February 2012
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“One Million Miles Away” ~ J. Ralph
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Filling the static and silence
Loneliness can be overwhelming to the extent of despair. It’s practically an innate need of living things to connect with something or someone that acts not only as a mirror to our subjective experience, but also as validation that our subjective experience is not singular. No matter how desperately we want to believe, at times, that our struggles are ours alone—someone somewhere can,...
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Social Media Consequences Can Be Wonderful
One of the beautiful, latent consequences of involving and engaging oneself in social media is the discovery of shared moments, thoughts, and experiences between two or more completely unrelated followers. To discover that not only do I share a random connection with a total stranger, but to also discover that two strangers that I follow that do not follow each other share the same random...
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January 2012
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All Apologies
My life has had to become very quiet over the last few months.
No shows. No yoga. Almost no music or writing. At all.
Shortly before Labor Day of last year, the universe decided to send me a little gift-wrapped package that I didn’t know how to deal with and inside that little box was/is the possibility of MS. I’ve become a “Dr. House” patient for the moment, so I sit in...
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“Nights In White Satin” ~ Midnight...
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Selling the Experience of Reading the News
With the exception of my father and a handful of others hungry to hang on to the nostalgia of breaking open the NY Times over an espresso and breakfast on Sunday mornings, everyone I know accesses their “need to know” news via the web—why pick up a paper when you have the news of the world in the palm of your hand and in many cases, for free?
Back when I used to read print...
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“Lovedead” ~ Army of the Universe
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Out of my head and into my ears
I can’t complain about how I make my living: I write…and I write mostly about music. I go to shows for free, I hang out with musicians, and I get to listen to some of the most spectacular tunes being composed right now. It’s not all good—sometimes I’m overbooked to the point that going to one more show makes me want to run to my bed, sometimes the venue management and...
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December 2011
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An Interview with Joanne Wilson
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to pick Joanne Wilson’s brain about women in the tech industry and her advice for those of us that want to become more involved in entrepreneurial endeavors inside and outside of tech.
Wilson is also known as Gotham Gal and is an active investor in the startup world.
Sal Christ: How and when did you get involved with tech and...
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I love the way music sews together moments of living—sometimes tying those memories to people, to sensation, or merely to the first auditory glance at an exciting fringe of notes. We oft turn to those songs in hopes of recreating that frame of our life over and over again—occasionally successfully, but too frequently just replaying a memory that is never quite as organic and lush as when it first...
November 2011
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SoundCloud Gems: Tiny Little Houses →
If your junior high crush had written cheery little romantic ditties, they would have sounded like Tiny Little Houses. Every song posted by this Australian lad is indie pop gold–from the sweet lyrics to the beautiful acoustic melodies. The content of the tracks tells the life cycle of a relationship–from crush stage longing to the jaded pain of a broken heart. While it’s hard to think the singer...
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a “no sampling involved at all” cover...
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Promote a party & then crash one →
Slumming it around the house because nobody invited you out should be a thing of the past with Where’s the Party at?, a new web app for the iPhone and Android. Conceived by Colorado DJ and producer, Nick Smalling, the app aims not only to help people find nightlife events nearby, but also get them to where they’re going–even if they won’t remember how they spent their night by the time the alarm...
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“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.”
– Robert L. Peters (via Justin Alber)
October 2011
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Shared Secrets
Vulnerability, particularly the uninvited, is a terrifying place to hold oneself in.
We live in a world where everything has become reliant upon appearance. How one appears in the public eye, to potential employers or clients, friends old and new, prospective boyfriends or girlfriends and a million other people has allowed us—or perhaps forced us—to be extra selective about how and what we...
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“Winds of Change” ~ EMC
September 2011
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The sensation of being sensationless
I used to think that emotional numbness was one of the worst experiences in life. You walk around on emptiness, full well knowing that you’re not empty, but lacking the ability to discern any of “it.”
