Teachers,
getting us ready for our future,
we get mad,
cry,
yell,
laugh,
and have some of the happiest moments we could ever experience with our teachers. If anybody deserves to be recognized, it is our teachers. But no trophy or award could ever express our gratitude. The best gift that we could ever give our teachers
is to graduate and succeed in life. That's why they are here today and have dedicated their lives to teaching children who are special, smart, gifted, tall, thin and husky. That is exactly what a child is to a teacher, and that's why we can touch the sky, and when, God willing, we sometimes go beyond the moon.

Thank you moonlightdrive, for opening up my eyes to things, and for taking the time to "school" me so to speak on the machina theory....and for the book suggestions....

peace to you

Have you ever considered starting a Web site to talk about your Machina ideas. Obviously you have great love for both the Machina albums and the Glass story, and it seems you have the band's official endorsement now? Perhaps you could even work something out with the GATMOG fans MySpace page?

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's"

William Blake

Well that is pretty damn cool that you go to see them in Asheville. I probably would have gone to that show before the Fox one.

I figured just from the professionalism of your paper that you were part of the original Machina mystery. I never really felt it was all wrapped up properly, but now that fans like you show Billy that there are some people still interested in Machina, perhaps he will continue with it.

shattering!

HI from Ecuador

Amazing Theory!

First, I am glad to see another Georgia Smashing Pumpkins fan around here. Are you going to the shows at the Fox Theater by any chance?

Although Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness has (and always will be) my favorite Smashing Pumpkins album, Machina has always held a special place for me. Perhaps it is that I want to see more in it than most are willing, but I really feel just listening to the album hardly scratches the surface. The Machina albums were made to be analyzed and picked apart.

I have always wanted to write something like your paper, I was tempted to write something on the GATMOG MySpace, and was also tempted to write something on the Machina pages here, but man, you really just about pegged it all.

The news story doesn't have the PDF link, mind tossing it to us?

Conclusion..........

Adam's conclusion boggled my mind!

about the line "anyone can have anything they want, when they want it, but not ended suffering!just tells exactly what's wrong with this world! we have all these resources, but are spending, using them on the wrong things! Everybody (well almost) has that me, me, me attitude don't really care about anybody but themselves, don't care to use what we have to make the world a better place! Therefore the demise of us all!

"The material objects and implements we use to give ourselves orientation are no longer suitable receptacles of meaning"
Thats because THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE AREN'T THINGS!

No one is themselves anymore! Too caught up in what media says we should be, too worried about what other people think, to be themselves! ( i'm glad I don't buy into it)!

When it all boils down to it, the only thing in our world that NEVER changes, is LOVE! Isn't it what were all after? isn't it the ONE thing that makes us all TRULY happy? In the end isn't what we all want??? Or is it just me!