Author: RadialMonster

  • its how dreams are so
    real and so unbelievable until the morning when you forget them. i
    remember the highlights. and little details. together they make no
    sense. told separately it makes even less sense. separately has a
    rat in it. i drove from home far north to go on a road trip. i ended
    up in canada. i stopped at a store i had been to before to get a drink.
    in the back room of the store they had guitars and violins and different
    stringed instruments i had never seen before. i chose my item to buy, but
    i dont think it was a drink. i stepped up to the counter which sat in a
    big square in the middle of the store. other people were talking with the
    cashier in french and i tried to understand what they were saying but i didnt
    know french in my dream. i paid for my item and got onto the bus. i
    decided to sit in the very front. mind you, this was the very front of the
    bus. like sitting on the very front of the speedboat. you know,
    you’re actually in front of the driver. there was this railing and i was
    small enough to fit there. so i did. another couple got on with me
    there too. we rode in the front towards the ocean front. the road
    kept going down and down and it got to be almost a roller coaster. we went
    straight into the water. we fell out of the bus. there was this
    plastic elastic tube that went deep into the water. we had to jump in and ride
    it all the way down to who knows where. it was half full of water, you had
    to force yourself up for air. we exited into a small building in the
    bottom of the water. it was completely empty. just bare walls.
    we wandered around in it trying to find something. we found nothing or i
    dont remember finding anything. a previous was there. last night i
    had a dream with a previous in-law. i’ve never been married. i’ve
    been offered to be married by 4 people. i’ve considered 2. that was
    a long time ago. where are they now?? never in a way that way one way
    which way did i go away from? was it the beginning or before that?
    did i ever run the race enough to say i didn’t finish? i once considered
    trying out for track in high school. I’m lazy now. i get tired
    running across my yard. loneliness is having to play Frisbee by yourself.
    my grass needs mowing, i will mow it Sunday and then cook myself a nice supper
    and watch the simpsons and x files as i eat dessert. i want to buy a bike
    and start riding again. i used to ride all the time. i have a huge scar on
    my knee where i had a wreck. hmm maybe it’s gone now. i don’t remember the
    last time i really looked at it. i finally got my keyboard to work with
    fruity loops. my stupid fault. i’ve been playing soundfonts with my
    keyboard. i’m still no better than i was the last time i wasn’t any
    better. i have a song i’m working on on the guitar i really like.
    i’m listining ot chrono cross music right now. i went to mars music’s band
    night out last night. give me a free t-shirt, free cd’s, free pizza and
    drink and free music and you’ve just won a young single guys heart. i
    talked with the editor of the arts section of the herald sun or something like
    that. i bet i sound depressed. i’m actually rocking right now.
    playing my DDR music. i have a wierd writing style. i write to
    convey imagery and emotions and feelings and ideas. and i feel that my
    writing style invokes that. tomorrow i’m going out with some friends for a
    birthday gathering. i considered going on a road trip this weekend, but
    i’m gonna hang out with my friends. i once went to a restaurant by myself
    to sit down and eat because i liked this waitress. she wasn’t working that
    night. i feel like i’m talking to myself.

  • back in the day when
    i was a kid and i joked about making a sentence that started with back in the
    day when i was a kid because of that stupid song i dreamed of writing of
    thinking of that thought. and my random thoughts of tonight included not
    that and another, but a different from someone else. my dream last night was
    great. the show last night was great. our next show is May 11th.
    after our show, we went to a club in Raleigh called tiffany’s. it was
    salsa night, Nilda said. so we went and it was surprisingly fun.
    salsa night, hence the mexican population was there. we couldn’t read
    Spanish so it was pointless to try. but the dj’s had the mexicano music
    pumping. and i just love how front page is giving me a suggestion of
    Mexican or Mexicans as a replacement spelling for mexicano. so politically
    (in)correct. i’ve always like a good Mexican song because the beats are so
    lively and lots of different instruments and such a different style than our own
    music. and the dance floor was packed full of couples doing their salsa
    dances. we sat down near the dance floor and watched the people twirl
    around each other like a egg yolk as you shake it. Mercy was just begging
    to dance and she went out onto the floor and twirled around and touted her
    stuff. she was the only person on the entire floor of around 30 to 40
    people who was