Now I’m not so sure. My gift-wrapped surprise from the universe remains, merely allowing its presence to sprawl. The sensation of not having physical sensation somehow seems...
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Yoda Says Do Nothing
Life sucks sometimes—situations and people that you’d rather not deal with pop up unexpectedly and always at the most inconvenient time. There’s the creepy neighbor who plays his music too loudly and the boss with a penchant for condescendence and what can you do? Pretend that it’ll go away if you ignore it long enough, read a self-help book about radical positivity, or maybe just do...
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“Pictures of You” ~ The Cure
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“See You on the Other Side” ~ BT
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“Music is an affirmation of life—not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor...”
– John Cage (via dozs)
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I want to thrive, not just survive
Sometimes we have no idea what to do with the things that life hands us before it says, “Deal with this.”
These things never come at the right time and more oft than not, these things are not of the positive persuasion. We’re expected to just take them on and figure everything out along the way—even if the little uninvited surprise is entirely unwanted, dreaded, and cried over....
August 2011
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Lessons From the Paper
Food for thought from behind the headlines:
My giant take-home of late comes from the acknowledgment of one of my greatest weaknesses as a journalist. Accosting total strangers on the street—particularly college students—terrifies me in the same manner that speaking to large groups of people terrifies others. I avoid it, I stammer, I pass dozens of people as I try to psych myself up to talk to...
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Change is happening—even if we can't see it
Change is never as prolific as we elevate it to be. Transformation, the act of progressing from one state to another, is a perpetual process—unending and perdurable. Who we are remains subjective from day to day, moment to moment, breath to breath. Of course we are different than we were before—we exist. Nothing in life remains constant and as such, life is a plight of maintaining some tolerable...
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“Fallin’” ~ De La Soul
So good.
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Fink's new album is awesome →
A recent album review I wrote.
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New web app is like Pandora for your tastebuds →
I interviewed these guys recently—really interesting web app that’s sure to be a hit with bloggers and foodies alike.
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“Busta’s Lament (Instrumental)”...
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We Are More Than Surface
Judgment is as judgment does.
We see something or someone and come to a conclusion about the situation without knowing all of the details. Sometimes we’re intuitive enough to see what’s there without having to dig too deep and sometimes we’re so incredibly off base that it’s embarrassing. Often in our quest to make a judgment about someone—even ourselves—we think not about the context of the...
July 2011
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Let Me Die in My Footsteps | Bob Dylan
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Do not go gentle into that good night
Tonight I found out that a friend of mine from college, a professor still teaching at the school, passed away rather suddenly and abruptly at the age of 59. A great man, former military, who taught kids how to draw. He’d just returned from a trip to Thailand.
This is the second death that I’ve heard about by way of FB in the last three weeks and as the news of his death travels, I am...
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June 2011
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Letting Go, Giving Up, and Moving On
Sometimes there are things that we want so badly in life that we’d do absolutely anything to bring them to fruition. We travel great distances, make tremendous sacrifices in time and energy, and creep to the absolute edges of limits that we never knew we had in order to bring a dream—whatever it may be—to life. There come moments, however, when the universe simply will not bend any further and...
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The Art of Disconnect. . .
…or why I have neglected the old blog here for the last two months and quit Twitter.
Back in January, Arianna Huffington was interviewed by Prospect Magazine and made a comment about the need “to disengage from our 24/7 connectivity.” She went on to explain that constantly being locked into the rest of the world has hampered our “inner wisdom”. Why is this...
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“The internet isn’t your pony such that you can support free speech and expect it...”
– Zeynep Tufekci of U-Maryland and technosociology.org
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“Epiphany No 6: It’s all about quantity. Just like you, I’m drowning in my...”
– Kenneth Goldsmith, founder of UBU.WEB
The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: Article
(via notational)
May 2011
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“Journalists the world over are struggling to cope with a social and mobile...”
– Mark Little (via soupsoup)