Signature Thread

[Hoof Hearted]

9th, I like that siggie. It reminds me of a fave line from a Harrison Ford movie, "Mosquito Coast";
"Only dead things go downstream."

[Ibby]

Did you say..

[Phase]

I like quiet, and simple. Rough and loud just don't suit me. Plus, my signature has a bit of comedy in it

[Ibby]

My new one's from the Chili Peppers' Scar Tissue.

[jimhelm]

[BigV]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

ftfy

[SamIam]

@ BigV

[BigV]

um thanks!

but seriously, I was just fixing it for him. It is his very link, with better tags so it displays properly.

[jimhelm]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

Oops... damn. finally. hard to do tricky youtube things via phone or ipad.

click play, it starts where my sig begins. this is a really deep song.

for future reference:

Originally Posted by my current sig line:

I ... choose to Live and to... Lie. Kill and Give and to... Die. Learn and Love and to...Do. What it takes to Step through. - Maynard James

[jimhelm]

Originally Posted by BigV

um thanks!

but seriously, I was just fixing it for him. It is his very link, with better tags so it displays properly.

Thanks, but I was apparently all effed up. I posted that on facebook in honor of school starting... that link must have been caught in the iPad's memory. I was trying to link in 46&2 as above.

I appreciate the attempted save though.

[Flint]

Followed jim's sig link here...

When I posted here in 2006, my signature, as I recall, was this:
(from Frank Zappa, A Token of My Extreme, the album Joe's Garage)

Some people think that if they go too far,
They'll never get back to where the rest of them are.
Well I might be crazy, but there's one thing I know:
You might be surprised what you find when you go.

My current quote is a double-whammy, because it is one of my favorite musicians (Terry Bozzio, Zappa alumni, developed a completely unique form of music played on the standard parts of a drum kit) paraphrasing one of my favorite thinkers (Joseph Campbell, generalist, comparative mythology, can quote the stories from every culture and explain how they all refer to the same thing):

There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track

The first part, about your "level of facility" I believe applies to every walk of life. Call me lazy, but there are many, many things I've never needed to understand at a granular level. The areas I drill down into, that is different. That is what makes me "me."

This is Terry Bozzio in the late 1990s, around the first time I saw him at a drum clinic:

[regular.joe]

Cool Flint. My sig comes from the book "Soldiers Testament", written by a young man after WWI. Damn near the whole book is full of this kind of wisdom. Stuff like you find God in combat because it's like a storm or childbirth...when it starts, it's happening and just try and control it you silly little man. One of the biggest things I lacked and young guys and gals who enter our military today lack is character, we don't want or like to pay the price for character. The only reward for good character is good character. When it comes to a life and death struggle all that wealth and station you come from are meaningless. That is why we get our asses handed to us from a bunch of mountain folk with little to no equipment, who smoke cigarettes all day and still climb up and down the largest mountains in the world. Regardless of their religious beliefs, they do have good character. They are men of their word. I have to respect that.

[Griff]

It's thinking like that, which makes you Top Shirt.