Paranoid

I’ve always wanted to know what politicians and other well known people, people whose opinions are well known, what they really think. I mean obviously obama can’t say what he truly thinks about anything. Everything out of his mouth is calculated to achieve one end or another. What is he trying to achieve? I find it hard to believe that all of the old men making big decisions for the US are acting completely selfishly. What could is any change of wealth to someone who is months away from death? What motivates that person to work so hard so close to death?

I’m pretty fucking cynical. I think I have good reason to be. I just read a news article about how Full Tilt Poker doesn’t have enough money to pay their players who had money online, because they gave the player money as dividends to their owners…apparently they’re about 300 million short because of this. That info came from the department of justice, who also conveniently has seized 300+ million in the last four years. So Full tilt is pointing the finger at the DoJ, DoJ points finger at Full Tilt, they both have 300+ million and players are left with 0 of their original 300 mil. Isn’t it crazy that the government takes my money and blames it on someone else? They already took their cut of my winnings via taxes. I think its crazy.

The greatest trick my generations ruling class has done is to convince us that they are just like us, that they share our problems and aspirations, and that because of all of this they are working towards our best interests. I just read a quote today from Steinbeck

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

I think our greatest hope is that the ruling class knows what they’re doing. They had to be pretty bright to get to the top, and also had to have a good understanding of how the world works to get there. Hopefully they can keep humanity progressing, and maybe even accelerate our progress?

We all pretty much believe all of that right? Because to think that the rich and powerful are doing anything else is, well, just plain paranoid.

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Ch ch ch ch changes

I find it wild how perspective changes with age. 4 years ago I was all about living in the moment, and really could not give a shit about the "future". If I was having fun doing what I was doing, and there was a reasonable chance I could do it for awhile, why not? I think the best way to understand my mentality is to understand the fact that I've recorded very few of the songs I've written. Not that it would have been hard for me to have recorded them in some way...I just liked the idea of them only existing in my head. What if I were to forget them, you say? Then w/e. In that way the song was more alive to me, and it changed and grew over time and possibly died. That, combined with the idea that the only people to ever hear those songs would be people that I chose to hear the songs kept me from recording pretty much anything.

That line of thinking extended itself to my wanting to improv more and more while geetaring. I loved the idea that those improvs would exist only once. I don't know why but it reminds me of all those anecdotes you hear about what a weird feeling it is being in a solitary place, how just having someone recognize that you're alive somehow makes you more alive. Playing music live is like that..having people hear it gives it life.

I've been making a few iphone apps with a friend lately. Here's a promo vid for one of them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3qjk0oXxeo

I'm really excited about where these apps are headed.

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I can make cliche quotations! Quote me please

I think its funny how inertia works in a personal sense. Spend long enough not doing anything and its really hard to want to do anything, even though you're very sick of doing nothing.

I would hereby like to start my collection of fortune cookie sayings with a simple apothegm

"Sitting on your ass is nice, until your ass gets stuck to the seat"

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This Is So Fucking Tragic

http://www.lhj.com/relationships/family/raising-kids/life-after-the-death-of-my-children/

This one line in particular fucking killed me.

"We write messages to the guest of honor on balloons and release them into the air, hoping they get to her in heaven."

I am not a religious man by any means but that image breaks me.

Even so, the cynic in me reminds me that every day people are needlessly killed...and that we the American people pay for it to happen. 20+ ppl killed per day in the mexican drug war and counting! Holla!

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Why A True Democracy Will Never Exist

In my opinion the only way one can exist is if every citizen is well informed. This can only happen if all important information is given out to the democracy's citizens. However, once information becomes public then it becomes a liability. I think we can all agree that a country can only have so much transparency before you start to give away too much information about what you know; imagine if our adversaries knew everything that we knew about them. However once you hide any information than the democracy is a farce since we have to have faith in our elected officials to act in our best interest.

Democratic-republic is bollocks imo, because it is impossible for any group of people to assume the best interests of a larger group without putting their own best interests ahead. Might not happen for every single elected official but there are bad apples in every batch...Democracy is impossible and we're all screwed.

