Friday, May 21, 2004

Jim Morrison's Grave

Am I a pilgrim,
or another souvenir hound?
In the city of lights
I set my sights
On a king's domain...

It was a manhole
dug over at the edge of town
and a spray can scrawl
on the cemetary wall
said, "You'd better behave..."

Jim Morrison's grave.

It's getting cold here
and there ain't a lizard in sight
did the end begin
when you shed your skin
in the home of the brave

Somebody shake him
from the land of larger than life
where the remnants warn
of a legend born
in a dead man's cave

Jim Morrison's grave

I stay driven 'cause there's nowhere to park
I can't shut my eyes--I'm afraid of the dark
I lie awake
that stone left me chilled to the bone
sound the alarm before it's done
find Jim Morrison

Come away to Paris
let him see another day
let him fade out slowly
only fools burn away
let a true love show him what a heart can become
somebody find Jim Morrison
find Jim Morrison's grave

I get weary
Lord, I don't understand
how does a seed get strangled in the heart of a man
then the music covers like an evening mist
like a watch still ticking on a dead man's wrist
tick away....

Once again, just being written does no justice to the Mad Genius. I love this song, because it's talking about how we make celebrities out to be larger than life when in reality, they're as mortal as the rest of us. Sorry, but that's all I have for today...beside's today's order...

Later,

Ozy
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Thursday, May 20, 2004

This looks familiar
Vaguely familiar,
Almost unreal yet
It's too soon to feel yet
Close to my soul and yet
So far away
I'm going to go back there someday.

Sun rises, night falls,
Sometimes the sky calls.
Is that a song there,
And do I belong there?
I've never been there,
But I know the way,
I'm going to go back there someday.

Come and go with me,
It's more fun to share,
We'll both be completely
At home in midair.
We're flying, not walking, on featherless wings,
We can hold on to young like invisible strings.

There's not a word yet
For old friends who've just met,
Part heaven, part space,
Or have I found my place?
You may just visit,
But I plan to stay,
I'm going to go back there someday
I'm going to go back there someday.

If anyone can tell me what movie this is from, I’ll …well…I don’t know what
I’ll do…maybe I’ll do a request picture. Well? Do you know?



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Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Certificate of Marriage This is to certify that OzymandiusJones and Vash The Stampede Were united in Marriage on the 17th day of May 2004

MYFC

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Stupid, STUPID rat creatures!
Ok, just so you know, my title has nothing to do with my post. I'm currently reading "Bone" though, and that's a great line.

What todays rant is about is: rappers. I heard "My Band" by D12 last night, and it's a really funny song. However, the radio station I heard it on is one that censors out the really bad words, hence it sounded like this:

1. Take a really bad cd player

2. Put it on a riquety card table

3. Let toddlers shake the table.

There were that many words censored! It got me thinking: These guys have BAGS of talent...why can't they just ditch the foul language? Huh? Does it take anything away when they do? NO! SO LEAVE IT OUT ALREADY!!!! Thank you for sitting through another patented Ozy Jone's rant.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004

A lucky cat. How Kyute!!!

Ok, now that that's out of my system, I was looking through some papers of mine this morning, and I found this list of anime I wanted to see as of fall 2000.

Urusei Yatsura
The Pumpkin Wine: Nita's love story
Warriors of the WInd
The Dagger of Kamui
Night on the Galatic Railroad
Love Position-legend of Halley
Otaku no Video
What's Michael?
Laputa
Time Stranger
Wind Aria
Amon Saga
AAkira
Dragon Century Devine Chapter AD 1990
Dragon Century Demon Chapter RC 291
10 Little Gall Foorce
Gall Force
Xanadu: Legend of Dragonslayer
Yotoden
Cipher the Video
SD Gundam
Please Wink for me Grandma
Carol
Galactic Pirates
Catgirl Nuku-nuku
Ushio and Tora
Ultraman Graffitti
Sol Bianca
Little Nemo
Luna Varga
Run, Melos
Green Legend Ran
Ko Century Beast Warriors
Spirit of Wonder, Miss China's Ring
Ponpoko
Cosmic Fantasy
801 TTS Airbats
Please Save my Earth
Catland Banipal Witt
Whisper of the Heart
Fairy Princeess Rain
Princess Minerva
The Sign of the Otaku
Jin-Roh the WOlf Brigade
InuYasha

So far, of that MASSIVE list, InuYasha is the only one I've seen. So how 'bout you guys? Seen any of those? Are they any good?




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Monday, May 17, 2004

When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagraams, to add, devide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.

