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Today we are going to explore the three requirements of healing. It's very important for you to get these three before we go any further in this Healing Yourself series. You can watch the video, below, or keep reading.
I'm going to revisit the question that I posed in the first post (Healing Yourself From Chronic Pain: Part 1) which is: How long would you like to suffer?
The reason why I continue to pose this rather uncomfortable question is because one of the main barriers you are going to face in doing this work is convincing yourself that an emotional exercise can cure a physical condition.
It's hard to believe. We have been trained and raised to believe that emotions are one thing, and your physical body is another. People will acknowledge that "stress" can cause illnesses like headaches and ulcers, but still can't make the connection between an emotional exercise literally curing a physical condition. But it does, it can, and it absolutely will.
It's rare in life to find someone willing to speak with as much confidence that I have about this process of healing yourself from chronic pain. However, I have experienced this process personally. Through my personal experience, and my confidence, I've been able to lead so many people through this process to heal themselves.
The Proof is in Your Body
When you are working through this process, let your body be your proof. You are going to run into roadblocks of resistance of your smart, smart brain saying to you, "Yeah, but this can't possibly work." You tell your brain, "Thank you for sharing," and just do the work.
Requirement #1: Believing You Can & Will Be Well
The first requirement of healing is believing you can and will be well.
Our perception is our reality. If you think you're a shameful piece of shit, then you're a shameful piece of shit. Nobody can see you in your deepest thoughts. Only you can see you.
If you walk out of the house and you're like, "I am beautiful. I am the hottest thing going," then all day, you're the hottest thing going because your view of yourself is really the only reality that you experience. Other people might have opinions about you, but that's none of your business.
Other people's opinions are their thoughts, and their thoughts about you are so fleeting because most people are just concerned about themselves. That's why you have the ultimate power to heal yourself.
Your emotions are killing you, but not because you feel them, it's because you don't. Emotions are very inconvenient. They get in the way of almost everything we try to do. Being too much of anything, good or bad, sad or excited, doesn't usually fit in our day.
What your body says to you when you feel pain is, "Listen to me. I would like to have a voice here. I would like to feel the things that I'm feeling." But often we subconsciously and reflexively just shut it down like, "You're not convenient, I don't want to hear you, leave me alone."
Shutting down our emotions necessitates pain because when we say to them, "I won't listen to you," the emotions still find a way. "Oh, you won't listen to me? How about a migraine? You'll listen to that. You're going to stop what you're doing, you're going to go lay down, you're going to take a pill and you're going to turn off the lights. Gotcha now."
This may sound crazy but I promise you it's true. By unveiling, unearthing, and excavating these emotions that are simply asking to be heard, you will no longer have pain. The first requirement of healing is that you decide, you make a decision. It can be a temporary decision. I can and will be well. I can and I will. I'm just going to suspend my disbelief and I'm going to feel that today.
Requirement #2: Do the Work
The second requirement of healing is to do the work. Don't worry about it, don't question it, don't be skeptical about it and say, "Oh well, I don't know about this work." Just be quiet and do the work. Do the work I ask of you and let your body be your proof. Be your own little science experiment. Do the work.
Resistance is our brain's way of keeping us, what I like to call, safe in the un-safest way. You are safe, right? You are safe because you wake up, you go through your day, you take care of your kids, you do your job, whatever it is that you do. You think you are safe because it's the way you have always done it, and your brain really wants to keep it that way. Even if pain is part of your day, that becomes your normal and your brain wants to keep the status quo.
Resistance is your brain's way of protecting you. It says, "No, no, don't change things. No, no, what are you doing? You're journaling? You're going to look at your fear? You're going to look at your anger? You're going to look at the fact that you hate your mom, that you don't believe in God, that you wish you never had children, that the job choice you have is a mistake? That everything you are doing is a lie?"
