Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Open Mic
Hello. I'm not going to post my open mic piece because, somehow in my mind, posting something takes away the freshness of it. It takes away the swag and the heart and the emotion, like its had its soul ripped out. It's kinda like a new pair of socks or some new underwear, the first time you put it on is always the best. Everything after that is just sad old memories. Well anyways, I'll probably end up posting my piece after I read it in class tomorrow, so if for some strange reason you like in Taiwan or something and you are reading this, sorry... gonna have to wait.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Ordinary World
Call of Darkness
Meet Mark William Calaway. A single, middle-aged, math teacher born and raised in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, he has always been fascinated with the towns mysterious past. He began studying the Dark Arts when he found an old manuscript in the library. Now a group of Satan worshipers want him to join their crew. But even though Mark is interested in studying them, he wants no part in what they do. When they kidnap his secret love he is forced to make a decision: Join them and hope they release her or try to rescue her. He decides on the latter path and must travel to Death Valley, California where his courage will be tested in trying to take down an evil cult.
Questions:
How will Mark save his secret love?
Will Mark ever be the same after this experience?
Did Mark stumble onto something bigger than a satanic cult?
Meet Mark William Calaway. A single, middle-aged, math teacher born and raised in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, he has always been fascinated with the towns mysterious past. He began studying the Dark Arts when he found an old manuscript in the library. Now a group of Satan worshipers want him to join their crew. But even though Mark is interested in studying them, he wants no part in what they do. When they kidnap his secret love he is forced to make a decision: Join them and hope they release her or try to rescue her. He decides on the latter path and must travel to Death Valley, California where his courage will be tested in trying to take down an evil cult.
Questions:
How will Mark save his secret love?
Will Mark ever be the same after this experience?
Did Mark stumble onto something bigger than a satanic cult?
Monday, May 16, 2011
Shake The Dust
This is for the fat boys. This is for the nerds and the geeks and the chumps. This is for the hobo sittin on the curb with a tin cup. Shake the dust. This is for the children with no food to eat in the morning cuz their daddy don't come home at night. This is for the people who get uptight over grammar mistakes in my last sentence. This is for the circus acrobats. This is for the girls that dress this way cuz they need to look that way cuz without lookin a certain way there ain't no way they're gonna think they amount to somethin. This is for the friends that get used and abused and refused. Shake the dust. Shake because ever since you've been born, you've been standin in your own grave. Shake because every time you get insulted, hurt, torn up, and ripped into pieces there are people tryin to bury you. They're throwin dust, and it's hittin you. But shake it off and pat it down. Keep on shakin until you are out of the grave, no more insults, no more dust. You're dirty, but you're alive.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Gandhi
When Gandhi first decided to take a stand against tyranny I don't think he knew one day he would be called Mahatma. Great Soul.
When Gandhi first preached ahimsa and satyagraha I don't think he knew one day he would be called Bapu. Father.
I keep forgetting to tell myself that great men are made, not born. I keep forgetting to tell myself that even my heroes had doubts.
Look into my eyes and tell me what I want to hear, because that is what you're supposed to say. But when I look back into your eyes they betray what you think. You don't take me seriously. You never believed in me, and you never will.
Great men are great men because they have been hurt. Been beaten and tortured and left for dead by the ones they love. Great men are great men because they have nowhere else to go, but up.
Look into my eyes and answer my question. When will we own ourselves completely? When will what we want and what is best for us be one and the same? Or are we bound to love that which is most toxic for us?
A great man owns himself completely. He owns himself because nobody wanted him when he was at the bottom. He owns himself because he freely gives of himself when he is at the top.
Look into my eyes because I love you. Look into my eyes because I want to be a great man. Look into my eyes because there is the light I draw upon when I am at the bottom and because there is the light I bask in when I am at the top.
I want to be like Gandhi. A Great Soul. A Father. And tonight when I looked into your eyes I knew that tonight is not the last time I'll see the light.
When Gandhi first preached ahimsa and satyagraha I don't think he knew one day he would be called Bapu. Father.
I keep forgetting to tell myself that great men are made, not born. I keep forgetting to tell myself that even my heroes had doubts.
Look into my eyes and tell me what I want to hear, because that is what you're supposed to say. But when I look back into your eyes they betray what you think. You don't take me seriously. You never believed in me, and you never will.
Great men are great men because they have been hurt. Been beaten and tortured and left for dead by the ones they love. Great men are great men because they have nowhere else to go, but up.
Look into my eyes and answer my question. When will we own ourselves completely? When will what we want and what is best for us be one and the same? Or are we bound to love that which is most toxic for us?
