Atlanta and went straight for the smoking room. We said our good byes and I told Juan to be good and he chuckled at me. He said he was wearing the mask and that he’ll finally get to stop playing the “good game” when he gets to the ranch.

Oct 22nd 2008 12:28pm
Frankfurt, Germany
Airport, EUrail Hub

I find myself back at the airport after a long morning of searching for internet and looking like a complete idiot. I left the airport this morning somewhere around nine when I decided I should take a bus somewhere. I successfully got on the bus after much confusion and frustration on the part of the bus driver (who refused to speak english) and myself. I rode on the bus to Braushs… something (a suburb of Frankfurt). I wandered around for a while and I noticed that most of the cars don’t have tented windows strange… I also noticed that only half of the population speaks English haha, and that there are even fewer signs in English. So after much wandering and trying an Indonesian internet café with very little success, I decided to go to downtown Frankfurt. Or so I thought. The bus pulled up and I very slowly dragged myself to the moment of embarrassment when I pay for my bus ride and much confusion breaks out. Of course it happened. I gave him 2.20 in Euros and I end up back at the airport. Haha. So I figure I will just role with the punches and give Frankfurt another shot later. Now I am trying figure out the EUrail schedule and making an attempt at getting to Amsterdam. I am hoping that I will have better luck in the Netherlands. I am going to go have another cigarette.

Oct 22nd 2008 6:02 pm
Brussels, Belgium
EUrail Hub

I’m in Belgium?? I got on a train to Amsterdam and ended up in Brussels, Belgium. Go figure. I went to a a small little pub, Jupitar, and had a few beers and watched some forty - fifty year old men have a real good time playing darts and getting drunk at 6pm. Of course none of them spoke a lick of English, but they kept talking to me about something in some other language. Now I am chilling at a Haagen Dazs before I hop a train to Amsterdam. Still no internet. I am hungry and my backpack is heavy, but I feel pretty good from the really good beer I had.

Oct 22nd 2008 11:17 pm
Amsterdam, Holland/Netherlands
Heart of Amsterdam Hostel

I have seen more naked women in the past 30mins then I could ever dream of, and the first thing after I got a beer at the pub I got offered all sorts of exotic drugs. lol more later.

The Idealist.

Matthew 3
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

A trip to the inner brain.

Government + Belmont = Bullshit.

http://thelesseroftwoevils.blogspot.com/
go to this blog and watch the two movies and read about the ridiculous stunts that the "ruling class" pulled on an american speaking truth.

I now know why "they" call it the promise land.

I live on 25 acres of pure Texas country with a pond, barn, goats, tractors, four brothers, and four dogs. As I set on a bench watching the sunset smoking a cigarette, it hit me...

This album. Timeless.


Austin Chronicle
SXSW Saturday Sleeper - Doug Burr’s songs liquidate complex visions of mortality with steely resolution, the Denton native’s detailed, literate narratives emerging in sympathetic acoustic strains. Inspired by Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train, On Promenade broods with the causticness of Will Johnson with touches of Jeff Tweedy and Neil Young. - Austin Chronicle LINK: http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/print?oid=601893

Religulous

I went to the priemier of Religulous the other day with Jakob and Patrick, and I have to say it is pretty great.
Can I get an amen?

Twilight

I finished this the other day at Ihop at about 4 in the morning.
I don't really know how I feel about it.
I really liked all the vampire shit, the character development, and the tension, but at parts the over the top romance took away from the world development that stephenie meyer was trying to create.
the intended audience was definitely female.
The movie looks great and I am sure I will go see it and i will probably get around to reading the second book even though the first one hasn't really compelled me to read the rest of the series.