Increasing the Volume 1025

1025 Lesson Plan consists simply of today's playlist:

Creepy

Walked out to the car last night and saw this in dust, on the drivers side back window.

Ok, not that you asked for it

Q) What kinds of snacks will you find in the bedroom of a haunted house?

A) Dust Truffles

What we de-serve

I was just wondering on the drive home tonight, "Why preceding the word "grace" with the word "unmerited" isn't seen as being redundant? Why is it needed there at all?"

I then began to wonder if this isn't something bigger than just language.

That perhaps grace has become so foreign to receive or extend anymore that we may have forgotten that the very nature of grace indicates that it is unmerited.

After all if it were merited, that wouldn't be grace at all, it would simply be getting what you had coming anyway...

what is de-served

Just thinking...

What happens when Fishermen go deaf?

The get a new herring aid.

Increasing the Volume No 1024

Junip is a great band for you to check out. 

Here's a sample:

Junip - In every Direction:
http://youtu.be/q7yaHnUPJLE

Lyrics:
still protecting the magic feather
holding tight to a supporting crutch
writing scripts on worn out leather
still waiting on a divine touch

try to ride on waves of activity
in every direction
you're the center and you're always free
in every direction

feeling safe enough to abandon the void
ban the zero, ban the noise
quiet sounds picked up and dissected
all faint shadows reflected

try to ride on waves of activity
in every direction
you're the center and you're always free
in every direction

It's not much for visual, but I included it for the lyrics and because it's pretty representative of their style over all. 

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So here's another Junip song with an awesome video:

Junip - Always (Official Video)

http://youtu.be/BYB0iEiOuzs

Lyrics:

droning chords and distant bells
humming over empty shells
holding on tight onto a dead sky
nomadic moves across a lawn
inch by inch into the dawn
holding on tight onto a dead sky

turn a deaf ear no matter what they might say
always
turn a deaf ear pushing you further away
always

droning chords and distant bells
to what's been over since the fall
holding tight to what's been felt
holding on tight onto a dead sky

turn a deaf ear no matter what they might say
always
turn a deaf ear pushing you further away
always

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Jose Gonzales is their singer. 

I liked Jose Gonzales, then I liked Junip,
Then I really liked Junip when I figured out Jose Gonzales was their singer.

Jose Gonzales remakes Massive Attack's Teardrop beautifully here:
http://youtu.be/9B-h1EEsKDA
It's quite a nice video.

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Here is the original version of Massive Attack's Teardrop. 

(in case you're not familiar with it)
http://youtu.be/9B-h1EEsKDA

Also a very cool video

Lyrics:
Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Fearless on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me, makes me lighter
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

Nine night of matter
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my...

Water is my eye
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire
Of a confession
Fearless on my breath
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

You're stumbling down
You're stumbling down

Collard Greens

they're just a little more formal.

Love Fulfills the Law

But grace covers the gap.

Observations 2

What do we know, that we haven't been told?

What have we bought, that we haven't been sold?

Why do we think that we won't pay the price,
for ignoring the truth and rolling the dice?

Look at the world and the people it holds.

The sick and the starving, the young and the old.

Look at the earth, it's poisoned and sick.

Now, ask yourself "why?"
...because money did this.

What you want, I can't give you.

What you need, you won't take.

For you love what will kill you.

What will save you, you hate...

The Five Point Plan

Let's count to five...

1. Find failing business.
2. Assume control of that business.
3. Liquidate assets, exhaust credit for personal gain.
4. Terminate and export jobs for cheaper labor costs.
5. Sell business leaving someone else to hold the bag.

Hooray, we did it!
We have a president!

Let's stop all this nonsense about Romney not having revealed his plan, for he has by his record revealed his plan.

This is business man we want to run our country?

Think people...

I'm sane in the membrane

I used to think that as long as one retained the ability to question their sanity that it was an indication that sanity was still retained.

As I've grown older though I see that questioning one's sanity is probably more an indication that the definition of sanity may be changing more than one may be actually retaining what was once their definition of sanity.

This is a political post

If you don't like "O"range Soda, and I don't like "R"oot Beer, it seems kind of pointless then to try and sell me on the virtues of "R"oot Beer, or tell me how terrible "O"range Soda is, thinking somehow my tastes will change.

Don't you think?

So, why don't we just sit quietly with each other, you with your "R"oot Beer and me with my "O"range Soda, we can talk about other stuff and we'll be just fine.

Cool enough?

d(-_-)b

Bible Versus

This is no social crisis just another tricky day for you... -The Who

Or:

1 Corinthians 10:13 There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

What's so funny

Farted!

Fart: Bipartisan

There rarely any worldly advantage in keeping company with the poor.
equally as rare is the spiritual advantage in keeping company with the rich.

Mosquitos make mosquitos

The other day Maddy had a friend over.

They were playing in the front yard and we were out there with them, when the friend asked if I would shut of the hose (which was watering the tree). I asked why and she told me that her mom said that water makes mosquitos.

I was confused as to why anyone would mislead their children by telling them something that was, if not untrue, certainly a misrepresentation of the truth?

Thinking about it, I thought it was somewhat cruel because having been misinformed by what should have been a reliable source,  that girl would now have to rethink every factor in that situation.

So I told her, "Water doesn't make mosquitos. Mosquitos make mosquitos, and they use water."

So, did I overstep my bounds? Maybe, but I have to think a greater service was done for the child than possible offense to the parent, so I'll take it.

Farted: Ryan

Farted: Obama

Farted: Romney

Farted: Biden

The problem with pride and parenting

If we are to encounter smaller failures on the road to greater success, rather than smaller successes on the road to greater failure, we must be prepared and equipped to experience both.
d(-_-)b

Just made this up

Q) What happened to the soldier who hired a prostitute?

A) He received a dishonorable discharge.

The Volume of Music

I love the way that sounds!
I'm going to use it for something. I don't know for sure what, but I have an idea.