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| Monday, April 9th, 2007
GET AMPED!!! - For my artist friends
GetAMPED Magazine will be holding a series of band showcases in the greater Jacksonville, Florida area. If you are a band and wish to be considered for a slot, email us a request (see below, do not reply to this message) for us to check out your mySpace page. If you know a band that wants to be exposed, send this to them.
BUT FIRST!!! PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE TO SEE WHAT WE'RE ABOUT!
The criteria for picking bands will be:
Genre
Following (nobody will be impressed if only three people come to see you)
Exposure (What we really mean is OVER-Exposure)
Work Ethic (If you like to play but don't like to promote yourself, stay home)
The bands selected will be in line to open for a larger act therefore gaining the right exposure instead of what everyone usually promises.
Oh yeah, and we'll feature you (if you make the cut) in our magazine.
Just email us at: exposeme@getampedmag.com
PLEASE DON'T attach photos or music, we'll delete the message and you won't get exposed after all. Just send us the message that you're interested. In other words, don't call us, we'll call you.
Oh, yeah speaking of that, make sure you include a PHONE NUMBER THAT WORKS PLEASE! NO PHONE NUMBER = NO EXPOSURE!!!
In addition, we're adding a showcase section to our website this week. The showcase section will be seen by industry professionals and fans alike. If you wish to be added to the showcase page, a banner (480 X 60, 50k) must be emailed to us at exposeme@getampedmag.com . There is a very small programing charge in order to be included on the site. Each banner will link back to either your mySpace page or website. Act quickly as the pages will fill up fast.
Thanks,
GetAMPEDmag.com
Posted By girl-on-a-mission @ 12:06 PM | Comments: 1 |
| Monday, April 9th, 2007
Just thinkin'...
What you think you see, isn't really me.
You still stare, looking for someone who just isn't there.
I've escaped, if only briefly, but I'll fly while I can.
Come along if you dare - I promise you nothing.
So... you won't be disappointed.
I have no plans, no schemes to keep you,
As I can't stay too long here, and there is closer
Than you or I really want to know.
Make a clear memory of this moment - I promise you nothing.
So... you won't be disappointed.
Posted By girl-on-a-mission @ 12:01 PM | Comments: 1 |
| Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Re-Inventing the Girl
When everything familiar suddenly disappears, and you are left with just a stripped down version of yourself, you find that you are free to start again. Getting passed that frozen in time feeling, forcing yourself to let go of what was and daring to look ahead to what will be... knowing that what will be is whatever you create it to be. Confronting that emptiness and starting over is not so easy, but there is no going back.
This isn't the first time I've been to this place, but it's not really like any other time before. Taking stock of all that is just my own, I step off into the unknown, moving on toward who I will become. There is much to laugh about, a few things that bring tears, but mostly there's just an overwhelming sense of awe. There is a newness about life in this early morning. The sun rises as it has countless times before, but on a different me... Not a lesser being, but changed. I choose to move on. The future plays peek-a-boo in the far corners of my mind, always teasing with glipses of adventures yet to come and temptations that are too enticing to resist.
I am still just me... still on my way to becoming who I will be, but it's as if I'd only just begun... again.
Posted By girl-on-a-mission @ 8:56 AM | Comments: 0 |
| Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
As 2006 comes to a close
Just a quick update. I haven't been able to spend as much time online this past year as I would have liked. Really miss just hanging out and chatting up everyone's sound boards and forums. After Thanksgiving, I became ill and sitting at the computer was not an option. Ugh! The withdrawal was excruciating!! LOL I have survived and look forward to great fun in the coming year. I'll be making my holiday rounds and checking up on all my friends here. My best wishes to all for a very Merry Christmas and a truly blessed New Year. Peace & Much Love ~B
Posted By girl-on-a-mission @ 1:05 PM | Comments: 0 |
| Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Do you have a MySpace?
If you have a MySpace account, go listen to my friends, Breaking Serenity, add them to your friends and then go listen again OFTEN!!
Posted By girl-on-a-mission @ 10:41 PM | Comments: 0 |
| Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Enter Comments Here
Cripes! I miss y'all! So while the comment feature isn't working for us yet. Drop me a line here :) Hopefully, soon we will be back to our normal craziness here.
Posted By girl-on-a-mission @ 9:45 AM | Comments: 6 |
| Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
LifeNets.net - Dafur
"Omar al Bashir told us that we should kill all the Nubas. There is no place here for the Negroes any more"
Words of a Janjawid fighter, according to a refugee from Kenyu, interviewed by Amnesty International
 This one year old girl was shot by a Sudanese government helicopter.