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Going Back to Skoo

After deciding that I was going to go to UCLA for grad skoo, every time I am in the area kicking it I wonder what it'll be like having my life be there again. As much as I had missed the college life I am not looking forward to going back to ucla. I think it's partially a feeling that I need to be in a different physical place to be moving on with my life. I think the rest of it has to do with how I viewed college before going there the first time, when I was a senior in high school, to how I view it now. Or at least every time I think about it now I think about what my perception was back then. Obv it was exciting because it was new and it was going to be my first real taste of freedom and all that. I also remember thinking the whole area seemed very big. Its funny how small places start to feel once you know where everything is.

Probably another part of it has to do with the fact that it's way down on my list of where I wanted to be in my life at this point. That's more my fault though. Oh well.

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Go Huffington Post

So I read this
article today about how there are some companies like Berkshire Hathaway that pay their taxes, unlike those bastards at GE, Exxon Mobil, Conoco Phillips, and Johnson & Johnson (not talked about in the same article but HuffPo's run stories on how terrible those companies are for not paying taxes and taking subsidies while having multi-billion dollar profits). I really love how HuffPo failed to acknowledge that Berkshire owns large swaths of shares in the same bastards (GE, Exxon Mobil, Conoco Phillips, and Johnson & Johnson) that they tear apart in their other articles.

I guess what really irks me more than anything is that I found this article up on the front page of reddit, and nowhere in the comments did anyone mention this obvious fact. Everyone gets so worked up about the state of our economy yet the average person remains fucking clueless about even the most basic facts. How can you rant about something that you know nothing about? Hasn't stopped people for the past few thousand and I guess its going to continue. I think one day I'm going to get old and tired of trying to make a difference and I'll just begin to take advantage of every fucking retard (aka 99% of the public) who fails to educate himself about things he claims to know enough about to be angry about.

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Reddit and Free Marketing Classes

I've been noodling quite a bit on reddit lately. For those poor souls who have yet to experience the magic, Reddit is a media aggregator. People submit news stories, ideas, opinions, links, whatever, and reddit members can decide whether or not they want to upvote/downvote the story. The higher the upvote/downvote ratio, the higher up on the front page it shows. They give you "karma points" that is essentially your running balance of upvotes-downvotes. Obv I thought I could be a boss and get a lot of karma points pretty quickly since I surf the web all day and have an endless stream of cool links to put up. Too bad I wasn't as cool as I thought I was and my links would get downvoted faster than my ego.

I started wondering what it was about the links that made the front page that made them get there. The links are no doubt interesting, but they aren't THAT interesting. To avoid making a whole goddamn training montage out of this, I saw what other people were doing and realized that a good deal of a links success had to do with the description tied to the link. Make it direct, clear, and enticing, and bam you're going to get people to see it and want to check it out ---- > upvotes follow (unfortunate how important the how is for people to understand the why).

Which led me to my next idea, which is that people taking marketing classes should really just focus on making baller reddit profiles. Or maybe instructors could use reddit performance to grade the students somehow. I understand why the learning format of yester-year may have precluded real-world experience, however now there is an insane amount of wealth of micro-opportunity out there to apply learned skills to. Come on skoo system, the world's awaitin. Just coz you have sucked for awhile and don't have any money doesn't mean you have to keep sucking or that you need more money. I have faith, children are our future and all that shit.

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spring mulling

I think I'll put all my jams in lowercase so people know they're jams.

jam

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Let Me Tell You How to Be Successful, Rich, and Beautiful. No Really I Got It All Figured Out

So I recently got this link from a friend. Its from a blog called “The Art of Manliness.” You know the type of blog this is – one of those that tries to inspire you to be something great or some shit. They used to be called “self-help” until that term got a bad rep. Probably because of poor reviews of the “self-help sex” section (but it sounded so good on paper!) Now I see these authors labeling their work under slick titles such as “productivity” and “personal finance.” This blog, however, chooses to take a different route. It isn’t like those other self-help blogs, teaching you to dream big and have aspirations. This guy is tough. He tries to be “real” by telling you to suck it up and work hard, and that all the hopes and dreams in the world won’t do shit for you if you don’t try hard etc. We know he wasn’t drawing flowers and unicorns when he was in kindergarten, and if you asked him then what he wanted to be he wouldn’t say “rock star.” This guy is real man. He’d say “I want to sweat a lot and bend steel and shit.” I don’t know why these self-help blogs have always bothered me, and even though this one strives to differentiate itself from the myriad of self-help blogs out there it all smells like shit to me.

