Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Our Need To Remain Infinite

In the search to make my story known, keep up with far away friends, and comply with all the technology available to me in the 21st century, I have officially become a cyber child.
Not only do I have this MySpace account, I decided to open another one for my photography. To do that I had to open another email account. I have a work email too. I'm trying to do some photography on the side, so Tim bought me an iBook while I was in Africa, I have a few computers at work and I just found out that you can up load pictures to blogspot....
So that comes to a grand total of....

4 email accounts, 2 MySpace accounts, 1 Blogspot, 5 computers at my disposal, (2 Mac, 3 PC), only 1 cell phone though, 1 home phone, 1 direct line to my desk, 2 digital cameras, one MP3 player, a digital recorder, and a dog named King. (that is just assuming that you all know we have the usual TV, DVD, VCR, stereo setup at home) And since I sit at at least 2 of those computers almost all day long, with my cell phone at my side, I have a constant line to the outside.

Am I really connected, or just absolutely overboard?

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Pick of the week: Jack's Mannequin


Andrew McMahon took a break from Something Corporate, to form this weeks pick; a band called Jack's Mannequin. I bought the first album, "Everything In Transit" about 4 months ago and it is stays in my CD player about 50% of the time. You might have heard their first single, "Mixed Tape" on the radio or popular TV shows. They have an addicting sound somewhere between Ben Folds (because of the piano) and.... the Beach Boys??? (on cancer) McMahon was diagnosed with acute lymphatic leukemia in May of 2005 which adds a little something extra to the mix. Throw in some punk guitar and summertime hook, that makes you want to move to California, and you have this weeks favorite, (and I learned how to spell "mannequin")

Read about the success of using adult stem cells to help Andrew into remission
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1511627/20051017/something_corporate.jhtml?headlines=true
You can check out a Bio on the VH1 site:
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/jacks_mannequin/bio.jhtml
Or check out the Jack's Mannequin site
http://www.jacksmannequin.com/

For those who are content conscience, there is some adult language and content to the music.