Lately here on the Stream there has been a lot of creativity going on. Our Friend Mouse has launched a new music blog called "Just Add Water"
I'm not sure if it will be just a Saturday thing or if it will be a separate music only thing but I know that you will love it. she has all of her Finetune playlists up and there is a lot of great music there. check it out. as for my own Saturday Blog music. Lately I have been going to the Theatre a lot, and as per usual I always get there Early so I can get a good seat. Tomorrow I’m going to see “The Kingdom.” but that isn’t the purpose of this post. Before they turn down the lights and the movie starts they place this strange kinda music in the background on occasion. And every once in awhile I find myself leaning forward listening carefully.. And I’m all like “What IS that??” well when I first started hearing it I kinda got an idea that wouldn’t it be great if they had this stuff of Finetune?

Well this morning I found some of it, and I think its dance club stuff or techno or something. I’m not real sure, but I made a complete list of it, and while I did, another idea came to me. Well to make a long story short, the end result is a strange little creation of mine called “Scratch Radio” this new music is Strange and wonderful at the same time, and the more that I listen to it, the more I like it. For awhile now I have been looking for a place to just post music of every kind Imaginable, I tried Fleas Boogie Palace and That didn’t work too well. Then I went back to posting it here, but that’s what I was trying to get away from. So now I have put up “Scratch Radio” where the Library used to be. Just for music.. All kinds of music, whenever I want to post it. Scratch Radio is now up.. Running and transmitting.. I hope you like it.

~Scratch~

Did you ever have one of those weeks? Not really bad. But not really good either. Just one of those things that you can’t really make your mind up about. I was at work earlier in the week and I was opening up a wooden crate full of wrist pins that go inside of the pistons. in doing so, I sliced my right index finger open on a thin piece of brass, right on the tip and just enough to be aggravating. So while it was fresh I treated it and bandaged it and I have been hitting it on everything under the sun ever since. Like a little while ago, I made a fresh pot of coffee. Even though the bandage is gone now and it isn’t bleeding, I hit the tip on the kitchen cabinet door, I managed to drop the spoon and when I bent over to pick it up, I smacked it even harder on the counter top.



You know, when I was a kid I often heard my mom refer to that little pain bounce that you do when you get a boo boo, as the saint Vitis Dance.. ( I’m not sure I spelled it right.) but I think I know of what she spoke, say you hurt some part of your person. Maybe a cut or scrape or bruise, and try as you may to avoid hitting it or touching it on anything, it seems it’s the only part of you that comes into contact with everything you ’re trying to avoid. Almost instinctively You try shaking it, waving it, hopping up and down in place like you were doing a rain dance. And nothing makes the shape little tingles of pain go away. Yeah, its been one of THOSE kind of weeks for the Scratch man. The only thing that I think I haven’t done to this poor finger of mine is to run over it with a fork lift. I was going to do a post tonight about channel surfing on the news channels on the news networks. and then write down whatever the topic was to see if anyone was focusing any of their energy on anything positive. Yeah I know.. Not likely.. Well maybe I will try again tomorrow. Oh chit.. I think I just got it stuck between the keyboard keys.. (Joking. But it wouldn't surprise me if I did.) see ya’s all later.

~Scratch~

Can anybody else feel it in the air? My absolute favorite time of year. October.. Fall.. Halloween.. The leaves start turning a different hue, the air cools down and you can just feel the season creeping up on you in your bones. Today, every time that I went outside even at work I could just feel the change. Thank the good lord that the heat seems to be gone until next summer. Time to break out the long sleeved shirts, and don’t forget to keep the snow boots handy just in case winter decides to show up early. I am not really a big fan of winter, especially the snow, I usually get the flu at least twice in the season sometimes even more. This weekend however, is the first weekend of October, and I plan to spend as much time out doors as possible. Well I jabbering again.. An excited Jabber, but Jabbering none the less.. Hope everyone has a great week see you Saturday.. Oh and here’s a glimpse of my Saturday night Playlist. On Saturday, I will post the complete list of songs that it contains.

Laters.

~Scratch~

Its hard to believe that I’ve been creeping around this place for two years now. Some of it has been memorable, some forgettable. But I always kept on turning the pages.. Kept on writing what I felt. A lot of people didn’t and still don’t care for my style, but that’s ok. to each their own, these are my pages and I will keep turning them how and when I see fit. When I first came here, I had been stumbling around the internet for awhile, going here, going there, looking for a place to fit in and find my voice. As soon as I landed on Blogstream it was a perfect fit for me, I loved how easy the interface was, simple, easy to use. I got hooked almost immediately and I never looked back. There are a lot of very talented people here, and when even one of you takes the time to visit my humble little corner of the net here, it reminds me that it is all worth the effort. I was going to try to do something special but instead I will just close by saying what an honor it has been sharing space with all of you, and I hope I can do it for another Year.

