When Carrots Wear Jackets

Partying on the Edge of the World!!

2011-08-31T15:25:00.001-07:00

Watch out! Don't slip into nothingness!(Aaron staving off my brutal attacks)

Greetings!! Hope everyone's had a great time flitting around through facebook's notorious Farmvilles, Mafia Wars, endless advertising, and seething gossip mill!
Let's get crazy about the straightforward, no-holds-barred, direct and honest compositions! Get those blogs back in gear, pals!!!

Long live the closet freak!
-Sam Fuller

Quotes for today:
"People change and forget to tell each other." ~ Lillian Hellman

"I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward."~David Livingstone

Oct/Nov in REELS!

2010-11-20T21:18:00.000-08:00

So yeah, here I am...Sam.
A guy you all know (or sure would possibly/most defiantly like to get to know).
Happy as a lark, carefree as a hooting owl, and having a generally smash-up time of things.
I finished up my ballooning "career" (YEY!), danced like a chicken, and smiled a whole lot.

Then along came my friend Aaron, who has been my off-and-on companion but always best friend over the last 10 years. He invented a bread-cell phone, drank coffee next to some DD-sized cups, a made a sign that told people where not to go.

Then there were these random South African people...don't even know what to say about them...just look for yourself:

A while after that, we drove around for about 4,000 miles in the space of 1 week. Some of those miles were [well?] spent visiting all our good friends at Cervantino for about 20 hours...We arrived there dressed as "Peter and Jefferey...exchange students from New Zealand...heck, even my ex and Aaron's sister were fooled to their FACES! Good times ensued which I don't have on camera, but here are some pics of us wearing part of our disguise:

Then...HEY! Aaron stuck around and now we're in San Antonio, making business happen...Here's our apartment for the next month or so:

Then....Oh...yeah...Life is just happening like crazy and kicking me in the butt with many random times, so you'll be hearing from me sometime in the next few days or years.

Quote of the Day: "Life is a zoo in a jungle."

It was only a kiss...

2010-11-04T20:58:00.000-07:00

...how did it end up like this?

Quote of the day:
“True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.”

It's gone!

2010-10-24T15:38:00.000-07:00

The dern DEVIL TRUCK is SOLD! YEY!

I bought it for $2800 back in March, and have had nothing but trouble with everything from the transmission to the engine to the brakes to the A/C to the starter to body work...which I suck about $3000 total repair money into. Not to mention $100 a month insurance and repeats of the same problems...

1st lesson:
That's what I get for buying the first vehicle I looked at and didn't get inspected by a mechanic...expensive lesson, but I consider it well learned.
Now it's someone else's lesson to learn, PTL! *snicker snicker, teehee*

2nd lesson:
When something...ANYTHING is causing ya to invest, invest, invest with no returns...seriously consider cutting it loose.

Quote of the day:
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

Picking up the old mop/hag/beat

2010-10-11T15:31:00.000-07:00

Was thinking to deactivate the Facebook song and dance so as to give more TLC to my blog...but decided against it. In truth, I have greatly missed the old blogger beat and am looking forward to renewing old ties, and gushing forth great nonsenses. To keep it short, I'm happy to be back

Oh...and here's a recent pic for good measure:

Quote of the Day: “Today, you have 100% of your life left.”

2010-10-05T16:55:00.001-07:00

Cutie sleeping

Sooo cute!

Collapsing DH

2010-04-01T12:15:00.000-07:00

I, I see the weight of hollow death residing in you
Take now your final breath
Exhale the truth
I see the fear of nothing left
Dead fragments of youth
You hold it in yourself
I feel it too

I mourn your blindness
I die along
And swallow darkness
In misery is where I belong

Collapsing in on yourself
I don't know why I try (I try)
Collapsing in on yourself
I don't know why you deny

I, I know the light is burning dim and dying in you
I know the pain that lies within
I feel it too

I mourn your blindness
I die along
And swallow darkness
In misery is where I belong

Collapsing in on yourself
I don't know why I try (I try)
Collapsing in on yourself
I don't know why you deny

I've said it before...

2010-03-21T00:21:00.000-07:00

...and I'll say it again. Kudos to lyricist Ryan Clark...the scenes he sets with his Spirit-infused and heart-wrenching words have been of astounding help to me through some of the toughest moments of my short life. It's amazing what can happen when you let the Lord work through you.

Do yourself a favor, and pick up the latest Demon Hunter album "The World is A Thorn"...feel the music and live.

Quote of the Day:

"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."

They Need Love.

2010-02-22T22:02:00.000-08:00

As Bertrand Russel so accurately put it: "Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim".

Why do you always have to be on top? Why must the lesser-privileged and under-endowed be victimized? Can they not be lifted up?

Let not a day go by where you failed to lend a hand, where you hesitated to show good faith in someone, or where you let a loved one down without remorse...excusing your self-indulging manner for an hour of comfort. They need love...we are compelled to love them.

Quote of the Day:

"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

And here...we..........GO!

2010-02-17T21:28:00.000-08:00

Time to get back to the good 'ol blogger beat. Facebook had the main sector of my cyber-brain reserved for a while there, but there's nothing like a blog to keep people current with the latest and the greatest....and there's been a lot of "greatests" lately.

I started out the lovey-dovey song and dance with this pretty little lady back in August...

...started working in this studio...

...went to one rather enlightening and life-changing FDTP...

...and had an all-around hoopy time of it/life/the-thing.

This blog never had an exuberant amount of followers, yet the two-score people that popped in once every blue moon for a bite of blue cheese under a blue sky by clicking on a blue hyperlink were graced with the rather ungracious character that is defined in the numerous bits of prose and prattle, pictures and platypus pictures as one Sam Fuller.

If you're a friend, family member, or just and acquaintance...feel free to drop by now and again for whatever morsel may be on the menu...or better yet, drop by often.

Quote of the now:

"The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. "

Midwinter Musings

2010-01-10T17:49:00.000-08:00

In the hopes that Yultide passed joyously, that the turning
over of the New Year was fabulous, and that everybody
likes a little symphonic rock in their musical appetite
now and then...we from Nude Productions now dish out to
you this, the first of many musical helpings this year:
"Midwinter Musings-The Paradox of Snow"

May the snow drift ever higher,
the blankets be all the cozier,
and the love ever warmer in this new year!

Download HERE

Package Contents:

-The Paradox of Snow (2010)
-The Paradox of Snow...and essay by Nathan Favero
-Bonus Guitar and Piano track
-Album Art

Disclaimer:
"The Paradox of Snow" is a title and tune many of you may be
familiar with due to the untimely release of a song demo from
our studio by the same name. We dearly hope that this
final version will make up for the shoddy performance you
experienced in the previously published demo.

Song Credits:

Kevin Diamant: Composition, Piano, and Synths

Sam Fuller: Mixing, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming and Synths

Tracking and mixing time: 20 hrs
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BIG NEWS!

2009-08-06T09:15:00.001-07:00

Damn...I forgot what it was...oh well.

Might as well let you in on a few of what are (In my opinion) some of the greatest quotes of our time....but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Quote(s) of the day (que fun!):
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

42.

Life is wasted on the living.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Time is bunk.
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May Douglas Adams R.I.P.

Was it luck or skill?

2009-07-18T21:55:00.000-07:00

You probably have seen a lot of these clips over the past few years but this is a mind-blowing compilation of chance makes or near misses.

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Quote of the Day:

"What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue:
Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won't be troubling you much longer."

Mindy and her marker

2009-07-04T21:13:00.000-07:00

Well...I've determined that there are enough pics of Chris and Stephanie's wedding floating around on other people's blogs, so there's not much point in slapping them up here.

But I DO have a few random pics from this evening...proceed if you like.

I was in the kitchen, grabbing a snack when Mindy strides in, Sharpie in hand...I think she tried attacking me with it at first, then we decided that it would be best just to scrawl a mustache on my upper lip for that long-and-hard-sought-after "Italian-sleazeball" look...methinks it was pulled off quite masterfully. Mindy was feeling quite happy with her physical apperance at said moment, so she snagged her camera, and the following pictures came into being.

Somos Esleazy!

*grins*

How aware are you?

2009-07-01T20:28:00.000-07:00

A simple awareness test...lemme know what you score. xD

The Mainstream Media

2009-06-28T23:30:00.000-07:00

I hate posting plain videos, but I do not possess any grand/glorious/decent pictures from my vaca, so the tube it is...either way...it's a WIN.

This video is brought to you by people who have more money than you do...making the world a better place....for us.

Quote of the Day:
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

"The Jewelry Store" Analogy

2009-05-22T08:19:00.000-07:00

(Jesus:)
Imagine walking through a large jewelry store and marveling at the many delicate-looking and exquisitely jeweled pieces before you. Within each glass case is displayed a dazzling array of precious stones and metals, designed, cut, and set to perfection.—Rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and more. You name it, this store has it all.

In your hand you hold several of what to you look like dirty old coins. Your eyes then widen as the clerk opens a glass case and selects a very beautiful, very costly necklace that you've been admiring. He boxes it, puts it in your hand with a smile, and tells you that it's yours in exchange for one of these dirty little coins. What's more, he tells you to come back again tomorrow and he'll trade another treasure for one of these coins.

Too good to be true?

My love, that "dazzling array of precious stones" that you see before you are the priceless life lessons and experience that those seemingly dirty and almost repulsive coins—the many battles, tests, and trials you are facing right now—are able to purchase. I am that clerk and owner of this storehouse of wealth, and I want to enrich your life. I want to shower you with the jewels of My Spirit! I want your coffers and safes bursting and barely able to contain the spiritual wealth and life experience that I have for you. But this is how you get them: through these trying times of trials, affliction, and hardships. These are the currency that buy the jewels that beautify your life.

Quote of the Day:
"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain.

Rap Chop

2009-05-17T17:25:00.000-07:00

A friend showed me this great song the other day...it's the total shi*

The Perfect Time

2009-05-15T18:37:00.000-07:00

ALWAYS TO OLD, ALWAYS TOO YOUNG...

THAT "PERFECT TIME" WHICH NEVER COMES.

SOME BEAUTY COMES TOO EARLY
WHILE ITS MOMENT NEVER WAITS
AND SOME BEAUTY IS ALWAYS THERE
BUT NEVER SEEN, TILL IT’S TOO LATE

LOOK! THERE IS A MOMENT
IT HAS JUST SLIPPED AWAY
AND SO WE LOSE OUR LIVES
IN SUCH ORDINARY WAYS

WHERE DO WE GET OUR DREAMS FROM?
WHERE DO WE GET OUR FAITH?
IS IT SOMETHING THAT WE ARE BORN WITH
OR IS IT SOMETHING FOR WHICH WE MUST WAIT?

THE MIST OF THINGS WE ONCE BELIEVED
THE CHILDHOOD TRUTHS FOR WHICH WE GRIEVE
AND IN OUR LIVES COULD WE HAVE MISSED
THOSE THAT IN THE DARK, THE ANGELS KISS...

ALWAYS TO OLD, ALWAYS TOO YOUNG...

OUR "PERFECT TIME" WHICH NEVER COMES.

