so now you've got me humming the doors. (well i been down so very damn long . . that it looks like up from here.)

Is life chance or the dance?

Read the Tom Howard book "Chance or The Dance" for some good insights.

Jim

Ah, forget that last post. Just give Him a chance. If you're wrong, so what? According to you nothing's for sure anyways. So just give Christ a chance. Start taking the RCIA classes at your local Roman Catholic Church, and then watch what He does.

You can't spend your life on the fence the whole time, Tim. You gotta get off on one side or the other.

Give Him a chance. He split time in half, BC and AD, that gives Him some credibility.

Jim

I know this is not the desired intent, but I keep hearing Dylan in my head every time I read this....

"The answer, my friend, is bloviating in the wind.... WAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYHHHHLLLLLLLLLLL...."

:P

"The Wind of the Holy Spirit" !!! , as Pope John Paul II referred to after Dylan sang "Blwin' In the Wind" and "Trying to Get to Heaven" a few years back at some event.

And when Dylan sang "How many roads must a man walk down?', The Pope held up his pointing finger. One way, wone way, one way. Jesus Christ, The Lord, The Giver of Life!!!

Jim

Huckabee is winning, Hilliary is losing.

Huckabee is winning, Hilliary is losing.

Huckabee is winning, Hilliary is losing.

Huckabee is winning, Hilliary is losing.

nee ner na ner nee noo

Huckabee's winning


Huckabee's winning













and Hlllary is losing.

nee ner na ner nee noo.

Man that really has to sting, and sting really bad for all of those libs and media elites who have adopted Hillary as their Virgin Mary figure.

Jim

Yo byrnes: Drop me an e-mail when you read this. Yr antimusic addy bounced. I'm'a'thinkin' of visiting in a month or so, provided you show up here & we can work out the details before that. :P

Let me predict Tim's response for you:

"Sorry been busy, been havin' to take the cat to the vet, and I've been gettin' over the flu for the last week or so. Yeah, you can come on by, but I might not be the greatest of company. That being because I met who I thought was a nice lady in a bar a while back and broke up with her after only a week and a half of what I was hopin' and thinkin' would last forever. So I've basically been sittin' around feelin' sorry for myself for the last two months, outside of takin' the cat to the vet and earnin' the ol' rent and food in the fridge."

Ten bucks says that the response will be something like that.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, per se, just making a prediction.

Jim

Take care, Tim.

Not to puncture yr prediction, Jim, but I've ebeen busy working. So busy in fact that I got another job w/less hours so I might actually have a life again. A life I don't want to waste dithering w/you and yr Christ delusions.
Gotta go see what's up w/antimusic. Be back soon
tb
ps: Obama is winning and Huckabee doesn't believe in evolution and is, as such, aloser.

But Tim, can't I still come over in April and share MY "Christ delusions"? :P

Glad to hear yr up and about, anyway. Of course, I'd've felt better about it if I'd been the first person you'd responded to. But as that first person would say, I'm not bitter. :P

Don't feel bad Carl. I tend to make it necessary for people to do damage control before they can respond to anyone else. :-D

Jim

cause that's what Jesus would do that muckraking little housepainter, right Jim?
Carl, sorry I posted here 1st but as usual was in a hurry. Now what's this about April and YR Christ delusion?

And I'm truly sorry to offend, but in my opinion it's a delusion. I respect yr right to believe what you want but the actual belief?Not my job, man.
tb

Hey Tim, God is love. And Christ is divine. So if you believe in love, you believe in Christ. There is no way around it.

And you see what happened when love got crucified? It arose, it couldn't be kept down.

Do you think that love is some abstract thing inside of us that comes merely from our biological makeup?

It is a Person. Like The Bible says, "God is love." God: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. One God, in three persons.

The rock'n'rollers sing about it enough. They should read The Bible and then they can put it in its proper perspective.

Jim

"cause that's what Jesus would do that muckraking little housepainter, right Jim?"

He rocks our boats, that's for sure.

