<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493523678470828602</id><updated>2012-02-16T07:25:13.142-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Religion, Politics &amp; the Mundane</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4493523678470828602/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>HappySloth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00176487401295906118</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i129/naomi_michele/058.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493523678470828602.post-6453679717202981140</id><published>2007-12-29T23:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-30T00:22:59.684-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ramblings into Form</title><content type='html'>The only context I give you is I have had very little sleep and a am having troubles with my stress and anxiety, but I have been content. So here it goes....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pearl essence pleases peach pigmentation&lt;br /&gt;Demonstration of introspection and penetration&lt;br /&gt;Still brews fierce flasks of fragility&lt;br /&gt;pieces place&lt;br /&gt;pieces break&lt;br /&gt;Fragments flow along the rivers of bloody tears&lt;br /&gt;draw deep inward bound&lt;br /&gt;foundation something strong found&lt;br /&gt;Stability factor, facts check background&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;decadent decked deliveries of diversity&lt;br /&gt;man mercy, have I stopped time&lt;br /&gt;blind to the feasible reasons of believing &lt;br /&gt;blasted by blackouts and week-long nights&lt;br /&gt;tired eyes lead to a tired soul&lt;br /&gt;so filled with soulful feeling&lt;br /&gt;brains wracked tah shit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melancholy meanderings of maddening winds blow sweet songs of sultry seduction&lt;br /&gt;My core like an exposed brick wall&lt;br /&gt;watch me fall&lt;br /&gt;watch me swim&lt;br /&gt;choke on the waterfall of&lt;br /&gt;                                            love&lt;br /&gt;                                                                        romance&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                    and in trance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;spinning eye delusions dilute deviates&lt;br /&gt;free thought flowing questions answered by more questions&lt;br /&gt;no knowledge is all and now nothing is myself&lt;br /&gt;halting individual to eternity and infinity&lt;br /&gt;we have existence forever&lt;br /&gt;The cosmos blend bright colliding molecular moldings&lt;br /&gt;chaos perfected into humanity or&lt;br /&gt;is it&lt;br /&gt;animalism&lt;br /&gt;canibalism&lt;br /&gt;Capitalism&lt;br /&gt;fascism&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tabla rasa tru to u 2&lt;br /&gt;ideas evolved enervated by institutions&lt;br /&gt;you intellectual property is now the IRS'&lt;br /&gt;broke beyond oblivion and surviving some how&lt;br /&gt;like most one coin away from catastrophe&lt;br /&gt;blasphemy to speak against this great nation&lt;br /&gt;but pardon my presentation but isn't that the original formula&lt;br /&gt;Why even ask questions anymore&lt;br /&gt;the truth hurts to bad for anyone to want to know&lt;br /&gt;Reflecting back the days of H.W. almost make you feel appreciative&lt;br /&gt;but plain to see we are all (sings)"Only a pawn in the game"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hate hits hard fast and strong&lt;br /&gt;in its pure form it never does good only causes harm&lt;br /&gt;negativity can breed positivity&lt;br /&gt;turning the dishwasher cycles to enlightenment&lt;br /&gt;love all and love hard strong and long&lt;br /&gt;hold every human at a paws lengths just to see if 'e breaths&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunsetting on serendipitous occasions that blaze an etch into the folds of my mind&lt;br /&gt;experiences coming back to me like a lost child to a parent&lt;br /&gt;wondering in a haunting tone&lt;br /&gt;                                                                    alone&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                feeling disowned&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                                                       dregs on a a barrel ring&lt;br /&gt;lyrics light my lips&lt;br /&gt;my soul&lt;br /&gt;hips&lt;br /&gt;international language of art destroyed any boundary of humanity&lt;br /&gt;realization that creation of humans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or whose on first&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4493523678470828602-6453679717202981140?l=happysloth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/feeds/6453679717202981140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4493523678470828602&amp;postID=6453679717202981140' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4493523678470828602/posts/default/6453679717202981140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4493523678470828602/posts/default/6453679717202981140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/2007/12/ramblings-into-form.html' title='Ramblings into Form'/><author><name>HappySloth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00176487401295906118</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i129/naomi_michele/058.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493523678470828602.post-4691632683177833811</id><published>2007-09-16T03:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-16T03:43:19.904-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Right here!</title><content type='html'>I'm Having quite a rough time coping with my illness and my situation.  I really do dislike the institution of marriage it is all bull crap were women become property. This is total bull shit. This was the purpose intended when it was first conceived.   It is another label we put on our selves. Very little need is there for  more labels. I do have a strong love in my life. My current life partner.  She has helped me get help.  Amorous thoughts of her fill my head all the time. It is hard for me to express of to even put into words. She amazes me on a daily basis.  