The Morning Benders are an amazing band from Berkeley that I've had the luck of watching on two occasions. Here, they team up with the Echo Chamber Orchestra and Yours Truly for a super version of their song "Stitches", off sophomore Big Echo.
Go to www.themorningbenders.com to check them out, as well as get a free mp3 of the upbeat "Promises".
i really miss samuel. i wish he'd come back soon. especially with the recent shootings in the american schools. worries me thinking of mike and samuel there.
Probably no one is going to read this. Still, recording this down makes me feel more concrete in my beliefs and ideals.
Started reading Into The Wild, about a young man named Chris McCandless. He ventured alone into the wilderness and eventually died in the wilderness of Alaska. Some say he was brave, a hero, an ambitious young man who lived his dream. Others argue that he was stupid, arrogant and full of flamboyance and bravado. I say he did what he wanted, maybe he was reckless, well, probably, but he's done more for himself than I can say for myself.
Reading about him, this hopelessly charming, incredibly intelligent 23-year-old who practically killed himself, makes me think that he's not all that different from the rest of us. Sure, he was super smart, maintaining almost perfect grade point averages all through his academic career. Still, he was more like us than Bill Gates or Stephen Hawkings, or that smart kid from your class who talks in huge words and walks with his chin to the ceiling. I don't think I'm anything like him, but I do think that if I were, it would be better than this.
Having felt stuck and uninspired for most, if not all of my life, and then suddenly being immersed into the last months of his Chris' life makes me think that I should do better than I am now. Like maybe I should watch less Family Guy and do more philanthropic kinds of stuff. You know, venture into my own wilderness and lose myself, not like Eminem, but more like that Greek-looking guy in the painting The Ship by Salvador Dali. Tired and wet with sails on his back, clmbing out of the ocean into something else. Half man, half sea-boat thing. Maybe I'm half girl, half Bear Grylls, sort of.
its only when you look around that you realise what you have but when you do exactly that you realise what you lack
but who are we to judge and say take a bit and the glory will stay consolation's a piece of dirt when you realise your friend's a jerk
ouch my heart it grinds in pain boom my head explodes in restraint youve been broken, time runs long unforgiven, who's to say we cant get along
all these games we used to play skills we mastered along the way smile with a heart as black as tar running over me like you drive nascar
slap me bitch and i'll slap you back careful your pretty jaw might crack take your hypocrisy, i'll chew it up spit it out into your money cup
feeling used and thrown aside paint a picture: woosh goes her pride wait, now it matters, all will be fine? only with you stuck onto the foot called mine
cos it's only when you look around that you realise what you had but too late to regret, my love cos you cant have it back
im sorry you regret, my love
but payback's a bitch.
note: i'm not being mean, but maybe i am A LITTLE inspired by life. cos if you treat people like dirt, you have it coming to you. what goes around comes around. they dont call it karma just cos it sounds cool. the KARMA POLICE are coming after you. and i'd run if i were YOU.