frogblaster2112's blog: " IF"

BraveWords.com along with SonyBMG are giving away five copies of TWISTED SISTER's A Twisted Christmas CD. To enter the Twisted Sister CD giveaway - simply send an email to MitchMinute@aol.com (subject Twisted X-mas) with your name and mailing address by noon (EST) Dec. 20th. Winners will be chosen at random. The prize has no cash value and no substitutions are allowed. To view Twisted Sister's latest video, 'Oh Come All Ye Faithful' (both animated and non-animated versions), head to this location. BraveWords.com is currently streaming the song on our BraveTunes player. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid315802020

JON LORD, PETE TOWNSHEND, JOE WALSH Part Of Tribute Show For TRAFFIC Legend Former DEEP PURPLE keyboardist Jon Lord will take part in an all-star celebration of the late Jim Capaldi, solo musician and member of TRAFFIC. The show will take place January 21st, close to the second anniversary of his death, at London's Roundhouse. Tickets go on sale December 18. The Dear Mr. Fantasy concert, named for one of Traffic's best-known albums, will celebrate the life and work of Capaldi, who died of cancer January 28, 2005, at the age of 60. The event will raise funds for the Jubilee Action Street Children Appeal, a charity in which Capaldi and his wife Anina were active. The show will be presented by BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris. Already confirmed to appear are Steve Winwood, Capaldi`'s longtime collaborator both in and out of Traffic; Pete Townshend, Paul Weller, Bill Wyman and other such performers as Joe Walsh, Gary Moore, Simon Kirke, Dennis Locorriere, the Storys, Andy Newmark, Ray Cooper and keyboardist Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens. (Thanks Thehighwaystar.com)

IF If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! --Rudyard Kipling