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  2006.12.27  01.18


i hate to say it....but i'm on myspace......
www.myspace.com/dinnerwiththekids
some bull shit...but hey...to talk to
people long distance is to be happy....

 
 


 
  2006.12.25  21.54
CHRISTMAS....BLOODY CHRISTMAS

I finally got to have a good christmas....
i can't remember how long it's been but
it was the greatest.....i got pretty much every
thing i wanted....which includes giving abby
her engagement ring...so now it's even more
official...got to spend christmas eve and
christmas morning with abby....and now
im working...well i wouldn't really call it work
but i'm being paid to listen to music, play music,
start a few movies now and then, and play chrono
trigger.....plus im getting paid fifteen an hour...
so whateva....a little bit a christmas can go
a long way....i hope everyone else's christmas was
as good as mine....but right now....i gotta get
back to do what little work i have left to do
and then walk home....



Music: the raconteurs
 
 


 
  2006.12.06  13.54
poetry

A NIGHT BORROWED BY SYMPHONIC ENTITIES

this is a story
about
frail
empty headed
self reliant
single celled reflexes
hand broken
jobless
faltering between existences
trying to spare
every
last
word
trying to make sense of
silent pictures put to music
some profound prolific meaning
painted canvases torn apart
by separated colors
drawn together by the sound of a solitary voice
tone
mixed silhouettes
taped together
more or less sewn together
because the soap doesn't tend to stick
to dry messes
certainty out of context
made to listen
but sounds fail to fall upon
tired holes
heads blown apart
imagery stapled to the back of eyelids
waiting for the lights to fade
and the curtain to rise
but the orchestra doesn't tend to play to
selfish hearted enthusiasts
beats bludgeoning bastard children
sent rightways
clockways
mirrored moments taught only to break apart
when troubled fragments meet and greet
sideways
on the sleeve of the unresponsive masses
trying their best to leave the only thing they know
behind
so sit back
in your velvet seat
open your ears
to the sounds that flood the room
close your eyes
the images don't make any sense anymore
hope to God
that this event doesn't shape the future
only makes it happen
before something else tries
to take it a way...
...
..
.
just keep on breathing the way you were taught
in and out
through the nose
then out your mouth
never taking each syllabic gasp for granted
hanging on the edge
toward window panes
left cracked
because the creases in the glass
make the world look more interesting,
each crack
mentions suffering
each crack
mentions love and hate
each crack
shows how beautiful each person is on the outside
making it easier to see their flaws
not their first and foremost "personality"
their actual fault
carried on the needle of the metronome
wound up
on the top of a sullen piano
dust ridden
lacking keys
places where wandering fingers tend to land
hoping to hit
each stale taste of
every missing note
leaning in
palate cleansing antithesis
pretend game-like substance
movie styled make believes
troubled and confused
but making every bit of sense
barely getting by
barely joining the end of each sentence together
long enough to interject
making moonlit nights seem so far away
with each and every
taught gasp for air
choked down
broken down
solitary confined
self-loathing miscreants
unkempt imagery for the mind's eye
that screams and screams
until the winds fly them home
on tattered wings
floating high upon every person's short comings
flailing arms held up by strings
stretched out by arms
stretched out by hearts that never want
these notes to end
carrying on
overflowing banks of imagery
unsolicited overpowering reality
tearing through souls
searching for audiences left unspoken
yet forever looked for...
...
..
.
the orchestra breaks
but the imagery still captivates
holding each beholder responsible
for dreams to come
not dreams that pass
holding each person
each multi-collared couple
passing through the doors
to pretend
that for just one moment
life meant something
to make believe that everything could be explained
by a musical picture drawn together
by genius hands
playing on the wings of higher beings
soaring sounds
lingering amongst the heavens and the earth
waiting to let loose upon the huddled masses
well dressed and confused
tight-wad asses
still hoping to make much more sense
out of life.


