As I had mentioned a few posts earlier, it’s gym time. Free gym time. And as part of my attempt to do the whole gym route for free, I thought I’d try one of those yoga classes to yoga my city living stress away. And I am not sure how I can sit in one of those classes and chant ohmmmm… to destress and calm down to bliss and nirvana when I really wind up chanting Ohhhmmmm, I owe someone two hundred billion dollars and can’t pay them back and the walls are all falling down around me and how is this class going to change that ohmmmm…and relax? And besides, how is it possible to totally be all spiritual and reach a state or nirvana and relax from cares when one can hear construction going on and the sounds of the city right outside the door and on the other side of the wall as it was in this classroom. And so in the midst of yoga posing, one tries to recreate and meditate to a yoga state on this date.
Cover My Bed
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A Full Moon
According to the Gregorian calendar, today is a full moon on planet earth. You can see it when you look at the sky. Doesn’t that full moon have some sort of meaning in the universe? Does it mean anything? Isn’t a full moon spiritual, mysterious, mythical and magical or something? Could it mean stay away from lunatics, as lunar is the moon. Could it mean beware of werewolves and watch out for the ocean waves and high tides? Is the full moon Dracula’s favorite day on the month? Does it mean a new month is here? What do the astrologers and psychics have to say about the full moon and its phases and cycles, and don’t witches like using symbols of the moon for some reason? Well, yin and yang, wax and wane, whatever the meaning of the full moon, if there is one, happy full moon day.
The Lives of Others
Das Leben der Anderen. The Lives of Others. That is a German foreign film that is now showing in theaters in New York that I saw the other day. It won an Academy Award for best foreign film and it is one of those films I could watch over and over. The film is political, for it addresses the communist regime, the totaliarism system and the dictatorship in East Germany, then the GDR, before the fall of the Berlin wall. More so, the film is educational to me for I did not know artists and writers were under surveillance by Stasi agents, spies and informants who were sometimes even ones own wife or husband and blacklisted for being subversive under the dictatorship of the state of the Staats Sicherheit, State Security in real life as was depicted in the film. This film reminds me of the book nineteen eighty four all the way ministry, inner and outer party and one aspect of the film is that the people prevail. The music is awesome and that Sonata For A Good Man track rocks. Will another film as interesting as this ever come along. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
Romance
And what about love and romance. That’s a touchy subject for relationships can be tricky sometimes and who wants to be alone without friends, family or loved ones. Isn’t love what makes the world go round? Well, Romantic eCards sounds fun. I always like sending those funny animated e cards for every occasion and if you are looking to send romantic eCards for birthdays, Valentines , or even Christmas, or just to say I Love You, eRomance offers several categories of free romantic eCards as every occasion can be a romantic occasion. They also offer Virtual Flowers that you can send to someone special and their cards are really fun. I can’t wait to send one to a friend myself. This is a sponsored post.
Disney Kicks The Habit
Wow. I read this article in yesterdays AM New York and Metro newspapers that Disney has kicked the habit of smoking in its films. Disney will discourage smoking in its family oriented films. This is groundbreaking and that’s great. Now if only Disney could kick the habit of using the image of guns in its films, progress would be made. And not just Disney, every form of advertising. If only Disney and every other advertiser could ban the images of guns on their posters, commercials, films and television shows then maybe there would be hope for the state of this world. Apparently the Disney committee held some hearings about the effect of movie images on children and that the studio would place anti-smoking public service announcements of DVDs of any future films that feature cigarette smoking. Walt Disney shares your concerns regarding deaths due to cigarette smoking. That’s great. Now if only Disney, and not just Disney but other media companies, major Hollywood studios and every advertiser on planet earth could could follow Disney’s lead and share their concerns about deaths due to the use of the images of guns in advertising and kick the habit of using the images and depiction of guns in advertising and discourage the use of guns in their advertising campaigns and hold committee hearings about the effect of movie images and guns on children and place anti-gun public service announcements and messages on DVDs and in theaters everywhere, that would be great. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
Jazz Comes to the Bowery
And so I wandered outside last night with this digital camera I have to play around with to take photos of my friends band, Funk Monk at this really cool restaurant and lounge called Mannahatta. My friends band gave me a really good excuse to dust off the camera and use it for the night. Digital cameras are awesome and I find technology amazing these days. And so I took the above photo of my friends band just for the purpose of posting it on this blog. They are all jazz and hip hop and have played around the city at Nublu, Knitting Factory, the Williamsburg Jazz Festival, and even the New York City subway as part of the Musicians Under New York Program. And I am also taking my friend gig as an excuse to experiment with YouTubeing. How does one YouTube? Well, I made a video of them there also with this digital camera, low light and all and just posted it on You Tube with trial and error. I can now possibly become a YouTube addict to replace all of my other Internet website addictions I have going on at the moment. And that Mannahatta place is awesome with their new Summer Jazz Series and Funk-N-Flava Jazz Wednesdays. They have an open Jazz Jam session every Tuesday in July if you are in the neighborhood. Jazz, Jazz, Jazz. Play Jazz away the day.
The Bugs
Fire ants? What are fire ants? Ants that are on fire? Well I just asked my friend what are fire ants and he doesn’t know either. Well if you happen to be suffering from fire ant infestations, Fire Ants Guide can help you with information about fire ant control. Their website provides helpful information and advice about various ways of getting rid of fire ant infestations. Their guide seems to tell you everything you’ve always wanted to know about fire ants and how to eliminate them. This is a sponsored post.
It’s Time
It’s time. It’s time to go to the gym for free. If you are a try and do the whole gym route for free with trial membership passes person like me, it’s time to go to the gym again. This time it’s New York Sports Clubs. I saw them out there on the street yesterday around 14th street and 6th avenue spinning that get your free one week trial membership wheel yesterday and sure enough I spun that wheel and got my free one week membership for all the free treadmills, stationary bikes, racquetball, tennis, track running ,weight lifting, stretching, personal training, exercise classes, mind, body and spirit, sauna and steam room, swimming and gymming I can get. And of course if daily life in New York is a workout already with of all the subway stair climbing, fifth floor walkup to my apartment and carrying those heavy grocery bags exercise routine then maybe you don’t want or need that gym fitness exercise routine. And if you do, there is probably someone spinning that New York Sports Clubs wheel in a city near you. Have a great day.
In The End
And so I have finally come to the realization and conclusion that in the end all there is is Google. The sitemeter tells me so, that in the end all there is is Google, or maybe an AOL or Yahoo search every once in a blue moon. But mostly, all there is is Google in the end. Everything Internet seems to all be powered by Google and now that SEO terms gives a whole new meaning to me that I never realized before when I started this blog that no matter how much I try to get visitors to this site by posting on every forum and board that I can think of, artificially inflating the number of visitors to this site on a temporary basis, that in the end when I run out of blogger steam in the blogosphere and those numbers start to disappear from trying to promote this site, that in the end, all it comes down to is Google, who seems to keep this page alive with its search engine on a consistent basis. As long as I write some sort of content for this site and do nothing else as far as promoting this blog, it is Google who is there visiting. And now I truly understand what the hype is all about regarding that SEO search engine optimization thing. And how or if that Google page rank thing relates to that SEO thing I am not sure as all that Alexa is your blog in the top one billion ranking system, link popularity and other site statistic features are still too confusing for me to comprehend. And it’s sort of funny to me how I notice that the words Google and Blogger share most of the same letters. How interesting. So if there is nothing else, it seems like in the end, There is always Google.
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