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Today was one of those days where everything just clicked and I really felt like I'm where I should be, doing what I'm supposed to be doing. Although nothing major happened, I left school today feeling incredibly fulfilled in my role as a teacher and ability to help my students "get it." It definitely helps that I have more than a handful who really make class a joy. Good times, man. Good times.

"You were so pretty in the days you spoke your mind"

What a perfect Sunday; and a wonderful way to start a new week. Broncos improve to 3-0 with the win over Oakland and the Rockies keep the Cardinals at bay to win the series and move just a little bit closer to the playoffs. Also, I had this great win last night in an online game of MLB The Show 09 against some guy who was pretty pissed when I came from behind in the bottom of the 9th and ended the game with a walk-off ball to the gap :) Every day that passes brings me and Natalie one day closer to Third Eye Blind! Lyrics!

"Water Landing" -3eb

When will I start to learn?

I'm bleeding in this game

'Cause she uses boys like bandages

But the wounds remain the same

And I hope you find it through this endless wandering

I'm missing you for so long

You're a question mark and a scar

And you twist me up like a tourniquet

'Til I don't know who we are

I know chasing after you won't change a thing

And I hope you find it through this endless wandering

Change everything I know

She won't let me come. And she won't let me go

Let me come inside.

Inside.

I was late and my face was wet

Tow up in a private jet

Spiraling down with a cigarette

Where we going now? 'Cause I forget

And I gotta get it all, but it takes a toll

But if it gets so high will it grow a soul?

Dark side giving me such a pull, such a pull

And if it's a water landing, then it's a water landing

Put on your life vest only if told to do so

Well I'm telling you now, strap it across your chest

Prepare yourself for impending death

You and me are nose-diving at the speed of whiplash

Life flashes by in an endless plane crash

A muffled "I love you" through an oxygen mask on my face

Brace. Brace.

In the cabin you're etched with religious conversions

God's sick joke as we lose the engines

Some people scream, some keep low and gracious

And the reason's the same, 'cause the sky outside is so spacious

It's so spacious

So if it's a water landing, then it's a water landing

And it's coming inside.

Inside.

Third Eye Blind 10/6 - 1000 Julys

October is shaping up to be something special this year. The Rockies are almost certainly going to be playing in the postseason, Say Anything's new record comes out and now Third Eye Blind is on the list of things to do. I knew I loved October - I had just forgotten why. Here's to starting off a number of days of my favorite 3eb songs :)

1000 Julys -3eb

Planning my attack just before you come back around

Maybe I'm wrong but I don't know how to back down

I never fit in - I don't belong

But it doesn't matter when we feel strong

'Cause I'm a vampire ya'll and we toast the blood of our enemies

and you're still scared of me, no?

Wonder what its like when you're living with someone like me?

I'm a freak and I'm nervous when it's easy

Feral days I'm sex crazed - I put it in with my animal ways

That's the sign I was born to be livin' in

I ran around and gave the finger to the Ritalin

You can calm me down and I can't say why

You burn my eyes - a thousand julys

I'd give you the words but no words come to mind

You turn me so cold so I tell you lies

When you let me in its like a thousand julys

Say Anything meets Twilight

This song is about eight years old, but I've just fallen in love with it recently. It reminds me in some ways of the "musical portion" of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and obviously very similar (but pre-dating) to the ideas presented in the absurdly popular Twilight series (and True Blood to a lesser extent). I've always been enamored by the slightly twisted take on romance and relationships that Say Anything brings to the table and this is just another beautiful example of that strange negotiation between love, fear and violence.

"Translyvanian"

Bent over the grand piano, I feel my eyes slide over you

Legs that curve the same as hers, could run as quickly too

My lazy tongue lies low and ready, it cannot seem to speak its words

I'd axe it off to shut me up, but you've already heard;

The murders have occurred

So take me where they cannot see us and lay me down on coffin rich dirt

Tonight I am a Translyvanian, a taste of you won't hurt

'Cause I am numb to every feeling, stubborn ears will hear no sound

My last few rounds have left me reeling, my teeth are on the ground

I've taken pound for pound

The path into this heart is littered with corpses and strewn with body parts

Of those who came before, so just give up

The path into this heart is littered with corpses and strewn with body parts

Of stronger souls than you, stronger souls than you

So child don't go getting your hopes up