Smile Do your teeth try to leap from your mouth when you smile? Or are they just too happy to not want to shine? Are your cheek muscles trying to push through your skin? Or just reaching out to your good human kin? Together we can keep the world illuminated as long as we're continuing to smile. The better versions of ourselves aren't so outdated that we've forgotten how it feels to smile. I can feel the soft hands of your smile stroke my hair. They are built all of light and lift me in the air. As your joy overflows and pours out of your mouth I'll be trying to siphon it off and dole it out. Together we can keep the world irrigated as long as we're continuing to smile. The better versions of ourselves are not so jaded that we've forgotten what it means to smile.

This is a mix of songs that are APPROXIMATELY four minutes and twenty seconds...sometimes it varies on different computers...whatever... 1. Korn - Blind 2. Dethklok - Into the Water 3. Mastodon - Colony of Birchmen 4. Bjork - Alarm Call 5. Radiohead - Lucky 6. Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything 7. At the Drive-In - One-Armed Scissor 8. The Lawrence Arms - Your Gravest Words 9. Oasis - Wonderwall 10. Weezer - The World Has Turned and Left Me Here 11. Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness (demo) 12. The Beatles - Come Together 13. Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier 14. Incubus - Psychopsilocybin 15. Limp Bizkit - Nobody Like You 16. Pantera - Suicide Note (Pt. 2) 17. Slipknot - Pulse of the Maggots 18. Thrice - Red Sky

I just put the finishing touches on what I think may be one of the best overall mixes I've ever made and I just had to share...now, I should note, this is not specifically a stoner metal mix in terms of the genre itself...it's just a bunch of cool "metal" (term used somewhat loosely) that I thoroughly enjoy listening to when I'm stoned...the real point is that some of these transitions are really awesome--particularly the stretch from #9 to #13... 1. Metallica - The Ecstacy of Gold (S&M) 2. Metallica - The Call of Ktulu (S&M) 3. Between the Buried and Me - Mordecai 4. Tool - Intermission 5. Tool - Jimmy 6. Kylesa - The Curse of Lost Days (Pt. III) 7. Dethklok - Into the Water 8. Isis - So Did We 9. Buried Inside - Time as Imperialism 10. Crestfallen - Scouring For Any Signs of Life 11. Coalesce - Cowards.com 12. Converge - My Great Devastator 13. Mudvayne - Prod 14. Mare - They Sent You 15. Cave In - Juggernaut

I'm working on a short film series now been busy writing directing and creating that. I will be submitting it to film fastivals and also hopefully turning it into a webseries. This is the trailer for it. You can follow it on facebook please or on http://zombiecastmovies.podbean.com / i'll keep you all informed. if you want to be a zombie email zombiecastmovie@yahoo.com we'll figure out a way to work you in no matter where you are we are also looking for executive producers and people with funds lol isnt everyone

Vaster Than Empires - The Ground Only Moves When You Walk On It - 3:01 - 3:40 is the best moment of my "career" as a musician...the one thing I've created that really sounds like something special to me, like something I want to listen to over and over...if everything I wrote was up to that quality, I'd be off to a good start...and I didn't even write that part myself...it came organically during a jam session Reisner and I were having after practice...when I'm famous, that will be a trivia question, trust me...

I was feeling a little nostalgic the other day for the days not knowing any better than to make mix CDs with more than one song by a given artist (not counting mixes of just one artist)...so I came up with an idea: 90-minute, four-way splits...in other words, an equal number of songs (or at least time) by each of four selected artists, arranged for optimal flow...here's what I have so far: Radiohead/Thrice/Tool/The Beatles (my four favorite bands) 1. Radiohead - Planet Telex 2. Thrice - Daedalus 3. Tool - H./Useful Idiot 4. The Beatles - A Day In the Life 5. Radiohead - Paranoid Android 6. The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps 7. Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film) 8. Tool - Pushit 9. Thrice - The Melting Point of Wax 10. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby 11. The Beatles - Happiness Is a Warm Gun 12. Thrice - For Miles 13. Radiohead - The National Anthem 14. Tool - The Patient 15. Thrice - The Earth Will Shake 16. Tool - Right In Two The Bouncing Souls/Foo Fighters/Jimmy Eat World/T...

Well, I took a week off last week just so I could have a little rest from the "grind" so to speak. Since I didn't pick any games last week, not much point going all the way to two weeks ago to rehash that week's entry, so let's jump straight into the headlines from this past week... HEADLINES -108 points in an SEC game? I've never seen anything like that in my life. I knew Arkansas's defense was porous--specifically in the secondary--and that their offense was spectacular but that was just ridiculous. I will say this for Arkansas: Bobby Petrino deserves a ton of credit for his offense being able to put up 43 on a talented Auburn D with the most talented passer in the nation sidelined. One of the most impressive feats for an offensive-minded coach is when the starting QB goes down and the offense doesn't miss a beat. Not only does it speak to the effectiveness of the offensive scheme but also directly to the level of preparation in every QB o...

Well, I took a week off this week because A. it was sort of an unspectacular week of games and B. I didn't feel like it, so in addition to the top 25, I'll do my Heisman ballot and BCS predictions in this post... 1. Auburn Why They Should Be #1: It's almost a toss-up between the top three teams in the country. Bottom line is, Auburn has the best resumé in the country right now. Two terrific comeback wins over South Carolina and Clemson, an impressive shootout win over Arkansas, and the Mississippi State win on the road suddenly looks a lot more impressive. Cameron Newton has officially supplanted Denard Robinson as the most exciting player to watch in college football as well as the front-runner for the Heisman Trophy. Why the Ranking Should Be Lower: The defense has struggled immensely in pass defense and is ranked 63rd in the country in scoring defense which is an outright abomination at Auburn, especially considering the talent they have on defense this (and every) ...

I should be doing this shit for a living...this is what last week looked like for me... -The Good: Oh, lordy, where do I begin. WELL. I was pretty much the only one in the country that realized Virginia Tech is still significantly better than North Carolina State. I was also pretty much the only one in the country that knew Florida wouldn't even come close against Alabama (the trendy phrase on ESPN last weekend was "Florida will keep it closer than a lot of people might think"). I nailed my Upset of the Week, picking Michigan State over Wisconsin--pretty much the only one who picked that one too. I also picked Iowa and Oklahoma but those were easy. Plus I nailed the Tulane/Rutgers spread (Rutgers was favored by 17.5 and LOST). -The So-So: Pretty much the only thing that belongs in this category is the fact that I picked Oregon over Stanford but I only picked them to win by 3 points. Not great considering they won by 21...but sort of misleading considering Stanford...

How did we end up here? When did we, as a society, become more interested in being right than in being virtuous? When did dividing, differentiating, and categorizing everyone we meet become a priority? The easy answer would be roughly 2010 years ago but I don't think that's accurate. Civilization began creating division and the "Us v. Them" mentality long before that with ancient nations and empires. But I'm not concerned with history lessons about where the roots of these values were laid because the truth of the matter is that, no matter how long ago a tree was planted or how deep its roots lay, it's not necessary to pull up those roots to kill the tree--cutting it down will suffice. Self-righteousness seems to be among the core values of American society (and, certainly, it's a core value in many societies, if not all, but we live in America and nowhere is it more overt than here). Empathy and compassion always seem to take a back seat to "I...