Mood:  flirty

MySpace is increasingly being used as a business marketing tool. If you have got something hot, flaunt it.

------ 

 The Net Entrepreneurs Awards have been handed out. Included is a stay-at-home Mom who went into a hundred thousand dollar a year business in four years starting from zero. She is from Surrey BC and deals in gold and diamond jewelry and EBay.

http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m10/i18/s04

 ------

 But hey have you heard about the Fisher-Price toy that has been recalled? Apparently the paint is bad for you, making it 3X as bad for your kids lets say. Well, maybe it hasnt been recalled YET. But  with consumer watchdogs such as this can we say HOPE?

----- 

 Theres an old study out that has said that if you use tobacco there is double the chance of having nightmares. Do you believe that?

 ----

Anyway in case anyone is interested, I have taken it upon my self to promote awareness for Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles. This is for a Mrs Mom of California. 

----- 

 I have also heard that if you eat cheese before going to bed, youre chances of dreaming of a celebrity double. Yet I dont know if this actually doubles your chances of becoming a celeb so I guess when it comes to believing info over the Net you have to kind of take ur chances.

---- 

But thats all I have to blog about folk(s)..I am lazy so all these points you will have to find a popular search engine for more info. I am loathe even to type the standard numerical value for the highest numerical denomination known to man ..probably because I really do know there should be really no end to the ...plex's ..

Google:

Volkmann (photography)

ZumZum

Robert A Hicks, San Jose University (smoking study) 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg 

Where are they now? Taral Hicks, Lillo Brancato,Tabitha Soren,

Robert Rosenheck Photographer Kate Garner

Joel Beeson 

William Milliot

crime: {"whirlpooling" + David Dinkins 

{Glen Ridge Boys , New Jersey

{Spur Posse , Lakewood High

Mark Pagel (?)

 - - - 

 All things that make you go Hmmh. Hmh?

Posted by mach1231 at 11:00 PM PDT

Updated: Thursday, November 9, 2006 4:51 PM PST

Share This Post

Post Comment | Permalink

Mood:  special

OUT OF  PRINT and available as an [IMPORT]

Guests which gave a hand to complete Daryl Halls artistical

innovation include:

The Eurythmics' Dave Stewart

Bob Geldof

Joni Mitchell 

Bob Clearmountain

and others

List Price: $37.99

Only 3 left in stock-

---

http://www.amazon.com/3-Hearts-Happy-Ending-Machine/dp/B0000070OR 

You can read the reviews at Amazon but I d like to vouch for this rocka nd soul album my self. Halls alchemic mix of brave soulfullness mixed with innovative guitars sounds makes for quite an interesting musical melodic landscape. Its velour for the ears. Rich in timbre, dynamic in scope, it doesnt try too hard to out do it self.

Where it could have been any fools mistake, to part company from partner John Oates, Daryl shows he has nothing to prove...but everything he has hes willing to give to show its worth sharing.

And it certainly is,  which is why I decided to blog about it. 

Its simply worth sharing. Not a relic from a forgotten way ward era, Halls music conceptionalizes and crystalizes an exceptional and unique introspective look at the world of the real world, notions of love and even a dash of socio-political perspective for good measure.

Without over ravishing, the album and painting over a few dull areas that are seemingly lacklastre (tell me whose life has ever shine bright through and through?)...this album is quite a feat and I recommend it to any serious music collector.

Its funny when I hear this album it feels like fall. Autumn. The funny thing about it is...right now thats that the season is: fall. Lovable irremovable thoroughly immplacable always never ending fall..

Posted by mach1231 at 6:59 PM PDT

Updated: Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:02 AM PST

Share This Post

Post Comment | Permalink

Canada is supposedly "leading the way" with NATO overseas on missions such as Afghanistan.

Well why stop at countries far removed from this hemisphere?

World peace begins at home. Canada should begin at anytime now joining the rest of the civilized world in recognizing, not least of all in trumpeting rights of the Afghanis...also the inherent and inalienable rights of indigenous people worldwide.

While we are at it, why dont we join the European Union and vote to block the Ukraine from  becoming a member to NATO as she moves closer to war with Russia anyway (well anyway!!)...and with that out of the way...refuse to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide occured so that in essence......Turkey will never join the European Union. Ever.

Until Canada admits with France this point..that this should be acknowledged...it will be dually on the side of the US (which refuses to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide)...and at home saying that it does.

 (Many countries, including the United States and Israel, have so far refused to label the massacres as genocide.)

 Our Canadian government has acknowledged it on both sides of the House of Parliament.

 Now it must be brought to bear to be acknowledged also that our elected government stands against the world and sides with Russia in steadfastly stalwart in refusing to formally recognize inherent indigenous rights through the auspices of the United Nations...

by all readers of this blog hereby dated as entry on September 30th in the year 2006.

