Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in the_dyinglight's LiveJournal:

Monday, November 29th, 2004
10:49 pm	Im back So what has happened in the last month or so since ive been with out internet? ... I moved to Plano, got a raise and a promotion, and finally completed my macro economic improvement project. Whats that you ask? Ah well a macro economic improvement project is an upper level econ class where all you do is one project that is 100% of your grade. I have had 13 weeks to complete 50 pages of research 17 projection charts and a 90min speech to be given in front of my peers as well as 6 econ professors 3 from the DCCCD 2 from UTD and one from my favorite place in the world THE! University of North Texas. I have successfully developed a system vastly superior to our own, I discovered how to cut taxes 64% increase employment 10% at the same time increasing the goverment's budget. How do i do this? You don't care and i don't want to explain, so what else is new. I have assembled the greatest collection of drinkers this world has ever seen, to take part in KegChug '04. This is two teams of ten racing to see who can finish a keg first, with the losing team having to pay for the other teams keg. There is the Blues, Canadiens, THE! Texas Rangers, UCLA, & the University of Michigan Wolverines, and soon there will be The BeerNuts established as the most dominate forces the world has had to brace themselves for. We will demolish all would be drinkers. Also I got to say something about the elections in the Ukraine. Why does the Ukraine still exist? Hasn't that third rate turd flush of a country run its course? I say if you manage to blow up a nuclear power plant, support murder in the third world, and continue to spread the evils of communism to every corner of the world then you get taken off the map. Not only can they not count to twelve (i assume no more than a dozen people call the ukraine home) but they sit and argue about it in front of the whole world, how embarrassing. Then if thats not enough, it's front page news across the world!!! Who the fuck cares about the Ukraine!?!?!? I wonder how far Kiev is from Baghdad? Current Mood: annoyed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 13th, 2004
1:55 pm	Everyone Loses I find it hard to take a side in an argument between millionares and billionares, that is until i am one. But seriously, i want to talk about what we all should be waching on television tonight. Not the baseball games, and dear God not the debates. We should all be enjoying the Dallas Stars taking on the Colorado Avalanche in game one of the march to the stanley cup. I understand the owners need to save the leauge and their money, but they did dig this hole hockey is in. I understand the players not wanting to take pay cuts from the garunteed contracts. But how can they both be so blind as to think that they are actually can win and the league can survive with out compromise. Each side needs to give as much as the other side. Now, here is my reason for all of you people who some how remain unfanatic to the world of the national hockey league. They're thirty two teams in the league each team employing plus or minus of one thousand people, not including players and coaches. These people are not millionares, they are trainers, vendors, public relations consultants, and ticket sellers, in Dallas most of these people also work for THE! Texas Rangers in the spring (since Southwest Sports Group Inc. owns both teams) Unlike the players coaches and owners these people can not afford to take time off work. So i would implore both sides to take into account the thrity two thousand regular lower middle and middle class people who are being forced into unemployment and unemployment they can not afford. The unthought of people are being squeezed out of their means while the super rich argue about millions of dollars. Now I understand that if the issues of revenue sharing and luxury taxes were not settled the entire league was goin into the toliet taking everyone with them, but they've had two months of this lockout the settle the argument. With the first month of play being officially cancelled today on the news of both sides leaving the table with out making plans to speak again anytime soon it doesn't seem like there will be hockey this season, I will be able to find somethin else to do, and this is actually going to save me about a thousand dollars i would have spent on tickets, beer, a new jersey, and all the other expense of going to a dozen games. People don't see something like sports a topic to argue about because its just a game, well sports across the globe have become more than a game, it is a business that can create opportunity for people in the community, and unfortunately as we now see it can destroy those opportunities just as easily. Current Mood: angry (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 8th, 2004
8:50 am	Decision So i have had my foot reconstructed again, but the left one for the first time, hopefully this will be my last surgery until i am scheduled to have my knee replaced in five years or so. Anywho i am doin ok, am in quite a bit of pain but thats all good. My delima is, I have a friend (I won't use his name because some of ya'll know him [and no its not me]) anyways, he is sort of addicted to pain pills and has offered me about three times the so called "street" value for my pain pills, i have one refill that i will probably not use. Apparently these pills aren't just your run-of-the-mill codine pills, i can't remember what they're called, Lartab or something to that effect. Anyways slap me some feedback as to what you would do. Ordinarily i don't mind off loading my excess pills or whatever to my friends, because none of them have a serious problem. I don't know what to do, the surgery ran me five hundred dollars i just spent another three on a new phone, so as you can tell i am flat on my ass broke right now, and actually need the money. Current Music: ESPN-Sportscenter (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
9:21 pm	ytuaeBreHyBdezamA There is the beauty that is a sunset There is the beauty that is a child A thought An Imagination Something Real Something Intangible A touch A Look The Light and The Darkness The Beauty in Deafening Sound The Beauty in Deafness A Beginning without and End An End to a forgotten Beginning There is the beauty that is a diamond There is the beauty that was the coal There is the beauty that is words There is the beauty that is ________ Blue, Green, Red, and Grey A beauty that was Dorian A tragedy that was his portrait A beauty in Daisy that only Gatsby could see The beauty seen by the blind and spoken of by the mute The Incredible and the Redundant The aged wine and the dirty martini Beauty in Beauty Paled beauty in me and magnified beauty in you Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Sangria Wine- Jerry Jeff Walker (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 26th, 2004
