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Today's News (& Ramblings)

 

Well, finally getting in an update.  Just one more week until our elections.  I know you'll hear "get out and vote" a lot but I'd say that if you really don't know who you are going to vote for yet, after almost 2 years of campaigning flooding every TV and radio broadcast, I wouldn't bother voting since it is obviously not an important thing to you in your life at this point.  You either think you can make your own decisions or you want to the government to be your momma.  It's really that simple to me but notice I'm not telling you who to vote for. 

 

So what else has been going on?  I've gotten to jam a little here and there.  I got together and did a gig in Missouri with my old band "Looser" for a party up near Oak Ridge, Missouri. That was a lot of fun but quite a bit of work as well.  We had a band of 14 & 15 year-old young men open for us called "Small Town Boyz" that really are off to a good start.  I busted my snare drum head the first song if that tells you anything about how hard we were rockin'!  It was good to get to play out again with my old friends and we also had a surprise bass guitarist in Rober "Moon" Raneri who stepped in at the last moment and did a super job.  The very next night Jeff, Snap & I went and played some contemporary Christian tunes at our friend, David Daniel's church service.  That was a lot of fun and later on we ended up at Snap's pad to write some tunes.  Other than all of that I have been getting to jam some at church and work with a couple other praise bands when able.  Also been working a lot of hours but it's slowing down for a little while. 

 

Send me your links and news, etc....  DD sent me a few links that I'll put below.  It was also good to hear from my old friend Damon Holligan.  He's living over here in Nashville too not even 5 miles from me!  Small world indeed.  I'll have to fill you in about our goings on at a later date.  I'm supposed to jam for a Halloween party with Carey Bradley and friends so I'll keep you posted on that too. 

 

Gotta run!

 

 

Peace!

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Links

 

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Go here to check out some of my tunes!!

....www.MySpace.com/VitoTunes

 

 

Here's a link to an interview I did for Banned Promotions.  

 

 

 

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Funnies!

 

I Will Have Ice Cream

 

Little Johnny rushes home from school. He invades the fridge and is scooping out some cherry vanilla ice cream when his mother enters the kitchen.

She says, "Put that away, Little Johnny. You can't have ice cream now. It's too close to supper time. Go outside and play."

Little Johnny whimpers and says, "There's no one to play with." Trying to placate him, she says, "OK. I'll play with you. What do you want to play?" "I wanna play 'Mommy and Daddy,'" Little Johnny replies.

Trying not to register surprise, and to further appease him, she says, "Fine, I'll play. What do I do?"

Little Johnny says, "You go up to the bedroom and lie down as if you're taking a nap." Figuring that she can easily control the situation, Mom goes upstairs.

Little Johnny, acting a bit cocky, swaggers down the hall and opens the utility closet. He puts on his fathers old fishing hat. As he starts up the stairs, he notices a cigarette butt in the ashtray on the end table. He picks it up and slips it in the corner of his mouth. At the top of the stairs he moves to the bedroom doorway.

His mother raises her head and asks, "What do I do now?" In a gruff manner, Little Johnny says, "Get your butt downstairs and get that kid some ice cream!"

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After the Great Britain Beer Festival, in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer.

The guy from Corona sits down and says, "Hey Senor, I would like the world's best beer, a Corona." The bartender dusts off a bottle from the shelf and gives it to him.

 

The guy from Budweiser says, "I'd like the best beer in the world, give me 'The King Of Beers', a Budweiser." The bartender gives him one.

 

The guy from Coors says, "I'd like the only beer made with Rocky Mountain spring water, give me a Coors." He gets it.

 

The guy from Guinness sits down and says, "Give me a Coke." The bartender is a little taken aback, but gives him what he ordered.

 

The other brewery presidents look over at him and ask "Why aren't you drinking a Guinness?" and the Guinness president replies, "Well, I figured if you guys aren't drinking beer, neither would I."

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A drunk goes into a bar. He is very, very drunk - can hardly stand up. He slurs his way up to the bar and says:

"Hey, bartender! Gimme a martini!"

