dereconstructed MEDIA blog

Just finished listening to Madonna’s new album, Hard Candy. I was just about to bust out with how sweet the album is, and not in the annoying obvious play on words, but more that L.A. urban hipster kinda “sweet.” Luckily I caught myself.

Favorites off the top are Miles Away, The Beat Goes On, Dance 2night, and Candy Shop. But I guess those would be obvious since they are the main uptempo beats. This list is always subject to change as we all know that sometimes a song needs to be played over and over and over again and it can grow on you.

(Jewel’s “Who Will Save Your Soul” is a perfect example of this)

The “4 Minutes” video was cool and all but it left a little to be desired, not the the big M was ever a big Pop Locker, but still.

So I recently moved and have a ton of stuff that either doesn’t fit in my new place or doesn’t fit in my life because I’ve had it for the last 20 years and it wouldn’t fit in any normal person’s life.

hopefully there are people who won’t realize that. I just need to go and find those people…so I’m headed to Craigslist. I tried to give some of my stuff to my landlord but apparently my lease says that rent needs to be paid with a check or money order. Dang…I’ll bet the smell could totally be washed out of those stuffed animals.

I think that will be my opening line in my ad.

Let’s see what happens.

So my good friend found some work doing audience work. It’s kinda crazy. You stand in line for an hour with a ton of other people. You get into an auditorium that isn’t air-conditioned. They pack 6 people for every 4 chairs. Every once in a while you need to cheer your head off and pretend the person you wanted win just won. then you stand in another line forever to get your money. Then you go home. All of this happens over the course of 13 hours.

It’s crazy trying new things out.

It’s been a crazy few months but a few weeks ago a friend recommended watching “The Secret.” The movie about the Law of Attraction.  It changed my life.  That night I felt so silly because after watching it it became so clear that I did need to take responsibility for the things happening around me.

Let me tell you about the next day.

I woke up and the first thing I did is go through and list off the things that I am grateful for.

Next, I listed out the things I wanted or wanted to happen.

Then I started my day.  This was a Sunday and I was having company over to have a little jam session.  to prepare for the party I needed to stop and do a little grocery shopping.  I picked up everything I needed including 2 bottles of Ginger Ale.  Now I should include, although I doubt words could describe, that Ginger Ale is my absolutely favorite drink and picking up a couple of bottle was a common thing.  Now, while I was checking out, for some unknown reason I felt compelled to put the bottles of Ginger Ale back.  I can’t explain it, I just thought, “I don’t really need these today.”

As I was driving home I remembered I had a gift certificate for CVS, so I thought I’d stop in and get a couple more things for the party and get my Ginger Ale from there.  I walk in and the first thing I notice on the first shelf is Peanut Butter M&Ms, and they are on sale “Buy 1 Get 1 Free.”  I snatched up two bags and go and get the other items I wanted plus 2 bottles of Ginger Ale.  I get up to the check out counter and the cashier tells me that they had just got in the larger 2 liter Ginger Ale bottles and they were on sale for cheaper than the smaller 40oz bottles.  Crazy.

I left with a  huge smile, and while not exactly what I expressed in my thoughts earlier that morning certainly made all the more powerful simply because I maintained a positive attitude all day.

next up…$100,000

It’s been almost 1 year since I switched to a MacBook Pro.  

Wow.

It has literally changed my life.  It has allowed to experiment with all sorts of creative processes and find the things I’m passionate about.  iLife and iWork let you play around with all sorts of media at the consumer level, discover whether it’s the web, or music, or photos, or combinations, and show off to the world.  

I’m still trying to figure out where I fit in so I’ll just keep plugging away.

There are just so many things to talk about.  let’s get started.