”Something that influenced me in my life?
80s cock rock of course!
I remember my older sister would let me stay up late at night to watch Headbangers Ball on MTV if I did all her chores. It was worth it though between Motley Crue "Shout at the Devil", and considering my first really incredible sex dream, that i remember till this day mind you, was about Sebastian Bach from Skid Row. 18 and life always will have a special place in my heart. Cock Rock Rules! -Melissa Kratz”

”One day, I came to the realization that everything I love will either leave me or die. I was sitting in the forest, surrounded by stale autumn leaves and static air, watching ants slowly dissect a bluejay. It was a gorgeous bird, full of life and expectations - living during a time when the colors of life stood out to me, and all of Earth's creatures seemed mysterious and beautiful. As I stood there in my mittens and fall jacket, watching the stream of ants filter in through the birds hollow eye, I became aware of my own mortality, dreadfully aware that one day I too would lie there fading and shattered - an ephemeral maudlin spectacle, neither worthy of words nor an audience. -T. Ciboch”

”If I was gonna give one thing that has had a major impact on my life, it would be whiskey. Good ol, Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey. Doesn't matter whether it's good or not. Could be the cheapest special rack garbage or a nice bottle of Single Barrel Jack. Whiskey is whiskey. I've had the best and worst times of my life while demolished on whiskey. The only problem is, the good times, hell if I can remember them. I do know that whiskey has certainly gotten me laid. For better of worse, I definately found sex I wouldn't have if I wasn't drinking whiskey. Whiskey also made me take chances I wouldn't have had I not been wasted. One of those being giving up my old good paying job to starve and live like a homeless person in my current band. Yeah, I get to travel around the world, occasionally get to have exciting rock star sex...but I'm broke as could be. Don't have a pot to piss in. To sum it up, whiskey, positively or negatively, has certainly given me direction and focus...as unfocused as that may be. -Roger...32...Philadelphia, PA”

An idea is the start. Dedication and determination will make it to the end. Procrastination is the downfall.
-E. N. 2004

We have all came to see,
to bad we all ended up dieing!
live in hand
-M. S.

The world is a good place
and worth fighting for
I agree with the second part (unsigned)

What we do today is set in stone. (unsigned)


Past memories of this place
make me want to come back
the expression on my face
makes you start to pace
as I look in your eyes
I wonder if I'm good enough
because as hard as one tries
I feel less than sure
I talk and sing to let out the pain
as if thats what is good for me
our relation she looks as bleek as a runaway train
you love you but you change your feelings
leaving me confused
leaving me completely reeling
my truth you have refused
I love you more than I can say
it's impolite to make you understand
our love comes into play
your love makes me want to find hidden land
but you make me feel so fucking special
I won't let you
I trust you
to move me feel safe
I'm impressionable
what I feel is true (unsigned)

Body huddled in wind
nose red, feet shuffle on leaves
cold fierce but real -E.

first cold day. what am I doing here. steaming tea and sitting beside a door that leaks cold and wind and threat of winter. this is not a bar but a coffee shop- i am not awake nor asleep but somewhere in between. that is how winter seeps into my bones, like tea leaves to steam, a slow and dark unfurl. How to write in this book that has a soul-a loud cantankerous, riotous soul-of smoking bars and dizzy drunkeness and mindless scribble amidst cover band music and pick up lines. i am writing in someone else's book these borrowed thoughts on a november day-neglecting tea and phone calls and mounds of paperwork. perhaps it's to make a mark-an indeleble mark- if not on the world but on a commune of souls, a wall of graffiti, name on a bathroom door, song on the radio, whisper in the wind. if not tomorrow, then tonight, if not moments from now then right now, this hot and cold moment my tea still waiting. –E.


Dress to impress,
it's the ultimate success to getting sex!
p.s. it's 10x funnier when your naked
-L.


Goals are dreams with deadlines. Good luck!
-G. 2004

It's so good once it touches your lips
-Old School
-M. T.

If you didn't do it already you probably won't (unsigned)