Another Quiz From Peer Pressure

You Are Iceman

You tried to live a normal life, but it just wasn't possibleA bit of a slacker, you rather tell jokes than cultivate your powers Powers: turning self and others into ice, making ice weapons, becoming nearly invisible

Which of the X-Men Are You?

hmmm... not toooooo far off i guess ^^

Sweet Talking Woman - The Electric Light Orchestra

This is one of my favorite songs ever, which I first heard as a cover done by Five Iron Frenzy. Hearing there version, and reading their liner notes, introduced me to the band ELO. Here are the lyrics:

I was searchin' SEARCHIN' on a one-way street,
I was hopin' HOPIN' for a chance to meet.
I was waitin' for the operator on the line.

SHE'S GONE SO LONG What can I do?
WHERE COULD SHE BE? No no no,
don't know what I'm gonna do,
I gotta get back to you.

You gotta slow down SLOW DOWN sweet talkin' woman SLOW DOWN
You got me runnin' RUN RUN you got me searchin'.
Hold on HOLD ON sweet talkin' lover HOLD ON
It's so sad if that's the way it's over.

I was WALKIN' many days go by,
I was thinkin' THINKIN' 'bout the lonely nights.
Communication breakdown all around.

SHE'S GONE SO LONG What can I do?
WHERE COULD SHE BE? No no no,
don't know what I'm gonna do,
I gotta get back to you.

You gotta slow down SLOW DOWN sweet talkin' woman SLOW DOWN
You got me runnin' RUN RUN you got me searchin'.
Hold on HOLD ON sweet talkin' lover HOLD ON
It's so sad if that's the way it's over.

I've been livin' LIVIN' on a dead end street,
I've been askin' ASKIN' KINDLY everybody I meet.
Insufficient data coming through.

SHE'S GONE SO LONG What can I do?
WHERE COULD SHE BE? No no no,
don't know what I'm gonna do,
I gotta get back to you.

Oh, slow down SLOW DOWN sweet talkin' woman SLOW DOWN
You got me runnin' RUN RUN you got me searchin'.
Hold on HOLD ON sweet talkin' lover HOLD ON
It's so sad if that's the way it's over.

Slow down SLOW DOWN sweet talkin' woman SLOW DOWN
You got me runnin', you got me searchin'.
Hold on HOLD ON sweet talkin' lover HOLD ON
It's so sad if that's the way it's over.

Slow down SLOW DOWN sweet talkin' woman SLOW DOWN
You got me runnin', you got me searchin'.
Hold on HOLD ON sweet talkin' lover HOLD ON
It's so sad if that's the way it's over. (repeat & fade out)

30 second sample from amazon.com

Anyways, me likeys ELO. You could do a movie soundtrack with just their songs... and it would be good!

IstanbulTaye/Mophia/Philip/Whatever name you may know me by ^^

The Church of Baseball II

Well, this edition will be short due to the weather in the area since thursday (and going through tuesday). My favorite MLB team, the Brewers, went 3-3 this week, holding them at .500 for the year with a record of 19-19. Using pink bats, to support mother's day, and breast cancer awareness, the Crew defeated the Mets 6-5. Yay! Go pink bats! Down with breast cancer! There will be no game recap this week, because even if they get a game in somehow, I will be working tomorrow night. See all of you on Tuesday when I think of another song to ramble about. ~P

The Movement...

Apparently there is a strong underground women's movement to end their suffrage... see this video.

Istanbul: Not Just a City

Well, let me introduce this subject by mentioning a unique MMORPG, Jumpgate. It is a cool sci-fi, space combat sim, which is totally cool. (The dev likes Firefly :P) I will now link you to a 'fan-fic' story that I started writing last year, and occasionally add to. It resides at Joystickrequired.com which is a really cool forum run by a guy named JumpDemon. Here's the story. Enjoy!

Game Recap I (5/8/06)

Well, our team won, so that's kinda cool. Our bad attitude boy only had one little eruption (which is good for that guy). As for me: As I wasn't able to get there until right as the game was starting (work), I subbed in later in the game. In my first and only AB, I hit an RBI triple! wOOt! Then I scored a run on a groundout by the next batter. So, I guess it went well :D

Song of the UUOT: Grammatrain - Rocketship

For my initial song of the Unknown Unit Of Time, I will pull out the song that absolutely rocked the socks off of any other song I've ever heard. It's by a band that no longer exists (sadly) called Grammatrain. They were one of the coolest bands ever, and I never got to see them *cries*. The song is called Rocketship. Here's a link to amazon.com where you can listen to the 30 second demo to at least get a feel for it.

Heres the lyrics (or at least close, I'm not sure where I lost my CD case to, so I can't look in the liner):

Do you have a rocketship I could fly?
We could watch the world grow small from the sky.
Set a course and leave this place for a while,
we could leave, we would see the world a different size.

Chorus:
Let's fly our rocketship off of the ground.
C'mon and break thru the speed of sound.

Sometimes I feel caged inside my lifespan.
If i saw the earth as a distant land,
all my problems would feel like grains of sand
sifting through, sifting through, sifting through my hand.

Bridge:
Jesus holds space and time.
My soul will never die.

Now, whether you are religious or not, or of a different religion, I'm sure you can identify with wanting to get away. The ability to see things with a different perspective can make what were humongous problems seem so much smaller and more managable. So, besides absolutely rocking, the song has really good lyrics too. Hope ya like it!

The Church Of Baseball

Since I seem to be posting about my baseball exploits and whatnot on sundays, I'll start calling this segment: The Church of Baseball.