-a little piece of life from me to you for the hiliday season...*pants



Music: COALESCE
 
 


 
  2006.11.30  19.43
do you remember the days...or did you forget?

since i haven't been smoking, i've been
trying to find other activities to take
up the time that i used to spend smoking.
THIS IS FUCKING HARD...I do everything
smoking...not just certain tasks...just
about everyhting...walking, writing,
breathing....it doesn't get any easier...
i guess i picked the wrong time of year
to quit smoking...cuz it feels even more
difficult knowing that i don't have some-
-thing to occupy myself with when I'm
bored. I suppose thinking would work; but
even then, i can't help thinking about the
same obscure questions: What does it mean
to be a person motion? If i were an inani-
-mate object, which object would i be? would
i be a pen...able to graze the surface of every
page ever so slightly, with a dilligence
that could turn the would on its side?..or
would i be a key on the piano...and every
time i would be played...i would rise up
above the rest of the notes and allow my
voice to be heard....simple and grand....
i can't make up my mind...it wouldn't be
fair to rest of the objects in my life...
to single out...there i go...never YOU mind
about that....you could say i'm just
feeling lost in my own craziness again...but
without a crutch to stand on....alas...i
digress without any real point. I guess i
should go back to work....whatever that means...
cuz what i do....couldn't possibly be considered
"work"...pants



Music: SPARTA
 
 


 
  2006.11.24  14.56
The Day After

well....first holiday came and went....
i worked.....it was dumb....i got paid
fifteen dollars an hour to sit, play
dust in the wind on the guitar, "surf"
the internet, and play video games....
that was cool....i guess i was just try-
-ing to say....HAPPY LATE TURKEY DAY....
anybody that reads this...."hi mom".....
just kidding.....should go see the new
movie....STRANGER THAN FICTION....second
to my favorite movie of the year....Little
Miss Sunshine.....i hope that my family
isn't upset that i didn't spend the holiday
with them.....especially the next mager part
of the holiday season..i guess they could
find some comfort in the fact that i'm
spending them WITH NO ONE!!!!!oh well....
happy happy....joy joy......at least i don't
have to work on KWANZA....thank god....*pants



Music: Futurama Season 4
 
 


 
  2006.11.19  13.42
it's almost the holidays

basically i'm starting to doubt everything i do.
doubt the geographical change in my life,
where i should be at emotionally/spiritually...
physically speaking... i guess im pretty much doubting
myself in general...with the forming of 'ethiopiate
snub' (something that cannot bare fruit), my somewhat
new formation of "friendships", my socially lacking,
definitely remedial shards of a social life, based in
hanging out and drinking with kids....there's
something important missing from my life....whether
it's at home, or whether it's at work.....the puzzle
no longer contains all the pieces to complete the
picture....each seperate breath more forced than before...
if only i quit living, allow my self to just let go,
without taking out agressions with my own two hands,
and just be...simply stated but harder than i want it
to be...if home is where you die, i died four years
back...if i'm just waiting for my the time to pass,
let it pass in a more pleasant manner.....i'm too
tired to deal, an old soul stuck in a rut...now that i
think about it, ain't it time for a vacation??...no
holiday freedoms, no more liberties, just a prison cell
in a sentence that never seems to end....help me break
free from these catseyed addictions...lung appreciated,
life questioned....a neat little parcel, packaged with
a bow....with a note: return to sender....SOMEBODY LET
ME OUT!!!...............
*sorry....the above entry was more or less just
random thought patterns that could no longer linger
within the bubble that which is my brain...god i
don't want to be at work anymore....



Mood: confused
Music: vents
 
 


 
  2006.11.13  14.30
simply stating the obvious

today, while riding on the bus, i came to
the conclusion that i miss living in the
midwest...i don't know how to explain it,
but there it is...maybe it's the familiarity
of it all....maybe i want to be close to my
family and see the kids grow up....and maybe
i just belong there.....now that it almost the
"winter season" in california....most of the
days are grey...that makes me happy cuz it
reminds me of home...only thing is...i'm actually
glad to make it out of detroit...alive unscathed
by my friends addictions...i just got back into
contact with delano...and he finally got the fuck
out of the d and moved with his moms in ohio...
its hard, but whatever it takes to keep yourself
alive...that's what's important.....i sit at work
bored out of my mind....granted i'm making 10 dollars
an hour(plus benefits-well soon) to do something
that takes absolutely no skill....like dealing
with people....working in a projection booth...
being an assistant manager.....none of this shit
is really that tedious....i guess that's why i got
the job....i guess that's why working at this theater
is good for me...it's clean and simple....just how
i need to be....but that's okay....baby steps....
......
...
the leaves are changing....i wonder if that means
the city's changing the way i remember it to...pants*



Mood: nostalgic
Music: the sound of projectors running
 
 


 
  2006.10.31  21.58


HAPPY HOLIDAYS....FROM US...TO ALL THE KIDS.
ARE YOU WATCHING SCARY MOVIES???? CUZ IF
YOU'RE NOT....YOU BETTER START...IT'S ALMOST
OVER...*SCAREDY PANTS



Music: SCREAMS
 
 


 
  2006.10.28  19.04
FUCK today

TODAY
was/is a very bad day.
this, however, does not
reflect on what tomorrow
may bring my way...hopefully
some fucking sleep...that
beautiful extra hour of
happy happy that just
goes down so smooth...and
after tonite...i'm gonna need
all that and more...god i love
daylight savings time...
that sonofabitch....