 On June 29, 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a Draft Declaration of Indigenous Rights. The Declaration affirms the right of self-determination of Indigenous Peoples, including the right to traditional territory and resources, and the right of Indigenous Peoples to oversee their own education in their own languages. It was passed by a vote of 30-2–- Russia joining Canada in opposition to the Declaration.

http://dominionpaper.ca/original_peoples/2006/09/29/unjustice.html

-  --

Canada needs to grow up. I knew this would happen. Despite all those calls about government corruption that resulted in Stephen Harpers election, I never once voiced support for a neophyte to international affairs to lead this country.

Paul Martin had plans in place to ensure government accountability.

He had the gait, posture and maturity to lead this country responsibly based on a wealth of experience . Obviously , Stephen Harper is making his mistakes along the way and this is to be expected if one never believed the status quo was sufficient to merely get by..if one believed Canada had to advance itself not just economically thanks to the Liberals but politically too.

But Canada as a country is suffering. And all I am saying is Canada: you should have not have two faces, one at home and one abroad.

You should not be a Janus headed beast. Like some say Russia might of could have been at one time or another.

 - - - - - 

 BBC reports in 2000

Turkey angry at US Armenian genocide move

Posted by mach1231 at 8:05 PM PDT

Updated: Saturday, September 30, 2006 8:48 PM PDT

Share This Post

Post Comment | Permalink

Mood:  crushed out

People who come here to pursue their dreams. Where everybody

gets an equal opportunity. A "fighting" chance. 

I remember when I first saw the sequels to Rocky I was still a child.

Rocky III I had seen for the first time in so many years, this time through the eyes of an adult.

 Theres such absolute daring simplicity in some of the more potent scenes. Not where Rocky is fighting in the ring, where the action is clearly overblown for effect...but where he is fighting for him self. For his direction in life. For his purpose.

Maybe thats what a lot of American men must feel these days and maybe in fact for the last  three, with their nation at war.

But I mean to point to specifically a scene where Rocky has some truly self-doubting moments while jogging on the beach in training and he is confronted by his wife, played by Talia Shire. 

For some reason, we always can watch this scene and almost sense its a scene that keeps us poised to almost feel we are about to see the actors playing turn into a maudlin mockery of melodrama itself.

Sylvest Stallone broke new ground with these films I think. I have never seen an actor in any role with the temerity to play a hero and yet stil posses the emotional honesty to show what it's like to see a grown man cry as I have with Sylvester Stallone.

Its a great scene played out on the beach in Rocky III. Inspiring, I think, is the word some people have used.

More here on the brand new Rocky film n production

Tough chic.

Posted by mach1231 at 11:50 PM PDT

Updated: Saturday, December 23, 2006 12:22 AM PST

Share This Post

Post Comment | Permalink

Mood:  caffeinated

Here's one...

Origins of Human Aggression: The Other Story

Is human aggression a result of nature or nurture? Featuring interviews with international experts from different research areas, including a Nobel prize winner, and startlingly illuminating footage of children acting out their aggressive impulses, this document examines the complex interactions of factors that affects the socialization of human aggressive behaviour.

The Origins of Human Aggression discusses the biological, environmental and psychological reasons behind human violence and provides guidelines on dealing with its prevention.

 Available here with preview/sample clip.

-  - - - -

 Television addiction

In 1972, a U.S. Surgeon General’s committee released a six-volume Scientific Advisory Report on Television and Social Behavior, which concluded that viewing TV violence has serious consequences for children. They become more willing to respond with aggression in a conflict situation, more willing to harm others, and more aggressive when playing. Appendix III of the report, “Television and Growing Up: The Impact of Televised Violence,” concludes with the following: “The relation of third-grade television habits to later behavior now appears even more impressive. Not only is the violence of programs preferred in third grade related to peer-rated aggression in the third grade and ten years later, but it is also related positively to self-discipline and anti-social behavior ten years later on.”

Source: http://www.realtruth.org/articles/0203-tta.html 

Posted by mach1231 at 11:57 AM PDT

Share This Post

Post Comment | Permalink

Mood:  caffeinated

After reading about this topic for discusison at this travel message bulletin board, I was intrigued at how Noam Chomsky was interwoven into the debate.  Someone had called him a 'communist agitator'.

 Alas...

Chomsky is the premier outspoken media critic and social

commentor of
our times. That communists feel agitated is incidental to the
philisophical embodiment of his lifes work. I just dont think he
came (ahem) prepackaged with an agenda or a message for sale.

But I have concluded that there is a definitive lack of love in the
world. And that this is related to a hierarchy of values.

Where do we place values? If a diamond and gold ring
on some persons hand was paid for in blood and death and
that person
become an (albeit) unwitting(?) participant in support
of death...whether it because a gold mine poisoned
a river and a people or destroyed a food supply or brought
sales of guns that end up in the hands of children..

what good is it if that gold ring ends up
on your hand raised in church ?

