Mad World...sad.

For Guitar and my voice. Capo on third fret, slow.

Verse 1 ( Em .. G  |  D .. A ):
All around me are familiar faces.
  Worn out places.  Worn out faces.
Bright and early for their daily races.
  Going nowhere.  Going nowhere.
And their tears are filling up their glasses.
  No expression.  No expression.
Hide my head; I want to drown my sorrow.
  No tomorrow.  No tomorrow.

Chorus ( Em .. A ):
And I find it kinda funny.
  but I find it kinda sad.
The dreams in which I'm dying
  Are the best I've ever had.
I find it hard to tell you
  Cuz I find it hard to take.
When people run in circles it's a very, very

(Em .. G .. A)
   Mad world.
   Mad world.
   Mad world.
   Mad world.

Verse 2 ( Em .. G  |  D .. A ):
Children waiting for the day they feel good.
  How I love you.  So proud of you.
Made to feel the way that every child should.
  Sit and listen.  Sit and listen.
Went to school and I was very nervous.
  No one knew me.  No one knew me.
Hello, teacher tell me what's my lesson?
  Looked right through me.  Looked right through me.

Chorus ( Em .. A ):

And I find it kinda funny.

  I find it kinda sad.

The dreams in which I'm dying

  Are the best I've ever had.

I find it hard to tell you

  Cuz I find it hard to take.

When people run in circles it's a very, very

(Em .. G .. A)
   Mad world.
   Mad world.
   Mad world.
   Mad world.

  Enlarge your world

Original Video from the movie


Live version with Tears for Fears singer

Love like it's the only thing that can save you

There is this something about love, about friendship - this something which I've identified as vulnerability. When we are insecure (or/if because) we've been hurt before by friends, family, lovers...there is a tendency to hide ourselves. We hide who we are so that we don't get hurt...because when we are rejected for living as we know, it is easier to hide so that the rebukes stop. I've experienced this and it hurts now to talk about it. I've felt my trust and confidence betrayed. Sometimes the worst betrayal, is when the deceiver is in my past. Or in my heart, still there. Deceiving with fantasy. Then, if that fantasy is projected onto a real person and they reject you...or reject who you pretend to be, in your fantasy, the pain doubles. To have true relationships we must feel comfortable with who we are, at least comfortable enough to show who we really are - to be vulnerable to critisism, to rejection. Otherwise we always feel like they don't know us, and we can't share what we are thinking or feeling...and we are trapped again, alone. And nobody wants to be alone. There must be a key to putting past pain behind, being yourself, and finding people who are truly attracted to that. When people are attracted to what we really feel, to what we really think, we find validation and understanding...and to feel understood and accepted, is at the core of what we call, love. We must also find the room in our hearts to accept and understand others for who they really are - without judgement or condemnation - to allow them to be themselves. Then they will feel loved. Encourage people to show who they really are, and then validate that, and love them. Just love people for who they are rather than viewing everyone as competitors, or viewing them as obstacles, or worse - viewin them as opportunities. Give. Open handed. Open hearted. Accept, open minded. Open hearted. Love like it's the only thing that can save you. Because it is.

Sometimes you can win with the unexpected.

The others are dumbfounded...someone should have asked them for their tickets after that play.

But take your stand, firm against him

Do not run from the Lion, take your stand. Someone else is behind you when you do.

Schizophrenic Brains Not Fooled by Optical Illusion

Wired has a really neat blog article from last year, give yourself a treat and take the 5 minutes to read it...fascinating how our brains work.  Here's the video from the article:

Insanity is...

Insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

-Einstein

Melting Rocks with the sun

This is incredible!

A proposal to diagnose myself! After all the searching...

I bet this Bentall guy is fun to hang around...he submitted that:

Happiness should "be classified as a psychiatric disorder"

Read his logic at the government's web page.

A coffee maker's bubble pump (video:2min)

Very interesting and short video on how a coffee maker's pump works.  Worth 2 minutes.

