from Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself by Osho
Entries from July 2008
Media Trends: Desultory Observations
July 31, 2008 · 5 Comments
1) NEW SPORTS ANALOGY: the game is now lacrosse − It’s not moving a big fat ball down a field anymore … its deftly flinging a smaller and more precious ball (audience) all over the place … scooping it and flinging it in a targeted and relentless fashion. giants don’t necessarily win. “The sport of lacrosse is a combination of basketball, soccer and hockey. Anyone can play lacrosse–the big or the small. The game requires and rewards coordination and agility, not brawn.” Actually, maybe it’s a game of lacrosse overlayed upon a game of football or basketball. How to conduct both games at once without everyone crashing into each other − there’s the challenge.
2) MONTAGE COLLAGE: because of the difficulty of launching anything new, a montage approach, blending the unknown with the known, making a new collage that connects new ideas with old ones, is desirable. It also jives with people’s new timeless sensibility. The past – what’s that? When video and info and people and connections are at your fingertips, nothing’s ever over. Everything is always there − with the potential in each moment to be new, and hot. Like an awesome R&B hook sampled in a hip hop song. As for the new new … will it ever be like the old new? No, it’s a new kind of new.
3) FULL ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE − People want out. They want to be outside. Doing different things, being healthy, being together, participating. The social networking phenomenon is visible and measurable online (though no one knows how to make money off it yet) … but there’s a whole live out-of-home dimension to the phenomenon. People reconnecting and coming out of the woodwork, live and in person. Whereas TV used to be their shared campfire, now there’s opportunity for new live campfires. New shared destinations. And I’m not just talking corny theme parks, imax, and live concerts. There’s more to it. I have a dream of creating a space I call “My Favorite Everything.” It’s a physical locale where visitors can experience all of my favorite things from all time − videos, music, images, words, memories, objects and even some live human beings. It would be like physically going to your favorite channel. Or my favorite channel, I should say. An artist pal said it’s an installation and I should build it. An entrepreneur friend said sounds like a cool invention. I keep thinking about it and I am sure many others are creating their own too.
4) THE NATURE OF REALITY — I also keep thinking of how tripped out it will be if/when reality TV assimilates into reality … there’s no casting anymore, no show per se but people are all celebs in their own mini worlds. Hard to describe but I see it coming …
5) VARIETY SHOWS — this is more of a near-term thing but i think the variety show may have a resurgence. i attended a will ferrell funny or die show at radio city back in the winter and thought: variety shows are poised to come back. american idol plus comedy plus other kinds of fun. now word on the street is rosie o’donnell is getting a show on fox prime time. “The new show could turn out to be a 2009 version of Carol Burnett or even ‘The Ed Sullivan Show.’” the osbournes may be getting onr too. good idea. the hardest part is finding the hosts/casts who can carry it off. leno, now avail, would be perfect.
Misspelled tattoo: Oh, the ironee
July 30, 2008 · 3 Comments
hat tip: gigglesugar.com
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woody teaming up with long ball larry
July 30, 2008 · No Comments
Woody Allen is working on a new film with Larry David. It’s called “Whatever Works.” I suspect this one will work for me.
His latest film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, is out next month. A pal saw it and raved. Javier looks smokin!
Categories: movies
the beautiful people
July 29, 2008 · 3 Comments
check it out: my cousin carmen, a model on uniqlo.com. what’s uniglo, you ask? i’m guessing it’s a clothing line that would never ever fit me. but look at carmen — ain’t she a peach? can i bask in her beauty limelight? okay so she’s my cousin by marriage, but still … (yes, i am this shallow).
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what do i know
July 28, 2008 · 1 Comment
i saw batman dark night yesterday. i thought it was 35 minutes too long and wasn’t all that into it. heath was the very best part — heath was incredible. i was nonplussed with christian bale, whom i am generally a big fan of. they’ve done a brilliant job marketing — managing to get the butts of me and my pal, women age 33 and 59, into those seats. and yeah it was fun and exciting and all that but at two and a half hours? unjustified. yet, it’s kicking serious ass at the box office … “There are even whispers starting whether Dark Knight can beat the incredible worldwide numbers posted by the all-time $1.8 billion benchmark of Titanic.” titanic was over three hours long, mind you, so it seems the go big or stay home approach pays off.