Mood: pissed off
Music: Pantera
 
 


 
  2006.10.26  22.20
sonnuvvabithcbastardsaw3isatmidnight

missing pieces to the equation
keep finding themselves falling
haphazardly back into place...
it's a good thing that nothing
has to match in order to make sense
but if it did....that wouldn't be
a life after all now would it???
where there's a whale there's a whale
bone right?...each piece stands on
its own...but mixed together in the
rightway...mixed rightways....wouldn't
leave me stranded in the dark
all alone without a life raft to save
me...thank you...to all the pieces...
each island mass that helps me stay
the way i'm meant to be...thank you
for each space provided, still taken
up, but always available for when you
need me...back to work*



Mood: optimistic
Music: ISLANDS - tsuxiit
 
 


 
  2006.10.23  14.45
TODAY'S THE DAY...(that abby's a crap face)

ABBY didn't make it to class today, just like i said she
wouldn't......that made sense right....ahh yes....grammar...
so i got this email from some person....asking me for my
full name, address, and all this other personal info...
because i have some fancy dead relative from the ivory coast...
of whom ive never heard.....and this magical person
is worth 16 million dollars!!!wow....so....if somebody emails
you about my relative...with your last name....DON'T SEND
THEM THE INFORMATION....but here's the email....my name has been
changed to protect the innocent....


PARTNERSHIP BUSINESS

My name is Mr.Paul Guei, a Banker and accountant with BOABANK Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire. I am the personal accounts manager to Eng. Morrison Pants,a National of your country, who used to work with an oil servicing company here in Cote Ivoire.

My client, his wife, and their three children were involved in the ill fated Kenya Airways crash in the coasts of Abidjan in January 2000 in which all passengers on board died. Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but has been unsuccessful.

After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the internet,to see if I could locate any member of his family hence I contacted you,of particular interest is this huge deposit with our bank here in,where the deceased has an account valued at about ($16 million US dollars).They have issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or the bank will declare the account unservisable and thereby send the funds to the bank treasury.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over last 4 years now, I will seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of this account valued at ($16million US dollars) can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

If you can handle this with me, reach me now through this email: gueipaul05@yahoo.com

Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation. In your reply mail, give your full names, address, date of birth, telephone and fax numbers.

Paul Guei.......
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I'm sorry, monsieur Geui....but i have to decline your offer....
but if any of you kids out there on the world wide of web want
to try and collect....well then.....CHEERS.....just send me
a finders fee....that's all i ask in return....gotta sip some
of this oj...pants*



Mood: optimistic
Music: God telling me to WRITE THIS BASTARD
 
 


 
  2006.10.17  23.55
in the middle of the night

playing music while walking outside is
the best thing that's ever happened to
me...i only wish i could take my piano
outside and play...not for everyone to
hear...only not to wake abby up...the
thing is.....the feeling is starting to
come back to be...that musical feeling
which i felt slipping away, only finding
it to pop up on my canvas and my notebooks
...why do these spurts become patterns?...
and then why do those patterns castrate me
when they decide to leave...i only wish i
knew...the shitty thing is....i have all
this stuff, and no one to show it to...
not just at home, but the world...im start-
-ing small, but locally i know enough people
to start playing at the bars...and maybe
on the radio...then it's time to finish
the portfolio, and so on, and so on, and
so on....dinnerwiththekids needs to be an
orchestra....if only i knew the people that
played the instruments that i need...and pe-
-rhaps the time of day/nite....oh well...
when the mood strikes...it strikes, and well..
..it's striking now...back to the outside...
after rolling this last cigarette...pants*



Mood: refreshed
Music: random bars of unfinished music not yet played out
 
 


 
  2006.10.17  15.04
I feel so alone.....

