Jeremy's World
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I was reading up on Wikipedia about one of the candidates for the upcoming presidential election. In the “Presidential Campaign” section, I found this inserted disclaimer rather interesting:
So basically, this says that “we expect that this person will waffle and change their position as the election approaches.” Niiiice. 
My band is auditioning guitar players to add to our lineup. To do so, we placed ads in the usual places, once of which is Raleigh Music.com. This is the site I originally used when I found Rob and Jonny for the original lineup. Anyway, the ad said:
Established Rock Cover Band Seeks Additional Guitar Player
Aftershock is looking to enhance our sound by adding a new/additional guitar player to our established lineup. We are a rock cover band, lots of 80’s rock with other party favorites being added to appeal to the local bar/club scene. We play out a couple times a month and are working to expand our rotation to include the downtown Raleigh clubs also. We practice a few times a month and have practice space.We’re looking for someone with solid chops and the ability and desire to play both rhythm and split lead duties. We’re not looking for note-by-note solo copies, but hitting signature riffs is a must. Professional gear and attitude are musts. We’re not in this for the money. We do this for fun. No drugs or drama.
Simple, right? We had a few responses, and Rob was responsible for replying and setting up auditions for those who seemed “cool” on the phone. One guy, whose name I’ll omit, jerked Rob around by selling himself highly, pointing us to his MySpace page where he had samples of his guitar masturbation songs and basically told us, “If you heard me, you would add me to your band because I would make you great.” And the funniest part…His picture actually had an MS Paint edited version where he sloppily put black splotches on his head to cover his bald spots. Hilarious.
Yeah…Not even worth an audition. But here’s the REALLY funny part…
Jenn had some friends over last week and we had an interesting conversation. All of her girlfriends who get together one night a week to do girlfriend things have pre-school aged kids. One mom stated, “[Fill in the name] is ready to move past where she is in her class. But, I asked the teacher about it who said, ‘We can’t go past where the whole class is because everyone need to be at the same place going into kindergarten. They’ll teach her that stuff in kindergarten.’”
So, kiddo is ready to be challenged more than she currently is, but the pre-school (which is something we pay for by the way) can’t (or won’t) challenge the kids ready to take it up a notch for fear of them being ahead of their peers come kindergarten next year. Wow. Just…wow.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for (the theory of, not our implementation of) “No Child Left Behind.” But “No Child Allowed Forward” doesn’t seem like a logical extension of that to me.
I have to do this in order to have my blog listed on Technorati. We’ll see what it does.
Some of us here at work have been charged with delving into the world of social media and how it relates and can be used in a business setting. I don’t know what the impact of this is, but we gotta start somewhere. I’m now "Linked In" here. The case is being made that this is the future of marketing and PR and that more intimate relationship building is the key to business more so than traditional marketing & PR avenues. I guess I’m still a skeptic…I fail to see how writing on my blog or re-connecting with a former co-worker to say, "hey" can be considered "work." I’m not producing anything, I’m not selling anything, I’m not providing any services to generate revenue. Obviously networking is a key business skill. But where does it fit in the grand scheme of doing business?
I guess we’ll see where this leads!
I know I’m a big ol’ rock star and stuff (HA!) but I’m also a music fan in general. I appreciate musical talent, regardless of genre. Do I listen to everything as a practice? Absolutely not. I stick with what I love.
That said, "what I love" seems to be evolving. My dad will be happy…my taste is now involving more and more Country Pop. No, not the old school twangy crap…The younger, fresh stuff. We even watched much of the Country Music Awards last night. There was some pretty good stuff on there!
Keith Urban is a stud, plain and simple. The harmonies that Sugarland, Rascal Flatts and Little Big Town put out? Wow. I know the rest of the world is nutso over Kenny Chesney and Brad Paisley – winners of "Entertainer of the Year" and "Male Vocalist of the Year" respectively – but neither really does it for me. They kind of have the twang thing going. George Strait? Please.
Oh, and Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler – especially post-boob job – are both extremely nice to look at…I mean…listen to.
For the most part, our cable-based Internet access has been pretty darn good for a few years. Yeah, we had some outages when we had ice storms a couple years back. But overall, it’s been good…until yesterday. It is SLOOOOOW IF we can get a connection at all. And to top it off, we use Vonage, so our home phone service is basically out of commission as well. Neat. Here’s the speed test showing or BLAZING speed. And this was one of the better ones!
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