Nothing New

I find myself wrong again
Staring out my window
Wondering what it is I should've said
I find myself at home again
Waiting for the after call
From fallout that feels like such a mess
Oh I can only be myself I'm sorry that's hell for you

Hey so what's my damage today
Don't let me get in your way
Let it out like you always do
The trouble between me and you
Is nothing new

So I listen to you complain and then
I bite my tongue in vain again
As I let it all just slowly settle in
Such a pretty picture that you paint
I'm so vile while you're a saint
Funny how your eyes see thick not thin
Oh I can only be myself
You're looking for someone else

Hey so what's my damage today
Don't let me get in your way
Let it out like you always do
The trouble between me and you
Is nothing new

You know how to give it
But you can't take it
It's all just a waste
So now you can save it
No matter what I do
It's never good enough
Never good enough

Hey so what's my damage today
Don't let me get in your way
Let it out like you always do
The trouble between me and you
Is nothing new

Save your breath 'cause here comes the truth
I'm over the drama of you
And that's something new
Well I'm staring out my window
Wondering what it is that I should have said

BERLIN, Ger - A swan in a town's lake has become smitten and is courting a plastic swan-shaped paddle boat. (Reuters)

STRANGE FACTS
Some Andean people measure time by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.

this is SO true

be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -dr. seuss

Luck affects everything. Let ur hook always be cast. In the stream where u least expect it, there will be a fish. - Ovid

STRANGE FACTS
Tablecloths were originally used as towels for people to wipe their hands and faces after eating.

ORLANDO,FL- Woman was arrested 4 shooting bottle rockets at a police helicopter cause she was bothered by the noise. (AP)

The brightest asteroid is called Vesta.It has a diameter of 335 miles & is the only asteroid visible to the unaided eye.

The little-used adjective "tabescent" means to waste or wither away.

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEAL. - Armless man was stopped for speeding. He had 1 foot on steering wheel the other on pedals. (AP)

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Monkeys and apes at the Budapest Zoo drink 55 liters of red wine each year. (Reuters)

Taylor Hicks moves me/ His jerky random movements/ Make me want grey hair

haha

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. - Abraham Maslow

A new survey finds that 50% of people would rather give up morning coffe than the ability to surf the web at work.

Colgate faced an obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking
countries.Colgate translates in2"go hang yourself"

Msg: There was this weird o stranded on the side of the high way. he was doing push ups on the cement barrier!

Have enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time. __Maya Angelou

haiku of the day:
Crazy little cat...chasing shadows on the wall...fluffy kitty love

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

Without the bad times,we wouldn't appreciate the good times. - Sailor Moon

TOKYO - Young boy who believes he was born the wrong sex was allowed to enroll as a girl in a school in Japan. (AP)

Control - Poe

Don't you mess with a little girl's dream
'Cause she's liable to grow up mean

Surprised you to find that I'm laughing?
You thought that you'd find me in tears
You thought I'd be crawling the walls
Like a tiny mosquito and trembling in fear

Well you may be king for the moment
But I am a queen understand
And I've got your pawns and your bishops
And castles
All inside the palm of my hand

While you were looking the other way
While you had your eyes closed
While you were licking your lips
'Cause I was miserable
While you were selling your soul
While you were tearing a hole in me

I was taking control

Now I have taken control
Now I have taken control...

This is beginning to feel good
Watching you squirm in your shoes
A small bead of sweat on your brow
And a growl in your belly you're scared to let through

You thought you could keep me from loving
You thought you could feed on my soul
But while you were busy destroying my life
What was half in me has become whole

While you were looking the other way
While you had your eyes closed
While you were licking your lips
'Cause I was miserable
While you were selling your soul
While you were tearing a hole in me

I was taking control

Now I have taken control
Now I have taken control...

So this is how it feels
To breath in the summer air
The feel the sand between my toes
And love inside my ear
All those things that you taught me to fear
I've got them in my garden now
And you're not welcome here
Come here!

Come a little bit closer
Let me look at you
I gave you the benefit
Of the doubt it's true
But keep in mind my darling
Not every saint is a fool

(Don't) While you were looking the other way
(You mess) While you had your eyes closed
(With me) While you were licking your lips
'Cause I was miserable
(Don't) While you were selling your soul
(You mess) While you were tearing a hole in me

I was taking control

Now I have taken control
Now I have taken control...

Don't you mess with me

Father:
This cannot be all that there is to life, because in our confrontation
with an enormous and cold universe, there is something comical to the idea
that we can really enforce our will on humanity. Power...corrupts!

It's your world. Do with it what you want!
No. That's not the way to do it.
Power...That's not the way to do it.
Paradox
No. It's your world
No. It's your world
No. It's your world
NO!

Control it! Control it!

Daughter :
This is scaring me.

Daughter :
I live at the end of a 5 and 1/2 minute hallway
I live at the end of a 5 and 1/2 minute hallway

Father:
And at the end of it all lies, of course, the final
phenomenon of deterioration - entropy, which is a predictable
deteriortion when the creative energy ceases:
Everything has evolved.

Daughter:
Why are you always so serious?!

Dogs rule

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
~ George Graham Vest

intake and gauges

this is my intake...well it was an intake now its just a high flow air filter cuz the intake didnt fit...? lol

check out my new gauges on my car....


i got some pimp stuff for my bday....

isnt it funny how people will consistently disappoint you? i miss lmp. when she's around it seems like everything is gravy. check this out:
"How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.” ~Catharine Esther Beecher
so have u ever had someone just pull the rug out from under you with no prior warning? what about ever had someone just give up on you and not do anything about it? well let me tell ya its so effin awesome. happy monday.

