PSYCHED to be planning my first job in LA! and really pumped that it's building a nu home A/V system for the legendary DJ/MC Mr. C!!!!

If you need ANYTHING audio/video related, give me a shout! Will be running LA Audio/Video as well: http://ping.fm/dL0Bs

check out VFX Home Theater: http://ping.fm/7xXlH - I'll b workin there in January. Selling an entire theater, like selling a luxury car - what an idea

Gettin packed. The nu job starts 1st week of January. Am the manager of operations for VFX Home Theater + LA Audio/Video!! http://ping.fm/TC73n

The Wadia iTransport is the BEST docking device for unleashing your ipods digital data stream (for use w/ higher quality DACS): http://ping.fm/WZtwD

Starting my new job at VFX Home Theater & LA Audio/Video after the new year. All my prior clients - check these home theaters out: http://ping.fm/CGEbV

Did U catch my review of the Nola Boxer loudspeakers: http://ping.fm/9WV8q U MUST hear these if U can

If U missed it: http://ping.fm/s6WQo my Mother Hips review in Positive Feedback Online

PLS check out my review of The Mother Hips newly released Pacific Dust album! http://ping.fm/MpNXN

Heard The Mother Hips latest; Pacific Dust? http://ping.fm/4hTmp could b their best yet

If u missed my Future of the High End article (cauzin quite a stir) here it is: http://ping.fm/SeJN5 re-published in PFO

Lost Without Pencils

I want to write something meaningful,
Profound, personal, and Honest.
I want to write in pictures and keep readers interested.
I need to write everyday
and I try.
But trying is bullshit.
Doing is Everything.

I want to reach people
and give them a part of me.
I want to reach them because I feel connected
I feel I need to share that feeling, that need,
that desire, that craving to connect
through my only good thing,
the only thing I feel good at

Writing

You can't force inspiration
and when it comes you must harness it like you life
Depended on it.
Because it does
It truly does
People who don't create do not understand
what it feels like to battle your art.
and they assume writer's block is an excuse
(it fuckin' Is)
but you're not supposed to say it.
Only us who write can say that truth.

Positive Feedback just published their 09 Writers Choice Awards - PLS check out my choices: http://ping.fm/Uc18b

I had so much fun writing this review: http://ping.fm/3m2WX JHAudio JH-13 in-ear headfones - U gotta hear em!!

PLS check out My review of Gibbard & Farrar's "One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big sur" album: http://ping.fm/fpiIo

Listening to Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard's "One Fast Move or I'm Gone" & LOVIn it. See the documentary ASAP: http://ping.fm/8VrLs

A Ship of Friends

Fifteen years,
and not a moment
has passed

or weakened
or shattered
or Diluted

Honest feelings of love
and Respect

Old Soul Love

The stuff of friendship
unspoken, felt
and Not forgotten.

and Graciousness
for Every moment
disintegrating into
our Collective journey.

A feeling of Home,
far away
yet always nearby.

Solace
in mind and body.
Warmth,
in the presence of Family

the family you meet,
sharing no blood of veins.
Blood let through
Love and Pain

Together

No Title - ol skool poem of mine... resurfaced

Exchanging mindless thoughts
beneath a moon lit sky.

Foamy water chasing man-o-wars
across the slanted shoreline.

Meanwhile nightcrabs are having
their evening feast.

Love exchanged through drunken smiles
and burping laughter.


and Budda.


He was there too....


written by: Michael Mercer (sometime in the early 90's - wrote it about me and my good friend Tim sitting on a beach in Jupiter, Florida, after a long night of partying).

Just launched Positive Feedback's Twitter account: http://ping.fm/RiR3N PLS check it out & support this splendid audio journal

Lookin for some comments/feedback on my Letting Up Despite Great Faults review: http://ping.fm/7unes

OK. Pls check out my review of Letting Up Despite Great Faults new record: http://ping.fm/MOxXx

Writing bout Letting Up Despite Great Faults: http://ping.fm/PYPGX + gettin ready for Wax Tailor tnight in San Fran!!

