Month: October 2006

Why we have a distorted concept of beauty. You know, some people think this Dove campaign is for the birds, but I think it’s pretty cool.

I don’t know if you guys have heard about this yet or not, but Peter Gabriel put all the original tracks to his 1982 hit,”Shock the Monkey” on the Internet for people to remix and submit for a contest.

He got over 700 entries.

In addition, he promoted his new record label, and drew a lot of interest to his older titles.

Read the article here.

THIS is the way the recording industry should be doing business. Don’t lock up the hits of yesteryear in dusty cabinets, hoping to release just one more “greatest hits” album to make a few more bucks. Open them up, and use them to promote your current library. Make them available for use, fair use, and free trading, and find a way to turn that into a positive promotion for your label.

Mongtomery county, MD. – Could be anywhere in the DC area. Tell ya what.. it has everything you’d want. Good schools, a million retaurants, shops, movie theatres, malls, access to Washington and Baltimore – a thriving music and theatre scene in DC – its a nice place to live.

But is it worth it? Of late, I have looked around my home.. which costs upward of 300k, and noted.. its a townhouse.. and I cant see us ever really getting out of the townhouse market. We would just upgrade townhouses and neighborhoods.

Of late, I’ve wondered.. could I deal with less on-camera work, maybe just write and make movies for a few years, and get out of this area? My buddy Steve is in Nebraska – and I make fun of him.. its Nebraska – BUT – his house is three times as large as mine for half the price. He has disposable income.. and time to spare.

I start to feel like I dont quite know why I’m here anymore. There’s more work.. but its commercials and industrials.. and thats not why I wanted to act. Ive started to wonder if I could be happy in a smaller community.. outside another big city – Omaha, or Salt lake, or Timonium, or outside Chicago – there are small towns that cost a lot less – and i kind of want my kid to have a yard.

Hrm.

An interesting article on MSNBC that discusses a group of illegal aliens that are now suing Wendy’s.

I have not looked into the particulars any more than reading the article. It sounds like a groups of aliens snuck their way into the US (thorugh whatever means). They found employent thorugh Wendy’s. Since enforcement of federal laws covering imigration have become more in the forefront wendy’s seems to have offered a sponsorship program to aid the immigrants to become legal.

Wendy’s missed a filing deadline which forced them to fire the illegals. They have filed suit against Wendy’s.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, Talk about playing the system.

UPDATE! Wayward Sun has been deleted already by Wikipedia. I guess I didn’t make them seem important enought (Reason given was that it was an “unremarkable organization”). /end update

I have headed over to Wikipedia and created a Wayward sun article.. but it is very basic.. I did no formatting, and it needs a lot more information. The registration was easy.. just create a username and password, no more info.

Anyone can edit it.. and I thought perhaps there should be such an article.

I saw this when I watched the movie, but it was cool to find a YouTube clip of just the “correct answer”:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mzhgMg4yH7M

Forwarded to me by my spouse:

When I was married 25 years, I took a look at my wife one day and said, “Honey, 25 years ago, we had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10 inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 25 year old blonde.

“Now, we have a nice house, nice car, big bed and plasma screen TV, but I’m sleeping with a 50 year old woman. It seems to me that you are not holding up your side of things.”

My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 25 year old blonde, and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, sleeping on a sofa bed.

Aren’t older women great? They really know how to solve your mid-life crises….

Do the needful and read this post. I am on a crusade to make you believe in the power of this post.

Should the same people be forced by a government to carry guns if they believe in evolution – or should they use Firefly’s chinese swear words to help in tying shoes?

Furthermore, since the founding fathers were Christians, it should make sense that they would use Mutt on FreeBSD while flying model airplanes and playing the bass guitar and reading the book “Godless”.. and liking pie.

I wondered all this while watching a Star Wars trailer and.. Oh lord..

I just popped a Barnsonian Fuse.

Tonight on my XM Radio, I heard a song which just stuck with me: “On The Commode Again“, a tune by Carla Ulrich to the tune of “On The Road Again”.

I’ve previewed a bunch of the tunes from her CD “Sick Humor”, and they’re all clean (well, some toilet humor, but they’ll make your kids laugh). CD Baby has the whole CD for you to preview. If you don’t laugh out loud to at least one of the tunes, you’ve got a malfunctioning funny bone.

The cool thing to me is that, like many artists, her songs are based on real life. She’s been through a ton of (pardon the pun) crappy experiences with health, and it’s great to listen to some bits which reflect the humor of a horrible situation. Check it out! I think I’d love the CD for Christmas.

Turns out she’s also the artist behind one of my favorite tunes on my XM, “What if your butt was gone?“. I had never caught who did it, but I heard it enough to begin to sing along with the radio…

Quote of the day, from Toshi Morita, regarding the difference between flying an airplane and flying a helicopter:

It’s like the difference between driving a Mack truck, and riding a unicycle while juggling and solving three Rubik’s cubes.