you kids, i swear to god...

 

a free trip to six flags where you miss class to go around with your friends at a theme park? i swear if you can't appreciate that because the theme park "isn't good enough" then youve got to be spoiled rotten.

 

honestly, when i was in high school (hell, even now), i would've KILLED for a chance to stop my daily routine to go ANYWHERE, especially a theme park. how you people manage to be incabable of appreciating this kind of thing is beyond me...you just don't understand how freaking good you have it.

I think it’s interesting to look back on old quiz-thingums like this and notice the things that have changed and the things that are exactly the same…this one is from mon. nov. 28, 2005, and it is now thur. Feb. 15, 2007; a year and a half, approx. really interesting stuff. Watch:

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1) Last thing you burned while attempting to cook?
fried eggs; it wasn't my fault i was rusty: i haven't made them in months, and last time i did i had a no-stick skillet. this time it was in iron skillet.

 

--2007: I think that was it; lately all I’ve cooked is popcorn chicken, and I haven’t burnt that once.

2) Describe yourself in 3 words?
musical, funny, twisted.

 

--2007: same

3) How long does it take you to get ready for your day?
depends on which day.

 

--2007: 5-15 minutes

4) Favorite place to blow $50?
depositing it into my bank account.

 

--2007: same

5) How many people have you thought were "the one"?
two: one incorrectly, one remains to be seen.

 

--2007: four: two incorrectly, one because I was drunk and she was desperate, and one remains to be seen.

6) What is something that turns you off from the opposite sex?
immaturity.

 

--2007: same

7) What kind of car do you drive?
white '91 toyota corolla sr5.

 

--2007: I don’t. working on it though.

8) What's in your CD player right now?
2 nine inch nails mixes i made myself, with_teeth, a mix from my girlfriend, and a cd a co-worker made with his brother (old-school rock).

 

--2007: don’t own one anymore.

9) What celebrity would you have coffee with?
probably john cusack.

 

--2007: john cusack or bob dylan; maybe a few others.

10) What celebrity would you NOT have coffee with?
i don't know. with the media these days, somebody i think i don't like could end up being my best friend.

--2007: same

11) What kind of toothpaste do you use?
i honestly don't know. i just pick one out of the cheap section.

 

--2007: same lol

12) What time do you go to bed?
i work third shift and go to college. i don't have a specific bedtime.

 

--2007: I kind of play things by ear these days…

13) Last movie you saw?
man on fire (denzel washington, dakota fanning: 2004).

 

--2007: rumor has it (Jennifer aniston, mark ruffalo, Kevin Costner: 2006)

14) Last TV show you watched?
desperate housewives.

--2007: that 70s show

15) Who is your best friend?
kenneth and mary lane are tied.

 

--2007: sarah and trent and Leonard and nikki are tied.

16) Who in your family do you best get along with?
dad.

 

--2007: dad or matt

17) Who do you lust after?
no comment.

 

--2007: same

18]) What time is it?
6:10p.

 

--2007: 2.30PM

19) Are you planning a vacation/travel?
i want to have a nationwide scavenger hunt someday, maybe when gas prices go to under a dollar.

 

--2007: still want to do that, but otherwise just hoping for some sort of tour whenever I can get a band together.

20) When/Where was the last time you traveled?
the retreat a few weeks ago.

 

--2007:  End of last year when I had to hitchhike through east TN.

21) How many times have you been in love?
twice...last time was a mistake.

 

--2007: thrice, and I don’t regret any of them. I learned something through the first two and the third is current.

22) How old will you be in 10 years?
28.

 

--2007: almost 30, dammit.

23) Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
i honestly couldn't tell you, and thats how i like it. i would like to be in a house i own with a girl i'm married to, maybe with a kid or two under my belt, and own my own record label. time will tell...i can tell you by that time i will definitely have the label...

 

--2007: same

24) Sinful snacking weakness?
fritos, man.

 

--2007: hells yeah, fritos.

25) Rollercoasters?
not really a fan.

 

--2007: same

26) Ever run out of gas?
i have.

 

--2007: same

27) Ever been on a train?
no.

 

--2007: yes

28) Ever been on a blind date?
yes.

 

--2007: still yes

29) Ever been to Europe?
no.

