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A song without music is a poem, and a poem with music is a song. Enough said. So here is some stuff I wrote. As always there will be more to follow so for now, enjoy.

Wrong Step

Fighting against the doubts
Struggling against the pain
Witnessing the death
That makes you insane
Losing your senses
With no direction home
Aimlessly wandering,
Wandering alone
There are no worries
Only fears
Your skin starts to burn
As it hits the air
One wrong step
Is what put you here
Through the ashes
You take your last breath
Was it worth it?
Was it really worth it?
Skin in hand
Flesh falling from bone
Was it worth it?
Was it fucking worth it?
All for one
One for all
Unless your back
Is against the wall
Smile, grin
Nothing happened
Just another body
Who took a wrong step

One Quick Flick

Shattered are the dreams of mine
Broken are the hopes I had
Endless is this betrayal
Of life and love
There is no time left
There are no more words to say
It all ends now
Your blood will spill today
Lack of apathy
Lack of compassion
Full of blind rage
Fueled by hate
Burning this empire
That I have built for you
Would it be worth it?
Just to destroy it
Just to lose it all
Just so you can’t have it
Everyday, a losing battle
Regardless, of the war itself
Leaving, it all to chance
Burning, it all to the ground
Lack of sympathy
Lack of direction
Full of blind rage
Fueled by hate
With one quick flick
I make my choice
And watch my bridges
Burn before my eyes

Beer, the reason I get up in the morning and the reason I pass out at night.
~ UrbanDictionary.com

Well first step is to make sure you have Wine installed (if you do not have it installed just type ‘sudo apt-get install wine‘ in your terminal) and it is the latest version. You can check it by opening up the terminal and typing ‘wine –version‘, or if you just want to make sure it is always updated you can add it to the repos by typing ‘sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list‘ in the terminal. Once you have that taken care of we can move onto the subject at hand.

Now open up that terminal and get ready to check out Google Chrome.

Step One:

Download and Install WineTricks and it’s Dependencies:

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sudo cp winetricks /usr/bin
sudo chmod +x winetricks
winetricks riched20 riched30 flash allfonts

Step Two:

Download the Chrome Installer:

wget http://gpdl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe

Step Three:

Open Google Chrome.Desktop in Gedit:

sudo gedit

Once the editor is open just drag and drop the desktop icon into the text area and it should load something similar to this:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Google Chrome
Exec=env WINEPREFIX=”/home/memstat/.wine” wine “C:\\windows\\profiles\\memstat\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe”
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=Wine
Path=/home/memstat/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/memstat/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application
Icon=c3e0_chrome.0
GenericName[en_US]=

All you need to do now is add “–new-http –in-process-plugins” to the end of the launch command so it now looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Google Chrome
Exec=env WINEPREFIX=”/home/memstat/.wine” wine “C:\\windows\\profiles\\memstat\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe” –new-http –in-process-plugins
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=Wine
Path=/home/memstat/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/memstat/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application
Icon=c3e0_chrome.0
GenericName[en_US]=

Obviously “memstat” will be replaced with your user name.

Now save the file and then go to your desktop and launch the icon and see what Google has been working on.

~ Enjoy!

Stone’s Cali-Belgie(Belgique) IPA.  Sounds like an interesting yet good brew.  The Stone IPA recipie with a Belgian yeast strain.  Let’s find out if it is a good as it sounds.

Poured from a 22oz bottle into a glass.  Golden yellow hue, with a massive frothy head that starts to fizzle down to nothing in 5-10 minutes.  Man you can really smell that yeast, in the nose you get a nice sweet candied aroma along with faint hops.  Similar to the 07.07.07 and the 08.08.08 Vertical Epics.  Stone seems to be having a fetish lately with mixing West Coast IPAs and Belgian style Tripels.    First sips you don’t get very much hops, a slight dry, bite in the finish along with a slight honey, and apricot flavor that wash over.  So far it is the epitomy of how yeast imparts the final touches on a beer.  This is the same recipie as the Stone IPA but with a different yeast strain makes it a totally different beast.  I am not a big fan of Belgian beers but if they where like this, o’ man.  Medium body, slightly more than their ’standard’ IPA.  About mid-bottle the ‘fruity-ness’ fades into the background a bit and the malt and hops become a little more prevalent.  It does leave a very nice lacing on the glass I must say.  Alot of spice flavors going on in there thanks to the yeast, that stay on the palate for a cool minute.  Once you hit mid-bottle the flavor profile is pretty consistant through and through.  It does not change to much as some brews do.  It just become more balanced and nothing is to much more prominent than the other, as it was towards the start of the brew.  The dryness and bitterness of the hops balance and soon replace the fruity, spiceness of the yeast towards the end.

All in all, very well done.  This brew is flavorful, different, hoppy, fruity, an amazingly good ‘hybrid’ of the “two” worlds.  Very well balanced bitterness, and fruitfulness.  This will please a Cali Craft Brew fan and a Belgian Brew fan easily.  Two thumbs up to the guys at Stone, can’t wait to get my hands on the collaboration ale with Mikkeller and Alesmith either, but that is a whole ‘nother post that will be here soon.