I Hate Swimming
I am barefoot
and the pavement burns
my pale soles.
I begin to shuffle
first to the left
then, right.
Holding each
until I can no longer stand
without wobble.
I would seek shelter
but, that would find
me leaving you
alone, again.
And, I can’t.
Won’t.
Your willful eyes
and your exuberance
stand with me.
I am here
to brave the burn.
p.s. all that stuff about going blind is a lie.
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No Contest
even if no one gets me, if i'm the only one laughing at my jokes, i won't hide myself away from life. it's uncertain and it's dirty and it's fucking exciting, and i want to be a part of all of it.
it's too good to waste in hiding.
toujours
February, 21, 2009 1:27 AM
it's too good to waste in hiding.
toujours
February, 21, 2009 1:27 AM
heart full
Today on my way home from class, I stopped off at the petrol station for some petrol. I paid on my card which wasn’t a lot, and then as I was getting into my car, I saw an old man walking past the building. He had a red and green stripy jumper which was frayed at the ends. He was also wearing some jeans that were dirty and had holes all over.
I sat there and became intrigued by him because I didn’t know what he was doing, so as I sat there and watched him, he continued doing what he set out to do.
He walked past the trash cans and first picked out a cup with some drink still in it (one of the cups that you get from burger king that has coke in it). He then walked over to the next trash can and pulled out the end of a half eaten sandwich. In my shock horror, he ate it and then went to sit on the wall to drink the drink he had found.
I felt sad, I wanted to give him my last $4 that I had but I was told when I was younger that you should never give people money, you should give them something they need or can use because that way, if they had an addiction, they would not be able to use the money for their addiction. So I went into the shop and bought a chicken sandwich from their deli counter and then walked out of the building.
The guy was still sat at the wall drinking his drink so I walked up to him and asked him if he would like this sandwich. He thanked me and said that he was hungry.
I should of felt good after that, doing something for someone else but all I could think of is where his next meal will come from or where in fact he will sleep tonight.
Fimble Star
September 30, 2008 8:08 PM
(Tonight, although I am cold and my feet are sore, my belly is full.)
I sat there and became intrigued by him because I didn’t know what he was doing, so as I sat there and watched him, he continued doing what he set out to do.
He walked past the trash cans and first picked out a cup with some drink still in it (one of the cups that you get from burger king that has coke in it). He then walked over to the next trash can and pulled out the end of a half eaten sandwich. In my shock horror, he ate it and then went to sit on the wall to drink the drink he had found.
I felt sad, I wanted to give him my last $4 that I had but I was told when I was younger that you should never give people money, you should give them something they need or can use because that way, if they had an addiction, they would not be able to use the money for their addiction. So I went into the shop and bought a chicken sandwich from their deli counter and then walked out of the building.
The guy was still sat at the wall drinking his drink so I walked up to him and asked him if he would like this sandwich. He thanked me and said that he was hungry.
I should of felt good after that, doing something for someone else but all I could think of is where his next meal will come from or where in fact he will sleep tonight.
Fimble Star
September 30, 2008 8:08 PM
(Tonight, although I am cold and my feet are sore, my belly is full.)
It helped.
Jennicula,
Thank you for sharing your story. Although it only appeared briefly, I was lucky enough to have caught it.
Once upon a time, for me, that was the best part of this place...having my words related back to me from another's perspective.
And it never mattered to me who said it, just that it meant something to the writer.
Thank you for sharing your story. Although it only appeared briefly, I was lucky enough to have caught it.
Once upon a time, for me, that was the best part of this place...having my words related back to me from another's perspective.
And it never mattered to me who said it, just that it meant something to the writer.
Blog header image by: Anima
I would like to credit the photographer and thank her for sharing her work.
something
Don't let anyone tell you how to live your life. Hold your head up high and be proud of who you are. If you've had a shitty day and you feel like people just don't want you to be happy, and when you find yourself struggling to make it through the day, just keep on believing and keep the faith. Also, from personal experience, don't push people away. When they say they want to help and that they are there for you, let them in. Believe me, I know how fucking scary that thought is, but don't shut others out.
paperheartxx
September 22, 2008 11:07 PM
paperheartxx
September 22, 2008 11:07 PM
Retro-spectacled
Sometimes, when you look back on stuff in your life, you know, the crap that makes you shake your head and say, "Holy shit, what the Hell was I thinking?" it's part of what makes you - you.
I'm not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. I have made small mistakes and really big, fucking scary mistakes. Would I change those mistakes and blunders?
No. Wanna know why?
Because they make me - me. They help make up the person that I am, what I've learned the hard way. Hopefully I've learned from my mistakes and have become a better person for it. And, hopefully I don't repeat those same mistakes. Although, sometimes I repeat variations of certain ones, but I'm working on that. :)
Jennicula
June 11, 2008 11:19 AM
I'm not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. I have made small mistakes and really big, fucking scary mistakes. Would I change those mistakes and blunders?