PLS check out my review of Daniel Johnston's newly released In And Always Was: http://ping.fm/jy7rX Psyched to see him live!!!!

Keep Contentment Close

Contentment; that word now feels like a warm blanket.
I remember being more than content, but like any time in life,
things were good and bad.
But it was the good, the things that got me up in the morning
and kept me up most of the night that made my life years ago
so Amazing.

Have you ever dreamed of a way of life?
Ever had a visual in your mind of what that life would look like?
I had a vision, and my life began to reflect it! I was in heaven.
Sure, it wasn't all roses. Nothing Ever is. But it was Glorious.

My wife was beginning to find herself, truly, and took command
of her mind as well as her body.
I went to sleep every night, despite any hardships I may have faced,
Complete.
I was feeding my soul, and paying the bills! Imagine that life!
While I complained about work I loved it.
When I complained about money we had it.
I just wanted more.
Is the grass ever greener though?

I had a life of creating music, music that made our friends fuckin' Move
and other people we didn't even know- they felt moved.
We Rocked dancefloors
in Europe
in Miami
all over Manhattan and Brooklyn
We fuckin' went for it All. I know I did
and I know my boy did too.
We were a Slammin' team on the 1's and 2's - even our friends felt it
and told us about it, and made us feel like fuckin' Giants.

We Were Giants.
When you've got a crowd in the palm of your hand
You Know, you know what its like to connect with
complete strangers, even if just for a moment
and that's God in those Connections.
Not in Our Acts
but in our Hearts.

I felt like that Giant for a little while,
and I worked my Ass off to feel that way
but when it came time to fight for it,
For for what We Had


I folded. Folded to commitments
made out of lust for Understanding.

and found myself
running further away.
Further away from the past,
Not Being in the Present.

and Everything Fell Apart.
Everything.

I Longed to feel like that Giant.
A Giant Amongst Bigger Giants.
they towered over me, and comforted me
and guided me, and watched out for Me
and Cared.
They didn't see my mother in my eyes
or who I was as a child.

They just believed in Me.

and We had Music
Everywhere
and it Was Glorious.

I still Long to feel that way,
Looking forward to Saturday night.
thinking about the music we're gonna hear
over the weekend, through the weekend,
All Weekend.

No Future Trippin' they say
you gotta rebuild
On Day at a Time.
Fuckin' hell.
I was fuckin Contented!
and Happy, and Loved
and Cherished, and I loved
and Cherished
and I miss all the Fools that Inspired
this Fragmented,
From the Heart,
I don't Give a Shit,
I'm Fuckin' Sayin' it,
I Fuckin' Lova ya,
kinda prose,

Aimed without fear
aimed at you.



For the Crew, you know who you are
You mighta danced with us, you mighta danced to Us
but You Remember... and we all looked great dancing
together, Didn't We????

Check out "The Tower" by Soapbox Army.Their album is in my top 5 for 09: http://ping.fm/4rMUS

Working on letter of intent for job at LA Audio/Video and VFX. Goin for it all finally. What ya do when U got nothin to lose

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Can't Climb The Wall

Fuck.

It's been so long.
so very long

since something Good
stayed Good.

What the Fuck.

I've bled myself Dry,
been leaking ever since,

ever since success in Life found me

Debts, Emotional debts, spiritual debts,
Financial debts

following years of Mistakes

Decisions made from the head,
not the Heart.

I keep moving,
just moving,

or I Die.

I pray.
I say things like God, I offer myself to Thee
to build with me, and to do with me as Thy Wilt

Sometimes Hashem hides from me
or
I hide from him

when I need him

when I need her
when I need you
when I need them
When I lose it All

and When I run

and when i Fall

Feeling Irrelevant Can Bring Back the Light

The last two weeks have been rough.

I've been feeling irrelevant. My entire professional career, spent busting my ass in both the high end audio and music industries, has been for naught.

I was given the chance for a dream job, Great pay, back in the entertainment industry three weeks ago. The man whom I would have worked for, had he given me the job, knew me. He knew my past work, and that I was a dedicated person, and that my work ethic is exactly what he needed.

