See The Elephant

They used to have a phrase during the middle of the 18th century and during the Gold Rush to describe the West to those about to migrate in search of Gold and Glory. The phrase was, "See the Elephant." In other words, see the obvious that lies ahead of you. It was to describe the harsh reality of Western Life. But can we apply it to our everyday lives. Can we all begin to SEE THE ELEPHANT? Can we all learn to see the obvious? It's a hard task at times, seeing the obvious. We never really get a chance to see what's blatantly presented to us in life, we merely look around it and try to see past it, regardless of our feelings towards it. As human beings we look for the underlying reason for something, therefore looking past the obvious. Sometimes things are so simple and yet we've gotten into the habit of over-analyzing them. At times this is a good thing and at other times it only makes a situation worse. For instance, we are a people who are driven for "A CURE" for all ailments. We have looked past the common very easy answers such as, a heating pad or some tea, soup, or plain fresh air and have turned to the all mighty proscription. So doctors have turned into Pez Dispensers when it comes to giving out medicine for all ailments, physical and mental. What we don't seem to understand is that taking these medicines have brought about and can bring about grave consequences. Some of these medications can produce other side effects or ailments and many of these medications have made us so cleanly and healthy that if there was an outbreak of disease or influenza we'd be wiped off the face of the earth because our bodies don't have the anti-bodies built up in order to fight it. We have bypassed the elephant standing in front of us, and moved to more extreme means.

On a side note:
Remember, normal is irrelevant in life, especially when discussing religion.


Some graffiti by England's Bansky:









-Enjoy

THIS IS ABOUT TAKING CHANCES

I've been at Rowan for the last four years of my life and I've realized one thing. I need to get the fuck out of here before I wind up killing myself. I just need to graduate. It was cool the first two years but then after that it lost it's allure. Life here is monotonous. I hate that. I want to be able to wake every morning and teach or do something different. I want to travel, but everyone wants to travel. I don't just want to travel, I want to be the Kit Carson of the world. I want to blaze trails and know more about living than anyone else. Now here's the ultimate question: Is that really living? I'm not 100% sure but it's something different then what I'm doing right now. For those of you that don't know who Kit Carson is, don't Wikipedia it. Pick up a book and read about it.

Anyway, me and the cracker have been talking about stepping out and doing something much more full-filling then the normal mental masturbation that has binded us to our everyday lives. We want to hopefully do some volunteer work in foreign countries and get a feel for what we've been missing while helping other people then ourselves. I want to be able to say that I went out of my way in order to help someone without asking or expecting anything in return. I know just saying that makes it seem like I'm seeking self gratification and praise from other individuals for doing something like that. I don't really care. It's like when you're a kid and you dreamed to be a superhero. But it's moved into my adult life. I don't want to be a superhero per say but I want to do something important. I want to run into a burning building and save a few people and walk away and have it mentioned in the paper the next day that an unknown individual saved some woman or man or child. I want to put all of it on the line for someone else without expecting anything in return. I don't want to be selfish. I guess what this is really all about is taking chances.

Exanimate

Everyday passes with no accord; we share the light and process the adaptation, maybe we can step forward, from the bottom we burrow, and sink, and decompose. Fall deep into the shadow, and fear the comfort lost when you’re still part of your skin. Ignore, Ignore, Ignore, in massive migrations we burrow to the center, to the center of the hollow earth. Now we’ve seen the glass ceiling, now we know what we cannot obtain, and hearts grow weaker, and breaths grow fainter, all that is understood has been worn from these pages.

Home Sweet Home

I thought I'd never look forward to going back to Glassboro but today is that day.

Open the floodgates, God's giving us an out.

Staring at the Sun

Let he who cast the first stone be the first judged.

After last night, I don't think I ever want to drink. Alcoholism runs in my family and what I saw last night was the most atrocious thing I've ever bared witness too. I will not become that. Promises Kept.

I have no motivation to write anymore for some reason. I've been sitting here listening to American Nightmare on repeat and it feels like all the substance has been taken out of me. But I'll move through it.

You ever feel like you need to tell someone you like them but know that you shouldn't. Yea I'm that way today, and have been for a week now. I told myself a little over a year ago that I was going to take myself out of the whole relationship scene for a long while. This is what I get. Alone in New Jersey, the place I call home, four white walls and a window mark my life. It'd be nice to have her there with me sometimes. To sleep next to. One day maybe, not today. It feels like I'm still in high school with all this shy crush bullshit. But the situation as it is now makes it so it doesn't work out with a happy ending.

