WikiBand

I found this from Caitlin, who I follow here on blogger and is famous on YT. Thank you Caitlin.

1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click on random article. That is your band's name.
2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
3. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.
4. Post a review of the resulted album.

Band name: Bobby on Track

Album name: Yoshihide Hayashi

Tracks:
1. Fort Wayne Open
2. USS George Washington
3. Arnold Frolows
4. 1030 Vitja
5. Lolium multiflorum
6. Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and Use of Opium
7. China Lucky Film
8. December 11
9. Alternative Party
10. Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway
11. Abels Shipbuilders
12. Brzozowo Wielkie
13. Wola Myslowska
14. Silverhill, Hastings
15. BlackBerry

"Collected Thoughts" Number One:

Apparently, Bobby on Track is the title of an episode of King of the Hill. Now I'm not sure whether 'Bobby' is on task, completing a task, running on a track, skipping down a track, or lying on railroad tracks.

This will be an interesting band logo... *shows a picture of a kid wearing a shirt that says: "Hi! I'm Bobby!" while skipping down some railroad tracks*

"Collected Thoughts" Number Two:

Yoshihide Hayashi. I guess our album is dedicating a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Yoshihide's parents obviously played too much Nintendo and inherited the last name "Hayashi" which means "woods".

Could also be confused with Yoshi's new album: "Yoshi hides in woods."

"Collected Thoughts" Number Three:

Well the first song has the word "open" right in the name. A simple introductory instrumental song to introduce the band and album feeling.

The next few songs are very bass driven and lively with the occasional high pitch synthesizer cut in between the chorus. Ranging from the ship song to a song about an Australian radio personality to an asteroid and ending on a plant native to Europe (that has no known origin).

And speaking of plants, the next 2 songs are more melodic and calm with a transition from opium and China to the end of the year and a party. These songs represent the winter season and are bringing in the new year with upbeat, dance like rhythms and lively interactions between friends and family.

As the new year begins, we move to the railways of England and over to ship builders in Bristol. Then we move over to Poland and stop in visit two villages in east/central-east of the country.

Finally, we make our way back to southern England and finally stopping in BlackBerry. Oh, wait. BlackBerry isn't a place, it's a product. However, now-a-days, it might as well be considered a place where people live there lives.

This was a fun game...thanks to Caitlin (and Tom) for the introduction. I learned a lot of random facts that I will probably never use again in my life, but who knows. Maybe I will be on a game show...naw.

You try playing the game either on your own blog (and link to me!) or in the comments below. It would be fun to see what you can come up with using random names, places, and events.

*Don't forget to buy Bobby on Track's new album "Yoshihide Hayashi", due out...well...probably never.

Thoughts for the next few days...

So for the past few weeks I have been busy with school starting up again. I haven't had anytime to come up with anything "witty" or "clever" that will top my "MUTE!" rant/message. So for now, I will leave you (those of you who read this blog) with some thoughts to go about your next few days or weeks of whatever you may be doing. Have fun!

Thoughts for your day:

- Who tastes dog food when it has a 'new & improved' flavor?

- The things that come to those who wait may be the things left by those who got there first.

- When you go into court you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people that weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

- How far east can you go before you're heading west?

- In the song Yankee Doodle, is he calling the horse or the feather "macaroni"?

- Why is vanilla ice cream white when vanilla extract is brown?

- Why does the Easter bunny carry eggs? Rabbits don't lay eggs.

- What happens to an irresistible force when it hits an immovable object?

- Why do they call him Donkey Kong if he is not a donkey?

- Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?


Well I think I'm done. Good luck!

MUTE!

I'm sure everyone has seen by now that most videos on YouTube have been muted or claimed of copyright and removed. Well I say to YouTube: "F@#K YOU!"

I don't know what has been happening to the videos lately. Many videos that contain full songs cleverly made up into a crazy dance or lip-sync video have become muted. This videos indicate that a "third party" has made a copyright claim to that particular song and/or video.

There are two sides to this:

1) It is against the law to publish a song with your own work and claim it as "your work".
2) These songs are being used, not for profit, but for entertainment purposes only. (Creative Common License anyone?) Therefore, proper notification of the musical artists may allow the music to stay accompanied with the video.

However, there is a problem. Many of these muted videos or disappearance of videos are from the company that produces the music!! The production company for the music/music videos (who, as I would guess, owns a copyright to the song and video) are forced to take down their own copyrighted material! How can this happen!?