You are going to understand as you get to know me that these things aren't necessarily true, but there is a place in your heart and in your psyche that they are true for you. Those things keep you sick and I'm going to help you safely and kindly excavate that stuff and evaporate it into the air. You don't need to have pain and you don't need to be stuck in those dark emotions, so just trust me for now.
The second requirement of healing is that you do the work.
Requirement 3: Patience, Kindness and Forgiveness for Yourself
The third requirement of healing is patience, kindness, and forgiveness for yourself. You are able to be patient and kind with other people because you are a nice person, and a good person. But I guarantee you that you have a shitload more trouble being patient with yourself.
Being patient with ourselves is the hardest thing to do. We're so hard on ourselves. We're perfectionistic. We want to be liked by everyone. We want to be good all the time. We want to be approved of by everyone. You are a human being. You are flawed by your very nature. It is not your fault. You must be patient and kind to you.
You must forgive yourself. So, you are going to believe that you can be well, the first requirement. You are going to do the work, the second requirement. The third requirement is to be nice to yourself when you screw it up.
You are going to feel like you're doing it wrong, or you might miss a day. When that happens just keep up the good work and don't worry about it. Just keep on keeping on. Left foot, right foot, breathe. Left foot, right foot, breathe. You will be well.
You will see the difference in your body and in your mind, but it takes time and patience. Don't be hard on yourself. Don't count the minutes until you're better. Because if you do that, you slow down your process and that's not necessary.
These are the three requirements of healing. Take it in, think about it, and in the next post we are going to learn about the science behind this, how I learned about it, and how you're going to prepare yourself to do the work that is going to save your life.


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With this first APCDA newsletter in 2017 I would like to wish you all a very happy, positive and exciting new year with much health and energy to realize your personal and professional dreams and goals.
Many exciting events are going to happen in the Asia Pacific region in the month of May-2017, accredited to stronger and expanding career professional team of APCDA. Narender Chadha, The President of APCDA and Brian Hutchison, The President Elect of APCDA, will be representing the association at the Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association (PGCA) Conference to be held on May 17th to May 19th, 2017. Both have been invited to address the audience at the plenary session of the PGCA that is projected to be attended by around 1000 participants. This will be followed by an experiential, hands-on training workshop. During the same time, the Executive Director of APCDA, Marilyn Maze, will be representing the association at The Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) (May 17-19) and will share her rich experience with the Australian participants. All three will then be converging at the APCDA annual conference at Ateneo, Manila, Philippines to be held from May 21st to May 25th. We are eager to make the presence of APCDA felt amongst our friends and colleagues attending the PGCA and CDAA.
Abraham Lincoln said "The best way to predict the future is to create it." The APCDA is on the way to do that. So, come and Join us in Manila.
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In addition to a slate of fascinating presentations (click here for draft Conference Program), there are a lot of other plans beginning to take shape. On Sunday, May 21, our guide for the tour of Old Manila is likely to be one of Ateneo's history professors, so it will be an excellent learning experience. We will have lunch at Barbara's Restaurant, a famous restaurant in Old Manila that serves traditional Philippine foods and provides a folk dancing performance.
Sunday evening at 6:30 PM, we are planning a "Meet-up Party" at a restaurant across the street from the Ateneo campus. We hope to find a sponsor for this dinner. If we do not find a sponsor, the restaurant charges about $8 US for a dinner.
On Monday morning we will meet in the Convergent Technology Center (see map below). Please consider bringing a craft-type item from your own country for the Silent Auction. The Silent Auction funds the scholarships for Emerging Scholars. We encourage you to give an item and purchase items. The Monday evening Reception looks like it will be a bountiful meal, with a performance by a local dance troupe.
Tuesday will end with the Members Meeting (5PM). This evening will be a great time for everyone to enjoy Quezon City, except for the APCDA Board. The Board will meet at 6 PM and go to dinner at 8 PM.
Wednesday, the conference will end slightly after noon, except for those attending the Professional Development Institute in which Dr. Jim Bright will explain Chaos Theory in depth.