 

--2007: still no

30) What would you do if you could be the opposite sex for one day?
panic.

 

--2007: same

31) Would you tell anyone it was you?
if i had to decide, i probably wouldn't have done it in the first place.

--2007: I bring a valid point here.

32) Ever been arrested?
no.

 

--2007: same

33) Have a crush on anyone you work with?
lol...i used to have plenty.

 

--2007: not since then

34) What is something you believe in?
passion.

 

--2007: same

35) What is something you fear?
not being able to protect the people i care about.

 

--2007: same

36) Big or small?
off the top of my head...

--girls: small.
--myself: moderately large.
--pancakes: big.
--waffles: small.
--cars: small.
--tours: big.
--movies: either.
--churches: small.
--bank accounts: big.
--burgers: big, but not TOO big.
--paperwork: massively small.

 

--2007: same, plus…

--hitching distances: small

--joints: HUGE (except I quit)

--bottles: HUGE (again with the reform)

--parties: HUGE (notice a pattern?)

--love: deeper than the sea

--hate: smaller than my best friend’s…nevermind

37) What is the worst pain you have ever experienced?
physical: a few weeks ago i got my hand slammed in the cardboard baler at work.
emotional: i don't want to talk about it.

 

--2007: holy hell, I forgot about that baler…

38) What is your favorite television show?
malcom in the middle or that 70s show.

 

--2007: scrubs, hands-down

39) Ever photoshopped yourself to look better in a picture?
never bothered.

 

--2007: same

40) Tell us something about your childhood.
you don't want to know.

 

--2007: you still don’t want to know

41) What would it cost for you to flash the person next to you?
i wouldn't.

 

--2007: $50 maybe.

42) Best time to catch you in a good mood?
around mary lane after i just got paid.

 

--2007: around sarah or working on my guitar, cassandra

43) If you could be anything for one day, what would it be?
rich.

 

--2007: a better person

44) Most prized possesion(s)?
my guitar.

 

--2007: same, but different guitar

45) Would you ever sell it/how much?
heck no; my guitar was a gift, and it's a nice dean acous/elec.

 

--2007: funny you should mention, the one I was referring to in ’05 I sold in spring ’06 to make rent. I hope never to sell Cassandra, but God only knows…

46) What is one of your pet peeves?
when people ask sexual questions on these surveys. seriously - a person's sex life is not something the whole world should be reading about. if you want to know, ASK.

 

--2007: same

47) Favorite kind of ice cream?
vanilla.

 

--2007: choc. Chip cookie dough

48) Coolest thing that happened today?
i slept for 12.5 hours.

 

--2007: last night, anyway, a couple in a white car picked me up off the street so I didn’t have to walk another hour and a half through the snow

56) What do you usually order from starbucks?
i don't. starbucks is for a different caste than me.

 

--2007: jones effing cream soda baby

57) What is/was your biggest mistake?
aquainting myself with eric samuel ellis.

 

--2007: tied between that and that drinking binge…

58) Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
no, but i have a dedication to work so intense that to get a job done right i have a tendency to completely ignore any sense of personal well-being.

 

--2007: yes.

59) Say something totally random about you:
i thouroughly enjoyed that bovarian creme donut.

 

--2007: I miss my liquor…

60) Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
just last night.

 

--2007: frequently

61) Do you still watch kiddy movies or tv shows?
never did.

 

--2007: once in awhile

62) Did you have braces?
yes.

 

--2007: still yes

63) Are you comfortable with your height?
would it really matter if i wasn't?

 

--2007: despite my above sarcasm, I always have been.

64) What is the most romantic thing done by someone of the opposite sex?
i was told i could buy a promise ring.

 

--2007: my first kiss with sarah.

65) When do you know it's love?
right now.

 

--2007: when you genuinely want whats best for them, even if it sucks ass for you.

66. Do you speak other languages?
not really.

 

--2007: I speak the language of….i can’t really think of anything funny to say here. No.

67) Have you ever been to a tanning salon?
i applied for a job there once.

 

--2007: same

68) What magazines do you read?
musicians friend.

 

--2007: cosmo

69) Have you ever ridden in a limo?
no.

 

--2007: still no

70) Has anyone you were really close with passed away?
yes.

