I have not updated my blog in forever. I have been cheating on it with girls like Twitter and Facebook, or as my dry cleaner calls it, The Facebook. A lot has happened over the course of a year, but strangely enough, as i look back on my previous posts, a lot of them still apply.
1. I had another birthday and it was great.
2. I did start training for my Triathlon, however it took a little break…for like a…year. I will get into that later.
3. I started my own DJ company that is actually going very well.
I’m too tired to talk about them now but I will post very soon.
Go Lakers!
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It’s an interesting question because for me, the question always implied that you did something spectacular. You were whisked away to some mysterious place, totally unexpected. Well the truth is, sometimes the best birthday can be the one that you don’t do anything on.
It is really hard to get some time to just do nothing. I have a job, a quickly growing company, a family, music, to do items, yard work, etc. I don’t know about you, but for me the hours in the day disappear very quickly. So when my wife asked, “What do you want to do?”. I flashback to being in Fresno for 2 days, working on websites and songlists, preparing for the party Saturday night, training a new DJ…
I replied, nothing.
Don’t get me wrong, we went out to brunch as a family, had a wonderful breakfast on Sunset and then we went home. I watched the first NFL championship game, grabbed my two year old, laid him on my chest and then we took a nap. 2 blissful hours of sleeping on the couch. I awoke and went to the store and bought the things necessary to make my homemade Beef wontons and chicken fried rice. I make everything from scratch by the way. We had a great dinner and then we relaxed with a little wine.
That’s it…nothing spectacular in the traditional sense. No running around, no gathering people for a dinner only to have to wait for them because they will undoubtedly be late. Just a very peaceful day with the family.
This was probably the best birthday I have had in a long time…
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Why did I start this again??? Oh yes, personal goal…???
Well, it was a pretty good week, I got in 3 days of training, but it was so hot that it was hard. I may be a black man, but I’m not from Kenya. I can’t take all of this heat! It was kind of a busy week so I really had to squeeze it in. I got in 4 miles of running and then 2 days of weight training. The weight training is apart of my normal week and I don’t plan to stop that just because I added some more intense cardio. I typically don’t run more than 2 miles so even adding the 1 additional mile feels like someone is on my back, yelling at me, why pouring hot cocoa down my shorts. I have not even attempted to swim or get on my bike, although, the 2 flat tires may have something to do with that. Slow and steady. That’s how I roll, or walk… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: achievement, cycling, personal goal, running, sprint, triathalon, weight loss
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I have had a suicidal dream for the past couple of months to subject myself to enormous amounts of pain and suffering all for nothing. I have watched these crazy people jump in a 50 degree ocean and swim a mile, just to come back to land an get on a bike and do what??? Ride 25 miles…but wait there’s more. Once you get off the bike, don’t stop…keep RUNNING another 8-10 miles…
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Tags: achievement, cycling, personal goal, running, sprint, triathalon, weight loss
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Tags: 2.0 update, iphone, ipod touch
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Hello All,
I told you I’d be working on some more personal stuff over the coarse of the next few months. Well, we all know that tax day is not a good day in America, and for hard working producers. it sucks even more. Getting paid for music is not like getting paid at your job. Your company will automatically take money out to protect themselves. When you work for yourself it’s all up to you. Sometimes, it’s the choice between rent and…rent. So I have done a real good job to try to correct past issues I’ve had with those people, but no matter how hard you try, there is ALWAYS some else to pay for, or tax modifications, or ungodly interest fees. Well, because of my love for our Government, I wrote this song. I was feeling a little annoyed the day it happened to me (Yes this is a true story) so I was able to channel my Sid Vicious side. It’s raw, but that’s the point. Enjoy
P.S. Don’t audit me.
You can listen to it here. WARNING EXPLICIT CONTENT
Right Click to download it using the “Save link as” function.
DON’T FORGET TO LEAVE A COMMENT!
Tags: being broke, free music, Garnish checks, Interest, IRS, music inspired by an audit, Overdraft, poor, Tax Day
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I was reading through my good friend Linda Latta’s blog the other day where she had written a very insightful piece about acknowledging signs. It got me thinking about fate and divine intervention. Being of Jewish faith, we have always had a pessimistic outlook on signs. Signs can be ambiguous in nature, easily misinterpreted, or just plain wrong. Out of all the practices of the faith, there is one idea that I believe is something all should live by.
DON’T WAIT FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN, MAKE IT HAPPEN.
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Tags: God, Linda Latta, lindalatta.com/blog, procrascination, Signs
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As you all know, Check One Two is in full swing. The band is rocking and we got some real heat coming through. Strangely enough though, as the principle producer of the group, I can’t help but feel like something is missing in my musical life. I can’t tell you how often I have made a song and scrapped it because it didn’t sound like CO2. Looking back, I was really doing myself a disservice because it is obviously something that my soul needed to get out. The trick is balancing the two sides together, not showing favoritism for one side or the other. If I make a track that could work for both, than obviously it’s going to CO2. Read the rest of this entry »
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Is it me or were these the worst Grammy’s in years? Excluding the fact that the show is always boring, the performances, which are usually the only redeeming quality were just horrible.
Kanye West’s Stronger was overblown fluff. Sorry Kanye, I saw that performance before, when it was called Tron.
Brad Paisly, did he look like he hated standing on stage? No emotion whatsoever. His voice never left the lower register.
I like mash ups just as much as the next guy, but they weren’t thought out at all. Read the rest of this entry »
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