saw two movies last night, both i highly recommend: <a href="http://www.monsoonweddingmovie.com/flash_site/home.html">Monsoon Wedding</a> and <a href="http://www.ytumamatambien.com/ENGLISH/WEB/tumama.html">y tu mama tambien</a> 75362445daniel millerSaturday, April 13, 2002publishSo the guy�s a wanker. Aren�t we all wankers in some respect or another? It�s just a question of what we wank and what we produce from said wanking. 75362221daniel millerpublish<a href="http://fauxhemian.blogspot.com/">My neighbour is a 20-something girl, who's apparently the only one in her group of friends, who doesn't live at home with her parents anymore. Or else it's just that they prefer partying at her place, because she lives downtown. Either way they party here a lot! She appears to be a big fan of J-Lo and Destiny's Child, but actually the music didn't bother me last night until they started playing the same Enrique Iglesias song over and over. Obviously, they sang along as well, which didn't exactly improve on the vocal stylings of Old Molehead. I hate that guy and his stupid videos, where he gets to make out with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Anna Kournikova. Hero, my ass!</a> 75361468daniel millerpublish<img src="http://home.attbi.com/~sgravatt/img0.jpg"> New worship installation designed by the best of the best. Please come Saturday night at 8:30 - and don't be late because you were sleeping - Bring some food and drink (not too much). Don't worry, you too could plan something like this and be cool, all it takes is some time away from the job - and possibly away from the bedroom. You know we'll hate you forever if you miss this one. <a href="http://home.attbi.com/~sgravatt/">gravattville</a> 75322272daniel millerFriday, April 12, 2002publish<a href="http://www.billandvol.com/index.asp">Bill Mallonee | formerly Vigilantes of Love</a> 75311255daniel millerThursday, April 11, 2002publishWhen they <a href="http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/2680/index.html">get off</a> the bus they're right next to the canal, this huge waterway littered with boats and spanned by numerous drawbridges. All along the canal are either multi-million-dollar homes or old condo buildings. Not hi-rises per say, but enough to block your view. At any rate, GS can tell immediately that this neighborhood is more condo and less multi-million-dollar home. He would have expected such. Criminals aren't exactly rich. This isn't the movies. Micha leads the way down the small hill built up for the drawbridge, around a small sidewalk to the front of the building. It's this tan and brown job that looks like it was built in the 60's. She buzzes Tony and his voice crackles over the intercom. <center> Welcome to Taco Bell. Would you like to try our new <a href="http://www.tacobell.com/">Club Chalupa</a>? Charlie Brown's teacher. The McDonald's commercial from when he was in elementary school with the mentally handicapped employee at the counter. Who can't imitate a retarded person, really? </center> "Let us in!" Micha shrieks in response to Tony's indistinguishable greeting. She's all bent over shouting into the intercom while holding down that little white button that they make dimpled just so, just so it'll hold more dirt from people's fingers. The door buzzes and they enter. They climb the stairs--five flights--Micha says because it's nice out and the stairs are open air. GS can't believe she thinks he's forgotten that she hates elevators. And the elevators at condo buildings like this one always stink the most. <blockquote>in kon te nent <ol> <li>not having control over urination and defecation</li> </ol> </blockquote>Not a bad choice after all. They make it to Tony's floor and Micha raps three times on his door. He invites them in with a wide swoop of his arm. He looks like a Tony. Really. Unless the first Tony that pops into your head is <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/tonydanza/">Tony Danza</a>. He obviously shares Micha's penchant for jewelry. He's got enough gaudy gold all over his body to fund a mob payoff. GS tries not to think that this just may be the fact of the matter. Small talk. A little bit more small talk. He leads them from the doorway into the kitchen. It's laid out kind of strangely, with a kitchen and a very small dining room in behind the entry/living area, and off said kitchen/dining is the tiny screened balcony/porch, overlooking the canal. Micha hits the liquor cabinet and Tony shows GS out to the patio to the sound of ice hitting the bottom of future glasses of scotch. The patio is this ancient thing of concrete and wire mesh, all of it painted white. GS thinks for a second about what is possibly holding this little slab up, but decides thinking too much about that isn't a good idea. Both men go right to the mesh and look out over the canal five-some stories below. One solitary boat was making its way down the canal, south towards the drawbridge, but it was plenty small enough to get under the bridge without any draw. Tony, to GS's left, gives him an elbow in the arm and hands him a pair of binoculars. GS gives him the one-eyebrow-raised look of inquisition, but autonomically accepts the offering. Tony says, "Check out the piece on that boat." Still unsure of what's really going on, GS puts the binoculars up to his eyes and peers down at the boat. The binoculars are already perfectly focused, and as GS brings them up to the little boat motoring down the canal, sure enough there is a not-unattractive-but-not-really-attractive woman laying on the bow the boat. She's very tan, wearing just a small bikini, and looks like she's all greased up and ready to come shooting out of the circus cannon. If