Golden Girl - 100% containment here.

Monterrey Trace - Good to see you full of life these days.

Hi Joe, this is fourth message to you, your song "I Believe" carries a message of fighting spirit, fighting with the self within, the temptation, the anxiety, the frustration, the rise and downfall, the silence, the lonliness, the sadness on every twist, turn and bend of life shows [every people{every day(every moment)}], who has dreams of goal,

........ and suddenly, the verse in the song "I believe there is reason for anything " the meaning in this verse gives hope on what is happening at the moment and take it on a positive way, the music is so relaxing and peaceful to mind throughout the song. Joe needs to make more songs of these kinds.

Sandy, that was pretty funny!

Cappy, that was the vid that hooked me to Metallica when they showed it on MTV back in 1989. Been a fan ever since. The part of that vid (the long version) that gets me is when the military dude says "He's a product of your profession, not mine" to the doctor. Fux sake, that hits home today for all the military peeps coming home effed up. The military would like to think it's the doctors fault.I guess the ones that make it out physically unhurt are a product of the military, and the ones who come home injured are a product of the medical profession. American military convienence at it's finest. All that aside, IMO that was when the band was at their best musically. They're still kickin' ass now, and are all healthier and happier*insert James here* than ever before.

Hi Joe - I saw you at the Wiltern on Nov 13th - fantastic! I was so inspired that for the first time in about 10 years I played guitar all weekend - so many hours that my fingertips were throbbing - hey... I fogot that could happen!

I saw you at Guitar Center-Hollywood earlier this year. I was the big guy to your right that asked you the very detailed question (on the microphone) about how you get those harmonics with your picking hand down by the pickup and why you bring your left hand up to help out on the vibrato bar. It was so cool to see 300+ guitar players hanging on EVERY SINGLE WORD of your answer!

I'm listening to "Overdriver" off the new CD right now - hey all you Guitar Players - check out the 2-note figure (C#, F#) at the 2:32 mark in the "E-Section" of "Overdriver" - just WICKED!

GGirl, have you heard of TWLOHA? My son played a benifit gig with his band at a high school earlier this year. It's the love movement, and it's pretty effin cool. Next time you feel down and your thinking those bad thoughts, take a pen and draw a heart on the inside of your wrist. You gotta love yourself girl! I've done it, and I've even done it for a friend who was down. I draw a heart, and put their initial in it and that way I feel like I'm sending them love all day. It might seem silly to some, but it's all about sending love and caring thoughts to yourself or others by doing a simple thing to help when you feel like there is no help. I just thought to tell you this because my daughter has a twloha hoodie on her Christmas list, and as I was looking at the merch, I thought of you.

maritime:It amazes me more that she thought...."I want t do this with my life" i enjoyed muchly

The chrome boy is worth thousands, and dam near impossible to get, but they have given them away in contests, like Gustavo Guerra won one!

Slanshroom-HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!

And today the swelling went down, but a huge hard lump was in my cheek, so I went to the orthodontist and IT WAS INFECTED! GREAT, so they made an incision and drained it, OW and shoved a tube in it and I have to keep it in till Friday! AHH I JUST WANT THE PAIN TO GO AWAY!!!!

maritime>you misunderstand the power of Chi & the ability to make strong what is vulnerable.Its easy t mock, for me i have much respect for those that take Martial Arts like music to levels that few care 2 understand but please.... by no means have a good time watching what is easy 2 achieve in comparison

Cappy>Its no surprise really western ignorance with the gung ho mentality is surely t get knocked on its arse when it comes t eastern arts.The East are like bamboo the West like a strong tree, when the wind blows strong the tree gets knocked down, with bamboo it bends & bends & BENDS only t return stronger....but do we learn.....nope

Slansh

I don't want to get sucked into the MArts discussion, but I thought I'd mention the boy (I think he was 9 or so? This was 10 years ago), that could do hand-stand pushups.

Not too amazing I guess, just that this was only on each INDEX FINGER.

I have photos of it, it's pretty amazing, he's just inverted on two index fingers holding up his entire body.

People just cannot understand what they are actually capable of. Losing 100Kg in a weight-loss system and then winning a marathon is nothing. The power behind us all is there, a balance between yin and yang, energy, that flows through us all. People call it different things, but just because you cannot see it, or understand it, or even comprehend it's possible, doesn't mean it's not there.

In the immortal words of the boy on "the santa claus" talking to Neil. "Have you ever seen a million dollars?".. "No"... "Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist".

Joe probably said "HI, I'm Joe" and Rubina said "Hey, I'm Rubina".

From that moment on they called each other Jim-Bob and Ethel. They eventually married and had a boy and named him Jasper, but they call him Natty Dread.

They live in a small village among the village people, and you can see them on weekends at the YMCA. That's where Jim-Bob walks around dressed like Inspector Clouseau and gets ideas for his fiddle pickin' songs. Ethel and Natty Dread use the table at the main entrance to sell their wares to the people of the village.

It's been that way for years.

Disclaimer: Michelle is over her limit of caffeinated beverages for the day. Shite is the only thing she will be talking for the next hour or two. Thank you, please try the veal.

SkippyGirl--I hope I can get a guitar for Christmas. I am searching for beginning guitar instruction books to learn how to tune a guitar, name all 6 strings by letter and get the feel of playing. The last string instrument I played was a violin--a high maintenance instrument. I played in orchestra class when I was in grade school until my 3rd year in high school. I had other interests at that time and didn't think I was that good anyway. I haven't played an instrument since, except for piano when I took lessons for a summer immediately after my senior year.

I hope you find a good beginner's acoustic guitar with all the stuff that goes with it and an instruction book. You may consider taking lessons after you set a daily routine for practicing. I recall someone said practicing 15 minutes a day is better than practicing 2 hours a week, but in my dullness and illness I don't remeber who.

I hope this helps.