Figuring out the streets according to Roger

Roger: Here's a joke boy. One day this man walks out of his house to go to work. He sees this snail on his porch. So picks it up and chucks it over his roof, into the back yard. Snail bounces off a rock, cracks its shell all to shit, and lands in the grass. Snail lies there dying. But it doesn't die. It eats some grass. Slowly heals. Grows a new shell. After awhile, it can crawl again. One day the snail up and heads back to the front of the house. Finally, after a year, the little guy crawls back on the porch. Right then, the man walks out to go to work and sees this snail again. So he says to it, 'What the f---'s your problem?'

Everybody hurts

When your day is long and the night
The night is yours alone
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go
Everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on

Everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts
Don't throw your hand, oh, no!
Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you're on your own in this life
The days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on

Well, everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody cries
And everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes

So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
(Hold on, hold on)

Everybody hurts
You are not alone


Words by R.E.M.

Das Boot

This movie gives you insights of how great of nations the Germans are: hard work and obeying the rules as well as respecting the hierarchy almost at all costs, their attitude toward the work and their working culture in general under the most difficult of circumstances are just a few elements of the their success secret. No wonder that they rose to the to top of the world once and almost did that again after being completely flattened after WWII. It also masterfully depicts the fact that despite the hard work and dedication and sacrifice from many men on the work front, they were doomed to be defeated due to mismanagement and grave mistakes by the leaders above resulting in massive failure and causing all the hard work to yield nothing but catastrophe at the very end.

A very fascinating war film, however a bit too long, which gives insights from the other side of the war front, a well-made WWII war movie made by the Germans - we don't see that very often. 

KG is saying now:

"I think there's something you should know
I think it's time I told you so
There's something deep inside of me
There's someone else I've got to be
Take back your picture in a frame
Take back your singing in the rain
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes do not make the man

All we have to do now
Is take these lies and make them true somehow
All we have to see
Is that I don't belong to you
And you don't belong to me
Yeah yeah!

Freedom...Freedom...Freedom
You've gotta give for what you take

Freedom...Freedom...Freedom
You've gotta give for what you take..."

Down he goes

The downfall of one of my all-time hero and a true source of inspiration, Lance Armstrong, is complete now after his confessions, and I still can't believe it.



These falls are very painful and the worst of all is the emptiness and the cavity that they leave behind that does not refill easily. I remember that on another occasion another hero of mine let me down in a very critical situation and left me devastated for some good time.

"Forgive and forget!" , however cheezy, is the only remedy that comes to my mind.

Such a shame...deepest sigh!

All alone!

I am all away...the memories of the last extra wonderful trip seem just like a pleasant dream as if it never happened.

I am all away from the people that I want to be with at all times.

You are all in that mess, somewhere in your orbital and, I am all alone in this corridor.

It's cold and dark outside and nobody except me is in here...in this corridor...at work!

What am I doing here?

What are you doing there?

Why can't we be together...forever?

We can't!

We aren't!

We won't!

When I'm gone

There's another world inside of me

That you may never see

There're secrets in this life

That I can't hide

Somewhere in this darkness

There's a light that I can't find

Maybe it's too far away

Or maybe I'm just blind

So hold me when I'm gone

Right me when I'm wrong

Hold me when I'm scared

And love me when I'm gone

Everything I am

And everything in me

Wants to be the one 

You wanted me to be

I'll never let you down

Even if I could

I'd give up everything

If only for your good

So hold me when I'm here

Right me when I'm wrong

You can hold me when I'm scared

You won't always be here

So love me when I'm gone...

Words by 3 doors down

Uncanny resemblance 9

"I am going to make him an offer he can not refuse."

-Vito Corleone

"The nights of wonder...with friends surrounded" just like the good ol' days

I'm at home...catching up with friends...hanging out with all my boys whom I have missed their company so badly in the past couple of years...reliving the good memories and having tons of - and I literally mean 'tons' of - pure, shear fun. Such an amazing feeling to be around the people that you truly love: close family and dear friends.

My spirits are high...so high...despite the low speed of the internet which is really annoying but I've got so many other things that keeps me happily busy.

I should do this more often...way more often!

Headin' to THR

"Times have changed and times are strange
Here I come but I ain't the same
Mama, I'm coming home..."