Her mother was killed.
As you read this, over 3 million people in Darfur, Sudan are crammed together in concentration camps, dying of disease and hunger, while government sponsored troops slaughter civilians, use rape to destroy group unity, and shoot children for sport. 400,000 men, women, and children are already dead. Entire races have been exterminated by the Sudanese government's campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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"President Bush, during your first year as President you wrote in the margins of a report on the Rwandan genocide 'Not on my watch.' We urge you to
live up to those words by leading a stronger multinational force to protect civilians in Darfur"
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Where is Darfur?
Darfur is a region in western Sudan, an eastern African country half the size of the United States
 
Why are people being killed?
Ethnic African rebel groups in Darfur launched a war for independence, sighting a lack of life saving government funds in the region. President Omar Al-Bashir responded with a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing against civilians. He has used proxy militia groups to torch whole cities, rape and kill thousands of women and children. The violence continues today.
Omar Al-Bashir has used the Janjaweed militia to murder thousands of men, women, and children while enjoying a luxurious lifestyle. Parade magazine's David Wallechinsky ranked al-Bashir at the very top of his list of the worlds ten worst dictators. Most recently he has severely restricted press access to Darfur, an ominous sign of what's to come.
When Omar Al-Bashir rose to power in 1989 he dissolved parliament and banned political parties. Ignoring countless U.N. resolutions to disarm the Janajaweed militia and end the violence in Darfur, Bashir has made a mockery of international law and the ideals on which the United Nations was founded. He seems to believe the international community will allow him to get a way with the wholesale murder of entire ethnic groups, and so far he has been right.
Children in Auschwitz concentration Camp, January 1945
After the Holocaust the world said it would "never again" allow the wholesale slaughter of ethnic groups by any government, even if it meant standing up to a major world power such as Nazi Germany.
Omar Al-Bashir is making a mockery of this pledge by committing genocide on a budget less than that of most U.S. states.
If the world is unwilling to intervene in a genocide committed by a relatively minor world player, how can we possibly hope to stand up to the next Nazi Germany?
Fast - Easy - Effective
It takes less than 30 seconds of your time.
"President Bush, during your first year as President you wrote in the margins of a report on the Rwandan genocide 'Not on my watch.' We urge you to
live up to those words by leading a stronger multinational force to protect civilians in Darfur"
Name:Email:
We respect your privacy LifeNets.net will not rent, sell, or share your information with any third party vendors. We will keep you updated on ways you can help people in Darfur and elsewhere in the future. If you no longer wish to receive that information, you can easily unsubscribe by clicking the link at the bottom of the emails you receive.
We'll add your name to our e-Petition with thousands of others and send it to President Bush requesting funding for a multi-national peace keeping force in Darfur.
We'll keep you informed about future events in your area and let you know about opportunities to help further. You can unsubscribe at any time with one click.
 "When we tried to escape they shot more children. They raped women; I saw many cases of Janjawid raping women and girls. They are happy when they rape. They sing when they rape and they tell that we are just slaves and that they can do with us how they wish." -Man from Mukjar, as reported by Amnesty International."There was also another rape on a young single girl aged 17: M. was raped by six men in front of her house in front of her mother. Ms brother, S., was then tied up and thrown into fire." a 35-year-old Fur man from Mukjar, as quoted by Amnesty International
This girl was raped by members of Janjaweed
Rape is used systematically in Darfur, in order to destroy group unity. Rape turns women into social outcasts, shames and demoralizes their husbands. It is also used as an incentive for soldiers, along the with the plunder from the cities they sack.
U.S Gold Medalist Joey Cheek Donates his $25,000 Prize to Help Darfur.
After winning the Gold medal for the men's 500m, U.S. speed skater Joey Cheek donated his $25,000 to help children in Darfur, and followed it up with a donation of his $15,000 silver medal prize.
Thousands Rally on Washington for Darfur Justice
Thousands of people gathered near the capital in Washington on April 30th, 2006 to raise support for an international peacekeeping force in Darfur.
The demonstration was hugely successful in raising political will and media exposure about the genocide in Darfur.
1- Humanitarian funding - The international community has fallen short of the donations they have promised to help provide basic necessities for men, women, and children in Darfur. The United States has been a leader in providing life saving assistance and should continue to lead our allies in providing basic necessities for children in Darfur.