First, a Brewers update:
They've gone 2-4 for the week (which isn't all that great) but they're still in 4th place, 4 games behind the Reds. Ben Sheets (their ace pitcher) has been battling a cold (which can lead to worse things with him), but he's been cleared to pitch today, giving the Brewers a good shot at avoiding a sweep out in LA.

Now, my softball practice report:
I spent most of my time in the outfield. Muffed the first ball hit to me (which happens when i'm still rusty) but, over the course of the morning, I made most of the plays hit to me, and a couple pretty good plays. One in particular was a hard hit line drive, that I had to run to my left and in and made a rolling catch of. Why a rolling catch, you may ask. Well, i'm no good at diving, so I basically just get down to where I have to to catch the ball and whatever happens after i catch the ball happens. In this case I ended up rolling, but I held onto the ball. Also made a few catches that I had to run quite a ways for. As for my hitting, i'm still not in a groove that I like, and our first game is tomorrow night :( I think some of it has been the BP pitching though, because the guy who was pitching, wasn't doing a particularly good job of it (no worse than what i'd be able to do though, i'm not good at pitching slow pitch).

I'll do a feature called Game recap after tomorrow nights game, so that all of you can know how badly (or goodly) I did. :D (who are 'all of you' anyways?)

The Battle of Yavin IV

by Philip Morey

Quickly and silently rose thirty silver birds, to embark upon a mission which the others called absurd.

Divided into groups, one of red, the other gold, into space these fighters sailed, their pilots ever bold.

These rebels had a mission: to protect their jungle moon, and a hero was required, for in the sky a terror loomed.

Now deep within the fauna was a very secret place, for in these ancient ruins stood the hidden Rebel base.

And there in a cluster, the Rebel leaders stood, prepared to fight and lose their lives for what they thought was good.

The fighters were heading out and flew beyond their planet, and when they cleared that ball of gas, the Death Star they discovered.

In the Massassi temple Princess Leia watched them go, and with her was a droid, the famous 3-PO.

Ahead the steel gray orb did lay with officers awaiting a black-cloaked giants orders to launch their eager fighters.

The Rebel fighters made it through the perimeter defense. It was nothing but a magnetic shield causing a shaky ride at most.

Finally over the surface they raced amongst the towers, shooting orange laser burst creating explosions in bloom like flowers.

Onboard the shaking Death Star a massive figure spoke, "Our turbo lasers can't hit them, we'll take them ship to ship."

As rickety TIEs poured from their hangers, the Rebels on the moon called warning, "The Death Star's launching fighters, don't get caught and fail."

The fighter pilots acknowledged and Red Leader made an order, "Gold Squadron, we'll draw their fire, keep watching for other fighters."

Three Y-wings dove straight down, deep into the trench, as that massive, cloaked dark figure launched with his wingmen.

The three Imperial fighters, chasing the Y-wings, were led by Darth Vader. He was on a killing spree.

He shot down all three Y-wings in what seemed no time at all. The Y-wings didn't even take a shot; Darth Vader was on the ball.

Red Leader called to Luke, who was Leia's special friend, "Hold your group back to make the run again.

"For we may fail just as easily, as the martyrs of Gold Squad just did formerly."

With that aside, Red Leader dove, followed by two others. Down inside the trench they raced to eliminate a bother.

As before Darth Vader came from behind to kill and maim and save his giant terror of galactic high acclaim.

His wingmen gone, Red Leader fired. His shot hit on the exhaust port! The Death Star rocked as it never had before.

But no! It didn't go in, "Just a peckin' on the surface, Luke, you'll have to do the run again, or of Yavin 4 there'll be no trace."

And then Red Leader died, in a gigantic globe of flame, as Darth Vader did his job that brought him lot's of fame.

Luke, Wedge and Biggs dove low! Down to deliver the Death Star's fatal blow.

The three X-wings, with brave pilots flying, were going fast to try to keep from dying.

But Vader and his wingmen jumped behind again. The Dark Lord fired and scored a hit on Wedge.

Wedge pulled out in pain. He wished he could fight back. But with his damaged ship he couldn't make an attack.

Vader got a shot again and Biggs disintegrated, causing Luke to find that Vader he surely hated.

Then a calm came over Luke, for Obi-wan came to visit. He then told Luke, "The computer, you don't need it."

Luke switched his computer off. The Rebels asked, "Luke, what's going on?"

Luke replied, "Don't worry I'm okay." Vader shot again. R2's power faded away.

Then out of nowhere the Falcon came and shot down the fighter next to Vader the topgun.

The other wingman tried to leave and clipped Darth Vader's wing. He hit the canyon wall in spectacular flame ongoing.

Han Solo, the scruffy smuggler, called to Luke, "Let's hury! Blow this thing before it lets loose it's fury."

Luke fired two red flaming arrows from his speeding craft. They hit the port and went on through causing Vader to look daft.

The surviving Rebel spacecraft escaped it rapidly. Vader went on spinning, deep in space, a marvelous sight to see.

The Death Star blew in a massive ball of flame as the heroes who caused it sped on to galactic fame.

Well, that's all folks. Hope it's not too long for a blog post. I could always post it somewhere else and link to it i guess. ^^

I am the State of

You're Tennessee!

A vibrantly musical individual, you probably know how to play multiple
instruments. At the heart of your love for music is the guitar, though you have a soft
spot for violins, which you refuse to call anything but fiddles. Fiddlesticks aside,
you are very thin and have excellent posture. If you ever run for elected office, you
won't even be able to get your hometown to support you. I guess that's why they call it
the blues.


Take the State Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Tennessee??? Though it's fairly close. just take out the part starting with fiddles until the part about running for office.