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USA BASKETBALL - MARVIN GAYE - DONE!

nobody@vox.com(Mind of Estevanico) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:31:50 -0400

I have to give Nike mad props for this new advertisement that combines Marvin Gaye singing the national anthem at the NBA All-Star game in 1983 with images of the USA current men's Olympic basketball team. Brilliant!

Nike Basketball Commercial

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Welcome To The Sunday Soundtrack - 10 Aug 08

nobody@vox.com(Fresh!) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:18:52 -0400

Originally published at ::: Vibes N Scribes :::. You can comment here or there.

Hello. Welcome back for another edition of The Sunday Soundtrack. As usual, glad you stopped in. Â In to August - the last month of summer - wow. No waxing philosophically on that...wanna be all about the music here. I just came back from my first cruise aboard the Carnival Fascination, which went to Key West and Cozumel. Had a great time. The only downiside is that I didn't realize I left my digital camera aboard ship!! I filed a claim yesterday with the cruise line and hopefully some kind person turned it into their lost and found. I'll know in about 2-4 weeks.

I'm introducing two new artists this week: Shane Newville, T. Hampton, and Shiloh. Shane and Shiloh are XM Radio Chill 84 favorites. T. Hampton is a mother of five who has a continuing passion for creating electronic music. Her tool of choice is working with Sony Acid Pro. I hope you enjoy these new offerings. That being said, here's this week's playlist.

1. Cold Round Disc - Shane Newville/Formless
2. Sa Trincha - Espresso del Lago/Yeki
3. Ballet or Sauna (You and Me Rework) - Espresso del Lago/Yeki
4. Bleed - Shiloh/Bleed
5. Corazon de Oro - Blackfish/Hidden Shore
6. Sonar - Blackfish/Pole Navigation
7. Reflections - Jens Buchert/Sunrider
8. Tell Me Now - T. Hampton/Fixit Shop Tunes
9. Curtain Call - Aya/Strange Fruit

As always, check Discogs for info on most artists I feature here.

Enjoy the fruit....cherish the day.

peace

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@WAYNE SUTTON and @GINNYSKAL ... @30THREADS

nobody@vox.com(Mind of Estevanico) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:32:13 -0400

Wayne and Ginny

I spend a great deal of my life online and for the past few months I've been a devoted follower of Twitter. (For those not in the know ... see here re: Twitter). Two of the people I've really enjoyed following on Twitter are Wayne Sutton and Ginny Skalski. They are both located in North Carolina and when I first became interested in social media, I definitely gravitated toward people who were from my region of the country. Besides I had thought seriously about moving to North Carolina before moving to New Mexico.

Wayne Sutton and Ginny Skalski are Online Community Content Managers at WNCN-TV - NBC17 - mync.com. It should be noted that Wayne is a self described "Social Media Strategist, Technology Evangelist and Mobile Consultant" and I have dubbed him the "hardest working man in social media" and if you know anything about social media Wayne Sutton is everywhere. Both Wayne and Ginny have their own personal web presences with dynamic and wonderful sites---Wayne's and Ginny's. Nonetheless what I've always admired about both of them is their connection to their communities and their promotion of what's happening in the Research Triangle area of Raliegh/Durham, NC where they both live.

Recently Wayne and Ginny collaborated to form a new web site called 30THREADS which is all about news and events from the web that have to do with the Triangle community in NC. For more see here. The site is very well done and if you are interested in or find yourself in and about the Research Triangle area, Raleigh/Durham , I highly recommend 30THREADS to you. Bottom line is both Wayne and Ginny are passionate about social media and community and it's quite obvious once you visit their site.

If you're interested in joining Twitter you can find 30THREADS here and you can follow me here.

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09August2008 MyLoveForMusic:Twilight Volume 6

nobody@vox.com(TechMusicGospel) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:15:55 -0400

Welcome back everyone, I hope your work week went well and I hope your weekend will belong to you. Two things I have told myself, (1) Take life for what it's worth and (2) not to do any more podcast with 17-18 tracks...I can't handle that when it comes to the show notes. But besides that everything is great. This podcast will have a positive hip-hop track(that was inspired by Macedonia's BSOTS episode #69[the track was "love, hugs and hip-hop"by carlos nino & lil' sci]). With that said I want to keep the positive vibe going with my podcast.
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09August2008 MyLoveForMusic:Twilight Volume 6

nobody@vox.com(darrenkeith3) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:15:51 -0400

