What's coming out of your headphones?

So this is a survey. Being in China, and not having a job where I can listen to music throughout the day, I've fallen behind on my new-band finds. So I'm asking the masses (or at least the few that read this page) what's your favorite music right now?

I'll start:
Juanes : Mi Sangre
and some "bests from the past":
Death Cab for Cutie
Counting Crows

your turn :)

The Jaws of death...

I just wasted about 2 hours of my life surfing this thing we call the world wide web...sad I know, but I did find some funny, if not interesting time-killers:

It all started with a link my Unkie Gunkie sent me for a YouTube video...



I then somehow made it to another YouTube video...again, quite funny...



Next I embarked on a mission to see more videos by said videographer, which led me to...


...yet again, pretty funny. Especially with myself being a Mac user. My next mission: find out who this current.tv is. I think their website is worth visiting. You'll have to read the "about" page yourself to really get a feel for what the websites purposes are, but I'll give you some hints in the direction that it's to help people get their voice heard, and it was launched by a certain influencial someone who's name I will chose to keep hidden in the interest of you actually visiting the website and not blowing it off because of political loyalties.

Of course while I'm waiting for all these YouTube videos I want to watch to load, I continue checking my e-mail and find that I have a new "friends request" on Facebook! Two Kudos and a candy bar for me. Ussually I just delete the message and let the person sit in anticipation as they flip flop over whether or not I "love them not" or just havn't responded yet, but this time the Jaws of Death take hold and I take one step into the co-bane of evil (myspace being the bane of all evil)...I click on the blue "confirm friend here" url....ahhhhhhhhhhhh.

Once in facebook my heart slows a bit, the evil bane methane kicks in, and I start to think "hey this place isn't so bad"... their new "newswire" feature is kinda creepy and stalker-esque, but besides that there could be good times. I'll look at my friends posts.

It was then that I found out my friend Nate had possibly one of the coolest stories about seeing a celebrity that I've ever heard.

So yesterday afternoon my buddy Matt and I were driving up to SLO and some jerk in the car next to me starting blaring his horn at me and shaking his fist out the window...I opened my window to see my favorite musician of all time in the passenger seat of a Lexus SUV yelling "nice sticker bro!" I remembered the "Fight For Your Mind" sticker I had just put on my car a month ago and had a quick conversation at 65mph with an amazing artist. He told me as he drove off that was headed up to big sur for the weekend and I was left thinking what a cool guy for making a fan's day like that!

That was Ben Harper he had a casual freeway conversation with by the way.

I found out that Cal Poly is ranked as the 6th hardest school to get accepted to, right behind: Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Columbia (see article here); and, that April has a list of about 200 things that make her something called a "Porteno." I've obviously failed the "you know you're a Porteno if..." challenge.

So now you've been filled in on my "new finds" of the night. It's about time I put a stop to this insaine rate of productivity. I think it's time to nestle down with a good book: Wild Swans, and pay a visit to the great study by Wanda Beth Moore: Breaking Free.

Goodnight and Goodluck!

That Was Me

Recently, our widely known cousin Erik of the long hair has joined forces with the not-so-widely-known-in-California, but-possibly-widely-known-in-the-land-of-strategery we-all-know-as-Texas, goatee yielding, Jeff. Together, joining the forces of their musical knack and teaching zeal, the two have embarked on an adventure of educational sound. Be ware hooked on phonics adicts, there's a new kid in the house, and their name is That Was Me. Here are some of the first recorded sessions of That Was Me at work...

Song: Questions -- because everyone has them, we just don't always know how to ask.


Song: Adjectives
Need a way to describe something? Never fear, That Was Me is here to help you find that missing word.



Song: Verbs
Keep the learning going. Don't stop with knowing how to ask a quesiton, or how to describe something! Soar to new levels as you learn about verbs. :)

...questions

1. Grab the book nearest you, turn to page 18, line 4?

"chamber; the wings on the two sides were for the servants.." Wild Swans by Jung Chang

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What can you touch?

a computer speaker, and empty can of Lime n' Chili Almonds, Calcium Citrate vitamins, cell phone, water bottle, Wild Swans book, fa piao, 2 pens, a hair tie (man my desk is a mess)... am I supposed to only reach to the left.. yeah..we'll stop there, the right hand side of my desk is an even bigger mess.

3. What's the last thing you watched on TV?
ummmmmmm, part of the first Lord of the Rings.

4. Without looking, what time is it?
11:50pm

5. What time is it actually?
11:53pm ... ahhh i should be in bed!

6. Except for the computer what can you hear?
the slight hummm of my heater...wind?...or maybe it's water running through the pipes...

7. When did you last step outside and what were you doing?
coming back from getting my $1.25 hair wash, neck-shoulder-back-and-arm massage with Laura.

8. Before you started this survey what were you doing?
checkin' e-mails, chattin' with Petra girl, looking at blogs

9. What are you wearing?
black pin-stripe pants, grey long-sleeve shirt, black colared polo, black zip-up with cool graphics on the front, black and grey argyle socks.

10. Did you dream last night?
I think so..... maybe.....

11. When did you last laugh?

today...we were making fun of Suzanne's newfound vacuume packing knowledge for the 500th time....

12. What's on the walls in the room you're in?
The Beetles Abbey Road poster, a Chinese scroll with 100 storks, a white board... man .. my walls are kinda bare...

13. Seen anything weird?
there's probably something wierd growing under the pile of stuff on my floor... JK .. i think..

14. What do you think of this quiz?
ummmm... it's not as exciting as I hoped it would be...

15. Last film or video seen? part of Lord of the Rings (the 1st one)

16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight what's the first thing you'd do?

I've been thinking a lot about Invisible Children, and Blood Water Missions, and getting my parents to travel ;)

17. Tell me something I don't know about yourself?

well I don't know, who are you? hmmmmmm... contrary to popular belief, I'm not a closet vitamin fanatic.. though recent events may lead one to think thusly.

18. If you could change one thing about the world regardless of politics what would it be?

I would put some sort of safe-guard on sueing....

19. Do you like to dance? yes

20. What comment would you like to make to George Bush?

ummmm, I have to think of some strategery first.

21. Your first child is a girl what do you name her? Addison

22. Your first child is a boy what do you name him? Phineaus

23. Would you ever consider living abroad? word, word, and JAM! considered and done.. i'm currently in Shanghai