 

--2007: still yes

71)Have you ever watched MTV?
yeah, i don't really like it.

 

--2007: same

72) What's something that really annoys you?
indecisiveness.

 

--2007: same

73) What's something you really like?
deciciveness.

 

--2007: same

74) Do you like michael jackson?
not really.

 

--2007: actually yes

75) Can you dance?
i'm told no.

 

--2007: same

76) What's the latest you've ever stayed up?
the week before last i stayed up 5 days straight by accident.

 

--2007: I think that about covers it

77) Have you ever thought that you were honestly going to die?
once or twice...fuck you, eric.

 

--2007: more times than I care to remember

78) Have you ever been rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room?
well, technically, the ambulance can only go right outside the lobby. you have to be carried into the ER by the doctors and all them. and no, i haven't.

 

--2007: still no

79) Do you actually read these when other people fill them out?
sometimes.

 

--2007: usually

80) Who did you take this from?
nick.

 

--2007: myself! hahaha

81) Whats your full name?
michael thomas burton.

 

--2007: same

82) If you had to pick another city to live in... but it was in the same state what city would you choose?
probably memphis.

 

--2007: same

83) Favortie place in the world?
anywhere with a recording studio or music shop.

 

--2007: not sure….out of where I’ve been, I’d say sarah’s family

84) Best feeling you ever had?
making mary lane smile.

 

--2007: working out hypotheticals on sarah’s demo with her, in the car Wednesday night when I asked her if she would want to be part of my life dream…

85) Life goal or dream?
i want to own a record label - including at least one studio and several bands, and controlling production, recording/mastering, distrobution and booking - and a small coffee shop. i want to be married and have one or twoo kids. i want to be a good father.and it wouldn't hurt to be good in bed.

 

--2007: well I’ve achieved the good in bed part, and the rest still holds true.

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i want to apologize for the vicious rant i posted saturday night. it's gone now, you might notice. i was having a bad week, and was really stressed out about a lot of things, and relationship problems were mounting, and saturday things just kind of exploded. there is no excuse for what i wrote, and i'm not looking for anyone to tell me everything's OK. i know i screwed up, and i'm honestly sorry, and i can promise every one of you it won't happen again. please don't hate me, OK?

in other news, i feel completely miserable right now. i have a bad sinus infection. i'm very congested and every muscle in my body is aching, including my head. i don't think i have a fever, but it's only 3AM. my throat is getting more sore by the minute. i have less than three days before my drummer comes to lay down the percussion tracks for my album. he comes saturday to record the drums for all 13 songs, and for various reasons i haven't been able to keep on schedule with my end; i have barely four of the 13 songs ready for him. so i need to be working through the night, but i can't work when i feel like this. i want to just lie in bed and be perfectly still.

so someone told me the other day not to stress about all this, people's release dates get pushed back all the time; but this is my debut album, and the first album ever released from my label. if i push the release date back, as little as that affects anyone anywhere, it sets a bad precedent. i need to prove that i can deliver what i say i can, on time. so i guess i'll just have to get some sleep and work through tomorrow as best i can. thankfully i'm off work.

and finally, h appy 65th birthday, Bob Dylan. today, to celebrate, i bought "blonde on blonde," "greatest hits - vol. II," "highway 61 revisited," a live collaboration album of dylan and the grateful dead, and a dylan biography.

by7uhj n bnhvgtfynujhm   well that's my head hitting the keyboard because i think it just exploded. i need to go. i'm terribly sorry about saturday's rant, it was inexcusable. i hope i can be forgiven sometime.

bye
--mike

EDIT---------------------------------------------------

yeah, so i can't sleep. figured in my misery i might as well re-do this little survey to see how much has changed since monday, nov. 28, 2005. answers with a ** have been changed since then.

1) Last thing you burned while attempting to cook?
fried eggs; it wasn't my fault i was rusty: i haven't made them in months, and last time i did i had a no-stick skillet. this time it was in iron skillet.

**2) Describe yourself in 3 words?
driven music man.

3) How long does it take you to get ready for your day?
depends on which day.

**4) Favorite place to blow $50?
hastings or guitar heaven.

5) How many people have you thought were "the one"?
two: one incorrectly, one remains to be seen.