Intelligent,witty, demure, a brilliant artist, great mother, good teacher, and I could go on with more. I still want to live with this woman. I don't think there is many other people who could understand me as well as she. I am taming my rage. Not doing a great job at it, but still keep perseverance knowing I can evolve into the beautiful creature that is Jon. I can see my core. I do have a brilliantly soft side with gentle laughs warm touches, and firm embraces. I will do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beat up rag doll tossed to the side&lt;br /&gt;ride the ride too many times&lt;br /&gt;no way to decide or try&lt;br /&gt;gentle drips into my eyes&lt;br /&gt;hide and seek you and me&lt;br /&gt;play the games we can see&lt;br /&gt;do not stop because I'm free&lt;br /&gt;be short don't dwarf&lt;br /&gt;callous casted away&lt;br /&gt;take the skin and flay&lt;br /&gt;place yourself in my bones&lt;br /&gt;to be alone with my self&lt;br /&gt;Zen splashes senses like cheese blintz&lt;br /&gt;throw out doubts and worry&lt;br /&gt;little matters but this moment&lt;br /&gt;quit living life as a dough nut&lt;br /&gt;stand up and breath&lt;br /&gt;then you might believe&lt;br /&gt;the thing you could achieve&lt;br /&gt;positivity and perseverance&lt;br /&gt;pushes its way the front&lt;br /&gt;so please please be different&lt;br /&gt;just know your the same&lt;br /&gt;point fingers&lt;br /&gt;play the blame game&lt;br /&gt;for shame you use such tactics&lt;br /&gt;it is only but behavior manafesting&lt;br /&gt;possesing&lt;br /&gt;creating&lt;br /&gt;destroying&lt;br /&gt;deployed all your troops&lt;br /&gt;at the front line&lt;br /&gt;so you must find a new plan&lt;br /&gt;one too grand to even perceive&lt;br /&gt;stick too&lt;br /&gt;go through it&lt;br /&gt;true to it&lt;br /&gt;DO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe if all the politicians out there would just take a few minutes to sit back, listen to some Dave Matthews Band, and smoke some pot, maybe the world wouldn't be so fucked up. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews" title="Dave Matthews"&gt;Dave Matthews&lt;/a&gt; 5/15/98&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Over a long distance, you learn about the strength of your horse; over a long time, you learn about the character of your friend. - Chinese Proverb&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4493523678470828602-4691632683177833811?l=happysloth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/feeds/4691632683177833811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4493523678470828602&amp;postID=4691632683177833811' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4493523678470828602/posts/default/4691632683177833811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4493523678470828602/posts/default/4691632683177833811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/2007/09/right-here.html' title='Right here!'/><author><name>HappySloth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00176487401295906118</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i129/naomi_michele/058.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493523678470828602.post-8711984721718694309</id><published>2007-06-25T02:15:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T02:45:01.945-07:00</updated><title type='text'>dreams swept away by insomniatic zombie lords</title><content type='html'>Gazing into lost eyeballs&lt;br /&gt;implanted with ideas never known&lt;br /&gt;all a drift and all a blown&lt;br /&gt;never to see the seas again&lt;br /&gt;in prison by nature&lt;br /&gt;dare to cater&lt;br /&gt;to this side of society&lt;br /&gt;now all you need is a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;machete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;balance between deceit and knowledge complete&lt;br /&gt;will see the seems ripped to shreds&lt;br /&gt;never know what on in her head&lt;br /&gt;cold her eyes and lost her soul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;guarantee&lt;/span&gt; cyclical &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;renderings&lt;br /&gt;twist the knife so slow that all your heart exposed&lt;br /&gt;close the third eye born and follow dumb and living in scorn&lt;br /&gt;anger, hatred never walks tall but always seems to fall&lt;br /&gt;all these things gifts that are born&lt;br /&gt;but what extent should a gift be&lt;br /&gt;should it rule your reality&lt;br /&gt;or must you simpilfy&lt;br /&gt;moderate in a pig's eye&lt;br /&gt;gone so long without any confession&lt;br /&gt;and you feel another soul lost without any reflection&lt;br /&gt;still waters never has done nothing for you&lt;br /&gt;now you go buy the brand new pair of shoes&lt;br /&gt;forget about yesterday and even for get about today&lt;br /&gt;they will never amount to any sense any way&lt;br /&gt;escape again and again you will finally lose it all my friend&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A functioning police state needs no police.&lt;br /&gt;                                                                           -William S. Burroughs&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4493523678470828602-8711984721718694309?l=happysloth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/feeds/8711984721718694309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4493523678470828602&amp;postID=8711984721718694309' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4493523678470828602/posts/default/8711984721718694309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4493523678470828602/posts/default/8711984721718694309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/2007/06/dreams-swept-away-by-insomniatic-zombie.html' title='dreams swept away by insomniatic zombie lords'/><author><name>HappySloth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00176487401295906118</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i129/naomi_michele/058.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493523678470828602.post-8364894123277751101</id><published>2007-05-23T22:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-23T23:47:18.662-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Circular life lessons begin new cycles as others fade</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;        The night just brings silence unto me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;               &lt;br /&gt;                Worn beyond belief,but &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;titillated&lt;/span&gt; to different energies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Today turned out a lot better than i could imagine. I had a decent day at work, a wonderful time with my wife and spent time with my daughter. I communicated with my wife fairly clearly today and there wasn't much agitation. Life in general feels pretty good. I am getting a little more hours this week so things appear to be looking up.