this song hits home for whatever reason.... the band is awesome ( Read more... )

i'm in route back to the states... should be about 9 days or so till i'm back in cali ( Read more... )

i leave this sorry, shitty, death cursed camp on dec 8th in route to a green zone in which i'll start my process of coming home. i should be back in the states by around dec 14th or 15th and on leave in bama by jan 7th or so. i'll have my cell phone on me and i'll be able to call you as soon as i hit u.s. soil, so just for fun, how about you e-mail ( Read more... )

alright. so.... who wants to hear when i'm leaving iraq, the day i'll be back in the states, and the projected time i should be home? no one....?

well alrighty. i guess i'll just keep this kind of information to myself then.....

if you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. it can be anything you want, either good or bad.

when you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.

"I Do Not Want This"

I'm losing ground
you know how this world can beat you down
I'm made of clay
I fear I'm the only one who thinks this way
I'm always falling down the same hill
bamboo puncturing this skin
and nothing comes bleeding out of me just like a waterfall I'm drowning in
2 feet below the surface I can still make out your wavy face
and if I could ( Read more... )

everything on the plus side ( Read more... )

so i keep having these dreams, and the worst part is real life is actually panning out the same as my dreams. and then this song comes into my head during my dreams. there are some things in my life that i don't understand. there are other things in my life that i will never understand, but at the end of it all, i wish i didn't have to understand ( Read more... )

so i've deleted what i was going to say (on purpose) about 10 times now. all the previous tries started off good and then went to shit.

if i could describe how life here is and myself right now at this point, these lyrics will almost do it perfectly ( Read more... )