you know what I mean. Long story short, turns out Tony has quite a system going here. "Stuff like that is just floatin' by all the time. On the weekends or during season, it's just one after another, sometimes five, ten of them at a time." And Tony just kneels down on his concrete patio, sometimes he uses a little cushion from the couch, next to his good friend <a href="http://www.skinhelp.com/">Lubriderm</a>, next to his other good friend <a href="http://www.kleenex.com/home.htm">Kleenex</a>, and watches, through his high quality binoculars, the girls in their G-strings float by. Address Congress, Audition the Finger Puppets Beat the Bald-headed Bandit, Blow the Load Be Your Own Best Friend , Box the Jesuit Burp the Baby, Clean your Rifle Bang the Banjo, Bang yer Wanger Bash the Bishop, Choke your Chicken Fire your Wad, Flog the Dolphin Flog the Log, Frig Off Gallop the Antelope, Jerk the Gherkin Keep Down the Census, Make a Milk Shake Nightclub, Paddle the Pickle Play Pocket Pool, Play Solitaire Pull your Wire, Shake Hands with the Wife's Best Friend Spank the Bishop , Spank the Monkey Wave the Wand, Whack Off In fact, the paraphernalia is still right there, on the porch, not far from where GS is standing. In fact, GS must be standing in the exact same spot that In fact, GS is still holding the binoculars. In fact, GS is wondering if Tony ever has to switch hands. NTIDNH. No, This Is Definitely Not Happening. And yet, it is. You're still holding those binoculars. You're still frozen in the thought that you are treading on a man's very personal business. A business which he just gave you the tour of. Proudly. "Here you go." GS quickly unloads--no, wait, what are we saying-- TINH hands--no, shit, there is really no good way to say this-- the binoculars back to Tony and jumps back into the apartment. That glass of scotch would be good about now. On second thought, somebody had to have unloaded--shit!-- the dishwasher. "Mom, where's that bottle?" 75307772daniel millerpublishanother ref: they've confused faith and knowing, when really they're mutually exclusive 75304347daniel millerpublishalso i am realizing how our tuesday nights and concerts and such really is the new church. my set for next week, assuming all goes well: --Closed For the Year (me) --Just Say Yes (ditto) --I Radio Heaven (OtR) --Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Beautiful World (ala Izzy) 75287573daniel millerpublish<img src="http://www.changingtheclimate.com/catalogueimages/index_01.gif"> 75287508daniel millerpublishmore notes to myself (sorry but it is my blog so ha ha blog blog): do next micha segment (it's a biggie whoo hoo!) make plan for MM and call lubomir investigate ecom for iws write notes to installation blog and invite scott change templates of all blogs to djdc scheme make djdc front page blog print out calendar garage 75287087daniel millerpublishhad a rev last night and just going to put down some notes here so as not to forget. will pen something more formal later. watching that youth group meeting i thought, this is what christian bands do, they play for groups like these. but these groups are not missionological (is that a word?)--they are playing to the people that grew up in the church culture. and anybody from the church culture that brings someone will bring them from their surroundings--mostly the white middle to upper class far removed from the radical life of Jesus. because the church is its own culture, it's inbreeding. as it becomes more defined--something that attracts and is supported by many christians (just think about all the lists that show you who you would like in the 'christian' music scene if you like so and so in the 'secular' music scene)--it continues to gentrify, turn in on itself, (inbreed), and become more irrelevant. it stops being missionary. it has made rules for itself--for whatever reasons (protection?)--that actually keep it from accomplishing its original (God given) mission. pretty funny considering all the emphasis on the 'great commision'. more notes to self: look at inward vs. outward looking churches (i.e. out=JPUSA), contemporary mission org's (that wouldn't even want to be considered 'christian' ...OtR, djdc); read Threshold again (*scott if yer reading this i have to borrow yers cuz mine is lent out in OH*) 75285875daniel millerpublishhey scott check this out for CPM: <a href="http://www.visions-york.org/video.html">http://www.visions-york.org/video.html</a> and <a href="http://www.the-scriptorium.org/">http://www.the-scriptorium.org/</a> 75285064daniel millerpublishWell, my small pronouncement on the mind of God was that if we are created by a God who created this universe, in all its stunning beauty, then we must have been created creative. And any expression of worship - meaning basically a communication between human and divine - must come out of this creativity. Put simply, church should not be boring. It should be a hotbed of creativity, vitality and community. A place where the Arts find their home and where people feel at home. For too long, the church has been reacting to the pressures put upon it by modernity: Explain yourself! Convince us! Reason with us! And, even as our society has moved on from modernity, the church has been left, with fewer and fewer people interested even in the questions - let alone the answers - rattling around in pews studying books and looking for fool-proof arguments. So, while sat in one such pew, with talented people equal in their boredom around me, we decided to step out and do something about it. We weren't sure what it would look like. We had no idea what would actually happen. We simply knew that if we stayed, we would leave faith behind. And if we