A great man owns himself completely. He owns himself because nobody wanted him when he was at the bottom. He owns himself because he freely gives of himself when he is at the top.
Look into my eyes because I love you. Look into my eyes because I want to be a great man. Look into my eyes because there is the light I draw upon when I am at the bottom and because there is the light I bask in when I am at the top.
I want to be like Gandhi. A Great Soul. A Father. And tonight when I looked into your eyes I knew that tonight is not the last time I'll see the light.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Blurb... Blurb... Blurb... Blurb... Blurrrrrrb...
Runaway Bon Jovi
All her life, all Sarah Hopkins wanted was to be able to talk to her father, Jack, a lawyer for a busy firm in Los Angeles. She seemed to have it all, cars, clothes and cash. As Sarah grows older, she discovers her fathers affair with another woman which led to the split in her family twelve years ago. Disillusioned with her father's lies, she sets out to make it on her own, only to end up as a prostitute on the streets of Vegas.
Jukebox Hero Foreigner
Ever since that day in the rain, standing outside the concert to his favorite band, Max Pepper was determined to escape the slums of Detroit and become a rock star. His fame quickly grew as he was touted as the next Jimi Hendrix, but his fame causes him to forget about his promise to help his cancer stricken sister. Will a return to play at the venue where he was first inspired help him remember his roots?
Die Another Day Madonna
While the world has fallen under the suppression of the tyrannical World Wide Petroleum Countries, which rose out of the ashes of OPEC following World War III, a band of Canadian rebels search for a very secretive study by Sigmund Freud that relates how to access the full potential of ones physical and mental abilities, which might be the key to overthrowing their ruthless overlords and restoring freedom to the world.
Starlight Muse
Leo Dawson finally gets a chance to visit the many star systems in the galaxy when his uncle offers him work as a waiter on his starcruiser, the Titan. Rose Winslet, the daughter of a very profitable carbonite miner is also aboard the ship. Leo's first attempts to impress her fail, but her curiosity grows as he keeps trying. Eventually curiosity leads to friendship then love, but their romance becomes endangered when a black hole threatens to swallow the ship.
Ain't No Rest for the Wicked Cage the Elephant
Living a relatively uneventful childhood in a small town in the Midwest, Radley Lewis's world gets turned on its head when his family moves to Miami. His love for techno music leads him to an underground scene filled with sex, drugs, and dirty money. His conservative upbringing clashes with the lifestyle he now leads, and while trying to hone his skills as a DJ, he learns one important lesson from a trio of new friends; there ain't no rest for the wicked.
All her life, all Sarah Hopkins wanted was to be able to talk to her father, Jack, a lawyer for a busy firm in Los Angeles. She seemed to have it all, cars, clothes and cash. As Sarah grows older, she discovers her fathers affair with another woman which led to the split in her family twelve years ago. Disillusioned with her father's lies, she sets out to make it on her own, only to end up as a prostitute on the streets of Vegas.
Jukebox Hero Foreigner
Ever since that day in the rain, standing outside the concert to his favorite band, Max Pepper was determined to escape the slums of Detroit and become a rock star. His fame quickly grew as he was touted as the next Jimi Hendrix, but his fame causes him to forget about his promise to help his cancer stricken sister. Will a return to play at the venue where he was first inspired help him remember his roots?
Die Another Day Madonna
While the world has fallen under the suppression of the tyrannical World Wide Petroleum Countries, which rose out of the ashes of OPEC following World War III, a band of Canadian rebels search for a very secretive study by Sigmund Freud that relates how to access the full potential of ones physical and mental abilities, which might be the key to overthrowing their ruthless overlords and restoring freedom to the world.
Starlight Muse
Leo Dawson finally gets a chance to visit the many star systems in the galaxy when his uncle offers him work as a waiter on his starcruiser, the Titan. Rose Winslet, the daughter of a very profitable carbonite miner is also aboard the ship. Leo's first attempts to impress her fail, but her curiosity grows as he keeps trying. Eventually curiosity leads to friendship then love, but their romance becomes endangered when a black hole threatens to swallow the ship.
Ain't No Rest for the Wicked Cage the Elephant
Living a relatively uneventful childhood in a small town in the Midwest, Radley Lewis's world gets turned on its head when his family moves to Miami. His love for techno music leads him to an underground scene filled with sex, drugs, and dirty money. His conservative upbringing clashes with the lifestyle he now leads, and while trying to hone his skills as a DJ, he learns one important lesson from a trio of new friends; there ain't no rest for the wicked.
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