Thursday, two buses will leave Ateneo. One will head east to downtown Manila to visit the Career Center at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila's oldest university. The other will head straight south to another suburb of Manila to visit the Asian Development Bank to learn more about economics in the Asia Pacific region. Both tours promise to be packed with information and both will end about 2PM.
Still want to see more of the Philippines while you are there? Consider coming early for the Pahiyas Festival on May 15 in Lucban, about 3 hours south of Manila. Or visit the beaches of Batangas or Taal Volcano, also south of Manila. For hotel information and tips about things to see and do, visit http://asiapacificcda.org/Travel-Tips where you will find useful local information.
The International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy (ICCDPP) calls a Symposium every other year. In 2017, the ICCDPP Symposium will be held in Seoul, South Korea June 18 – 21. If you are lucky enough to attend, these 3 days will give you a completely new perspective on career services around the world and your place in them. At this Symposium, teams from each country:
Unlike a conference, teams leave with a plan for improvement and goals for the next few years.
For those countries in our region that are not able to attend, APCDA would like to gather information about career planning in your county and submit a combined report. Our team will then collect as much information as we can to share back with you. Of course, this is not the same as attending, but it will be enlightening. Click here for the ICCDPP Country Questionnaire. Complete the questions that are relevant to your country. Send your completed questionnaire to firstname.lastname@example.com. The deadline for receiving completed questionnaires is February 10.
Although honored to be selected by our Officers to serve as the initial Editor of the APCDA journal, I am looking for your ongoing input and feedback to produce a scholarly publication that has wide readership and interest for you, our members, and for our subscribers.
My vision for editing our journal matches my vision for leadership. I believe in transparent, collaborative processes where expectations and obstacles are openly discussed and resolved together. If an editorial board holds these values, it is my belief that the quality of reviewer feedback and manuscript development is more humane and developmental. I imagine that many of our potential authors will often be emerging scholars and/or early adopters of English-language scholarship. In other words, I see this journal's mission as one of scholarly talent development.
An initial target goal could be to produce a special issue for our first publication. Currently, I am planning to solicit articles from leading scholars in our field. I look forward to your thoughts and feedback on this, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Journal Progress
Much can be accomplished prior to the APCDA conference in the Philippines to ensure our journal's success. To this end, I have secured a 5 hour per week Graduate Assistant from China (who attends my University) to assist in the endeavor.
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1. Changes and Challenges in Taiwan
1.1. Facing up to Fewer Young People and Aging Population
With low birth rate and life expectancy increasing, the aging of Taiwan population has raised important issues and resulted in business opportunities. As of November 2015, 12.5 % of the 21 million population was 65 or above. The average life expectancy of Taiwanese was 79.8 years in 2014 based on the data from Ministry of the Interior. The World Health Organization already classified Taiwan as a society with an aging population. When we see our parents, we can see their declining energy and slowing footsteps. However, the ways to deal with the aging process is much different nowadays. Many elderly people are not willing to go to the elder institutes. The government and society need to offer other alternatives such as providing health care at home and in community centers.
1.2. Change of Manpower Structure
The labor participation rate in Taiwan, aged 15 and older who work, was 58.81 % in 2015. Growth of elder population was 12%. The unemployment rate was 3.95% as of Oct. 2016. There were about 10 wage earners in Taiwan for every senior citizen in 1993. But the ratio will flatten out to about 2-3 wage earners for every senior in 2033. The younger generations will face the burden of aging family members. The shift in the age structure of Taiwan's population has enormous implications for the labor force, the education system and the quality of life for the elderly. Moreover, with only one or two or perhaps no children in families, the future generations will have fewer siblings. They are more educated and receive more support from their parents. They are inclined to have less patience to face work frustrations and need more help in social interpersonal relationships and teamwork. Nevertheless, the young people have innovative ideas, learn fast and possess strong energy.
