November 6, 2002
Updates, updates, updates!  This place is just overflowing with updates!  Well anyway welcome to yet another exciting update at wornoutshoes.com!  Today is my niece's 21st birthday - Happy Birthday, Melissa!  

But wait, there's more!  A NEW SONG!  Go download 'Tell Me'.  With David on rhythm guitar, this song has a total of three guitars, one bass, one drum set, and one strange freak of a zoid on vocals.  How shweet is that?

Also on the Music page, you'll find a new button.  It's the Lyrics button! (YAY, LYRICS!)  Now wasn't all this exciting?  Yes, I knew it was.  I'm trying to think if there is anything else new to offer but I guess that's about it.  I really hate when the time changes and it gets dark so early - and it's cold - and it's rainy.  Hey, if it's gonna do that, I wish it would just go ahead and snow about three or four feet.  And I'm even missing the driver side windshield wiper from my vehicle.  Some punk stole it, probably when I was at Dollywood.  He's probably running around with it, showing his friends:  "Hey look at me!  I got WornOutShoes' windshield wiper!!"  Crazed fans - when will I ever find relief from them?  Yeah that's right.  I went to Dollywood.  So what?  Hey, don't knock it till ya try it.  By the way, we're not actually trying to sell the cd for 3 payments of $149.95.  It's still *sigh* free.

Take one of these and call me in the morning,
-WornOutShoes

October 14, 2002
Hey there.  Update?  What update?  Just to let ya'll know, there's this song that's in a half way recorded state that's just dying to be worked on but since my job really sucks, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.  So big deal, right?  Right?  Right.  I won't argue with that.

I wish I was rich.  Not so I could buy expensive things - yachts, airplanes, houses, cars or even fancy footwear.  Heck I don't even feel a need to travel much farther than my own zip code.  But just so I could work on things I love and not spend my time on the vain task of earning a living.  If I could retire right now, I would still have a very full plate of stuff to do with my life and my time.  It's not that I don't like to work.  I just want to work on things I like - you know.  Put a little 'me' in the things I that occupy so much of my life.  

Yeah, I know.  There are people who only dream they had it so good.  But this has been given to me.  And I'm not just going to toss it aside.  You can live in a cardboard box, have clothes on your back, and get free food from the mission.  And you could say, "It is enough".  But not me.  It's not money or power I'm after.  It is life, more abundantly and shared with others the best way I know how.

You go to school (learning itself ain't so bad, but the system really sucks).  You go to work (usually just something to pay the bills - not anything you would really want to do if you had the choice).  You retire (if you're blessed to last so long).  You die (no doubt).  I'm sorry.  But I just won't go so quietly.

Rock the Casbah,
-TatteredBipedalFootwear

September 6, 2002
At last a completed recording!  Just finished uploading Two Seconds Till Midnight.  Go get it.  Scientists tell us that if you compare 24 hours on a clock to the length of time the earth has been in existence, you could go almost the entire 24 hours and humans would still have not appeared on earth.  At two seconds til midnight is when the first humans appear.  I guess I've just been thinking about the temporary existence we have here.  Sometimes I wonder what's the point if there is nothing beyond this.  

Life has a tendency to want to continue.  I can't walk into a parking lot and see a car sitting there with the engine running and no one around, and start asking myself how wonderful it is how this car formed itself with all its pieces parts and came together exactly as everything should and there it sits running.  No.  The first question in my mind would be "who left this car here?"  Sounds like a very logical question doesn't it?  Yet some would have us believe this whole place just formed itself.  A large ball with an atmosphere and liquid water a certain distance away from a yet larger, really hot ball, on a certain tilt, with a certain rate of rotation, with a certain...well you get the point.  My question is the same as with the car - who put this here........and how long can we keep abusing it before the whole thing breaks down?

PS - The next web project will be a lyrics and discography page.  With that in mind, we put the words to Two Seconds Till Midnight below:

Walking along footsteps I took long ago
Into the backwoods down through the hollow
I used to think life had a strong allure
I used to think, now I'm not so sure

I can't but help to feel so temporary
An ocean of people-still an empty sea to me
When you went away no one seemed to care at all
Why did heaven leave, where did you go, why did heaven fall?