    dancing all alone.
    and of course all the guys were watching and
    looking at her and they would all seem to glance back to me and smile i suppose
    because we were sitting close enough that people thought she was my date.
    eventually she recruited some people who would dance with her and i watched her
    twirl around and do the step stop block stuff with people she couldn’t
    understand a word they were saying. actually that’s probably not true, but
    lets pretend that it is so that i can continue my thought. the language of
    dance didn’t matter and as long as you had a body to hold on to and move about
    and between and around it was alright. and the one young guy who realized
    her dancing style, beat her to it and was dancing at least 5 feet away from her
    at all times bouncing each way and that way and facing the opposite direction
    and they would cross paths only every so often and it was funny to watch two
    people dance together so independently. then there was the gentleman who
    seemed to await my nodding approval before taking her up on the offer to dance.
    and i watched him stand perfectly upright and hold his arms and her just so.
    his hands never clenched hers, always they were open while her hand rested
    inside of the palm. and he danced a perfect plan on the floor without ever
    looking down or up or away. the ladies were beautiful and the more i
    looked at them and the dance and studied the moves, i had the serious thought
    that i could perform such a feat and thought of taking someone up on the offer
    to dance. i noticed no rhythm to it, it was a matter of moving each other
    back and forth. away and around and upside down. the forced
    placement of a hand brought upon the twirling motion of the couple and each
    would twirl the other over and otherwise around in various fashions the head,
    arms and body of the other. i could twirl around. i could make someone
    else twirl around too. i just dont know if i’d keep my balance or get too
    dizzy or too distracted. i dont like to dance because i know i look like a
    fool. and even though i can take my shoes off and twirl endlessly around
    my kitchen floor that doesn’t mean i still don’t look like a fool.

    I rarely create separate paragraphs in my news posts
    tonight i contemplated cooking year old cookie mix. i still find things in
    my house that reminds me of a previous. sometimes it’s like going to the
    grocery store and seeing a new item on the shelf i never noticed before.
    or it’s like finding a box of things that i swear someone must have snuck in and
    placed there just to invoke emotions. flipping through the phone book and
    finding doodles and circles and underlines, going through old notebooks and
    finding grocery lists and to do notes. finding a new cd in my bookshelf.
    an old document on my computer. things behind the washer machine. hairs
    embedded in my clothing. a poem was written in july of 2001 about these
    things and even now it still happens. i will trash the two boxes i found
    tonight of expired food. perform a ceremoniously ritual of destroying old
    memories. its just that it never ends. and sometimes i wonder if it
    should. but its too late now. anyway, i think i’ll give that james
    bond movie another try, you know, from russia with love. was that james
    bond? anyway, maybe the ending will be different this time. well
    maybe i’ve entertained you enough tonight. my fingers are getting tired
    and my interest grows short with this now. i think i will go play a game
    now, or just cruise the net or just play some guitar or just go to sleep.
    someone write me