1.3. Challenges of Current Educational System
Last December, Mr. Wu, Minister of Education in Taiwan, pointed out that fewer new born, globalization and digitalization are the three major challenges faced by higher education. Resources for students to gain knowledge which are not limited to classroom teaching, textbook and teachers can help. Learning innovation, professionalism, regional innovative integration and joining with industry for more research, innovation and international alliances are some of the multiple developments currently in the works. The merging or integration of 159 colleges and universities into 100 schools across the next five years is also being implemented.
2. Looking Beyond for Future Career
Below are the four major business trends in Taiwan and their implication for new career services:
2.1 Aging population with low retirement rate:
Health care services including career counseling for elders, re-construction of family relationships, medical care and home care systems etc. will be increasing. More companies will be encouraging employees to have more babies and offering maternity leave. Many retired people have started their new career as entrepreneurs and consultants. They are sharing their wisdom and profound work experience with young people to start-up or develop new business models especially in innovative products, culture, design and agriculture.
*Implication for career services:
In the recent past, work, learning and leisure were three independent career paths. Nowadays, work, learning and leisure have been interwoven into a continuous life cycle. In order words, people need to keep a life-long career concept in mind and be prepared for ongoing change. Employee Assistance Programs should not only provide welfare and leisure programs, but also employee counseling for work and life balance. Each city and/or community may need to consider providing career counseling service to assist senior citizens with developing 2nd or 3rd careers.
2.2 More internet population:
More than 20 billion people use internet and smart phones, as reported by the Computer Industry Almanac. More than 42% of Taiwanese use internet, at least 2 hours per day. Mobile offices will be replacing brick and mortar ones.
*Implication to career services
Virtual office and team members are increasing. Flatter organizational structure, cooperative culture and work ethics need to be re-shaped for different generations – baby boomers, X generation and digital generation.
2.3. High work mobility
International companies prefer to hire middle management and young people with high mobility. People will have more business trips or work as expatriates, especially in China and South East Asian countries.
*Implication to career services:
Cross-cultural counseling service and career shifting programs will enhance their performance and improve teamwork.
2.4. Change of business model and career services
Innovation of young start-ups are on the rise. iKeybo is the world's first virtual projection multilingual (English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic) keyboard & piano. It was developed by Serafim by eight young experts in 2010. They have great passion to reach their profession to offer affordable, useful and cool consumer electronics for a better computing experience. Another unique design "Hear Me", developed for blind people, won the world class Red Dot Award in 2014. This special product was created by two young compassionate students, Miss Lin Ei-Chin, student of Industrial Design Department at National Taiwan University Science and Technology, and Miss I-Shuan Tsai, student of Digital Content Master Program of National Chengchi University. "Hear Me" is now available at APP stores for those who need to record their life or thoughts.
*Implication to career services:
People are always watching mobile devices; continually responding to friends and/or office messages. Because digital information is faster paced and demands quick response, this leads to increasing anxiety and stress. On-line career consultation and or counseling can be another good source to help handle stress as well as facilitate better interpersonal interactions. Inter-disciplinary studies and cross boundary cooperation will play important roles in new products and job opportunities.
Finally, it is time for us do more in-depth reflections, especially with respect to our Chinese career model and study. Taiwan has her own unique historical background and blends of traditional Chinese culture, Confucianist beliefs and some western values. Nowadays, Taiwan has a highly industrialized and export-driven economy. Blending western career theories with Chinese philosophy to develop suitable local career professional paths is one of the future challenges for career professionals in Taiwan.
Anne Rouh-Ling Chen is a Board member of Taiwan Career Development and Consulting Association and Senior Consultant, Aspire Academy, Taiwan. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
The center is a key contributor to the development of a highly accomplished Qatari human capital in line with Qatar National Vision 2030
Over the past few years, Qatar has undergone significant transformation as part of a comprehensive plan to diversify its economy beyond the energy sector and bolster the contribution of the private sector to economic growth.