left, we would stay in the faith. Vaux is the result, so far, of that decision. It does not claim to be the church to end all churches. It does not claim to be a wonderful tool for evangelism. It does not claim to be perfect. It cannot answer all the questions that the establishment fires at it. It cannot always justify itself in well-crafted words. It therefore does not sit with modernity. It is simply a place where we try to express our worship in ways that are true to who we are. And through it I have seen people return to beauty, and give the best of themselves as an offering of worship. <a href="http://www.vaux.net/polO.htm">vaux</a> 75284669daniel millerpublishWent to see and hung out with the guys from <a href="http://www.circadianrhythm.com/circadianrhythm/">circadian rhythm</a> last night. tre cul guys. check em out. 75283733daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/ifyouhateyourjob.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/ifyouhateyourjob.gif" height=160 width=120 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/blasphemy.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/blasphemy.gif" height=125 width=160 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/children.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/children.gif" height=120 width=160 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/crappyjobs.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/crappyjobs.gif" height=125 width=160 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/culturesuck.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/culturesuck.gif" height=125 width=160 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/dead.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/dead.gif" height=120 width=160 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/destroy.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/destroy.gif" height=160 width=120 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/dontforget.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/dontforget.gif" height=125 width=160 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/lifeliving.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/lifeliving.gif" height=125 width=160 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/poverty.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/poverty.gif" height=120 width=160 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/soulbelly.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/soulbelly.gif" height=125 width=160 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/tedium.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/tedium.gif" height=120 width=160 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/vacation.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/vacation.gif" height=120 width=160 border=2></a> <a href="http://www.unamerican.com/pdf/whoops.pdf"><img src="http://www.unamerican.com/images/streets/whoops.gif" height=120 width=160 border=2></a> 75256290daniel millerWednesday, April 10, 2002publish<a href="http://www.geocities.com/dealingwith/progress/progress.html">PROGRESS, a new digital installation by yours truly</a>. if you get an error from asinine GeoCities, i've gone over my transfer limit over there. check back later. also this is BETA. just fyi. 75254856daniel millerpublishcontrary evidence <img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michastuff/m3.gif" width="100" height="104">&nbsp;&nbsp; <img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michastuff/m2.gif" width="115" height="152"> <img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michastuff/street2_i.jpg" width="300" height="358"> <img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michastuff/housescan3_street1_ii.jpg" width="300" height="164"> <img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michastuff/street2_iii.jpg" width="300" height="187"> <img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michastuff/dog.jpg" width="193" height="331"> <img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michastuff/housescan1_i_small.jpg" width="300" height="201"> <img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michastuff/housescan1_ii_small.jpg" width="300" height="149"> <img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michastuff/housescan2_i_small.jpg" width="300" height="182"> <img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michastuff/housescan2_ii_small.jpg" width="300" height="204"> <img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michastuff/street2_ii.jpg" width="300" height="199"> 75214489daniel millerTuesday, April 09, 2002publish<a href="http://www.gatheringmyway.blogspot.com/">life with kids and God</a> "my struggle is how can someone else tell me what God's will is for my life when i cant even figure out what it is and im the one living it." 75201081daniel millerpublish18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do... :: the book of Romans, Chapter 7 :: 75184886daniel millerMonday, April 08, 2002publishThe next morning, even though he had slept in, GS was still up and around the house before Micha had appeared from her bedroom. He had a slight hangover (from one scotch?). Some neck stretches and some fresh coffee got the crinks out, and he settled back on the couch with a good read. Eventually, after her morning routine, Micha came out of her room, radiant and alive as ever. She was practically skipping around the kitchen as she made herself a cup and tried to mumble some small talk GS�s way. Morning people. Good grief. �So today we have to go see Tony.