What am I listening to these days?

"Cream Puff War (Live at the Fillmore West, July 16th 1966)" - The Grateful Dead
"Run" - Spiritualized
"Sad World" - The B-Film Extras (Currently the best local band in Washington, D.C.)
"Take Me To The Other Side" - Spacemen 3
"Horchata" - Vampire Weekend
"Everything's Here (Original Mix)" - Danny Howell
"Cannot See Straight" - Yppah

All very good music to listen to.

Is it ever really personal?

When people get angry at you, they're really getting angry at how they are currently feeling about something. It's never personal.

People are reacting to what's going on inside of them.

They're reacting to how feel.

In this sense all communications requires communicating to yourself.

"All communication is trance."
-Richard Bandler

Utility resides in context

Utility resides in context

Good Music To Listen To

"Spiegel Im Spiegel" by Arvo Pärt

Back to the drawing board . . . realizing of the importance of picking the market first, finding a gap in the market (and of course making sure there is a market in the gap!) and THEN developing a product tailored to that market.

Some of the best music out there (That you've never heard of)

Spacemen 3. Albums worth checking out "Recurring" and "Music to Take Drugs to Make Music To" and "For All The F***ed Up Children Of The World."

The Verve. Albums worth checking out. Start with a "A Storm In Heaven" and then move on to "A Northern Soul." Nick McCabe's guitar work is the product of a rare and breath-takingly gifted genius.

Other Honorable Mentions:

Oumou Sangare "Ko Sira"

The Black Angels "Directions To See A Ghost."

On Spoiled Kids and Trust Fund Kids

When I become a parent, I do not have any plans on spoiling my kids.

I have seen what happens with overly spoiled kids. The only way I will spoil my kids is sending them to good schools, and helping them open their eyes to the world by taking them to various countries in the world.

Sure I'll pay for college but you better believe they will have to work for their spending money, and you better believe there's no moving back in home with Mom and Dad two weeks after graduation.

A lot of trust fund kids too don't always do so well from what I hear.

When I lived in New York a friend of mine observed a peculiar phenomenon. He said a lot of the trust fund kids, once they finished up school waited for "the perfect job" something that would probably more fitting with their ego and the expectations of their wealthy parents.

What would usually end up happening is they would literally wait for the "perfect job" that would stroke their ego and their parents ego only to twiddle their thumbs and usually not do much with their lives.

How true of trust fund kids this is, I don't know. But what I do know is that people respond to incentives. And sometimes you gotta turn up the heat to get people to really change.