formerly Kamera To My Eye

31 May 2011

Tune Dump | it's the unofficial start of summer tuneage

 




























Tulipa Efemera
  instantly i'm taken to a beach side hike.

Cage The Elephant Shake Me Down
    these guys are from Kentucky. need more reasons?

Grouplove Colours
    go ahead. roll your windows down.

Young The Giant My Body
    everyone needs a little anthemic summer in their summer.

Richard Swift Lady Luck
    how the f*** is this not from 1974?

Tallest Man On Earth Little River
    no season is complete without the genius that he is.

Phish Backwards Down The Number Line
    summer is birthdays. summer is phish. summer can not be beat.

Dirty Gold California Sunrise
    no song has held such a hold over me in years. this has been a eight-month obsession.


Can't go wrong with this for bike riding music.

10 May 2011

Notes, Thoughts, Strategetizing.


I've been "strategetizing" a lot lately.

What's new--right? Wrong. Unlike thinking, this is wholly different than your thoughts on life, general feelings and future directions.

In this scenario, you're thinking about yourself, your family, your friends, those you care about the most, and you're going one step further in the whole process. Here, you do not just layout options, manage contigencies and decide on an execution, but rather you also figure out the immediate options that will be come available upon your decision, those potential contingencies and those possible decisions and weight the not one plan, but the multitude of plans you'll be impressed upon.

I've realized something about myself; I'm a shopkeeper.

An inventory specialist, if you will.

Like any decent shopkeeper, I keep inventory on everything every now and then. Every month, or two, I step back and take stock of my life. My accomplishments, my actions, my regrets and my consequences. Often times the items in stock are positive, often times they are things I'd like to just throw out. But just like a good shopkeeper, I know, that even the damaged items, the factory "seconds", the nearly expired products have some value and to throw them out just because they are not optimum or most laudable, would be unwise.

Going back to square one is never, I repeat never a good choice.

Who, on what plane of existence, thought that would ever be a good choice?

Not this guy, that's for sure. If you drop the past because of something unhappy or negative, you're only bound to lose the many more parts that were positive.

I'm happy. I'm content. I'm unbelievably excited for whatever these future lines of products will be for me to inventory.