2- The International Criminal Court - The United States should use every diplomatic means available, including the International Criminal Court. Full U.S. cooperation with the ICC in Darfur will send a strong message to Omar Al-Bashir and other war criminals.
3- Multi-national peacekeeping force - The African Union mission in Darfur has proved horribly inadequate at maintaining peace. Humanitarian operations have been curtailed due to the violence. The U.S. should play a logistical role in supporting a multi-national peacekeeping force in the region and work with our allies to fund an adequate multi-national force in Darfur.
"If every member of the House and Senate had received 100 letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda, when the crisis was first developing, then I think the response would have been different.''
-Senator Paul Simon
Fast - Easy - Effective
It takes less than 30 seconds of your time.
"President Bush, during your first year as President you wrote in the margins of a report on the Rwandan genocide 'Not on my watch.' We urge you to
live up to those words by leading a stronger multinational force to protect civilians in Darfur"
Name:Email:
We respect your privacy LifeNets.net will not rent, sell, or share your information with any third party vendors. We will keep you updated on ways you can help people in Darfur and elsewhere in the future. If you no longer wish to receive that information, you can easily unsubscribe by clicking the link at the bottom of the emails you receive.
We'll add your name to our e-Petition with thousands of others and send it to President Bush requesting funding for a multi-national peace keeping force in Darfur.
We'll keep you informed about future events in your area and let you know about opportunities to help further. You can unsubscribe at any time with one click.
Thanks for your help!
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Questions? Message The Darfur Action Network
Posted By girl-on-a-mission @ 3:46 AM | Comments: 0 |
| Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Vote for Sickleeye!!
Great guys, great music - so go here and vote for them!
Sickleeye
Thanks!!
Posted By girl-on-a-mission @ 8:40 PM | Comments: 0 |
| Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
a great night out
The Will Hoge Band (L to R) Adam, Sig, Will, Jefferson, Dean, Erika, Trina
DRAT!!! Adam got cut off!
(4/1/06) Imagine Clapton, The Stones, and Springstein just cutting loose and rocking out! It was a great show. Their latest cd - The Man Who Killed Love is a really good listen, but it doesn't give you a clue to the explosive live show they perform. Will's vocals and guitar are awesome; Jefferson is absolutely wicked on the keyboard; Adam & Dean do some amazing things with their guitars lol; and Sig - well damn - can't rock without a soul'd out jammin' drummer. Erika and Trina have great voices and danced all night (I want to buy their vitamins!). They just tore the place up for about 2 hours straight - then they tried to call it a night, but the no standing room crowd pulled them back on stage for a 4 song encore. Having a bit to drink while the opening band played - I managed to get some awesome pictures of blurry lights and black spaces that I can't recall what should have been there instead LOL. I ended up with this one decent picture that I let some nice tall person take for me.
Posted By girl-on-a-mission @ 5:36 AM | Comments: 2 |
| Thursday, February 9th, 2006
Numb has come and gone...
Fallen and it's way passed too late
Drowning and there's no rising now
Tripped the wire and taken the bait
Useless contemplating how
Worn out excuses and clever lines
Attempts to hold on to what never was
Can't restore the tie that binds
All that left is a faint memory like a soft buzz
Slightly distracting, but not a hold anymore
Leaves me looking up at the bottom of the bottle
It was a long twisted path to this door
But we made the trip at full throttle
Your eyes meet mine and look away
Nothing there anymore, no looking back
So just force a smile and greet another day
Stuff the memory into your backpack
Like a faded photo, who was that...
Add me to the pile and just move on
So this is where we are at
Numb has come and gone
Working it out as best I can for now
Just don't ask me anything today
Leave, just go, make no final bow
Just let it go, let it all slip away
Fallen and it's way passed too late
Drowning and there's no rising now
Tripped the wire and taken the bait
Useless contemplating how
Posted By girl-on-a-mission @ 4:49 AM | Comments: 3 |
| Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
Drifting...
Setting sail for far away,
Seeking the sea of forgetfulness.
The winds have died.
Drifting...
Search the empty horizon
As the mist begins to clear.
Not even a breeze.
Drifting...
Starless night becomes
A grey bleak dawn.
Such a heaviness in the air.
Drifting...
Grey becomes black
As a silent night falls.
No moon tonight.
Drifting...
Finally sleep comes,
Dreamless and deep.
Forgetfulness at last.
Drifting...
Posted By girl-on-a-mission @ 5:10 AM | Comments: 7 |
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