I find it funny that this author became successful by blogging about how to be successful. But he’s not the first person to write his own existence into being. Look at jesus christ. He said “Hey I’m god” and people believed him so much they killed his crazy ass for it. Look at Tucker Max. He started out by writing about how cool he was and how much he got laid, and regardless of whether or not it was true back then it is definitely true now because he is a semi super-star. In a way he created his own person, a true self-made man. He wrote all the attributes he wanted to have into his character, and now because people expect him to have those attributes when they meet him they see him with all the characteristics he says he has (SOCIOLOGY). Does that mean that all I have to do to be good at shit is talk about how I’m good at it? I wanna be a baller scientist. Consider this my first blog post about what a baller scientist I am (I swear I’m baller! Steve Jobs has nothing on this revolutionary). I work hard every day and make cool shit. My shit has innovation, social media, 3g, AND a touchscreen. Blah blah blah. What a waste of fucking time. If I were to write a self-help blog, all I'd really have to say is





I know what I like, and I do what I like. You should too. Now suck my dick.






I wouldn't make any money off of that though. Not because it isn't true, it's just not wordy enough. If anyone wants to help me turn that into 100 posts about 1k words long, let me know. Maybe we can even write a book in a year or two depending on the quality of the fluff. I'm also looking for ghostwriters for my autobio. Here's the outline


1. Formative years (birth to 12): What do I like?

needless fluff here

2. Life (12 to 70): Do stuff I like.

puff puff fluff

3. Death (70 to death): Find a hole and die.

(less fluff needed)



Even though I haven't finished out my whole life yet that's pretty much the rough plan I have. We'll see what happens though, anything can happen. I'm taking pre-orders on the book and autobio just let me know how many copies you want. They're signed too. Testimonials about how this changed your life go in the comments section ty tell your friends.

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One Step Bluestep

Jamming to a little dubstep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zLsWpDUrrA

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The Media, U.S. Credit Risk, and Stock Reaction

As you may know, S&P downgraded its outlook of U.S. debt from "neutral" to "negative" and said that the possibility of downgrading U.S. debt in the next two years was "over 1/3rd likely." The media immediately ran with this and looked at the (slight) market fall and said that the markets were reacting to S&P's announcement.

I remember when I first started investing I would read news articles such this one from CNN http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/18/news/economy/us_credit_rating_outlook_lowered/index.htm

from which I grab the following quote

"On Wall Street, investors reacted to the news by pushing share prices down sharply. The Dow Jones industrial average sank more than 200 points in the first half-hour of trading"

I used to think that reading news articles like these would keep me informed as an investor. I've come to realize that the media is full of crap most of the time. I was asking my friend and advisor Krishna Chodavarapu about his take on the market slide, and he said that if the market were truly worried about the slide in U.S. credit ratings, that treasuries should have collapsed (they would be cheaper because they were riskier). I did a search and found that he was not alone in his analysis.

http://fidelityfinancegroup.com/news/mortgages/30932-mark-hulbert-baffling-bonds-defy-expectations

Essentially bonds became MORE expensive (their yields went down) the day the ratings outlook changed , which doesn't make any sense since a riskier investment should have a higher yield. I think its really scary that news sources such as CNN can be so blatantly wrong, especially since their analysis of the market can easily be verified by using common sense and looking at the goddamn securities that should be affected. Makes you wonder what other things they're completely off base on, and if all news outlets aren't just howling monkeys hammering nonsense on typewriters. The scariest part is that most of us say that we're "informed" based off of what we read from these outlets. Goddamn.

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Daniel Tosh

Something I like about this guy is how he frequently does what, in my mind, is the standup equivalent of breaking the "fourth wall." I don't want to give too much away for people who haven't listened to his work, but essentially at times he dissects the structures of his own jokes and then turns that dissection into a joke itself. Part of what makes things funny is that "Ooooo I get the 2 or 3 levels that this joke is on maybe I get it more than the person next to me." Or having that feeling gives you deeper appreciation for the work. When he starts to dissect the joke while you're pondering the various levels and in a sense, "judging" his talent, he jumps right in your mind and judges you back. It's pretty awesome I think, and something I haven't heard many other comics do. Go delivery.