This transition toward a knowledge-based economy, in line with the Qatar National Vision 2030, has fueled demand for a highly skilled and capable labor force, which can be only achieved by optimizing the potential of the labor force, particularly the nationals, and even more particularly, the youth.
This optimization can only be accomplished if Qatari youth gain access to adequate career guidance and planning services, a responsibility that the Qatar Career Development Center (QCDC), a member of Qatar Foundation formerly known as the Qatar Career Fair Center (QCF), has shouldered since its inception in 2008.
While QCDC's key objectives remain practically the same as QCF, the rebranded center is unique in the sense that it offers career guidance and planning services with a holistic approach that caters to the whole spectrum of stakeholders who can directly or indirectly influence the careers of students. Those include parents, counselors, relevant practitioners and professionals, public and private sectors, civic society and media.
QCDC targets those stakeholders and addresses all aspects of career guidance through three different channels: structural education platforms that empower Qatari youth, particularly pre-university students, by providing them access to career guidance courses, workshops and planning tools; awareness and knowledge exchange platforms that instill a career guidance mindset among youth such as career guidance events, forums and activities; and knowledge creation platforms that enrich and support career guidance policy making and practices by contributing to career guidance research, insights and consulting.
This holistic approach cements QCDC's position as a beacon for career guidance in Qatar and a key contributor to the development of a highly accomplished Qatari human capital in line with the future needs of the local labor market.
Among QCDC's top featured events is the Career Guidance Stakeholders' Platform, a bi-annual meeting for Qatari youth, their parents, career advisors, researchers, practitioners, decision and policy makers and others who have a stake in career guidance.
QCDC offers an array of initiatives for Qatari students from high and preparatory schools with a wide-ranging set of career planning skills and competencies through trainings and workshops throughout the academic year. These include the Ambassadors Program, the Summer and Winter Career Camps, the Career Development Workshop series and others.
The Center also provides a series of Career Guidance Stakeholders Engagement and Professional Development initiatives, including workshops, trainings programs and courses for career counselors and HR or career guidance practitioners that will help them acquire the knowledge, attitudes and skills they need.
QCDC is also very active in the research field, and has produced a significant number of Career Research Papers and studies that were presented locally, regionally and internationally.
For more information you can visit http://www.qcdc.org.qa/
" . . . share stories, insights and the gift of collaboration. From there, doors, ears and eyes open wide for those engaged in career development."
Coordinating invitations to keynote at Singapore's Adult Learning Symposium, present to India's Career Development Association, and planning a study-tour through India opens one's eyes and generates experiences to be shared. As NCDA's Past-President, having consulted on six continents, and now Professor Emeritus of Counseling and Career Development, it's gratifying to give back to different countries and APCDA friends working to advance career development. This article reviews a recent experience of growing and giving with the help of APCDA friends.
Meeting Ramu Kodiappan, a Critical Connection
Principal Manager, Centre for Career Development & Framework Management and Implementation, Ramu Kodiappan and I met after my NCDA Chicago conference keynote. I was honored by his request to keynote "Bridging Academic and Career Functions within the New Workplace" for the Future of Work, Future of Learning Conference in Singapore (Nov. 4, 2016). Leading an additional webinar, titled "Narrative Career Development Innovation Inspires Individuals to Navigate a Lifetime of Work and Learning Transitions," allowed me to link in real-time, from Singapore, with colleagues Mimi Brent of General Motors in Detroit and Mark Franklin of OneLifeTools.com & CareerCycles.com in Toronto.
A full room eagerly learned of GM's career development efforts and how to use narrative assessment within the Who You Are Matters! board game and Online Storyteller (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucGFcaAuVwo ). Singapore's excitement and expanding commitment to career development programs to support youth and adult transitions is exemplary. Mobilizing a national effort to address the needs for future skills within Singapore is a remarkable case study.
