Love/Hate

I love Tom Waits. I hate that I won't be able to see him this time around. Anyone have some quick money they can float me?

Tom Waits is my religion.

- David

Watch the whole thing, the end is great.

Glowing

Glowing, originally uploaded by BodhiDave.

Pics of the show are up, along with a short video for anyone interested. Click the photo above for more.

The show was amazing. We were up right front and center and deservedly so; I think I was on my feet for five or six hours waiting. The two opening bands (Benji Hughes and Thao With the Get Down Stay Down) were surprisingly entertaining. Especially Benji. I'm going to have to get me some of that.

They played all of my super favorites. It was intense for me, I almost lost it once or twice. They played wonderfully, and Jenny's voice was perfect. A great performance all around.

If anyone's interested in going and needs a buddy, you know where I am. I'm up for seconds.

- David

Rilos Kiley!

Woo!

- David

Mic Check, One Two, One Two Three

Let's see if this works!

Just switched to Google's Blogger so lets see how it works. It came highly recommended and so far looks good.

Have I mentioned how much I love my iPod? I didn't even like Apple before (One mouse button? Ewww) but iTunes and the iPod are just awesome. Even if I didn't have an iPod I'd still use iTunes, it's just such a nice management tool. If you're on the decision see-saw about whether to get one or not, I hightly recommend doing so.

Think about it man! Every song you own on one little device! All your adio books, albums, everything in the palm of your hand. After a week you won't know how you lived without it.

I've been listening to Nine Inch Nails' new album "With Teeth" a bunch lately. At first I didn't like it and set it aside for like a month. But then I went back after the "Only" music video came out. (P.S. this song rocks) What I took at first to be a butt-rock album (Sorry Trent!) is actually really good. Some of my favorite songs are "Right Where it Belongs", "Only", "All the Love in the World", and "Sunspots". It's like $10 on iTunes, go get it!

I just finished reading this cute little book called "The Tao of Pooh". I didn't know much about Taoism before reading this but I'd heard good things about it and I like books with this type of format. I'm still reading "The Dharma of Star Wars" and it's honestly the best book on Buddhism I've ever read. The best thing, actually. And I've read a bunch. It's so much easier to understand abstract philosophy when it's based on things like Star Wars and Whinnie the Pooh.

Taoism (pronounced DAOism) is pretty simple. Now I may not have this exactly right, but the gist of it is as follows: Everything is governed by the laws of nature, i.e. cause and effect. The same laws that govern trees growing and snow falling and the formation of planets also governs us. The harder one works against these laws the farther away one moves from harmony and the unhappier one gets. Sooo...the more free-flowing one is and the more one can just let things be the happier one will be. I have to read a lot more to be sure, but I think that's it. So that's new and cool for me.

Imma post this because I still don't know if everything is working correctly, so I'll add more later if necessary.

Adios!

- BuddhaDave