La Quinta...ninos y ninas.

2009-05-01T21:25:00.001-07:00

Here are some very random shots that a visitor took of some of the younger folk in our home.
Just snagged them off him as they were deemed "post worthy material"....So....what the heck...here goes:

This Mexican air causes strange occurrences...don't hate on the leaf, nor the retarded blonde kid, nor the Mindy from the network...

...and most of all: DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY! (and if you want to be REEEEEEALLY happy...watch this!)

Quote of the day:

"A child of five would understand this! Now quick...send someone to fetch a child of five. "

The look on your face, I'm accustomed to it.

2009-04-23T22:12:00.000-07:00

I hold you in like a deep breath. Feel you like the last beautiful touch before a final rest. I know I'll see you forever. I want it painted black and red. It's so beautiful to me, it's everything i see. It's so beautiful to me, but it's nothing that i need. And i can't taste anything less. Every time I'm forced down. To be with yourself, take all the blood you want. But not from here. It's so beautiful to me, it is everything i see. It's so beautiful to me, but it's nothing that i need.

Glory Days...

2009-03-30T15:52:00.001-07:00

If you lived in, visited, or passed through Monterrey between '05 and '06, you doubtless noticed the rather cooky spread of characters across the Sierra Morena...These pictures won't mean anything to most people, but they're great for looking back on and having a little LOL time for those that affectionatly recall those "glory days".
Here is a short history of this timeframe:

CTP and puppet show thingie's were commonplace.People went crazy and acted as if they were airplanes...

Some just wandered in circles...

And other's could not hold on to their sanity...

Automoblie's became obsolete...

...and instead were used by the Contigo home for photshoots.

Music was a key part of that era...

And some took it too far.

Gypsies roamified...

and the resturaunts were barraged with singing teams....

All in all strong bonds were formed, and many awesome things transpired...if you were present during any of these and other awe-inspiring events...be proud

...if you were not...you really missed out. :D nyahaha!

Quote of the day: "I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack. "

Honest Scammer

2009-03-26T18:58:00.000-07:00

And, instead of having just ONE quote of the day, we will have MANY quotes! Compliments of our faithful spammers/scammers:

ass soon as you got my message add me to ur yhaoo

I lost my death when I was 26years old

I work with a contatction company with a good mind.

Iasm a good living being

my kids come around to england to see me on vacasions

both of us can raise a good home

i graduated from university as a belchor

we can chart and get to know each other bettre

my likens are watching TV,playing pools

your profile and pic cut my eyes

My wife died five years ago..its an autocrach..

I want to have you in my haret

You think English is easy?

2009-03-26T09:14:00.001-07:00

From the Internet:

Let's face it—English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? One index, two indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

English reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.

Extreme Stuff....

2009-03-23T10:34:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, Google gives you these amazing pearls of insight into the world's extreme state of mind:

Go into Google in Firefox and type "I am extremely" in the search box. You will get these most searched queries:

• 12,300,000 pages with people saying they are extremely tired

• 11,100,000 pages of extremely tired people

• 4,750,000 pages of extremely depressed

• 3,580,000 extremely shy

• 930,000 extremely pleased (only?)

• 839,000 extremely grateful

• 769,000 extremely happy (like me)

• 377,000 extremely jealous

• 321,000 extremely lonely

• 303,000 extremely terrified of chinese people (probably because they saw that video of Bruce Lee totally owning Chuck Norris.

Well, Google, you very may well have a point there. The Chinese are downright scary. Take for instance, their fortune cookies. You may think I’m crazy, I mean, it’s just a cookie you might say. But that’s exactly what the Chinese want you to think! They are actually evil contraptions designed by the CCP to forebode a dark, bleak, and desolate future on people’s lives!

And our quote of the day:

Confucius say, "Man who pushes piano down mineshaft get A flat miner."

Needed and Useful Apps...

2009-03-21T14:16:00.000-07:00

When you first get a new computer (laptop or desktop), or when you reformat one that's been with you for a while, it can sometimes be baffling what exactly it is that you want on your computer, and what will slow it down with bloating, viruses, and adware. Here are a few programs that will help you get up and running without too much hassle. All programs are spyware-free, most are ad-free, and most importantly completely FREE OF CHARGE! I keep all of these programs on my flash drive and install them on any computer I reformat or construct. You may already have these programs, but whether or not you do, check out the links and see the features that they provide. Download links are the title of each program. Have a good'un!

VLC Media Player

"VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols."

My comments on "VLC":

-Takes very little hard drive and RAM real estate.
-I haven't found a media file that it CAN'T run.
-Has great configurability, including wallpaper video mode and EQ options.

Avast! Antivirus Home Edition

Avast! antivirus Home Edition represents the best FREE antivirus protection currently available on the market.

My comments on "Avast!":

-Takes very little hard drive and RAM real estate.
-Caught viruses that AVG and McAfee couldn't
-Registration is easy and free. Only needed once a year.

Daemon Tools Lite

"DAEMON Tools Lite [Commercial] enables you to emulate up to 4 CD/DVD virtual drives on your PC. Virtual drives will appear in your OS just like real ones. Select a virtual drive then choose a disc image you want to mount. Find the created virtual drive with mounted disc image in My Computer. Start working!
Looks like working with a real drive and a real disc, doesn’t it? Yes, but it is much faster!"

My comments:

-small fingerprint on your RAM.
-simple and straightforward to use.

PeaZip

PeaZip can extract most of archive formats both from Windows and Unix worlds, ranging from mainstream 7Z, RAR, TAR and ZIP to experimental ones like PAQ/LPAQ family, currently the most powerful compressor available.
For archive creation, PeaZip supports a wide range of compression and encryption standard, from fastest to most powerful ones, and allows to export job definition as scripts to bridge the gap between GUI and console applications, and let the user pick the best of the two worlds.

My comments:

-works just like the popular, yet pricey WinRAR...but it's free!
-as with all the rest, it takes up very little hard drive and RAM real estate.

OpenOffice .org 3

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

My comments:

-full compatability with Microsft Office documents.
-full range of Microsoft Office-type applications, including a text editor, spreadsheet creator, and slide manager.
-Takes less RAM and Hard Drive space than Microsoft Office.

Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions.

2009-03-18T21:39:00.000-07:00

When I was 12, I read a book that helped me, if not to understand the 5th dimension more (the spirit world), rather to understand why people have such a hard time fathoming anything other than the 4 dimensions (Length, With, Depth, and Time) that we can identify through our senses. This book was "Flatland" authored by renowned English schoolmaster "Edwin Abbott" Here is part of the book summary, cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia:

"The story is about a two-dimensional world referred to as Flatland. The unnamed narrator, a humble square (the social caste of gentlemen and professionals), guides us through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The Square has a dream about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland), and attempts to convince the realm's ignorant monarch of a second dimension, but finds that it is essentially impossible to make him see outside of his eternally straight line.

The narrator is then visited by a three-dimensional sphere, which he cannot comprehend until he sees Spaceland for himself. This sphere, who remains nameless, visits Flatland at the turn of each millennium to introduce a new apostle to the idea of a third dimension in the hopes of eventually educating the population of Flatland of the existence of Spaceland. From the safety of Spaceland, they are able to observe the leaders of Flatland secretly acknowledging the existence of the sphere and prescribing the silencing of anyone found preaching the truth of Spaceland and the third dimension. After this proclamation is made, many witnesses are massacred or imprisoned (according to caste)." (end quote)

David Berg wrote his thoughts on this "5th dimension" in one his famous (or infamous in some *ahem* 4D *ahem* circles) MO Letters "Dare to be Different". A snippet of that letter is as follows:

"And so it is even with what the Bible calls the "natural man" who refuses to believe that anything such as a fifth dimension, a spirit world, could possibly exist, simply because he's never seen it or been there. "The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him." (1 Corinthians 2:14) And so he says, "There just ain't no such thing"--simply because he never saw it before.

To dismiss the entire spiritual realm like that would be just as absurd as if you were to say, "I don't believe that New York City or London exist because I've never seen them or been there." How ridiculous can you get?!

The Bible is full of evidence, stories and positive declarations of the existence of this fifth dimension, the spirit world. Some of its immortal characters, having passed on into it through death, even came back to tell us about it. Others were lifted up into the realm of the spirit to get a brief glimpse or vision of it, and many received messages from there. And some of us have even been there! I have, so I know it exists." (end quote)

But then again, how could you understand it? This is something you gotta see to believe, so why not take a look?

Not only is God before time and beyond the future, but He is viewing time from each of these perspectives, seeing it bend and reflect and from the inside and the outside and below and above.

It brings new insight into what it must have been like for Jesus to plop into "Flatland" (as Edwin called it) and live here among people who thought Flatland was reality. I'm glad God is so big.

As for me, I'm glad there's more to life, indeed, than Flatland.

NOTES: For a short but through description with visuals of flatland look here
For the MO letter "Dare to be Different lookie here
And for the novel "Flatland" by Edwin Abbot look here

100th post...the facts.

2009-03-14T11:52:00.000-07:00

The hardest part about blogging IMO, is that you never can figure out what the deuce you want to post about. Unless some grand event recently transpired or an act of stochasticity (look it up!) caught you up in its web, you are forced to post song lyrics, Youtube videos, and snapshots of people being chancy. This is one such moment where I do not have anything fundamental to say, no amazing things have happened, and I will not post funny items.

I have been tagged on a friend's blog to "confess" 6 things about myself. So, I presently think to myself, "Why not?". Well, there are many reasons why not, the primary one being that I am a pretty vocal person, I've said it all which leads to reason number two. Which is, I don't think there's anything about me that people cannot find out by simply reading my previous posts, listening to my music, and looking at random pictures. But yeah, I'm at a loss for what to say and this blog needs to stay LIVELY! Yeah, so...confessions... 'ere we go.. (SIX!? You gotta be kidding me...)

#1 I am a warez addict...I haven't paid for a computer program since I was 14. I especially like getting stuff that isn't released yet or no one else has.

#2 I am quite the computer nerd, I don't know what started it, but I always liked fooling around with computational devices (PCs, PDAs, MP3 players, etc). I have crashed, fried, infected, and actually physically broken a total of 23 computers in my time...I repaired most of them, and cleaned the infected ones. IMO, The best way to learn something is by experience, and if there's nothing broken to fix, BREAK SOMETHING! YEY! Overall, my computer skills have come rather in handy, making myself and others muito feliz. *thumbs up*. I take both my laptop and my desktop apart on a monthly basis for cleaning and maintenence.

#3 I've been "moving" for the last two years...it's really tried my patience, and i'm just thankful that I'll be moving promptly. (still!) xD

#4 I'm a big fan of "underground" bands. Promise the Ghost, Saosin, Oh Sleeper....to name a few. Mainstream music almost exclusivly grabs me during times of festivity, but the songs that stick with me are the ones from these clandestine groups.

#5 I do not like to have a neutral stance on things, it's one way way or the other, ALWAYS! If I sit still contemplating my next move, my brain begins to go "ssssiiiizzzzllleee". Hot or cold, right? The only way anybody ever makes it anywhere. GET OFF THE FENCE!