6) What is something that turns you off from the opposite sex?
immaturity.

**7) What kind of car do you drive?
nothing now, hopefully a ford taurus soon.

**8) What's in your CD player right now?
plenty of Bob Dylan.

**9) What celebrity would you have coffee with?
probably john cusack or bob dylan.

**10) What celebrity would you NOT have coffee with?
tom cruise, man.

11) What kind of toothpaste do you use?
i honestly don't know. i just pick one out of the cheap section.

**12) What time do you go to bed?
depends on the night, but never early enough, it seems..

**13) Last movie you saw?
derailed (clive owen, jennifer aniston).

**14) Last TV show you watched?
that 70s show.

**15) Who is your best friend?
mary lane.

**16) Who in your family do you best get along with?
dad or matt.

17) Who do you lust after?
no comment.

**18]) What time is it?
3.32AM.

**19) Are you planning a vacation/travel?
if i sign this band like i'm planning to, i'll probably go on the tour with them to make sure things run smoothly.

**20) When/Where was the last time you traveled?
um...good question.

21) How many times have you been in love?
twice...last time was a mistake.

22) How old will you be in 10 years?
28.

23) Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
i honestly couldn't tell you, and thats how i like it. i would like to be in a house i own with a girl i'm married to, maybe with a kid or two under my belt, and own my own record label. time will tell...i can tell you by that time i will definitely have the label...

24) Sinful snacking weakness?
fritos, man.

**25) Rollercoasters?
what about them?

26) Ever run out of gas?
i have.

27) Ever been on a train?
no.

28) Ever been on a blind date?
yes.

29) Ever been to Europe?
no.

30) What would you do if you could be the opposite sex for one day?
panic.

31) Would you tell anyone it was you?
if i had to decide, i probably wouldn't have done it in the first place.

32) Ever been arrested?
no.

**33) Have a crush on anyone you work with?
nope.

34) What is something you believe in?
passion.

35) What is something you fear?
not being able to protect the people i care about.

36) Big or small?
off the top of my head...

--girls: small.
--myself: moderately large.
--pancakes: big.
--waffles: small.
--cars: small.
--tours: big.
--movies: either.
--churches: small.
--bank accounts: big.
--burgers: big, but not TOO big.
--paperwork: massively small.

**37) What is the worst pain you have ever experienced?
physical: this sinus infection is on up there.
emotional: it would be ungentlemanly to disclose that information.

**38) What is your favorite television show?
love monkey on VH1.

**39) Ever photoshopped yourself to look better in a picture?
i don't have very many pictures..

40) Tell us something about your childhood.
you don't want to know.

**41) What would it cost for you to flash the person next to you?
i'm always alone.

**42) Best time to catch you in a good mood?
after my album is released and i sign whiskey richard (i hope).

43) If you could be anything for one day, what would it be?
rich.

**44) Most prized possesion(s)?
my balls (in the metaphorical sense; as in, "man, that dude's got BALLS.." - another term for courage).

**45) Would you ever sell it/how much?
can't; but i sold the guitar that i said on here i would never sell. needed rent money.

46) What is one of your pet peeves?
when people ask sexual questions on these surveys. seriously - a person's sex life is not something the whole world should be reading about. if you want to know, ASK.

47) Favorite kind of ice cream?
vanilla.

**48) Coolest thing that happened today?
it was bob dylan's birthday.

56) What do you usually order from starbucks?
i don't. starbucks is for a different caste than me.

57) What is/was your biggest mistake?
aquainting myself with eric samuel ellis.

**58) Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
i wasn't in my right mind at the time.

**59) Say something totally random about you:
my head feels like it might explode. it might actually feel better if it did.

**60) Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
once or twice.

61) Do you still watch kiddy movies or tv shows?
never did.

62) Did you have braces?
yes.

63) Are you comfortable with your height?
would it really matter if i wasn't?

**64) What is the most romantic thing done by someone of the opposite sex?
i was told someone loves me as a part of herself.

65) When do you know it's love?
right now.

66. Do you speak other languages?
not really.

67) Have you ever been to a tanning salon?
i applied for a job there once.

**68) What magazines do you read?
cosmo.

69) Have you ever ridden in a limo?
no.

