The Cure, Hope and another Chapter..or not

06.11.2008 Tampa - St. Pete Times Forum (USA/FL)

Mainset:
underneath the stars

Prayers for rain
fascination street
the walk
the end of the world
lovesong
to wish impossible things
pictures of you
lullaby
catch
the perfect boy
from the edge of the deep green sea
the kyoto song
hot hot hot
the blood
sleep when i'm dead
push
inbetween days
just like heaven
primary
shake dog shake
the only one
wrong number
one hundred years
baby rag dog book

Encore 1:

the lovecats
let's go to bed
freakshow
close to me
why can't i be you?

Encore 2:

boys don't cry
jumping someone else's train
grinding halt
10:15 saturday night
killing an arab

Encore 3:

a forest

Line-Up: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Jason Cooper, Porl Thompson

Did you see the Frack'in set list? (Thank you so much Batttlestar Galactica!)
it is frack'in 36 songs long, 3 hrs of Cure The first set kinda slow, not a lot of energy out of Robert and the boys, Some songs picked up, just like heaven, hot hot hot, etc. But overall I was disappointed, thinking good, glad I was able to see them again before their gone....Then BAM! they come out for encore 1 and start playin like you would expect, it turns into a pure rock show. Robert is singing and dancing, playing to the crowd. They are kill'in it, Lovecats, favorite song...now heard live. Uh, Kick Ass! The show had no keyboards, no horns, nada...Just guitars, bass, drums and foot pedals to make all the cool effects to simulate the above. Encore's 1 - 3 skyrocket this show into my top 5 ever, and seeing them in St. Louis was already in there. That's another story, but best show environment ever for the St. Louis show, back on the "Wish" tour.

Onto hope, there is so much more to this, but in a nutshell as it's getting late and I need to read the next chapter so I can do all the things in my title. Hope is amazing! I set myself up for a large disappointment right before the show. As I have alluded I have lost someone pretty important in my life, so i set up a situation to try and put things behind us and get them to come along to the show. Sent instructions via text. Hooray modern age, why talk when you can thumb? Anyway, all signs pointed to this being just another idiotic moment in my life, but here's the kicker...knowing full well that I was setting myself up for failure. I was driving home...rounding the corner and my heart still skipped a beat....Hope that I would see their Jeep in my driveway. Now, one might say that sucks you totally failed... and this would be true. I was sad. But I was sad because they weren't here. However, I still had hope. How awesome is that? To continue to move forward knowing you would fail...insanity, probably... But when you step outside of things and apply small gleanings to the larger picture. Hope is a constant smile factor, we place a goal in our head and sometimes it is an absurd goal, but somewhere inside us if we truly desire it, a fire will burn. Keeps the world moving along.

The next chapter! will I think be read tomorrow. 3 days of this has left a hole in my training log and unless I hit the hay I'll miss another day.

"Hand in Hand is the only way to Land,"

We move like cagey tigers
We couldn't get closer than this
The way we walk
The way we talk
The way we stalk
The way we kiss

We slip through the streets
While everyone sleeps
Getting bigger and sleeker
And wider and brighter
We bite and scratch and scream all night
Let's go and
Throw all the songs we know

Into the sea
You and me
All these years and no one heard
I'll show you in spring
It's a treacherous thing
We missed you hissed the lovecats

(Ba ba-da...da da da da da...)

We're so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully
Wonderfully pretty
Oh you know that I'd do anything for you
We should have each other to tea huh?
We should have each other with cream
Then curl up by the fire
And sleep for awhile
It's the grooviest thing
It's the perfect dream

Hand in hand
Is the only way to land
And always the right way round
Not broken in pieces
Like hated little meeces
How could we miss
Someone as dumb as this

I love you ... let's go
Oh ... solid gone ...
How could we miss someone as dumb
As this?


Love this song...Hope they play it! and it seems to fit ; )

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry......

Oh yeah, sneak preview of The Incredible Hulk! Hooray for being one of the first to see it and as usual I am running late! I'll let the world know my thoughts later on. Let's all forget about Ang Lee...shall we? Come Ang who?

I read chapter Eight. and it asks What common task could I start doing as if I were doing it directly for Jesus? As I'm late this was is short and sweet. Be a better servant to everyone around me.

Onto the HULK and maybe more musings later!