No. Wanna know why?
Because they make me - me. They help make up the person that I am, what I've learned the hard way. Hopefully I've learned from my mistakes and have become a better person for it. And, hopefully I don't repeat those same mistakes. Although, sometimes I repeat variations of certain ones, but I'm working on that. :)
Jennicula
June 11, 2008 11:19 AM
aloft
Blazing against the sun
like locusts,
samaras swarm the sky
and skitter to an earthly end,
dry
like clever words.
I want to make them fly up,
flip heaven upside down
and dance across the top of hell
and sing your thoughts
to the sound of thunder
that you love so well,
rip open the littered sky
and bathe in the light
or draw across the firmament
the blanket of the night.
In only a day they have
covered the ground,
their brief flight
yielding nothing permanent
on infertile land,
a fleeting moment of swarming glory
that calls to mind our own
short story:
Diamonds and petals,
the loom and the light,
the inkdark moon, foxfire marsh,
an open, waiting hand.
Clever winged seeds
of childhood reminiscent--
and like the idiot grown-up heart,
as stubbornly indehiscent.
Weaver Girl
May 26, 2008 11:27 PM
like locusts,
samaras swarm the sky
and skitter to an earthly end,
dry
like clever words.
I want to make them fly up,
flip heaven upside down
and dance across the top of hell
and sing your thoughts
to the sound of thunder
that you love so well,
rip open the littered sky
and bathe in the light
or draw across the firmament
the blanket of the night.
In only a day they have
covered the ground,
their brief flight
yielding nothing permanent
on infertile land,
a fleeting moment of swarming glory
that calls to mind our own
short story:
Diamonds and petals,
the loom and the light,
the inkdark moon, foxfire marsh,
an open, waiting hand.
Clever winged seeds
of childhood reminiscent--
and like the idiot grown-up heart,
as stubbornly indehiscent.
Weaver Girl
May 26, 2008 11:27 PM
Electric Blue
…today I saw a ulysses butterfly it was in our yard and settled to feed on our hibiscus. They really are fantastically beautiful things, the electric blue is amazing, however as they sit with their wings closed they are rather nondescript and dull. Sometimes people are like that, from the outside they seem unappealing but within there hides an amazing beauty for those lucky enough to see it. I hope you appreciate beauty in all things, and look for it perhaps where others miss it.
ergoproxy
April 29, 2008 4:45 AM
ergoproxy
April 29, 2008 4:45 AM
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.
I read your post again and suddenly without warning memories of construction paper filled my head. I remembered all the lop-sided flowers my girls made when they were young. Bright blue, yellow and pink flowers that were cut out with blunt end scissors would fill the windows to decorate for Easter. An occasional bunny was attempted but those usually ended up looking like creatures from a horror movie. Flowers were so much easier. I can close my eyes and hear the paper being cut into petals. I can smell the Elmer’s glue squirted on in huge blobs to attach each misshapen petal to form the flowers. We had a huge arts and crafts box full of wonderful items just waiting for their imaginations to turn into something wonderful. In my mind I see my daughters, as they once were, small, blond little girls sitting on the floor surrounded by scraps of paper and other art supplies. They would create their masterpieces then proudly show each other. Oh and Lord the messes that would ensue if the glitter made an appearance. Now, the box is forgotten. I’m not really sure where it even is anymore. The few flowers so lovingly created that survived are faded and dusty and high on a shelf they sit. Time marches on, so many things get left behind.
Today was the first Easter I spent alone. I don’t think it really upset me until I remembered the construction paper flowers. Of course I understand that my daughters are growing up and have lives of their own. But understanding doesn’t make it any easier to accept. I miss my little girls in their frilly Easter dresses. I miss the laughter that filled the house when they found what the Easter Bunny left for them. And I miss making the damn flowers.
Elena
March 24, 2008 3:57 AM
Today was the first Easter I spent alone. I don’t think it really upset me until I remembered the construction paper flowers. Of course I understand that my daughters are growing up and have lives of their own. But understanding doesn’t make it any easier to accept. I miss my little girls in their frilly Easter dresses. I miss the laughter that filled the house when they found what the Easter Bunny left for them. And I miss making the damn flowers.
Elena
March 24, 2008 3:57 AM
From the corner.
I wonder if you noticed
all our friends playing
Some had never tried before
and the result was amazing.
Poems from the corner
from the left and right
We did our best to keep them flowing
Late into this night.
If nothing else was accomplished
I hope we made someone see
How truly beautiful and amazing
a poem can be.
Sdock10
March 13, 2008 11:36 PM
all our friends playing
Some had never tried before
and the result was amazing.
Poems from the corner
from the left and right
We did our best to keep them flowing
Late into this night.
If nothing else was accomplished
I hope we made someone see
How truly beautiful and amazing
a poem can be.
Sdock10
March 13, 2008 11:36 PM
Thank You. Truly.
