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Beautiful People

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If I weren’t afraid you’d laugh at me
I would run and take all your hands
And I’d gather everyone together for a day
And when we gather’d
I’ll pass buttons out that say
Beautiful people
Then you’d never have to be alone
‘Cause there’ll always be someone
With the same button on as you
Include him in everything you do

Melanie Safka, “Beautiful People”

I listened to a lot of classic rock as a kid pc spiele frei herunterladen. More accurately, I listened to the Woodstock album (yes, on a record player) a lot. Like, a lot, a lot. Before the Woodstock album, I, of course, knew bands like Crosby Stills and Nash, Santana, and Grateful Dead and solo artists like Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and others, but it introduced me to other musicians that may have had their time (they did play Woodstock after all) but have faded a bit from the limelight, artists like Joan Baez, John B how can I android apps for free. Sebastian, and Melanie. The real folksy type folk musicians that you imagine when you think of the “peace, love and happiness” kind of hippies from the 60s downloaden netflix op laptop.

Nowadays I listen to a lot of music, whether it’s for my job, my other job, oh yeah or the other job, or just for fun. In the same way, staying updated with modern technology is essential, click here for advanced video conferencing for any event taschenrechner herunterladen kostenlos. But one of the songs that has stuck with me all this time is Melanie’s “Beautiful People.”

No offense, Melanie, but from a purely analytical stand point, this song could use a lot of work remix programm download kostenlos. There’s no rhyme scheme, and the chord progression doesn’t really have an easily recognizable pattern. It doesn’t even very strictly follow a verse/chorus/verse/chorus/etc. kind of pattern. On paper, if a student had brought me a piece of work such as this, well, I’d have to admit we’d probably spend a lot of time refining it. And yet, it’s still one of my favorite songs of all time.

“Beautiful people… you live in the same world as I do…” is where the song begins. It’s not just a song about generally “loving your neighbor.” It’s literally about opening your eyes and looking at the beautiful people around you. In your neighborhood, riding on the subway with you every morning. “We have so much in common,” Melanie sings, “I go the same direction that you do.” And I don’t know if she meant it very literally that hey, we’re all on the subway headed downtown, or if she meant it in a more figurative sense. We’re not just riding the N train, we’re all trying to make our way in the world. We all have the same struggles. We all have the same wins. I’d like to think she was talking about something bigger.

One of the things that stands out about this song is the pins. “There’ll always be someone with the same button on as you, include him in everything you do.” Do you really need a pin to signal that you should be kind to the person next to you? I really hope not – just hold that door open for the next person. Smile when you pass someone in the hallway at work. Make small talk with the person ringing up your groceries at the supermarket. Apologize when you bump into someone.

But this isn’t the 60’s anymore, and sometimes you really don’t know about the random person on the street. Or maybe you want to be friendly but your anxiety keeps you from reaching out. Or maybe you just need a gentle reminder for yourself. In this day and age where the handheld devices distract us, where the politicians do more to divide us, maybe we all need a reminder that we’re all one of the beautiful people, living in the same world together, and we need to take care of each other. “Beautiful people never have to be alone, cause there’ll always be someone with the same button on.” Did I listen to a hippy dippy song about being kind to your neighbor and turn it into a pin I plan on handing out to all my friends? YOU BET I DID. And I put the design in my online store (link here) so you can get a few for yourself and do the same (can’t afford some pins on your own? Email me and I’ll gladly send you some for free).

So I hope you take the message of this song and carry it with you when you wear pin. Share the pin with your friends. Encourage them to share pins with others. Remind yourself and others that we’re all just beautiful people, making our way in the world. “And if you take care of him, maybe I’ll take care of you.”

The Nerdiest Music Joke Ever

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Someday, I will memorize this entire joke.  For now, I will just leave it here for your perusal.