Abundanz Consulting Offers "On-the-Ground" Insights
While attending Singapore's very welcoming, informative and high-tech conference, I was fortunate to share notes and dinner with Tim Hsi of Abundanz Consulting, one of two practicing Master Trainers for the Global Career Development Facilitator (Singapore) program. Tim is also the lead trainer in Asia for our shared mentor Dick Knowdell's Job & Career Transition/Development Coach training and certification program. Amy Lew, Tim's partner, and Francis Yiu, their colleague, shared rich insights about talent development, retention consultancy, and training services to help private organizations. They also offered a wise lens to providing Career Coaching Services within the Asian Pacific region.
Future-Ready Graduates at National University of Singapore
The work done by Crystal Lim Leahy (Director) and Gregor Lange of the Centre for Future-ready Graduates, National University of Singapore(NUS) (see http://nus.edu.sg/cfg/) offered an advanced view of ways to engage students through their Roots & Wings program, a groundbreaking foundational life skills module.This program forms an essential and distinctive part of the NUS education that equips students with a set of essential, broad-based life skills regardless of future opportunities.
This program Inspired dialogues about positive psychology, mindfulness, aptitudes and demonstration of the Who You Are Matters! game created a professional connection I'm eager to advance. As I write this, I'm arranging a Colorado higher education study-tour for this talented team from NUS.
Next Stop: Bangalore and Christ University
On our way to Delhi, via Bangalore to visit friends (former HP employees in Fort Collins, CO), we sent inquiries to universities offering to provide conversation, consult and collaboration around career development initiatives. With good fortune, Christ University's Tony Sam George, Chair of Psychology, invited me to present "My Approach to Career Development and Counseling" to his counseling graduate students and faculty. A demonstration of various Knowdell Card Sorts, a review of narrative assessment, and an overview of top career textbooks allowed us to engage in remarkable discussions about training counselors seeking more career development content.
Building on India CDA Friendships
Vandana also arranged a delightful evening seminar at the Bikaji Cama Place where I was fortunate to lead two groups of career development experts in the Who You Are Matters! game. The group's very strong interest was heartwarming.
Nine Day Golden Triangle Tour of India
Longing to visit India, my partner Barb and I were fortunate to complete a study-tour of Delhi, Jaipar, Agra, and Gurgaon. Humbled by the energy, vibrancy and size of India, I'm reminded of the gifts, challenges, and good humor of its 1.4B habitants. The range of educational settings, diversity of aspirations, and eagerness to find opportunities for learning inspired us greatly.
Reflections of Building New Career Development Friendships
After any such travel and learning opportunity, one is reminded not to suggest they really know a country. Quick visits, short conversations, over-generalizations and limited capacity to resist one's history all challenge a weary traveler. Yet, I'm once again affirmed that we have much to learn and offer anytime we visit another culture and connect with local colleagues.
I was struck by how willing our APCDA colleagues are to welcome speakers within their institutions and organizations. And, I look forward to future visits knowing that one only has to use social media to find career development colleagues around the world who are willing to "invite and learn" with you. Once identified, it seems wise to offer one's services to share stories, insights and the gift of collaboration. From there, doors, ears and eyes open wide for those engaged in career development. No one is smart enough, wise enough or young enough to address talent and opportunity issues alone. And, as tensions of nationalism versus globalization grow, voices are needed to share the power of career development and dedication to developing people, human resources, and opportunities in order to learn and work though a lifetime of transitions. Building friends within the APCDA community is an opportunity I wish for all.
Rich Feller, Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Counseling & Career Development and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University. He has recently been appointed as the U.S. Country Director to APCDA. He can be contacted at richfeller.com and @Rich_Feller, or at email@example.com
"Someone must have enough courage and morale to break the chains of hatred."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 16, 2017, in the USA, was the day we observed a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King, who was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize, was a civil rights activist whose voice of influence resounded around the world. We celebrated his day with parades and a number of activities related to respecting diversity. Some of us visited museums. Some of us went to music and dance performances. Some of us listened to lectures.