"This little world has grown around us, out of nothing, and it is a remarkable thing. Even the dark and dirty parts, the violent parts. Humanity will not thrive without passion."
Redrum
March 1, 2008 3:13 AM
Redrum
March 1, 2008 3:13 AM
Uncondensed
Your words are what give value to this space.
Never do that again.
Yes, I am aware.
Character Advocacy.
"Don't ever pretend to be something you're not. You are who you are, and no one can change that. The people who don't like the real you are just gonna have to suck it. Don't take shit from anyone. Don't crumble. Throw a few birds, and walk on.
I'm still trying to do this, so maybe we can work on it together."
mustardisbetter
January 16, 2008 4:48 PM
I'm still trying to do this, so maybe we can work on it together."
mustardisbetter
January 16, 2008 4:48 PM
Art by: Toujours
“I decided to stop pitying myself. Other than my eye, two things aren't paralyzed, my imagination and my memory.”
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Jean-Dominique Bauby
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1 – 200 of 3282 Newer› Newest»That song gives me chills, K. It actually made the hair on my arms stand on end!
Oh, new post!
:S
Dude! You left my ass back there!
^_^
*squeezes Mayo*
Whoah, we're over here now.
Hi, Mayo :)
Did you remember to vote?
Yeah, and I was way back there.
O_o
LMAO, going blind. Heh. Thanks for that earlier then, I suppose? yes, thank you.
Also, because you were there for that, please let me apologize again for that stuff. This is a blog, a BLOG! A diary! Of some poet! I don't know why people have to get like that and spam it up. I know if it was my blog I would lose patience. I'm sorry.
I love swimming, love it. I hate the hot sand (or hot pavement) too, but you just gotta love swimming!
Dude, you will not, can not walk barefoot around pool down here. You will lose 3 layers of skin on the bottoms of your feet.
Ask Smoke. I left imprints on my flip flops where my feet melted into my shoes.
I love hot sand. I love floating in a pool.
I cannot swim. Enough to get by but yeah. And the ocean is beautiful and I love it but it scares the shit out of me.
My confession for the night.
That's why you have to have a white deck, Solly! Or grass. Or wear shoes till you go into the water.
Yep, Mayo. Exactly what Jules said. Sorry for the bullshit.
Me three.
Sorry doesn't seem like enough sometimes. :(
But Jules, it was on my back deck and it was one of those things where your body doesn't realize how fucking hot it is until your feet are already melting. Slow to react.
Mayo,
Swim at night.
It scares the everloving christ out of me, Princess; I confess as well. The ocean could eat you like a little finger-snack if it wanted to. It could pull you out of suck you under and feed you to the leviathans. An ocean death would be such a lonely and scary death.
But I keep going back into that bitch.
You don't need to apologize. I know and understand.
Even more scary! DNW! DNW! No large bodies of water in the dark!
EEEEEEEEK!
sdock10 said...
Mayo,
Swim at night.
O_O Don't you watch horror films?
Anonymous said...
You don't need to apologize. I know and understand.
November 6, 2008 8:56 PM
Then, mahalo and mahalo and mahalo. For keeping your place open, for being nice, and for understanding.
Exactly, Jules! O_O
*squeezes Mayo again*
Err, and by "the blog of some poet" I didn't mean to sound flip. O_o
Where the fuck do you guys go swimming? The swamp? Jesus Christ. I love to swim at night, but I don't go out in neck deep water.
I have been in the river at night.
It was nice.
i don't believe you
Mayo,
I'm glad you understand because most of the time I don't. And thanks again for everything.
Also, because I feel like I have to say this even though I know it's so ridiculous: Riverhead can be a really nice place, and Long Island is so beautiful. It's not the way people say it is. I mean, yes some places are ghetto, but what place doesn't have parts like that? It's not a bad thing. It just gives you perspective.
That's petty but I have to put that out there. >_<
The rivers around here = a mothereffin' swamp.
For the love of God, Solly.
GATORS!!!!!
Swimming.
Ah, the things we will endure for the ones we love.
Solly, evil, nocturnal beings live under the water, and they have little shark teeth or suckers, and they're sentient and they will carry you to their underwater hell where you will be devoured slowly.
Mayo,
Exactly. I probably wouldn't have gotten in that river by myself.
But, oh the fun I would have missed.
*Sharp teeth, not "shark" teeth. Although they have those too.
Well, time to shower & head to bed.
Goodnight, all :)
Good night, RW! Enjoy your shower.
Jules,
It's just kind of icky on the bottom with all the dead leaves and what not, and the eels, and the catfish, oh yeah, and the gators.
Hope you feel even better tomorrow, RW! Sweet dreams!
RW,
Sweet dreams and feel better! Lay off the gin and juice.
have a glass of port RW, it works better. and don't take it with medication!
PAUMANOK
SEA-BEAUTY! stretch'd and basking!
