The Imperial Blues

I found this first on Gizmodo, a site that Jose directed me to one day (damn his eyes for giving me a new internet addiction). My love of Star Wars, music, bluegrass, blues and humor all comes crashing together in one beautiful piece of art here. Have fun and enjoy. :)



Peace,
Jenna


EDIT:

I had to add this one after I saw it. It's actually the second related link you see when the imperial blues video finishes. This just made me smile. :)

Happy Positions Remembered Day!

:: has trouble keeping a straight face and giggles ::

Happy Positions Remembered Day! Yeah... what the hell is that anyway? I have no clue but some of the concepts coming to mind remind me of some times in my life where the next day I was very sore. *wink*

Perhaps it's positions at work... like manager, apprentice, project leader, supervisor... I doubt it though. Perhaps it has to do with being in a bad or good position in life in general. Wealth, poverty, fame, isolation, etc. Or maybe it's something like this:

Uhm... yeah... well, regardless happy holiday to you and yours. But do yourself a favor and just REMEMBER the position... don't try it again... it never works out the same way as you remember. :)

Yesterday I was ready to shoot Sadao. He called me several times during the day complaining about his situation and begging me for help. He's stuck with nowhere to live and I have no power to help him at this moment in time. I look at his situation and can't help but think he got himself in it... he needs to get himself out of it... just like everyone else (me included) in this world has to do. I guess he's in as much of an awkward position as the guy pictured above, eh? Oof... life imitating art again.

At any rate, I try to help him out as much as I am able to but my commitments are first to myself (because I can't help anyone if I'm not sound), second to those I call family (including blood and those I live with), third friends and co-workers... lastly everyone else.

I've walked down some weird paths in my life and have made choices that make no sense in retrospect. Perhaps it's all part and parcel to life's little journey for all of us and each person's journey has to be different enough from each others' so that when we're all back together again we can share stories that are very different with each other. Who knows?

At any rate, i ended up driving ALL the way to Cassleberry last night to try to calm him down and get him to stop blowing up my phone. In the end, I ended up driving him to one of his friends' apartment to spend the night there. I went home, of course.

But I woke up with the incredible sense that everyone else in my life is living their lives without the pangs of guilt of being selfish. So why am I letting guilt ruin mine? Good question? Doesn't need an answer... just needs a solution. Well, doesn't even need that any more cuz I already got it, bitches... :)

Have a good day and try to remember some crazy positions... :)

Peace,
Jenna

Big Yellow Taxi

This song has been haunting me today. Not sure why but apparently I'm supposed to share this with someone. So here it is:

Big Yellow Taxi
by Joni Mitchell


They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Peace,
Jenna

Maximum Freshness Day

Today is Maximum Freshness Day! Oddly enough, I seem to be following my natural state of rebellion without even realizing it. I woke up late without time to take a shower (ewww!) and so I'm doing my impression of the French today. Figures that on Maximum Freshness Day I would just so happen to not be so fresh.

That aside, it's also Columbus Day. I'm sure someone out there still celebrates that. Personally, I just like the idea of a day off work (even though I don't have today off... but who knows... maybe they'll ask me to leave and observe Maximum Freshness Day).

Friday night, I hooked up with Rabbit and DJ Nikko. There's some good vibes going there and we might actually be able to get back into the music scene again. It was a fun night as we started to go through Nikko's tracks and Rabbit started playing some of his new work for me. In fact, it pushed me to work some more on one of my own tracks yesterday.

Saturday I spent the day role-playing in Titusville with Jose, Nyssa and the whites. We started a Teen Champions game and it brought back good memories for me. None of them have played this system before and so as they were getting used to it, I was reminded of when I started playing. It was a a lot of fun and promises to be so again. This time I'm on the other side of the table tho... but I like that too. Been thinking about starting a blog somewhere to chronicle the adventures of this group. Could be fun!

Sunday, I worked on my remix of Foreigner's Urgent and bought a new phone. The Nokia 5330 Xpressmusic phone. It's actually really nice, I like it so far. It holds a gig of music (as much as my MP3 player did) so I now have an MP3 player and old phone to either sell or give away to those less fortunate. I got a great deal on the phone ($30) and the plan... so I'm pretty happy about that.

And that's all the news that I have to tell at the moment. More later.

Peace,
Jenna

Blinded By The Light

So, I've listened to three different versions of the song Blinded By The Light. It's an OLD song originally written by Bruce Springsteen and apparently meant to be a stream-of-consciousness regurgitation of "a series of bizarre individuals he met while a young artist in New Jersey." This is as per the wikipedia entry on the song (yes, it has it's own entry [citation needed]).

At any rate... I think I like DJ Trashy's version the best. It's fun to dance to and has minimal lyrics. If you want, read the lyrics here on Bruce's Site or you can re-read the more popular and more well known version by Manfred Mann on their site.

Peace,
Jenna

If You're Out There... Pay Attention

If I Were You - Candee Jay

If I were you
I would never let me go
If I were you
I would always love me so
If I were you

I can't play your part in life
but I would surely walk my way
I cannot think the way you think
But I would never go away

You can trust me when I say
That I will always be for real
You can always count on me
No matter how alone you feel

If I were you
I would never let me go
If I were you
I would always love me so
If I were you

I would never..
I would always..

I can't tell you what to do
I can only hope for more
More decisions to be good
Like the way they were before

I can't dream the things you dream
'Cause I would not know where to start
Life is never what it seems
When two souls are far apart

I don't wanna know
How it feels to lose a friend
And if I were you
I would never leave again

If I were you
I would never let me go
If I were you
I would always love me so
If I were you

Na na na na na na na na
If I were you
Na na na na na na na na
If I were you

Sunset 07 is Confirmed

Just bought my ticket. :) Heh... now I have something to be thankful about for that weekend. :)

Peace!