god bless my roots. our roots.

Years With Rose
Yonder Mountain String Band

It's been too many years with only memories
Looking back through the years with my Rose
Back on the past, Lord Almighty she went fast
That same old Sunday kind of comes and goes
Same old Sunday kind of comes and goes

It's been too many days in this old rocking chair
Looking back down the road and 'round the bend
Hoping that I'll see her coming slowly 'round the bend
She coming with her suitcase up the lane
Strollin' with her suitcase up the lane

It's been too many nights in this old house alone
Talking back to myself in such a way
Hoping that I'll hear her gently answering me "Dear"
When she whispers in my ear she's gonna stay
Whispers in my ear she's gonna stay

farming

woof woof! woof woof woooooooof woof! Woooooooooof woof woooooof woooooof woof!

arts and craft's ship building in the waiting room of Brookwood Memorial Hospital with Grandma in order to, well, wait better, you know what i mean?

yep that's the baxter hotel on main street bozeman

hulahooping mystical clues all my life

derka derka all covered with snow

i want to explode out of my shoes and then out of my socks and then out my skin and spill into the great wide vastness of the alabama sky. i want to run out of myself and find myself standing still, everywhere, when i do. i want to go dancing with the passionate source of all that i crave and grind for and i don't want to begin doing it because i don't want to end doing it and i want to find myself having always done it anyways, like i know i have been, and always and forever more doing it still. what do you want? let's go dancing...

there WAS a factory, but now...

(Nothing But) Flowers
talking heads

Here we stand
Like an Adam and an Eve
Waterfalls
The Garden of Eden
Two fools in love
So beautiful and strong
The birds in the trees
Are smiling upon them
From the age of the dinosaurs
Cars have run on gasoline
Where, where have they gone?
Now, it's nothing but flowers

There was a factory
Now there are mountains and rivers
you got it, you got it

We caught a rattlesnake
Now we got something for dinner
we got it, we got it

There was a shopping mall
Now it's all covered with flowers
you've got it, you've got it

If this is paradise
I wish I had a lawnmower
you've got it, you've got it

Years ago
I was an angry young man
I'd pretend
That I was a billboard
Standing tall
By the side of the road
I fell in love
With a beautiful highway
This used to be real estate
Now it's only fields and trees
Where, where is the town
Now, it's nothing but flowers
The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for agriculture
I thought that we'd start over
But I guess I was wrong

Once there were parking lots
Now it's a peaceful oasis
you got it, you got it

This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies
you got it, you got it

I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens
you got it, you got it

And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention
you got it, you got it

I dream of cherry pies,
Candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies
you got it, you got it

We used to microwave
Now we just eat nuts and berries
you got it, you got it

This was a discount store,
Now it's turned into a cornfield
you got it, you got it

Don't leave me stranded here
I can't get used to this lifestyle

fear factory

Nobody Tole Me
by John Lennon

Everybody's talking and no one says a word

Everybody's making love and no one really cares

There's nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs.
Always something happening and nothing going on

There's always something happening cooking and nothing in the pot

They're starving back in China so finish what you got.
They're starving back in China so finish what you got.
Nobody told me there'd be days like these

Nobody told me there'd be days like these

Nobody told me there'd be days like these

Strange days indeed
strange days indeed.
Everybody's runnin' and no one makes a move

Everyone's a winner
and no one seems to lose.
There's a little yellow idol to the north of Katmandu.
Everybody's flying and no one leaves the ground

Everybody's crying and no one makes a sound.
There's a place for us in movies you just gotta stay around.

Nobody told me there'd be days like these

Nobody told me there'd be days like these

Nobody told me there'd be days like these

Strange days indeed
most peculiar
Mama.
Everybody's smoking and no one's getting high

Everybody's flying and never touch the sky

There's Ufo's over New York and I ain't too surprised.
Nobody told me there'd be days like these

Nobody told me there'd be days like these

Nobody told me there'd be days like these

Strange days indeed
most peculiar. Mama.

Doin' That Rag
the Grateful Dead

Da da da da da da da da da da da

Sittin in Mangrove valley chasing light beams
Everything wanders from baby to Z
Baby Baby pretty it up on Tuesday Old like a rum-drinking demon at tea.
Baby Baby tell me what's the matter, what, what tell me what's your why how?
Tell me why will you never come home
Tell me what's your reason, if you've got a good one.

Everywhere I go, the people all know Everyone's doin' that rag.
Everywhere I go, the people all know Everyone's doin' that rag.

Take my line, go fishin' for a Tuesday,
Maybe take my supper, eat it down by the sea.
Gave my baby twenty or forty good reasons,
Couldn't find any better ones in the morning at three.

The rain gonna come, but the rain gonna go y'know.
Steppin' off sharply from the rank and file.
Awful cold and dark like a dungeon
Maybe get a little bit darker before the day.