Jim

Hey Tim, Carl said its OK for me to rant about the Moodies on his blog; but I figure I'll rant here too, soas to catch the both of you here.

Anyhow, here are my thoughts on the Moodies :

Hey, remember when you said it was OK for me to rant about the Moodies here?

Well...

The Moody Blues are better than any other secular rock band, that I have ever enjoyed.

They give the dots, and we connect them.

They don't think their badder or better than anyone else. Yet they have
the most endearing collection of inspiring beautifully written and produced songs.

I purchased "The Best of The Moody Blues" a few months back, for one song and one song only ("The Voice").

But I could not believe how good all of the other songs were. I now have about 7 or 8 of their CDs,
and I plan on owning them all.

Their core 7 albums were made between about 1967 and 1972. I'm only missing one of them, but it is on its way in the mail.

1. Days of Future Passed
2. In Search of the Lost Chord
3. On the Threshold of a Dream
4. To OUr children's Children
5. A Question of Balance
6. Every Good Boy Deserves Favor (the one I have not heard yet)
7. The Seventh Sojourn

They are all very deep concept albums. It is interesting that none of the songs on 3 and 4 are radio staples; yet they
contain their most amazing work.

From what I have soaked in so far, they are all albums worth having; however I ma particularly fond of 2, 3 and 4. I heard that 6 continues in that vein, so I am really looking forward to hearing that one soon.

On two, my favorite section is Justin Hayward's three songs "Voices in the Sky", "Visions of Paradise" and "The Actor" are just incredible; and "Ride My
See-saw" was always one of John Lodge's finest. "Legend of a Mind" is pretty tripped out with its "Timothy Leary 's dead" lyric.


On three the album closes with "Are You Sitting Comfortably", then a cool monologue piece that segues into a Mike Pinder trilogy ("Have You Heard?", "The Voyage" (a commanding instrumental piece), and then "Have You Heard Part II". You just really gotta soak it in. Plus tunes like "Lovely to See You" and "Send Me No Wine" are just vintage Moody Blues. I believe that 3 is their best-selling album. It was very huge when it was out, even though no hits.

On 4, the whole album is a total trip. The band was at its peak, indulging in every instrument. Its an album about space that coincided with he first man landing on the moon. Too many wonderful songs to mention. Can't pick a favorite on it because they are all amazing, but if I had to pick one, I'd say "Eternity's Road" blows me away the most.

There is not one song on their albums so far, that I have to skip when my kids are around. Besides Chritisan bands, there are no other bands that I have ever enjoyed over the years that I can say that about.

Anyhow, thanks for letting me rant about my new favorite band. Oddly there are no other people I know who would even remotely care to talk about the music I like, so if you guys want to humor me and talk Moody Blues with me, more power to ya.

And if you ever decide to do the great favor to yourself of checking in on 3 and 4, and sharing the joy with me, even more power to ya.

Jim

Jim, if you want to write about the Moody Blues at that kinda length get yr own blog and please keep yr Jesus crap to yrself, I'm still not interested
tim

Well sorry, Carl said that I could post to my heart's content on the Moodies on his blog, and I just figured since your blog gets about as much business as his or mine, I figured hey.

Geez, first you can't stand that you're wrong about Jesus, and now you can't stand that the Moodies outclass all of your weird musical tastes.

Name me one Lou Reed song with the universal appeal of "Nights in White Satin"? I want to know, huh?

BTW, Hillary's losin', and McCain is beating Obama in the polls now.

I should be happy that McCain is winning, but, sheesh, what a weak candidate for a Republican.

BTW, I'm doing fine. Thanks so much for asking. (rolleyes)

Jim

Yeah, but on PUNK -- ROCK -- (decidedly non-Moody) BLUES??? That's spam, plain and simple, bro. :P

I'm gathering Tim will opt away from the obvious "Walk on the Wild Side" (which may not be the kind of universal appeal y'r looking for, but it is what it is....) and go for the lesser-known-but-more-apropos to yr definition "Sweet Jane."

