Keeps me Awake - Writing Lyrics

So I been writing a lot lately cause its my time to really get in touch of what I'm feeling and how I'm feeling. Also, writing lyrics help me understand other friends around me. So when i'm stuck in a crazy position in my life, everything is good, or just want to be somewhere but my current place of residence...I float away to the world of my mind or my view of someone else life.
I've been really into live concerts lately and motown music. At least learning about the lives of some of the greatest writers of old rhythm and blues. Man there is so much history and I love learning about their inspirations for music. I've been very infatuated with the life of Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke, both very good artists of the 60's and 70's.
With these arists there always seems to be some reoccuring theme of pain and happiness, bitter and sweet, and failure then triumph. I been listening to some great lyricysts to like Common and this new artist, Young Dre who knows how to lay lyrics in the right places. Luckily, I have somoene like my roommate tyson stevens, who produces for love you long time, who helps me with melodies to my lyrics.
One of the ways in which I gain inspiration, is through staying up til 3 am and writing. Most of my songs are completed in the hours of the morning, which sometimes sucks with work and what not. Another way is going to Barnes & Noble and readin through magazines about artists and there inspirations.
Thats about that for what keeps me alive lately.

"It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it."
— Miles Davis

Dance: The Rhythm of My Life

Dance its the rhythm of my life
My only air to breathe
Like butter on my knife
I spread it even after my death

So I been watching a lot of these dance shows on TV that are showing hip hop in a better light. I love that true hip hop culture is being shown. But there is still an underground that is keeping to its roots.
It's been so great to see events around Rexburg and Provo do so well the last few years of dance battling. People are accepting hip-hop culture more. I believe this is do to the true nature of what hip-hop culture really is. The releasing of one's inner self and the true of nature of what your to become. Whether its art, whether its on the mic, whether its writing, or whether its on the floor...the true essence of hip-hop thrives and progresses with the individual as the individual progresses in his/her own life.
It doesn't even have to be hip-hop it can be anything that provides postivity and good for the world. Start with the man in the mirror this morning and look at yourself at the end of everyday, what did you accomplish and what can you do better.

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE, BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO YOU UNCONSCIOUSLY GIVE OTHERS PERMISSION TO DO THE SAME!

PADRES...PADRES...PADRES...EHHHH

Man, I am so fumed right now! I love my baseball and I love it when it's played well. But I have to tell ya that my San Diego Padres are playing about as good as my 2nd Little League team when the ice cream man makes circles around the parking lot during the middle of the game.
So they can't hit and their pitching has been up and down, especially the 'great' bullpen that includes future Hall of Famer - Trevor Hoffman...who as I write this has blown another save opportunity. It would be nice to see some consistency from the hitters, but of course we have hardly any power and we can't even get 10 hits in a game, better yet 2 games!
This has gotta change!

Earth 2 Earth....Wake Up!

Recently, I have traveled back to Rexburg, Idaho to start my new life after college. The life of a college graduate is so.......nice....for 2 days, then reality hits! Bills, jobs, growing up, and not growing up! Anyways I went home for a week to enjoy San Diego sunshine, eats, and sunshine!
Anyways, one of my favorite things to do is listen to AM talk radio whether it be politics, sports, or shock jocks...I LOVE IT! I loved listening to Jim Rome, XX1090 (especially Padre games), and conservative talk shows. But I couldnt find Glenn Beck, I needed Glenn in California. Now that I am back in Idaho, I can listen everyday to someone who truly understands what this country and the world need to do so that we don't run ourselves into the ground.
Glenn has been talking about all the issues we face in America and in the world, yet liberal, left-wing media only cares to talk on Hilary and Obama. It's ridiculous that the media would love to communicate about the falsities of global warming yet they won't communicate the important issues such as America importing wheat, Japan without butter, Saudi Arabia on its last oil reserve, our future economy that will hit recession, the truth about global warming, and Mexico losing much of its oil production. People are buying wheat and flour because we have decided to grow corn for ethanol instead! Which has increased prices of milk, and other food products. Japan recently ran out of butter because cows had been dying off due to a disease in Japan. THERE IS NO BUTTER IN JAPAN! WOW!
Not just that but many people in Mexico, India, and Africa are starving because they are in shortage of wheat. This is, once again, due to the fact that we are getting rid of more wheat because the conspiracy known as global warming has swept America. Apparently, us Americans want to save the trees and ocean and animals more than we want to eat or provide food for those less fortunate in other countries. Man, we really have been deceived as a country to believe that if we forgoe growing the essential things to LIVE IN LIFE, to save polar bears, save gas, save money, then we really have lost out on the purpose of life.
I hope everybody has their food storage because we are going to need it! Seriously, if you haven't had the chance of listening to Glenn Beck, he really looks at politics and life in general in a very real sense. He is a sick twisted freak. BE PREPARED!