  • and upon realizing
    the lateness of the night i have a false sense of energy as i think of how the
    time changed and it would normally be 11:58 right now. and upon realizing
    this lateness and energy i realized upon my reflection a reflection of words
    that urged to be written here. so here i am and what i write now will be
    just a bunch of goop because its so late. at this time my mind functions
    wildly. i do my best writing here, or worst for some people. i create
    wonderful songs. i can lie in bed at night waiting to fall asleep and have
    a complete song in my head that i made up just then and not remember a damn bit
    of it in the morning. i have wonderful dreams that would make great
    stories. but i cant remember the majority of them when i awake.
    lately i have been having dreams over and over of past relationships.
    etching themselves out in my mind. refer to march’s poetry collection.
    and as i exit out of yet another relationship my mind ponders its fate. i
    can not speak of this new old relationship right yet. i will in due time.
    so dont ask me about it. if i care about you, you already know. but
    i care about others who dont know because theres more to the story than whats
    been known. i dont know where the end will be. its so late and i’m
    typing things i dnot want to say. i’m mispelling words i kjnow how to
    spell and its so late i dont care to correct them. in fact i just took my
    glasses off and now i cant even red the words i am typing on the screen. i
    dont even know why i leave my monitor on. i worded outside today. i
    fixed my lawnmorwer up. put oil in it, sharpened the blades. and cut
    my grass. afterwards, i grilled myself a nice juicy steak on my grill.
    i cooked soeme corn, yellow and white. and some mushrooms and garlic.
    when i was young me and my dad would always work outside on the weekends and
    grandma would alwaays have lunch waiting for us at lunch time. we’d go eat
    and go back out to work. i want a girl who would takea care of me like
    that. my grandma died when i was in early high school i thik. i don
    tknow the year. i didnt go see her, i didn’t want to see her sick. i
    regret that so much. i still have cookies she made for me. no one
    makes them like she did. and bananna pudding. i like banna pudding.
    i can barely see red lines as i type bannana so i know i’m spelling it woring.
    i dont care. these are mini observations my friend pretzelboy said to me
    recently. my room is it by my monitor and my mixer and my stereo. i
    have a new song i wrote. well part of a new song. actually i have 2
    new songs. one on guitar, on e on the computer. they arent finished of
    course. i dont remember the last time i finished something. even my
    web pages isnt finished. the files link dont work. theres hardly any
    pictures in the picture link. i dont have good pictures. i havent
    finished my con report from last year. if your smart you can figure out
    how to access all the pictures that i havent linked to yet. good luck.
    i want to write a story but i dont know what to write so i write here. why
    are there so many red lines?? i refuse to use my glasseses. its
    late. pathetic. last weekend i, it felt good outside. i
    thought of walking down to my nearby pond with my dogs. then i thought how
    rare it is for me to want to do anything outside. so rare, i wanted to
    come back inside and mention it on my web page that i was going to be outside.
    but i didn’t. i went in and played a game. i want a bike. so i
    can reie it to the pond. i want to sleep. its late now. its so
    loud in here. the tmbg concert was very awesome. its late and i’m
    going ot bed now. i’ll read what i wrote in the morning if i remember and
    see how bad i mispelled all of htis. thanks for reading. hope i
    enlightened you a bit

  • Yea, so i’m tired of
    running this site. no one visits, no one comments on it, no one listens to
    my music or reads my poetry. ahhh.. so i’m selling the site.
    i’ve been contacted
    as one of the top producers of original content and i’m hoping that things will
    go smoothly and let me get at least a little bit of money off of the site.
    We’ll see. it’s been fun

  • Sunday, March 17, 2002

    So the show last
    night was a success.  it was a more mellow one than usual.  the owner
    of the club asked us not to play so loud.  after the show, we were invited
    back on the 13 of april.  we’re going to look for some other places to play
    too.  angus junction in Louisburg is our next attempt to get into.
    i’m going to have to setup some kind of mailing list or something for our fans
    to subscribe to.  then we can send out where we’re going to be and stuff
    like that.  i’ve already gotten a few who want more info.  for more
    information on the local music scene, why not check out
    www.raleighmusic.com?  lots of
    good info there, gig listings and stuff like that.  oooo check out what i
    just did.  created a group on yahoo for us.  put in your email address
    and subscibe to our group.  you’ll get info on where we are playing next
    and things like that through your email.

    Subscribe to singermercy
    Powered by groups.yahoo.com

    ok, so i just made some instant mashed potatoes.  i’ve always hated instant
    stuff, it’s so nasty looking.  i just don’t understand how it’s possible to
    create potatoes from water and some white paste.  well, it’s about supper
    time now, i’m going to check on my chicken i have in the crock pot and chow
    down!