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02August2008 MyLoveForMusic Edition

nobody@vox.com(TechMusicGospel) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:32:45 -0400

*this podcast was originally recorded July 26 so forgive the tardiness of me just posting this now. When this is posted Fave has already posted his "Behind the Bounce" podcast and Nikki has Soulrific #19 and ejflavors' "In Rotation Volume 18" has been posted...this is the last time I will make a 17 track podcast...the show notes are killin' me. :-)

As the ol' heads used to say, "I'm late but I'm straight." This is a podcast that was recorded a week ago but I'm just now getting a chance to post it now so my apologies. Sometimes when putting together podcast you do not realize how great some of the tunes you have collected until you go back and just "listen" to them. What I mean by that is for me when I really need to listen to music I have to have no detractions around to be able to soak in the notes as I hear them. This collection is "Something Old/Something New/Something Blue."[more]

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02August2008 MyLoveForMusic Edition

nobody@vox.com(darrenkeith3) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:30:03 -0400

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I'm A Crazy Person {When It Comes To Time}

nobody@vox.com(darrenkeith3) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:05:40 -0400

It is and has always been said that "a crazy person is a lad that keeps doing the same task the same way and expect different results"...I am that crazy person...when it comes to time. You would think by me skating through class by the skin of my teeth last time that I would have realized this but it seems I have not. I begin class this month and already my habits has not change when it comes to managing time. I should know better, heck, I DO KNOW BETTER and yet I keep engaging in this destructive habit to myself. I will admit (and maybe this will help me by me saying this out loud) I do not respect TIME plain and simple.

By me working the way that I do I know really do not have time to do certain things, like surfing the web because lets be honest...it seems when you are surfing the web hours seem like minutes and minutes seems like seconds. I know this but then I keep trying to do this every day which leads to not getting to work the time when I want to get there which in returns when the training rooms and conferences rooms are used means I may leave work after my schedule time. I will be honest, this falls on me. I can't blame anyone. I know we only have 24 hours in a day, I can't stop time (the only time I know when the sun stopped is when Joshua was battling his enemies and God stopped time for him and I can not think of anyone else that time stopped for although that's would be cool don't you think?). So with that said, I have to break this bad habit and NOW. This is what I need to do every day during the work/school week.

The only time I can get on the computer for me is early in the morning. During the day I don't have access to it at work and I have accepted that and when I come home not to get on the computer because I know once I'm on 15-20 minutes is not good for me. I'm a geek, I love the web and for that's like giving me one french fry or a half of a hamburger...it will not do my justice. And how do I use the computer doing the morning is to...

Take my butt to bed when I get home from the second gig. I say this all the time and really never do it. I need to hop in the shower, if I'm hungry to eat a bowl of cereal (nothing heavy). No computer/no TV...just bedtime. So what if my Karma on Plurk dips doing the week, it's just a thing of no value right? (so why I'm I so worried if it's dips below 50?) But in all seriousness, I need to manage my time and respect time. If I go to bed at a proper time, I wake up early and that time i can get my geek on. It seems that I do my best work either very early in the morning or late, late at night.

Eat a big breakfast at home. If I eat a nice big breakfast and snack on healthy food doing the day I really do not need a lunch and by only getting 30 minutes for lunch this works out for me (and what is up with these companies only giving 30 minutes?) I find for me not eating food at work (1) helps me stay away from the noisy/nosy people (2) I can spend some quiet time with myself (3) curves me from spending money. (4) I'm thinking about what I need to accomplish and not food.

In all honesty it really comes down to me. In order for me to do what I want and really need I must give up some habits that in the end that are not benefiting me right now. Watching TV...those actors already have "theirs" and I need to get mine. It is so true, "time is what you make of it" and right now I am not making good with my time...but that's goint to change. These things I need to simple and I am making what I need to do to better myself difficult. I have to make that change in order to be successful.

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02August2008 MLFM:Twilight Volume 5

nobody@vox.com(TechMusicGospel) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:30:24 -0400

These podcasts I find myself coming back time and time again, laid back, relaxing podcast. I guess this past week has been long one and I was hoping to publish this podcast last week but time got away from me. This podcast was a little long for me as well (close to 90 minutes). I'm going to get back to having just an hour a little over.>>>[more]

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02August2008 MLFM:Twilight Volume 5

nobody@vox.com(darrenkeith3) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:26:29 -0400

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