My days since my last post - lets analyze. Spent Sunday and Monday doing work for school so I could spend time with Kelsie and Heidi on Tuesday, so nothing special happened until Tuesday. Tuesday was awesome seeing them. I bought them Pizza because lets face it, pizza anywhere else sucks really hard. Then we visited the beach and Lighthouse. It was raining be we had fun anyway. Then we went to Rowan, visited Philly and had some Mexican food. Ultimately, I love seeing them. They make me happy to be alive. I miss them already, when they come back when it's warmer, it's going to be epic. We'll have a lot more fun. I wish I had more to say, but I'm boring.

Justs

1.) Just got back from the mall and five guys with Graham. It was nice.

2.)Just read the best interview ever (http://www.allphillyallday.blogspot.com/) with George from Blacklisted. It's really how I feel about music. Sounds dumb and pathetic but he put things the way my head has been trying to wrap itself around lately.

3.) Just realized how monotonous my life is.

4.) Just got kicked off the computer by my mom.

-more on all these subjects later.

Ever just want to turn back the hands of time and change everything that happened in your life. If I could I would. I would have changed where my focus was early on. I would have focused more on becoming as intelligent as possible, and I'd make sure that I had good eating habits and would have tried to keep my weight down and later on, I would have worked out a lot. Because of today, I haven't been comfortable in my own skin since 12th grade. I'd change what college I went to, I'd change the girls that I dated, the one thing that would have stayed constant though is baseball and my family. I love my family, just wish I got better genes. I don't know why I'm not enjoying life, I guess I need someone in it who still has lots of life to enjoy. Maybe that's why I hang out with younger people and date younger girls. Maybe I'm searching for the person who brings the high school kid out of me. Fun loving, caring, etc. I don't know what I got myself mixed up in later on in my life. I thought I was doing things that were going to make me happy, instead I made a bunch of bad moves that made me feel terrible about my life. All I do is work, I never get a chance to enjoy the people around me or make new friends. I'm way too shy when it comes to things that I'm not familiar with. I have a hard time stepping outside of the box. There's so much that I want to do but I don't' have the balls to do it. I'm afraid of what other people would thing of me if I did. Sometimes I just want to take some time off from school and move halfway around the world and just skim through life. Sometimes I wish I had a better personality, maybe that would have changed who I was. Shaped me in some way. I need change and it starts with from the moment that I was born and should occur until now. I wish I wasn't me sometimes.

We must remember that ultimately if we continue to live in the past we'll never see whats in our future. Misery follows me until I can forget my past.

Son Of Gaea, Bound By Earth

To date this is everything I've written that will appear on the new SKYSETUNFOLD record that will go into production sometime soon and not be done for a really long time. Some of the songs are already written musically, and some are not. There will be more lyrics posted but for now these are the ones from what I've written in the past six months that will be transformed into songs and molded. The process is long and arduous but it's worth it, we don't like to put out shitty filler songs. Every song has to be perfect, that's why it takes so long. It's also tough because we're gone during the week and only get to write on the weekends. Hopefully I can become more involved in the writing process once I get a new PA. I know no one really reads this so I don't feel bad about posting this, if anyone wants to donate money so I can get a new PA head and speakers that would be awesome. My head blew and the speakers I have are crap. My first priority is a new head. Then hopefully new larger speakers. We'll see what happens. Then hopefully I can switch to a board and get some shit together. I'll see what happens.

The Kingdom of the Rising Sun

The body of being has sold you for less; the body of being has sold you for less, I, man born of fear and flesh, stand before the light. With guilt to stain our teeth we march. What have we proven? That the man made merely of flesh is a man who shall drag his halo, consumed with misery. Disease has spread, may every word I speak inflict death, not through spit, not through blood, not through hope, And they sing, “Here, now, we’ve lost all hope, on our progression we all choke, that man has found no moral code, repent your sins for we are true.” I’ve got more to die for these days, this is our growth. This is the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, this is war on humanity. Bring forth moral reform.

Solomon

Here and where these lines are drawn, here is where Day and Night run together. Does fear sill drive you? Bear witness to an act of truth, rolling off a forked tongue and through crooked teeth, to deaf ears. Silent gasp – the noise is there. Comfort in my own skin. And she says, “Is this what you’ve been remembered for.” Potential wasted, all to noise. But we walk the same narrows, we are the same heart, beating, hoping, drowning, dieing, and still I’m just a ghost in the crowd, walking a narrow line. It’s the patience in grieving that will make you stronger, it is the patience of heart that will keep you longer. Yet, there will come a time where nothing will matter but self preservation, but you will be given a choice, perish or defile. Which weakness shall give you strength, which hope shall build upon sorrow?