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Birthday Blues

I want to record more of these

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNud81LCyQg

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Another Year

so crazy. in retrospect

turning the first of many uncool ages, going to wegas again, being stoked about nasa and wow i'm graduating not knowing where i might be in 6 months, then finding myself in the same goddamn place, all the beer sports and liquor football, too much degeneracy, barely going to school, trying to visit singlespeeder.com, then DAMN growing up. too fast. way too fast. i don't know how long i could have lived that life for but goddamn coop you were fun as fuck that spring. jack being nurtured but never quite ready for the world maybe next year. shipped off to somewhere that i can never really truly explain how amazing it was and i know there are only a few people who come close to getting it and if you don't get it you're not worth getting it, not in a bad way but its something i hold so close because i wanted it for so long and it still seems like it wasn't real. being frustrated while i was there. how can educated people be so retarded? truly testing the depths of degeneracy and my sanity while there. got the fever for the bayou but never really felt like i was there until she was done visiting and then it all hit damn i'm really in the next bit of life, do i want to stay here or not? thought a lot since i had a lot of time but sometimes i don't know that you need time to think since all you do is confuse yourself its like you're trying to find your way out of a maze where you're blindfolded and you're trying to orient yourself by spinning faster and faster. SUPER degenerate times that i'll never have again. so glad that i did though because then now i know i can and that there's more that i can do. like a lot more. money is silly. and i got a little crazy. do i really want to be here? still don't know, ended up coming back fatter and oddly hungrier. scared with where i found myself and did what i could to get out. strange going back to the coop and having friends again and not being alone all the time. yeaah freestyles. how or why that was born or brought up may never be known but i'm really glad that it was. week life, weak life, shitty waking up to do something so __________________________________. especially when i just came back from what i did. very scary. do i want to be here? fuuuuckkk no. started rolling the wheels that'll get me out but to where exactly i'm not sure and if i'd jump on the train once it took off i wouldn't know until later. then a different outlet reared its head. thought it was all very funny, and the universe or whatever got us to try to explain why. that was a fun two weeks. insightful. still not sure i've digested it entirely. still doesn't really feel like anythings much different since much wasn't expected with things winding down for the holidays, and people coming back anyways and alot of visits to club coop. starting to settle into the _________________________ and then the holidays and a long break and some moderately degenerate times. after that was the real shock. welcome to the world bitch! now you just grind, well we say we're grinding but really we're being ground down until we fit nicely in the cogs. so glad that i started the wheels to get out and then all i did was spend time checking to see if i made it out. lots of plants being sacrificed for some greater good. it was probably a good idea. then random ideas to get out in case my original plan doesn't work, but then my original plan works and so the ideas go to sleep again. find out i'm going somewhere cool and i stop checking so much and creating some more new things. man i've been creating alot lately. i wonder where i'll be in a year? i wonder if i'll want to be there?

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Do you MAKE money when gas goes up?

Maybe the proper word is save. I was doing my weekly drive to the la-area the past few Fridays I've noticed that I've been making the commute about 20-30 minutes shorter. My dad commutes via metrolink and he had told me that since gas has gone up the train has been more full than normal, which made me start to wonder the true impact of rising fuel prices. Am I really spending that much more every day?

Being a firm believer that early to bed, early to rise, is just a bunch of lies, I have a very good idea of how much time it takes for me to get from home to work. I've been noticing that my morning commutes are 3 minutes shorter - and that my afternoon commutes are 6 minutes shorter. Kind of a drop in the bucket considering average commute time of 35 and 40 minutes respectively (haven't really noticed much of a change in my weekend commutes but I don't keep track of how late I am on the weekends).

Before this most recent gas bubble, I was paying about $3.50 a gallon for roughly 11 gallons of gas a week (I drive a civic). The last price I paid was $4.10 for a gallon. So I am spending $6.60 more a week in gas now compared to my February spending.

However just calc'ing the cost of fuel doesn't do justice to the whole financial picture. What about the time I've saved? It's pretty easy to calc the cost of an hour of your life when you're working - for now I'm going to use an easy number so let's say an hour of my life costs $10. Every day I save about 9 minutes total commuting, except for on Fridays when I save 23-33 minutes (3 minutes for the morning and 20-30 for the afternoon). So every week I save between 59 and 69 minutes of my life, so I am saving roughly $10 to $11.50 a week. That minus my extra fuel costs net me $3.40-4.90 a week in savings.