One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious
commerce, steamers, sails,
And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle
&emdash; mighty hulls dark-gliding in the distance.
Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water &emdash; healthy
air and soil!
Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!
WTF, the dashes got screwed up.
At any rate, that is about my island. Paumanok is the Native word for Long Island.
Nice! :)
From Montauk Point
I STAND as on some mighty eagle's beak,
Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and
sky,)
The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the distance.
The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps
that
inbound urge and urge of waves,
Seeking the shores forever.
Mayo, do you hold your nose when you jump into the water? Ha Ha,i do!
Thanks, Princess. :D
hi.
just got back from having dinner out for my stepdad -- today's his birthday. :)
as we were heading out i told my mom that just my luck, mayo would post while we were at dinner.
thanks, mayo.
but anyway, it's a lovely post. it's very touching, and the line my pale soles kinda makes me grin.
Hi TJ, happy b'day to step dad. Sounds nice. :)
Hi TJ!
Thank you for the new post, Mayo. I hope you know how much we really do appreciate your words. :)
Thanks for hanging out for a bit, too.
*squeezes Mayo for a third time*
Have a great night, okay?
See you guys in the morning!
XOXO
Well, I gotta go.
It has been great chatting with you all.
Tell everyone I said hello and that I wish them well.
I hope to be back soon.
And, I'm glad you like it.
Goodnight Mayo! :)
Mayo, I hope you are wearing like SPF 50 at least. And don't forget to reapply. :)
Good night, Mayo! Thanks for coming in to chat, and for all that you said. Thanks for the new post and for godsakes get some flip flops. Also, there is no shame in men wearing socks in the summer. It's considered to be quite hip actually.
Not really.
Have a jappy night! :)
G'night, Mayo!
Thanks for hanging with us and chatting us up! Good to read you again!
Thanks for the post!
hello kapunua and sdock. :)
good night smoke.
good night *squints*
mayo?
go figure.
par for the course.
Remember Mayo, you spoil in the sun.
Not if it's kept at the right temperature.
If it's not
it will spoil
fast.
Thanks for new post, very imagey, felt like I could smell it and everything.
I try to keep mine at the perfect temperature. I don't refrigerate my ketchup or mustard. I don't like cold ketchup.
Heck yeah, TJ. Mayo was chillaxing at the end of the last post too.
OMG Mayo! 6:39! I wonder what number comment it was! All the good numbers! ^_^
Ew, I gotta refrigerate my condiments.
SIXTY!
Sorry.
Hey Carrie!
Oh man, 60 at 9:51! Whoop!
Your mustard probably lasts much longer than mine. I use the ketchup too fast for it to spoil.
Kapunua. what is the significance of 3, 6 & 9?
Hey K! My kid is a ketchup fiend, we once got her a gallon jug of the shit for Christmas, and told her we wouldn't say one word about how she used it.
i always miss him, kapunua. that's what i meant by "par for the course". it's just my luck. :/
anyway, i ducked out, and now i'm peeking back in but just to say i'll be back later. i need to polish up my article and send it to my editor.
you may not be able to tell, cuz it's the internet, but everytime i write "my editor", there are little sparkly sdfx and bluebirds pull the clouds aside just enough to let a glimmering beam of sunlight illuminate the words. it's really quite remarkable and each time i have to pause and have a brief moment of *chinhands*.
but there's just no tone on the internet.
ciao, back later.
I miss Mustard. Hard. >_<
Carrie, you guys shoudl try organic ketchup. It's so much nicer than the stuff with all that sugar and high fructose corn syrup. O_O
9:55, I don't know; I'm just obsessed with those numbers. Then recently I see them everywhere. Without trying to, I so often post at a time hat adds up to those numbers, or the comment number adds up, or both. My license plate adds up. My phone number. My student number at my new college. My mileage when I go to places that seem important. The more I see it, the more I see it and the more I see it, the more I see it. O_O
And the other night when the announced that Obama had won the presidency, the electoral votes were 333 and I was quietly freaking out over that.
okay, wait, i have to tell a ketchup story. :)
my mom told me that when she was a girl her uncle bob, who was from new jersey, astounded her by putting ketchup on everything. his eggs. his burgers. his steak. his spaghetti.
yes, his spaghetti.
it made such an impression on her that to this day she says whenever she hears that someone is from new jersey, she immediately assumes they use ketchup in the same fashion.
needless to say, this story made me giggle for a looooong time when she told it. :)
But, that's just my OCD though, probably. If you look for something, it is there. Like with seeing "EGG" in every license plate for the last few months.
I have OCD really hard. I tap wood constantly to ward off bad thoughts that might come true, and I sometimes think in rhymes and meter.
69!!
I use low carb ketchup, but that is still full of chemicals with the Splenda and such. And yeah, ketchup is like tomato candy, for reals, it's why Al likes it. But hey, I bought a pomegranate! That's something. Baby steps!