70) Has anyone you were really close with passed away?
yes.

71)Have you ever watched MTV?
yeah, i don't really like it.

72) What's something that really annoys you?
indecisiveness.

73) What's something you really like?
deciciveness.

74) Do you like michael jackson?
not really.

**75) Can you dance?
i can now.

76) What's the latest you've ever stayed up?
one time** i stayed up 5 days straight by accident.

77) Have you ever thought that you were honestly going to die?
once or twice...fuck you, eric.

78) Have you ever been rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room?
well, technically, the ambulance can only go right outside the lobby. you have to be carried into the ER by the doctors and all them. and no, i haven't.

79) Do you actually read these when other people fill them out?
sometimes.

80) Who did you take this from?
nick.

81) Whats your full name?
michael thomas burton.

**82) If you had to pick another city to live in... but it was in the same state what city would you choose?
probably knoxville.

83) Favortie place in the world?
anywhere with a recording studio or music shop.

84) Best feeling you ever had?
making mary lane smile.

85) Life goal or dream?
i want to own a record label - including at least one studio and several bands, and controlling production, recording/mastering, distrobution and booking - and a small coffee shop. i want to be married and have one or two kids. i want to be a good father. and it wouldn't hurt to be good in bed.

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It's words you forget to anniversary songs. The bottles bite back, your tolerance wrong. Your good intentions count for little anymore; if you're sorry, why wage war?

Im not fully convinced there's something wrong with this. Could another point of view, biased and untrue, tear me away from you?

Will you be my Valentine if I'm a world away? Apologies are breaking me; constants aren't so constant anymore.

Two days to wait for calls to come through: tonight for me translates to yesterday to you. You bend and you wave; you're barely awake. Wish I could say tonight, when you bend and wave goodbye, "take me with you!"

Will you be my Valentine if I'm a world away? Apologies are breaking me; constants aren't so constant anymore.

Will you be my valentine? (if im a world away)
Will you be my valentine? (if im a world away)
If I'm a world away (if im a world away)
If I'm a world away (if im a world away)

Constants aren't so constant anymore.

so today is the first day back in school for you high school kids. i feel really old when i say that. but before you come home and start to complaining about how horrible school is, consider my vacation and my day:

1. my car blew a rod (read: RAN OUT OF OIL) in lebanon and thus will not start; i checked today and it has, in fact, been impounded. i don't know whether they're going to charge me to get it out, but i need to so i can try to make a little money selling it so i can get a new car. as for now i'm borrowing a friend's car.

2. they've been cutting hours at the plant. i work at the dell factory in lebanon, which didn't get nearly as many orders as expected, so they've been bringing us in late and sending us home early for a little over a week. it's supposed to last another three to four weeks, and i'm not even breaking even on paying for the gas it takes me to drive there and back, which brings us to three and four:

3. my borrowed car ran out of gas today on the way home. luckily i was right by the home of a guy i know from high school who took me over to a gas station with a gas can and bought me a couple gallons without expecting me to pay him back.

4. i have to get a new job. it wasn't so hard to get a better job when i was making $7.00/hour part time; but $8.50/hour full time is a little tough to beat around here for an 18 year old. my best leads are the nursing home my friend's uncle owns ($8.50 or more), ingram books (evidently $10.20+), an audition i have friday for a record deal with the blue desert label, and one other which i won't mention until i have more details. other than those, there's nothing, really.

5. i'm sick and tired. metaphorically and literally. i'm sick of working. since i was 15, i have been working my ass off constantly, except for my 2.5 month post-catfish-house unemployment period, where i was working my ass off looking for a place to work my ass off. every job has been manual labor, for the most part progressively more diffcult, and always getting longer. i went from part time 4-5 hours 3-4 nights a week to 8 hour days to 9 hour nights to, now, 10.5 hour days. i feel i've payed my dues. i want a better job. not going to get my hopes up, but i'm getting angry at my job situation. also, i'm tired, and i have a sinus infection.

6. spherion got my address wrong. my temp agency - the one that got me working for dell - got my address wrong, so momentarily i will be going to the post office to pick up my check that i was supposed to have friday.

that's basically the major points. there's more, but that should be sufficient to make everyone feel more fortunate than they did before ;)

happy new years, everybody. little late, i guess, but oh well.