[intro]

Goodnight my fallen king
tonight will never seem to keep
main-line all things boiled down
swallow before you hit the ground

Goodnight my tired queen
tonight just try to go to sleep
remember how things used to be
so relax...and count to three

so relax and close your eyes
don't you cry yourself to sleep
just hold your breath for me
it's as simple as can be

just close the door behind (you)
why should you wait for another chance
so relax and close your eyes
this pain'll be over when your dead

[breakdown]

so relax and close your eyes
don't you cry yourself to sleep
just hold your breath for me
it's as simple as can be

just close the door behind (YOU)
why shouldn't you wait for another chance
so relax and close your eyes
this pain'll be over when your dead....

Goodnight, my sorrowed prince
tonight they'll try to bring the pain
remember what they'd tried to day
the night the red queen went away....*



copyright 2006 dinnerwiththekids



Mood: uncomfortable
Music: this song in the key of bike
 
 


 
  2006.10.16  23.27
THE QUOTE OF THE DAY

TODAY'S QUOTE OF THE DAY
IS:

"I'm all outta retarded folks"

- Brett Fowler



Mood: amused
Music: REFUSED ARE FUCKING DEAD DVD(on youtube)
 
 


 
  2006.10.13  03.32
the nite is no longer young

i thought i really wanted to write something meaningful....
....but i can't.....this simply ended up being some sort
of waste of time....i should be sleeping, even though i
just got off work and i'm on my "second wind".....maybe
i can play video games......maybe i can have just one
more cigarette....NO....i'll have a piece of the gum...
that nasty gum that makes the feeling go away.....why
can't this be a little bit easier....doctors tell me
how to do things...but money doesn't tend to grow on
trees....good advice...but money doesn't tend to spread
itself open in my pocket book....well...imaginary pocket
book....bills and bills and bills and bills....well...
not as many as before....good thing those acid free
settlements are working out in my favor....i can't seem to
stop writing......three long emails....one response...and
now this rambling....mmmm orange soda....that's right orange
soda....smoothly grazing the tip of my tounge and traveling
through the center of it on the bar of my piercing...then
to my stomach of course....it's good.....orange soda at
340 in the morning....in the A.M........time just seems to
just slow itself when not smoking.....ahhhh yes the gum
....the gum....MUSNT FORGET THE GUM.....i guess what this
all boils down to.....is:I NEED A VACATION......it's as simple
as that....however not as simple as you think.......the battery
is dead....so im must stop....finally the end has come....
goodnigh.....pants*



Mood: anxious
 
 


 
  2006.10.10  17.16
looks like i chose the wrong day to quit sniffing glue

I AM QUITING SMOKING.......
......
AND.................I'm
....GOING......
...................................IN...
..fucking............SANE!!!!!!!!......
..........it's............the.....
single...........most................
.........difficult.........task.....
...I've..........ever......
........tried...
to........accomplish.........SOMEBODY JUST FUCKING SHOOT ME.....
......IN THE.........
FUCKING..................FACE!!!!!



Mood: crazy
Music: the thoughts of an absolute madman
 
 


 
  2006.09.28  20.50
@ work

so while i was on my break, not more than fifteen minutes ago, this kid
i work with, decided to call and say he was going to quit....the kicker being
that he was also on his break!!!!!what kind of fucking world do we live in
where someone has the balls to ONE come in for their shift, and TWO try to quit
on their break......you gotta be fucking kidding me......it's everything in my
power not to go downstairs and punch him in the face.....that's just dumb....
I continue to HATE THE HUMAN RACE......somebody please tell me that i'm not
the only one........oh well....gotta go thread some films pants out*



Mood: crazy
Music: Dillinger Escape Plan
 
 


 
  2006.09.27  00.06
WHERE DID MY NEW BABY KITTEN RUN OFF TO???

tried watching love and sex......can't...which sux cuz i like it....maybe someday...
......
....
..
.
wish i could find my brand new kitten......it's hiding.....or dinah (the other cat)
either ate it....or somehow unlocked the front door, opened it, threw the cat outside,
closed it, locked it, and went back to the exact same position that she was in (on top
of the book shelf right before we went into the other room...



