Castle Shima

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
-- Leonard Cohen

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Bear The Scars

Its Been Awhile by Staind

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In time
Or so I'm told
I'm just another soul for sale.
Oh, well...
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Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
-- Bill Cosby

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Its The Way That You Talk
There are always jokes about how men and women talk to each other or in most cases, dont talk to each other. It really as if the genders are on two different wavelengths and cant seem to meet in the middle.

I found this story a long time ago and recently rediscovered it again. It pretty much sums up how the sexes define communication.

A man is driving his car around a mountain, going just over the speed limit.

A woman coming around the bend from the opposite direction, sticks her head out the window and yells at him "Pig!"

Irritated, the man sticks his head out the window. As the woman drives by, he yells "Bitch!"

As the man rounds the corner, the car crashes into a wild boar that was walking in his lane.

Aye, it was a wee bit lame, but you get the point.
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Communication by The Power Station

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My grandfather taught me the energy of life goes in a circle in a perfect flow, balanced. He said until I find my center, my circle would never be whole.
-- Gabe from The One

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One To Nothing


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In time
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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
-- John Wesley

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Action Items

In Between by Linkin Park

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In time
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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
-- Earl Wilson

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Disappearing Act

Where'd You Go by Fort Minor

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You want be a Chinese, you got to eat the nasty stuff.
-- Chen from The Corruptor

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Eat This Before I Give It To An Animal
Growing up Asian, I had to eat some pretty strange stuff when compared to American food. What many folks call gross, I find normal.

This all leads up to a little gem I found on tv.

If you have the Travel Channel, I highly recommend the show Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. You may find the food disgusting but the show really is interesting.



Remember, we are practicing diversity one plate at a time.
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In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God.
-- Stephen from Braveheart

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Erin Go Braugh
I was stuck on what I wanted to put for St. Patrick's Day. I really wanted to put Jump Around by House of Pain, but I couldnt find one where it was well done. Kind of disappointing.

So I settled on this. At least the view is good. Heh...


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The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
-- from The Notebook by Nicholas sparks

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She Was A Happy Girl When She Left Me

Sour Girl by Stone Temple Pilots

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Roper: Did you see the picture of that NY govenor's hooker? She is hot! I was trying to bring up her MySpace page, but it wouldnt come up.
Me: Sounds like a lot of people were hitting that thing.
Robbie: Yeah, that box must be taking a pounding.
-- from a conversation at work

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You Think Its Fictional

Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz

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Caller: You're in this position because you're not telling the truth.
Stu: No, I'm in this fucking position because you have a gun!
-- from Phone Booth

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Can Humans Do What Prophets Say?

Standing Outside A Broken Phonebooth (With Money In My Hand)
by Primitive Radio Gods

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Morgan: What's his story?
Cody: The story is you fuck with him and he'll seal your fate.
-- from Road House

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You Play Pretty Good For A Blind White Boy
When I read this article about Jeff Healey passing, a flood of past images came back.

There was a time when Angel Eyes was important. Not only because was it a favorite song, but it had a special meaning as well. It always made me remember a lifetime ago and how things could have been different.

Ah well. Deja vu.

When the band was in Road House, I was more into the music rather than the movie. Granted, it was still a decent film despite the lame script and bad acting.



Thanks for the memories, Jeff.
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I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.
-- Robert Frost

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That Was Easy
Someone recently made a comment to me about how I've put up alot of videos in the past couple of months.

While that is true, I will admit that music is one of my favorite discussions and the videos have been the only way to show it. I will also admit that I've been holding out mainly because I've become a lazy bastard when it comes to typing.

So here is one of the more interesting conversations that I had yesterday at the office.

Mittens: Oh my God! Thank you! I need to get you one of those Easy buttons!
Me: No problem. That button wont work on me though. I'm easy, but I'm not that easy.
Mittens: Oh really??
Me: Nevermind. We're still at work.

Neener, neener.
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
-- Buddha

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When Angels Deserve To Die
The original video was good, but I couldnt find one that looked clean enough. Thats when I found this great fan made vid.

Chop Suey! by System Of A Down

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If I die before I learn to speak
Can money pay for all the days
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The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
-- Publilius Syrus

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Ow Ow Ow!


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If I die before I learn to speak
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But you can't run away from home without destroying somone's world.
-- Anti-Helena from MirrorMask

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Et Maintenant Nous Sommes Tout Seuls

Protege Moi by Placebo

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A dead man begs you to remember: a warrior's ultimate act is to lay down his sword.
-- Nameless from Hero

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How Swift The Sword
I always liked this song when I first heard it in Blade II, but combined with this video, the song is so much better.

I Against I by Mos Def

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If I die before I learn to speak
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If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
-- Larry Leissner

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Lassitude

Exhaustion (among other things)
by Joy Marsh
Today, nothing will be accomplished by me with
determined speech or concise fluid movements.

In others words and to say it simply,
I am tired, tired of the constant icy grip in my neck,
of expectations, of politics, words that instill fear and
confront.

I’ll listen to reason tomorrow. Today I’ll pray for everything I am not.

As I reconcile, fear and doubt mix with the baneful on the
news. It spews a warning shot, so close, so close.
I didn’t move. This is my holy ground.

The death chants that you hear over and over again finally evaporate
as the clear water comes to a boil on the stove.
Free of demands and apocalypse, I sip my tea, then wait for sleep..

Suspended over the room,
a whispered Amen.
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If I die before I learn to speak
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How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
-- Anonymous

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Its Not The Smell That Gets You
This is abit long, but funny as hell. Just makes you think about the shit people have to put up with.


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If I die before I learn to speak
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Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.
-- Christian Morganstern

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Nothing to Lose, Nothing to Gain

Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park

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People say life is like a stream. They're right. Just a while ago I wanted to spit into the wind and I hit my own face.
-- Johan Cruijff

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Getting Kicked Around
This is why I play the sport.


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If I die before I learn to speak
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