{"id":146,"date":"2007-01-11T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-01-11T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T03:17:00","slug":"120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/120","title":{"rendered":"Long Time, No Post."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots happening these days, details not forthcoming.&nbsp; Not here, not now, maybe not ever.&nbsp; We shall see.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, suffice to say there are hard times upon me right now and it&#8217;s damned hard to get out of bed in the morning.&nbsp; Motivators are few and far between, with no rewards in sight.&nbsp; My only peace of mind comes from the friends that have surrounded me and are lavishing their love upon me.&nbsp; I appreciate it&nbsp; more than I can ever put into words, and I can only hope I can repay even a fraction of that kindness in my lifetime.&nbsp; Their displays of tenderness have left me wanting to be a better person.&nbsp; Of course, I&#8217;ll still be a well-rounded asshole, but I&#8217;ll be an asshole with a big heart.<\/p>\n<p>So, wiser men than I have spake \u2014 spoke, spook, sploke&#8230; aw, hell.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been said that music can help heal that which wounds us.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of <a href=http:\/\/www.cowboymouth.com target=_blank><b>Cowboy Mouth<\/b><\/a> lately.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve always said that Fred LeBlanc has some voodoo, black magic way of writing songs that look into your heart and strike at the very root of what ails you.&nbsp; He&#8217;s also a hell of a informal spokesperson for the <b>Living Life And Loving It<\/b> movement&#8230; there are some serious \u201c<i>life can suck, so make the most out of it while you can<\/i>\u201d type songs in the Cowboy Mouth library.&nbsp; I find that no matter how down and out I get, there are just some songs that can lift me up and make me get on with my life.&nbsp; Cowboy Mouth is the antibiotic helping to heal my soul right now.&nbsp; I present to you an example (likely the first of many) of what got my ass moving today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b><u>Glad To Be Alive<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n(Uno, Dos, Tres)<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nLa da da de da da da<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nLa da da de da da da<\/p>\n<p>Anybody can be sad<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t see the good when it goes bad<br \/>\nThen you end up blue and through<br \/>\nBut that&#8217;s all right<\/p>\n<p>Got my share of people who love me<br \/>\nGot my share of problems that bug me<br \/>\nEvery now and then its hard<br \/>\nBut that&#8217;s all right<\/p>\n<p>How many times have we been here before?<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re walking down the street<br \/>\nFeel the rhythm in your feet<br \/>\nOf a life that&#8217;s rushing by<br \/>\nAre you glad to be alive?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing ever goes as planned<br \/>\nGet your head out of your hand<br \/>\nScream and shout like you were five<br \/>\nAre you glad to be alive?<\/p>\n<p>Doo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nLa da da de da da da<\/p>\n<p>Some times you gotta&#8217; sneak in the back door<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t always get what you ask for<br \/>\nBut what you need you got inside<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s all right<\/p>\n<p>How many times have you been here before?<br \/>\nSo pick your sorry ass up off the floor!<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re walking down the street<br \/>\nFeel the rhythm in your feet<br \/>\nOf a life that&#8217;s rushing by<br \/>\nAre you glad to be alive?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing ever goes as planned<br \/>\nGet your head out of your hand<br \/>\nScream and shout like you were five<br \/>\nAre you glad to be alive?<\/p>\n<p>Doo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nLa da da de da da da<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s my story<br \/>\nTis sad but true<br \/>\nFor those who know me<br \/>\nWhat else are we to do?<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re walking down the street<br \/>\nFeel the rhythm in your feet<br \/>\nOf a life that&#8217;s crashing by<br \/>\nAre you glad to be alive?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing ever goes as planned<br \/>\nGet your head out of your hand<br \/>\nScream and shout like you were five<br \/>\nAre you glad to be alive?<\/p>\n<p>Doo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nLa da da de da da da<br \/>\n(Are you glad to be alive?)<\/p>\n<p>Doo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\n(When you&#8217;re walking down the street)<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo<br \/>\n(Feel the rhythm in your feet)<br \/>\nLa da da de da da da<br \/>\n(Are you glad to be alive?)<\/p>\n<p>La da da de da da da<br \/>\nDoo doo n&#8217;doo doo doo\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a pop-ish number, but I&#8217;ll be damned if it doesn&#8217;t cut to the heart of things \u2014 shit&#8217;s gonna go wrong, you get to feel bad about it for a while but don&#8217;t let it ruin you&#8230; celebrate and enjoy life, make and cherish the good times \u2014 the power is inside of you.&nbsp; That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about.&nbsp; That&#8217;s what I need right now.&nbsp; This is a philosophy I can get behind!<\/p>\n<p>Fred kicks Tony Robbin&#8217;s ass up and down the block as a motivational figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots happening these days, details not forthcoming.&nbsp; Not here, not now, maybe not ever.&nbsp; We shall see. Regardless, suffice to say there are hard times upon me right now and it&#8217;s damned hard to get out of bed in the morning.&nbsp; Motivators are few and far between, with no rewards in sight.&nbsp; My only peace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}