Right out back is the coal river, I could go swimming in it! The house is huge and there are 5 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms! I think I’ll have a good time there(though I’ll only live there a year, maybe more if I to State). I’m still thinking about how to take this… but right now, I’m fine with it.

“We have no past, no future. And even if we did, it wouldn’t truly be ours.”

So, Today’s assignment was to create a playlist of 20 or more songs that help to define who we are. This is my playlist, you may not agree with every song on it, but believe me, I love them and they have a reason for being here.

The first song is Tank! by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts, this song is on the list because it is not only the theme song to one of the greatest animes know to man, it is also a great jazz song. I’m not really a huge fan of jazz, but this song makes me very happy.

The second song is I’d Do Anything for Love by Meatloaf. I don’t really know exactly what he means when he says: “but I won’t do that,” but I think the lyrics are good and the music is great. It’s a longer song, so more emotions can be put into it… feeling of love, hate, joy, sadness… all into one great package!

The third song is Message in a Bottle by the Police. The music to the song is just fantastic and I love the lyrics… the guitar part is fantastic and the singing is amazing, enough said.

The fourth song is 2112 by Rush. I cannot say enough words to do justice to this song, the story is amazing and the music is fantastic, this song gave me a new outlook on life and made me love Rush more and more.

The fifth song is Nobody Home by Pink Floyd. I would have loved to have added the whole Pink Floyd The Wall CD to the playlist, but I limited myself to one song per artist. This song’s lyrics and the way it’s sung makes me shudder.

The sixth song is Achilles Last Stand by Led Zeppelin. It was the first Led Zeppelin song I’ve ever heard and has been my favourite ever since.

The seventh is Mutter by Rammstein. I love this song, it’s so beautiful and the guitar chord is great, I can’t think of the words to describe it, every time I hear it I have a feeling of solitude and I fall into complete silence.

The eighth is Space Oddity by David Bowie. First off, I love David Bowie, he is one the best singers ever and he’s not too bad an actor either.

The ninth song is American Pie by Don McLean. The song is by all means a classic, the lyrics tell such a beautiful story and the chorus is so fun to sing along to.

The tenth song is Hotel California by The Eagles. I like this song because it reminds me of my father and his addiction. It makes me think of how he left nd never came back and it always makes me a little bit more hopeful that he’ll come to see me again some day.

The eleventh song is Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen. The song gets me pumped and and can turn a bad day into a good one. And that’s all I have to say about that.

The twelfth song is 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago. All I have to say is that Chicago is just amazing. This song is the only song I can wake up to in the morning and my day not be ruined… it’s sort of a ritual, when waking up in the morning, listen to 25 or 6 to 4. The song gets the days going and makes me feel good.

The thirteenth song is Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones. This song is one of my favourite anti-violence songs, it speaks to everyone’s heart and makes them want to drop their weapons and make peace.

The fourteenth song is In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins. This song haunts me, the drum beat and Phil Collins voice… chills…

The fifteenth song is Ballroom Blitz by Sweet. If I ever get into a bar fight this song had better be playing, this song would be perfect for it!

The sixteenth song is Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy. I don;t really know why I like this song so much, but I really like the guitar’s sound and the vocals.

The seventeenth song is Touch Me by The Doors. I love this song, I love The Doors, and I love to sing this song. This song is awesome. Words over.

The eighteenth song is Helter Skelter by the Beatles. When I first heard this song, I had no clue that it was The Beatles, I thought it was some heavy rock group that the radio liked to play… I was wrong. I really enjoy listening to it though.

The nineteenth song is the Metal Gear Solid 3 Main Theme by Harry Gregson-Williams. Metal Gear Solid is the most most amazing game ever and the music for it is great. The fact is, Harry Gregson-Williams has done many great movie scores, from Shrek to The Chronicles of Narnia.

The twentieth is Devils Never Cry from Devil May Cry 3. I love this song’s composition, it starts off creepy, gets all metal-y, then gets into a fuge. Musical genius for a video game I tell you!