Well, he said he considered me more of a peer, and he would feel bad "having me be the guy to get his coffee." What bullshit. Needless to say I didn't get the job, even after a terrific, forty-five minute phone call with the guy.

I say look asshole (well, I didn't say it to him); here's a "peer" who needs a job! So what if he wanted to hire some eye candy with nice tits, at least tell me so!

Anyway, so it took the wind right out my fuckin' sails. It felt like a chance to live the life I loved years ago, a life full of smiles, full of dancing, nice dinners, traveling, and well, actually fuckin' living!

That's the life we had from 1998 to 2004. Not a bad run I suppose. There aren't alot of people that can pinpoint a time in their lives when they were most happy. Well, at least I can do that.

I've been kicking myself for leaving New York more and more these days. I was the bitch, I didn't stand up for the fact that I was so happy, and that's not on my wife. That's on me. People tell me I need to get over it, that I need to move on. They're right, but I don't think I will ever forgive myself, so, what do I do?

I change everything the fuck up. It's all I can do.

I won't ever let myself off the hook for giving up the life I always wanted; working in music, producing music, DJing around the world with my best friend, traveling with dear friends, money in the savings account.

But that life is no more, and I've been chasing it for too long. I have nothing, we have nothing, actually less than that. Our one good investment (aside of my wife's surgery) was our fuckin' Rav4 for Christs sake, and they recently took that away from us too.

I live in fuckin' Antioch, East Bay, California. I love California, and I'm never going back to the East Coast. All that was there for me, everything that I had worked for, those solid connections and jobs awaiting, they're all gone.

That wonderful old life does not exist here. I can't even fuckin' play any records, and I've been out of the game too long now.

Time to change it up. Perhaps it's time to join the herd, and this I do not say with the slightest bit of sarcasm. I always wanted to teach, but the schooling would be too long and we have no money.

Time to learn a real trade. Hell, who knows, but I realize the reason for my fuckin' dark times is that I simply won't forgive myself, and because of that I must change Everything.



*This was a means of pure expression, and I needed to say this to somebody, so I wrote it here.

The bitter Taste of Success, Well, After it's Gone

I tasted success.
It wasn't handed to me,
I earned that shit.
I worked my fuckin' ass off
to become the man I am.
To have worked for and with
some of the greatest minds of
our century,

That was a gift
that I am trying desperately not to Squander.

I had all I needed.
An amazing Wife,
two jobs that I was passionate about,
Great Friends around us,
the chance to rock a fuckin dance floor,
having fuckin fun,
in the way that friends crazy for each other have.

I fuckin squandered it all. I thought moving to my wife's birthplace
would be great for both of us. Just bad timing.
I don't regret moving to Cali
Well, not the second time coming back anyway

and I, now, feel very much at home here.
But things are fuckin rough, having to rebuild,
Completely.
Fuckin health insurance, accidents, fuckin pills, FUCK
I was however, from the bottom of my heart
Always Chasing Righteousness. It illuded me for a while.

and I left Hashem
and so he left me

Man I blew it.

I just muthafuckin' blew it people. We blew it.

I am rebuilding

and, while it seems fuckin
Impossible
because it feels like we can not catch up
sometimes,
just catch up to ourselves
Who We Were, and who We Are.

But we have fuckin found ourselves again
and perhaps we needed to go through all these SHITTY
Nightmares

To escape the will to run
run away into fuckin intoxicants
and evil people

We are, at least, clear in mind and body
and that is Something
I guess

But Fuck I do miss Success.

don't know yet

I never intended any harm.
Not to anyone.

This dragon,
was born of the past
and still haunts

my Present.

I keep it at bay
with love,
by trying to hold onto
the Truth.

Life is often impossible.
and my Soul,
seeks out the darkness
at times.

The light
can be illusive.

The world seems blurred,
distorted
when seen through the eyes of
the unrighteous.

I chase
righteousness

and always try
to seek the light