Oh--oh, yeah
What's the difference?
Oh--oh, yeah
To a small lonely life
Oh--oh, yeah
What's after this?
Oh--oh, yeah
Just two seconds till midnight

They say I don't know myself and I don't know the time
They say that I've long since been left behind
And they say, but I don't care
'Cause time and time again, I will return here

When I'm all alone they can't laugh at me
Can't make accusations about things they can't see
There is only one who can give my life sound
Can grip the neck, can strum the strings, can cross holy ground

Oh--oh, yeah
But what's the difference?
Oh--oh, yeah
To a small lonely life
Oh--oh, yeah
What's after this?
Oh--oh, yeah
Just two seconds till midnight
Two seconds till midnight

-WornOutShoes

August 14, 2002
Hi All! 
Just a note to let ya know we haven't forgotten about the place.  Summer is a great time but it's easy to play at other things and the other, other things (like recording) don't get done.  I must say, recording is my least favorite part of music.  I love writing.  I love playing.  But recording is just lots of work.  (Yeah, yeah I know - it don't sound like we put a lot of work in that part.)

There are a couple of songs in the works and are really close to completion.  They are slow and depressing however, but ya'll may like them anyway.  The bulk of their content was written during winter, a time when I am more depressed than usual, so they aren't the most uplifting tunes (with the exception of Don't Ruin The Picnic - can't be depressed all the time).  The few we are working on now are more upbeat but may not be ready til winter - ok so I'm a little off on my timing.  But at least sometime this fall, we should have a new cd ready.

One thing I've learned is that it is better to put off recording a song if you can.  You end up going back to it later and coming up with something cool to add to it or changing it around somehow.  If you like the song and keep working with it, eventually it gets done and you have something nice.  And as time goes on, you want to have more tracks to record on too.  But a larger multi-track = larger price tag.  So that will have to wait for a short time.  Maybe by two seconds til midnight, I'll have the next song ready.

In other news,  the band Boston will be releasing a cd in the near future.  Boston has always kept me dreaming.  Listen and learn.   Also, I've bought a new computer game called CounterStrike.  Sometimes it's nice to get away from reality although I have no wish to be on a permanent vacation.  And remember, if you ask someone how they are doing, don't say it to be polite or out of protocol.  That really gets on my nerves.  If you don't really care how I'm doing, don't ask.  Thanks.  Now get outta here.

Keep reminding yourself:  things aren't bad as they seem, this too will pass,
-WornOutShoes  

July 20 2002
For Logan and Jason (the fake one):  You wanted an update.  Here's an update.  I'm going outside to clip my fingernails and toenails now because it's hard to play guitar with long nails (yes I play with my feet too - can't you tell?)  Then I'm going to drop off film from the lake pictures and last night's 38 Special concert.  I will probably take the motorcycle even though it looks like rain.  I don't expect a long trip anyway.  Then I shall arrive back here just in time for my martial arts training and accompanying shower afterwhich I will go meet with 'the guys'.  Jack is supposed to be in this weekend and we will probably record something great and maybe take in some pizza and a movie.  I still haven't seen the Crocodile Hunter movie and I'm dying to go.

So there ya go!  I'm still waiting for your first payment on a cd or two.  :)

Live long and prosper
-WornOutShoes

July 9, 2002
Greetings and salutations all you fine people of Earth.  No new song to report.  Nothing so great happening on this end.  Not much to report at all.  Just thought I'd post an update for the heck of it.  I dunno.  I just get in these moods.  Hope ya'll had a great 4th.  I went swimming with the guys near South Holston Dam over the weekend.  (Got pictures - will upload).  So now I have this inner ear infection resulting from my constant desire to get out and dive in again.  I can barely hear anything out of my right ear.  Joy joy.  Oh well. 

I just learned my nephew (my theoretical, hypopathetically adopted son) will be visiting in November.  I look forward to that.  It's great being around people you actually like.  There's my seven or eight friends, family - sometimes, and then there's my nephew, Logan.  Wish I could buy one of him at the store for my own or perhaps capture one in the wild and tame it.  It's neat to teach another being things and watch him learn.  It's not like teaching a dog to roll over or fetch.  This is another actual, living being like me and I've just added something to his life.  The surprise has been what he has added to mine and what I've learned from him.  That's just cool.

