6:54PM - Here's a little contest ...

I hardly ever write in here anymore, except to basically let people know that I'm still breathing, my heart is still beating, and whether or not my life is allright.

I have a new blog (man, I hate that word).

If you can find it, you won't win anything except for the pride of knowing where it is.


That's it.

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Danny

8:11PM

www.purevolume.com/theconceptband

I have 2 new songs up on Purevolume. I really really enjoy the song "Made."

Check it out.

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: What do you think?

4:26PM - This Here, Is New Stuff

This is a note I wrote on facebook, for those of you who don't have a facebook friendship with me, haha.:

Hey guys, the CD is finished.

Send me a message (or a comment) if you want one, I may charge a small fee for cost of the CD's, but I'd love for you to hear the new album- I spent a lot of time on it.

Here's the track listing:

1. Mercy
2. A Self Commentary
3. All Right
4. Half-Torn (Dollar Bill)
5. Tension
6. Save the World
7. Forward
8. Home
9. (Track 9 may or may not be on the CD)
10. Peter's Lament
11. This Song is Dedicated to Zach G
12. Oh, I Don't Understand
13. This Way
14. What Giants We Were...
15. Echo
16. Mercy/Wonderwall (Featuring Brett Ellis)
17. The Parting Glass

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Danny


PS. I've started work on the second album...it's very mellow....and different.

Here's a preview of it's album artwork:



You can check out one song from it, as well as three or four of the current album's songs on

www.myspace.com/theconceptband
or
www.purevolume.com/theconceptband

2:34PM - Check out me at the talent show!!!

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

11:32PM

cMy last entry in here said "I'm soming home."

I was going to write in this one "I'm coming home," as well. 

In a week and a half I'm leaving home(St. Clair Shores) and going home(Harding).

I leave the 14th of august.

Call me.

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: damien rice

12:12AM

I'm coming home.

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: Damien Rice

12:15AM

Stop what you're doing- go to this site-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Fifym6s5E

That is all.

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: "We Know" -DJ Format featuring Chali 2na and Akil

4:48PM - So, in a long awaited return- Danny B actually writes in his Livejournal!!!

So seriously guys, I don't update any online journal much anymore. 

Life has been a bit strange to say the least as of late. Try saying that 10 times fast. And backwards.

Yeah, I have been going through a bit of a "what do I want to be when I grow up" thing lately. I know you should probably go through that emotion at age 12, but here I am, almost 21- doing it all over again. That's backwards too, I guess. 

I would like to be a genius when I grow up, although I believe there are no more geniuses. We are a generation of apathy. Seriously, we don't give a crap about anything anymore. We don't think, we don't strive to better ourselves. I've been reading all about people who thought "outside of the box"  and did some things that were unheard of for our time. 

Change has become a constant, we are entirely used to these amazing things and progressions- so much that we expect them. 

And honestly, I have never been one to try and make myself this amazing prodigy of intellect and consequently I am not. I want to try. I'm afraid it's too late though sometimes. We as humans have a period of time in which we are more liekly to take in and learn things. 

Charlemagne (Frankish king/warlord and at one point emperor of the western half of the Roman Empire) tried much of his life to learn to write, but because his hands never developed those fine motor skills as a young child, his hand writing as a result looked like an infant's, or at least a very unskilled  child's.

I wonder if that's how we are as we're older. I've never learned mechanics or complex scientific theory, so is it impossible for me to invent computer technology, or anything at all for that matter?

I'm not sure.

I have decided that regardless of great accomplishments that would place individuals(or groups for that matter) int he history books, I would very much like to be a joy to the people I'm around, to be someone who has made your daybetter, even if it's just by smiling at you. 

When I want to smile, I think of how awesome God is, how blessed I am to be here.

It also makes me smile when I think of the movie Blankman. 

I have so many things that pull me in multiple life directions that cannot cross paths. And I finally think that I'm okay with just taking the paths that come my way. With a little help from God.