Hipsters, Tripsters, real cool chicksters, Everyone's doin' that rag.
Hipsters, Tripsters, true cool chicksters, Everyone's doin' that rag.

You needn't gild the lily, offer jewels to the sunset.
No one is watchin' or standin' in your shoes.
Wash your lonely feet in the river in the morning,
Everything promised is delivered to you.

Don't neglect to pick up what your share is,
All the winter birds are winging home now.
Hey love go, and look around you,
Nothing out there you haven't seen before now.

Wading in the water you never get wet,
If you keep on doin' that rag.
Wading in the water and you never get wet,
If you keep on doin' that rag.

One eyed jacks and the deuces are wild
And the aces are crawlin' up and down your sleeve.
Come back here baby Louise
And tell me the name of the game that you play.

Is it All Fall Down? Is it All Go Under?
Is it All Fall Down? Is it All Go Under?
Is it All Fall Down? Is it All Go Under?
Is it All Fall Down? Is it All Go Under?
Is it All Fall Down? Is it All Go Under?
Is it All Fall Down? Is it All Go Under?
Is it All Fall Down? Is it All Go Under?
Is it All Fall Down? Is it All Go Under?
Is it All Fall Down? Is it All Go Under?

kella' kella' kella'

04/08/06 Fillmore Auditorium Denver, CO
I (Dave Schools and Jerry Joseph Almost Acoustic): Keller sat in on drum machine and djembe after Jerry said "We asked Keller if we could borrow his drum machine and he said 'No.' So we got the next best thing."
II (Grateful Grass with Keller, Jeff Austin from YMSB, and Keith Moseley from SCI):One More Saturday Night, Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodleloo, Eyes Of The World> Resume Man (SCI), Candyman, Loose Lucy, Black Peter, St. Stephen, Casey Jones, Brown Eyed Women, New Horizons (YMSB), Bird Song, Crater (KW), Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain
III (Keller solo): Sheebs> Breathe> Loop> Breathe, Zilla> Kinky Reggae*> Loop> Skitso> Swing**> Gate Crashers Suck, Best Feeling> Post Best Feeling Loop, Conservative Christian, Right Wing Republican, Straight White American Males^> Nobody Told Me@> Loop> Tribe, Love Handles> Vocal Loop, Vanilla Ice Cream (on piano)$> Loop> Horny Horns> Band Intros> Loop
E: Contact (on upright Bass)#> Celebrate Your Youth
* Bob Marley
** Ani Difranco
^ Todd Snyder
@ John Lennon
$ Stephen Lynch
# Phish

04/09/06 Sunsation at Copper Mountain Ski Resort Copper Mountain, CO
I: Thin Mint> Freakshow*> Tumbleweed**, Loop> Up In My Cadillac> Loop> Sing For My Dinner> Victory Song> Frankenstein#, Above The Thunder, In The Kingdom%, Loop> Mary Jane's Last Breakdown@> 221", Loop> ?, Freeker By The Speaker> Band Intro> Freeker Reprise
E: Loop> Ay Oh Chant
* Ani Difranco
** Afroman
# Edgar Winters Group
% Hot Tuna
@ Tom Petty

...Just got back from Denver. A very well rounded road trip. Planned just enough, things worked out a little bit better than just enough, thoughts were clean and pure, saw old friends, had synergetic experiences throughout, saw beautiful beautiful country, did it all safely and made it back for work. Saw two shows, both unique in that the Fillmore was a gathering of friends and the second show was with Lance and Uncle Jim at the base of Copper Ski Mountain during the day. Great great stuff, thank you holy spirit for this adventure. You filled it up yet again.

I feel as if I walked up on top of a large hill this weekend and got a good look around me for the first time since I started working at Deer Valley, since I started going on top of a mountain everyday literally. The experience has been great but the season is coming to an end and it’s easy to burn out when you’re a lift operator. There’s only so much mirth one can muster up for so little, and now that the snow isn’t that great there’s even less of an incentive. I live the bonus driven life and spring is my next bonus, so for now I’m rich rich man…

naive as a defense

Prompts!

Where go I get the gumption to break out of this thing again? Its clearly time but I can’t seem to escape myself and all my clinging to lesser pleasures. But not to the lessest of pleasures by any means, so I do pretty well all things considered, but I’m still praying for salvation like the rest of us. Most of us. What most of us used to do. Where do you live? What do you do?
It’s so silly the way we try to capture the infiniteness of things in the finite pathetic humor of represented words. Sounds maybe, but words, especially written, are traps at best. Not at best, there I go trapping myself again, prompts would be the ideal use for words. Words are prompts, certain words are certain types of prompts.
We crashed I burned but then I learned to keep my eyes on you. Haha the way they pull it all together. Ain’t that the way we pull it all together? The sipper locking clasping teeth of this life we lead in this trembling freedom of uncertainty and doubt and half steps and whole steps an over steps. I need to just lay it all out I suppose. What’s the appealing factor?

