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there's symmetry in the way you cut me in two. each side reflects the image of a crowd in an empty room. you're a match that can't be lit. spark a flame, burn infinite. you broke me like a mirror. seven years keep adding up. walk barefoot through the glass, not a single cut. direction - i'm walking on fences. it left me defenseless. balance - i'm losing it and the ground beneath does not exist. you're a match that can't be lit. spark a flame, burn infinite.
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| moving forward... |
[13 Apr 2009|07:57pm] |
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some people should stick to doing drugs & drinking beer for a living rather than worrying about things that don't involve them.....more specifically, me & what i do.
also...can't nick diaz just get his damn shoes?
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| maestre |
[29 Jan 2009|09:31am] |
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earlier this morning and at the age of 95, master helio gracie passed away. helio was one of two brothers who adapted techniques from a japanese judoka that traveled to brazil in the early 1900's and both created & refined new/existing ones and created what is known today as brazilian jiu-jitsu.
in 1993, master helio's son, rorion, created the UFC to show the superiority of brazilian jiu-jitsu over other forms of fighting. today, the UFC is no longer owned by rorion gracie, but is a major player in the sports industry.
helio gracie was involved in two legendary fights. he lost to masahiko kimura -- a man who outweighed him by 80 pounds -- in 1951 when his brother carlos threw in the towel after kimura broke gracie’s arm with the shoulder lock that now bears his name. four years later, helio gracie fought his former student valdemar santana for nearly four hours and won by technical knockout after santana succumbed to exhaustion.
in one of his most famous interviews, the professor declared: “i’ve already told my sons that when i die, i want there to be a party. no drinking, no debauchery.”
“i created a flag from the sport’s dignity. i oversee the name of my family with affection and nerves of blood,” he said as his last words.
i can't help but be sad due to the loss of such an icon of the sport. it's weird how much of an impact this man, his philosophies, and his teachings had on me without ever meeting him.
regardless, RIP master helio gracie.
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[29 Dec 2008|12:47am] |
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mogwais everywhere are happy......
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| winter beard. |
[13 Nov 2008|12:54pm] |
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so ive decided to grow a winter beard to celebrate the fall/winter season.....duh.
( click here for pics )
as if things couldnt get worse, my uncle mickey passed away on monday and his funeral is tomorrow. i still need to find a legit job, still am unsure about my immediate future, and my tonsils are causing me to hack up so much blood in such ridiculous amounts of pain that i FINALLY have a doctor's referral to get them removed.
i guess not everything is bad...my buddy vince at new breed is really helping me out and i owe him big time. i finally got back on the mats and trained jiu-jitsu at new breed for the first time since i left for tour.....i felt so at home, at peace with everything. all i thought about for those 2 hours were jiu-jitsu and nothing even crossed my mind. even though i haven't trained, i think about jiu-jitsu & wrestling all day, every day. its in my blood and in my heart. anyway, after training i felt that my basics had gotten better but i'm out of the loop with the "cool" new techniques. oh well. its my goal to get a blue belt by the end of 2009 AT new breed, under johnny & ouano. i will probably have to do some competitions. i know i have what it takes and i know it would be easier at another academy but new breed is home to me.
i think that's all for now.
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| "count your blessings, not your problems..." |
[07 Nov 2008|12:48pm] |
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this is going to be one of my big long pointless-to-anyone-but-me entries, so if you dont want to read it then please feel free to do so.
things are so complicated in my life right now. and i know, theyre only as complicated as i allow them to be.
things have been TOUGH. in my personal life, family life, financially.....everything. being on tour left me pretty screwed financially and seeing as i still haven't gotten my money back from the europe tour & for merch designs i paid for, things don't look like they're going to get easier just quite yet.
however, i've already started taking steps in the right direction to fix all of this. they're small steps, but i've used the term "baby steps" over the last few years to help myself remember that any step in the right direction is definitely a step worth taking.
another thing that is just as important for me is keeping myself positive through all of this. i am one of "those" (if you will) that whole-heartedly believes that a healthy mind is just as important as a healthy body. i also happen to feel that everything in life happens for some reason or another and its important for me to note that i don't see my current situation as some hole that im stuck in; its a challenge, an opportunity, a game to beat that ultimately, i will win. during those hard times is life in when i truly believe that you can find out who you really are, and what you're made out of it. so during these rough patches, i try not to worry too much. i just surround myself with good thoughts and people and things will work themselves out.
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
President Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
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| Lord knows, |
[04 Nov 2008|11:18am] |
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i dont have much, but what i do have i would give to you.
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| do it live |
[02 Nov 2008|04:42pm] |
watch us live tonight at chain; go to www.notmtv.tv/chain to view the live stream. its our cd release show, and we go on 2nd or 3rd. so around 730pm pacific time. word!
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