So, what have you been up to?  Send us email and let us know.  We'll pick which one we like the best and whoever wins gets a free cd.  Hoorah.

Thrive in the sunshine and warmness of summer,
-WornOutShoes

June 19, 2002
Hey there.  Well finishing Don't Ruin The Picnic Didn't take long did it?  Yeah that's right we got another song - go get it.  I'm not sure it's exactly "finished" but what do we do that is, anyway?  It's about a former employer (and other related events) and folks like him.  Sometimes life sucks and some people just help it to get suckier.  So to all those people everywhere - I hope we ruin your picnic.  This song rocks so turn it up.  Thank you.

Well, updates...hmm....  Hey I know! (how could I forget?).  I got a new two wheeled contraption!  (Not the garden cart variety).  It's the silver Yamaha FZ1 and it's zoom zoom zoom fast.  1000 cc's of really ticked-off adrenaline.  I took off on the thing on a trip to Boone, NC through the back roads.  At one point I took off really fast to get around some traffic.  I was thinking I was really accelerating fast - then the RPM's wound up.  I think I about lost my shorts!  Note to self: Don't pull back on throttle unless serious.  It has a more upright seating position, unlike your truer 'crotch rockets'.  Anyway, it's comfortable, maneuverable and, well, just different.  Like us!  

Hope ya'll's lives are in order and everything is going along greasily.  Summer is a great time of year and it's fun to get out and play.  Be sure to enjoy plenty of sunshine (not too much) and don't forget to breath.  If you get the chance, read a book called "My Side Of The Mountain" by Jean Craighead George.  Although it's about an experience most of us won't have in our lives, it has many similarities to everyday surviving.  And, oh yeah - don't forget to breath.   It's good for ya.

Live large,
-WornOutShoes  

May 27, 2002
Well finally a new song!  Somewhere between new employment, a death in the family and some email spammer that's been bugging me (who should think I'm the coolest guy in the world at this point for not reporting him) we finally got another one recorded.  Go to the Music page and give a listen to Riverboat Carrie.  This song is is totally unrelated to my life's events or anyone else's life I know.  David is on guitar and he came up with the melody.  I just wrote down words that sounded like what the song should be saying.  That's right.  I just pulled em outta my....well you know....my head.  :)  I don't know what genre of music this song would belong in but it kind of reminds me of some kind of ballroom music or something......or something.  Anyway.

Look for another song soon too!  There are several we really need to finish but this one has us all excited (because it rocks) so we're gonna start laying down the tracks today as soon as they can muster the strength to get me off this computer.  Hey somebody has to update this place.  It's called Don't Ruin The Picnic - and it does relate to my life.  It's probably the hardest rockingest song we've done so far.  Kind of like The Marshmallow on steroids.  We hope to finish it today but you know how that goes.  See ya soon.

Stay young,
-WornOutShoes

P.S. to Eric:  Eric was a friend of my nephew's and a friend of mine who was killed in a car wreck a couple of weeks ago.  (My uncle was the death in the family mentioned above, died of old age).  Wasn't real close to him but close enough I guess.  We had some adventures together.  He was 18.  Hope you are in a better place my friend.  There's another hole in my footwear.  Cya later.

April 30, 2002
Hey there.  I really should update this thing more frequently.  My apologies to you few, loyal but admittedly strange fans.  Life has been very busy lately.  It seems I write more parts of songs than whole songs and the whole songs I have are living a meaningless state of unrecordedness.  Life is just strange right now.  For some reason, there is this gaseous vapor of uneasiness coloring my usual weird outlook on things.  I have plans for different things.  I think they may work out.  It just takes so long.  I feel very able to somehow travel faster than time normally allows others so I can see the fulfillment of my plans and hopes and to maybe escape the uneasiness of the present.  But as soon as I arrive in the future, I find myself wishing I was at some point in the past.  So here I stay, defaulting to contentment as if I actually had such a large choice on the matter.

