May 2013
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I keep seeing photos from Maryland Death Fest
And statuses from my friends who are there
and I am raging with jealousy.
I hope next year has as good of a lineup.
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Gardens of Stone
Nightfall
Silence
Daybreak
Silence
Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall
Through snow, wind, rain and all.
Silence
They wait
remains beneath our feet
Forgotten a generation after their demise
Left in silence the untended stones
Rotting above
as the empty shells rot below
Once love and hate and joy and fear
Life living unbridled and free
Entombed
beneath
They repopulate
The...
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You don't want to know what your wife does
When you’re not around.
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New York
Misleading eyes
and pleading lips
Her deceitful tongue
and devilish hips
She begs
take me away
Please take me away from all this
and for a moment I do
but for all her lies and all her tricks
She never could catch my heart.
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She had always wondered
As she lay in bed examining her thoughts only one seemed to cut through the mess and stress of a long week. It was desire. Her desire for him. The one she wouldn’t let herself have. He was crass, vulgar, aggressive, cocky and antagonistic.
She was shy, gentle, reserved, passive and polite.
But she couldn’t help the way she felt. She couldn’t stop his face from popping into her mind. And...
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Tumblr wants you to feel bad about being born...
Don’t listen to tumblr.
You haven’t done anything wrong.
Your ancestors crimes are not yours.
Just be a good person and you don’t have to feel guilty about anything.
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I feel like nearly all the people I enjoyed...
Have left.
And anyone I thought of as a “friend”
has vanished entirely.
Am I imagining things
or am I suddenly more alone than
before?
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From down the hallway a radio blared
Ken left his apartment and began the walk to the end of the hall, in approximately sixty feet and six inches he would find himself at her door. He’d had his eye on the short blonde since she’d moved into his complex some three weeks ago. As of yet he’d been entirely unsuccessful in his attempts to strike up a conversation. He’d sat across from her at the pool but she’d been reading and he...
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Is this Revolution?
Slowly but surely the night has slipped away
What once was can never be again
For I am the only man who can show you what freedom truly is
Give yourself over to me
Trust in the words I speak
and follow closely
Silently we must go
For they make their rounds near midnight
and judging by the moon I would say the hour draws near
The first to fall shall be the damnedest of us all and in hell...
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Opening for Speedwolf tonight.
#reasonsmylifeiscoolerthanyours
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Reasons I don't exercise
Just ate, can’t exercise on a full stomach.
Its Monday, should have started Sunday, thats the official beginning of the week.
Haven’t eaten yet, can’t exercise on an empty stomach.
My arm hurts.
I think I might be coming down with a cold.
I just took a shower, don’t want to get all sweaty.
Its cheat day.
This movie is due back at the Red Box tonight.
Need to check...
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Your thoughts on Yahoo buying Tumblr
It doesn’t matter.
No one cares.
Shut up.
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My thoughts on Yahoo buying Tumblr
Who fucking cares? It doesn’t matter at all.
Shut up.
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With a limp cock and a heavy heart
I slipped out of bed and walked towards the bathroom
“It isn’t a big deal, it happens to lots of guys, its just the whiskey”
She called after me
I shut the door behind me and flicked on the light. I stared into the mirror, the harsh white glow of the fluorescent lights made my skin appear even paler than it actually was.
I laughed in my head.
It wasn’t the whiskey, it was her. It was the...
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Love lost leaves you longing
Days shall soon grow shorter and nights become longer
and in the endless expanse of stars you will find not something to wish upon
but something to believe in
that our place on this earth is so minute in comparison to the amazing and beautiful complexity that is the universe
and what is truly meant to be shall be
and if our path is noble
we shall one day dine with the Gods
and dance with...
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Am I the hero you need?
There is a world out there filled with wonderous beauty and unexplainable marvels but often these things as well as the simple joys in life are buried deep beneath a massive mountain of hatred, negativity, destruction, greed, anger, and commercialization.
Often the true wonders of the world are hidden from our sight.
And so it is that sometimes I just don’t feel like being creative. I don’t...
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A declaration of war
Walk with me on a path that travels through my mind, Ill show you things that cant be unseen. We will travel back to a time when things were better, and back to a place where we were free. We lost so much over the years that its hard to even remember what it was like before. Before the pain, before the suffering, before the doubt. Before the loss. Is it too late to get it back? Was it really...
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Hey! People following me! I need your help!
http://justinpoole.tumblr.com/post/50524106396/tropical-storm-presents-queso-maximo-from-the
This is the new track from my thrash band Tropical Storm!
Being that we are just four broke ass dudes from Saint Louis with no promotional budget, label support, or industry contacts we are doing everything (including recording/mixing/art/etc) ourselves.
So it is you friends and fans that we rely on...
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Don't break the oath
A heavy head over stumbling feet
until thy bed dreams and fears do not meet
Sinking hope, lost in thought
By spiders web our hearts are caught
Porcelain flesh and wicked taunts
A ghostly desire to forever haunt
Drowning in devotion and whispered sins
A shouted memorial lost in the wind
Seeking her, I call thy name
A love lost once is never the same
So pray your communion and worship...