Progress continues on the F Residence

Video: The Century of Self

Very interesting archived video from a BBC documentary called the Century of Self. [LINK]

The video talks of Edward Bernays, the Irrational mind, Sigmund Freud, "Public Relations" (a term that was coined after World War I to replace Propoganda since it had been used to smear Eurpoean enemies in WWI), Adolf Hitler's control of the masses, the Nazi's war on Democracy following the Great Depression, Joseph Goebbels, George Gallup...

Some interesting paraphrased quotes:

Sigmund believed that: 'Civilzation has been created to control humans, and that Democratic freedom is impossible.  People must always be controlled and must always be discontent'

Bernay's invented the idea that Democracy is inextricably linked with Capitalism with the World's Fair...

If you enjoy history, then you'll enjoy this presentation, for whatever it's worth to you.

Dillon

"...Rifftrax Supplies the Laughs"

There's a service I had never heard of, sounds like a fun evening.  Essentially, Rifftrax records an MP3 that you sync with a movie you already have...and then they mock it all the way through - just like the old MST3K.

Rifftrax has been around for years, but I tried it for the first time last weekend with my kids. We rented “High School Musical” and played the MP3 file on an iPhone plugged into a speaker dock.

Man, it was hilarious.

I think I'm going to try this with the High School Musical...I've still never seen it personally.

Dillon

Incredibley moving...not sure how I feel when it's over.

Perhaps empty and sad are the words...

"I couldn’t find a killer innovation..."

From Walt Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal on the Windows Phone 7

"But I couldn’t find a killer innovation that would be likely to make iPhone or Android users envious, except possibly for dedicated Xbox users. Even the built-in Office can be replicated with third-party Office-compatible apps on competing platforms; and the iPhone and Android phones also can interoperate with Microsoft’s corporate Exchange email, calendar and contact system.

"So for now, I see Windows Phone 7 as mostly getting Microsoft into the game, and replacing the stale, complicated Windows Mobile system that preceded it."

Amen.  These WM7 won't take off now, and if they are a repeat of the Zune line which is in its multi-generation phase, they will flounder at the bottom of the market with their Bing, MSN, blah blah blah, products.

Wind Powered Vehicles...that travel faster than the wind powering them...

The grinding chaos of the irrational

"Every man builds his world in his own image," he  ...  said. "He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence – by his own choice."

All of life.

 "In the night he awoke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken away from him."

- Ernest Hemingway

You belong with me...

Really good lyrics from Coldplay...just a highlight:

"Get lost and then get found and you'll come back to me, not swallowed in the sea

Oh what good is it to live, with nothing left to give
Forget but not forgive, not loving all you see...
The streets you're walking on, a thousand houses long.
Well, that's where I belong, and you belong with me...not swallowed in the sea

...yeah, you belong with me, not swallowed in the sea."

Some recent sentimentals

Short Film: I'm Here

Radio Show: This American Life: Unconditional Love 

We know the game and we're gonna play it

We're no strangers to love, you know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of, you wouldn't get this from any other guy

I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling, gotta make you understand

1. Never gonna give you up
2. Never gonna let you down
3. Never gonna run around and desert you
4. Never gonna make you cry
5. Never gonna say goodbye
6. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

We've know each other for so long, Your heart's been aching
But you're too shy to say it, Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it

And if you ask me how I'm feeling, Don't tell me you're too blind to see

'Blessed each one his angels with uniqueness'

"No two living things on earth are completely alike, so we can reasonably conclude that Jehovah has blessed each one of his millions of angels with uniqueness. (Dan. 7:10) Yet, they can serve Jehovah in unity because they all listen to him and do his will. (Read Psalm 103:20, 21.) While faithful angels have diverse attributes,Christians
in addition have various defects. This canmake unity more challenging."

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"I open every Door" | Emily Dickinson

"Not knowing when the Dawn will come, I open every Door, Or has it Feathers, like a Bird, Or Billows, like a Shore." -Emily Dickinson

Fix you...

Music Video

Chords

Standard tuning:  Capo 2

chords:
C -     332010
Em -    022000
Am7 -   002010
F -     133211 (bar chord)
G - 320033
Gsus4- 330033
G~ 320003

Intro: C, Em, Am7, G~  x2
  Note: Mimic piano, hit sting 2 on C, Am7, and sting 1 on Em, G~


Verse 1:
               C                                Em       Am7          G~     
When you try your best, but you don't succeed
               C                                 Em           Am7          G~ 
When you get what you want, but not what you need
               C                         Em       Am7          G~ 
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
            C     Em   Am7   G~
Stuck in re - ver - se.