I think in essense what it comes down to is that people
value other people. Unlike people whose twisted sense
of self worth and power goes straight to their heads ..
history is littered with leaders whose vaunted sense
of self worth left death destruction and mayhem in its wake.

Yet I have come to the conclusion that conflicts on a global
scale are decreasing.

(Due to my somewhat contrarian nature, I would feel relieved
if someone broke my bubble)

Yet these points just dont mesh.

That how could this possibly take place alongside of
a lack of love in this world? We can't all just point
to terror as the "enemy". Assauge the worlds pain
with feelings of security retrofitted with
a complacency that our enemies wont "hurt us".

Or use them as an excuse to cancel out other peoples,
other lands, other nations priorities...preempt their
philosophies.


Maybe
as the world descends out of it own madness, still in effect
dizzy from the reverbatating effects inflicted psychologically
on this generation
..the nature abhoring technological tools that enhance the
roles communication plays in our lives displaces the rush
to feel genuine happiness,genuine freedom et al...how many
people have at one point turned to the Net hoping it might
fill a vac or need in their lives? As a type of springboard
to some type of neverending land of bliss and Utopia
where the din from such a paradisical place just gets annoying.


But back on the travel board  topic, I may have meandered

down that lonely lane of preaching from the pulpit to the

converted after reading this article: Archbishop Warns of Childhood Crisis in Britain.

But in essence I think what people are talking about , beyond

what they label themselves as left,right, center,
left of center, right of center..beyond how they are perceived and
labeled
..or cat called or heckled...is that a one size fits all
of political philosophy (,,,<<-Walmart)
is too much of a burden for the world to bear when it comes
to nations engaging each other..but that this is not too much
to bear for the simple
cause of peace...what a world it is we dreamed of so
expansive and large...when all we needed was a glimpse of a
a universe so huge to shrink our imaginations
back from being so small.


But hey as for my self, I never would buy and consume a
Che Guevera soda...but the alternative of a Coke is
really not looking all that attractive. Just for the
"health" of it as they say. ..... right down to this micro level of an internet
messagboard, we are living out the zeitgeist of our times.

This, in essence, is it. As we live and breathe. Its amazing ..
yet at times staggering in contemplating its implications
for use BOTH a tool for social change and making money

Maybe we should all try to find that happy medium.

Posted by mach1231 at 11:28 AM PDT

Updated: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:25 PM PDT

Share This Post

Post Comment | Permalink

That Mariah Cary. I can't help my self..one look at that photo, theres

a thousand beautiful photos of Mariah out there ...but all a guy needs is one...next thing you know, he's on his way to the tattoo parlour..photo in hand saying see this picture and photo? I want THAT tattoed on my chest- (lol)

Anyway! I feel so st00pid, I'm serious. I went ALL DAY thinking today

was hello?-Friday! * 8o'clock PM rolls around and I feel like a gong had gone off in my head

I'm still not totally over it I think I'd better go to bed. 

Posted by mach1231 at 1:32 AM PDT

Share This Post

Post Comment | Permalink

Mood:  suave

Calling all film fan afficiando's far and wide..you simply

MUST SEE Hilary Bevan-Jones executive produced Emmy Award

wining film

The Girl in the Cafe 

http://www.hbo.com/films/girlinthecafe/

At the Emmy's 

Looking sober but gratified, "The Girl in the Cafe" producer Hilary Bevan Jones spoke backstage on behalf of fellow honoree Richard Curtis, who was not present to accept his award for writing the HBO made-for.

"The reason (Curtis) wrote this film was to draw people's attention to the fact that in this world of plenty, 20,000 people are still dying every day of extreme poverty," she said of the telepic, about the G8 summit in Iceland in 2005. "I'm so grateful that the American audience has recognized this film, and hope they will recognize why we made it as well."

 Ms Bevan Jones is chairman of BAFTA and at that the preeminent first woman to chair the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in its 60-year history.

She is also keen to "break down the glass wall between film and television".

Of course they should be celebrated individually, but one is not better than the other."

"I just think there should be more mutual respect."

  - - -

Posted by mach1231 at 1:45 AM PDT

Share This Post

Post Comment | Permalink

Mood:  accident prone

In between phone chats with people who know me, email from people I am beginning to know, and posting at message boards where

figuratively nobody knows me at all.

I am beginning to feel a little wierded out.

 ur basic babe isnt she?

tsk tsk tsk 

IN all seriousness the worlds most adorable and curvaceous

girl with the divine pipes and diva personality plays

Vancouvers GM Place this month on the 23rd, 7 pm

Beyond the point of wishing, too many missed opportunities

paints a picture of life filled with regrets and I dont

want any 

Posted by mach1231 at 10:11 PM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:20 PM PDT

Share This Post

Post Comment | Permalink