On the third Monday of every January we celebrate his message of nonviolent activism in the USA and elsewhere. I have seen with my own eyes proof that he is honored in many other countries. For example, the accompanying photo is an image I took of the plaque at the base of his statue in Mexico City (Mexico). It says: "Martin Luther King, JR., 1929 – 1968, 'Someone must have enough courage and morale to break the chains of hatred.'" We so much need to be reminded of his messages honoring diversity in today's world.
We are always inspired and hopeful because of his work. Perhaps my mention of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will encourage you to learn more about him. I warmly welcome you to explore the following three links:
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I saw this on MissBudgetBeauty and thought I'd do the same as the first picture, peace, is very relevant to me!
I will hopefully remember to keep up with this daily :')
I got my tattoo done last year a week after my 18th, I'm obsessed with peace signs!
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The Gift
There was only one gift under the tree.
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Filed under: film review | Tags: blood simple, coen brothers, crime, ethan coen, film, joel coen, review, thriller
Blood Simple (1984)
Directed By: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979/
Blood Simple is the first film in The Coen Brothers dynasty. And boy, did they hit the ground running. It's hard to think of any other directors that put out such well regarded films with the same kind of consistency. Not to put Blood Simple down, but it only gets better from here.
It's a film about deceitful people who all think they are on top of the game. Until they find out they are clueless. Until events beyond their control and their own mistakes come together. A circle of manipulation that ends with you either dead, or wondering what the fuck just happened. It's a conceit that you might think you've heard before. And that's because this isn't the last time The Coen's made this film.
The Coen Brothers have developed a reputation as weavers of the complex. Simple people get caught up in events far above them, with only a piece of the plot to hold onto. A labyrinth of connections tied together. It could be contrived if it didn't all make perfect sense.
Maybe the film lacks the high-budget polish of later Coen films. But it still looks great. It's dark and brooding. Lit by streetlights and headlights. Or whatever neon buzz is illuminating Marty's bar.
Filed under: film review | Tags: adventure, comedy, drama, film, moonrise kingdom, review, wes anderson
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Directed by: Wes Anderson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748122/
Moonrise Kingdom is a coming of age story that defies traditional approach. It is an honest film that distills the essence of a story down to its core ingredients.
The characters are all driven by linear goals. They have one driving motivation that defines them and no other emotions. Except a slight melancholy that permeates the bones of any Anderson character. Being a scout leader is what defines the scout leader. Being a cop is what defines the cop. The representative of Social Services has no other name than 'Social Services'. The two 'troubled' children just want to be together.
Mr. Bishop (Bill Murray) is the only character that displays any sort of volatility. Every other character moves through the world like a blank mannequin. Character traits pinned to them like scout badges. This seems to be a trait of many Anderson characters. Goals are what drives them. From Dignan in Bottle Rocket, to Francis in the Darjeeling Limited. To Sam in Moonrise Kingdom. Plans are what drives them. Itineraries and Inventories.
Moonrise Kingdom plays like a children's adventure story. Dripping with nostalgia and child-like drive to adventure. But it is also infected with a sadness. In the two main characters, Suzy and Sam, this is a chance for them to break free of the world. If only for ten days. To forge a kingdom of their own to live in. Away from parents and scout masters and arbitrary life. But it's a fleeting escape as they know it is coming to an end. As they grow into adolescence, the real world hunts them down. The whole turbulent ordeal culminating in a storm.
But for that fleeting moment in Moonrise Kingdom, there was hope for the future.
Watch this Kogonada short on Anderson's obsessive symmetry. See how much of the footage pulls from Moonrise Kingdom. It's testament to the intricacy with which he builds and frames every shot of the film. The obsessiveness that defines great directors.
