Static's Automatic (Lyrics)

Time to line up, time to hold a sign up
Grow a backbone, time to line your spine up
Raise your voice, clear your throats and sinus
The kings are back call him royal highness


Be like me- nah- you D-I-E
495 squad don't need I.D.
Before 9-11 you need not flee
But no 4-11 means no T.V.


Television must've altered your perception
Can't tell the truth from deception
I need proof for reflection
Misdirection at all times means disconnection


Who want? You want? We want that brand new!
These motherfuckers right here cannot stand you
Treated like cattle and soon they will brand you
With no you and me there is nothing they can do


Who's the belly of the beast out here
Is it you and I? Is it do to fear?
Is it protocol? How we vote 'em in
How we set 'em up and let 'em all lie and hide behind a grin


I got no time for their fake information
Better stand out don't stand in formation
Real life- it ain't on the T.V.
It's you and me so best believe we


Got ta fight back- swipe what they might have- now
That's our life mapped out- if you like that
Then I guess that we comin' for you
The belly of the beast eat thru- true


Who want? You want? We want that brand new!
These motherfuckers right here cannot stand you
Treated like cattle and soon they will brand you
With no you and me there is nothing they can do

We got some shit right here that you cannot fuck with
Finally got the courage to face the puppets
Never changed me they just change they subjects
Wanna blame me cuz I read the subtext


What's next, they sank the budget
The Gov'ment, no- don't mistake the public
Don't blame the hole, blame those that dug it
Don't go for show, just show you love it


Love it- leave it- reach a- 'bove it
Come in- side it- find it's- ugly
Hate it- hope they- fix it- fuck it
They won't- change if- they can- front it


Wanted- nothin- but ta- grow 'n
Now they- got us- all us- frozen
Posin'- wavin'- hate ex- 'plodin'
Show 'em- make 'em- wake up- go 'n rise


Who want? You want? We want that brand new!

These motherfuckers right here cannot stand you

Treated like cattle and soon they will brand you

With no you and me there is nothing they can do

(Epidimic medley)

Ate Up From The Inside Out

I've had this tune in my head for a few days now. It's a slow little ditty, but raw at the same time. Sometimes it's soft and depressing, while other times it's defiant and somewhat confrontational. The words go like this though:

I don't know...

What to do...

When it's all

Around me...

I don't know...

Where to go...

Cuz everywhere

They're drowning...

So it crept into my head again today, and I started to think about the words, and what they were saying.  From the beginning you know someone is dealing with confusion and the feeling of being suffocated by their surroundings.  It seems like they want to get away, but they feel they can't because the problem is everywhere.  Everyone is drowning.  Is it actual water around, and are people literally drowning, or do the words just suggest people can no longer function in society?  You can't live if you can't breathe, and if you can't live then what's the point?  Are we all on respirators now?  Again, not literally, but look at how we live. Look at what we as a nation have added to our daily lives, from the things we eat to the things we do.  Through the mouth we ingest man made garbage that grows not from the ground.  Through our eyes we ingest irrelevant garbage that comes from the TV.  Through our ears we ingest lies and disinformation which we hear from everyone we run into, and that's because they've been watching the same brainwashing TV and radio as well.  We've changed the way we live as people more in the last seventy-five years than we have in the last ten centuries. No one use to rely on pepsi cola, pop-tarts, and cable television in order to get through a day.  It's went too far I think.  What's real anymore?  We put nothing but artificial products into our body's, fill our head's with jumbled up nonsense, and high five each other like it's all good.  It's about to come full circle.  We're about to reap what we've sewn the past sixty years.  Not to say there's not hope, but I believe it's going to take something drastic.  This world needs revamped.  Not with more buttered up bullshit to coverup the rot, but with something pure and true to repair the damage.  That starts with what goes into us all, as people, on the inside.  From the nutrients we need to grow, to the knowledge we need to flourish. Otherwise we're all just drowning...

m.i.c.a.h.

Who's Your Hero?

Your money is gone.  Your house is gone.  Your ability to live free and prosperous is now gone.  Your life.... is gone.  The way our parents lived... their traditions... their values.....  Look where they got us.  Would you say that your life 10 years ago was better than now?  Would you say that life was easier 20 years ago if not 10?  Well when was it better than it is right now?  Maybe, "when wasn't it?" would be a better question. 

I'm about to lay out my opinion on what's really up in this piece and you can agree or disagree... I don't care anymore.  I used to just keep my opinion to myself until I just now realized that I better talk while it's still allowed.  I had better grow up before it's too late.