I think I know things others don't but then after I get to thinking about it, I think everybody thinks that at one time or another and I begin feeling like a pompous jerk for thinking that.  Maybe I wish there was someone who thought the same things I thought thereby validating my contemplations.  Maybe that's why we look for things we have in common with others.  As if we need someone to tell us we're normal and acceptable.  Although I decided a long time ago there was no such thing as normal.  There is such thing as good and everyone ought to try their best, withholding judgment of others because we all know we are not perfect and it is nice to have patient, non-judgmental folks around when we screw up ourselves.  I don't know.  Maybe I'm just hungry.  Maybe for something, maybe for someone.  And maybe, just maybe I'm trying to use big words and phrases so I'll feel so smart and artistic?  Oh well.  The thoughts are in there.  Maybe that's where I'll leave them.

-Jason

April 7, 2002
Time for an update huh?  Well ok.  Hope ya'll had a great April Fools Day on April 1. If you're like us, however, you can feel free to go beyond April 1 and celebrate all year long. 
Happy Birthday tomorrow to my nephew, Logan!  
We've added a few new links.  Be sure to check out Bays Mountain Park and a band we found with similar podiatry issues - Dirty Shoes.  They are a hard rock band from England and with footwear like theirs, we think they certainly deserve the recognition. 

March 15, 2002
Well today is the day.  That's right.  The last day you can get the TwoWheeledContraption CD free.  I can feel your sorrow.  But guess what!  We have something new that will make up for that.  

Introducing the WornOutShoes Magazine!  (yay!).  

Inside you'll find great 'how to tips' on building that deck you've always wanted.  Ok.  Maybe not.  But we've got new pictures, some of which will appear on the cover and insert of our next CD.  There's also some background info on us and some of our friends and possible tour date information.  Hey, it's just something fun to do.  It's in PDF format.  Use Acrobat Reader to view it.  Don't have Acrobat Reader?  Click here to download it for free.  

Also, by tonight, we should have another song for you to download.  It's called Still Real and we are now in the final production stages.  Thanks for being stupid with us.  Take care, ya'll.

March 4, 2002
Greetings fellow folks.  We've changed the appearance of the website a little.  Hope ya'll like it.  Don't forget, the cd is free until March 15th.  By then you will have had two full months to get your free copy.  Don't blame me if you miss out.  Besides, money is now being allocated to the local food industry for nutritional purposes - (we have to eat).  So please enjoy the changes and be sure to wait til AFTER March 15 to request your copy of TwoWheeledContraption!  :)  Thanks!

January 14, 2002 - CD RELEASED!, ordering info:


Whew!  What a year!  (or was it longer than that?) One cd and ten songs later, we finally released a real, live, actual music cd.  Entitled TwoWheeledContraption, the cd is now available for shipping to all our wonderful fans around the world.

And that's not all - we're GIVING it away! "Giving it away!?" you say? That's right! It's priceless - (without a price). For a limited time, we'll ship this cd free to anyone who asks, or when our money runs out. Besides, no one would actually pay good money for it anyway. 

On this phenomenal cd, you'll get TwoWheeledContraption! (tune of TwoWheeledContraption here), Not Enuf! (tune of NotEnuf here), The Marshmallow! (tune of The Marshmallow here), and much much more! And all for the low, low price of - that's right - nothing! Zip. Zero. Nada. Kaput. Not a thing. Just call 1-800......oh wait, we don't have an 800 number. Well, just email us with your physical mailing address   and we'll ship your copy right away. 

WHEN REQUESTING YOUR CD - please be sure to include your name and physical mailing address and all that good stuff.  Please allow some time for delivery. We're trying to get more Oompahs to help and with luck, we'll have them pried away from that chocolate factory in no time.  

So what are you waiting for? Pick up that pho....er, mouse, then set it down gently, and send in your request today. And remember, the key phrase is "barring any unforseen circumstances". Just use this key phrase when ordering and you'll be sure to get.......nothing, that's right nothing extra for the effort!

And while your here, why not post a really stupid message on our message board? Thanks!  Your the man!  Orrrr the woman.  Heck, you da human being!

We are also compiling a list of emails so we can bug the crap out of ya with periodic updates.  Well not really.  If you've noticed, we are doing well to update the place once every month or two.  If you would like to be on our email list anyway, click here to add your email address and we'll be sure to bother as much as possible.

Thanks and God bless!

-WornOutShoes