I felt oddly compelled to type up a stinging attack against a lot of things in my life at the moment but then I took a step back and thought for a second. It's Christmas. It's quite simply Chrimbo. And it was this that made me take back my previous idea, and instead just go for a simple message.

Failure IS an option. It's just never the right one.

I shit my pants on Tuesday, metaphorically speaking of course... www.rush.com. I don't need to say anything else, especially if you know me very well. it's been 15 years boys! Here I come!!!!!!! :D

Oh, and a quick shout to to the lovely, beautiful, funny, and deeply respectful Leanne. Leanne is a lady who I met through my brother in arms, Mr. Abraham and through speaking to her, i've found her to be a very charming and upstanding citizen who is very quickly but surely becoming a firm friend of mine. Ma dear, you're yet another of these hard to find beacon's in this dark void we know as life. To coin a phrase of a fantastic group of philosophers, 'Shine on you Crazy Diamond'. And never die out.

And on that, I bid ye an adieu... oh, and some lyrics too. What ones was I considering putting on this update... er... shit, I can't remember. Oh well, i'll leave you with a set of others, but just as meaningful...

Rush - Mission

Hold your fire --
Keep it burning bright
Hold the flame
'Til the dream ignites --
A spirit with a vision
Is a dream with a mission

I hear their passionate music
Read the words
That touch my heart
I gaze at their feverish pictures
The secrets that set them apart

When I feel the powerful visions
Their fire has made alive
I wish I had that instinct --
I wish I had that drive

Spirits fly on dangerous missions
Imaginations on fire
Focused high on soaring ambitions
Consumed in a single desire

In the grip of
A nameless possession --
A slave to the drive of obsession --
A spirit with a vision
Is a dream with a mission...

I watch their images flicker
Bringing light to a lifeless screen
I walk through
Their beautiful buildings
And I wish I had their dreams

But dreams don't need
To have motion
To keep their spark alive
Obsession has to have action --
Pride turns on the drive

It's cold comfort
To the ones without it
To know how they struggled --
How they suffered about it

If their lives were
Exotic and strange
They would likely have
Gladly exchanged them
For something a little more plain
Maybe something a little more sane

We each pay a fabulous price
For our visions of paradise
But a spirit with a vision
Is a dream with a mission...

Song of the moment: Rush - Bravado
Movie of the moment: Citizen Kane