#6 All my eggs stay in one basket at a time, rarely with contingencies. This ties in with #5 in that "if you go, go all the way". Once I have counseled the Lord and others about a situation, moving on it right away is prime, otherwise I tend to lethargy...LHM. I tend to blast and blare, being quite literally full of the topic. I'm sorry for all the people I've railroaded in the past, working on it...:)

Well, that's that and this is this. (ya don't say...)

Have a good'un!

Quote of the day: "Save the whales! Trade them for valuable prizes!"

Patience...

2009-03-10T12:49:00.000-07:00

...it takes faith.....Faith is nothing without works to back it up...while being patient, don't twiddle your thumbs, get to work....and remember that.

"All we need is just a little patience" -Guns N' Roses

Quote of the day: "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."

Going Devious...

2009-03-07T06:50:00.000-08:00

Well, Photoshop has totally grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and dragged me deep into it's clutches. Actually, it's just a little side thing I started doing for sh**s and giggles. I'm mostly into photo manipulation and creating grungy wallpapers. If you have any pics you'd like EQ'd (I don't know if that's the word you use for pics...hehe) enhanced, embelished, or plain ol' fixed up; just drop me a line with the pictures attatched, and we'll see what comes out. You can access my Deviant art profile and view my current manipulations HERE. Cheerifications to you all!

The Gods Must be Crazy!

2009-03-05T08:08:00.000-08:00

Lets take a look at the city...
Here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment. Instead he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery. And he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But he didn't know when to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier... the more complicated he made it. Now his children are sentenced to years of school, to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings. Now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt. Every hour of the day to his self-created environment.

Quote of the Day: Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Skinhead

2009-03-04T11:17:00.000-08:00

Well, I got a haircut this morning, and it's pretty much the closest I've been to a skin head for a verrry long time. So I took a couple of pictures to panegyrize the occasion.OOGA BOOGA!

*clap, clap, YEY!*

Later on, I went a tad loco in Photoscape and made a freaky deeky little wallpaper...which I am rather happy with :) (resolution is 1024x768...download it!)

Quote of the Day: “Love is like a booger. You keep picking at it until you get it, then wonder what to do with it.”

...eyebrows turn green!

2009-03-01T05:20:00.000-08:00

Yey! I feel so complete in my nerdiness with this brand new custom template! The header was totally the most fun to make...and the calender code was a headache...it was still quite enjoyable. I just couldn't stand that old dark one, although it was pretty sexual...Too dark and blah...

ya likey the new? :) me do.

Quote of the day: Lisa, Vampires are make-believe. Just like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

wow...epic dumbness

2009-02-27T10:26:00.000-08:00

I was talking with someone about dragons, googling and such...and I stumbled across this yahoo answers topic...just another example of how amazingly dumb America has become. I mean...Believing of thinking that there could still be dragons alive is fine...I even think It's a possibility. But...ack...just read it. haha. cheers!

I just hope nothing bad happened to that person.

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

2009-02-25T21:08:00.000-08:00

Ahh...I needed that. And a breath fresh of air, or fresh breath of air....or whatever.

Basically I need to infuse some sort of the good ol "happiness and joy" that used to be in this blog.

And what better way then with the clean breath of minty freshness!?

Oh....and I may SPASTICALLY post random words IN caps. What's that you say? "It's not proper?" "It's new and different?" "It will tear at the root of blogoshpere itself?"

Who said that? Destroy him! (Laser blaster sounds go here) -fotc

That's better. Now on with the post.

Might as well begin with what the deuce it is I've been KEEPING occupied with in the last month or SO.

On New years eve I cam back to the States from my month-long visit to Mexico (La Quinta home). The visit was awesome, I HAD a great time, got to see a lot of old friendlies, did a lot of witnessing and such, and I'll be joining this home shortly. (yey!)

So, upon my RETURN to San Antonio, we had a itty bitty New Years party with some randomties from another home. No biggie, just some fondue, drinks, and fellowship.

The first few weeks of January were spent in vacations, writing my school transcript and course descriptions, going to a graduation ceremony with about 200 other students who graduated around the same time I did last year.

During this time I also GOT very geeky. Took apart and sold a bunch of desktop/laptop parts, repaired some others, experimented with lots of new software tweaks and windows mods. I've always been a geek...but I think it's just become more pronounced l8ly. Be a geek...it's good. *thumbs up goes here*

Thru February I continued my geekiness and also started up on a long-left-to-the-abyss project which I had started with Jerry Paladino back in August. So, I laid some midi tracks; layouts for 5 kids songs, and we set a work plan for 2009.
To all you musicians, if you haven't done kids songs...you should...they are amazing fun!

A bunch of people had their birthdays too...my brother Steve, Tasha, Joan, Elena, my sister Summer, Mel and probably a load of other people I don't REMEMBER.

For Valentines weekend, I took up good ol' balooning. My dad and I went to Austin and baloonified at the Fiesta mart for three days. It went really good, and I was able to get enough money to buy a new laptop battery and enough YERBA mate to last me until........I would like to say kingdom COME, but at the rate this stuff goes down, maybe just until August. B)

During this whole itme I've been making preparations to go to me NEW home in Monterrey, Mexico. RIGHT now were just waiting for clearance from the RSs. I was hoping to get down there b4 the feast, but it wasen't to be. Still had a pretty GOOD feast up here tho, very interesting stuff in these new letters, eh? Really openeth the eyes and stimuleth THE brain.

Well I hope every one of you HAVE a flippity flipping awesome 2009....another year of the offensive eh? Let's make things happen! (I think I'm going to change this blog template...it's a tad dark)

Quote of the day:
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Pure Genious...

2009-02-24T12:16:00.000-08:00

Got Change?

2009-02-11T11:15:00.001-08:00

(Mama:) Personal change doesn't come easily. Basically, you have to want it more than anything in the world and be willing to give up anything to have it. Only that kind of desperation will enable the Lord to make you a new creature.

(Jesus:) You don't have to accept your circumstances. You don't have to be satisfied with the way you are, the way you think, or the way you feel. You can change things! You can change anything, with My help! Your weaknesses can be strengthened, your faith can grow, your spirit can soar, your endurance can be prolonged—anything you wish is possible with the gift of change. There's not one person on this Earth, saved or unsaved, who can't take ahold of the gift of change and change something in their life or world for the better.

The most costly battles yield the greatest results, and the rewards match up to the cost of the fight. Change, though painful, costly, and sometimes almost unbearable, is a divine blessing from My hand, and a special touch of My love for you.

I am not bound by your nature. You are. I am not bound by what is natural. You are. Therefore, for long-lasting change to really come into play, My nature and drive must overtake yours.

You must be willing to give up what you have to have Me. I will fill every place that you desert, and every piece of ground of your spirit and your heart that you give to Me, I will gladly take and come in and inhabit for you, making you more like Me.

I've made it so that change is hard on your human nature, because this causes you to be desperate. Then when you are desperate, you handle change much better, because you are more open to Me and My Spirit.

Quote of the day: When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

The Dumbing of America

2009-02-05T10:46:00.000-08:00

"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in fact we've already lost most if not all of our hard-won cultural dignity to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

Call me a snob, but really, we're a nation of dunces.

A few examples:

The Death of Journalism

Watch "Meet the Press" or "Face the Nation".
The hosts won't ask tough questions.
Why? If they do, just one time, the guest will never again appear on their show.

Lately... their guests are THEIR OWN STAFF!

When something mildly unusual happens, Americans now say "That was Unbelievable!".

Boob Jobs

I'm not saying that only dumb girls get boob jobs, I'm saying that America is being
dumbed down by the notion of boob jobs. Shame on any guy that suggests that a woman
needs a boob job. Shame on any woman that thinks she is inferior without one.

American Children are now Much Dumber, because of:

These things...

They say...
NOOKE - YOU - LUHR
TARE - UH
EYE - ROCK
GOO - GOO
SADD - DAMN

We say...
NUKE - LEE - UHR
TARE - OR
EEE - RACK
GOO - GLE
SUH - DOM

This

Japanese Anime cartoons

These run at five frames per second,
and cause seizures and measurable brain damage in both children and adults.
Your child loses 1 to 2 IQ points per episode watching these cartoons.
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Some stunning video examples of how utterly DUMB we've become!

Baby Einstein by Disney

Quote of the day: The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is:

a. the stupid people are so sure about things,
and
b.the intelligent folks are so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russel

Oh, my gosh!
Researchers found that children who watched these were profoundly dumber than those who didn't.

2009-02-01T23:56:00.000-08:00

The shiny filming, the snazzy editing, the thrilling music, the motivating lyrics, the freaky deeky sounds, the stunning 3d effects. This is by far, my favorite music video....for today at least. WATCH IT IN FULLSCREEN!

Indestructible - Disturbed

(Comment:) This is not to promote the band or their OTHER music -which is pretty un-healty for your spirit-, or anything about them...they just struck it with this one. Cheers! :D

Million Dollar Secret

2009-01-26T16:50:00.000-08:00

Specific motivational language is essential to get somebody to reach their full potential. This can be useful for teachers, producers, camera people, artists, musicians, cooks, ANYBODY THAT IS CREATIVE. Specific motivational language saves the person you are guiding or tutoring both mental and emotional energy that can be put to good use to produce the perfect end result.

What is the Perfect End Result? Here's some examples: "Dude... hold the camera with both hands." vs. "Dude.... stop shaking your camera around so much." - "Tina, your greens need to be a bit brighter here." vs. "Michelle, those dark greens are dragging the painting down too much." - "It will sound great if you sustain that note longer." vs. "It sounds lame when you drop off the end of that note."
Every creative person PRIDES themselves in their performance. It creates a mental uphill battle when you give the person a comment about what you don't want vs. what you DO want. (This...by the way is a great tip for parenting your kids, too.)

Key: no...BIG KEY: The mind does not understand the word "don't". Why? Because the mind works in pictures, not letters. If I say think of green jello wiggling in a bowl in front of you, what do you think of? Now, let's experiment. Picture that green jello for a minute. Now...... DON'T think of dark red cherries in that wiggly green jello. DON'T think of bright yellow sprinkles on the jello and spilled on the table. DON'T think of your best friend taking your jello and dumping it on the floor. DON'T THINK OF IT! Don't think of your friend's shocked face as the jello splatters all over the floor!!! DON'T think about what I'm saying! DON'T sing that note SHARP again... DON'T SING SHARP!!!

Do you get it? I guarantee that while you were reading that paragraph, you were NOT thinking of an elephant. Ahem. Up until now. Now you're thinking elephant. But no matter how many times I said the word DON'T, you pictured what I said. Your mind automatically locked onto the image/idea no matter what - it was instantaneous and effortless.
If you tell your singer/field artist/assistant that he or she is not putting enough energy into their creation, he/she will have to FIGHT off the energy drain since attention was brought to it's lowness. It's easier for someone to increase their energy if you use specific motivational language. - "Bring your energy up!" If you tell your kids "Stay on the sidewalk, you'll be safer." - they will do it easier and more instinctively than if you tell them "Don't go out into the street, you could be hit by a car." If you tell your assistant/helper/guitarist/etc what you DO want vs. what you DON'T want, that person doesn't have to mentally process away the mistake - they only have to aim forward at the bulls eye.

