jimwilbourne.com: December 2004

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Sunday, December 19, 2004

I Watched Them Fade Away...


::New Music: "Edifice" by Estrela. It's their new music with Chelsea Logue as vocalist! Enjoy!::

Jim - "She said, "Don't let it go to your head. Boy's like you are a dime a dozen." - Taking Back Sunday
Goodbye exams ... Hello winter break.
Time to slow down so I can speed up. That's right! 'Tis the season to work on the CD. I feel the stress... but not to the point of writing-lyrics-on-the-way-to-the-studio-to-record type stress... but stress nonetheless.
I also plan to do something like............................. hang out.... Whatever that is. But I'm sure it'll be fun. It'll be just like I have a life.... oh crap... I have a Christmas Party to go to... A formal one... gonna be pimp-tight. Jasmine and her friend Ashley are gonna be there... so I won't be bored. I gotta go...I'm already gonna be late!
::Daily Lyrics:: - Another lonely night/ Without her by my side/ Take all that I am/ I'm wishing you goodnight/ Another lonely night/ Without her by my side/ Take all that I am/ 'm wishing you goodnight ~ "The Way We Used To..." - A Cutthroat Kiss

Sunday, December 05, 2004

The Sun Still Sleeps, And When She Wakes...


Jim - You're better off without him... don't call him... he's breaking your heart...
I finally got a pure volume account up for the band. It's @ http://www.purevolume.com/produceaisle. The song on the site will, more than likely, not be on the EP... being that it's unlyriced.
I also made a banner to promote the band....




if only I had one wish, I'd want a millon, trillion life times that I could spend with you... fall in love with you again and again...
EXAMS ARE COMING!!!
But, for the first time, I'm not at all stressed about them. You know why? Because I don't have Spanish! HAHAHAHAHA... I WIN!!! okay... maybe I am a little bit weird... but at least I'm weird and not taking Spanish!
anyway... life is going okay... the Holmes for the Holidays performance that was insanely over-priced was fun... good stuff. Chorale as another performance coming this Tuesday at Sacred Heart.
Here's a little addition to my story... I'm gonna have to start taking more time to write.

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It didn't take Alden long to see how serious Nathan was. He knew Nathan and the nature of the look he gave him. He had no doubt that what Nathan said was no dream conjured by the whirling mind of an unconscious victim, but of the a reality foreseen by a Seer.
Nathan would have walked right out of the Second league's camp without looking back. Nathan, among many of his talents, was a Seer. With most Seers developing in middle age years, he was considered very young for a Seer. Some develop into Prophets, but Prophets were about as rare as picking a gold piece out of a barrel of copper coins. Perhaps out of sheer jealousy or that he was a Seer of his early twenties moved the Second League to be reluctant to trust his judgment. Whatever it was, Nathan was quite fed up with their neglect to his advice. In his eyes, they got what was coming to them.
Without questioning any further, Alden found himself gathering the first men of his division he could muster. He had no worries of whom he found of his division. He knew all his men were good. He handpicked his own. Not ten minutes had passed before he saw the camp in a roar of flames. The Seer had spoken true.
The precession continued for a few hours before night began to take the land. They made camp along the partly paved road. The road they took was not a military or common road but a simple route that most people didn't bother to take anymore. Since the construction of wider and more direct paths were made as of late, people tended to use them much more often. For this very reason, Alden was sure that Nathan chose this road. They were indeed in enemy territory and would not want to risk taking an easy route where the sixteen of them could easily be sighted.
The war was a brutal one. The Covenant should have extinguished the threat in its first stages of opposition. Lead by Prophet Tristan, Vox Qinterra or The People as they called themselves lead a revolution to overthrow The Blood of the Covenant's thousand-year reign of the known world. Turning many to his ways was a task that he made look easy. People followed after his cause like sheep following a shepherd. A "holy quest" is the name Prophet Tristan had given it. The people trusted the words of a Prophet. Some held their words above the Covenant's. But the other Prophets of the land knew Prophet Tristan to be a man trying to fulfill his own prophecy; a prophecy that would plunge that would into internal darkness under his own rule.
Dark times stood in their future. With the help of the Prophets and the Covenant's great military minds, Prophet Tristan would be crushed. But the Prophet had proven to be a force not to be taken lightly. Multiple times, he had defeated the Covenant's offensive measures before they even knew what hit them. Much the same had happened to the Second League that day. The thread of magic that was woven though time guided the Prophet's hand.
Alden placed the last pot of dried beans over the fire, wiped his hands with a towel and turned to join Nathan. He sat on the log that lay across the narrow road. A bowl of lentils was given to each of them by a grim-faced man. He was John, the highest ranking of the men. Only Alden himself outranked him.
He nodded his thanks to the man but he stood fast. "I've got three of the men to take shifts on watch."
"Very good," Alden replied.
John didn't move. "I wanted to ask Nathan a question, sir"
Alden looked to Nathan who shrugged his approval. "Go ahead, soldier"
He turned his attention to Nathan who didn't look up. "I wonder your reasons for letting the Second Order die like you did. If I may say, sir, it has caused many of us to question your morale."
After a moment, he looked up at the man with a raptor gaze. "Two reasons. One, They wouldn't have listened to me anyway. Seers are not as trusted as Prophets as you know. Second, because I don't question the prophecies."
"Prophecies, sir?"
"I have had my first prophecy. Seers have them once in a great while. Some do not have more than twice in their lives but never more than five or six. While I was unconscious, my mind used its energy to give me a prophecy. Tell this to the men. They know I speak true. They have seen the truth in my words just today."
"I will, sir," John said backing away. "I'm sure they will heed your words." He walked off, disappearing in the brush where they were organizing what they managed to bring.
Nathan stared off into the woods. "Had I acted with my head rather than an enraged bull, I would have thought to bring horses." He drew his legs up and wrapped his arms around them resting his head on his knees.
"We'll reach a neutral town in a few days. Darath is about a three day journey north." Alden crossed his arms and faced the fire. "What did it say? What did the prophecy say?"
Nathan looked up, staring into nothing. "The chosen's second born will rise and be victorious. With only one open eye, he will trample the one with two and continue his reign of terror. Only the destruction of the second born will save the world from the darkness it will invoke. And through destruction of the one born second, a new generation of seven worthy of their father's glory will arise."
Alden cocked his head. "What does that have to do with us?"
"I understand all of it except the last of it. And through the destruction of the one born second, a new generation of seven worthy of their father's glory will arise. It could be a number of different things. I may not know what it is until it's on us."
"Or even after it's done," Alden stretched and stood and finished spooning the food into his mouth before he spoke again. "You'd better get some rest. I'm certain our journey won't be easy if we're going to take the safest routes."

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::Daily Lyrics:: - I thought you'd come back at least i prayed (so i prayed)/ The romance has been dead (the romance is dead, the romance is dead)/ For years (you come back)/ But i've been too afraid to dig the grave (so i prayed)/ Relief support never came ~ "When The Sun Sleeps" - Underoath