Thank you Blogstream.

~Scratch~

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Is This Right?



Oh lordy.. I worked today. granted only for six hours but still I did work. So tonight I’m in a bit of a mood I guess. Tonight I’m sitting somewhere between the Television and the computer, both with the sound off. And as a small trail of steam from the hot coffee slowly rises up in front of the TV screen, something gets my attention. Ahh yes, god bless CNN, do they ever focus on anything positive? Here they are talking about The Jena Six?.. I ponder the thought.. What a cluster fuck.. If you will excuse my forwardness. I don’t know the whole story behind it, but I know enough to know that the people in positions of authority in Jena Louisiana, shouldn’t be allowed to be dog catchers, let alone Judge’s and District Attorneys. So let me get this strait.. Six white kids hung two or three Noose’s in a campus tree because some black students were sitting under it? What? Was this a special tree? Was it their territory? So they gang up on a black student and beat the shit the out of him?.. Is that Right? So then.. Six black students decide to return the favor and beat the snot out of a white student.. Black students go to Jail to a whole Plethora of charges.. And it is seriously doubtful, that even the D.A. himself understood the charges that were being instated. So the black kids go to Jail.. And the white kids.. what?.. Do they go to bed without supper?.. Do they get extra homework?.. Get their Playstations taken away from them?.. See.. True.. I don’t know the whole story.. But I know enough of it to make me sick to my stomach. So.. Exactly what part of the words “And Justice for all” the operative word here Being “ALL” what part of this doe’s Jena Louisiana not get?

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Oh lord.. I feel a loooong post coming on.. So If you don’t want to know what I am really thinking please turn away.. Or go to another blog its okay.. No really.. I will understand perfectly..



Ahhh.. Still here ay? Okay.. Lets talk about this Cluster fuck in little ol Jena La. You know.. I’ve personally seen a lot of cluster fucks in my lifetime.. Hell I have even talked about a few. But I have never seen a cluster fuck of such immense proportions as the one perpetrated in Jena Louisiana. See. From what I have read now.. There are some people that think that this is a racial matter.. And maybe they would be correct. But wait a minute.. There are some people who think that this is a matter of justice.. And.. Yeah okay.. Maybe they too would be correct. See in a nutshell.. In Jena it is all about race and justice? Ok. Just for a minute, lets deal with both things separately just for a bit. On one side we have what I like to refer as a good ol boy network and their PERCEPTION of justice.. And on the other side we have the people that are not receiving True and Equal justice. See.. What’s bugging me is it isn’t the fact that six kids ganged up on another kid and beat him unconscious.. it’s the fact that six other kids- (regardless of race or color.)- did the same exact thing and nothing happened to them. This is Justice? I would be outraged too, in fact I am. Ok.. Like I said.. I don’t know the whole story.. But if its anything like I think it is.. Well you get the picture.. Justice.. It seems easy to define doesn’t it? Perhaps someone should define it for the Jena district attorney. Now I’m not condoning what the six black kids did, and it was no more right than what the six white kids did. But it was no more wrong either. And if Justice in Jena saw fit to send six kids to jail, then it should have seen fit to send the other six right to jail along with them. Maybe I’m wrong.. But hey.. that’s what I think.

Race: A Dragons Perspective.



I may Be running the risk of sounding preachy or too idealistic here but... What ever happened to basic humanity? Knowing that deep down inside of each and everyone of us.. That there truly lived something more than a color. We all feel pain.. We all can feel Love. Compassion. and understanding.. Being Human.. That is what we were truly intended to be at our core.. Red blooded, Love and Pain feeling Human beings. But there is however something else that drives people.. Hate. Seeing the world through the blinded stare of hate can make people.. Yes humans.. do unthinkable things to one another.. See. Now Racism.. I don’t get.. I never have.. It seems to me that it is hard enough just being a good person without worrying about someone’s perception of what color you are and how you should act in direct relation to that color. See me personally.. Now maybe this will sound sappy. But I am MORE than the color of my skin.. I am a man first.. But lets face reality here.. Racism has been around for generation after generation, and at its core lives mostly Ignorant unintelligent scared people who would rather focus all of their energies on how we are all different rather than on how we are all the same. It won’t go away because there are people that just will not let it.. So maybe it is up to the rest of us, to make it a matter of personal responsibility, to make it less about color and more about personal character .. If we do not set a higher standard for ourselves, then who will? And more importantly.. As individuals, if we cannot get past the color of our own skin.. Then how in the world can we realistically expect anyone else to?

Peace..

~Scratch~