Summary : Our perception of our true costs is humorous to me. Teehee

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On Government Spending

I've seen a lot of news articles and opinions about federal fiscal policy, and I'm sure you have too. What most of them are full of is vague generalities about what could hypothetically happen, without a clear picture of the numbers involved in the process. Since I'm a contrarian I will not put any opinions in this post, only numbers.


Awhile back I became interested in comparing what my social security benefits would be vs the money that had gone into the social security system. Since looking into the future is impossible I decided to compare what my payments would be like today vs what the same amount of money that went into the system would have been worth had it instead been put into an index fund.


I'm making simple assumptions that shouldn't change the relationship between the two values being compared significantly, the assumptions are largely to ease up the numbers so you guys at home can see if my results are valid.


Assuming 50k salary per year
Assuming 11% annualized return for an S&P fund (this is lowballing it by .2% to make up for expense fee's).
Assuming 12.4% of your income is put into both Social Security and index funds (in reality you only pay for 6.2% your employer pays the other 6.2%, so let's pretend that your employer is also willing to pay 6.2% into an index fund). This would equate to 6200 paid to either SS or placed into an index fund every year.
Assuming my SS payments increase by 2.5% every year (the amount they currently increase, COLA adjustment)


Using the following calculator, I determined what my payments would be if I had currently turned 65 (retirement age).

http://www.calcxml.com/calculators/ret04;jsessionid=8E80220DFB10FF03369D052CDDA302E0?skn=119#results

My payments would be 19799 a year.

The index fund would now have a total value of 5,505,369

Assuming that I turned my fund entirely to cash and that I didn’t receive any interest on it, it would take SS about 84 years to pay me an amount equivalent to what the fund had amounted to. In other words, I would have to live to about 149 to breakeven (obv if we leave the fund bearing any reasonable amount of interest SS never catches up).

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Quinodamus Prediction #1: War With Iran Within A Year

I've been predicting for about a month that we're going to war iran within the next year. I'm not the only one who thinks its coming

http://www.dilbert.com/blog

I don't feel like writing too much, so here are some bullet points for why I think this is going to happen pretty soon

-ALOT, like a fucking SICK amount of bad press about Ahmadinejad. Before the middle east blew up every week I'd read about another crazy thing he said. Is he the only dictator saying ridiculous things? Hell no. There are plenty of deranged dictators. He's definitely the one we heard most about though.
 
-Wikileaks cables all point to us wanting to mess with them http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/29/latest-updates-wikileaks-diplomatic-cables-release/
I mean that article isn't even about Iran specifically but almost every single cable tied back to Ahmadinejad.


-Oil. For this I will cite the most academic of references, and quote Chappelle from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJe8VVEQ0pQ
"What about people who say you're only interested in the middle east for oil?"
"What? Huh?  Oil? Who said something about oil bitch, you cookin? Oil?"

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On Japanese Earthquake Jokes

Everytime some tragedy strikes, some comedian or person in the public spotlight decides that it'd be funny to make a joke about said tragedy (this time it was Gilbert Gottfried), and then the public reacts and says "I'm deeply offended" and then the joker gets ostracized. I've always wondered who decides if something "crosses the line" or not. I've heard it said that comedy = tragedy + time and that sometimes these jokes come too soon. Maybe. But when michael jackson was fucking kids everyone made fun of him and the fact that he fucked kids, and no one really seemed to mind. We all thought it was funny. I don't mean to compare a kid being fucked to 10k people dying, but I think we can all agree that both are terrible, horrible things that we wouldn't wish to happen to our worst enemy. I'm sure people who have lost family don't appreciate jokes made about the earthquake - do people who were molested and raped when they were kids think its funny we laugh about child molesters?

I also thought of Gaddafi and how he is responsible for the death of thousands of people every week, and how SNL makes fun of him every week and we all laugh. Do libyans with family who were JUST slaughtered by this monster think its funny?

