NEW BLOG! www.FranzHoff.com - New blog there...

Ok, this Bog is being put out to pasture. I will leave it here, but i will not be updating it. Please check out my website: www.FranzHoff.com

It has my new blog integrated into it and I am updating it regularly.! No, really! I am :-)

So, uh, what's new with you?

Well, I finally decided to write in here again. It's a new month, in a new year and I said, aww, what the heck! New? Well, getting out of the coffee biz is on top of the list. I have decided (amongst other stuffs as well) that I want to work much fewer hours. Besides, it's time for a change! 

Change is an interesting subject. Seem like I write most during times of change. There are probably many things I am supposed to be doing and I am NOT doing them :-) I am writing dammit! 

I am sitting here listening to a song we are working on - we call it the keyboard song, or the song in the key of board. I think it's real name is "It's Your Story". It is one Karl wrote (my illustrious band co-founder). It's not done, but is a good start. I wold love to get some feedback on it. You can check it out here: 

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=721321 

Along with some others we are working on. None are finalized, but they're getting closer! We'll be recording and auditioning for a few more weeks or so. Hope to have the four song demo done then! It's gonna rock :-)

A moment please

Look at me

Do you not see?

The rock man said

"You see what you wanna see

And you hear what you wanna hear"

Sometimes, we need to look differently

To see what is staring right at us

Left is only that from one direction

Turn around and it is right 

There is my thought for today. I am working on a bunch of random thoughts/quotes. I will post on my web site. 

Until next time. Don't be strangers, say hi, have a nifty time an be well!

Peas and Hominy to all :-)

A post, a post

So, again, I write... again it has been a very long time since I have written. It is a slow day at the coffee shop and I am inclined to pick up the proverbial pen. It has been a tumultuous few months. I have been doing a lot of writing in my journal - the physical kind. Just felt I needed ot feel the pen to paper. But since I am here I will see what kind of stuff will spring forth from my fingers.

The Wall

Falling behind a dream
Lost to what you forgot
Forgotten by what you lost
The barrier unseen
I scream but you do not hear
I plead to no avail
You cannot see me
Staring from so close
I watch you
Placidly making the motions
Ignorant of your oversight
Close enough to touch
Stuck in second gear
Engine racing
I see where you need
From behind your edge
Leaning against our confines
In mournful reticence
Tears drip slowly
Down the divider of worlds
My hand slides slowly
touching the tears
You do not see
You will not see
I will watch
I will talk
I will wait
Until you choose to see

Hmm, I like this... It s one of those poems that have a meaning to me that I do not think the rest of hte world will see. I had the idea for this a few weeks ago from a conversation with a friend. I will not say what it is about cause that'd ruin the fun :) But I can assure you that it is probably not what you would think.

Be well, love lots and smile most,
Franz~

A quick thought

Just got back from visiting my sister in Massachusetts. It was incredible watching my nephew eing born. Watchinga new life come into the world is transformational. It was even better that my son got to experience it with me to. I think it will be somethign that stays with him forever. I am sad that I will be so far from him and will miss many things as he grows up, but I think that somewhere in his heart/soul he will remember that we were there for him and welcomed him into the world. So this little note is to Welcome my nephew, Erik, into the world - born 1/17/06 @ 6:29am (a Capricorn, jsut like his mom and morfar), 8lbs, 8oz & 20" long. He is beautiful just like his mom! I started a poem during the labor, but it is on a diferent cdomputer. I will post it when I get it back.
Be well, smile lots & love most~
Franz

"Live for NOW! Worry not about yesterday and look to the fututre only to keep an eye on where you want to go"

Holiday thoughts

Sitting alone
Lazily pondering
Thoughts drift
gaze wanders
eyes stare
seeing elsewhere
reflecting within
heavily light
where is
what are
how do
when can
powered thoughts
evoke change
complacency stagnates
negativity bars
resentment hollows
anger boils
fear shatters
lift beyond
trust hope
breathe life
be now
be wonderment
be accepting
be peaceful
be well
smile lots
love most

May we all take this time during the holidays to step beyond the mad rushh to appease the powers that want us to spend, spend, spend and take time to look at what it is that we have and find the wonder of what is around you. If we all stop to really look, there is an endless abundance of things to be grateful for. Me, I consider myself incredibly blessed and cannot possibly begin to show the grateitude that I feel; for all the people in my life, past, present and future who have touched my soul.
I didn't do any gift giving this year (except of course for my son) as my world has been so focused on the new coffee lounge, I just have not been able to make time to shop. There are those that feel that this, along with not a lot of contact or calling or whatever, is a sign of lack of gratitude, but those that truly know me, know this is not the case. There are times that we must sacrifice some things inorder to progress in other areas. This is my world right now. i am building something beautiful, fun, creative and wonderful that I can share with the world, that I can use to catalyze so many wonderful things. This is my gift this year... my love, my gratitude and my wish to you all - friend, stranger, family, all - a warm, happy, love filled holiday and a new year full of wonder, amazement, beauty, prosperity and most of all, lots of love.

Be well, smile lots and love most~
Franz~

What will you do?

So we move on again
Drifting within the realms that mystify
Do you believe?
What is real is what we create
What we create is a figment
We are not tied to it
We are not bound
By the chains of our pasts
Nor the held down
By the weight of whats yet to be
Unless we dedided it to be so
Change is inevitable...
Or is it?
Be not stuck with habits
You are free if you want
You are the shaper of you
Of what's around you
I am creating
I am living
I am loving
I will always be
I reach out
What will you do?

And so goes the journey....

PL&P~
Franz.

Ahhh... The shop is done and in the news...

wow, hard to believe that after almost a year of construction, desctruction and a lot of dirty work, the shop is done and open. I am sitting here in the quiet. No customers, just some tunes and little ole me. I should be workin on the data base,but I am tired and I need to do something else. I've been starting at the computer for days - my eyes feel likethey're going to explode. Hey... hapyy thanksgiving everyone :)) I actually took a few moments to stop and reflect upon the things that i have ot be thankful for and man, I have a lot. I am very blessed and I do not and will not take it for granted. There is lots left ot do and explore and experience, but it's a fantastic start. Still some of that meloncholy feeling, but the tiredness is shadowing it. I've been working too much. It's not al bad though. I am enjoying it. This is my coffee shop and it feel really good to say that. To look at what we've built. Now I can get it running and focus more on daylan and my music. I actually jammed a bit tonight on the acoustic here in the shop. oh, the shop! Chec it out: www.rumourscoffee.com. We'll have pics up soon. A friend is supposed to post a bunch fo rme.
We had a great get together last night here at the shop. It was so cool having everyone here hangin out. Everytime we all get together I look around and am amazed. It is a great feelings to be surrounded by such a great group of good souls. Nay, great souls. We had a balst playing acoustic guitar kareoke. I have pics I'll post on my site as well - www.franzhoff.com. Well, it has hit the witching hour. I am sleepy once again and I need to wrap up things here. Close that shop (literally and figuratively). Here's an off the cuff - not sure it'll be anything, but it seems like the thing to do...

So I sit
Look at myself
Reflect upon becoming
a guitar speaks
look
listen
the change is obvious
to me
mostof the time
i am ready
i am

Hmm.. well it is something :P
Good night, be blessed, be happy and PL&P~
Franz