9:50 pm	How can time be so cruel I don't know why i choose to memorialize my idol in this forum that only two of you ever read yet it has been a year since i lost my friend i never met. J R Cash was born when my father's father was nine years old and my mother's father was not yet born. When he was a young man he decided to join the air force, but they didn't allow anyone to go by initials so he chose the name John. Sadly I did not come around until his music career was more than half over and I deemed it necessary to listen to a fair share of retrospective crap before i discovered my current music taste about eight years ago. No distorted guitars or screaming voices in all the adavancement in music and the developement of new ways to make noise an old man with a guitar sang the best music i'd ever heard. In the dying light of his career he released "Love, Murder, and Life" a three CD complilation of his music, this filled the void left by the departing punk and so called "alternative" rock albums leaving my collection. Once i listened to these three CDs i went on a quest to hear every Cash song left off the albums. I quickly compiled twenty something of his forty five CDs still in print and a few that wearn't. I scoured Napster for everything there was in her database and put it on to my own CDs. It was an obsession rivaled by few other passions. His last new recordings, The American Series, was for CDs that came out in the last ten years of his life were the darkest most chilling music ive ever heard. Everything he said made sense and every note was beautiful to my ears. No one did it better, and i don't belive anyone ever will. Every word i ever write and ever idea im able to put to paper is in part owed to him. My desires as a writer were content to be an unrealized dream, but now a year after he is gone and with me no way to lay thanks i have decided to pursue writing as hard as i know how. As a religous man he taught me that it was ok to be who you were and not be afraid of God, i doubt i would of step back into a church after a very long absesnce if not for Cash. In these troubled times we live in, it is certain that the words of Johnny Cash would ring some since into our problems. Its been over a year since he's been gone, and music row has taken over Nashville and beat her into submission with watered down new comers like Big and Rich and Gretchen Wilson that on their best day vaguely resemble the country music there was when Johnny Cash was around. Country music has retreated to back room recording studios in Austin where she'll likely be for a while. I memorialize Cash by refusing to bow down to the norm just because it is the norm. I try to capture life in words as he did but never like he did. I never met Johnny Cash, but the last time i shed a tear was Sept 12 2003, and a tear from my eye is hard to come by. All death is tradgic, but a death that hurts and touches so many people seems especially tradgic. So hear on the anniversary of our loss, i would have nothing to say to Johnny Cash other than, thank you my friend...thank you for a life well done. Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, Why you never see bright colors on my back, And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone. Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read, Or listened to the words that Jesus said, About the road to happiness through love and charity, Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me. Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose, In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes, But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back, Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black. I wear it for the sick and lonely old, For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold, I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been, Each week we lose a hundred fine young men. And, I wear it for the thousands who have died, Believen' that the Lord was on their side, I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died, Believen' that we all were on their side. Well, there's things that never will be right I know, And things need changin' everywhere you go, But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right, You'll never see me wear a suit of white. Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day, And tell the world that everything's OK, But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, 'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black. Current Mood: lonely (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 24th, 2004
12:55 am	Knowledge The one thing i love anything more than anything else, is that cpt kirk asked spock if there were humpbacked whales on any other planet, i would at least like to think so. How damn cool would it be if we land on an alien planet some where out there but when Neil Armstrong the ninth gets out of his lander there isn't in fact alien life forms, but rather there are humpbacked whales. A feeling that is hard to explain has overtaken me as of late. There is a serious lack of anything of interest to me about the present world. I wish they'd rerun the news so i could read about us buying Alaska for 9 cents and be outraged at the 1919 black sox scandle. Music, literature, television, movies, current events, nothing is as good as it was. Our heros and champions are fading away by the flicker of the dying light. The thought occured to me, that i should lead the rebirth of the classics and find something new that will lead us in the right direction. What has happened to music since Chuck Berry pinned Johnny B Good, to movies since Bogart's beggining of that beautiful friendship, to books since Fitzgerald pin fell silent. Everything since then has been a down ward plunge that would worry Kenith Lay. The man in black is now shrouded in white, yet it would be easier to live with out the music than it is to live with out the man. Nothing new is worth my time, and i have no plan as what to do when I read all of Mellville or when i can recite Citizen Kane from memory, and when Hank Williams' last album is played. i suppose thats why livejournal.com exists, with a little bit of luck maybe we can keep each other away from the justin timberlake monster. I'll stare at the wall for the next fifty years if i have to, compare it to the alternative of staring at MTV and that paint can't dry slow enough. Current Mood: pessimistic Current Music: the sound of a fan in need of oil (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 21st, 2004
2:36 pm	Ew Baby it hurts so good so after the thirteenth pitcher of bews last night i realized i was throwing my life away on cheap cigars, plastic bottle liquor, and loose women... then after my fourteenth pitcher i laughed about it and kept goin. i could leave this place and move on to something and someone that made me truely happy and much more sucsessful, i could be smoking cuban cigars, sipping crown royal, and settled with a beautiful woman. eh (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 19th, 2004
12:24 am	The Picture Put my lies and my sins into the picture and i will live forever, guilt free and without worry of what i have done to you or anyone else. i submit to you the unwitting reader that the worst invention of the past three hundred years is the first amendment. Everyone who praises the first amendment will be known to me as "Nazi Defenders" or "NAMBLA Supporters" a line in the sand of common sense must be drawn. In order for society to advance de-evolved ideas of hate and evil must be eradicated. Our founding fathers did not intend for Nazis to be allowed to parade down main street in anytown usa. i love this country and the people, but we are falling off track, let those who stand in the way of mankind's progression parish. Not by the guns of us marching forward, but by choking on their own archaic ideology. Germany had a elementary freedom of speech in 1925 and it served as a catalyst for the holocaust not as a deterrent. Now it is your turn to tell me how wrong i am, or if you so desire feel free to agree with me, i wouldnt. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 18th, 2004
12:51 pm	The Begining (The Big Inning) Why concern ourselves with the major problems of the world when they don't directly effect us, and those in charge have yet to destroy us? (Comment on this)