Best Day Ever, Indeed

I just checked out Brooke's blog and had to steal this video from her page. This is a truly awesome way to start a wedding!

Cavalier

Spring up the summer

Winter falls down

Seasons pass by

The year goes round



It’s hard to image what life really wants

Where are we going with all of our smarts?



People always tell us to plan for the future

So we can sit comfortably in our recliners



But I tend to think that the moment is now

Spend time with your friends don’t worry about how



Things will work out in some nutty way

You won’t expect it until one fateful day



I’ll send you a letter and out of the blue

You’ll remember the life at Cavalier, True



Nothing is the same as it was any more

We’ve all gone away and now struggle with war



War in our lives that once were so glorious

Those parties we had enormous, notorious



Places we’ve gone people we met,

We’ll all meet again, and I’m willing to bet



That even those times when we thought we were kings

Are nothing compared to the things we can bring



To this world as a team, a team like no other

For we are a family…a family of brothers



Cavalier will live on, beyond the scope of college

It’s more than a house; it’s a place of great knowledge



I’ve learned more about life and more of myself

Than any of those books now up on that shelf



So if there is any advice I can give you

It’s don’t worry so much, your soul will continue.

Response to viewing the movie: The Future of Food

I just got done watching The Future of Food Movie and wrote the following review on Hulu.com and thought I would share it here. You can watch the movie below:



Has anyone seen Total Recall? Do we really want our food supply controlled by just a few greed mongers?

Watching this movie was very eye opening. As a consumer, we tend to want to buy as much food for the cheapest price possible. That goes for most any product. We have a history of blissful ignorance when it comes to knowing how the food or product is made as long as we "save" a few bucks. We don't want to know that we are actually voting no for our own health every time we spend our dollars to feed ourselves with this food, and voting yes for greed, & exploitation of honest, hardworking people that used to be the backbone of our society.

What we don't realize is that for us to save a few bucks every time we shop, someone somewhere has to suffer a horrible tragedy...in this case, family farmers. In the long run, as those tragedies penetrate more aspects of more people's lives, we begin to see an increased cost in other areas that we all end up paying for. The health of the people of the world should not be so easily traded for economic gain. I'd rather have my food cost 3 times more knowing that I'm supporting my community, eating well, and staying healthy than "save" a few dollars now just to spend 10 times more years later on health care fighting some horrifying disease created in a lab somewhere to grow tomatoes more efficiently. And in the process I'd have the peace of mind to know I'm not screwing over a bunch of honest hard working people far away that I'll never meet by supporting the corporations that marginalized an entire industry for profit by changing the rules in their favor.

I simply can't believe that the supreme court in Canada ruled that that farmer infringed upon Monsanto's patent! How did we get to the point where we think we can patent nature? I wonder if anyone has thought to patent air yet? Perhaps some greedy Monsanto Executive will watch Total Recall and get the brilliant idea to patent Oxygen? Then everyone on earth will be forced to pay a tax for the air they breathe. If you don't pay on time...we'll just come over to your house and fill it with a genetically engineered air terminator chemical and BAM...game over.
We need more labeling, more regulation, and more safe guards in place in general for all things it seems nowadays, from agriculture to banking just to save us from destroying ourselves.

Phish Phrenzzy

Experiencing another Phish show last night at Shoreline after a 5 year drought had my friends and I reminiscing about the good 'ol days of college and what it was like at our very first Phish show at this very venue 10 years prior. Last night's experience was no where near as crazy and entrancing as that one thank GOD! Nonetheless, it was a great time with old friends and the music we love that brought us together. I was inspired this evening to re-read the poem I wrote 10 years ago after that first show, and reflect on how things are much different for us all in 2009 than they were in 1999. Although we are all now adults with jobs and bills and responcibilities, we've all seemed to manage to hold on to that ability to let loose and be taken over by the music and be free of any worldly concerns for a few hours. It is in that spirit that I thought I thought I'd share it here in cyberspace, with you...my 5 readers :)