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The bartender says: “Sorry, but we don’t serve minors.”
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After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished: G is out flat.
F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp enough.
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A comes into the bar, but the bartender is not convinced that this relative of C is not a minor.
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The bartender (who used to have a nice corporate job until his company downsized) says: “You’re looking sharp tonight, come on in! This could be a major development.”
This proves to be the case, as E-flat takes off the suit, and everything else, and stands there au naturel semesterticket uni due herunterladen.
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On appeal, however, C is found innocent of any wrongdoing, even accidental, and that all accusations to the contrary are bassless.
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There’s an app for that

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My goodness gracious have they thought of everything? I can now write posts from my iPhone!

With Apple’s speedy growth over the years, mostly the invention of the iphone in 2007, apps have boomed herunterladen. In fact, the actual word “app” was listed as the Word of the Year in 2010.

Since then, apps have changed how we live, work and play. Ten years ago, there were about five hundred apps, right now the social media apps is one of the most popular ones and services like SocialBoosting to reach more viewers to have an equal chance for individuals as well as small businesses to compete with the big sharks in the tank!  herunterladen. Today, there are over two million with more being introduced every single day. Apps are responsible for creating thousands of new companies, millions of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue pdf24 kostenlos.

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In 2009, Apple trademarked the catchy phrase, “There’s an App for That!” It’s basically the motto of today’s Millennials, and likely to blame for their inability to do much of anything on their own. I mean, seriously, why would one learn how to do these things when there’s an app to do it for you. There’s apps for dating, for food lovers, gamers, travel & entertainment, health & fitness, sports, music, news, finance, reading, and shopping. The list literally goes on and on, showing that Apple was right and there truly is “An App for That!” Even more, online casino games from sites like pokiez where you can earn real money are now widely available.

Unlike my generation, the Xennials. Yes, you see, our motto and the highest trademarked slogan of OUR time was, “Where’s the beef?”

This explains so much about the vast gap in generations. Yet… nothing at the same time.

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Non-stop Summer

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wanted to write a short missive about all the random crap i’ve been doing. because it a) has definitely been random and b) i’ve been doing a lot of it.

two weekends ago i went gambling in my cousin’s in-laws’ backyard. it was definitely kind of fun – a birthday party for my cousin at his in-laws’ house anno 1800 dlc herunterladen. they have a really nice backyard for parties, and they totally have an outdoor bar, just one of those wrought iron and glass type constructions that they sometimes make patio furniture out of. it was fabulous. i spent most of my time there, who’s surprised? cousin’s wife rented a whole bunch of gambling tables – like for blackjack, roulette (not the russian kind, because after all, i’m ukrainian) and poker herunterladen. i spent just a little bit of time at the blackjack table and actually won some money. got into a fight with my cousin about politics when he was crazy drunk. fabulous time. don’t worry, we still love each other.

which was actually the first thing i told him when i saw him *this* weekend at a wedding youtube videosen auf smartphone. he laughed, so we’re cool. so there was a wedding this friday in the extended family this past weekend, on friday. at some really nice place in the livingston area. i honestly could have hung out at the cocktail hour for more than just an hour because the food was pretty good, the bar was open and the music was live dvd player for free. they also had a martini bar and a tequila shot bar. like i said, could have stayed at cocktail hour for more than just an hour. actually, if we could have skipped right from cocktail hour to the AMAZING dessert buffet, i would have been a pretty happy camper.

saturday night, ended up at anthony fiumano’s CD release at the Saint. anthony rocked, of course, and it was great because everyone i haven’t talked to in awhile, or needed to talk to, was there appsen tv. it was actually a pretty productive evening. saw joanna burns whom i seriously haven’t seen since, like, a party at my house last summer. it was awesome to talk to her, because, well, i haven’t! saturday was one of those evenings where i tried leaving for, like, two hours but just kept running into people i wanted to talk to. i even talked to some random guy about my different colored nail polish and my rubber duckies herunterladen. finally got out around 1:30 or so.

as an aside, i hate when i listen to a recording and i can tell that the instruments are synthesized. get real instruments or get a “real” job! ugh!

sunday we took a field trip into the city to go to veselka to stuff ourselves silly with amazing ukrainian foods.. and stuff ourselves silly we did adobe flash downloaden gratis! i think between the five of us (including my venerable sidekick AKA my evil twin, jess) we sampled every single kind of varenyky they had. also among us we had one of their potato pancakes, stuffed cabbage, their kutia, and their burgers. i had to freaking roll out of there, practically. we walked around the neighborhood a bit, walked the kids up to see st. george’s and all the ukrainian bars writeren.

