Below are the 15 most recent journal entries recorded in Tim Skipper's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
12:56 pm	rock and roll, lay down, break down yo yo... it's been too long. i'm on tour in vegas right now with a day off?? hmmmmm... let's see if i've learned to walk away while i'm ahead yet?! haha... boo ya!!! so, a lot of things don't make sense in life these days, but it's getting way better, and for some reason i'm filled with a lot of hope. i miss you all back home!!! especially you RUSS!!! "you should've never come to hollywood..." (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 9th, 2005
1:22 pm	boo ya... yo, i'm here in iowa right now chillin at my man graham's place. we've been on the road for 3 days so far and the three shows we have played have been ridiculously sweet!! we've been killin it in merch everynight and so that is all good. we'll be out for about another week, and hopefully, we'll drive through a twister!!! that would be awesome and the weather is lookin pretty crappy today, so i'm thinkin, this could be the one. i'm doin pretty well other than that. there are some things that need to work themselves out, but i'm trying to just stay positive about everything. ok, short ramble... short but SWEET!!!!!! BOO YES!!!!! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
9:27 pm	OK, OK, here's a for real update... yup, it's the lightning back in action on the ol' livejournal. and i'm acutally going to talk about what's going on lately. hmmm... let's see here... today is tuesday and we just got done with rock and roll practice. we have a show at little brothers tomorrow and hopefully it goes well. i'm kinda nervous as to whether or not anyone will show up. oh well, right? right. so work is getting way old. since the last time i've written in here, i've had stitches in my face from a work "accident." that was fun. i just hate feeling exhausted at the end of every single day. my bones are always aching and now that i'm getting a bit of a cold, it's REALLY bad. anyway, the band is doing quite well. i'm getting excited for our record to come out. we finally decided on a cover, so it's getting really close. there are a lot of "important" people that are really excited about it too, so that's good. i just hope we can get onto some good tours here soon. let's see here... what else??? well, i'm feeling quite good about a lot of things i haven't felt good about for a long time. i'm finally seeing the victory and CHOOSING to walk it out and follow the will of the Lord. i love my friends and family an awful lot. i would get into this more, but i don't feel like i can explain it that well right now. oh well, i need to be getting to bed anyway. take 'er easy. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 24th, 2005
10:10 pm	a whistle song... so it seems impossible to meet her simple needs. she bleeds in intervals that are giving me the creeps. she is still the right one here; the incindiary soul. SHE IS IN FLAME AND I AM COLD. ...God, i'm getting old... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
9:52 pm	i can't wait to be done at the granite shoppe... soooo... holiday season my friends. Christmas has come and gone and it was pleasant. new years is well on it's way. that will be typical, and hopefully fun. so what's new??? i'd say i'm pretty content these days. patience has served a brotha well. God is soooo faithful all the time. it's really amazing to me. things can be at their worst with no way of getting better, and somehow He pulls through. everytime. i don't deserve his grace and his goodness, and it just doesn't ever stop coming. amazing. anyway, our record deal is done (FINALLY) and ready to be signed. however, we need to get our cover issues worked out before we sign it. that's what we told them. we decide about the cover or else we don't sign. and tour is coming in january. that will be fun. let's see... what else?? my heart is broken for jayme. i feel like i can relate completly to how she feels and it sucks worse than just about anything. i'm really praying for her that she will KNOW what's right and have the faith to walk it out. julie is doing a lot better. she is happy and that makes me happy. praise him. ok, so last but not least... SHE's back in my life (you know, as in keebe)... kinda. things are really well with it now though and God is at work. i just need to stay out of the way and let things happen. you know, let the chips fall where they may. aight i'm out. take 'er easy. call me lightning Current Mood: content (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 25th, 2004
9:04 pm	I am the day of current taste soo... happy thanksgiving my friends. it was a good day with lotsa food. i'm off to see finding neverland and then, who knows?? so, i'll write more when there is time. muse is on SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
12:40 pm	even if you win... even then, you don't win... sooo... just got home from kentucky. we rocked a show there last night in the rain. it was pretty sweet and we played insanly well. man did we ever need that. i've been listening to the record so much, and it sounds really perfect, and then when we play and it doesn't sound exactly the same it's frustrating. but last night, we were on, and the sound was tight. and the kids were going off in the mud. it was fun. anyway, life's been decent lately. strikes and gutters... ups and downs. i finally got hagnasta hill in the mail the other day, and i've been freaking out on it ever since. it's surely one of the best records of all time... and the perfect fall record. some of my friends are really pissing me off lately. until this past year people have generally never lied to me, but i was crushed by lies for the first time in my life this year and now my closest friends are begining to lie and it stings really bad. i mean REALLY bad. understand this people!!! I LOVE YOU AND THAT WILL NOT CHANGE NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!!! JUST DON'T LIE TO ME!!! things ALWAYS go to shit when there is distrust. there is freedom in confession, and there is joy and happiness in knowing that you have been honest about your crap and people still love you in spite of it all. anyway, we just got the pictures back from our photo shoot the other week and they look pretty damn bad ass. check out a few... ok, i'm tired... time to take a nap. colin and michelle get married in less than 2 weeks!!!! wow, that's awesome, i'm so stoked for them!! (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 10th, 2004