So then I wondered if maybe the difference was that in one case we were villianizing someone who committed the heinous act resulting in the tragedy, whereas earthquake victims were hurt by no one in particular and so if we're not villianizing the person who caused the tragedy then its not funny. Am I allowed to make fun of god then? Or mother earth? Probably not. That being said we all make fun of aids all the time "Oh I fucked that whore I hope I don't have aids or something." Now maybe the people involved in getting aids were willing participants in whatever act that got them aids so its ok to make fun of. Until you consider that 600k children die from aids every year and that a good number of them were born with it. Is it still funny to make that joke?

I'm not trying to make light of the situation in japan; no one should have to experience what they went through. No one should be slaughtered by Gadafi for wanting to be able to have a say in their government; no kid should be raped; no child should be born with aids. I'm just saying that trying to draw a line in comedy is insanity.

P.S. I'm also saying that I don't have the balls to make a joke about japan!

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On Observing Artists Observing Art

This weekend I went to James Jean's art gallery "Rebus" opening. The LA hipster/art scene is pretty funny to me, mostly because I used to think my bummy “I don’t give a shit how I look” look fit in well with that crowd, but as I’ve wisened up I have noticed that the hipster look is more well thought out than I had originally thought. Looks kind of bummy but outfits are still planned, facial hair and accompanying “messy” hair is still groomed and all. Ugh. Sounds like a lot of work to look messy, bummy, and still fashionable and nice all at the same time. Fuck that. I guess it makes sense though since artists are still going to notice what doesn’t flow aesthetically, and just can’t help themselves.

I overheard a pretty funny conversation while there

Girl 1 recognizes Girl 2 from somewhere and approaches her saying “Hey, I think..”

Girl 2 “…yeah, you’re”

Girl 1”we’re facebook friends?”

I was able to restrain my laughter but I couldn’t hide the grin.

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UCLA Racist Girl

I saw this video while gambolin to my hearts content; a girl at ucla goes on a rant about "asian people and their manners" in the library.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg3tIERI-D4

What really struck a chord with me was how she characterized her rant as "not politically correct." I love it when people chalk up acceptance of other people to being politically correct. Just like when people discuss gay rights and say that people that support gay rights are "liberal" or "progressive." I would today like to propose a new word for people who fall into those categories, which is the "Not Fucking Retarded" political point of view. This point of view essentially means that you use things like logic to decide the best means to govern society, and tend to shy away from old ramblings which happened to get written down and collected over the centuries and somehow became known as truth. Maybe I'll live to see the day when the whole world can all together proudly say "I am NOT fucking retarded." I like to think I'm a lucky guy when it counts.

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The Almighty Dollar

I got my very first tax return when I was 16. I had made a whopping 800 dollars or so working the holiday season at Mervyn's, and had 75 cents withheld for income taxes. I was supposed to receive the 75 cents as my entire tax return, but Uncle Sam only works in whole dollars so it got rounded up to a dollar. At the time I opted to get my return via the mail, and 6-8 weeks later I got my check from the treasury for one precious greenback. I thought it was hilarious that the government spent at least 34 cents or whatever sending me a check worth a dollar (and probably spent 16 dollars or some ridiculous shit on all the manpower that went into making that check get printed, lost, put in the mail etc.), so I saved the check and put it in my wallet as my emergency cash in case I was ever stranded somewhere were visa was not accepted.

A year passed and I had forgotten about the buck, and another treasury check came in the mail. Those checks are only good for one year, and if you haven't cashed it yet you get resent your return. I never did bother cashing that one in and don't know what happened to it. Now every year I get a check and it brings joy to my heart to know that I swindled the government (meaning YOU) out of 25 cents, and that this check will probably represent the only time in my life where I receive from the good ol' us of a more than I deserve from it.

I'm kind of curious to see how long they keep sending the checks, and wonder if I will still get them when I am an old man. I know I will get a kick out of getting some shit like this when I am 80 years old and a postage stamp is 5 dollars. Or if, when I'm worm food, my progeny keeps receiving the checks. I hope they don't cash them. Sorry for wasting your money!

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Reality Is More Fucked Up Than Imagination

So I read this article today

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/03/02/california.baby.stabbed/index.html?hpt=T2

Basically a teenager kidnapped his baby from its caretaker, called the baby’s mother and said he was going to harm the baby, amber alert went out cops chased his car, he stabbed the baby and crashed into a building and then took off running leaving the baby behind. While the cops were chasing him they shot him as it looked like he was breaking into a house.