--mike

it occurs to me that mary lanes friends have these sites, and they don't know me past whatever she happens to tell them. so here you go - thanks nick.

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1) Last thing you burned while attempting to cook?
fried eggs; it wasn't my fault i was rusty: i haven't made them in months, and last time i did i had a no-stick skillet. this time it was in iron skillet.

2) Describe yourself in 3 words?
musical, funny, twisted.

3) How long does it take you to get ready for your day?
depends on which day.

4) Favorite place to blow $50?
depositing it into my bank account.

5) How many people have you thought were "the one"?
two: one incorrectly, one remains to be seen.

6) What is something that turns you off from the opposite sex?
immaturity.

7) What kind of car do you drive?
white '91 toyota corolla sr5.

8) What's in your CD player right now?
2 nine inch nails mixes i made myself, with_teeth, a mix from my girlfriend, and a cd a co-worker made with his brother (old-school rock).

9) What celebrity would you have coffee with?
probably john cusack.

10) What celebrity would you NOT have coffee with?
i don't know. with the media these days, somebody i think i don't like could end up being my best friend.

11) What kind of toothpaste do you use?
i honestly don't know. i just pick one out of the cheap section.

12) What time do you go to bed?
i work third shift and go to college. i don't have a specific bedtime.

13) Last movie you saw?
man on fire (denzel washington, dakota fanning: 2004).

14) Last TV show you watched?
desperate housewives.

15) Who is your best friend?
kenneth and mary lane are tied.

16) Who in your family do you best get along with?
dad.

17) Who do you lust after?
no comment.

18]) What time is it?
6:10p.

19) Are you planning a vacation/travel?
i want to have a nationwide scavenger hunt someday, maybe when gas prices go to under a dollar.

20) When/Where was the last time you traveled?
the retreat a few weeks ago.

21) How many times have you been in love?
twice...last time was a mistake.

22) How old will you be in 10 years?
28.

23) Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
i honestly couldn't tell you, and thats how i like it. i would like to be in a house i own with a girl i'm married to, maybe with a kid or two under my belt, and own my own record label. time will tell...i can tell you by that time i will definitely have the label...

24) Sinful snacking weakness?
fritos, man.

25) Rollercoasters?
not really a fan.

26) Ever run out of gas?
i have.

27) Ever been on a train?
no.

28) Ever been on a blind date?
yes.

29) Ever been to Europe?
no.

30) What would you do if you could be the opposite sex for one day?
panic.

31) Would you tell anyone it was you?
if i had to decide, i probably wouldn't have done it in the first place.

32) Ever been arrested?
no.

33) Have a crush on anyone you work with?
lol...i used to have plenty.

34) What is something you believe in?
passion.

35) What is something you fear?
not being able to protect the people i care about.

36) Big or small?
off the top of my head...

--girls: small.
--myself: moderately large.
--pancakes: big.
--waffles: small.
--cars: small.
--tours: big.
--movies: either.
--churches: small.
--bank accounts: big.
--burgers: big, but not TOO big.
--paperwork: massively small.

37) What is the worst pain you have ever experienced?
physical: a few weeks ago i got my hand slammed in the cardboard baler at work.
emotional: i don't want to talk about it.

38) What is your favorite television show?
malcom in the middle or that 70s show.

39) Ever photoshopped yourself to look better in a picture?
never bothered.

40) Tell us something about your childhood.
you don't want to know.

41) What would it cost for you to flash the person next to you?
i wouldn't.

42) Best time to catch you in a good mood?
around mary lane after i just got paid.

43) If you could be anything for one day, what would it be?
rich.

44) Most prized possesion(s)?
my guitar.

45) Would you ever sell it/how much?
heck no; my guitar was a gift, and it's a nice dean acous/elec.

46) What is one of your pet peeves?
when people ask sexual questions on these surveys. seriously - a person's sex life is not something the whole world should be reading about. if you want to know, ASK.

47) Favorite kind of ice cream?
vanilla.

48) Coolest thing that happened today?
i slept for 12.5 hours.

56) What do you usually order from starbucks?
i don't. starbucks is for a different caste than me.

