Greetings, and may the Earth shake you by the hand. It is through the encouragement of a close friend that I undertake this work in progress. It takes someone looking in your eye encourageing you and making you realize that you actually matter to so something like this, that anyone would actually care. I just want to create a real person on a virtual screen. I just want a place to create another reflexion of myself. As I talk about the tings that I care about, music people or whatever, my hope is to have some of you identify with it and comment or not. This should be a really good ride.

                                                           A close friend of mine informed me, at three fifteen one night, that if you ate a whole watermelon after smoking pot you could pass any drug test. A whole watermelon for heavens sake.

My close friend Izrael, introduced the concept of listening to the metal band Metallica, one wintery evening in the back space of a thrift store that was owned by another friend. This was a fascinating place. It consisted of a room and then a small bathroom but with no shower. Oh yea and he had a microwave oven that he would produce the latest best culinary had to offer that came from the frozen asile. Izrael had painted a huge mural on the wall dedicated to the band The Mission UK. That was his favorite band at the time. Anyway, this was a place, of several that I have come across, that you could literally go insane. There was nothing to prevent it if you were of the same mindset that Izrael and I happened to be at the time. So we were sitting there listening to a close band The Bad Yodelers, and Izrael says, "Yea, if you like this music you would love Maetllica. Especially the Ride the Lightening album. Izrael loved the line from the song, Fadeto Black. It was about suicide and the best line in the song that resonated with Izrael was, "I was me but now he's gone." So I rushed out and got it. I can't really describe the effect it had on me. It was like finding an old friend on ly one that you have never emt before. I remenmber staying up all night playing Nintendo Mario Brothers and listening to it. Eventually, what was hapeing in the game on the screen reflectesd perfectly with the music.