~Walt Whitman, 1865

Moral: Look, but don't lecture

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Sunday, May 16, 2004

Ozy's Dental Adventure
Almost exactly one year ago, a Marvelous Adventure started for Ozy Jones...

Ozy: Mom, my mouth hurts.

Mom: Oh, really? Well, you have a dentists appointment in a few days...can you live until then?

Ozy *You must remember Ozy's a teenager and given to dramatics*: No. I'll die! It hurts.

Mom: Is it really that bad? *giving Ozy that 'mom' look*

Ozy: Well...no...but...

*Three days later...*

Dentist: Well, Ozy, your teeth look pretty good...

Ozy: Hmph. You stuck those stupid x-ray things in...now my mouth hurts more!

Dentist: Well, yes. About that...*sticks x-rays up on lightboard*...your wisdom teeth are coming in.

Ozy: What?!?!?!?!!?

Dentist: Yep. Two of them look pretty impacted...

Ozy: What?!?!?!?!

Dentist: I would recommend having those taken out before the end of summer:

Ozy: WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Mom: Ok...what would you recommend?

Ozy: MOM?! What's WRONG with you?!? This is my MOUTH we're talking about!

Dentist: Well, I could do them here, but I only midly sedate my wisdom-teeth patients...

Ozy: NO! I WILL NOT BE AWAKE WHILE YOU TAKE OUT MY TEETH!!!!!

Dentist: But I would suggest going somewhere with twilight sedation...

Ozy: Twilight sedation...? What on earth is twilight sedation?

Mom: Whatever you think best, doctor...

Ozy: WHY ISN'T ANYONE LISTENING TO ME?!?!?!?!?!

*Some months later...July 21st, to be exact...*

Ozy: But MOM, I don't WANNA have my teeth pulled! It'll HURT! And what if the person with the sedative gets it wrong? What if I don't wake up??

Mom: That doesn't happen, dear, you'll be fine.

Ozy: But what if the dentist's hand slips? What if he cuts my mouth? What if he cuts my tongue?! I may never speak again! I'll be doomed to pantomime the rest of my life!

Mom: He's highly trained, honey...you'll be fine.

Ozy: But...

Mom: No buts. Oh, look. We're there...

Ozy: Goodbye, cruel world...

*Half an hour later...*

Ozy *thinking to herself, alone in the oral surgeon's office...*: Boy, it's cold in here....do IVs hurt? Why won't the STUPID dentist hurry up so I can get this over with...I want my mommie...

Dentist: Hello, Ozy

Ozy: Mommie...

Dentist: Don't worry, you're going to be fine...I'm just going to lean your chair back...now, you may feel a slight pinch...

Ozy *thinking to herself*: Slight? Stick the whole thing in my arm, why doncha? Man, I'm sleepy...

Dentist: Sweet Dreams...

*Interlude*

I do not remember this next part, but Mom and the dentist both swear I did this...

Mom: Ozy, are you awake?

Ozy: What's this? *points to box-like thing attached to her finger*

Mom: That's the heart moniter...see? It puts you heartbeat on that screen there...

Ozy: *looking at screen*: Weird... *starts laughing...machine blinks...* Look, Mom, I made it laugh!

Mom: Yes...um..okay...

Ozy: *Points at finger again*: What's this?

Mom *trying not to laugh*: It's a heart moniter.

Ozy: Oh...I haven't slept that good in three years.

Mom: Really?

Ozy: Did the cute guy leave yet?

*End of interlude*

*Ozy wakes up to hear mom...*

Mom: Come on, Ozy, wake all the way up now...it's time to go home.

Ozy: I haven't slept that good in 3 weeks.

Mom: Ten minutes ago you said three years.

Ozy: No I didn't!

Mom: Yes you did. You also asked if the cute guy had left yet.

Ozy I did?

Mom: Yep.

Ozy: *points to finger* What's this?

Mom: That's the heart moniter...it's also the third time you've asked me that question.

Ozy: It IS?

Mom: Yep.

*After this strange conversation, Ozy and her mom go hime, and Ozy has a fun time doing these activities:


1. Only eating soup, jello and pudding for the next three days when she's really craving hard pretzels.

2. Trying to ignore the itchy, tickling feeling-like-you're-about-to-swallow-a-two-foot-long-peice-of-dental-floss feeling of the stitches

3. Trying to ignore the pain because she hates using drugs of any kind, even perscribed painkillers

4. Trying to read through pain-induced headache

5. Trying to ignore the fact that her saliva tastes like blood

6. Trying to ignore the fact that anything she drinks tastes like blood

7. Trying to ignore the fact that she just drooled blood on her Snoopy pillow and

8. Trying to ignore her well meaning yet incredibly mean siblings who insist on telling her she looks like a chipmunk, completly ignoring the fact that she doesn't.