Quote of the day: Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

Cancel or Allow

2009-01-19T21:13:00.000-08:00

I haven't been on this blog-a-ma-jig in forevea. But you probably already realized that. It's surprising that when the most interesting things are happening, I really don't feel like writing about them. It's as if they have drwan at my nearly inexhaustible source of energy for so long, that after I finish whatever I do, I really just want to get on to the next thing, throwing myself fully into it. I guess that goes to say that my inititaves are "canceling themselves out"...and It has made me feel like a surprisingly different charachter than I was...oh...a while ago.

I guess I haven't been posting so much lately, not because I don't have enough to post about but because I am a tad to lazy (Busteeeeeed) to actually write about them...and without pictures to spark my imagintation, things just go...nowhere...I suppose. Well...here's the one and ONLY picture I have from cmas...but it will have to do.

Quote of the day:
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. *smile*

Lots of happenings, so little time...

2008-12-13T20:41:00.000-08:00

Well the Christmas season is here, or rather, has been here for a few weeks now, and I am utterly caught up in the rush of witnessing, follow-up, and fundraising here in La Quinta home. Monterrey has pretty darn nice weather at this time of year, and the people in the home are really nice to be around. Sooooo much has happened since my last post, including the obvious fact of my being in Mexico now. Well, here's a piece or five of what's happened in the last while.

My parents RENTED A HOUSE, and I helped them move in. It's a nice place with lots of rooms and all that.

The next day after we were moved in, I went down to Harlingen and stayed at Steph and Pheobe's house for about a week. That was pretty fun, and I had a lot of time on my hands for extra Word and piano/guitar practice.

I took a bus to McAllen and was picked up by Simon who in turn couriered me to La Quinta home, where I am currently residing.
I've been here for about three weeks now, and what has happened since I've been here is:

I am on the SINGING TEAM, and go out on lots of follow-up and fundraising trips into town.

We had a posada here at the house. The turn-out was VERY GOOD and I got to see a lot of old contacts and friends that I had known from when I was down here before. Had a pretty crazy time with that.

Kevin and I began working on a Christmas album, and had a lot of tracks laid when, a few weeks after our project had begun the home's studio was BROKEN INTO AND ROBBED! We were cleared out of approximately 10,000 dlls worth of equimpent, and so...the album...the smallest among a load of super important projects, will not be happening. Sam Finch now sleeps in the day, and patrols the yard at night in order to alert us to any malicious actions in our vicinity.

I made snazzy laptop covers for Sam Finch and I, so now, we're super cool...I mean...not like we weren't already, but yeah...we're just THAT MUCH COOLER NOW! Here's what mine looks like:

Well, I have to make breakfast tomorrow and and and and and then, and then...go out singing all day. Cheers all! Love all of you! Keep the revolution a revolution and stay joyful! (note to those who aren't joyful: you should be...it's the shizer!)

Oh, and lots of pictures will follow soon...really soon....I think....

Quote of the day: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Announcement

2008-11-23T13:15:00.000-08:00

The crowd of blog readers that had gathered here over the last few days would finally get a glimpse at the man who wrote and said so many tremendous things, things that shook the world. These readers who had arrived at the grounds as much as a week before to have choice seating for this marvelous event. The atmosphere is electric as Samuel Fuller steps up to the large, oak podium and sets his papers deftly atop the paper holder thingie. Squaring his enormous shoulders, Sam began to speak:

Sam: I have decided that it would be in my blog's best interest to have a mildy-hilarious and slighty-overused "Quote of the day" at the end of every post...good plan? good plan.

Blog Readers: no! no it's not! It's a super bad plan!!)

Sam: STUFF IT! Oh, and...I love you gu.....

But before Sam could get the words out of his mouth, a swarm of giant humming birds - each the length of three school buses - comes out of nowhere* (see endnote) , and carries him away to the Super Duper High Mountains where they will most likely interrogate him on the subject of green bean powered vacuum cleaners and the pigment of a pink sheep's fleece until his years are spent or he goes completely loony.

endnote: (actually, they came from his imagination...not out of nowhere)

And the first quote:
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling?!?!?!

w00t!

Back to Mex, house for the family, and new Christmas music.

2008-11-18T16:59:00.000-08:00

I am right now in the process of helping my family move out of the trailer that we've been leaving in for the last 2 years and into a nice 5 bedroom house. My older brother Jon, and my sister Mel will be living with them. The house is really nicely laid out, with private space for everyone to stay out of everybody else's hairses.

Also...

In a couple of days I will begin my short, but drawn out Journey to Monterrey, where I will be residing for Christmas (and maybe more long-term) in the Amistad home, or "La Quinta" as it is now known I believe. I will go down with my Dad on Thursday when he goes to pick up my younger brother from the border, and will be staying at Steph and Pheobe's house until Monday when I hopefully will take a bus down to Monterrey.

And...

now that I have a snazzy little firewire mixer and a laptop, I will be able to record wherever I go.
So, in whichever place I am residing I will be reording an EP of Christmas instrumental music in my freetime. Depending on where I am, and which other musicians' talents I will have access to, the music style will vary. I have recorded an instrumental song with Kevin Diamant (14 yrs) who lives down in Amistad. He plays killer piano, and the song that we recorded was one of his original compositions titled "Ivory Shoes (and the Queen of Snow)" which will be availible in the upcoming Nude Productions feature album. He would be my choice of piano player for this Christmas Special EP album.

that's that....cheers all!

Don’t tell me it’s not your choice, you sold a blessed future....

2008-11-07T13:42:00.000-08:00

For anybody who has forsaken the Calling...this song is for you...sad but true...

Lost
When the storm hits, you will leave this
Awake
Time will pass through, and break you

Broken, or so you say
Nobody bought that fable anyway
So calloused, and so naïve
To wear a heart of fiction on your sleeve

Bury every sign of life in filth and hollow trend
And push against progression on the path of logic’s end
Like tears flowing upward

Chorus:
Lost, an aimless soul
When the storm hits, you will leave this
Awake to wasted days
Time will pass through, and break you

This wreckage you’ll never be
If you were raised in Hell you’d own the sea
Don’t tell me it’s not your choice
You sold a blessed future for some noise

Bury every sign of life in filth and hollow trend
And push against progression on the path of logic’s end
Like tears flowing upward

(Chorus)

With every waking second you front, another real life loses ground
Ten thousand arms outstretched and you have the nerve to strike them all
No reason to coexist?
No reason to exist

City stuff

2008-10-10T07:25:00.002-07:00

Here are some pictures of one of the smaller concerts I played bass for with the San Antonio City band back in July...it was fun...if you live in the area, we're on channel 20 at noon and 4 oclock pm everyday until November. The show that's on the TV is the one we did on the river during the "Final Four" college basketball thing.

The Band

2008-10-07T14:29:00.001-07:00

Okay, so I put together this random band for some random gig in some random venue for some random occasion...random, no? Well...if you think all the band members look similar, it's probably because they all have the same costumes on (complete with retarded face masks and fake blue eyes). Well...here they are:

First off, we have the lead vocalist...he's got a really soulful voice.

2nd, the drummer glares menacingly from behind his cymbals.

This frood is just the guitarist...the rest of the band really thinks he should be kicked out...NOW!

The harpsichordist hates media attention.

NO! The flautist is NOT....uhhh...he's NOT!.....ummm....HE'S JUST NOT! OKAY?!??!

The trumpet guy KNOWS that it's harder than it looks.

The Stagehand...he's new on the job.

"Why can't I be all muscly like the OTHER roadies...sigh"

And finally...our fans...

Here's fan #1 freaking out to the groove

And fan #2 really IS moshing like crazy...

I'm gonna post something interestinger SOON! stay TOOOOONED!

Pics and...well...photos?

2008-09-28T22:44:00.001-07:00

Here's a shot of our little gathering of a little less than half of our family.

Another friendly family photo

Kids Club Inspiration....(that's me in the MAGIC GREEN SHIRT!!!)

Recording one of Kevin's amazing instrumental songs
in a makeshift studio at the La Quinta home

This is my "eeeeeeeee smile"....and that frood in the back would be my pop.

Sixth Gear MV...booyah!

2008-09-20T09:26:00.000-07:00

Music...fast cars....all it's missing is babes!

hehehe. jk. It's STEM! whoooooo and the JTB in Japan recently published this video on the My Activated Life website for the launching of the echo program. I just uploaded it to youtube this morning...mira:

In memory of those who stood...and in commemeration of those who stand.

2008-09-16T11:35:00.000-07:00

Many people have given attempt to rerender the thoughts and feelings of the 300 Lakedaemonian soldiers whom lead the defense against the massed Persian foe. But in that pass known as Thermopylae, there stands a momument with an inscription that I'm sure sums up the drive which kept that rag-tag band from failing when death called.

"O xein angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tede
keimetha tois keinon rhemasi peithomenoi"

Which in english interprets:

"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
that here obedient to their laws, we lie."

Excerpt of a speech given by a Spartan helot squire just hours before the final 'dance':

"When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime. That is why the true warrior cannot speak of battle save to his brothers who have been there with him. The truth is too holy, too sacred, for words." -S.P.

You've all likely seen the movie, and maybe even read books about these froods...but how many of us can really say that we'd give our all for what we believe in? How many of us will rally when the bugle calls? "For many are called, but few are chosen." For few are willing to be chosen.

Balloons, Police, Guns, Skunks, and 17....

2008-09-09T10:33:00.000-07:00

Well, well...so much has happened lately, where to start? Guess as always, right at the middle and work my way through to the end and on to the beginning.

First but not least:
I went ballooning all arone, no sister Summer. It was fun but nearly as much fun as we had when we went together. hehehe. No phallus shaped balloon requests to fill. Anyways, I finished early on Sunday sot hat I could go back to the apartment and play some Airsoft with my brothers in the big field/forest in between the condos.

We set off fully locked and loaded through the brush on the way to the spot where we would play. Little knowing what funkiness awaited us. So, my I ran off into the tall grass, thinking that we were going to be playing in both the grass and the woods, but as it turned out I was going all GI in the grass all by myself for about half an hour. The only two things of note that happened during that time was that I ran into some guy practicing with his bit pit bull. Seeing me, his immediate response was "oh s**t". So, since his dog was bond to tear us apart if he followed through with releasing it, he decided to come back later and leave us to our "fun". The other thing was some old lady yelled at me from her apartment that "you can't do that here". "WHAT'S THAT?!?!" I yelled back. "Oh never mind" she replied. I figured she realised that I had a clear gun with a orange tip, which was obviously a plaything.