Oh, have so much fun with your pomegranate! I have one for tonight, too. I'm going to eat it while watching X Files again. So nice.
Oh, a nice sugar substitute is stevia. It's superfly sweet, has no calories and is actually good for you.
I love to eat pomegranates, not only because they are tasty but because they give my fingers something to do. I feel like a little monkey picking the seeds out and eating them.
72 at 10:05 and on that note, I am going to just quit this nonsense and go watch my DVD and eat like a primate. Well, a different primate. ;D
Good night, all!
And Mayo, again: Thank you for 6:39, and thank you for all the other things you said too.
Malama!
So I just cut it in half and start picking the seeds out like a monkey, monkayey? Shock the Monkay!
I eat eggs with ketchup. They're good with ketchup.
Oops, here I go refreshing. Cut it into quarters on a glass place, and eat it out of a bowl. They are suuuper juicy!
I like eggs with ketchup too.
no one liked my ketchup story, huh? well, whatever. talking to myself isn't anything new.
back to work now.
see ya all later.
OOh, thanks for pom pointers!
Oooh kay.
I thought your ketchup story was cute Toujours. It gave me a craving for scrambled eggs and ketchup.
oops! i type too slow. thanks 10:14and carrie. i, too, like eggs with ketchup.
but then, i am directly descended from new jersey folk, on my dad's side. so there you go.
heh.
bye. :)
I'll share my eggs and ketchup with Carrie.
Since she likes them too.
you should go for it 10:17. or, have them with pork & beans. that's how i ate them in england, and it was good, too!
really not refreshing again.
really.
TJ must you take EVERY THING so personally?
I read that as a porn pointers Carrie. I had to scroll back up to see what I missed.
0_0
Ha! Porn pomes!
OOh, I like the eggs overcooked too. My husband is totally annoying about eggs. They have to be hot or he gets all wimpy about it.
So K is nice to TJ after TJ offers to be friends with the stalker anons but if no one answers TJ's story about ketchup TJ gets in a snit. That's ........ weird.....
I don't know anymore, I'm trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but I'm just...here. To talk to anyone who is here.
not again...
carrie, too much vitriol on this blog. the blog needs a good massage, you know, to soften things up a bit.
I will so work the kinks out of its shoulders, just gimme a chance!
first we need a glass of wine to relax. remember, fingers must not be tense!
Or a nice steamy cup of tea would be good also.
good idea.
i wasn't in a snit, i was pouty, there's a difference. :)
anyway, swinging through on my way to the archive. gotta get the rest of those comments saved before i leave here!
so i'll be back in a bit. save me some wine, or tea, or whatever is being imbibed.
oh, wait, i'll probably be drinking coffee.
nevermind! tipple to your heart's content!
*waves*
*heads downstairs*
Did someone say scrambled eggs and ketchup? I love scrambled eggs, ketchup and shredded cheddar.
Mayo, your post came on a night where standing still for too long gave you cold toes immediately. I wish I could burn my naked feet on uncomfortable pavement.
That's all I'd be doing anyway. God knows I can't swim.
Hallo everyone!
-A
I don't really think it's right for Mayo to defend the people he defends but not the others. Twice he has come in and offered his support of a small group of people. But where is his concern for the others? Calling K a 'good person' is a stretch.
Oh ha, with the swimming. Lookit, I'm gonna share. In case you guys didn't know, I'm fat. Like ashamed of your body fat. Also, I love being in a pool, being in water is bliss for me. This blog? Made me do that again. Got up one morning, put on a bathing suit, decided I didn't give a shit what people thought, went with my family and got in the water. Almost emo cried cause it felt so good, and mad at myself because I denied myself such a simple pleasure for so long because I was worried about what others would think. What the fuck? Why should I care? I have three (and more) awesome people who love me who really don't care about the size of my ass. I sooo need to get over it. But, back to that, MAYO, you have been a catalyst in that, just like you have been in so many other lives. It's crazay weird, but it's true. Just like, write a book or something. And oh, tell us who you are in that, just to keep me from actually dying of curiosity. :)
i think i'm going to vomit. Leathermouth is opening for MSI in December.
Carrie-
you rule!
I don't like what I saw here tonight from Mayo and I don't like what I saw the last time. Always the same group. He obviously can't see what they are like or maybe he doesn't WANT to see. The question is WHY.
Mayo admitted that he was Rock-Star but wasn't going to give mean anons the attention they wanted from him.
Thank you anon, I appreciate support from any corner.
hey everyone. Hallo Amy! How are you?
I thought he said he WASN'T a rock star.
There's no way Leathermouth would open up for a no class racist band like MSI. I don't want to believe it.
Of course they are 11:37.
What many of you seem to ignore is that they are all friends.
Yep, Frank and Jimmy Piss are friends.
Pssst, he's friends with Lyndsey too.
That sucks. I thought Frank had more class than that. Thought he stood up for minorities.