Mood: discontent
Music: lewis black on HBO(that sonofabitch)
 
 


 
  2006.09.26  02.33


somebody please bring back the feeling to my music



Mood: numb
Music: not a fucking sound
 
 


 
  2006.09.14  21.53
@ work

i hope abby didn't get mad at me for taking the computer to work.
what else am i supposed to do in the projection booth.
i'm not even supposed to be in here, but i am.
got to do a lot of work after closing. want to sleep late
and not come in tomorrow.at least i'm making my hours...
at least i'm gonna get "paid"....so much for that...pants*



Mood: groggy
Music: The Mars Volta - Amputechture
 
 


 
  2006.09.13  12.01
...your face, it reminds me of my hate...

i am a lone projectionist
once felt abandoned but now.....
now it doesn't matter.
all the words
apologies profusely spent
tried attempts that seem to fall short
from ears that truly care
the only reasons left
excuses
bludgeoning each hole
stapled to the side of my head
the time spent in past lifetimes,
more or less a prison sentence,
tries to show itself
conducting itself with strings
each instrument waiting in line
for the right moment to just
interject
and now isn't the right time
only space
a void to be filled
each note
a part of me
each pause
a breath taken but not held
waiting for the rest of the world
to just bow their heads
in silence
home is where you die
alone
each time you speak the names of
fallen soldiers to the game
breaking free into the infinite abyss
of past tense....
don't even bother trying to save yourself
because not even your "self"
can help
this inevitable demise
that is our lives.



Mood: thirsty
Music: Small Brown Bike - Trains all Talk(listen to it)
 
 


 
  2006.04.03  14.19
these three cats just wont stop congregating on the kitchen floor

right.....
cartoon concept....music finally ordered the way i want it....now to put it to cd and then to good use....just got a job after being without one since feb 15th....fuck...movin just doesn't help i guess....can't really seem to do that much....just enough to make rent...already have groceries....came to the conclusion i would like to re-make psychos in love.....really funny movie.....but a direct to video experience from the past..... needs to be re budgeted....more ridiculous....and the acting....can't really change it....only elaborate upon it....oh and got a land line....you could figure it out if you wanted to.....
...
..
out



Mood: calm
Music: the remnants of this mornings beta band listening
 
 


 
  2006.02.10  17.20
just a matter of time

why the fuck can't i even try to get this city out of my head.....thoughts of music and fond memories....of mistakes and achievements....why can't i seem to just let it go....ehh....it just setting in right now.....old friends and how real people either can or can't be....if only there was a way to just fast forward time and already be there, my new place, my new home.....just the two of us.....but i still got a weeek and whole bunch of shit to get out of the way.....just remember that all the people ive wronged ...i'm sorry....all the things that i've helped out with...it was just what i had to do....this is the start of a new chapeter...and sure im scared but i got two things that nobody has....my music and my life....so fuck you detroit...i love you but i got to go.....pants out

address.....just email me if you really want it....cuz the email has never changed......just the person....BCRiot@hotmail.com ....so just do it



Mood: determined
Music: Small Brown Bike
 
 


 
  2005.12.27  23.57
THE NIGHT TWO DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS

well....looking back on the time that i spent in milwaukee....i feel happy....
i got to see people i haven't seen in 8 years.....talk about online gaming.....play
prince of persia three on xbox.....and hang out with the usuals that have been there
since middle school.....my family (or my sisters and my mom rather).....they were awesome....
went and saw the chronicles of narnia with them for their christmas present....and it was excellent....
my dad...however....NEEDS HIS OWN FRIENDS.....i can't elaborate.....but he is so depressing.....
....and now....as i plan the next morning for the trip back to the motown that ive grown to love....i say goodbye....goodbye to milwaukee and all the poeple that i care about.....but i do it with great pride....because it's about time i tried to make my mark....and i can only do that by getting out....away from all things known.....so as brew city is left behind by miles of train tracks, the process of goodbye for michigan starts....but....one step at a time.....there's only a month and a half left until abby and i make the move to DAVIS CALIFORNIA.....and there is a lot to be done.....so....GIVE A NIGGA A BREAK.....
....
...
that's it.....i have no more....
just trust the pants.....FIN



Mood: hyper
Music: the sound of 40yr old virgin in the background
 
 


 
  2005.12.22  19.28
WHAT A TWIST!!

so today....in milwaukee at an imac store.....
.....
i hate the holidays....but gotta do it for the kids and the rents.....
that and im moving to davis california in feb.......
going to see king kong....so dont tell me what i am going to see.....
i heard......she has sex with the gorilla.......
.....
...
..
.
so just relax and let it slide....just because
HOME IS WHERE YOU DIE.....



Mood: artistic
Music: Dinner With the Kids.....-compositions
 
 


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