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Is God the Missing Link?

According to Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins, God is the future of Rock.  What do you think?  Is God the 'missing link' to better Rock?

 

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/showbiz/2013/08/23/spc-talk-asia-billy-corgan-smashing-pumpkins.cnn.html 

Parental Guilt (AKA: The Art of Parent/Child Negotiations)

I have 2 young children and recently had another all-the-more-frequent-experience of dashing their hopes against the suburban rocks.

 My son’s latest life phase is Minecraft, which compared to most other popular games is harmless.  However, when he set his mind on going to Minecon 2013 in Orlando, FL this November, we had to come to terms.  The cost of the tickets, airfare, hotel, auto-rental, etc. would have all been well over $1,000.00, and it’s likely he would have to miss some school, and I would have to take some time off work.  To make matters worse, they only sold 7,500 tickets, and the event was sold out within 30sec!  Determined as he is, he found tickets on eBay, the least expensive of which were $500.00.  I had to say, “no”.  He’s now been working me for days.  “It would make me SO happy.”  “You don’t care how I feel.”  “It’s only the biggest event of my life”.  “We spend money like that on other things like patio furniture!”

At about that same time, my daughter and I went on a neighborhood stroll during which we saw a single purple petunia growing out of the crack between the sidewalk and someone’s front yard.  She HAD to have it.  I told her that it wasn’t ours to take and that she couldn’t pick it.  She began a pleading tirade that lasted the rest of our walk.  “They didn’t plant it.” “They won’t mind.” “It would make Mommy and me SO happy.” “You don’t care how I feel.” “I will remember this the rest of my life!”
I stuck to principal on both accounts and said, “no”.  I don’t like to see my children unhappy.  They really got me thinking and almost had me.  Have I no sense of adventure?  Am I a stick-in-the-mud?  Should I just be spontaneous and “go for it”?  In both cases, I didn’t flinch and showed no signs that I might soon relent.  Needless to say, though I still think I made the right call, I’m the least popular person in the house right now and have a serious case of “parental guilt”.

Unconditional Love

My dog's eyes speak a thousand words, the most significant being "I love you".

Twelve Tones - 30min of Awe

The next time you have 30min un-distracted, and I mean NO DISTRACTIONS, instead of watching some lame TV show, watch this. I can't remember watching any other 30min video that left me more challenged, entertained, confused, and inspired.  If you start to 'lose it', I beg you to stick with it, and stay focused to the end.  I laughed.  I cried.  This video for me was...spiritual.

Inertia

Inertia

Some people call me “lazy”. But, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m actually “inertial”. Newton’s first law of motion refers to “the tendency of a body(object) to preserve its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force”…also known as INERTIA. That’s ME! In the morning, I have a hard time getting out of bed. In the evening, I tend to stay up late and struggle to go to sleep. In other words, Marc in motion tends to stay in motion. Marc at rest tends to stay at rest. …I’m inertial.