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: "Alone" -Sanctus Real (Good song)

9:07PM

Wow, I'm so angry, the Pistons lost for the third time in a row.

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

11:11PM

Updates:

-I am alive
-God is still good
-Life is confusing and peacful at the saem time, so..in other words-ironic.
-I'm still writing songs
-I play open mic night every tuesday
-I will be in Dallas for a week this summer, Arkansas for 6 weeks, and SCS for the rest.

Man I'm hungry.

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: FFT Soundtrack

11:12AM - "..and we've seen that we're equally crazy, so surely we're equally sane...aren't we?"

Man, this week is going to be a whirlwind of events:

Monday-
Class, study, take Hannah to get her car repainted, workout, study, go see Cool Hand Luke

Tuesday-
Class, study, study, study, perhaps play at open mic night, did I mention study?

Wednesday-
Class, Test, Test, workout, study, figure out the rooms for this weekend

Thursday-

Class, test, clean my car, get pictures developed

Friday-
Class, workout, MDYC comes in at 3:30, take the dudes back to the dorms to change, parents come into town.

Saturday, Sunday, Monday morning- parents in town.

Oh yeah, I need to start my research paper this week too....

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: "Sanity" -The Concept Band

9:22PM - "They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away- it'll all give you cancer and kill you anyway..."

Today was beautiful. I got alot done.

I worked out, and finally weigh more than 140 pounds...
Tim Cox's bible study was tonight, it was awesome, and his bull dog weighs like 100 pounds.

People smiling makes me happy. This cd is really good, and I need to study for Abnormal Psych.

I don't have a lot to write, other than God has been blessing me. A lot.

"I want more for a moment, and everything for a lifetime, and right now just might be the right time."

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: "They Say" -Deepspace 5

7:28PM

This is an entry to tell you of musicians you should check out-

Xavier Rudd

-Folk musician from Australia
-His voice could be compared to Paul Simon
-He plays about 3 or 4 instruments at the same time.

www.myspace.com/xavierrudd 



Pete Murray

-former rugby player
-plays alternative-ish rock
-from Australia too. 

www.myspace.com/petemurray 



Nine Mile

-reggae band
-girl bassist with red dredlocks
-They're from toronto

www.myspace.com/ninemile

No picture, just go to myspace, you'll see.



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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: Pete Murray

1:30PM

Amen Omen
What started as a whisper, slowly turned into a scream.
Searching for an answer where the question is unseen.
I don't know where you came from, and I don't know where you've gone.
Old friends become old strangers between the darkness and the dawn

Amen, Omen
Will I see your face again?
Amen, Omen
Can I find the place within-
To live my life without you..

I still hear you saying, 'All of life is a chance,
And is sweetest when at a glance.'
But I live a hundred lifetimes in a day.
But I die a little in every breath that I take.

Amen, Omen
Will I see your face again?
Amen, Omen
Can I find the place within-
To live my life without you..

I listen to a whisper slowly drift away.
Silence is the loudest parting word you never say.
I put- I put your world into my veins.
And now a voiceless sympathy is all that remains...

Amen, Omen
Will I see your face again?
Amen, Omen
Can I find the place within-
To live my life without you..
Amen
Omen
Omen
Oh...

-Ben Harper

I don't generally list lyrics in journals, but I've been feleing this song for a bit, partly, because of the quality of the music-but also because a few of the lines in the song just hit me as quite real for this moment in time. And it's quite possible that the frustration I've felt the past few days has been merely coincidental, or that I am simply hypersensitive to things that pertain to me, but I have-nonetheless  felt a bit down lately.

Tonight is open house, dorm feud, dorm rave, and perhaps other stuff. Today is studying for my test tomorrow. I feel a complete lack of sociality coming on.

As I progress through the years here at school, I am realizing how shallow many of the friendships I've had here have been. A lot have been good, but there are plenty of people that my relationship with consists of "What's up, how are you doing, etc., etc."  I want more sometimes.