By the time I finally got the point that the grass was a "no zone" for action and returned to the forest, I found that my younger brother had both gotten "killed" by my older brother and been sprayed by a skunk. That left just me and my older brother in the game, we began exchanging shots from across the creek. When all at once I ran out of ammo and reached for my sidearm, but noticing that it wasn't in it supposed place on my right hip, I figured I must have dropped it at some interval of my sneakiness in the field of 5 foot tall grass. "Sigh" said I, and -pausing the game- traipsed off through the grass with my brothers in the impossible search for the lost handgun. By some freak miracle, we found it, and since we still had time for another game, headed off in the direction of the clearing in the woods to commence our play.
Upon entering the clearing in the forest we were startled by a sudden "FREEZE! Put you hands up where we can see them!" from two policemen in full gear...flak vests, M16's and all. So there we were standing rather awkwardly with our plastaware guns looking rather abashed. "Airsoft?" was the one worded question. "Yes" came the three lettered answer. "tsk ack...." Returned the dissapointed/annoyed response from the policers. As it turns out, the old lady had thought I had a gun so she just said "never mind" for fear of being shot...paranoid senorita...kinda weird she couldn't see the bright orange tips and and the clear plastic hardware...funny business.
So they just asked us not to play there anymore because ppl are tense in the city, and get easily spooked. Just a good thing that we weren't shooting around when they came, anda good thing we couldn't find the ski mask before we left...or that could have been really uncool.

So all's well that ends well, and my week ended with my birthday on the 8th, spent at the Fiesta home nearby. I think 17 has got to be one of the most uneventful ages to turn into...I mean....16 is one thing...18 is another....17 is just, well, 17. yeah....

AND A POST-POST! The week previous was passed with my sister Kim and her fiancee Donte, which was SUPERLY DUPERLY fun and fun and...good. I'll post about that next time tho, it'll have lots more pictures and plenty more anecdotes. Cheers friends and friendlies!

This is me -that Sam guy- signing out....:D -
BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER!!!

Another one of those bdays...hoho

2008-08-21T21:53:00.001-07:00

Conversation snippet....

Me: Hey, brosef! Happy Birth Day!

Brother: Hey brother, nice to hear from you.

Me: Whatchya up ta?

Brother: Oh you know, just getting old and stuff.

Me: Ahhh yes...another year added to the collection, eh?

Brother: Yeah, just checking out the latest deals for canes on eBay.

Me: Good stuff

Brother: Yeah, and I've also found myself having a strange compulsive desire to attend bingo games and yard parties.

Me: I'll see about getting you a new cane custom-made so that you can really look pimpin' at those bingo games.

Brother: etc, etc, etc

Me: etc, etc, etc...

etc, etc, etc....

BYE THEN!

Have a good one, bra!

(To the right stands Mr .Brother, the focus of this point, and to the right slinks my slinky sister...Summa!

;) be happy and stuff...and stay away from those bingo games...no matter how tempting the ladies...

Diamond Anniversary!!!

2008-08-08T19:04:00.000-07:00

Well, no...nobody really exceedingly old has just celebrated 75 years of marriage, and no company worth speaking of has just completed 75 years of business....but, in fact...this is my 75th post! and yay, that's not really worth speaking of either, just thought it was a pretty good way to start a post is all.

The only three reasons that I haven't been posting lately, are

1. Not enough time
2. No pictures
3. The preceding two reasons.

Even now, I don't have possession of many pictures, and not being the most acrobatically inclined writer around, I can't really hold the slightest bit of the attention of many of you. BUT! I thought it'd be pretty decent of me to at least fill you in on a few of the major events of the last month or so, with the anticipation of pictures in a future post.

(LITTLE NOTE! there are pictures at the end, so if you are not so interested in the details of all the happenings, scroll down to the bottom of this looooong post....But if you are in fact, visiting this blog to find out what's been going on with my lately, BY ALL MEANS READ ON!!! cheers!)

So I went to Mexico about a month and a half ago with a desired final destination of the Pedregal home in Mexico city. On the way there, I spent an eventful three weeks at La Quinta home in Monterrey, where I had formerly lived for about 3 years. I painted walls, cleaned floors, washed dishes, and had a great time meeting and "remeeting" many, many, and more many swells.

I left for Mexico City once I was able to hitch a ride with Justin (of Linda) to the CTC, from where I continued my trip the next day into the city to the Mountain home. I was to reside at the Mtn home for up to two months whilst I would commute regularly to and from the Pedregal so that they could "check me out" so to speak, to see if I would be up to par with what they were looking for. Mountain home was excellent, and the studio situation there was superb...really....the BEST. I was able to go around and get to know the area and the people a bit better as well as work a lot with Jerry on studio work. But after some minor incidents that happened in the area involving me being pretty rowdy and getting others pretty rowdy. I had been warned about it a few times, and that it would be a detriment to me joining on fulltime with the Pedregal home. I took the advice, and toned down my "wildness" whenever I was at a fellowship or at their home. But just setting up some guards and closing up some gaps isn't enough...gotta make an incision of it all and destroy ALL the inroads of the Enemy, as well as take steps towrads strenghthening your spiritual defenses.

So anyways, when another teen from Pedregal was over at Mtn home recording some vocals with me, we went down into the basement, and I threw a torch down into the deeeeeeeeeeep dark pit they have there, with the intent of looking at what was in there. So with a bit of effort, I lit the homemade torch, and tossed it down. Then, remembering what the uncle there had mentioned to me about NOT throwing firey stuff down in there, for cause of a possible fire being started, we waited until the fire had gone out, then went on back upstairs to continue with our recording. But, the Lord wasen't gonna let me off so easily on this one...Smoke gathered, and drifted farther upstairs where the rest of the home was watching a movie. I got a firm talking to and was going to be on my way to the States the next day.

This is where the next chapter begins, the chapter where Tampcio home works out in under 5 hours for me to go and stay with them, and Lord willing, join their home. I had been trying togo to their home for about 2 months before deciding to go to Pedregal, so it was already pretty set, and they had just been waiting for a few things to line up first, so I decided on going through with Pedregal instead. But since this whole situation with me having to leave the Mtn home immediatly had come up, the Tampico home was the only home that could work it out in such short notice. So I went by bus to Tampico where I was planning on staying for a while. But then, I got a letter about a week later for the Shepherding desk there in Mx, which deemed it best that I leave Mexico and go back and live with my parents.

So, after finishing my dentist work I came back here to San Antonio, Texas last night.
About $500 dlls poorer, minus a decent rep, and minus a great studio situation. BUT at least a hundred times that amount richer in lessons learned, people met, and friends made. Thank you to all the people that had a part in my housing, shepherding, and transport. And thank YOU Jesus for breaking me!!! YAY!

And here are a FEW pictures....MORE TO FOLLOW~

Camping in Monterrey...doing that skit about those secretaries in WS...the one with that really SR one and the other one who was sensitive....don't remember there names, Pearl and someone else....anyways, yeah...

Camping in Monterrey, same skit...

Camping in Monterrey, group shot...uhhh....look close and you will see just how weird us ppl in the North are...
And in Tampico, Aaron hands out some yogurt to our underprivileged in colonia "Mano con Mano" (which means Hand in hand)
Here I have one of the yogurts in hand.
Here I am with another friend...the sun was shining in our eyes, hence the Asian look.GBYA!

Good Quote be: Let him break you, he'll remake you, and you'll shine with Love's new light. He's the potter, you're the vessel....let Him mold you as He likes!

Recent Happenings

2008-07-03T08:06:00.000-07:00

There was an area fellowship on Tuesday at the CTC
, which was pretty kip...I played volleyball and gave hugs to people as they came inside out of the rain. Mexico City has crazily wet and cool weather, very nice for most anything. It's really high up here, so the altitude gets to me, being the valley slicker that I am.
We had Acapulco over at our house for a few days...I got to see the ,PG version of Stehpy, as well as have a good time fellwoshiping and bowling with dee udders...Really awesome, they had blacklights on at the Bowling alley, so everything was super shiny and florescent. The bowling shoes were so hot, these pink and yellow colourded things shone like the stars on a dark day. Well, here is some cunning photography for your viewing pleasure, or pain.............or...or...........gosh. just look at them!

Mr. David grasping his ball

At the bowling alley...totally snazzy people....totally snazzy place

Big dave is da MAN!

David and Stephy...awwwwwwwwwwwww...PUDGY!

Corazones' chick band...we went to see them play at their house after the fellowship. it was fuuuuuuuun...Back at home...she's french...and that would be Big Dave posing in the corner(concerning the next three)
Ode to Phil's backgroundness And now I die...

TWOODLE!!!! MAY THE FLEAS OF A THOUSAND CAMELS INFEST YOUR ARMPITS!!!

(ptl for good and happy fellowship...tyj!)

Potpurri of giggadyness

2008-06-28T07:59:00.000-07:00

Recording with a kids song with one of the JETTs in my current residence

Yeah...okay

Just Chilling and FRRRRREAKING OUT!!!

Gabe gobbles as Sam dreams on in wonder....God knows about what

I left my guitar in Monterrey :(
Until we meet again, dear Epi....and all you ever so lovely readers

;)

You wake up and realize....

2008-06-25T13:55:00.000-07:00

...you are sitting in your studio chair. "What a nightmare" you say to yourself, as you wipe the drool off your mixing board which has cradled your head the last 2 hours. "No matter what I did, I could not get the new soundcard to work". Then you look at the screen and realize the nightmare is real. The blue screen of death (BSOD) greets you with the message underpinning hell itself. "A Serious Error has Occurred, you must reinstall Windows". Something breaks inside you and you kick over the tower, rip into the case and begin stomping like a madman into the motherboard like you were killing roaches as fast as you can, laughing manically as the PCI cards go "crunch crunch" under your steel tipped army boots. You kick the box like a soccerball out the back door and catapult it over the fence into your least-liked neighbors back yard. Your neighbor, who has long suspected you to be a terrorist due to your late hours and the strains of unconventional music wisping out your window, get his assault weapon and sprays your studio with bullets. And you die. Then you wake up and realize you are sitting in your studio chair.....

It's been sages!

2008-06-14T17:57:00.001-07:00

WOW, been a long time since I've posted on this thing. I have good excuses tho, so I think I'm fine...yes? yes. Well, I will update more once I get some pictures from the four hundred and twenty two point ninety-eight corners of people small SD cards and harddrives. In essence...I will revive this long dead and dusty blog when I get a day of solace...MAY THE FLEAS OF A THOUSAND CAMELS INFEST YOUR ARMPITS! In the meantime...please don't any more of you forsake me.
EEEEEEEEE!

Mexico lindo y Querido

2008-05-30T09:12:00.000-07:00

After many months of planning and preparation, I have finally returned to Mexico. I was in the Whore for only a little over one year, and although it was a drag to be in such an inactive state of service, I learned a lot of healthy lessons. Patience, trust, prayer, meditation, dedication, and commitment were all areas of my life that were able to grow through that time of trial. And there were physical perks as well. I was able to raise funds for studio equipment, which will play a key role in the ministry of recording that I wish to get even more involved in. I also got to see a bit of what it's like out in the System, not through experience, but through watching other ppl...my friends and family who are no longer in our greater Family.
We have a such a happy life here in the Family, I'm never letting this one go...no way Jose! I am currently in Monterrey floating around whilst a await space in and a ride to the Pedregal home in Mexico City, where I am looking to join FD. Please pray that all this time of juggling items, emotions, and transportation will all go according to the Lord's plan, and that things will continue to fall into their rightful place. I love you!