Instrumental: C, Em ,Am7, G~


Verse 2:
              C                                Em            Am7           G~ 
When the tears come streaming down your face
              C                              Em       Am7           G~   
When you lose something you can't replace
             C                                Em       Am7           G~ 
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
                 C   Em   Am7   G~  
Could it be  wo - rse?

Chorus:
F       Em  G, Gsus4, G    F
Jah    will gu.....ide you home
      Em  G, Gsus4, G      F
And ig....n...it..e    your bones
          Em       G        
but I won't   try  - - -  to fix you

Instrumental: C, Em ,Am7, G~  x 2 (mimic piano, hit bass notes, C,B,A,G during 4 chords)

Verse 3:
        C                      Em        Am7           G~
And high up above or down below...
                  C                    Em  Am7         G~
When you're too in love to let it go...
           C                           Em      Am7         G~ 
If you never try, then you'll never know
  C    Em   Am7    G~
If it'll work.....

Chorus:

F       Em  G, Gsus4, G    F

Jah will gu.....ide you home

      Em  G, Gsus4, G      F

And ig....n...it..e    your bones

          Em        G           

but I won't   try  - - -  to fix you

Bridge: C, Em, Am7, G x2 (on/off pinky on high E)

C                        F
Tears stream,             down your face
C                                      G~                              
When you lose somethin'    you cannot replace
Am7            F
Tears stream down your face
C               G~
And I.........

C                      F
Tears stream,     down your face
C                                   G~
I promise you that I will learn from my mistakes
Am7                 F
Tears stream down your face
C           G~
but I.........

Final Chorus: (quite slow, sung 1 octave lower)
F       Em  G, Gsus4, G    F

Jah    will gu.....ide you home

       Em  G  Gsus4  G      F

And ig....n...it..e    your bones

          Em        G                 C

and  I want to  try ....................

Thanks to Ash and dre for their initial Chord map

Macbook Air...if I were rich...

The new MacBook Air is gorgeous and lite.  I love these little tid-bits from a review by NYT's Pogue:

"It can sit that way for 30 days—and when you open the lid, the whole thing is fired up and ready to go in about one second."

"The 11-incher will delight you with its practical nonexistence, but disappoint you if you think of it as your main machine. But if you think of it as a satellite for a full-blown computer, you’ll be very happy with it. It’s sort of like an iPad with a keyboard."

I can definitely see me using this more than an iPad.  I see the perfect mobile worker (that has lots o' money) with:

• (1) a 3.5" mobile phone, like the iPhone or Samsung Fascinate (something easy to tuck away)
• (2) a 7" tablet for quick calendaring, emailing, reading (it's one handed and truly portable)
• (2) a highend netbook, like the MacBook Air (keyboard for content production)
• (3) a powerful desktop with beautiful large screens and easy access to upgrade it's internal bits...

...then somehow keeping them all sync'd.

Personally, I feel the large tablets/iPads of the world are ultimately destined for a utility function.  Very nice, but too big to cart around and just whip out...and early adopters, you look ridiculous trying to type on them - don't forget to stretch your shoulders and neck...and your bent wrists.

Dillon

Tatooine

Great little song by an artist named Jeremy Massersmith...really liking it.  Here are some of the resources for it...enjoy.

Video
MP3

Chords:
Tatooine by Jeremy Messersmith
capo 2

Twin suns of Tatooine
     C
 Taught me everything I know
                      Am
Twin suns of Tatooine
    C
Taught me everything I know
                      Am
There's room up there for second chances
    F                      C         Am
Singles are fine but doubles are fantastic
    F                 C              Am
I'd like to think that there's a star for me and you
   F                                               G
Spinning round, falling for one another
  F      Em            G              C

Twin suns of Tatooine
Taught me everything I know
Twin suns of Tatooine
Taught me everything I know

Solos are fine but duets are romantic
A pair is grand but a trio'd be disastrous
I'd like to think that there's a star for me and you
Spinning round, falling for one another