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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." - Elie Wiesel Every day I commute to and from NYC. It is a necessary evil. The thought of commuting back and forth is actually a lot worse than the deed itself. For the last 62 days, I've been reading the Bible during my morning commute. Alternating between the Old and New Testaments. Don't ask me why. I'm not really sure myself. However, I have gained a heightened awareness of people and the way they treat one another. I'm not a religious person, nor am I a Christian but it's pretty plain to see that Jesus was on to something. Something very simple. Love. L.O.V.E. John Lennon got it. Even The Captain and Tennille knew that love would keep us together. So what the fuck? Oops. Sorry Jesus. Still working on the potty mouth. Tonight on my commute home, my train got stuck a few stops short of my town. No biggie. When you've been riding mass transit for half of your life, you get used to the delay...

My oldest daughter and I are very musical people. We both love to sing and perform. For her 5th birthday, I bought her a microphone and an amplifier. She uses it all the time. We have guitars in the house, a piano, keyboards and all sorts of musical influences, that serve as a constant source of inspiration and encouragement. The only thing that's been slightly disappointing for me, from a selfish standpoint, is that our tastes in music seem to differ quite a lot. I grew up loving all things Heavy Metal; Manowar, Scorpions, Metallica, Queensryche and anything else I was able to bang my head to. As I grew older, my musical tastes continued to expand. Now, I can tolerate most anything, with the exception of all the crap that she likes; Hannah Montana, Ashley Tisdale, Jonas Brothers, Vanessa Hudgens and whatever else she blasts from that shitty, little CD / Clock Radio we put in her bedroom. It's as if Lucifer himself had a megaphone, standing at a podium of evil, spewing sounds o...