And unless Hilary rallies and forces me to vote for McCain, if it comes down to Mr. Compromise vs. Mr. Great-Vision-But-Wrong-About-EVERYTHING (see also Jimmy Carter), 3rd party's actually looking pretty sensible. It ain't "throwing yr vote away" if there's nowhere else viable to throw it. Even a hard-line Republican such as yrself has to realize there's a time to stand up and say, "I don't CARE what you call yrself -- you don't represent ME."

And I WANTED McCain 8 years ago over Bush. You know, back when he looked more like Teddy Roosevelt and less like Teddy Kennedy. :P

Well for one thing 'universal appeal' smacks to me of 'lowest common denominator' and 'Nights in White Satin' is still crappy high school poetry no matter how many folks bought it. Can you say 'Hootie and the Blowfish'? And as afar as 'how yr doin'?' I don't know how much clearer I can make it but I don't care how you are, Jim, yr a pimple of a man sucking on the teat of Jesus 'cause you got no mind of yr own.

Politiically, it doesn't matter who 'wins' the election, they're all a bunch of liars and crooks, Clinton and Obama included, or they wouldn't have risen this far in the machinery in the 1st place. I'm only voting for Obama because of all the racists his election would piss off.

Besisdes, isn't Obama like the Antichrist: eloquent man comes out of nowhere, promising peace and a new world order? I, of course, son't buy the Christ/Antichrist myth buut y'gotta admit, the brother fits the profile, no?

Now go awasy Jim, far far away, and to be clear, start yr own blog

Yeah, its going to take everything I got to vote for McCain; he better do a sufficient job making religious right wing conservatives, like myself, happy. He's prpomising strict constructionist judges to the Supreme Court, which is a good start at least.

"Well for one thing 'universal appeal' smacks to me of 'lowest common denominator' and 'Nights in White Satin' is still crappy high school poetry no matter how many folks bought it. Can you say 'Hootie and the Blowfish'?"

Well are you going to call guys like
Reed and Strummer better poets than Hayward? Those guys make the Moodies look like Shakespeares. Heck, they make my dog look like Shakespeare, and I don't even own one.

Oops, I forgot. Those guys wear/wore leather jackets and had an attitude. I guess that makes them more talented.

"And as afar as 'how yr doin'?' I don't know how much clearer I can make it but I don't care how you are, Jim, yr a pimple of a man sucking on the teat of Jesus 'cause you got no mind of yr own."

So, you're saying that you should not care how someone is doing. just because they have a different idea than you? I thought you self-righteous punkers were all on to the true meaning of love, and all that, and that it was everyone else that just shoved people aside. I thought that you guys were the tolerant ones, and everyone else were "haters", "hompmophobes", etc. So much for that crock.

"Politiically, it doesn't matter who 'wins' the election, they're all a bunch of liars and crooks, Clinton and Obama included, or they wouldn't have risen this far in the machinery in the 1st place. I'm only voting for Obama because of all the racists his election would piss off."

If you were including Bush in that, I will defend him to the end. As far as McCain, say whatever you want about him. Yeah, he's a war hero, and we can't take that away from him; but my definiton of a real hero is someone who tries to live like a hero every day. I've seen that guy compromise and play dirty so much, that I'm really not going to go out on a limb to defend him. But Bush is a man of total honor. Totally true to his word, totally great at taking the high road, and has a great record that history will truly respect.

"Besisdes, isn't Obama like the Antichrist: eloquent man comes out of nowhere, promising peace and a new world order? I, of course, son't buy the Christ/Antichrist myth but y'gotta admit, the brother fits the profile, no?"

Let's just say I don't think that Obama will be as hard to defeat as some might think.

"Now go away Jim, far far away, and to be clear, start yr own blog."

Well, I guess you've said it enough that you must mean it. You had invited me here way back when on the dorf board; but I ain't gonna stick around here if I'm not wanted.