  • Tuesday, March 12, 2002

    Basically, if it
    could go wrong, it went wrong.  The entire past few weeks have led me to
    believe this past saturday’s show was going to be a bust.  and with one
    half working cd player, my home 5 disc changer, and Mark’s portable cd player,
    we setup to practice on Saturday.  After some practice and starting to pack
    up the equipment and begin hauling it, Mercy called to verify our booking for
    the night, and the place screwed up and we weren’t on the list!!  some guy
    had been booked as well that same night, and no one told us.  good thing we
    called before we went over there.  so our hopes shattered, we called around
    a few places to see if we could get in, either the place wasn’t open, the
    manager wasn’t in or whatever excuse.  so we gave up, and Mercy went home
    and i just stayed where i was and took a nice nap.  Then Mercy calls all
    excited and says she’s gotten us in at another club called the Silver Dollar.
    alright, so we’re on.  i go get a vehicle, pack everything up, picked up
    Mercy, and off we went to the silver dollar.  got there, only a few people
    there.  it was early for a club though.  only about 8:00 pm.  i
    started setting up all the equipment.  it was a nice place for us, we had a
    stage and everything.  never played on a real stage before.  now, this
    place was really big, especially compared to philly bistro.  so i cranked
    my JBL’s up, and made sure we had plenty of noise to fill the room!  and
    man they rocked on.  i didn’t even crank them all the way.  didn’t
    skip a beat.  well.. except for some strange skips in I will survive that
    Mercy sang, maybe the cd’s getting scratched up.  We just kinda faded the
    music out and left it at that.  but other than that, my broken cd player
    played on for the night, and i didn’t have to break out my backup unit. now, the
    owner of this place has ties with other big clubs in the area.  he’s heard
    her sing before at another place, and he likes her.  and from what i
    understand, he wants us back at the silver dollar.  we just have to find
    some appropriate music for the redneck crowd that hangs out there.
    Hopefully, things will progress and we can get into some other clubs.  i
    can hire some help and we can get a van and there’s a bit more equipment i want
    to buy.  if i’m going to do something, i’m gonna do it right and it’s
    pretty good right now, but not perfect.  anyway… if you only read one
    thing in this whole rant/update i have, read this.  MARCH 16TH, 7:00PM
    PHILLY BISTRO! yea, mercy called today and spoke with the manager, and it
    turned out to be a big misunderstanding and all is well.  to make it up, he
    put us in this Saturday.  and if all goes well, he even said the 30th as
    well.  so we’ll see.  income is nice