There really is nothing good left to MCR. Frank was my last reason for holding onto that band, for holding hope. No more.
Anon where did you get the story LM was opening for MSI. I am trying to find it but all I can find is LM has no tour dates.
Go to MSI's tour page, you'll find it there.
Frank is giving me the douche chills. I never thought I would see that day.
It's all over, but the cryin'.
Well I believe it. Always believe the worst and you will never be let down.
I believed that Gerard was a good man and he wouldn't let his fans down.
It was wrong to believe in any of them.
MSI and Gerard are going to be so smug now. Frank was the only thing left that made sense.
Frank sold out. :(
Now?
He's been fucking the bass player for well over a year.
I'd say he's pretty tight with them.
12.04.08
Thursday
The Station
Portland,
ME
ON SALE TBA
Also appearing: Leathermouth
and Tub Ring
address: 272 St. John Street
GET DIRECTIONS!
tix: $20.00
times: 7:00 PM
ages: All
12.05.08
Friday
Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
Providence,
RI
Also appearing: Leathermouth
and Tub Ring
address: 70 Washington Street
GET DIRECTIONS!
tix: $20.00
times: 7:30 PM
ages: All
12.06.08
Saturday
Starland Ballroom
Sayreville,
NJ
Also appearing: Leathermouth
and Tub Ring
address: 570 Jernee Mill Road
GET DIRECTIONS!
tix: $22.50
times: 7:00 PM
ages: All
12.07.08
Sunday
Toad's Place
New Haven,
CT
Also appearing: Leathermouth
and Tub Ring
address: 300 Yorke Street #1
GET DIRECTIONS!
tix: $20.00
Frank's gone over to the darkside. so sad
I'm sorry you guys feel that way. I had a way more eloquent comment that got ate by blogger, but the gist was, don't take MSI so seriously, which I'm sure has been said forty leven a thousand times before. It's just mostly bad music, don't give it some power it doesn't deserve.
Frank sold out. *is sad*
How sad. I don't see any Canadian dates.
Hallo BC and Carrie!
5 Year Old Pantyshot
I Can See Between Her Legs
5 Year Old Pantyshot
5 Year Old Mother Fuckin Pantyshot Cant Complain
I Didnt Even Touch Her So I Cant Be Blamed
5 Year Old
Pantyshot In My Brain
My Life Has Meaning When She Spreads Her Legs
Hey Amy, how my wig balls comin?
Nigger for all the stolen goods
As I rock that niggers and get freaky-deaky
With a front row ticket for all of my bitches
'Cause my mamma said to pick the very best one
Two hookers and an eight ball
I'll just thank God I never got into Leathermouth than.
I still have faith in Frank. He is a good man. I will never believe anything else.
I don't understand but I still keep the faith
Still, and I know I'm in the minority, satirical comment on society.
well, they'll all be one big happy band family. and Gerard will be with the wife he loves with all his heart.
he loves her so much that he'd go swimming.
now that says alot.
And I heartily say yayness for him.
Carrie, my hairy balls are done, and put on the wig. It looks goood.
Hiya Elena!
MSi themselves said it wasn't a satire or even for shock value.
Blogger Carrie said...
Still, and I know I'm in the minority, satirical comment on society.
November 6, 2008 11:58 PM
Carrie South Park is satirical comments on society. msi are a bunch of people who want be assholes and get paid for it.
I think a lot of people were hoping that one day Frank would get Gerard to see the light about the company he keeps.
With Frank joining in keeping the company it doesn't look good anymore.
Hey there carrie, elena, mj.
What choo guys doing?
Yay for hairy balls! And MJ, ok, but I still can't make my knickers twist about it, it's just music.
what are you trying to say 11:59?
it's quite obvious you don't need to continually repeat it. we all know by now Lindsey is the love of his life.
he has said it enough times, and i now believe him.
Carrie, my hairy balls are done
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What?! O_o
*snickers*
What choo guys doing?"
Hi Kapu.
Gerard got Frank to see MSI's light.
Indeed Carrie.
Hallo BC, I'm not bad tonight. How's it going with you?
Gerard won the whole thing. I agree that I always thought that Frank would be the stable force to bring the old Gerard back.
And I liked Leathermouth.
Hee, I have totally been following Amy's hairy balls on the web, they could have had their own webisodes!
Hi 12:04. That's good Amy. Me? I'm reading up on sleep deprivation.
jimmy is an attention whore. he says its not satire or shock in order to shock.
his attempts at satirical social commentary are cheap and pedestrian.
personally, i don't listen.
At 12:08 am BC? You've got conviction! Did you hear back on the job and the school?
Carrie, I love it when you follow my hairy balls!
I gotta say, Leathermouth, not my cuppa, although a couple songs aren't so bad, Wait, OMG, think that's what I said the first time Al made me listen to MCR so perhaps, high horse? I am crawling off of you...
BC copies everything she does and says and then answers to Kapu's name. Scary, Run Kap Run!