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Eulogy
I miss your gin soaked kisses and tobacco infused hugs, the stench of you always suffocated my lungs. Long after you’d gone, your aroma would linger.
I miss your bleary eyes and your sloshy words. The meaningful way you could give merit to incoherent babble because you weren’t ever all there but you weren’t ever entirely gone either.
I miss you in the kind of way no one can understand, the way...
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I wanna know why Hemingway cracked
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Fear of Humanity
Never have I cared so deeply
Never have I loved so awfully
oh creator, for thee I pine so greatly.
This is absolution’s end.
Never have you ever sworn so loudly
Never have you ever wronged so proudly
Oh creator, I admire such beauty
But this is how I descend.
To the sea to the sea to the sea of fire
Oh lover oh lover of such sick desire
Burn me up burn me up on the funeral pyre
Revenge...
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Magnetic Pull
For thousands of years sailors have followed the north star home and though nautical I am not I too yearn for direction Be it day or be it night Through rain, snow or sleet I need simply whisper your name And my heart shall guide my way home.
When I am lost, you are my compass
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What if it were a galaxy between us
That which has become so familiar
and which I wish were still a stranger
All too similar to what I’ve grown to despise
What constitutes your center
and populates your lands
is of what you are
is of who you are
is everything I wish to oppose
Putrid, Vile, Ghastly, Despicable,
You
Yearning for some semblance of youthful naivety
When you were beautiful and full of wonder
When I had a...
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A clever jab at interoffice politics
Your calls are very important to us
So please stay on the line
You are a valued member of the team
We would hate to waste your time
Please clock in now
We wish to begin
We need you focused
Until your life ends
Slave away at something you hate
Every day on the calendar is simply a date
Mark off the numbers
as your life passes you by
You came here to work
You came here to die
We’ve...
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Riot Fest 2013
Holy Fucking Shit.
I need to change my shorts.
Was about to message a dude from the thrash tag
Asking him to check out my bands new song
When I realized he was at the Chicago gig and I accidentally drop kicked an empty beer can into his face.
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE
People in Chicago fucking love Tropical Storm!
Its easy to get a little down on yourself when it seems like no one in your home city gives a shit about your band, but going on the road and playing for an enthusiastic crowd has me feeling great.
People were dancing, moshing, chanting, high fiving, laughing, and just generally having a good time instead of standing around trying to look all cool...
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Natural Selection
The day had turned from bright and breezy to dark and dreary as Jason made his way further up the mountain. The higher he climbed the denser the trees seemed to grow, to the point where he could barely make out the sun above him. The rays of light struggled to break through the canopy and what little managed to reach the forest floor wasn’t doing much to light his path. He had set out a bit...
FUCK MY PISSY LIFE
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Time for Game Six.
Lets go Blues!
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The Rise
Sent to suffer for sins I did not commit I languish
beneath the tides
beneath the stars
At the bottom of everything
I wait
Planning and plotting
scheming and scamming
brooding and building
an army of formidable foes
composed of great evil wretched souls who look to me for guidance
I will launch my assault on the throne
And I will punish you for punishing me
I will punish you for...
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I like to walk around department stores
Studying the faces of the people there. Mostly the employees, sometimes the customers but usually the employees. I study their faces as they conduct mundane transaction after mundane transaction. Interacting with their customers in entirely robotic fashion. Faking a smile for the twenty seventh time that day when someone quips “Oh does that mean its free?” after the product refuses to scan.
...
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Last chance
We sat at the bar
smoking cheap cigarettes and ignoring those around us who were discussing politics
and you passed me a glance
it seemed to say more than any words we had ever shared
So I walked you to your car
a custom not so customary on nights like these
I knew the kiss was coming but for some reason it caught me unprepared
and I think those are usually the best kind
the kisses you...
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Your nightmares are a battlefield
What fear we find when alone in our minds
it is ancient and true
What torturous reality exists within our brain
handed down to us from generations long ago
Serves a valid purpose
To teach and to tell
Your nightmares are a training course
Showing you the ways of archaic intuition
The primal knowledge of lost souls
You know what you know because they knew
And inside of you they shall...
Wake up
Its time to die
COPS drinking game
blackfuckingjackals:
1. Drink every time All Cops Are Bastards
(credit to Dan from Cross Examination)
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Cinco De Thrasho was a HUGE success
All of the bands were fucking awesome and the crowd raged all night long.
Big thanks to Vanlade, Psychosomatic, Lich King, Cross Examination, Black Fast, Fetal Injury and Smash Potater for playing.
Wish someone would have been filming when Cross Exam made it rain “blood” from the rafters during their raining blood cover.
Can’t wait till next years!
Who should we get this...
Why am I awake?
I need to go to sleep.
Tonight is a big night.
To be excited
I’m not that excited.
I don’t want to deal with tonight.
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Attention LA Kings
Suck my dick.
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RIP Jeff Hanneman