    with all that
    went on the past week or two, i haven’t had much time to just relax and think.
    i don’t have any new poetry, no new music.  i hate that.  not that i’m
    not trying.  i haven’t even been posting here as much as I’d like to.
    I’ve been frequenting www.blogwars.com and
    reading their stuff, but its basically a bunch of losers who sit around and talk
    about drugs and porn and just weird stuff.  not that its’ not funny and
    interesting to read.  but then neither is this.  I’m listening to my
    game music remixes collection. i want to do a remix.  i want to do some
    music.  my keyboard wont talk to my fruity loops for some reason.  i
    have a cd player sitting beside me that doesn’t work.  i have 2 guitars in
    reaching distance and i’m not any better at guitar than i was a year ago.
    who wants to know that i went grocery shopping today?  i got 2 packages of
    breyers ice cream.  i’m about to have some too.  i had left over pizza
    for supper.  my house is gradually getting cleaner.  i have laundry to
    fold.  i hate folding laundry.  random thought time to entertain you
    and me.  i have cables hanging from my keyboard and i have no use for them.
    herzog zwei is one of my favorite genesis games.    man, some
    guys making a herzog
    zwei TC for UT? 
      another
    link about the game and
    yet
    another. 
      i dont post enough links like i used to anymore.
    i’m already disinterested in this and ready to move on to something else.
    i haven’t balanced my checkbook for months.  i’m cold.  most of my
    cd’s are neglected.  i like to work on the computer with the lights out.
    i hate noise when i sleep.
    someones
    dog kept me up for 2 hours last night because she was barking at some chickens
    or roosters or something making noises somewhere.  i was 10 minutes late
    for work today.  im not sure what will happen when my music conflicts with
    my work.  i’m not sure how i will transport everything.  i’m ready for
    my ice cream.  i used to listen to quackshot on the genesis as background
    music for ultima’s martian dreams when i had a computer that didn’t have a sound
    card.  i had a computer with no sound.  i still have 2 computers with
    no sound.  wait, maybe 3.  the best fudge is at busch gardens, peanut
    butter and chocolate fudge mix.  peanut butter and fudge ice cream is
    weird.  but good.  i have a season pass to busch gardens and no one to
    go with.  i wouldn’t be opposed to going by myself.  someone’s calling
    me.  its Emily.  thats what i said. your mamma has testees.
    i dont think frontpage has a correct spelling for testees.  steve’s better
    at making ut maps than i.  i’m better at grammer than steve. i dont think
    that was gramatically correct.  i have mispelled grammer or grammatically 4
    times now.  this song sucks.  done with ice cream.  i have gotten
    an email every 2 minutes now for like 30 minutes.    none of them
    are relevant.  the best thing about living alone is control.  the
    worst thing about living alone is living alone.  those two statements
    collide.  the ideology anyway.    i still take Flintstones
    vitamins.  i overdose on them every morning.  but my body is used to
    it now.  i have low iron. i have lost 15 pounds since the last time i
    weighed myself and i dont know how.  i didnt mean to lose weight.  i
    think i have a tapeworm.  or some alien inside me (again).  i wrote a
    story about a person with an alien inside them.  i read it at my writers
    meeting years ago.  it was the most profane thing i’ve ever written.
    i keep all my writings.  i keep a lot of things.  i used to keep
    ketchup packets by the trash bag.  i used to keep paper towel tubes and
    make things out of them.  now i keep silica gel packets.
    how many random things can i come up with?  now do you know why i cant
    sleep at night?  these things are going through my mind constantly.  i
    can never finish a project.  i haven’t made a complete thought yet on here.
    i sat down tonight when i got home to update my quicken info.  that was at
    about 7:00 pm. quicken is still open on my computer, and it’s 10:08pm.  i
    went to be bank last night at midnight to make a deposit.  we got $25 bucks
    tip from our show at the silver dollar.  the cd player i just ordered is
    $560.  i’m broke.  but i think it will get better.  i feel like
    it’s an investment.  when i ever find a good girl for me, she will probably
    be jealous of the money i spend.    then again, if she’s a good
    girl for me, she wouldn’t.  i have erased several random thoughts while
    writing this.  this post is going to rival my 9/11 post.  i had tons
    of links that night.  i stayed up very very late collecting links on irc.
    i posted them all here.  most are down now.  i still keep all the old
    news i post on this site.  just no way for you to access it yet.  if
    your really good, you could find it.  good luck.  ok, i’m done with
    this. going to work on a ut map. i hope i entertained you for a bit.  write
    me. i dont care what you say.  write
    me
    .  noone has written me about my page yet!!