5:44 pm	i want a quiet life... with an ocean view... wow... so it has been quite a while since i have written anything in here. craziness. life has been quite insane since last february when i wrote. in fact the last time i wrote was the day that it all began. life has been a different task altogether since last valentine's day. this has probably been the most dramatic, and hardest few months of my life. i don't feel like i've known myself hardly at all when i think back over the majority of my life this year. i just turned 23 yesterday. that's rather insane. if i were my parents, i would've been married for over 3 years now. i always thought that i'd be married by this point when i was growing up... oh well. such is life. i would really like to be married, i anticipate it very much. it's a strong desire, but i'm not dying for it right now. i have so much more to learn and so much more i want to do. i am definatly not at my best when i don't hang out and when i spend too much time with myself in an apathetic way. i really like to be hanging out, talking with people, and really caring about them. really listening and putting myself aside to care for what they need. because, when i really think about it, my drama that seems so huge is really not at all when it is put in perspective. anyway, this is really all i have time for. hopefully i'll write in this deally a bit more. the new mewithoutyou is sooooo good... "but if i didn't have you as my guide, i'd still wander lost in sinai. standing by the tracks, watching trains go by to remind myself there are places that aren't here... if there was no way into God, i would never have stayed in the grave of a body for so long." (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 14th, 2004
5:57 pm	"single awareness day" werd... nate smart called me last night and guess what?!?! he's engaged!!! awesome sauce. it's pretty cool too, he told me to go to http://www.nathansmart.com/index2.html and i could see how he did it. i was thoroughly amused, and i know that his girl totally dug it. so yeah, today is valentine's day. i was talking to my sister yesterday, and she was like, "this is the first time since 5th grade that i haven't had a boyfriend." i thought about it and realized that i haven't had a girlfriend on valentine's day since like freshman year of high school. what the crap dude!?!? oh well, you win some and you lose some i suppose. at least i've saved money over the past years eh? yes. so i'm going out with the single folks tonight. we're probably going out to eat and then a movie or something. maybe pool, who knows. there is a new song by the yeah yeah yeahs that is sooooo freakin good. it's called maps and the video is amazing. yeah, nothing really new with the band. we're playing the elliott smith tribute show next week. miss misery and a question mark are the songs we'll play. i think we do them pretty well. we're trying to decide whether or not to do an e.p. with gotee or do it on our own. but yeah, we're definately writing some sweet sweet tunes. so yeah, it's good to sleep in on the weekends. this week, joanna kept me up into the weeeeeee hours of the night on most nights. depending on when you asked me, i'd say it was definately worth it. she's so rad. but in the morning when i'm tired as anything, it's a bit rough. but yeah, i miss her... a lot. ok, i'm out. i shall leave you with a quote... "every minute is a mile, i've never felt so hollow. i'm an old abandoned church with empty pews and empty ailes." (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, February 2nd, 2004
12:07 am	wasn't it a good year? was it filled with laughing? i'm so ridiculous sometimes... i get on these nostalgia kicks and i go back and remember everything and it hurts, and i hate it everytime. but i still do it at least once every 6 months or so. this night was weird. a year ago this night, matt and beth broke up. she's married now. there are these things that i miss so much. i swear i will never remember them everytime because it hurts so damn much, but i always do, and i always will. i have a very big fear that i don't want to have anymore. i'm afraid that i don't have enough to offer... that no one will ever love me as much as i will love them. and i will be left empty no matter how hard i try. i suppose a lot of people feel this way a lot of times, but i don't need it, and i don't want it anymore. when it's right it will be right. the bible says do not worry about anything... that's crazy. ANYTHING. there is no need. what a freakin amazing thing. seriously think about that. that's awesome. as a faith based person, i must abide by this... and thank God because if not for his promises, what else is there? (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 29th, 2004