i love bars in the city that have their doors and windows all open in the summer time. we stood outside bar 82 and just listened to the trio playing in there (sounded like a trio but we couldn’t quite see the band clearly) for a little bit. i notice that a lot of places have numbers in their names, and of course, now that i’ve said that, i can’t give you any examples, but i as we were walking around the east village i noticed that ifolor.ch herunterladen.

monday i went to warped tour with jess and chris and a few of his little friends. mostly spent the day with jess though, wandering around, getting acosted by people who wanted us to listen to their band. i got a ZILLION (ok, maybe only 9) CDs from random bands from around the country. pretty freaking awesome. i handed out tigerlily cards, too, because hey, i’m getting better at this networking thing herunterladen.

i got a bit of sunburn at warped tour, and also the best sunglasses ever. jess also got the best sunglasses ever, but her sunburn is WAAAY more intense than mine.

i’m definitely going back next summer. maybe even to more than one. just to hang out in the parking lot. just kidding.

this week i’m practicing like crazy for my gig this coming saturday. no, not the wedding i’m singing at. that’s easy. i’m playing a civil war reenactment with my dad saturday night. well, let me rephrase. it’s his reenactment, in that, it’s the group he works with that’s running it. my father and i are not singing together. this is a good thing, trust me. sometimes, my dad is not so good with the singing.

and actually, tomorrow i’ve got a wedding to go to. it’s always so cute when one rockstar marries another rockstar. haha. tomorrow should be fun. and maybe after tomorrow i’ll get a bandmate back!

sunday i think i’m actually not doing anything, but i’m sure my mother will have a long list of stuff she wants me to do that will keep me from doing things i need to do. like… practice for my next gig. or laundry. or vaccuuming and dusting. or washing dishes. or SLEEPING. but yeah, she has a knack for doing that. then i get a lecture about the collection of dishes on my kitchen counter.

anyways, so that’s where i’ve been lately. just so you don’t think i’ve fallen into a black hole of some sort.

Tigerlily Leaked into my Dreams

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well, it’s not that i dreamt about anything really directly tigerlily related but………. if it weren’t for tigerlily i wouldn’t have ever have been to see any of the bands i’m about to mention lieder auf iphone herunterladen.

this is actually a dream i had yesterday, but i then went ahead and spent so much of yesterday sleeping and lazing around (hope im not getting sick) that i never got around to blogging it roller coasteren.

i was listening to rick barry’s ballad of the unwilling martyr, and even though it’s technically, i guess, his song, the version i was listening to is the version that was available on the paperback radio myspace page spiele kostenlos herunterladen zoo. or maybe it was the days awake page (back when it was days awake featuring rick barry, i dunno, the file isn’t available on any of those three pages now so it’s anyone’s guess as to where it originally was, but i’m gonna guess it was days awake, actually app karten herunterladen. anyway) but my point is, i have two versions of the song, and one is off rick barry’s album, and one is a live version, with DA/PR, and it was that version, the live version, i was listening to diamond diaries saga kostenlos herunterladen.

Then, all of a sudden, I start hearing this other song, but only snippets – like i’m listening to the radio and am hearing little bits of another station broadcasting on the same station I’m listening to logo siemens download for free.

But then I remember I’m not listening to the radio, I’m listening to my iPod, and I get really confused.

I get even more confused when I realize I’m not actually listening to my iPod, either, I’m actually at the Stone Pony, and they’re playing it live antivirenprogramm kostenlos downloaden windows vista. I’m standing in back, actually in the sound booth (can’t remember if i have headphones on or not) and while the band is playing, that weird other music that was coming through like it was on a different station was actually rick from TWiNE … who was on stage with them fotos aus icloud herunterladen pc. it was clear that he wasn’t singing along with them, he was doing his own thing. it was also clear that absolutely no one on the stage was acknowledging him, which led me to believe I was the only person who could see or hear him grafikprogramm gratisen.

and then i woke up.