Day Nine, but Chapter Seven

It's a Monday and everything that goes along with a Monday : )

Today's workout still was not on par. I still am feeling it in my legs from Saturday I got in about 1500 yards in the pool and a spin class. A good morning I suppose, I got up and all, but I am ready for my legs to get back to normal. Besides they say you can really focus on correct form at exhaustion. Hooray silver lining?

Also, on the tri front, rumor has it the amoeba's are already attacking and the swim may be canceled at Baldwin Park. Grrrrr stupid amoeba's!












The Naegleria fowleria amoeba is a parasite that lives in bodies of fresh water when temperatures rise above 82 degrees.


Well onto today's dose of introspection. Where in my daily routine can I become more aware of God's glory?
Here it is short and simple....Open my eyes. There is awesomeness all around me. The people the places, the sun shining, the light at the intersection that's green, the friends, the family, the ferocious beast I call a pet! looks like she could just eat your face off, huh?
There is signs in her too. How great to be dog to see everything so simply. Today's task's eat chow, wag tail, chase squirrel, go potty, chase lizards, sleep...a lot, eat more chow, sleep some more, pester K to throw 7lb tire so i can fetch it
and beat him with it till i get tired and drop it...Repeat. The lesson is still simplify. There isn't anywhere you can look and not find beauty and connections.

Quiting vs. Listening and Chapter Six

Today's run was awful. I walked out my door full of confidence that I was going on at least a 5 mile run. Then my legs reminded me that I did a time trial yesterday, that it was almost 90F out and that the humidity was pushing 70%. I was two miles in and feeling like complete crap, but still I ran, actually I had slowed to a jog at this point. Then I was going uphill and slowly started to walk. The voices started screaming in my head. Lazy, POS, you can still move forward so start moving. So I started running again. A half mile goes by my legs are burning i can feel every muscle I pushed to hard yesterday. So the internal dialog changes it becomes a debate. Are you a quitter? or are you just listening to your body? My first reaction was of course quitter, then I stopped pushing so hard and started walking. My heart rate started coming down, less burning in the legs. The debate raging on in my head. It's not easy to listen to your body. Today, I am glad I did. couple miles of running a couple miles of walking, hey at least I made it out the front door....

21 days to Baldwin Park!

Chapter Six, Thinking About My Purpose.
Life is a temporary assignment, how much easier does the world become when we know we don't have to worry about tomorrow? If Earth is only a layover onto a greater place it puts a few things into perspective. It does into the call of stewardship from before, if we are all just resting here, what can we do to help one another make this place a little more comfortable. Service to one another. Do we recognize the people in our life, help them to endure the journey our do we just place ourselves at the top of the food chain. I feel like a pendulum, I have been both, most recently I was selfish and it cost me. Previously, up until about year ago I was as giving as I could be and it was terribly abused. The lesson I suppose is about baggage, we and I need to work harder to make those around us and me more comfortable in this journey and not expect, but hope that the offer is repaid. sort of a pay it forward philosophy. The difficult component to this in my growth is working to help those i don't even know. The people who are not in my core. Over the years as I have felt my heart and kinship abused I built think walls to protect myself. I would die to protect those I truly loved. Now I am recognizing how interlaced we
are and that cutting off the rest of the world to care for so few is a wasted effort. The stewardship is in all of our hands to help and protect each other. from the person who just needs a smile to that stranger who needs help pushing their car out of the intersection. When do we get back to caring about one another?

The actual Chapter 6 question: How should the fact that life on earth is just a temporary assignment change the way I am living right now?

Lucky me I think I've answered it above. Look to help each other, teach your skills to others, be quick to offer a smile to a stranger, the world is to full of fear, we need to remember that everyone is not out to kill us and maybe with a few more smiles and kind worlds at the right times, maybe there would be less people actually out to kill one of us. Although the question goes further, I believe it pushes us to shake off the rampant materialism as well. Everyone likes nice things, I know I do. However, in light of the chapter lit seems to me life should be like a backpacking trip through Europe. Take only what you can carry, If you have to fit it in your ruck and your willing to haul it with you then you know it's important. That decided focus on the journey, take some pictures see the sites. If this our journey home then I want some pictures and memories of the journey, I want interesting dialog with new and wonderful people. I don't want more crap to shove up into my attic.