Oh yeah...

Been meaning to post this for awhile now.

Yup, another band I was introduced to, and another band I'm really digging. This one is more spoken word, but I'm really liking the words.

Stone Sour ~ Omega
What a skeletal wreck of man this is.

Translucent flesh and feeble bones
The kind of temple where the whores and villains
try to tempt the holistic tomes

Running rampant with free thought to free form
in the free and clear
And the matters at hand are shelled out like lint at a laundromat
to sift and focus on the bigger, better, now

We all have a little sin than needs venting
virtues for the rending
and laws and systems
and stems a rift from branches of office
do you know what your post entails?

Do you serve a purpose
or purposely serve?

Wind down inside of your atavistic allure
the value of a Summer spent
and a Winter earned

For the rest of us there is always Sunday.
the day of the week that reeks of rest
but all we do is catch our breath
so we can wade naked into the bloody pool
and place our hand on the big black book.

To watch the knives zig-zag between our aching fingers.

A vacation is a count-down
T-minus your life and counting
time to drag your tongue across the sugarcube
and hope you get a taste

what the FUCK is all this for?! (What the hell's goin' on?!)
SHUT UP!!

I could go on and on, but, let's move on shall we?

Say, you're me and I'm you
and they all watch the things we do
and like a smack of spite
they threw me down the stairs -
haven't felt like this in years -
the great magnet of malicious magnanimous refuse
let me go and
plunge me into the dead spot again.

That's where you go when there's no-one else around
it's just you
and there was never anyone to begin with now was there?

Sanctimonious pretentious dastardly bastards
with their thumb on the pulse
and a finger on the trigger

CLASSIFIED MY ASS! thats a FUCKING secret and you know it!

Government is another way to say
Better
Than
You.

It's like ice but no pick
a murder charge that won't stick
it's like a whole other world
where you can smell the food
but you can't touch the silverware

hah, what luck
fascism you can vote for
isn't that sweet

and we're all gonna die some day
'cuz thats the American way
and I've drunk too much
and said too little
when your gaffer taped in the middle
say a prayer, save face
get yourself together and (see whats happening)
SHUT UP! (FUCK YOU!)
FUCK YOU!

I'm sorry I could go on and on but
it's time to move on so...

Remember you're a wreck, an accident
forget the freak, you're just nature

Keep the gun oiled and the temple clean
shit, snort and blaspheme
Let the heads cool and the engine run

Because in the end,
everything we do
is just everything we've done.

RIP, Max

My original betta took the Big Swim earlier this week

Poor Max. He was never the same after the move. But he's off frolicking with all of my other pets now — Sam, Lady, Ripley and Zoé. And he finally joined good ol Fido Jaws, another betta.

Wednesday, I went and picked out a new betta. It was white with spots on its face and it had pretty bluish/gray fins. I had him with me at work and noticed he was acting strangely — swimming upside down, laying on his side. Well, after about 4 hours with me, the fish was dead.

I went back to the pet store today to return him, and it turned out that all 25 fish in that shipment were dead when they opened the store today. So it wasn't me. Sad, because the fish was so pretty. But I picked out this one:


So. Pretty.

He's a big, healthy betta. I couldn't come up with a name I liked, but after mentioning it to Scott, he immediately came up with "Rex." As in "Bettasaurus Rex." And so my fish got a name, just like that. I knew there was a reason why I loved Scott... as if I could stop with just one reason. But yeah. Fish. That's right... this is an entry in the "Pets" portion of this journal. Heh.


I see you!


An introspective moment in his new tank.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a geek for 1) taking pics of a fish and 2) posting those pics online (as if having a blog isn't geeky enough...). But Rex is damned pretty, and needs to be shown off. And I need to start posting here again, so there ya go.