THING TO DO BEFORE I DIE

List Of Things To Do B4 I Die:
1. Graduate college April 11,2008 -2008
2. Own a house in Tennessee
3. Bike In Washington
4. Fish off the coast of Baja California
5. Get married
6. Make a stranger happy
7. Learn to wake board
8. Summer thrift store trip (3 states)
9. Summer ballpark trip (at least 5 parks)
10. Snowboard in Europe
11. Start an after-school program
12. Perform in front of 10,000 people
13. Be featured on a TV Show
14. See a Manchester United game
15. Record a music album
16. Meet George W. Bush
17. Kiss my wife underneath the Eiffel Tower
18. Buy mom a new car
19. Teach hip-hop dance in 3rd world country
20. Go to a Michael Jackson concert -unfortunately he died last year - but I DID have the tickets purchased
21. Meet Michael Jordan
22. Cross-country ski in Wyoming
23. Published photograph in a magazine
24. Visit New Zealand
25. Take a boat into the Mediterranean
26. Be on the coast of somewhere beautiful
27. Meet Justin Timberlake
28. Be in a feautre movie
29. Flip a house
30. Vist & Perform for U.S. Troops
31. Visit & Perform at Orphanages
32. Plant a garden in another country
33. Scuba dive in the bahamas
34. Dance at the club atop the Palms
35. Hike a mountain above 9,000 feet
36. Help with an Extreme makeover home edition house
37. Learn graphic design
38. Build shelter in a 3rd world country
39. Do a sports broadcast on TV
40. Get the Format to play in E. Idaho
41. Become a Big brother/volunteer
42. Fish off the coast of Maine
43. Eat lobster in Maine
44. Throw out a first pitch at baseball game
45. Snowboard in Aspen
46. Learn the piano
47. Run the bases at Petco Park
48. Sing the national anthem at a game
49. Do photography in Ireland
50. Be chef certified
51. Do scuplture in Europe
52. Hug 10 strangers
53. Start a clothing line
54. Write a book
55. Publish a book
56. Learn the guitar
57. Ride a fast rollercoaster -2010
58. Kick a 30-yd field goal
59. Clean up a bum
60. Learn to play the keytar
61. Learn to surf
62. Longboard in Italy
63. Provide basketballs for kids in Iraq
64. Skateboard in another country
65. Beach trip down the coast
66. Meet LaDainian Tomlinson
67. Meet Glenn Beck - 2007
68. Own a business
69. Take a random roadtrip with my girl
70. Take my girl to a San Diego beach
71. Bike in France
72. Yell POOP off the Empire State Building
73. Sing to a girl in Central Park
74. Eat a hot dog in Chicago
75. One foot in US and one foot in Canada

Update 02/25/2008

Going to be a busy week with tests in Political Science and Accounting. Need to get at least 70's on these tests to keep with the graduating schedule. Less than 7 weeks now till I graduate college. Haha isn't that crazy! April 11, 2008 at 9a.m.
This week will be busy too because we have the big DANCE BATTLE UNIVERSITY with BYU - BOISE ST. - BYU-ID. We're getting ready to have a fun battle and show the town of Rexburg what real street dancing is!