TITAN

Life is monotonous, life is static. And all of your will has been removed. I shall run oceans dry; I shall scorch life to dust. Where change has brought no virtue, I will remain to consume. This crossroad, neither path shall lead to a center. Time and space, destroyed and devoured. Can you feel your mind running weak? You were born under the veil, possessing the means within your hands. And you will reap what you sow. I HAVE FOUND IT IN FILTH AND SORROW. Almighty Gaea, mother of all life, deem me your titan, I shall find you in the earth, and I shall find you where mountain meets sky. Move your feet, lift your anchor, one step and change begins.

THE ALCHEMIST

I leap forward to catch my tongue, I smile crooked and show my teeth, and all those that fear shall come to know my name. I belong, to the Earth. This is goodbye. WATCH AS I TURN GOLD TO SAND. May we realize we all share the same fate, let this be our bond while from either shore they rise, to destroy us. All HEARTS REST WITH THE SETTING SUN. How far are you willing to go. So I hope you can understand, why I'm leaving you, in the absence of death, I am the end.

He Who Has the Will

He who has the will…wake to the pyre built for the dead, damnation surely follows, and waits, waits for his end, death surely does not sleep, smothered by a mixture of hope and fear, we lay, among the maggots to absorb truth, what’s in the ground, stays in the ground, he who has the will (oh) to live can surely overcome any hell. We are torn down with the masses, reliving the past we cannot hide from – suffer among the wretched, That which breeds life will not save you, and that which rips it apart will become king, and he who does not prepare for war will surely die, A generation brought to it’s knees by a plague. Repent, bow before the deceiving shadows, bow before the hands of God.

Constants.

Do I have anything interesting to say? You decide.

I AM GLYNN CAPICCULA. I RUN THIS BLOCK, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!



I Love the life I lead and the people who are part of it and next week I get to see some of the important people who are apart of it - Heidi and Kelsie only part of my West Virginian Extended Family. It should be a good time. I have to start planning our day. I want them to experience what life is like here as they have showed us what life is like there. On another note, I don't know how I've stayed so up beat lately. It's tough but I'm doing it somehow. Things that would have driven me nuts are leaving me neutral. I show no emotion either way to be honest and I'm living a much better life. I'm looking forward to a lot of things. Hopefully this summer I'll be in California for a few days and then I'm going to try and volunteer at least some of my time abroad. I'm meant for something bigger then myself, I am a piece in the puzzle.

Leaves you wondering: Maybe I was meant to walk alone.

An equal exchange of ideas and beleifs without persecution

It’s strange how the leaves change, how no matter how often you rake your lawn in the fall, leaves just keep falling. How cold air and the smell of a fire in a woodstove can arouse so many feelings and memories. How sometimes things have to come to an end and new things begin where the old left off. How a rainy day can leave you time for reflection on the paths that you take. How the world around us is in complete disarray and how you wouldn’t mind God taking this Utopia, which we’ve been handed, from us. Just rip it out like a rug from under our feet. It’s funny how I’ve been able to skim through life without taking any chances. I’ve lived my life in a box.

Today, dashing through my brain, I realized there is a need for extreme moral reform in our world. Some people mistake this for strict religious reform. That just makes things worse because regardless you’re alienating one group of people. Some people believe it needs to take place through racial reform. Bullshit. It’s just an excuse to once again alienate one group of people. I believe in strict firm moral reform without hindering the rights of Americans. When police officers and government officials say that they let the small petty crimes go so to take down larger ones, they are just making excuses for why there’s such a problem in the world today. When a person cannot walk down the street without fearing for their life, there is a problem. I don’t think that our government can get it done. It is time that we stop letting other people do things for us to ensure our freedoms. It is time we took the responsibility into our own hands and fire back at the problem. It is time for revolution; it is time to make a change. No martyr’s, no heroes, no leaders. Moral reform must come if we are to see an improvement in world around us and it starts in our own homes. In our own personal lives. People bitch about how things aren’t going their way; well this is your chance to make them go your way. It is true that great societies have thrived because they had a class of people who they stepped on to thrive. Historically you can see peoples who have been drowned in mud in order for the elite to not get their feet dirty. Look around you. Do you think it’s changed at all? Do you think any of us are any different? I believe not. Not it is time to let your mouths be the vehicle on which change is brought forth, let us lead by example, and let us let our hands bring about radical reform if need be.

Who is the meat and who is the butcher?

Who is the hunter and who is the prey?

Who do we bury without thought and who do we revere in death?

Why are they any different from us?

-Enjoy the life you’ve been given or be punished for the acts you do and do not commit.-

But then again, I’ve lived my life without stepping outside of the box. All that’s needed sometimes is one spark to take matters into your own hands. And when this spark ignites the powder keg that sits under you, ask yourself, “What and Who do I have to live for?” You’re answer will show you the path that diverged in the wood. That crossroad is where a Virtuous man dreams and a Wicked Man Acts.