A lot of people are saying this is the "end of YouTube".

I think not.

I believe that as a group of YouTubes, we can bring back the old YT and force out the ass-holes running this poor excuse for a "video sharing site".

I believe what we face is a f@#king moron over at the YT head quarters who, thinks that because he "got promoted" to be in charge of "monitoring" the videos uploaded and watched, he thinks he now has the power to flag, mute, and remove any and all videos that contain a shred of creativity among the new generation and advance of new technologies.

ATTENTION YouTube VIEWERS!!!
we need to stick together and fight our way through this moron and continue to do what we have done in the past and upload any video we wish to share with the online community.

Before long, we will gain back control of YT and finally remove that obsessive power-hungry moron removing all the videos that made 2008 what it was: A Year of Online Connectiveness.

Either that or the world will slowly eat its self into a black hole of technology.

Travel only in my imagination

I am jealous and want to be in New York. I can just imagine the tall buildings. The crowds of people. Everyone either on a phone or on an iPod.

I can imagine just one or two of my best friends on a vacation to New York. Or maybe, even getting a job in New York. I wonder when I will be taken. Maybe even Los Angeles!? I've always wanted to go there too. Just to experience Hollywood and be among the studios and movie lots.

Maybe even meeting new people and becoming friends. Maybe collaborate on a project and become millionaires. Or possibly get arrested, then break out of jail, and be running from the FBI for three years. Who knows. Sometimes I feel like I'm getting older and things that I want to do or could have done are passing by.

Things are changing and I'm not quite sure where I will end up in a few years. So many things left undone.

I need to make a list...

~Christopher

"It's a cruel and random world,"

...yet the chaos is oh so beautiful.'

Someone was onto something there; chaos controls our lives.

Where are you right now?

Why?

What did you do today?

Did you want to do that?

Do you have decisions about what you will do later?

What will you pick? Why?

Go ahead. Take a coin right now and give each side a decision to be made later today. Flip the coin. Now stick with that choice later on today no matter what. Chaos - the random probability of events. What makes chaos so beautiful is the outcome of that decision, because you can never go back and see what would have happened. The inevitable, "What if..."

Is that not what life is about? Only moving in one direction. "No Coming Back."

Although, sometimes, it would be nice to go back and find out.

Alas, "There is no other way. It's television not telephone."

Chaos is a wonderful thing, just don't over use it.

~Christopher

"Welcome aboard!"

I am sitting here at 1:25am eating carrots. (no dip. I don't like dip.)

Why? Well because I like a midnight snack and unlike normal people I don't have a breakfast. I eat lunch around 3pm and I don't have dinner till 8 or 9ish. It's not really a good habit but I figure since I am eating carrots, and carrots are healthy, it's a win (/win?).

I am still awake because my sleep pattern has been getting off lately.

Stay up till 3am. Go to bed. Get up at 2pm. Do nothing all day. Stay up till 3am.

Usually I would not get online and write about my thoughts or ideas. A while back I was thinking about starting a vlog. That never took off. Then I thought about blogging. Now there's a way to get my ideas and thoughts out without turning the camera on, saying "ummm" and "yeah" 47 times, then turning the camera back off.

Computers and cameras have a way of pulling me into an alternate life and I begin altering my plans on the spot. One link leads to the next and that one leads to the next. Idea after idea. Thought after thought. I needed some place to put it all down.

I started making short film projects and exploring the vast amount of information on the internet when Pluto was still a planet. (IT STILL IS!!!) After posting a few videos I became caught up with school and the camera collected dust in a corner of a closet. I had gotten some nice comments from everyone who watched my videos, but nothing happened for a year and everything seemed to go away. I wanted to start filming again, thus the idea of becoming a vlogger (?).

I had seen others vlog on YouTube and I thought, "Oh! This will be easy." WRONG! First, what do I talk about? Second, who will watch me? (I wouldn't even watch myself...)

...I digress.

Hopefully with this blog (and other projects) I will have my own "EXPLOSION" and finally get out there in the real or not so real world.

Case in point: -Now I eat carrots (again...no dip) in the wee hours of the new morning hoping to find something.

I have a lot to tell and a lot of thoughts, all to come in good time.

All of you who stick with me, 'Welcome aboard!'

...This is going to be fun...