Hodgepodge Update

Many of you have asked for an update in one form or another. Because I write and sketch in several other places now, I find it hard to get on here and really say anything profound. Even now, I'm pressed for time. I wanted to at least squeeze this in though:


This lovely photo is of the project I'm currently working on at work. The Bayfront Amphitheater (towards the bottom of the pic) recently put its management up for lease and Live Nation picked it up. Me and another guy are the architects behind its renovation. We'll see what it ends up looking like - and very soon since it has to be ready to open by mid-summer 2009. Needless to say, it's keeping me really busy at work.


This was a recent art project I was working on. It needs refinement, but for a first attempt I think it came out pretty well. It all spurred from a pondering I had several weeks before:

"What better way to say 'I love you' or 'I care' than by giving something that is slowly dieing. If they could, do you think flowers would scream? Or maybe they'd cry or perhaps they would go through cycles of depression and acceptance. Basically, when we put a flower in a vase on our table, we've put a terminally ill patient on life support."

I honestly don't remember what brought that one on. I like the possibilities of the photos though.

"Work"
~Jars of Clay

Just in case, I will leave my things packed
So I can run away
I cannot trust these voices
I don't have a line of prospects that can give some kind of peace
There is nothing left to cling to that can bring me sweet release
I have no fear of drowning
It's the breathing that's taking all this work

Do you know what I mean when I say,"I don't want to be alone"?
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"

Empty spaces with shadows hit by streetlights
Warning signs and weight of tired conversations
In the absence of a shoulder, in the absence of a thief
On the brink of this destruction, on the eve of bittersweet
Now all the demons look like prophets and I'm living out
Every word they speak, every word they speak

Do you know what I mean when I say "I don't want to be alone"?
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"

I have no fear of drowning
It's the breathing that's taking all this work


Keeper
~Yellowcard

I wanna love,
I wanna leave.
I want you to love me,
I want you to leave me.
I want to stand where I can see,
I'm watching you love me,
And I'm watching you leave me now.

I wish i could be,
Somebody else.
I wish i could see,
You and myself.
I wish there was something inside me,
To keep you beside me.
And say,
What you really feel.
You know i need,
Something that's real.
I wish there was something inside me,
To keep you beside me.

I wanna know if i could be,
Someone to turn to,
That could never hurt you.
But i know what you think of me,
You had a breakthrough,
And now i'm just bad news for you.

I wish i could be,
Somebody else.
I wish i could see,
You and myself.
I wish there was something inside me,
To keep you beside me.
And say,
What you really feel.
You know i need,
Something that's real.
I wish there was something inside me,
To keep you beside me.