57) What is/was your biggest mistake?
aquainting myself with eric samuel ellis.

58) Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
no, but i have a dedication to work so intense that to get a job done right i have a tendency to completely ignore any sense of personal well-being.

59) Say something totally random about you:
i thouroughly enjoyed that bovarian creme donut.

60) Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
just last night.

61) Do you still watch kiddy movies or tv shows?
never did.

62) Did you have braces?
yes.

63) Are you comfortable with your height?
would it really matter if i wasn't?

64) What is the most romantic thing done by someone of the opposite sex?
i was told i could buy a promise ring.

65) When do you know it's love?
right now.

66. Do you speak other languages?
not really.

67) Have you ever been to a tanning salon?
i applied for a job there once.

68) What magazines do you read?
musicians friend.

69) Have you ever ridden in a limo?
no.

70) Has anyone you were really close with passed away?
yes.

71)Have you ever watched MTV?
yeah, i don't really like it.

72) What's something that really annoys you?
indecisiveness.

73) What's something you really like?
deciciveness.

74) Do you like michael jackson?
not really.

75) Can you dance?
i'm told no.

76) What's the latest you've ever stayed up?
the week before last i stayed up 5 days straight by accident.

77) Have you ever thought that you were honestly going to die?
once or twice...fuck you, eric.

78) Have you ever been rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room?
well, technically, the ambulance can only go right outside the lobby. you have to be carried into the ER by the doctors and all them. and no, i haven't.

79) Do you actually read these when other people fill them out?
sometimes.

80) Who did you take this from?
nick.

81) Whats your full name?
michael thomas burton.

82) If you had to pick another city to live in... but it was in the same state what city would you choose?
probably memphis.

83) Favortie place in the world?
anywhere with a recording studio or music shop.

84) Best feeling you ever had?
making mary lane smile.

85) Life goal or dream?
i want to own a record label - including at least one studio and several bands, and controlling production, recording/mastering, distrobution and booking - and a small coffee shop. i want to be married and have one or twoo kids. i want to be a good father.and it wouldn't hurt to be good in bed.

i haven't been on a computer in so long i'm starting to lose my typing skills...

great aunt died last friday, causing much family drama, people calling each other greedy, people being complete idiots...is it any wonder i tend to distance myself from them?

moved into my new apartment a week ago yesterday. it's great; people have been so generous, just giving me things they were going to throw away - i got a bed, couch, two chairs, two tables, a set of dishes, a microwave, and a co-worker is letting me borrow her 37" TV and 6-piece surround sound system indefinitely. thanks everybody!!

so i was getting a little overwhelmed with all this stuff, because i was just going to have it haphazardly sitting around, but mary lane decided to be her wonderful self and decorate for me. so now i have a nicely arranged and cleaned apartment. thanks babe :)

mary lane also took pictures of it, so i'm goig to get her to send them to me and i'll post them here for all to see her work. i swear to god it looks like the paper street soap company, but more nicely decorated.

i have been on the computer in phillips bookstore for entirely tooo long now. bye everyone.

--mike

what a wonderful day. i have hours upon hours of free time (i awoke at 8am, and my lab isn't until 1), with 5 unfinished songs in my back-pocket notebook, and i can't write anything else for any of them. i'm drawing a complete blank. it's really irritating.

anyway, everone who reads this should go to www.purevolume.com/michaelburton and listen to my music. nobody has lately, and i need some musical popularity. thanks.

and happy halloween.

love, mike

ten points to the person who can guess the origin of the title of this entry.

moving on: this is my new site. hopefully it won't piss me off the way myspace does or fill itself with useless chatter and blog quizzes the way xanga does. i'm always looking for a better blog.

points of interest:
--me and ML: 7.5 months
--just quit a job today
--might start playing for keeps at the pool hall (playing guitar and pool both)
--apartment viewing apointment at 2PM tomorrow
--ML ACT saturday, hopefully helping her study friday
--ML variety show thursday
--tonight i'm asking off work for every night i want off for the next six months (i work third shift grocery stocking at walmart upon rutherford)

other websites of interest:
--xanga: www.xanga.com/michael_burton
--music: www.purevolume.com/michaelburton
--music newx: www.burtonmusicnews.tk

goodbye everybody.
--mike