Now... to understand my thoughts on all this you need to know some crucial information about me.  I am a high school drop out.  I am a teenage parent.  I am a poker player by trade... while I'm still allowed to.  I did quit watching T.V. after Obama got elected.  I did vote for that guy.  I did not understand voting when I voted.  I still do not fully understand a lot of things about the world.  I've admitted that.  I do like to learn.  I did teach myself poker.  I did work in factories for years.  I was in the U.A.W.  My job was shipped out.  I did grow up poor.  My mom didn't take food stamps.  There are even more variables to my opinions than this.  That is the point.  All of these life experiences and many, many, many, more form ones opinion of the world at large.

I think we can all agree that their is something wrong with what's going on around us these days.  On some level you have to agree.  Because everyone of you are now being affected or know somebody that is.  It is your friends and family struggling to find jobs.  It is your old who are only living off of Social Security and can't hardly afford their medications.  It is your young who are off fighting in wars the world over.  It is your criminals that are in prison for victimless crimes.  It is your school loans.  It is your crazy debt.  It is your outrageous taxes.  It is your sense of entitlement.  It seems to be our lack of value and respect for ourselves. 

What do you value really?  Do you value your rights as Human Beings?  Do you value your rights to YOUR money and the right to do what you want to do with it?  Do you value your freedom?  Because it sure doesn't seem like it.  A lot of us younger men and women don't even seem to vote.  Talk about not valuing your freedom.  To be honest, it seems to me that the only thing that people my age value anymore is worthless trash.  Really.  They love their T.V.s.  They love their favorite teams.  They love their favorite "jock" radio personality telling anybody that thinks for themselves that they are kooks or nutty. 

Men love the stupidest shit these days.  I always say it's just a bunch of retards kicking each other in the nuts on t.v. anymore.  The news has just turned into entertainment television... Like Entertainment Tonight being passed off for real information.  The shows that the little girls are taught to idolize turns them into Gold digging puppet versions of women that think they have independence and self respect but don't... at all.  Reality Television is the best.  Where stupid little people actually think that T.V. is reality.  They do too.  Listen to them.  Listen to their opinions on things and you tell me that they aren't just re-hashing some crusted version of the truth from Rush Limbaugh or even Jon Stewart. 

Mean while we have learned over the years what success looks like.  It is well ingrained into our brain.  It looks like a white picket fence.  A happy marriage.  A football star.  A college education.  A brand new car.  A brand new house.  A flat screen T.V.  A iPhone, A Paris Hilton... is that behind the times?  It's been a while... like I said.  But you catch my drift. 

It is not that these things aren't examples of success.  They however do not define success.  And that seems to be the question to me?  Do you people actually think that what we have done collectively to our jobs and markets is a success?  To the American way of life?  Really?  Really really?  Well if it's not a success then is it a failure?  Have you seen the difference in government job growth and the peoples job growth?  No... probably not huh?  They don't put charts of that up for the intelligent television viewers to look at.. do they?   Nope... they just change the definition of success and spin it around until you couldn't understand it if you wanted. 

Uh... Uh... I don't watch the news... some people say.  Well then... what do you watch?  Retards kicking each other in the nuts or "I'm a Pregnant Teen" on True Life on MTV.  Or 24.  Or do you just play Call of Duty?  Or maybe you are a really smart cookie that watches Ice Road Truckers on Discovery Channel.  Or "The End of The World Is 2012" on History Channel.  Do you even see how ludicrous it all really is? 

So what's your version of success?  What's your version of value?  Who is your hero?  Who is your idea of integrity?  Who are you to you?  Do you know?  I'm still working on it... But I am starting to feel better... so that's good.  I don't even know if I'm still on topic.  Chalk it up to a rant.

John Quest

For your visual stimulation.

dEEpEr mEanings

S'more of the Same??

Once upon a time man discovered fire, and it was great.  But it burned him.  He would learn to harness it though, and soon after, others would also learn to use it for the good it can provide.  Unfortunately, as time passed, fire would become regulated.  Since you can't control nature, they control those who interact with nature.  Eventually no nature remains.  Human nature is an evolving process, but don't walk backwards.  Start the fire.  Let it warm those around...  

