Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thoughts of the Day/Song of the Day David Gray Babylon
I'll preface this by saying I am not sure how many people follow my blog or even read anything I write on here. In the end it is all for me anyways... With that being said it has been a really long time since I have done any actual blogging and/or writing here. But I feel like I just need to say some stuff and use this as an outlet right now like I use to.
Last night I went to the Mayer Hawthorne show with two of my best and oldest friends. Sometimes it is crazy to me how long we have been friends, and how old we have become. While at the same time I still see us as those kids growing up together. I can truly see how time after college starts to fly by. You start to live for your weekends and things just move. I had this realization back in May right out of school, and last night I happened again. I just felt life, you know real life-the real world if you will. It just seems like when I am doing my thing that I am on my schedule no thought of going back to school or the work I need to do just living. I have always looked up to those older than me and wanted to be them, like most of us do. It is funny because we all continue to chase that idea and still think of ourselves as young. I love the moments when I realize that I am there now at that point. To live in the present is key to all things. These are the good times, the glory years. Life is quick and youth is fleeting, it is important to do what you want and to enjoy it.
Recently things have been really crazy and hectic(working 12 hr days and 60 hour weeks chasing my dreams!) It is a daily grind and really can wear you down at times. But I am happy paying my dues and making strides. I am still shocked sometimes that I am actually getting to work in the industry I have wanted to work in since I was a child. I heard a great quote the other day that said "People say good things come to those who wait. The truth is good things come to those who work!" So I work and I work hard to make my dreams come true.
Last night at the show I was at a place that holds a lot on memories and significance in my life. While I was enjoying my night and really soaking up the present moment and looking forward to this new memory. A lyric to the David Gray song Babylon popped into my head. It really took my out of the present and made me think of the past. Then on the car ride home after my 60+ hour work week Babylon shuffled up. The lyrics really touched me. It had me thinking the whole ride home and pretty much was a catalyst to me writing this tonight.
I can see so many things in my life falling into place and I am really looking forward to my future. But even with all the career success and opportunity I still feel like something or someone is missing.
I guess when it comes down to it...
I miss you.
Friday night I'm going nowhere
All the lights are changing green to red
Turning over TV stations
Situations running through my head
Well looking back through time
You know it's clear that I've been blind
I've been a fool
To ever open up my heart
To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule
Saturday I'm running wild
And all the lights are changing red to green
Moving through the crowd I'm pushing
Chemicals all rushing through my bloodstream
Only wish that you were here
You know I'm seeing it so clear
I've been afraid
To tell you how I really feel
Admit to some of those bad mistakes I've made
If you want it
Come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was
Never in doubt
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Babylon, Babylon
Sunday all the lights of London
Shining , Sky is fading red to blue
I'm kicking through the Autumn leaves
And wondering where it is you might be going to
Turning back for home
You know I'm feeling so alone
I can't believe
Climbing on the stair
I turn around to see you smiling there
In front of me
If you want it
Come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was
Never in doubt
And feel it now
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Last night I went to the Mayer Hawthorne show with two of my best and oldest friends. Sometimes it is crazy to me how long we have been friends, and how old we have become. While at the same time I still see us as those kids growing up together. I can truly see how time after college starts to fly by. You start to live for your weekends and things just move. I had this realization back in May right out of school, and last night I happened again. I just felt life, you know real life-the real world if you will. It just seems like when I am doing my thing that I am on my schedule no thought of going back to school or the work I need to do just living. I have always looked up to those older than me and wanted to be them, like most of us do. It is funny because we all continue to chase that idea and still think of ourselves as young. I love the moments when I realize that I am there now at that point. To live in the present is key to all things. These are the good times, the glory years. Life is quick and youth is fleeting, it is important to do what you want and to enjoy it.
Recently things have been really crazy and hectic(working 12 hr days and 60 hour weeks chasing my dreams!) It is a daily grind and really can wear you down at times. But I am happy paying my dues and making strides. I am still shocked sometimes that I am actually getting to work in the industry I have wanted to work in since I was a child. I heard a great quote the other day that said "People say good things come to those who wait. The truth is good things come to those who work!" So I work and I work hard to make my dreams come true.