� Vinnie? Tony? This is starting to sound like a <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/7431#77022">bad</a> <a href="http://www.hbo.com/series/">HBO original series</a>. �He�s my contact for how we�re going to unload these jewels after we lift them.� �Whuut?� GS mumbled back. Micha quickly realized that GS hadn�t really been listening but with one ear, and rethought her approach. �We�re going to go visit a friend of mine who lives on the canal.� �Cul.� �He�s got this beautiful place overlooking the water, and on the other side of the building it�s a one block walk to the beach.� Cul. This time GS thought it. He�d been down here almost three whole days and hadn�t yet even laid eyes on the ocean, except for the approach into the airport. And even then he didn�t get a real good look because he was in the middle seat and some extra-old-smelling old person was in the window seat. To see at all he had to practically stick his face in her fragile perm. Any exposure longer than two seconds caused him to get light headed. So the ocean would be good. Yeah. Whatever. 75164514daniel millerpublishsorry i am posting way too much crap today! i guess this is how i'm dealing with it all! much better than <a href="#" onClick="javascript:alert('You would follow that link? You SICKO FREAK!');">jerking off</a> anyway... 75163522daniel millerpublishspeaking of scott, have u found the secret sound link on me site yet? &lt;singsong&gt;ha ha&lt;/singsong&gt; 75163365daniel millerpublish15 These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It's only nine in the morning! --Acts 2 75163254daniel millerpublishno u will never guess my password scott u might as well give up now. i was thinking about changing it but then i thought about how there's no way in heaven or hell u could guess it. ha ha. 75163212daniel millerpublishAll apologies all. this is just how i deal with rejection. ha ha! 75163190daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.jordoncooper.sk.ca/">jordon cooper's site/blog</a> thanks jordon for the link! u da man! 75162506daniel millerpublishThat's it. I can't take anymore. I'm ending this life now. ......kkkkkkkkkksaddsflkjasdffoiwwwwwwwqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq ....Just kidding 75161833daniel millerpublishGravatts: Thanks for last night. You are definately a light source in a dark, dark world. Cheers, Daniel 75161805daniel millerpublishSomedays you want to give the world a great big hug, some days you want to blow it's fucking head off with a sawed-off. Today is definately the latter. Love you, Daniel 75161788daniel millerpublish<img src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/earn_am.jpg"> i earn, therefore i am 75140333daniel millerSunday, April 07, 2002publishI earn no money. Therefore, I do not exist. me: <img src="http://www.thegreatillusion.com/invisible.jpg"> 75137405daniel millerpublishNo Jewish Dog Killing Guy either, just in case you were wondering. Stay with me. 75137296daniel millerpublishThat night, as GS fell asleep curled up on that old couch, he fantasized about going back to DKG�s place with a machete. As he slipped from consciousness, the fantasy turned into a dream. GS sneaks back and waits for DKG to disappear into the house one weekend day when he�s out doing his sick habit. GS runs from his cover into the foxhole beside DKG�s house. None of the dogs are hanging there, but there is a secret door in the side of the foxhole that is slightly ajar. GS pulls the door open and peers inside, revealing a room full of taxidermied dogs. There�s even a fresh one on a table in the middle of the room. Filled with rage, GS takes his machete and starts hacking anything nearby--the dead dogs, the table, the taxidermy equipment. Just hacking. About that time DKG shows up at the door and yells something. You know how dreams are. People talk without talking, things happen randomly, events change like the wind. Well this was a case of the foremost. GS turns, just like in a movie, and swings the machete at DKG. It gets DKG right across the chest and a red line begins to grow on his white button-up shirt. Suddenly DKG and GS aren�t in DKG�s taxidermy room anymore, they�re in Micha�s rental. You know how dreams are. People talk without talking, things happen randomly, events change like the wind. Well this was a case of the latter. Both DKG and GS realize they�ve suddenly changed locals and look around, confused. This is about the time GS wakes up. And yes, he�s actually in Micha�s rental. Just no machete. 75137188daniel millerpublishsomething is going on w/my jaw. no clue. i'm getting an underbite. how can that just happen? i'm serious. i can barely chew. me no have any health or dental. me: <img src="http://www.muppetcentral.com/frames/sesame/bert.jpg"> 75136900daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.alistapart.com/stories/narrative/">very good stuff from the head of Eastgate</a> 75134915daniel millerpublish<a href="http://overtherhine.com/when/concertdiary/linford/01.html">OtR | Tour Diary | 2000 | Linford</a> READ THIS NOW 75134898daniel millerpublishMeanwhile <a href="http://www3.jcpenney.com/jcp/category.asp?deptid=597&catid=721&pcatid=597&shopby=0&cattyp=DEP&refpage=Department&dep=women%27s&cat=shoes&pcat=&ttyp=">toe jam</a> is doing what he loves. <center> Don't knock masturbation - it's sex with someone I love. :: Woody Allen ::</center> 75124166daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.cherrybleeds.com/index2.html">Cherry Bleeds - Life Affirming Stories by Suicidal Writers</a> 75124108daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.frictionmagazine.com/">Friction Magazine</a> 75124100daniel millerpublish<a href="http://cherrybleeds.com/words/dushane/23jan2002.html">Tony DuShane - Cherry Bleeds \ Monophonic</a> 75123857daniel millerpublish