My Life Through Music

They say that love is likened to a drug... but what happens when drugs are likened to love? The lines can get blurry... and so can the "lines." 

Just because we avoid disaster or don't get caught doesn't mean we should continue, or even double-down on the behavior...  I should've stopped... period. When you're young, you think nothing can happen to you, I was no different. I wanted to experience... everything... weather it was good for me or not.  In this video I talk about seeing the warnings... but blatantly ignoring them.

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NOTHING! That's what I know.

Yeah, I may have been listening to the music, going to concerts, thinking that I knew something. I didn't know, WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW.

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In this video I talk about one of the few trips I took to California with "California Kid," and how teenage recklessness and curiosity led to more and more danger. These situations CAN be a teacher, but they can also teach us things about ourselves that we didn't want to know. As the title of this song is "You're Gonna Get Yours," I was eventually going to get what was coming to me... the only question was when?

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Cactus Shadows football (1988-89). 

Take a moment to think about all the voices that have been part of your life... past and present. Think about the impact they've had on you, whatever it was, and what they mean to you today.  In this video I talk about that one great football season of 1988-89. The drudgery and the grind of our practices in the Arizona heat, that incredible run to the playoffs, and one, of many, voices I'll never forget!

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Learning about a new art... in Art!  

"Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.  When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself."  Wilde, Oscar, et al. "The Preface." The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. J.B. Foreman, Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1989, p. 17.

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We were all just trying to figure this "love" thing out. What helped me was talking and having conversations with many different people about many different things. People I had never thought I would talk to about this stuff...

When you're with someone you love it feels like THIS song by The Cure.

When you're NOT with them, to me, it feels like the song, "Haunted (When The Minutes Drag)" by Love and Rockets.

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The sun behind the thick cloud-cover spread a silvery hue into the car through the back window bringing out her eyes and highlighting her sharp facial features, and the only thing I could hear was the morning as I quickly went from searching for words... to not needing any words at all.

“Finally… to free innocence”  This quote was taken directly from: Balligomingo  “Lust”  Beneath The Surface, 2002, Track 11.

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With my senses heightened, the sweet smell of clove cigarettes, mixed with regular cigarettes, was even stronger on the inside as they coalesced with sulfur... and sweat. Continuing into the club, I inwardly grinned as I saw on the dancefloor a beautiful mass of souls expressing themselves, and expressing life!

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Can Music pick up where words end?

I looked down at the cassette tape in my hand having no idea what was on it, or what song she was referring to... but I couldn't wait to find out!

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Attendance Girl!!

It felt like my heart was going to beat right out of my chest! It was at that moment that the arm of the automatic door closer made a "hiss" sound, swinging the door behind me shut. She turned around to see who had walked in, and there I was, standing in the middle of the office lobby with the girl I had the biggest crush on staring right at me!