“Mini motifs of invisible love
Flow into me baby flow into me”

That’s a nice color.



Isn’t it crazy god seems to talk to the atheists the most?

osmosis!

Life’s so easy to blur when you’re always busy. It seems to be we go through phases of yin and yang, aggressive undertakings and then reflective solace. Somewhere in between these two I always find myself treading, but trying to tread as lightly and with as little movement as possible. I don’t tread lightly for others though, it’s just that I find it easy to dissolve when I’m still.

boogie

It’s an amazing thing to lose yourself daily. To make a living out of losing yourself . That can be done right? It’s not impossible to live a life losing yourself to find yourself right? I’ve met enough who think it’s true I’ve got no reason to doubt myself. Haha it’s so funny the way things work out for people who never expect it. I expected it though. I expected it for you. Doesn’t it feel good to get something expected for you?

what is a pirate?

Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the 'and of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.

Redemption Song
Bob Marley
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2 time 3 is six
six times three is 18
and the eighteenth letter in the alphabet in ARRRRRRR, matey!

Ruby

Let Me Be
Xavier Rudd

Oh oh, Let me be now
Hmm hmm, let me because
I want to be free now
Oh oh, free to see, yeah well
Want to walk away, oh oh
Let me feel my feet
Let me be, free

Time and time and time we see these
Acts against humanity, well,
Each for each and each will be then
Shed blood for what they each believe, well
On and on and on we go well,
Some will you see and, some won't be
True for you and truth will lead you
To a sense of, well now, peace

Let me be now
Hmm hmm, let me because
I want to be free now,
Oh oh, free to see, yeah well
Want to walk away, oh oh
Let me feel my feet
Let me be, free

Time and time and time we see these
Acts against humanity, well
Each for each and each will be then
Shed blood for what they each believe, well
On and on and on we go well
Some will you see and, some won't be
True for you and truth will lead you
To a sense of,well now, peace

Let me be now

Hmm hmm, let me because
I want to be free now
Oh oh, free to see, yeah well
Want to walk away, oh oh
Let me feel my feet
Let me be, free

(Solo)

Wanna be wanna see would you let me go
Let me be now, hmm hmm, let me be
Wanna be wanna see would you let me go
Let me be now, hmm hmm, let me be-cause
I wanna be free
Oh, i wanna be free
Yeah I said, I said, I said, I said
Free free now, free to see
Oh, cos I, wanna be free

what kind of wrapping paper does God wrap lessons in?

Phish
Friday


I crashed, I burned
But then I learned
To keep my eye on you
You always say
You'll lead the way
But then you never do

I slowed, I swerved
But lost my nerve
And quickly looked away
When I looked back
The day was black
Then I heard you say

Why is the sun hot?
Why does it rain?
Why is there danger and
Why is there pain?
Why can't the burden
we carry go away?
And why isn't it Friday today?

Your lack of trust
Is hardly just
So do as you've been told
Please follow me
Into the sea
Don't worry if it's cold

I knew right then
My chance again
Had quickly slipped away
I crash I cry
I burn but I
Still follow anyway

Why is the sea cool?
Why is it blue?
Why do I stay here?
Why is it you
Notice the danger
But don't help in any way?
Why isn't it Friday today?

ba-loooon

Office Space Redefined

Roundabout
Yes

I’ll be the round about
The words will make you out ’n’ out
You change the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and
In and out the valley

The muses dance and sing
They make the children really ring
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and
In and out the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they
Stand there
One mile over we’ll be there and we’ll see
You
Ten true summers we’ll be there and
Laughing too
Twenty four before my love you’ll see I’ll be
There with you

I will remember you
Your silhouette will charge the view
Of distance atmosphere
Call it morning driving thru the sound and
Even in the valley

Along the drifting cloud the eagle searching
Down on the land
Catching the swirling wind the sailor sees
The rim of the land
The eagle’s dancing wings create as weather
Spins out of hand
Go closer hold the land feel partly no more
Than grains of sand
We stand to lose all time a thousand answers
By in our hand
Next to your deeper fears we stand
Surrounded by a million years

I’ll be the roundabout
The words will make you out ’n’ out
I’ll be the roundabout
The words will make you out ’n’ out

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they
Stand there
One mile over we’ll be there and we’ll see
You
Ten true summers we’ll be there and
Laughing too
Twenty four before my love you’ll see I’ll be
There with you

australian valentine's day

Me: Do you celebrate Valentines Day in Australia?
Emma: Yeah of course we do… it means something different though, it’s a time for the aboriginals to reflect on the dream time. So we exchange gifts usually a gum leaf to the ones we love! Usually the aboriginals will sit around a camp fire slowly toasting the gum leafs getting high off the aroma that penetrates the atmosphere!
Me: What’s a gum leaf?
Emma: It’s what koalas eat
Me: What sound does a koala make?
Emma: koala sound