Sorry but as soon as I hear the words nigger and faggot from a band then they are as bad as a band can be. Axl Rose pulled that shit in the 80s and even then he didn't get away with it.
Anyone who supports them is not OK in my book.
Sadly that includes Leathermouth now.
Carrie said...
Yay for hairy balls! And MJ, ok, but I still can't make my knickers twist about it, it's just music.
November 7, 2008 12:03 AM
Carrie it isn't just music. Music has a way of making people feel, believe things and inspire people.
Anyway their are a lot of bands out there that make satirical comments on society with out using derogatory language.
But if you also take into account that msi have said they have no message and our just in it for money.
Sorry guys but I can't stay. I'm taking care of sick people right now and just trying to keep up.
Hey Mayo - good to see a new post
About Frank - I stand by what I said before - he's a good man. I believe in him, always have and always will.
A good man who sold out. But why?
12:11,
Have you been sniffing a bottle of Elmer's glue?
Amy, the counselor had a meeting, so my appointment has been moved to monday. I don't think I had such luck with the job, but I guess I'll wait for that call tomorrow.
Goodnight Elena
Goodnight Elena.
Ah BC, don't worry. The meeting will go well, and if you miss out of the job you'll find another.
We just keep going, one day at a time.
BC,
elmer's glue is non-toxic. you could sniff that shit all day and it wouldn't harm you.
it's made for kids and they eat everything, including elmer's glue.
I had a total bliss moment earlier today, and of course thought of you guys, cuz, I'm lame. Spontaneously decided to go for a walk because hello, MI? 70 degrees in November? At any rate, I set out, kept punching at my IPod. got Desert Song, I was crunching through leaves, slight breeze, blue skies overhead. If the peoples who be could have looked in my brain right at that moment, perfect anti depressant.
anon at 12:15
In my heart I believe there is a reason.
What can't be easily seen still exists.
I will never give up the faith
MJ, music can't influence me to change my beliefs. I only choose to give a few things power.
Goodnight Elena. Haha true anon, and there's also Crayola crayons ^_^
Whatever I'm doing in my life has nothing to do with K. It's just stuff I've been talking about doing for a while.
Holy shit I'm in a house of puke. Seriously, this is some badass shit.
I wish I could stay and discuss all of this. I wish I could speak my mind completely but not now.
Goodnight to all of you.
Take care and catch you all tomorrow. (I hope)
Carrie said...
MJ, music can't influence me to change my beliefs. I only choose to give a few things power.
November 7, 2008 12:22 AM
But music can inspire people who think it is alright to hate. You know reinforce their belief that it is okay.
Goodnight Elena. Thanks Amy. With that aside, since tomorrow is Friday, I'll be spending my day gathering info on yoga classes, and to get my sleep deprivation in check.
Anonymous said...
i think i'm going to vomit. Leathermouth is opening for MSI in December.
November 6, 2008 11:37 PM
What?
Huh?
What???????
Leathermouth the support act for MSI?
Has anybody told Kapu about this?
Ooooooo.
There goes her undying love and support of Frank Iero and everything he does. That just flew out the proverbial window!
this came up on my I pod today, and made me think of you guys
The time I like is the rush hour, cos I like the rush
The pushing of the people - I like it all so much
Such a mass of motion - do not know where it goes
I move with the movement and ... I have the touch
Im waiting for ignition, Im looking for a spark
Any chance collision and I light up in the dark
There you stand before me, all that fur and all that hair
Oh, do I dare ... I have the touch
Wanting contact
Im wanting contact
Im wanting contact with you
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Give me the thing I understand
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Any social occasion, its hello, how do you do
All those introductions, I never miss my cue
So before a question, so before a doubt
My hand moves out and ... I have the touch
Wanting contact
Im wanting contact
Im wanting contact with you
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Give me the thing I understand
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Pull my chin, stroke my hair, scratch my nose, hug my knees
Try drink, food, cigarette, tension will not ease
I tap my fingers, fold my arms, breathe in deep, cross my legs
Shrug my shoulders, stretch my back - but nothing seems
To please
I need contact
I need contact
Nothing seems to please
I need contact
Elena, DON'T GET SICK!
*waves her hanky*
Anonymous said...
Frank sold out. *is sad*
November 6, 2008 11:55 PM
O come on. It's music. It's rock n roll. They're rock musicians. Not gods, preachers, teachers or your parents.
And MJ, only people who choose not to think for themselves
12:26,
I bet GW forced Frank to open up for them.
I was reading a recent issue of Metal Hammer(It rocks)and MSI were being interviewed in the Spanish Inquisition.
What really put a smile on my face was how pissed off the band sounded when they were answering questions from the readers, especially Lyn-Z and Jimmy.
It was the highlight of my day.
Yay anon, I think you and I are on the same page. I don't ascribe musicians power.