&lt;br /&gt;Reflect and dissect&lt;br /&gt;what has been done&lt;br /&gt;protest when it can be done.&lt;br /&gt;Direct and point to A&lt;br /&gt;Explication tossed in temptation&lt;br /&gt;drape from the sea&lt;br /&gt;like a sirens call&lt;br /&gt;and I fall to it&lt;br /&gt;smokes clouds my mind&lt;br /&gt;it makes me feel fine&lt;br /&gt;just as designed&lt;br /&gt;placated to much&lt;br /&gt;so much that I just shut up&lt;br /&gt;i need to win over this battle&lt;br /&gt;my will is up to the task&lt;br /&gt;but moderation can i still ask?&lt;br /&gt;hardest thing in life to do&lt;br /&gt;will will balance at one state&lt;br /&gt;I hope it is not too late,&lt;br /&gt;think it is going to last forever&lt;br /&gt;it can slip quick if you don' fix&lt;br /&gt;one it fall through those track&lt;br /&gt;they jest gonna collapse&lt;br /&gt;strength and will i have been blessed&lt;br /&gt;I again will put them to the test&lt;br /&gt;clutch in my conclusion I must be&lt;br /&gt;or impending doom must find me&lt;br /&gt;I must take the path less chosen&lt;br /&gt;and that will make all the difference&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has been some broken word streaming thoughts that float about in me head and sometimes need to be said in different language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4493523678470828602-8364894123277751101?l=happysloth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/feeds/8364894123277751101/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4493523678470828602&amp;postID=8364894123277751101' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4493523678470828602/posts/default/8364894123277751101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4493523678470828602/posts/default/8364894123277751101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/2007/05/circular-life-lessons-begin-new-cycles.html' title='Circular life lessons begin new cycles as others fade'/><author><name>HappySloth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00176487401295906118</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i129/naomi_michele/058.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493523678470828602.post-7551228628379057613</id><published>2007-05-21T20:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-21T22:22:58.960-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Life is work in progress.... with some digression</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    Hello,   &lt;br /&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    This is going to be stream of conscience. The inner ear is broken from listening to the same dam music on the radio, it seems to degrade by the week. The radio corporate wrung has dissected music and formulated it into marketing and research. It makes me want to vomit most of the time, or scream so incessantly that my head would be rendered useless. I hear so many bands that have that sound that makes you want to cry, sing and listen to it so many times. Sublime language spoken trough notes wrote at intense passion points. Joints jazzed and blazed into new territory that makes you insecure and unsure about your self. This is where people question. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Clear&lt;/span&gt; channel reproduced reprocessed rubbish.There is some good music on the radio still, just like when you play darts odds are if you throw enough darts you will eventually hit a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;bulls eye&lt;/span&gt;. I know &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;satellite&lt;/span&gt; and HD offer more, but I can't afford to look into those options. I get most of my music from the internet. There is one way that good music is leaking out. It is a vast market waiting to be tapped dry. I only get amazed more and more with the new music that I find. People that are not even on labels and are not exposed, but then the question is how far do you want to release yourself from your art. Is it yours or will it end up in the next vagasil commercial for extreme odors. Also to being and avid audiophile  I do create music. Not many would say that, I use a computer. I had to get rid of most of my gear due to a child rearing into this world balancing act. I have come to terms with a lot in my head. I can dream still to say, "I will one day be successful in music" This is vague optimism trying to push its way to the for-front. This is where the dilemma becomes in my own hypocritical notions. Would I do a score for a vagasil commercial who the fuck knows. It is hard to say if I want to take my music away from passion. I don't want to make it a droning heartless automated guidelines to have tracks. I ope that one day some weird label will try my music and sell a small EP of mine. I would be happy even just to have this happen. I cross my fingers hoping one day I can create something that a bigger audience can hear.&lt;br /&gt;Feet on the ground head in the clouds confused cat calling for more diverse tracks and matching listeners to boot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Cyrillic: У том грму чучи зец! - Latin: U tom grmu čuči zec!&lt;br /&gt;               &lt;br /&gt;  Translation: That's the bush where the rabbit squats! (to find a solution to the problem)&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                                                                -Serbian proverb&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4493523678470828602-7551228628379057613?l=happysloth.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/feeds/7551228628379057613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4493523678470828602&amp;postID=7551228628379057613' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4493523678470828602/posts/default/7551228628379057613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4493523678470828602/posts/default/7551228628379057613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://happysloth.blogspot.com/2007/05/life-is-work-in-progress-with-some.html' title='Life is work in progress.... with some digression'/><author><name>HappySloth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00176487401295906118</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i129/naomi_michele/058.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