I don’t know law very well but I always thought you had to be a lethal threat to the cops before they shot you. Meaning like you had to approach them with some lethal weapon brandished before they fired. Maybe this isn’t the case, either way I was surprised to learn that he got shot at while running away even though he hadn’t attacked/threatened the cops in any way. As I was wondering about the law, I also thought “maybe the guy was black.” Anyways I googled him and he turned out to be black.

“There are some people that think all black people look alike. We normally call those people police.” – Dave Chappelle

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Sheen Is Immune

He’s immune to drugs. Possibly immune to aids. And definitely immune to the judgement of the good ol’ us of a. H is latest string of interviews is genius because it is IMPOSSIBLE to make fun of him. How do you make fun of a dude who is himself 100% of the time? I’m not even sure there’s a difference between his roles and his “real life” interview self. I suppose the thing that makes it even harder to tease is that real life, in this case, is so much more ridiculous than fiction could ever be.

I remember wiki’ing sheen a few months ago, after I had watched my first ever episode of 2 and a half men. I was curious how he made it so big that he could star in a show where he just plays himself. The more of his work I looked up the more I realized that pretty much all of his work was shit where he played Charlie sheen. He only has one character in his repertoire and everyone loves it. Never had to play anyone else. I'm still not sure how you develop roles that are parodying yourself when no one even knows who you are yet. 

He’s definitely a stranger to the world, his only crime being that he is himself.

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Feels So Good

Awesome past few days. Freestyled on saturday after a birthday party for a good friend. It's been awhile.

I love how the act of creating music, or reading something good, cultivates an introspective spirit. Have definitely had alot of good ideas and thoughts for today. Much needed breath.

I also think its funny how after I freestyle I want to rhyme every sentence I saw for the next two weeks.
I just keep hearing the beats. Even after I make this post, from my home the west coast, I want you to know that I'll keep up the flow, and from time to time I'll write down a line but most of them will stay locked up in my mind. One day I'll let them out and you'll get a better view of what I'm about. But if before then you want to know how I've been hit me up.

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Congratulations, Inspirational Figure of the Day

I wanted to personally thank Nic Ramos (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18/nic-ramos-university-of-c_n_810196.html) for being my "Inspirational Figure of the Day". When your school, the University of Colorado at Boulder, told you that their funding was being outpaced by their expenses, you didn't take that blow sitting down. You boldly made your voice heard and made them make sure they understood exactly how much money you were spending on education - in fact you managed to keep their attention for 10 man-hours, costing them $250 (after factoring in salaries, benefits, and overhead for the average university staffer). That'll show them to whine about rising expenses. I'm so inspired, that I too, am starting a protest. I have always hated the American way of creating needless trash, and so whenever I pass a recycling bin I will empty it into the nearest trashcan. When my work is finished I will look down at each garbage can and smile, because I know that you too, in spirit, will be smiling back at me.


Thank you Nic Ramos

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Career Advice #3: Stay In School

Seriously that's it, stay in school. Work sucks

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Career Advice #2: Rome Wasn't Built In A Day

Earlier today I was tasked with a  pretty big project. I have a bit of a routine whenever I have a lot of work to do -  I check facebook, listen to music, and in general try to forget the mountain of work I have ahead of me. You have to be careful with how you approach projects; its kind of like jenga, one wrong pull and you could be crushed by the mound. I like to listen to oldies sometimes (a throwback to when I’d play poker 10 hours a day in the bayou listening to an 80’s radio station) to get focused, and that song “Ain’t no mountain high, ain’t no valley lowww” came on, and I started to get inspired to be amazing. I remembered the titans and their example, so that I too could make a contribution for the greater good of humanity. I had thoughts of finishing the project in baller time and being given a fat promotion and kudos all around. I was pumped man. And in remembering the titans I also remembered the Greeks that invented them, and more importantly the Roman’s who took credit for everything the Greeks did. Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it should only take a day to find your Greek.

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Career Advice #1 : Dress to Impress

We’ve all heard how important our appearance is in other people’s assessment of our career potential. What are some words that come to mind when you someone well dressed walking past your cube? Dedicated. Observant. Affluent.

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