Ohio is the only US state without a rectangular flag. Ohio's flag is a pennant.

Elvis Presley made only one television commercial - an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954.

DID YOU KNOW
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which those who dream only by night may miss.- Edgar Allen Poe

NEW YORK - 410-Pound man Steve Vaught walked from California to New York and loses 100 pounds. (AP)

To keep flies away from him, Pepi II of Egypt always kept naked slaves nearby whose bodies were smeared with honey

DES MOINES, IA- Woman n her family were thrown out of a buffet restaurant for leaving too much food on their plates.(AP)

SYDNEY, AUS. - Prostitutes, strippers and lap dancers can claim tax deductions for adult toys and lingerie. (AP)

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -Henry Ford

Conflict builds character.Crisis defines it. -Steven V. Thulon

Over 2500 left handed ppl a year are killed from using products made for right handed ppl

Haiku of the day:
Time to make changes/
Do something daring and get/
Uncomfortable

BHUBANESWAR, India - 4-yr-old boy in India ran 40 miles straight in 7 hrs, his coach is being accused of abuse.(REUTERS)

Cruz Hernandez is celebrating her 128th birthday today. She is believed to be the world's oldest person.

EL PASO, TX - Man smuggled 2 pounds of raw pork sausage (concealed in baby diapers) across the U.S. border. (AP)

A new study shows that anticipating pain can be as bad as expeiencing it.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement - Bruce Lee

No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryant

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement - Bruce Lee

Haiku of the day:

Verdant forests burn, ~
searing my soul. I die. ~
Gentle rain. Rebirth.

running through my mind/
always a thought of purpose/
will i find out mine?

Your one resolution is that you love yourself, and in doing so, you will be able to love other people. __Sylvia Browne

1st product Motorola tried 2 develop was a record player 4 cars.Most known player was a Victrola,hence the name Motorola

life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.~Bertrand Russell~

there is a hidden obscenity on the bottom of bill ripkin's bat in the 1989 fleer baseball card

the true story of...

the true story of what was
the light blue flickering rhythm
of the neighbor's big console t.v.
is basking on the ceiling
of another insomniatic spree
and outside sleep's open window
between the drops of rain
history is writing a recipe book
for every earthly pain

oh to clean up the clutter of echoes
coming in and out of focus
words spoken
like locusts
sing and sing
in my head

and thing is
they often seem
in my memory's long dream
to be superfluous to
the true story of what was

cuz

real is real regardless
of what you try to say
or say away
real is real relentless
while words distract and dismay
words that change their tune
though the story remains the same
words that fill me quickly
and then are slow to drain
dialogues that dither down reminiscent
of the way it likes to rain
every screen
a smoke screen
oh to dream
just for a moment
the picture
outside the frame

then in a flash
the light blue horizon
spanning a sudden black
is sucked into the vanishing point
and quiet rushes back
to search for the downbeat
in a tabla symphony
to search in the darkness
for someone who looks like me

(though i'm not really who i said i was
or who i thought i'd be)

just a collection of recollections
conversations consisting
of the kind of marks we make
when we're trying to get a pen to work again

a lifetime of them!

cough…cough…ahem…

i say to me
now here listening
i say to the locusts
that sing and sing to me sitting
now here on the front porch swing of my eyes:
i hereby amend
whatever i've ever said
with this sigh

words and music by ani difranco © 2004 righteous babe music / BMI

knuckle down

knuckle down
that's just my cowgirl alter-ego
riding on her bar room bull
dripping with the sweat of irony
as the cowboys whoop and drool
shooting glances at the mirror
to see if her scar is showing
she is truly going nowhere tonight

lecherous old lady wanna-be
much too young and shy
flailing her whole life
just thinking she can teach herself to fly
vehement romantic
frantic for forever right now
but forever's going nowhere tonight

sick of goading her self-loathing
she thinks, i think i'd better leave
'course whiskey makes me smarter
and i'm happy as can be
but please excuse me darlin
it's not you
it's me

and there's a dusty old dust storm on mars, they say
so tonight you can't see it too clear
still i stood in line to look through their telescope
looked like a distant ship light
as seen from a foggy pier
and i know that i was warned
still it was not what i hoped
yes i know that i was warned
still it was not what i hoped

i think i'm done gunnin to get closer
to some imagined bliss
i gotta knuckle down
and just be ok with this
i'm gonna knuckle down
just be ok with this
'course that star struck girl is already someone i miss

i swear some stuff you just see better from further away
and i think i communicate best now, the less i say
and i can't dance if the band can't play
and the vibe is going nowhere tonight

'cuz somewhere between Hollywood and its pretty happiness
and an anguish so infinite it's anybody's guess
is a place where people are all teachers
and this just one long class
and that ass will get you nowhere tonight

there's a dusty old dust storm on mars they say
so tonight you can't see it too clear
still i stood in line to look through their telescope
looked like a distant ship light
as seen from a foggy pier
and i know that i was warned
still it was not what i hoped
yeah i know that i was warned
still it was not what i hoped

i think i'm done gunnin to get closer
to some imagined bliss
i gotta knuckle down
just be ok with this
gotta knuckle down
just be ok with this

'course that star struck girl
is already someone i miss
WORDS AND MUSIC BY ANI DIFRANCO