Last night at the show I was at a place that holds a lot on memories and significance in my life. While I was enjoying my night and really soaking up the present moment and looking forward to this new memory. A lyric to the David Gray song Babylon popped into my head. It really took my out of the present and made me think of the past. Then on the car ride home after my 60+ hour work week Babylon shuffled up. The lyrics really touched me. It had me thinking the whole ride home and pretty much was a catalyst to me writing this tonight.
I can see so many things in my life falling into place and I am really looking forward to my future. But even with all the career success and opportunity I still feel like something or someone is missing.
I guess when it comes down to it...
I miss you.
Friday night I'm going nowhere
All the lights are changing green to red
Turning over TV stations
Situations running through my head
Well looking back through time
You know it's clear that I've been blind
I've been a fool
To ever open up my heart
To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule
Saturday I'm running wild
And all the lights are changing red to green
Moving through the crowd I'm pushing
Chemicals all rushing through my bloodstream
Only wish that you were here
You know I'm seeing it so clear
I've been afraid
To tell you how I really feel
Admit to some of those bad mistakes I've made
If you want it
Come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was
Never in doubt
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Babylon, Babylon
Sunday all the lights of London
Shining , Sky is fading red to blue
I'm kicking through the Autumn leaves
And wondering where it is you might be going to
Turning back for home
You know I'm feeling so alone
I can't believe
Climbing on the stair
I turn around to see you smiling there
In front of me
If you want it
Come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was
Never in doubt
And feel it now
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Duck Sauce Luis Guzman (How To Make It In America)
Below is a witty revision of Duck Sauce’s (A-Trak & Armand Van Helden) hit track “Barbra Streisand” for the highly anticipated second season of How To Make It In America. In this music video the track is reworked and highlights Luis Guzman, the Puerto Rican actor who stars as Rene Calderon. Sharing the limelight with some infamous companions including the BEAUtiful Lake Bell, Terry Richardson, Pharrell, Kid Cudi, Mark Wahlberg, Q-Tip, Rahzel, Asher Roth,Guzman takes us around the diverse and notorious neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Song of The Day Mayer Hawthorne "A Strange Hawthorne"
Trying to go see Mayer tonight, he puts on such a great show I really hope I can make it! This is more of a mellow song but homie got it right with this one the lyrics kill it for me.
We took the long and staedy road
And from the start you had a heart of gold
You broke the mold
I never thought you would decide
The grass was greener on the other side
Of love's divide
You were everything that I wanted and more
Now we can't go back where we started
We'll never be like before
Darling me and you, we had a strange arrangement
But you broke all the rules
And I'm through playing the fool for love
Darling yes it's true, we had a grand engagement
But I can't stand by, while you break my heart in two
Oooh, I've got to be a man
Baby I've got to take a stand, so
So now we've gone our seperate ways
But in my heart I feel the burning flames
Of love's remains
I'll have to find somebody new
But all who dare will be compared to you
What can I do
You were everything that I dreamed I would find
Now we can't go back where we started
We took the long and staedy road
And from the start you had a heart of gold
You broke the mold
I never thought you would decide
The grass was greener on the other side
Of love's divide
You were everything that I wanted and more
Now we can't go back where we started
We'll never be like before
Darling me and you, we had a strange arrangement
But you broke all the rules
And I'm through playing the fool for love
Darling yes it's true, we had a grand engagement
But I can't stand by, while you break my heart in two
Oooh, I've got to be a man
Baby I've got to take a stand, so
So now we've gone our seperate ways
But in my heart I feel the burning flames
Of love's remains
I'll have to find somebody new
But all who dare will be compared to you
What can I do
You were everything that I dreamed I would find
Now we can't go back where we started
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Tick Tock: rising up out of the flames like a Phoenix Straining to carry the weight of my brain like a genius Knowing I'm sowing seeds, let's see whose thumb is the greenest If I said I mean it, I did it because I need it Eat, sleep it or bleed it, write it down and then read it Asphalt to the cement, your trash talk, delete it I blast off then lay 'em out like a Tempur-Pedic It's Black Thought, for certain I'ma win eventually This unsung, underrated, under-appreciated The one them underachievers had underestimated Finally graduated, I'm one of the most hated Something that's so sacred, nobody gon' take it Face it, I keep doin' it well Doin' it sans assistance, just do it yourself Doin' it below the radar, we doin' it stealth"
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