DIPPED IN THE SEA FOR A

BREATH OF FRESH AIR

SURROUNDED BY PHISH

SWIMMING OUT OF THIS WORLD

I LIGHT A CANDLE

SO I CAN SEE MY WAY THROUGH

ECXITED BY WHAT I AM GETTING CLOSER TO

TREE AND THE SPINNERS

ALL DANCING IN CIRCLES

NOW I FORGET ALL MY

WORRIES AND TROUBLES

I LET IT ALL GO IN ONE MIGHTY GUSH

IT MAKES ME FEEL FREE,

AN INCREDIBLE RUSH

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL SOUND OF LIFE

DANCING AND DARTING TOWARD THE LIGHTS

THIS IS THE JOYOUS FEELING OF HEAVEN

DEATH IS UPON US BUT I FEEL NO PAIN

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL SOUND OF LIFE

DANCING AND DARTING TOWARD THE LIGHTS

THIS IS THE JOYOUS FEELING OF HEAVEN

DEATH IS UPON ME BUT I FEEL NO PAIN

FINDING MY WAY

IN THIS PLACE IS CONFUSING

BUT SOONER OR LATER

IT WON’T BE MY CHOOSING

I RUN UP THE HILL

THEN BACK DOWN THEN BACK UP

WHERE AM I GOING?

I DON’T KNOW? I GIVE UP

OCCASIONALLY I RUN INTO MYSELF

BAFFLED BY WHAT I DO SEE

I LOOK AT THE BENDING IMAGE AND ASK

HEY, IS THAT REALLY ME?

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL SOUND OF LIFE

DANCING AND DARTING TOWARD THE LIGHTS

THIS IS THE JOYOUS FEELING OF HEAVEN

DEATH IS UPON US BUT I FEEL NO PAIN

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL SOUND OF LIFE

DANCING AND DARTING TOWARD THE LIGHTS

THIS IS THE JOYOUS FEELING OF HEAVEN

DEATH IS UPON ME BUT I FEEL NO PAIN

SEEING THE IMAGE

OF GODS ON THE SCREEN

SINGING AND SMILING

ALL THE WHILE I SCREAM

MY HEAD IS SILENTLY

ASKING FOR ANSWERS

HOW HAVE I COME BY THESE

WILD ENTRANCERS

I BEGIN TO SEE LIFE FROM MY BEGINNING

REMEMBERING MY FRIENDSHIPS

ALONG THE WAY

I’VE LED A GOOD LIFE

BUT NOW IT’S ALL OVER

THE LIGHTS ALL TURN ON

AND I ROLL BACK OVER

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL SOUND OF LIFE

DANCING AND DARTING TOWARD THE LIGHTS

THIS IS THE JOYOUS FEELING OF HEAVEN

DEATH IS UPON US BUT I FEEL NO PAIN

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL SOUND OF LIFE

DANCING AND DARTING TOWARD THE LIGHTS

THIS IS THE JOYOUS FEELING OF HEAVEN

DEATH IS UPON ME BUT I FEEL NO PAIN

NOW I STAND STILL

ON THIS HILL LOOKING DOWN

EVERYTHING SLOWLY TURNS UPSIDEDOWN

I REALIZE MY FATE IS WORSE THAN DEATH

HUMILIATION IS SILENT

RETURN OF MY BREATH

BACK TO REAL LIFE

I FALL BACK IN A SLUMBER

QUICKLY I SEE MY MISTAKE

WAS A BLUNDER

GREAT IT WAS THOUGH

I WILL NEVER FORGET

THAT CRAZY ZOO OF PEOPLE

AND THE ME THAT I MET

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL SOUND OF LIFE

DANCING AND DARTING TOWARD THE LIGHTS

THIS IS THE JOYOUS FEELING OF HEAVEN

DEATH IS UPON ME BUT I FEEL NO PAIN

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL SOUND OF LIFE

DANCING AND DARTING TOWARD THE LIGHTS

THIS IS THE JOYOUS FEELING OF HEAVEN

DEATH IS UPON ME BUT I FEEL NO PAIN

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL SOUND OF LIFE

DANCING AND DARTING TOWARD THE LIGHTS

THIS IS THE JOYOUS FEELING OF HEAVEN

DEATH IS UPON ME BUT I FEEL NO PAIN

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL SOUND OF LIFE

DANCING AND DARTING TOWARD THE LIGHTS

THIS IS THE JOYOUS FEELING OF HEAVEN

DEATH NOT UPON ME BUT STILL I FEEL PAIN