Alter Bridge - Remaining band memebers of Creed

Creed fans have probably already heard the news that the band is no more. However, the band members minus lead singer Scott Stapp (Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall, and Scott Phillips) have created a new band along with lead singer Myles Kennedy to create Alter Bridge. I'll always love the first Creed CD (My Own Prison), but Human Clay and Weathered weren't nearly as good.

Of course we've only heard one song so far by Alter Bridge (Open Your Eyes, which can be heard at
VH1.com), but I believe they have the makings of an even better band than Creed. In my opinion the band was always the greatest part of Creed, even though Scott Stapp's voice was alright. However I've immediately fallen in love with Myles Kennedy's voice - just what the Creed band members needed. The only thing I didn't like about this first song of theirs is the intro. It's alright, but something a little "plain" or "ordinary"........something I can't quite put my finger on. The rest of the song the band rocks though.

Look for the new CD, One Day Remains, to be in stores August 10th.

~Kara

Dream or reality it's all the same

Perhaps the need to create a more interesting life causes dreams and fantisy to seem so very real. So real that it feels like all sanity is about to be lost. Is it good to live in a dream or fantisy? Really isn't the goal in life to be happy? Maybe it's a different goal for everyone I don't know. I realise that most have the goal of making a lot of money, but for what? Does money really equal happiness? Maybe I suppose, it deffinately can. I know when I was so desparate for money it made every moment of my life hell ....not knowing when or how I was going to pay my bills. Now that I'm fine, I'm still not completely happy though. Something is missing, and that something is love. So maybe the goal in life is to have a complete life - money, love, and health. Well and of course I suppose some other things but they seem to fall in the money catagory.

To fill the void of love, I wonder if it's ok to live in a fantisy world. One of hope, pretending. Do we set ourselves up to fall when we do that? Or is it a way to cope?

My head is starting to hurt, way too much thinking.

Nickelback concert - I'm GOING!

Well this had me dancing around all day yesterday - I got my tickets for the Nickelback/Puddle of Mudd concert in August. 5th row no less! How cool! Forgive me if I'm a bit over excited and shouting out my rather uninteresting news, but I'm almost 23 yrs old and have never been to a real concert, aside from the local blue's festival every year. So yeah, this is a HUGE deal for me. Now it's just a matter of finding someone to go with me, although I doubt that will be a problem. My ex I'm sure will be jumping at the chance to leech off of me, but I'm crossing my fingers I can find someone a little more worthy and desirable to go with. And hey if they pay me for the ticket even better, but I'm more interested in a designated driver. ;)

Kind of weird to be thinking about that concert right now while listening to Lisa Lobe. Hadn't heard this CD in quite some time, and always liked it for the poetic value. Tune isn't bad either, but the words I've always admired most. I've heard what I wanted to hear, time to listen to something else.

The thought crossed my mind today that I feel a little silly writting my thoughts down for the world to see like this. I have a tendency of going back months or years later and reading things I've wrote, then saying "YUCK! Was that stupid or what?". So this blog is really a odd thing for me, and I must say I do feel a little weird.

Enough rambling for now, I'm off to cook supper and play DA for awhile.

~Kara

No room for freeloaders and abusive people

My ex made a suprise appearance the other night, claiming he was there to see his daughter but obviously had other intentions. There was obviously a reason he was telling me his girlfriend and him had broke up, and that he had moved out of her house. I've always felt sorry for him for some reason, even though I know he could care less about my feelings or situation. This is his world, and we should pitty him only - or so he thinks. I can't allow myself to worm his way in here, even though the loneliness is eating away at me. Hopefully having my sights on someone else will fight the urge to let him back in here, because I know that letting him back into my life would only cause me more pain and suffering. I'm just so torn. I know he's no good for me, and really has no good qualities either, it's just a fear of being alone that's got me even concidering him. I can't allow myself to let him take over me again, I just can't. There ARE good people out there, I got a taste of what was out there and can't let go of it.

Enough rambling and thinking.....back to business to get my mind off of all of this.

Why does love have to be so difficult?

It seems that everytime I find something perfect, it either turn sour or so many obsticles get in the way that it becomes impossible to share a life. A very special person has entered my life (actually 2), but I fear that both are about to completely dissapear. Its apparent that a romantic relationship is not possible with either right now, and may never be possible, despite my longing for something real to hold on to. What is true love anyway?

It's all about music

The website bug is started to taunt me again, and I'm feeling the urge to build something music related. Nothing small, no no, that's not me. Of course I would like to focus on the hard rock bands of today such as Stained, Trapt, Nickelback, Evenescence, etc. Now wouldn't that be interesting? What I would really love to do is find some way to offer a legal downloading site that you would only have to pay a monthly fee for unlimited downloads. I know I'm begging for something like that. Oh the possiblities, with such little time to work on them. If only I could snap my fingers and everything would be done. What a perfect world that would be.

Music music music.....that's all I've had on my mind today it seems. That and business. I like having my motivation to work back, but at the same time it seems like a huge burden because there's just too many ideas flying at me and my stress level is beginning to rise yet again. *sigh* To have the best of both worlds would be perfect.

Poetry Site

What to do, what to do......my poetry website has been sitting on a back burner for far too long. I had an idea for it way back last fall, and actually created two websites for it (one was to be mainly just a community, and the other site filled with other interests of mine that I felt somewhat related to poetry yet different enough that it deserved it's own site). I had it mostly completed when Christmas was nearing and another website of mine needed attention. After a successful Christmas season I realised how far I could take the other website and ran with it. When things finally died down and I couldn't build another page, I took a look at my poor poetry website and sighed. No motiviation, no energy, no ideas. It was like all the creativity had been sucked from my brain. All I could do was sit and play Dark Ages (an online game).

Well FINALLY I've been hit with the idea bug, and started on another business project. Of course, NOW I'm being hit by one idea after another and want so desparately to get started on changes to that little poetry site. I pop in every once in awhile to see what's going on, and watch the member count grow (thank you Google for the good search engine rankings!). Now it's just a matter of WHAT and WHEN to work on.....(please allow me to begin thinking out loud here). I believe the first thing I'm going to add is a poetry contest section, devoted to listing legitimate poetry contests with decent prizes. (Not the general "Congratulations! Your poem has been selected to be in our book - here buy it")

What to do after the contest section? Well, I was thinking of having a publishing section too that has information on how to get published or even go so far as to publish a full book. I know that is one of my personal dreams to have at least one book published on something I hold dear to my heart (the business crap is really starting to get to me).

That's my ramblings for the day. I hope to find time to actually get to work on those sections. I just hate to see that site just sitting there when it could be so much more.....

~Kara

Music, love, poetry, and money...whatelse is there?

Well this is the start of my personal blog, nothing special really, just my own personal ramblings and thoughts on personal issues. I'll share some thoughts on my favorite rock groups and hey maybe even pull out some good poems from my poetry community ( Spiritual Expression ).

Music is my life and sums up my interests though. I like to write and read poetry, but only in the right mood. Music I can't go a single day - hell sometimes HOUR - without. Speaking of which, I'm off to find some new CDs to add to my growing collection.