^^I thought the band reaction was funny, so that's what I mean by highlight of my day.
Mikey wears MSI shirts so i'm just waiting for Bob and Ray to sell out to MSI to make it a sweep.
No wait, take that back.
12.31 I would like to believe that but look what happen when GW got with lynz all of a sudden to all these fans lynz was now the greatest bass player that ever lived.
Carrie even people who think for themselves will let people who they respect influence them. We have all done it.
But I do find it a bit interesting that i went to the LM sites and it has nothing listed.
By the way hello everyone.
We are on the same page Carrie.
This is how I feel about it ---
I know I've never looked to any musician or any type of famous
or semi-famous person
to teach me anything about the way to live my life.
I certainly don't need them to preach a moral code, ethics or values to me. That I did get from my parents, teachers, preachers and my God.
I'm really tired, so I am off to bed. Goodnight guys.
Hello MJ
Bleeding C
Amy
Carrie and Elena.
We will just agree to disagree MJ. I really don't think we should elevate any musician to the level of some sort of spiritual leader or ethics professor. If we do
we'll be disappointed
every
single
time.
yeah, I really don't look at popular culture for my values.
12:26 and :31,
i think it's about losing respect for someone. it's like when you meet someone you admire and they turn out to be an asshole. you lose a little respect for that person.
12.26 it isn't about someone teaching you a moral code. It is about them saying that they had one particular moral code but giving it up for fame, money and sex.
It is also about people going around and saying words that are used to put people down and acting like it is some joke or no big deal because those words have no effect on them.
That is what msi is doing. It is all one big joke because they aren't the ones who are effected. They are not the ones who are spit on or treated like second class citizens.
People who are famous shouldn't have that much an effect on people but they do. Even if you aren't one of the people who looks up and respect that person there are a lot of people who do.
Paris Hilton did a sex tape and her name got even bigger. Now most people who want to get noticed make sex tapes.
Goodnight BC.
12.26 hello. Not every time. Look at people like Bono. You just have to be willing to stay true to your beliefs and not sway because people don't think you are cool. Or just keep your mouth shut and never say anything about your beliefs.
People get the power you give them, bottom line.
I just don't see how Leathermouth making a business decision makes any of them assholes.
I wouldn't think they were satanists if they choose to open for some Black Metal band.
If you like Leathermouth's music
you should still like their music. If you like and respect the charity work Frank Iero does
you should still like and respect him for that work. No matter what band they choose to tour with.
That's the way I feel.
True carrie and look at who young people today are giving their power to.
Did you miss Bono with the underage chicks at the hotel? Everhyone is just waiting to jump on someone with anything approaching ideals.
Well said Carrie. I agree.
'Nite everybody.
The only young people I am truly worried about are my kids, to be honest. And I have a tangential knowledge of other kids through Al, and I think you are making a Mountain out of a mole hill. Kids these days? They question a lot more than you would think, as much as it pains me to admit that.
12:26 and :31 said...
I just don't see how Leathermouth making a business decision makes any of them assholes.
I wouldn't think they were satanists if they choose to open for some Black Metal band.
If you like Leathermouth's music
you should still like their music. If you like and respect the charity work Frank Iero does
you should still like and respect him for that work. No matter what band they choose to tour with.
That's the way I feel.
November 7, 2008 1:01 AM
Not if the band they go out on tour with stand for the opposite of what he claimed to stand for.
Yes I missed that carrie So now I have no respect for Bono anymore.
I am worried about all the kids because those are the people that will be running the country and voting at some point.
Goodnight 12.26
Carrie are you still here.
Yep, I'm still lurking about.
just wondering
I just came in here to say one thing.
---
Not gods, preachers, teachers or your parents.
November 7, 2008 12:31 AM
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No they are not. Certainly they are all just human, like the rest of us. You are right, 12:31AM
Howfuckinever, all of the people in those positions Especially Including Rock Stars and Actors have been more powerfully influencial amongst the younger people of this world than religious figures EVER were or probably ever will be. It may be Quite Sad, but it's the damn truth. And it is purely ignorant and irresponsible to deny that influence. OR use it for your own fucking amusement(MSI).
I was holding out hope that the few icons of this world that Appeared to be AWARE of this great power they have, FRANK, were still going to try, at the very LEAST to behave a touch more tastefully than some of the others do. Opening for MSI? WTF is THAT.
I PRAY Elena is right, and there is a REALLY GOOD FUCKING REASON for that fall from grace and purpose, Frankieboy. Cuz, fuck this if there isn't.
I surrender. I'm sick of this bullshit. All of it. I hope everyone is well.
-loves
Oh, and hey mayo. Nice to see you.
I am about ready to call it a night though, I'm three hours ahead of you and all. I probably won't be around tomorrow, going to a high school production of Peter Pan.
hi you guys.
carrie, i loved your description of walking through the leaves listening to "desert song". that was so beautiful. i wanted to be walking along with you.
:)
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