April 2008
2 posts
Santa Barbara, and Sunrise over Santa Monica...
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of being able to travel around the United States for business.
Of course, when time permitted, or if you are skilled enough, when you make time permit, you must take in the beauty of certain cities and areas. Take in the sights, smell the vegetation, have a glass of wine… enjoy.
In Santa Barbara was the most beautiful sight I have seen so far in my...
Of "Gypsy Jazz"
I can say that nothing quite centers me like listening to Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli.
I listen to every type of music and incorporate most types to every aspect of my life; however, I lend an ear to that Jazz when no one is around. When I am by myself and need to hit the reset button. It is as technically good as it is soothing. It represents a balance and brings me back to normal...
June 2007
8 posts
Of Confrontation
What? “Start your day off” story?
Okay.
It is now 10-ish as I start this little excursion. ER is on… And I am calm… but an hour earlier… during my Grey’s Anatomy… and right after my Smallville Season Premier…
It was on.
I was thinking… damn… I missed Gilmore Girls season premier… How could I have let that happen? I watch more TV than anyone I know… it is a delightful...
Of Red and Blue
I love BLUE… I could swim and bathe and love in blue. I would wrap myself in blue and hold a girl in blue. I would steal blue and keep it for myself. Then when I was done rubbing blue all over me, I would give blue back to world as Andrade-Azure. And everyone would understand why I love blue and all shades and hues and intimations and interesting anecdotes and shear suggestions of blue.
I...
Words of Caution
I read these somewhere once… and they rang true then as they do today…
Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words. Be careful of your words, for your words become your actions. Be careful of your actions, for your actions become your habits. Be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character. Be careful of your character, for you character...
Almost Fell from Grace...
Dude… I frigen locked myself out of my house. I was sitting right there outside… taking trash out… and left all the doors open.
I swung out the bunch of doors running out with bags like it was an endurance race. Then a gust of wind swoops in… and I see it happen.
All the doors slammed at once from the pressure.
I’m like, dude. No frigen way.
So there it is.
I’m like running up...
Of Percentages
My friend Ernesto told me a tale once of percentages… and how a month and days are a matter of perception. I will paraphrase him here and add my own 2… um… percent as it were… but I will add my own harangue about deeds and percentages to follow.
When I was born… a month was SO long because it was all I knew.
When I was 10, a month would go by slowly now that I had...
Weight Lifted
I am who I am and know what I am… or at least I used to.
That is why I must go… gotta re-discover that.
Reason stirs within me… it stirs with rhyme… or at least it was a particularly peaceful synergy until lately. There has begun an imbalance to it all and I need to figure it correctly.
As it stands, I will be going to Myrtle Beach… get a simple plain old...
Music, Rock, Roll, and the Important Critic
Music plays a large part in the opus that is my life.
I studied for two years at Berklee College of Music in Boston as a Music Education and Music Therapy student. The topics I studied had a strange effect on my personal definition of music. While I do know other students and alumni who prefer roles as performers, music has become more and more internalized in my life.
I find myself playing less...
Of a Formation
When I was working in the hub… I was meek and shy… I dressed in not odd clothing but I definitely wasn’t sharp Andrade as I try to be… more like warm-ups and kicks Andrade with black or maroon colored hair… I was quite the guitarist and artist… ahh… the old days.
Jillian was the hot sales rep. She always came over to talk to me in my far off cube… I was a system engineer then… but instead...