Some people like the way things are though.  They're comfortable with things remaining relatively the same.  They feel in control.  But by keeping things the same, it's inevitable that things will change, and for the worse.  So to remain in control, you'd think they would change things before things change them.  Is it too late?  That question can only be answered with actions, not words.  Words are hollow.  This world is hollow.  That is unless you act upon it.  The problem is "act" has more than one meaning.  It can mean doing something, but it can also mean simply pretending to do something.  So will we start fires and get warm, or force ourselves to hide our shivers and pretend we're not cold?  Only time will tell...

m.i.c.a.h.

Screaming at Deaf Ears

I want you to know exactly what I stand for.  It's hard to get anybody to listen to you ever because if you disagree with them on ANYTHING, and I mean ANYTHING, then they automatically assume that you are attacking them.  This is not the case with me I don't believe.  I have nothing personal when I try to explain my views.  It's just a different perspective from a different approach at things.  I call it reading.  Some may call that research.  I understand and have accepted long ago that things that my parents were taught were probably wrong.  Probably fundamentally wrong.  In fact, to this day, I still know not one perfect person.  Including myself.  I mean GET REAL people.  We need to see the fundamental hypocrisy of our ways here. 

Like a great many of us here I went to church on a semi-regular basis when I was young.  I've been saved numerous times and baptized more than once.  I loved Jesus and what he was.  Let me say this loud and proud I love Jesus for what he is.  The man that stood up to them all.  The man that said to his fellow men... There is error in our ways.  Of course I am just paraphrasing and stressing MY understanding of Jesus.  Which may vary widely from you.  I know.  That's because we are different.

What I am saying is that Jesus in my eyes not only stood but stands for Love, Forgiveness, Hope, Happiness and lot's of other positive things.  I think this is very reflective in his story.  Now again... I'm no theologian so don't go quoting my words... I completely depend on you to do your own research.  I WANT you to prove me wrong researching yourself.  These are my opinions and I encourage you to have your own.

 I personally think that people have concerned themselves so much with the way Jesus died that they have forgotten how he lived.  They have forgotten that THEY were created in the image of god himself.  Regain your focus my friends.  Please.  Allow LOVE to prosper.  Do not get caught up in cliche arguments and little political scuffles.  There are root issues.  There is something wrong.  FUNDAMENTALLY wrong with our ideas.  Jesus is Love.  The Devil is HATE.  When you hate another man... You partake in the Devils work.  No matter who the man you hate is.  Or your reasons for hating him. 

Forgive them father.  They know not what they do.... I heard that once.

SCREAMING AT DEAF EARS.

John Quest

Agree to Disagree

You can't possibly agree on everything.  I have family and friends that I love unconditionally.  That love for those who have helped shaped my ideas and my opinions will never falter.  This is fact.  However, I don't agree and actually oppose some of their base ideas and general outlook on things.  Is this a problem?  I often wonder to myself. 

Now if you don't know me then you wouldn't know that I play a ton of poker.  I haven't played a lot lately because I'm starting to see facts about how worthless money has really become.  But I think about poker a lot.  In fact there was a time when my soul focus was on poker, so I have a lot of ideas about it.  Some are still wrong.  I'm sure of that.  Just as some of my ideas on life are still wrong.  I AM SURE OF THAT.  Here comes one of my famous poker equates to life rants!!!!!  GET READY!

Poker is to me... A direct reflection of life.  I can see it.  I can see a passive player and assume he's pretty passive in life too.  I can see a strong and confident unafraid player and when I meet him in REAL life, he or she, is a strong, confident, and unafraid person.  I can see that a man of mathematical background is usually a cold and calculated player focused more on odds.  Now you can ask all these player types about ideas on the game at hand and they WILL differ ALWAYS.  In my assessment anyways.  Again... A lot of this is ideas based on my ideas and so on and so forth.  I don't know everything nor will I ever know everything about life or poker.  That's the beauty of it all.

Now this is the lesson that I have taken to heart about life and poker.  Not all your opponents are playing the same game that you are.  REPEAT THIS OFTEN!!!!  Not all your opponents are playing the same game that you are.  Just like all of your family and your friends aren't playing the same game you are.  They all differ on various levels.  Levels of skill, levels of cunning, levels of thinking, levels of Fundamental theory!!!!! 

It is a FACT that not everybody can agree on everything all the time.  It's a ludicrous notion to think otherwise.  So is it a problem that I don't agree with some people that I hold in high regard?  NO.  It's not.  It never will be.  I DREAD the day when everybody you know is just a carbon copy of the next.  I dread the day that debate dies.  I dread the day when the individual person holds no value.  On that day... I will know that hope has been abandoned and LOVE has been defeated.

John Quest