  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002

    It’s almost as if
    we’re not meant to play this weekend.  Saturday, March 9th at 7pm is our
    next show at Philly Bistro in wake forest.  I feel more unprepared this
    show than i did my very first one.  some of you know, our last show, one of
    my cd players died only about 3 songs into the night. i’ve been unsuccessful at
    getting it repaired (Best Buy sucks!!!!!!!!) .  but thanks to my elite
    skillz and what not, no one ever noticed and the show went on.  well,
    during a small recording session with Mercy here last sunday night, my second cd
    player died.  one week before show time.  luckily, i had already
    placed an order last week for a new dj dual cd player.  sooo.. i finally
    receive my cd player tonight.  unpack it, hook it up in my new equipment
    rack and one of the cd players in my new unit is broke!!!  Its actually a
    dual cd player, so i was able to use the other one and try it out.  it is
    very neato.  but i really would like to have the second cd player to play
    with.  so… the rush is on to get a new unit in.  i’m not sure how
    we’re going to transport everything this time.  last show, we got mercy’s
    n-laws Chevy Tahoe and filled it up, this show we wont have that.  we dont
    like using my step moms truck.  we’ll probably rent a van.  then
    again, i’m thinking of hiring someone that has a truck or van or something to
    help load and unload and load and unload again and take us to and from.
    anyone up for it?  We’ll pay something too!  maybe 40 or so bucks.
    come on, easy money.  arghhh.. I’m not old enough to rent a cargo van.
    you have to be 25.  i’ll be 25 this July.  mercy can get it, its just
    a pain to have to get both of us together and go get something.  Saturday
    is always packed.  i wake up early, setup all the equipment in my living
    room, she comes over, we practice, she leaves and gets ready, i secure a
    vehicle, load everything into it and get ready myself.  then we got to go
    and unpack there and setup and all.  then it’s on!!  it’s way fun, but
    it does have some headaches.  Anyway, the show must go on and maybe we’ll
    have to tie everything onto some rolling cart and drag it behind my car.
    so meet us there!!  You’re not doing anything saturday anyway. i know you.
    Philly Bistro, downtown Wake Forest, NC.  March 9th, 7:00pm – 10:00pm.

  • Sunday, February 24, 2002

    the

    Winter Olympics
    have finally come to a close tonight.  If you didn’t
    watch the closing ceremonies you missed a really great show.  It would have
    been such an experience to be there.  This year, i followed the Olympics
    more so than in any other year and i have to admit i got a bit excited quite a
    few times.  Its amazing to me to watch some of these people who are
    teenagers compete and win against people from all over the world.  I
    watched Thursday night Sarah Hughes’s figure skating competition and was really
    pulling for her. The expression on her face as she landed her first jump was
    just unforgettable and really showed her emotions there.  and with each
    successive jump, twist and turn she made her face lit up as she knew she just
    gave the best performance she could possibly give.  The burden that was
    placed on the remaining skaters that night must have been very heavy, each fell
    once during their performance.  and even though Sarah was not
    expecting to win at all, it was very fitting for her to get the gold that night.

    Michelle Kwan
    is such a beautiful and talented skater and it was sad to see
    her lose the gold medal given her circumstances.  But, as everyone said,
    she showed respect and grace to her competitors and accepted her medal and that
    in itself is a sign of a good sport.  The closing ceremonies are off the TV
    now for the local news, but as soon as they come back on, I’m on it.  I
    just had to crank my stereo system up when Bon Jovi came on and played in the
    middle of the giant snowball fight and the ice that was splattered with
    florescent paint.  Those dinosaurs were really neat, but could you imagine
    sitting in the stadium not knowing you had these huge creatures looming over
    your head and you turn around to see one of them looking you in the eye?
    gesh!  If i was athletic i would be inspired watching these guys.  but
    I’m not.  as athletic as i get is saying I’m going to buy a bike and start
    riding or that I’m going to start running.  I used to run a lot and i even
    thought of taking up track in high school.  but for some reason i didn’t.
    probably cuz i figured i wasn’t good enough.  story of my life.  one
    of my thoughts still linger on.  i watched Sarah take the gold medal and
    knew she was not expectnig to win it.  she did, and she’s now the best.
    she worked 16 years to take the chance to go there, and she did and she won.
    but now what?  its sad to me to think that i’ve worked for so long to
    accomplish something and then i’m suddenly beating everyone to it.  what do
    you do then?  she’s going to do tours around the country at local venues.
    but so young in life and already have achieved something that people work
    decades on.  i wonder if she’ll be in Greece next time.

  • Tuesday, February 19, 2002

    ok, i have
    figured out how to add the cool yahoo status to the page.  now you have no
    excuse not to talk to me!!  so do it!! don’t worry, you wont be
    interrupting any thing cuz no one else talks to me since they think they’re
    interrupting me talking to someone i’m not talking to.  removed November
    news, home page should load faster, and i’m gonna post some new poetry too as
    soon as i finish typing this.  so check it out under the poetry links!!!
    This is
    sooo
    neat!!!