Jim

Promises, promises. And yes, Strummer and Reed, among others, speak to me much more directly than the Moody Blues and their dungeon and dragon psuedosymphonies. As to whethjer or not that makes them 'better' than Reed, the Clash or anyone; that's a ridiculous question. 'better' is totally subjective. I like the VU better than the Moodies and you obviously like them better than I do. It's like that belief vs fact question you have so mych trouble with. Just 'cause you believe it don't make it so!

This is you wanting me to leave? First I'm supposed to go to the place where the worm dieth not, and then your philosophizing about rock and roll with me.

Anyways, yeah, I totally agree with you. The Moodies only job is to be the best Moodies they can be and the VU can only be the best VU they can be.

As far as poetry goes, they all did a pretty good job communicating what they wanted to communicate.

I'm not big not pitting one band versus another band, becaue its like comparing apples and oranges.

My only point about the Moodies is that there is not a lot of the rough edges that I've found with most secular rock bands.

I mean, I can play "Best of the Moodies" to my family, and there is like nothing bad or offensive on it, and not even the musical landscapes are rough.

I was playing a best of Rush today in the car, and while there is really no offense in any of the lyrics to their credit, the music itself I find contains a little too much of that "over-trebly please play me on FM:" feel. I mean "The Trees" starts out like Andre Segovia, and then after a brief pause abruptly goes into obnoxious power chord mode. Its crazy. So I just played "Subdivisions" and "Distant Early Warning". That's as wild as it gets in terms of the music I play to my family.

When you have an innocent little kids sitting in the car seat, you really want to keep things on the gentle side.

Jim

PS Hey look, I'll stay out of your conversations here with others.

Stay......out.....period.
tb

Oh, that latest post.

All the best.
Jim

BTW jim, those "neener neeners" ain't working too well. Huck's toast, and Hillary's rallying. Not happy about it either; just pointing out the obvious and gritting my teeth to pull the lever for McCain if it comes to that.

Both O and H are now stuck in the mud in the delegate race.

Hillary has to win 94% of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination, and Obama has to win 77% of the remaining delegates to win.

Neither one of them will likely be able to achieve that.

It'll probably be a long blood convention battle.

Jim

And just an hour down the road from me, too.... hoo-hah.

John Hickenlooper, what hell hath you wrought???? :P

Well, come DNC time, I'd get some lawn chairs for your family, head down the road a ways, and find a nice clearing to view the sky. Cuz there's sure going to be a lot of fireworks.

Jim

PS I don't know much about John Hickenlooper, but I'm sure he's not nearly as bad as Kwame Kilpatrick.

Hickenlooper (the mayor of Denver, I should clarify)'s fine, actually. Don't agree with his politics but seems a decent enough chap. I wish he'd decided to run instead of the pretty but wishy-washy Ritter, if we were going to wind up with a Democratic governor anyway.

But the DNC in Denver IS his doing. And for that matter (personal peeve alert), the incredibly overdesigned yet even more incredibly lame Denver Art Museum. And for these things, he WILL pay. :P

Although given the impending trainwreck effect will probably result in a lot more revenue to the city/state than a more boring DNC would've -- and thus justifying his main motivation all along. :D

Oh yes, and we live across the street from Lake Loveland. Fireworks don't get much better than THAT. :D

I submit as evidence: http://bp3.blogger.com/_NQ2hksATssg/Rox-bvGHJ0I/AAAAAAAAAu4/nBJrqY9EW4w/s320/100_0524.jpg

(and I don't know this guy, so please don't harass him, jim... :PPP)

"http://bp3.blogger.com/_NQ2hksATssg/Rox-bvGHJ0I/AAAAAAAAAu4/nBJrqY9EW4w/s320/100_0524.jpg "

Hmmm. I would have guessed it was a top view of Tim's latest haircut while he was standing on a fancy floor mat.

Jim

Nah. Tim's somewhat more dapper than that. That picture looks more like Mike Roe, actually. :D

"Maybe Adam Ant, even" said Snagglepuss.

Jim