I'm off

2008-05-22T19:09:00.000-07:00

I'm off to Mexico this coming weekend...A lot of juggling is involved really. Not so much because things are tough to organize, but I have soooooooooooooooooOOOOO much stuff. Computer, monitors, guitars, amps, cloths, accessories, devices, and little gadgets I don't know what are for...wish me well everyone...wish me well...

like this guy...he looks well

ughh, testiculi!

2008-05-13T19:13:00.000-07:00

I am having qualms, with two friends of mine. They want to go one way, I want go another...they have potential to get me in trouble when I just want to be happy and joyful, and just busting out with joyness!!! They argue that I can be super duper feliz if I go their way, and I want to believe them...Just not now, okay! There's a time and place for everything! but...I sometimes think that I and many other's like me would be better off without these two subconscious brains doing the thinking for us all the time! For example...would Adam have eaten the "tree of good and evil"....I mean, the "fruit of the tree of good and evil" if he if he hadn't been listening to his balls and just trying to please Eve and not look bad(i say "bad" for lack of a better word as bad hadn't come in the world quite yet) in front of his cocetes' only means of ventation...Eve? would in fact, Uriah have lived if David's two wittle guys weren't so preoccupied with attaining their satisfaction of the woman Bathsheba?

I mean...I sometimes think about it ya know? Did all the apostles, holy people, and monks that ever lived get a vysectromy? How else could they have attained such saintliness? It's not that I'm considering such an option myself...I'm actually far from the thought of it, but I think the world would be a better place if us male's(except the neutered dogs of course...they have to deal with a pound less of flesh...forever) would start thinking with our proper brain and not with our attached members...just like, pretend they aren't there until you need them, eh? think about it....

2008-05-07T20:52:00.000-07:00

For all the lonely hearted people this I pray, for all the lonely people in the world today...touch and heal their broken hearts and give them Love today...Love that will liberate them...Love that will love them.

Unsung hero...

2008-05-03T10:17:00.000-07:00

Just a little video I made this morning on the spur of a moment's inspiration...it's the untold legend of a Jewish cowboy named "Irving"....the 142nd fastest gun in the west! (lyrics below)
WARNING!!! IF YOU ARE EASILY FRIGHTENED BY TOTALLY STUPID BALLADS, DON'T WATCH THIS OR READ THE LYRICS!!!

He was short and fat, and rode out of the West
With a Mogen David on his silver vest.
He was mean and nasty right clear through,
Which was kinda weird, 'cause he was yellow too.

They called him Irving.
Big Irving.
Big, short Irving.
Big, short, fat Irving.
The hundred and forty-second fastest gun in the West.

He came from the old Bar Mitzvah spread,
With a 10-gallon yarmulke on his head.
He always followed his mother's wishes,
Even on the range he used two sets of dishes.

Irving.
Big, fat Irving.
Big sissy Irving.
The hundred and forty-second fastest gun in the West.

A hundred and forty-one could draw faster than he,
But Irving was looking for one forty-three.
Walked into Sol's Saloon like a man insane,
And ordered three fingers of two cents plain.

Irving.
Big, fat Irving.
Big sport Irving.
The hundred and forty-second fastest gun in the West.

One day Bad Max happened into town.
His aim was to shoot fat Irving down.
Bad Max said, "Draw, and draw right now!"
And Irving drew, drew a picture of a cow.

Irving.
Big, fat Irving.
Big gunfighter Irving.
The hundred and forty-second fastest gun in the West.

The James Boys was comin' on a train at first sun,
And the town said, "Irving, we need your gun."
When that train pulled in at the break of dawn,
Irving's gun was there, but Irving was gone.

Irving.
Big, fat Irving.
Big help, Irving.
The hundred and forty-second fastest gun in the West.

Well, finally Irving got three slugs in the belly.
It was right outside the Frontier Deli.
He was sittin' there twirlin' his gun around,
And butterfingers Irving gunned himself down!

Irving.
Big, fat Irving.
Big dum-dum Irving.
Big dum-dum dead Irving.
The hundred and forty-second fastest gun in the West.
Really.

HAIL FRANK GALLOP!

Still Rest (Reprise)

2008-04-21T12:11:00.000-07:00

This is a reprise to a previous song you readers are likely familiar with.

Song is available for download upon request. Just leave your e-mail, or write me at thehappyminstrel@yahoo.com and I will send you the download link. Lyrics are as follows

Drunk, but my eyes still see
I'm not saying that I care
But check your answering machine
I can't remember when the last time was
I didn't think about you

But that was then and this is now

You're the only one who knows how to calm me
Still there's always a time when I wish you wouldn't look away
Just please don't let you feelings change if I could ask for anything
there's nothing I want more than for you to stay

But that was then and...

Last night I could have sworn
I heard your voice
But that was then and this is now
You know I promised myself I wouldn't be emotional
It's a sad thing
That I don't know how

But that was then and this is now...

Sighish stuff

2008-04-15T22:28:00.000-07:00

These last two weeks have been rather full of fun and funkiness. you hear that? YES! fun AND funkiness!!! with three exclams!!!

Where to start, where to start? Well...I've been over at my brother's apartment since Saturday and things have been pretty rockin....yes I said rockin... So here goes:

Saturday: Practice in the morning, ballooning in the afternoon. I forgot my matte at home...PTL..I barely quell my craving with a sip of coffee stolen from my sister's mug...We get home and crash...yes...I said crash

Sunday. I go to work with my brother Jon for some wedding planner person that's, well....planning a wedding...We plant plants, and lay polyester covering so weeds don't grow. Then I mulch.....with mulch (duh?)...at about 2 o'clock we finish up. I am still missing matte. This time it takes a cup of coffee and some serious prayer to satiate me. BARBECUE AT FIESTA!! YAY! We bring my brother's small arsenal of Airsoft BB guns and have a shoot out after the yummy food. That was rockin. Quite a few ppl (including my sister and I) decided that they should definatly invest in some hoopy firepower...it's FUUUUUUUUUUUUUN! We do some shopping for the week's food, and then return home. yeah....I said home.

Monday: Woke up LATE! damn my tardiness, my sister and I have wordtime then rush out the door to catch the bus to Walmart. I've given up hope on matte...We like guns...we want guns...we buys GUNNNNNNNS!...yes...I said GUNNNNNNNS!...

Picture follows:

Tuesday: that was today wasn't it? I went to visit David and Hosy at, well...their house. I set up and afinariated Dav's drums set...we jam a bit, eeeat a LOT! I remember this word...from long far ago....matte was it? then I had this major retro Lego playing spree with a little kid named Pedro. we built a super awesome space shiiIP...I miss being a wittle guy....yes I said guy......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

the helpicopter with a capital P

2008-03-30T22:18:00.000-07:00

yeh so me and my sister did balloning this weekend at Cici's Pizza and we both now have the acne to prove it...or at least I do.....during a lull in our business we had a creative streak....that lasted three hours....but during the last half hour we moved our area of expertise into aircraft...namely the White Dove!!!! sadly the name Black Hawk was already taken.....we thought it was too cool for school.....
ppl offered to pay big dinero for it but nooooooo.....Summer wanted it for keepsakes.....and we have an action packed mooooovie now to show for it.....yeeeeah!.....

Sound affects courtesy of www.freesoundaffectsforyourretartedmoviesyeh.ecokipbip.com

aaaand.....the Helpicopter (a.k.a. White Dove) courtesy of Summer's bodacious balloon sculptinating skills........

Bassing

2008-03-26T20:43:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm gonna be playing bass for San Antonio's city band for this next month as their original one copped out on them. I practiced hard to learn 10 songs I've never even heard before, and had my first practice today. I'd say it's going pretty well for me not actually being a real "basser"...sorta a hybrid guitarist...yeah...:D...anyways. Pray for that it goes well and that it will be a witness in some way...first performance is on the 1st of April for about 2000 ppl including the city manager...really got some work to do to be ready for that.

And HEY! they even bought a bass guitar for me to use! Pretty much hurts my shoulder like nothing else as I'm used to light little things called "electric guitars"...:)

Peace IN!!!

Jesus isn' t funny...something, uh...money...ummm....Easter bunny!

2008-03-23T19:11:00.000-07:00

My guitar and I

2008-03-20T13:11:00.000-07:00

I cut my hair this morning, and my guitar got a new set of strings a while back. We thought we should celebrate. Pictures are by my hermano chiquito. Have day happy!

In the air I fly...

Hey look! The towel and the guitar match!No comment.

Dun dun dana dun nun dan nun dan na!

BUSTED!
Awwww...the dear...Whatchew lookin at?!?!

FIRE! URGENT PRAYER!

2008-03-19T10:37:00.000-07:00

Summer: HI everybody, I was just wondering if you could all keep our home (Contigo) in your prayers. There has been a forest fire going on about an hour away from here for about four days, but last night it got to about twenty minutes from here..Yesterday we had smoke filling our yard and our electricity went out for about 12 hours...We are working with the Proteccion Civil here and last night all our vehicles were used to help with the evacuation of nearby neighborhoods, but the fire is getting closer to our property...So please pray that it stays away, and that they will be able to put it out right away...also, that we will be able to help as much as we can, and that the Lord will keep all our friends and contacts safe, as most of them are in the vicinity..Thanks....please send this around..xoxo

Darn Yahoo!

2008-03-16T15:23:00.000-07:00

Yesterday afternoon I logged in to Yahoo Mail to reread some messages which had come in the day b4...But as I opened my inbox; astoundingly the messages were...GONE!!! I searched all my folders and found that a few other of my messages had also been deleted. I am now in the highest state of either baffelation or annoyance - This is the third time that I have had a run-in with Yahoo. I really like the interface, the general idea and all, and these "problems" won't keep me from using Yahoo Mail, as it has grown on me quite securely. No robot is prefect...I just wish they were....................................................

On other notes: I am making much progress on the music tracks on Steve Gilb's new album...likely to be completed when we meet up again. alternative, hard rock, punk, metal, and more alternative genres are covered in this album.

I started this evening working on a friend's song...which I really, really like...slow/acoustic type feel to this one.
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I am currently searching high and low, far and close, and very diligently for a home to take in myself and another friend of mine...musician as well...If you have any idea of someone who is looking for musicians to START a musical movementof the Spirit in they' re home, please do notify me. :D (note: not looking for somewhere with and already established musical routine...we have a plan mostly established, just looking for somewhere to host it! FD!!! WOOT!!!

Fatal Beatings...

2008-03-06T13:51:00.000-08:00

Rowan Atkinson is just about the best stand-up comedian out there. I was rolling around laughing for five minutes after I watched this!

Viaje

2008-03-05T11:31:00.000-08:00

Just got back last night from a hoppin trip in Matamoros, Mexico. Martin drove up from Monterrey in bro's Mazda and we sang in some restaurants and had a good time. The main idea at first was to raise money and buy that happy little Mazda from Martin's brother, but well...Matamoros is quite burned out. Nearly every other person we encountered had already bought CD's b4. Mata is a tough crowd to please as well. The restaurants all have mariachis singing there about 5 times a day, so it's not such a novelty to have people performing while you eat. It was fun though, and we raised enough money to get the body work done on the car and complete the money I needed for a new guitar amp. Got to see some swells while I was up there...a few from Monterrey, a few from Tampico, and a few from somewhere else that I don't know where. All in all it was a good trip and we got to meet some really nice gente and win some high quality souls. PTL!