11:14 pm	the life and times... so, it's been a while yet again... this whole thing is really strange. i got this dealy here so i could have a journal, and then as soon as i activate it, i started writing in a notebook, so this basically becomes obsolete. nonetheless, i'll update every once in a while. well, it's cold like whoa here. and there is massive snow. it's suppose to be a high of 12 tomorrow... 12. what the crap?!!? that's all day gay if you ask me. and i've got the sickness. this cold is mild and i'm nearly over it, but it still sucks. i had such a streak going. i think i got it from the tempurature change and all that. temperature change because i went to san diego of course. it was a grand ol' time. so great to see joanna for the third time. haha, it still cracks me up that it was only the third time we've ever been in eachothers presence. it's kind of pointless to talk about it on here seeing as how she and i are the only people on earth that read this and i already wrote about it in the afformentioned notebook, but i will say that i had a fantastic time. i totally had an idea of what my time there would be like, and it turned out way different in a good way. a very good way. i really want to see her again in the very near future, but we'll have to see about that. that's all i'll say for now, it's late and i must sleep. holla... let's all keep in mind that this is the year of the romance. jt just reminded me tonight. all you little wankers better watch out because the romance will own you... and your daughters. (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 3rd, 2004
1:37 am	another bowl victory.... yes my friends, the buckeyes came through for the second year in a row at the tostitos fiesta bowl. good times, good game. yeah, so christmas and new years have come and gone. they were both good, pretty standard stuff that didn't seem like a big deal at all this year. i continue to grow in wealth, so i shall purchase a guitar as soon as i can find the perfect one for a good price. then, i need to pay a much overdue visit to the lovely miss joanna chan in san diego. i miss her like it's my job, and i really need to see her badly. our convorsations on the phone are grand and all, but a personal face to face encounter is definately past it's due date. we're gonna get together tomorrow and play some football for the 2nd time this week. i'm going to school everyone because... well... that is what i do. let's see, what else??? the band is going pretty well i suppose we're slowly but surely working everything out on the business/label front and we'll hopefully have a new home soon. we continue to write amazing songs and i'm stoked to begin a new record and tour a bit. well, i'm tired and i need to play well tomorrow, so i'm out, but i will leave you with this final thought... ...i've been thinking about you, so how can you sleep? these people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet. they don't know what i know. but why should you care, when i'm not there... (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 13th, 2003
1:55 am	you're really growing on me... played some texas hold em tonight with the boys and nagel... everyone lost money but a.j. and i... i would've taken everything but a.j. won a hand with a 4 on the river... that is all day gay man. oh well, such are cards i suppose. playing football tomorrow morning at 10... it's supposed to snow tonight. beth and nick are getting married tomorrow too. that's a little bizarre. i need to sleep right now, but i promise to write in this joint more often. everyone should listen to the darkness a little bit more. things would just be more rock and roll at all times i reckon. final thought... do i have a crush on someone??? no, not really... does that suck?? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS... i just want to have a crush on a girl man. whatever... i'm being punished for all my offenses. i wanna touch you but i'm affraid of the consequences. biatch (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 11th, 2003
1:03 am	yessssssss... so, today had it's ups and downs that's for sure. i didn't do a damn thing all day. i woke up later than i wanted to, and then i just spent time on the computer and watching tv until i had to go to kinship group. what a waste. i need to stop this. i need a job or something to keep busy with. at least tomorrow we're doing stuff. we're gonna go record with joffery anderson, so that should be good. nonetheless, the day ended good. after kinship we went to hounddog's which is always nice and for some reason i had a LOT of energy. so we feasted there for a bit, and then i hit up chalkies with nathan, brandy, kat, and murph. fun times indeed. i need to work on my pool game. yes, so anyway, it has been one day thusfar... let's start a streak shall we?? yes we shall. i'm off to read and sleep. fairwell to all... dream of me. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 9th, 2003
12:14 am	What a great day so, this is my first entry in this little dealy ever!!! i'm pretty stoked. i've never really been able to keep a journal of any sort for longer than a few days, so we'll see how we do here. i think the closest thing that i've ever had was when i was dating jessica and we would just write back and forth every single day detailing what exactly happened that day. i saved all those emails and they were like a journal. so i'll pretend that i'm writing to my girlfriend in here even though i DEFINATELY do not have one. so yeah, today i woke up really early, took a shower right away and was out the door. i went to a doctor's appt. and that sucked. i hate everything that i have to do to take care of my face now. gay. anyway, after that i hung out with jimmy most of the day, and i might buy his car off of him... we'll see. then tonight we went to bw3s and watched the game... the eagles got killed. but it was a fun time nonetheless. i aslo talked to joanna for quite a time. man did i miss that girl. i didn't realize how much until i talked to her. what a rad person. yes, well anyway, this is really weird because other people might read it so i don't know what i should and shouldn't talk about. oh well. i'm out. (Comment on this)