A new post after quite sometime(its time to chill)

Learning how to control your heart rate is the most important thing to do as you get older.  Recently life has gotten very intense, and there is no more time for a burn out. 
The body had to step in and help the mind focus, and keep the life rocking.
In many cases of urban survival your mind has to be in focus pretty much all the time,yet not get too overwhelmed; so this is when the body conditioning comes into play, and I don't mean just hard core boot camp classes, its an all encompassing experience.  It has to feel like you left your body at a Caribbean vacation, but your mind is still in town hustling and bustling.  Its easy to do; breath at a moderate tempo, and find that beat that puts you at ease; then do it voluntarily until it become a habit.  See a  good breathing technique is not only for horn players, and its the key to keeping your heart rate normal even during the most stressful time. 
Don't forget to go out and enjoy yourself regularly, by this I don't mean just nightclubs and bars; but find something that relaxes and challenges you at the same time.  Push your comfort level and attend events that you usually don't do.  Go to the orchestra, or see a world artist.  Take a dance lesson, or go to a poetry reading.  If you don't like any of these things then take your time and find something that appeals to you. 

March 9th. 2011

Humans have this obsession with making things vibrate.  We have vibrating toothbrushes, razor blades, face-wash scrub applicant devices, weight lose apparatus, electric massagers (erotic and non erotic).  These are just a selection of devices that are meant to come into contact with our bodies, otherwise there are way more vibrating devices out there, and as long as there will be humanity we will always aim for making everything vibrate, just like wave particles making up our world.

March 8th 2011

Dear Tim Horton’s, and Tide, and other companies please stop promoting a pseudo Canadian stereotype that you mask behind national identity in your commercials.  The great thing about being Canadian is  not having a clear stereotype attached to you, so don’t spoil it.  I would rather see Canadians portrayed in a comical and absurd way as in South Park Cartoons, than constantly see flannel shirts, straight hair cuts, and jokes about the cold and freaking snow shoes, come on! These are just things, they don’t make us who we are. 
What would Brian Boitano do?

prohibition.. on a plane to China, and making friends with Air Canada entertainment

The most enjoyable thing about being a human being/an animated and thinking creature/conscious creature, is the pleasure of learning new things everyday.
I’m on a plane heading to Beijing, and I just pulled out my laptop after two Caesars and a personal sized bottle of wine, while watching the new HBO series Boardwalk Empire [episode two season one.]  I love Steve Buscemi:). He is the ultimate mainstream symbol of an indie actor.

The mix of drinks, altitude and Steve Buscemi inspired me to think about the American obsession with the Prohibition era.  This obsession, based on this really short era, is so foggy and dark, yet America remembers this time as a very defining period in its history,  and this obsession brings forth a confusion to what exactly prohibition stood for.
This is the time of suffrage, and the beginning of fundamental feminism.  Those that have studied this period in school would say, that one of the causes for its existence is the after work special of spousal abuse fuelled by intoxication; but there is a lot more to its establishment than the mixture of feminism and the protestant right.  This was the time of mafia pushing its code into law, and performers of colour who would have been previously shunned from the spotlight coming into the foreground, and defining the night club culture.  This was the underdog rebellion against the conservative principals of the great so called liberal immigrant haven called America.  This was an internal American revolution, from which strong personalities were formed, and America started voting democrat.
I don’t need to make this into an essay, and give you examples for my reasoning, but I believe that the world becomes a better place as we move further away from Judea-Christian moral values, and just consider the common sense; and that’s what the prohibition era taught us.  Now its time for more drinking as I’m getting closer to 30 [years old] on a transcontinental flight.

Its not the end of the world as we know it:)

Please stop with the non stop apocalyptic predicaments please!
It’s absolutely unhealthy for us to put so much energy, and thought into this nonsense.   Everyday there are people dying, and that’s their personal apocalypse; but for the once that remain living there are way more interesting things to think about than death.
I recently came in contact with cable television, and noticed that once respectful somewhat educational channels like Discovery, or History are freakin filled with apocalyptic paranoia.   Their marketing department definitely picked up on this trend and exploited it to infinity.  There are shows that depict how the world will be after humanity will cease, and how is that educational.  Children who are raised by mass media are growing up along side these fears; this is not the middle ages; we do not burn people on a stake, well at least not as a public event. 
I think Robot Chicken did an episode where they had instead of My Little Pony commercial, they created my little Apocalypse Pony:
http://www.livevideo.com/media/playvideo_fs.aspx?fs=1&cid=6181E33CE2BC491DBB531ED8619A073B

on concentration

When you have something very important to do that requires a lot of concentration, do not forget to scatter your mind, and make sure that you will only be able to concentrate in fragments.  Your thoughts should be like blotches of random paint thrown onto a canvass. 
 You go into a frenzy and you try to whip as much paint as you can.  The Canvas becomes denser. You step aside to make yourself some coffee, pass through the apartment picking up random small garbage off the floor, and then you realize that pretty much half of the stuff you just did is rubbish, and that’s when you get back to the canvas and you shake some of the paint off it, and then back to the frenzy. 
Don’t forget that its best to be in a  private setting, or if there are people around then you can bitch at them for messing up your concentration outloud or using your inside voice.  Remember! If you bitch right, then you might be able to turn it into a mantra that will help you concentrate on your work.

Feb 7th, 2011

To retain your sanity you have to constantly axercise your brain; and the best way to do so is casual learning.  I listen to amazing educational podcasts to flex some brain cells while I do menial tasks, or when I'm in transit.  At first I thought that it was just me being an information junkie, but over a bit of time I've realized that my learning ability has immensely improved.  I would like to share some of these podcasts with you, and hope that they will have the same effect on you as they did on me.

Stuff you should know Podcast: (Very well done, and quite accessible)

http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-should-know.rss

Stuff you missed in history class Podcast:  (this is another podcast that is a part of the "How stuff works" family, and even though it has frequent host changes, its still one of my favorites)

http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-missed-in-history-class.rss

In Our time Podcast: (this is a little high brow podcast from the BBC, but trust me on this one as the topics are just amazing; and the panel of discussants is creme de la creme)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot

This is enough for now.  Next time I will focus on music podcasts, and pleasure do find some sweet ass podcasts and let me know about them.

Booya