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monday morning dance party!
July 28, 2008 · 3 Comments
“i’m bossy” by kelis. i’m back with an 808 cause i’m bossy
Categories: dance party! · music
here comes the col
July 27, 2008 · 8 Comments
Been trying to stop using material things as a salve for my anxiety. Why do I buy more tshirts, tank tops, lotions, random shit just because it’s there? It’s ridiculous and I see myself doing it and I still do it. Along the lines of materialism … one thing that makes me crazy is the concept of a traditional wedding. Marriage … well, the jury’s out on that one as to whether it’s a good idea for a person like me. But a big traditional wedding − that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and requires friends and family to spend mad cash? NO WAY. I’m less than a month away from turning 33 and I can tell you the amount of dough I’ve spent over the years on other people’s nuptials, homes and children is fairly significant. Meanwhile I live in a rented studio apartment and have like 4 plates bought from Target. No one’s bestowed me with lump sums of money or objects to create a home. It sort of bothers me, but when I step back and look at it, I am happy with my life and choices. And though it’s totes hypocritical after what I just said about material things, I’ve taken a page out of Carrie Bradshaw’s playbook and set up a Wedding registry for myself. Because a chick’s gotta live …
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Funnuendo
July 26, 2008 · 4 Comments
i love music and music videos containing OTT sexual innuendo. here are a few of my faves, mostly plucked from the R&B genre, all of which i believe are from the late 90’s/early 2000’s … a time when i still used to listen to the radio and Napster was in its heyday.
Adina Howard - Freak Like Me. Cause it’s all about the dog in me-eeee. I love love loved this song, and still do … cause i don’t give a damn about a thing.
Slum Village − Climax. Gettin’ live like we at the mardi gras … SV was an amazing act. RIP j dilla.
Choclair − Rubbin. You fronting like I ain’t ’bout to knock it … I got a rocket in my pocket. Saw these guys at cat’s cradle in chapel hill in 1998. it was an awesome show. no idea where they are now — their music isn’t even on iTunes.
Aaliyah – Rock the Boat. Go ahead and put that thing in over drive. Think this was the video she went to shoot when the plane crashed 
D’Angelo − How Does it Feel. Listen girl I have something I wanna Show U .. I wish you’d open up cause I wanna take the walls down with u. I was totes obsessed with this entire album when it came out. And the previous album (Brown Sugar). D’Angelo’s so talented. And hot damn, is he a beautiful human being. Zoinks!
H-Town − Knockin the Boots. Somebody rockin� knockin� da boots.
There are many more … like Pony by Genuine, Too Close by Next. And countless others i’m hoping you’ll point out …
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Tagged: sexual innuendo songs
Welcome to the living room
July 25, 2008 · 3 Comments
In my house growing up, every family party ever held … after dinner, and many drinks, out came the Irish music. When I was 8 my parents even forced me to take Irish step dancing lessons in the back of a bar (Davey’s Locker in Montvale, NJ to be precise. ) … And no, I did not love that. But I did love the music, and still do (albeit in small doses). It makes me feel at home, among family.
Of course, it also accentuates a sense of gloominess in the Irish-American sensibility. A pal once referenced someone she knew who read “the Irish sports pages” every day without fail. She was talking about the obits. Man was that familiar. Between my Grandma, Nana, Mom, Aunts and Great Aunts’ worrying, I was surrounded by adults who were obsessed with mortality. And the craziest part is, all that worrying was done silently. There was always a dark cloud of fear hovering over us, but no one acknowledged it. No one talked about death, dying or anything “unpleasant.”
I’ve done a decent job shedding that mindset but the weight of generations still bears down on me every once in a while. But then I can’t forget − there are positive aspects of the Irish-American sensibility. Wit. Sarcasm. The ability to laugh ourselves through seriously ugly shit. And to fight like hell when we need to.
