Okay; even if you aren't a musician, you will find this video absoultely amazing. The man playing the lead guitar is completely blind. Watch what he does with it…
http://www.break.com/movies/hiroakitagawa.html

This date will live in infamy for many years to come, as it has for the past five years - the day our adversaries dealt a crushing blow when we least expected it. I'll never forget it; I was at home as usual and we were having cable internet service installed. My dad raised a small alarm and gathered everyone who was at the house in front of the ( Read more... )

Forgive me if now I wear the face of worry ( Read more... )

Living without a relationship is hard enough on me. Even worse is when I do something to bring the end of the one I'm in. For half a year, I was romantically involved with a woman in NC. We met through AIM and our relationship grew over the days, weeks, and months that followed - we were secure even through my brief tour in the Marines. Our ( Read more... )

It's really amazing the trouble I've gotten into in just yesterday and today. Last night, I did something to my girlfriend of just over six months that I swore I would never do (believe me, it's better if you don't know that story) and she was positively irate. I don't blame her. After about four or five hours, I was able to convince her to let ( Read more... )

My outlook keeps getting bleaker and more forlorn as the days march by. Earlier today, the same two guys who took my sister's car came for my dad's car. He staved them off until Friday, but the end is nigh; the most wonderful automobile I've ever had the privilege to drive - the 2000 Audi A6 2.7T - is soon to be reposessed due to nonpayment of ( Read more... )

/sigh I thought it wouldn't happen again, but it is. Feelings of utter worthlessness, depression so bad it gets hard to walk, loss of friends; I at least have hope of keeping love this time. Although, it may become a moot point, as the only way I can spend time with her - the woman of my dreams and deepest longings, Christiana - is through AIM ( Read more... )

How to sum up the past year… I doubt one word could encompass that, but I will do what I can in this entry in my journal. My previous entries have chronicled a lot of what went on during that time, but there is a lot that went on behind the scenes and more material beyond my initial entry. So, here is some of that ( Read more... )

Things have been happening v--e--r--y s--l--o--w--l--y for quite a while. The one really cool thing that did happen was that my dad and I went out to a friend of his - Jim - for a fireworks show on July 2nd. I know it doesn't sound like much, but let me tell you something: when you live in the middle of nowhere and have a bunch of money, you can ( Read more... )

For being close to summer, today has been really dead - there were, and still are, no children playing outside, no road lice (mopeds) on the streets, and the yard sale across the street has been torn down. It feels like, as my dad put it, we're in the Twilight Zone. I'm also a little disheartened from not seeing Christiana online; no matter what' ( Read more... )