Midnight Musings

Sometimes skill and substance combine to make something totally awesome. Like Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run. But sometimes simplicity and trickery combine to make something awesome. That's pretty much everything U2 has ever done.


I wonder from time to time if there is a challenge waiting for me. Am I just treading water?


Have you ever looked at old characteristics of yourself and compared yourself with them and found yourself wanting? I used to read more. I used to go out more. I used to be better at some things.


I find myself strangely content to be the bridge of support at this moment in my life.


The newest Taking Back Sunday album is edgy but pretty.


Some people listen to music and try to compare it to what it is like. I hate to admit I'm usually one of those people. Some things that some people say and do shouldn't be lumped into a category, classified and forgotten. The old school modern philosopher inside of me says things should be neat, orderly, and understood. But the postmodern screaming in my soul tells me to blur lines, and let things that used to be in their own categories bleed into each other.


Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. - Proverbs 13:12


Sometimes I imagine that my imagination is the product of somebody else's imagination. 


In case of zombie apocalypse break glass ... if you want them to know where you are. 


Men are all born with innate desires to explore, conquer, rescue, destroy, kill, win, dominate, and all around kick butt. 


Women are all born with innate desires. I'd elaborate on them, but I'm a man. It'd all be conjecture anyway. 


You know what's awesome? Explosions are awesome. 


Frank Stallone had a reasonably successful musical career. Problem is, he has to go to his mother with his success looking for a pat on the back and she won't shut up about his brother, Sly. 


You ever wonder what it would have been like to have been Jesus' brother. Talk about having big shoes to fill. "Your brother never lied to me," "Your brother could get us some more booze cheap and easy," Your brother could raise him from the dead." 


You ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?


Do you want to know where I got these scars?


In Alan Moore's The Killing Joke the idea is posed that we are all just one really bad day away from becoming a vigilante like Batman or a lunatic killer like the joker. The wrong set of circumstances could take any one of us from comfort to chaos. I wonder, if pressed would you go crazy to save the world or destroy it?


I can't sleep.