Big Bro's Bday!!

2008-02-13T19:28:00.000-08:00

Yeah, it's pretty much my bother David's birthday. For the majority of you that probably don't know him...date your memory back to your younger years watching Family Fun...(little skinny kid singing "Get me in mister glaaaaadstone get me in!!!) Love you man! Be ye happy and fertile!!!

You want pictures?

2008-02-07T13:49:00.000-08:00

well...this may bore some ppl...but a couple of persons wanted to see some pics of my studio workstation...so here we go...

Here we have..like...a really sexy shot!

The compruter...built it for around $600 and it functions most bodacciously!

Left side view

Right side view
FIN!!!

Happiness and Joy to you!

2008-01-28T11:55:00.000-08:00

Shout it from the rooftops, Yell it in the corridors, Scream it into your pillow, and then go eat some crackers! CUZ IT'S JOAN'S 17th YEAR of BIRTHYNESS and life!

and Here's a message from THE Jesus for the her -day! (hope you have a good one, you! ;)

(Jesus:) I gave a gift to the world when you were born—a person who loves, who cares,who sees a person’s need and fills it, who encourages and lifts people up, who spends energy on others rather than herself, someone who touches each life she enters, and makes a difference in the world, because ripples of kindness flow outward as each person you have touched, touches others. Your birthday deserves to be a national holiday,because you are a special treasure for all that you’ve done for Me. May the love you have shown to others return to you, multiplied. I wish you the happiest of birthdays, and many, many more, so that others will have time to love you as much as I do.

(end of massage from el Sexy Husband)

Have a good one.....or two... or three....:)

Whether the Weather...

2008-01-24T09:02:00.000-08:00

A lot of crazy stuff's been going on lately. Crazy weather, crazy feelings and emotions, crazy preparations. Crazy-because it's neither very good nor very bad, rather a fair amount of both. But no matter what's going on these crazy days, it's all flowing together to create the beautiful collage that my Dear Lover has in mind. As long as I keep my mind stayed on Him...none of these crazy things will move me.

GOLDEN BLOG!!!

2008-01-14T13:35:00.000-08:00

YESSSHH FOLKS! This bees my 50th post on blogger...yeah, yeah, so it's not that much. I just thought it would be a good title for a post. Anyways, things are really lining up for the offensive, the Lord's working in many mysterious ways, and soon we're gonna start seein those wonders! I really don't know what to blog about right now, so I'll just give you a few recent pics and stuff, like that idea? Well so what if you don't...:D Love you guys! Keep me in your prayers. IT'S A REVOLUTION!!! So keep it alive!

So I'm like, sitting there on the computer right? My brother is sleeping calmly in bed, unsuspecting that I am about to awaken him with the sudden desire to make him take a picture of me with his camera. Result is as follows...

Here's some strange bad person about to catapult the hapless Elena into...ummm...something...it's irrelevant really. Luckily I was able to swoop in and save her just in the nick of time! And here we have the ME singing karaoke with some sheep at a party...we so rocked that joint!

FIN!!

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!

2008-01-02T17:09:00.000-08:00

How do you like the new look? The whole Jesus playing guitar thing?
....and no...you can't have my trees...

no, No, NOOOOOO!!! Don't STONE ME!!!

2007-12-17T20:15:00.000-08:00

Yes, yes, I know...I've been a very bad blogger as of late, nil updates, funky posts and all that jazz, well, well, well...the reason aside from the whole Christmas push deal, is that the only time that I've been ble to post ahs been late at night, and that is also the only time I can have me word time...It's also kinda hard to get a computer alone for a few minutes here, nothing wrong...just yeah..busy! (AS A BEE!!!) well, here are a few pics from the last week, just to satiate your desire for hperpixilation. (Is that a word?)

BAM!!! kIDS Puppet show, with me (the Sneaker)

Our Singing Team :D

Our little dancing children Bening on TV (The camera even mug shotted me!!!)

My Hand, holding a video camera, Joan trying her own at photography...

Gotta love that, that, that....ummm...thing...I'm sure there's gotta be something interesting about this pic...

So again I say...I shant be blogging much for the next month or so, but hey...check, I'm pretty spastic, so I may put something up again soon) I love you so much, you!!!

A Little Bit of Yummy Apple Cobbler...a.k.a: HAPPINESS!!!

2007-12-08T21:44:00.000-08:00

Okay.....It's 5 till 12 and I'M TIRED!!! I've been trying to upload pictures form this weekend for probably about 2 hours now...I even stole the SD card from the camera to give me a head start on posting b4 Joan...sigh...but it wasen't to be... Oh well, I got on picture up b4 Vista started blocking all my popups...I'm really not into this whole Vista deal, you?

So, yeah. Peace IN!(hahahaha...get it? peace "IN?"...I am sooooo good (See below)

The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

(More yummy apple cobbler soon to follow)

(BTW: Yummy Apple Cobbler=Good Stuff)

Off to see the wizard...!!! yoleoooooo!!!

2007-11-28T22:15:00.000-08:00

Well, I'm hightailing it off to Ciudad Juarez for Christmas...Don't know how often I'll be gettin to post, but just continue to check anyways, you may just find something happy someday. Annnnnddd....I'm gonna be traveling on a train for THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE!!! Hope it's as good as it's made out to be (all those foxy stewardesses?). Well, well...stay tuned, and have a FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!

This has nothing whatsoever to do with this post, just something my brother and I found at a concert on some random coffee stand...:D

Match Meeting...PICTURES AND THE LIKE

2007-11-12T13:13:00.000-08:00

Well....there was a match meeting, folks...and IT ROCKED!!! Although there was only one full day and mucho sore throat and nada voice...we had fun. I didn't actually hear about it until only three days before, when Jer gave me the "title" of Music Coordinator. He said that there were only gonna be like a coujple acoustic guitars and a bongo, and that a sound system sure would rock. So yeah, the next three days before the camp were hectic with calls bening made, pickups, etc...But we made it, thanks to el Lifelines home.
I still think the name's funny: "M.A.T.C.H"
Stands for "Monthly Area Teen Camp in Housten"...never in Housten, Never monthly, A lot of Ya's, And we get people from all over...I'm not complaining, I just thought it was funny! :D
So anyways, I was supposed to arrive early to help set up, but instead pulled into the camp grounds about 5 hours late. Although the othe band members baraged me with mixed emotions(We had to set up all alone, you BUM! But man, WE LOVE YOUR BONES!!! Get to work!), and in spite of the videos never working, and the speakers falling over, I'd say it was the best match so far! And I got to win a dress-up contest!...hehehe, feel like a kid again. :D Oh yes, And I got to be staff and boss around fellow JTs (snigger)...
Well, here are some photos, have a good one!

(I would so put a smart caption on each one of these photos, but I'm jsut waaaaayyy to lazy...be imaginative!)PS: Pictures are r@nd0m1zed

This lovely lady wasen't there, but she's totally hot stuff! Te Amo Hannah!

You are such an apple! :D

The genius...artistictalentisamongus!

2007-11-08T19:23:00.000-08:00

Our dear Ben Borst of the Revig made up this unique shot of me for my studio :D Swell, no?

Our dear Ben Borst of the Revig made up this unique shot of me for my studio :D Swell, no?

Have you...today?

2007-10-29T13:30:00.000-07:00

Have YOU done something to break your bottle TODAY? If not, it's never to late. We need to keep ourselves alive and stirred up in spirit...how? Well here are a few ideas:

Praise the Lord in a different way than what is the norm for you.

Try praying...no PRAY OUT OF THE BOX PRAYERS!!! (don't ask the Lord to supply the landscaping materials...ask Him to do the landscaping!:D)

Listen to a genre of music that you don't normally listen to (be it oooga booga music from Africa, or Blood curdling screaming from...uhhh...someone's throat

Do something nice for someone(Sings: If you give love...)

Decide that you are going to do something crazy and just totally whack that will turn someone's head and make them smile(In line with the Charter of course)

Make it a point to join in and get out of yourself in inspiration. And if no one's leading it, grab broken, out of tune guitar and strum the chrod D while singing at the top of your lungs I SEE A ONE AND A TWO THREE FOUR!!!

Be happy! Smile no matter what's going on around you, whether good or bad, whether happy or sad....ummmm...though your heart is aching....smile even though it's breaking... SHOW OF THOSE PEARLY WHITES!!!(I sure hope you have those)

Do a job that your not used to doing. Say for example: You are a provisioner never at home, trade with the person on tots even though you really can't tell the difference between a diaper and a paper plate...

AND OVER ALL.... BE A NEW BOTTLE by laying your self down and dying daily for the cause!

I LOVE YOU!!!

(Rest your eyes here:

WOOT! The good Fr+ui=t!

2007-10-19T21:04:00.000-07:00

Well we all love family music don't we? Well now we have a place to express our feelings, views, and desires for and about Family music. It's called the Family Music forum, see it for your self and "become a member today!"(so cliche)...See ya there

link:
http://family-music.phphope.com/index.php?sid=ff3fc1c5ee00b765819e4b137cad4461

El MojoSupremo

2007-10-10T20:50:00.001-07:00

Just got back from spending the past half week at Fiesta home. I was working as a willing grunt to on their staircase and pathway that leads up to another cabin. The team for the job was John(big cheese), Jeff(lil' Sparky), Victor(y), and myself. The project proved to be a succesful success(as the Lord was in it of course) and I got home in one piece.

Happenings of note(maybe) during this, ummmm...project:

1.) We thought that "stairway" was a far to simplistic name for such complicated structure as the one we were building...hence we dubbed the thing a "mojosupremo"....you go loco when you're in the sun 9 hours a day.

2.) None of us guys could sleep at night with out dreaming about working...a real pain, I think I touched on this subject in an earlier post.

3.) As a morale booster, we had the songs "Serenity" and "1000 Concubines" playing over, and over, and over..............................yep, and over again. SHAKE IT THE HEBREW WAY!!!

4.) Many pests were encountered during our construction process, not to mention 10 scorpions, a few snakes, and Victor's voodoo doll which he found(we burned it actually...demons be gone!)

5.) We bent zero nails and left no screws visible on the entier deck...we thought it was a cool concept.

6.) An ant bit John.

Yummy apple cobbler to follow shortly. Cheers!

Love words from the heart.

2007-09-27T16:35:00.000-07:00

He's pretty much the hoopiest* guy around, don't you agree? Always gives us the best and always makes a way. Love you, Love! Lets all show Jesus how much we love him. Everybody give a praise to the Lord right now, saying just how much you want and nee Him, our sexy Husband! He's dying for our Love! BEGGING US! Lets bare ourselves before him now in total abandon to the things of this world! Post your praise! I'll start the flow of praises...in zoez comments...everybody jump on in! Remember that it doesn't matter what you say, or how you say it, but how much you believe in what it is that you're saying!