Okay, so a couple of years ago I used to mow people lawns for money, that was before I was tremendously fat like I am now(being fat is awesome), and I was asked to mow this guy’s lawn down the street. Now, this guy was scary, I mean really scary, I think he was a Vietnam war veteran or something, because he would sit in his house with some military hat on, and one time when I was going around getting pledge money for band, he opened his door and I saw a bunch of guns, I don’t mean just handguns, no, I’m talking hardcore automatics and stuff like that… I was scared.

Sure it was under lock and key, but it was in a glass case… glass is not going to stop someone from getting a gun… or at least it won’t seriously hinder them. Anyways… this guy was by all means a man to be afraid of, so my mom tells me that I was going to mow his lawn at 3:00 the next day and that he’d pay me a lot of money, somewhere around $50, which was an amazing amount of money for me to earn at the time.  So, the next day I went over to his house.

I had the mower started up and ready to go and started to mow. Well, about halfway through mowing, I notice this big hole in the ground… that hole was a bee hole. There were bees buzzing and flying about this hole. I don’t like bees, I’m allergic… so I decided I’d get some gasoline and burn those little suckers out of the ground. Well, I succeeded in burnging them out…  there were flaming bees aimed at me doing a  kamikaze attack… well, I got away from them in time not to get stung or burned, but that’s when I noticed something.

It seemed that this man’s yard was on fire, not a little ash, no, a big ‘ol fire, all over the place. I find his hose and start to spray, but I notice it’s just spreading the fire. My mind sort of keeled over… Why in Ted’s name was water spreading the fire!? Well, I figured it out, it seemed he has some fertilizer or weed-killer stuff on his hose… I took it off and slowly put out the fire. Well, let’s just say his lawn wasn’t in the best of shape when the fire went out…

 Thankfully he wasn’t home at the time, but when he did get home… he wasn’t the happiest person I’ve ever met. He was quite the opposite. I was scared, this guy had automatic weapons and was most likely in the military at some point or still is… he could have me killed for no reason if he wanted to… Well, I guess he went easy on me, all I had to do was re-plant his grass, and do a lot of yard work. That wasn’t a very good summer, but I still love to tell that story.

“We have no past, no future. And even if we did, it wouldn’t truly be ours.”

When I was in fourth grade, my mom told me we had to move away(I had started to get bad grades and my teacher was an absolute witch, plus my mom had a new boyfriend who lived in Charleston and had gotten and better job[I forget which job it was, but she later went back to college]). I remember the last day I had at school was both my best and worst day there.

It was the best in the sense that I was a completely obnoxious. I did nothing the teacher told me to do and I got revenge for the all the things people had done to me in the course of that year. It was also good because I knew that whatever happened, I would survive that day unhurt and innocent. My mom picked me up and had all my things in this trunk of mine. The story behind this trunk is kind of funny because when I was four, I found it in my bedroom and thought it was a coffin. I figured my mom had given it to me to tell me that our family was a family of vampires and that I was now old enough to join them. Well, I was wrong and my mom and step-dad laughed at this for the longest time.

It was the worst day because I had to say goodbye to all of my(at the time) friends and move to Charleston. I was not a fan of Charleston when I got there, I had no friends and didn’t really make any(at Dunbar anyways). I despised that school, and I would have preferred to have that witch of a teacher instead of being at a school full of idiots and the culturally inept. That year, I became very introverted and became more isolated from the world… I really didn’t care if I had friends anymore. I still that way today, except to a lesser extent.

Then, I went to John Adams, which had just at the time became a Middle School, during my sixth grade year, I was… odd… I didn’t fit in and tried my best not to. Halfway through that year, I became more normal and started to get some friends, whom I still consider friends today. My seventh and eigth grade years were pretty normal and boring. My high school years I will save for when I have finished high school.

“We have no past, no future. And even if we did, it wouldn’t truly be ours.”