On a good note, class got out early today, and I still don't feel stressed, and I laughed.

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: Ben Kweller.

11:07AM - QUOTATIONS

Ok seriously, I have a test in Abnormal Psych, that I am entirely prepared for...that is, until I take the test.

I'm hungry, it's lunch time- if you haven't noticed, I generally always talk about the food I eat in Livejournal. Maybe they should call it Foodjournal when I sign on.

Kelly McKay, I got your facebook message and I can't remember if I sent you one back- I'm in Arkansas, so we can't hang out right now, but perhaps in May.

I might go to Puerto Rico in May as well- or maybe South Africa next year. That would be sweet.

I'm glad that the sun is shining, it doesn't do that too often in Michigan.
At church last Sunday the one guy that was speaking said something about the Superbowl coming to Detroit and it was the only way Detorit was going to get some good football.

Well, me personally, I don't enjoy American football, and all those people here do, so they started going "ohhhh!" as if we were going to get offended.

There were 3 MI people near me and we all looked at each other, shrugged and said "Well..it IS true."

Have a nice day. I have a shirt on that says "New Zealand."

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Danny

There have been an excessive amount of quotation marks in this entry.

Current mood: thankful

Current music: Silence

5:35PM

Hilarity has been ocurring because of a childish video game our dorm has fallen prey to.
That's right, we play WWF.(I refuse to change the acronym)

Seriously, rivalries and drama have occured in the dorm over simulated wrestling matches?! That's messed up, but funny. I've been going to class and thoroughly enjoying my psychology classes.
Social Psych is my favorite. I dropped my John class because I had Israelite History in place of it.

Israelite History is cool because Dale Manor, a man much more intelligent than the entire class combined teaches it. He looks like a smart Rick Moranis. He has a ridiculous vocabulary, so Tony, Ryan, and myself choose a complex word and have a wager to see if he utilizes our choice. The winner gets ice cream.

I've gotten into hip hop more than I used to be. The new guys I live near are cool. Habeeb is pretty hilarious, and Zach makes no sense in a humorous manner. It's the weekend.

"Before God, we are all equally wise- and equally foolish" -Albert Einstein

Hanging out with Ashley tonight, that'll be cool, she's probably the nicest girl ever. I also met a girl named Michael yesterday. She was from Texas.

I've been studying a lot more, and I enjoy reading my text books more.

Dusk has fallen, good evening.

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: Dilated Peoples

7:50PM

I am at school.

I have hard classes, and I don't know as many people as I did when I left.
I play music, but generally only half write songs, and continuously hope for things I don't want.

This would sound bad, if you didn't know that God loves me.

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: Lovedrug

10:17AM

I recorded new versions of old songs:

www.purevolume.com/theconceptband

www.myspace.com/theconceptband

Go, and tell me what you think.

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: "A Self Commentary."

11:27PM

I work tomorrow, Wednesday and Saturday.

Sunday I leave Michigan.

Monday I show up in Searcy.

I'm going to be in college forever...I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I tried recording "Tension" again, I'm not sure which version I like better. Sometimes I think I'm going to start talking like those St. Louis rappers.

Sintax the Terrific is living my dream. He's a lawyer and entertainer at the same time.

Not that I want to be a lawyer...I just want to be able to be successful at both a job and entertainment.

This is at the end of one of Playdough's new songs, I though tit was pretty cool:

"Why do you work? Why do you get up in the morning?

If you ask them they'll say 'Everyone goes to work in the morning'

-And that's the reason they do it, because everyone else is doing it. Now let's get back to our definition of success:

Who succeeds? I'll tell you who the successful people are.

A success is a school teacher who is teaching school because that's what she wanted to do.

A success is a woman who is wife and mother because she wanted to be a wife and mother and is doing a good job of it.

A success is the man who runs the corner gas station because that's what he wanted to do."

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Danny

Current mood: thankful

Current music: "Don't Drink The Water" -Playdough