**hoopy pretty much means: Crazy, weird, trippy, bizarre, strange, curious; cool, nifty, really great; unexpected- especially unexpectedly opportune...and Mr .Man is all of that...ummm...actually MORE!

Forbidden photo shoot...NOT PORN!!!

2007-09-21T19:24:00.000-07:00

"Dude, we need to go, like, totally buff out!" That's what Tanya, Angie, and I saw circulating between the conversations of the other male fellows on "that fateful night". Why we're Sean, Andre, Jamie, And Little Black Sheepie Sam so intent on "bufffing out"? Well, they(or should I rahter say, Little Black Sheepie Sam) had arranged with one of the SGA's to take some, ahem, revealing photos. Gladly, for our sakes, Little Black Sheepie Sam left his pants on, along with us. But anyways, here are the juicy results of our "Forbidden Photo Shoot"...(It's a cockfest...we know). Notice the theme is "Sexy Construction Worker's Gone Wild!" (Captions on top of each photo)

In these next two Andre=Adam; Jamie=God; I=Michaelangelo

Jamie finally got his dream promotion.... to SUPER POOPER SCOOPER !Andre says: CUT, CUT,CUT!!! I'm trying to have a stare down with the power drill!(TV ad) Nothing like a bottle of Pennziol can quench Jamie's thirst while working out in the hot sun!

Sam says: Daddy, LOOK!!! It's me and Aunty Tanya on the tractor!!!

We all say: She Thinks our tractor's sexy...yes it really turns her on! (As you can see)

Sam says: This is a group shot, Sean, it's not fair to let you ass take up half the screen! Move it!

Sean says: There, is that better?

Cheers!

I leave you on this note...we are totally straight...really we are...

Okay People...

2007-09-20T15:37:00.001-07:00

As of today and aside from now, I will no longer be posting about anything to do with music(okay...maybe a little) and I will turn this blog wholy towards more interesting topics: Brocolli plantations, transistors, leaf anatomy, etc...:D.
All that to say I have(rather, I'm in the beginning stages of building) a new blog for my dear-little-God-given-Nude Productions Studio. You can find it and all music updates for any artsists I produce HERE. And now for my last post about music....I FINALLY FINISHED DEAR NEMISES!!! WHOOPY!!! you can snag it on that new blog I'm making...or download it from The Glitch Radio's website. Cheeries!

Ze Englysh Languag foniks :D

2007-09-18T20:10:00.000-07:00

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by z" and "w" by v

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru!

This and that...

2007-09-12T20:04:00.000-07:00

A song I'm working on 'bout the image we leave here on earth and the impressiong we make. :D

after I am gone
settled to ashes and fleeting memories
you will find this and read of my exhaustion
from burned bits of page
my will has been broken with the strength of my eyes
as words become chains that will only end up as lies
it was an afterthought
an effort slowly burning me alone
it was an afterthought slowly burned away
an effort slowly burning

thank God for this descen
and make me tall, for the task at hand
feel my life a-breathing and heart beating
now my life will hold more meaning
I stood composed and time revolved at my command
For thes images that we created hope are more than just
your entertainment.

grow wise and distant from the past
thinking of all the things that I put myself through
you thought my heart would last?

I know My heart will last.

and now for the key promise that I'm working on:

Call on the power of the keys of discernment and understanding, that through these keys you may make wise decisions and sound judgments.

eeeeeeeeeoooooooollllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GGGGGGg

2007-09-09T17:09:00.000-07:00

I just got back from being lost in the woods for a few days, actually...I think it was the HEB parking lot. Oh well. I had my birthday yesterday...my sweet sixteen!! hehaho. Well that's me being back with good stuff to follow shortly. Peace and Love...not pinching.

HEY GUYS!!! WE'RE...I mean...THEY'RE GONNA MAKE IT OUT ALIVE!!!...well of course we will to, but...yeah

2007-08-30T18:13:00.000-07:00

Here's a little someting I finished yesterday, it's been hanging around for a while so the other day I decided it was time to put on the finishing touches and PUBLISH!!! WOOT!

A song about all the prodigals that have been in the Family and are now stuck in the system's web. About how the little burst of flame still hidden deep down in their hearts will someday surface and the truth will come to the fore.

TITLE: We Will Make It Out Alive

"Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the Lord your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you— The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month. The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, And praise the name of the Lord your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And My people shall never be put to shame. Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the Lord your God And there is no other. MY PEOPLE SHALL NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME!!! (Joel 2:23-32)

http://www.mp3.com/media_player/viewer.php?action=launch_player_by_id&ref_id=21735130&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ref_type_id=3&edid=&ptid=&ontid=&rgroup

Lyrics: There's a thousand people sleeping here mostly you You're weightless, shapeless again. Pray for rain to wash our fears away again When will we notice what's missing from our lives today? This time is taking a toll On our bodies, minds and souls And out of the deep dark recess Comes the truth (And it's draining until you fill me...) Everything is a choice so then Why do you always make excuses for Being so cold? ...Running away? ...Sacrificing yourself.

Lyrics: David Renfro, Sam Fuller

Drums: Austin Morlan

Guitars: Sam Fuller, Ben Aviotti

Vocals: Matt Morgas, Sam Fuller, David Renfro

Bass: David Renfro

Produced and Recorded at both NuMark studios and Nude Productions perspectively

"Even though they stray now, yet the time will come when they again will shine for Me"

I had to let you go...

2007-08-17T20:01:00.000-07:00

Bye Bye Birdie!

My Dear and precious band...may the true N.A.K.E.D spirit live on in all of our perspective lives.

Dear Joan, thanks for all the help, love, and support you've poured into me over this last half year or so. I thanks God everyday for those times. Have a good life and and may you find a good man and make many babies therewith. Cheers!

And good will to all my matie's aboard the Amistad S. Ship! May the wind fill your sails and may the current carry you to new horizons! I love you all!

(THE END)

FLYING SQUIRREL!!!

2007-08-16T13:03:00.000-07:00

Starting the Wednesday of last week, and anding this Tuesday when I returned from helping Fiesta home with their singing team, I've gone swimming/diving every day. C'mon Sam! Who wants to hear about you doggy paddling? Well what's done is done. All in all I've had an evenful week of screaming, swimming, sleeping, and S.O.E practicing in my Friends' studio. Not much of interest to all you ppl, but plenty of hoots and hollers for me. Cheers!?

Ith's MEEE! (notice my pal John in the bottem pic looking on with envy at my rather more deformed-than-normal-dive. :D

Good stuff coming soon!

Dear Nemises

2007-08-08T07:43:00.000-07:00

HeRE's a nEw sONg BY mY owN NuDE PROductionS aND my BRoTher'S NUmark STUdios. WeLl, acTuaLlY, ThIS Is OnLy A TRAiler for THe song WIth SomE vIVacIouS FinGeR MoVES bY My liTTle BrO aNd I ON hiS new cAmera. IF you DON'T PAy heeD tO ThE BacKGrouND NoiSeS, The CroWD sUrfing, ANd The FinGerNail BaNgINg; YoU maY Actually HEAr SomE MusIC...

P.S: All I'm waiting for to publish the full version of this song is to get Shunnie's lead, he's busy at camps right now, but once he gets back...RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

..and more Birthdays

2007-08-01T19:40:00.000-07:00

I love you Keesha! My darling half sister's half brother's half sister! I really admire you as a sort of spiritual standard that I've set up as to what Family females should be like, at least the values and, and,...THE BOOBS!!! heehee...I love you and wish you a happy 18th year, although it won't make much of a difference to me as for some odd reason no matter how many times you'd tell me that you weren't 18, I'd continually be asking you to go get me milk from the kitchen, go say hi to so-and-so at such-and-such a cabin for me, and other such 18-on-up-only type things. It's quite amazing how we tend to follow each other around so well, truly fascinating. May your beautiful head of hair grow ever longer, your boobs ever larger, and your love for the Lord and the Family, ever stronger. I love you!

Just Imagine...

2007-08-01T09:09:00.000-07:00

Imagine you have a number of extraordinary workers available for you to use, who live just a kilometer away from your Home. These folks are at your beck and call, and will do anything you want them to. Imagine that these workers have the power to influence people. They can affect and direct events in people’s lives, so that they’ll be ready to hear the Gospel and respond to it. Imagine that these extraordinary workers can influence people of power and means—labor leaders, and those in key positions. These workers can engineer situations so that these people will be in the right place at the right time in the future, so they will be exactly where you will be in order to meet them, and they will be receptive to you.

Imagine that all you need to do to receive the help of these almost-too-good-to-be-true helpers is to drive one kilometer each day in order to meet them and give them their instructions. Getting their help would make you much more effective, wouldn’t it? It would be such a good investment of your time to make the drive. But what if you felt like, “It’s so much trouble to get in the car and go see these guys and give them my instructions. I’ll go tomorrow or next week or next month. I just don’t have time to get their help today.” That wouldn’t be smart, would it? You’d be missing out on free, available, top-notch help.

The fact is that we each have these helpers in the spirit world—the kind of workers who will do more than we will ever be able to do in the flesh, and who will invest in the future today. They aren’t too good to be true. They are true. They are real. They are here for us. More than anything, they want to help us, to work for us and with us. They want to see us succeed in the future, and they want to work toward that success with us. They wait day after day for us to give them their instructions. All we have to do is to take the time to instruct them, and we do that through prayer.

Happy Birthday to you Skinny, and you too Kevinisimo!

2007-07-28T08:50:00.000-07:00

I know, I know...I'm a week and a half late, but quien cares? First Skinny: Hope you have a great year setting up your new home and may the hair on your toes never fall off. Thanks for all the support and counsel you have given me over the last year, may you someday find the woman of your dreams...we should jam sometime. Really guys, if you don't know Steve already, you should get to. It's one accuantince that you won't regret.

Kevinisimo...he likes to say that other people have a good sense of humor on their birthdays, so I'll say it on his. You really do have a great sense of humor Kev, and yer pretty darn intelligente fer bein' as little a frood as ye are.

Not much else to say to Mr. Froggie but...LEARN FUR ELISE!!! Melodic cakofany shall prevail! Tangerine season is coming :D.

EVERYBODY WISH THE BIRTHDAY FRUITS A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Envelope, VST, Solo, track 6, and more envelopes...

2007-07-24T17:43:00.000-07:00

My mind is going cookoo with thoughts of a music engineer. No, I'm not thinking ABOUT an engineer, as Larry Boy wouldn't say: "I...AM ...THAT...WANNABE!!! That's what spending 9hrs in a studio will do to you, listening to the same thing over, and over, and over, and over, again. It' s not that 9 hours is such a long time to be in a studio, I spent over fifteen hours one day last year(that was a real headache...couldn't sleep that night). Anyways, all to say that I have finally finished my school for this year and can now focus on...RECORDING!!! YAY!!! My siblings and parents all hate this time of my life where there is nothing but "Sam's been using the computer ALL DAY AND NIGHT LONG!!!...I wanna play my computer game" and "Honey, there's a strange loud noise coming from outside that's causing me to wake up from my nap every five minutes". That's why I haven't been posting much lately, I'm getting sick of this computer desk. Cheerio!