-TRUTH AND PURPOSE OF GRAND DESIGN

Here Is Where Night and Day Run Together.

I haven't seen this person on campus in two years and we seem to be bumping into each other constantly. We talk like we're old friends sharing war stories. Is this a good thing or a bad thing. I guess we will soon find out. Life has a funny way of expressing itself. She's pretty cool and really nice. I don't know if it's my desire to be with someone that makes me feel kind of close to her for some reason or because it's just the fact that she's a really nice person. Time to roll the dice.

Question: Why is it that things that are hard get soft when they get stale and why is it that things that are soft get hard when they go stale? Explain that to me Bill Nye.



HAVE I LOST MY WAY. LIFE IS CONTENT:




SILT

Covered in mud, covered in life, here is where Day and Night run together, struggle to keep afloat, let the Gulf Stream take you under. Hide behind the stack of papers that are piling up on your desk, when will you step out of the norm. Does fear drive you? Does fear know your name? It’s the patience in grieving that will make you stronger, it’s the patience of heart that will keep you longer, bare the brunt of the oncoming storm. Here it is, here it lies, and yet you stand still as if consumed in deep thought, jump now, save later. What do you have to give? What is it that makes you a positive member of this society? Do you still fear?

Bobby Cassidy and the Truth

We're in for one hell of a year. Seasons change and war begins, claim their lives as time restarts, what circle cannot be broken. The chimes of greed catch wind and ring, as the bell tolls silent, storms build on the horizon. Bathe in oil, wade in sand, pray for starvation.

He's got one more year in office and nothing to lose. Who is going to stop him from bombing Iran before we have tried every single method of peaceful democratic intervention in order to prevent nuclear proliferation and what could be World War III. What is wrong with sitting down and coming to a peaceful resolution.

Remember the will use fear to cloud your better judgement.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein

TITAN

Life is monotonous, life is static. And all of your will has been removed. I shall run oceans dry; I shall scorch life to dust. Where change has brought no virtue, I will remain to consume. This crossroad, neither path shall lead to a center. Time and space, destroyed and devoured. Can you feel your mind running weak? You were born under the veil, possessing the means within your hands. And you will reap what you sow. I HAVE FOUND IT IN FILTH AND SORROW. Almighty Gaea, mother of all life, deem me your titan, I shall find you in the earth, and I shall find you where mountain meets sky. Move your feet, lift your anchor, one step and change begins.

NORTH

If death wanders loosely around my neck, let the hangman reign and the noose shall be drawn forward. May they know I walked the path of the barefoot disciple, and dreamt of infinite glory among the wolves of damnation. I can still hear it ticking, our clock, and I can still hear it beating. You shall hear me, you shall know my voice, and you shall find me cold. Listen closely, if my voice becomes silent, if I stumble and fall from my narrow path, if my hands can not pull me forward because my legs have lost the way of progress, leave me to rot and drop anchor, the circle cannot be broken. CAN YOU STILL HEAR ME, THROUGH MY STAGGERED BREATHING, WAR HAS COME TO SICKEN THE NIGHT, COME QUICK OH ANGEL OF DEATH, AS THE FOUR HORSEMEN HAVE ARRIVED.

Surplus: The Mood of Giving and Lack there of.

NEW DILLINGER IS UP! LISTENING RIGHT NOW! BETTER BE EPIC!!!!

Work loads been heavy so I didn't enjoy Halloween. I did enjoy the campus sluts who use the holiday as an excuse to dress really skanky. To quote the often times misunderstood, Kyle "The THUNDER HAMMER," "WHAT THE SLUT?!?!" Moving on....

...Mosh or be Moshed, moving futher....

...this is far enough.....

The Kingdom of the Sun

The body of being has sold you for less; the body of being has sold you for less, I, man born of fear and flesh, stand before the light. With guilt to stain our teeth we march. What have we proven? That the man made merely of flesh is a man who shall drag his halo, consumed with misery. Disease has spread, may every word I speak inflict death, not through spit, not through blood, not through hope, And they sing, “Here, now, we’ve lost all hope, on our progression we all choke, that man has found no moral code, repent your sins for we are true.” I’ve got more to die for these days, this is our growth. This is the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, this is war on humanity. Bring forth moral reform.

...I'm done listening to the new Dillinger. Some songs suck, some songs rule, over-all, it's ok. Just ok? yes just ok. They took some chances and I just didn't like the direction they were taking it. Deffinately worth picking up, because their are some sweet songs on this album. Ire Works - Nove 13th, 2007. In stores. Play guitar hero and rot - you are my always and never.

make sense of it.