 

"No, no," says the bartender. "You've had too much already."

The drunk spies a dart board behind the bar.

 

"Tell you what," he says. "If I can throw three bull's eyes with that dart set would you let me have the drink?"

"Sure," says the bartender, thinking the guy would leave after the little game. He hands the drunk three darts. "Look out, everybody!"

 

Zot, zot, zot. The drunk throws three quick bull's eyes.

 

Well, the bartender had never seen anything like that before, but he has to make good on the wager, so he makes a martini and sets it before the drunk. He then puts a napkin next to the drink and sets a turtle on it.

"What's this," says the drunk.

"That's a prize for such fine dart throwing," says the bartender.

The drunk drinks his martini, picks up the turtle, puts it in his coat pocket, and leaves.

 

Well, the next night, the same drunk goes into the same bar. Again, he is hopelessly inebriated; totally faced.

"Bartender," he says. "Gimme a martini!"

 

"No, no," says the bartender. "You're too drunk already. Go home."

Again the drunk notices the darts.

 

"If I can throw three bull's eyes would you gimme the martini?" he asks.

The bartender thinks, "This guy can't be that lucky again. I'll get rid of him."

"Sure, sure," he says, handing the darts over.

 

Bip, bip, bip. Three bull's eyes.

 

"Holy cow," says the bartender, and he gives the drunk guy a martini. Again, he sets a turtle next to it.

"What's this?" asks the drunk.

"That's a prize for being such a good shot."

 

"Oh," says the drunk, and he quaffs his martini, puts the turtle in his coat pocket, and leaves.

 

Believe it or not, the very next night the same drunk enters the same bar.

"Gimme a martini!" he demands.

 

"No, no," says the bartender. "You've been overserved already. Get on home."

Spying the dart board once more, the drunk guy says:"Would tossing three bull's eyes prove that I'm not overserved?"

 

The bartender can't believe that anybody this drunk could possibly hit the dart board, let alone get three bull's eyes.

 

"OK," he says, forking over the three darts.

 

The drunk deftly grabs all three darts and tosses them simultaneously.

Thwock! All three darts land solidly in the bull's eye!

 

"Unbelievable!" says the incredulous bartender. True to his word, he prepares a martini and sets it before the drunk guy. He then lays a beautiful long-stem rose on the bar next to the cocktail.

 

"What's this?" asks the drunk.

"That's a special prize for being so good at darts," says the bartender.

"Oh," says the drunk. "All out of roast beef on a hard roll, huh?"

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After a heavy night at the pub, a drunken man decides to sleep off his drunkenness at a local hotel. He approaches the reception desk, takes care of the formalities and heads off to his suite. Several minutes later, the drunk staggers back to the reception desk and demands his room be changed. "But sir," said the clerk, "you have the best room in the hotel." "I insist on another room!!!" said the drunk. "Very good, sir. I'll change you from 502 to 525. Would you mind telling me why you don't like 502?" asked the clerk. "Well, for one thing," said the drunk, "it's on fire."

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This guy walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender looks at the guy and says" Have you seen Eileen?"

The guy is rather confused and asked " Eileen who?"

The bartender relies, "I lean over and you kiss my butt."

 

Well the man was offended by this and walks out the door and into the bar across the street.

So he sits down and orders a beer. While he is drinking his beer he tells the bartender what the other bartender said to him.

 

The bartender then told him," You know what you should do, you should go back over there and ask him if he has seen Ben and when he says Ben who you say I bend over and you kiss my butt.

 

So the guy goes back across the street and asks the Bartender if he has seen Ben.

And the Bartender said " Yep, He just went out the door with Eileen."

The guy asks" Eileen who?

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Quotes

 

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

     ~Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

 

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

     ~Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)

 

The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.

     ~Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006

 

The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don’t limit it.

     ~John Eliot, Ph.D., Reverse Psychology for Success

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Have a fabulous week!!!
 
              

    
 
 
 
 
Swifton

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