But in the end, one year later, Ozy is relieved not to have a grinding, pounding ache in the back of her mouth, and has come to terms with the fact that maybe Mom and the dentist knew what they were talking about after all.

~Fin~



This story is true...the names have been changed to protect the innocent...and yes, I - er, Ozy - did talk to the heart moniter. And the Snoopy pillow recovered.
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Saturday, May 15, 2004

Ok, it's official...I am in love with Vash the Stampede. I know, I know, nothing new, right? He's just such a sweetie you can't help but love him. And he looks good with long hair.

For the first time last night, I realized why so many people write Meryl/Vash fics. She's really fallen for him, hasn't she? Pity that she's so stubborn...

And that Angel Arm thingy is SCARY!!!
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Friday, May 14, 2004

I submitted a new picture today...let's just say it's very weird, and leave it at that, ok?

Tonight we get caught up with this weeks anime. WooHoo! 5 episodes of Trigun, and Five of Inuyasha, all in a row. Yippee!
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Thursday, May 13, 2004

To Forgive

I saw a man,
He was holding the hand
That had fired a gun at his heart.
Oh, will we live
To forgive?

I saw the eyes
And the look of surprise
As he left an indelible mark.
Oh, will we live?
To forgive?

Come...find release...
Go...make your peace...

Follow his lead,
Let the madness recede
When we shatter the cycle of pain.
Oh, we will live
To forgive...

Stop, stop...

Come...find release
Go...make your peace

I saw a man
With a hole in His hand,
Who could offer the miracle cure.
Oh, He said live
I forgive.

I saw a man
With a hole in His hand,
Who could offer the miracle cure.
Oh, He said live
I forgive.

Oh, He said live
to forgive.
Oh, He said live
to forgive.


That is a song by my favorite singer of all time, Steve Taylor. Yo may not be able to tell from that song, but the man is INSANE! He's as hyper as a twelve year old on stage, and most of his songs have enough satire and sarcasm in them to choke a horse. He was mostly popular in the eighties, and then stopped touring as an artist in 1993.

Since then, he's written songs for the Newsboys, an Austrailian Christian rock band that I like. Those tend to be a bit on the weird side, which is good. I like weird. But one of his best songs is this:


Since I Gave Up Hope I Feel A Lot Better

Enter the young idealist
chasing dragons to slay
exit the hustler
packing up his M.B.A.

Freshmen scream in a classroom
was there a sound?
first degree in the vacuum
I'm on college ground

Took a class
big fun
modern ethics 101
first day learn why
ethics really don't apply
Prof says, "One trait
takes us to a higher state
drug free, pure bliss
get your pencils, copy this:

"Life unwinds like a cheap sweater
but since I gave up hope I feel a lot better
and the truth gets blurred like a wet letter
but since I gave up hope I feel a lot better"

Top of the class sits Ernest
he was brightest and best
till the professor lured him
to the hopeless nest

Now he lives for the shortcut
like a citizen should
tells the class with a wink
"only the young die good."

He says, "Ideals? Uncouth.
fatalism needs youth
eat well, floss right
keep the hungry out of sight
save face--nip and tuck
praise yourself and pass the buck
don't forget the best advice
everybody's get a price

"Life unwinds like a cheap sweater
but since I gave up hope I feel a lot better
and the truth gets blurred like a wet letter
but since I gave up hope I feel a lot better

"While the world winds down to a final prayer
nothing soothes quicker than complete despair
I predict by dinner I won't even care
since I gave up hope I feel a lot better"

Nazis plead in a courtroom
"Pardon me, boys"
profits fall in a boardroom
did they make a noise?

Someone spreads an affliction
company's nice
someone sells an addiction
puts your soul on ice

Half wits knock heads
candidates in double beds
good guys defect
"I can't precisely recollect"
teacher's pet theory's fine
if you're born without a spine
can't you spell wrong?
sing it to him Papa John

It's sung at about the same speed as "It's The End of the World as We Know it" by R.E.M. Basically, the point of the song is about about college students who lose the idealism due to cinical professors. You just have to hear him singing it.

Well, I have to go...I have suddenly gained 3 more papers to do! Only 29 days until graduation! Yippee!

Later,

~Ozy J.
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