Filed under: film review | Tags: drama, fantasy, film, ingmar bergman, review, the seventh seal
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/
The hardest films to review are the ones considered masterpieces. There are a lot of words on the internet; a lot of fevered opinions. Average-Joe-Film-Buff spouting off with authority on a film like The Seventh Seal? There's no real authority there. It's just hollow words wearing a mask of authority. And those words hide behind 'personal opinion'. Because you can't argue against that. ("You can't say that my review is wrong, because it's just my opinion.") But your opinion can be wrong. Your opinion can also carry no weight.
Keep that in consideration going forward.
The Seventh Seal has some of the most striking imagery on film. It tells the story of Antonius Block, a knight returning from the Crusades. He finds his country pervaded by plague. Death appears to take him, but in a plea for respite he convinces Death to play for his soul. The two begin a game of chess that will determine the knight's fate.
The respite affords Block and his companions time to navigate the plague-lands. They encounter people dying of disease, of starvation and of man's fear.
The central theme is direct in questioning the absence of God. It is angry in knowing that every man must face the inevitability of death, with no knowledge of what, if anything, comes after. In the scene of his confession, Block remarks "I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me." And Death responds "But He remains silent."
For a film of grand philosophy, Bergman punctuates it with detrimental comic relief. There are times when it is witty, or when it is in keeping with the irony of death. And there are times when it is inappropriate to the tone of the film. The spindle ticks back and forth in tonal shift between bleak and comedy. This is the only let down in a film that is otherwise a meaningful exploration of faith.
The film ends with one of the most arresting images of the danse macabre. As Death leads the trail of companions into the unknown. "We must make an idol of our fear, and call it God."
Filed under: film review | Tags: crime, drama, film, jonathan glazer, review, sexy beast
Sexy Beast (2000)
Directed by: Jonathan Glazer
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203119/
Sexy Beast opens with Gal (Winstone) soaking up sun by his villa pool. A boulder rolls down the hill and misses him by an inch, landing in the water. It crushes his heart, laid out in tiles. He was an inch away from death, but it missed him. Death blew past him. An immovable object, buried at the bottom of the pool.
This is the film.
Don Logan (Ben Kingsley) is the boulder. The immovable object. Death. He is spite. He is volatile, ferocious, unflinching hate. He is a trained attack dog. Sits calm, but at any moment he will snap. You see it in his eyes. Any moment. Everyone in the room is overcome by the tension of this monster's presence. It is in the atmosphere.
Gal is retired. He just wants to soak in the sun and drink and eat with his wife and friends. Logan represents a heist-job. The criminal world that Gal left behind. Logan travels to Spain to recruit Gal for one more job. It's not an inspiring premise, but the film is not about the criminal world. It's not even about the heist. It's about Gal and Logan. Driven by the performances of these powerhouse characters and the struggle between them.
As angry and erratic as Logan is, it is with his words that he becomes true terror. He wheedles his way into the mind. He plants manipulative seeds in the roots of the brain. We get the impression that simple things in life, become conflict for Logan. He is a tornado that sweeps up the world, tosses it around and then. The boulder gives a hint to how his story ends.
Sexy Beast is not a flashy film. For a film about gangsters it is sparse of the usual violence and hangs on tense dialogue. Glazer has filled the screen with subtle absurdities that are true of his style. They either bark forth from Kingsley's mouth or wisp in on a dream sequence. The film is tight and concise and Winstone and Kingsley pull it off.
Filed under: feature, themes of cinema | Tags: chinatown, empire of the sun, film, grave of the fireflies, lolita, magnolia, the night of the hunter, under the skin
Six films.
Magnolia. Grave of the Fireflies. The Night of the Hunter. Lolita. Chinatown. Empire of the Sun.
On the surface they are each different. Family dramas. War films. Hard-boiled detective noir. But they each have a core theme that permeates the bones of the film. Cruelty to children.
For some, this is an extension of The Loss of Innocence story. In Grave of the Fireflies, the war (and loss of their mother) forces the children to grow up. To become parent figures to each other. Empire of the Sun runs a similar theme. A child separated from his parents and forced out into a horrific world. In The Night of the Hunter the two children lose their parents and set out across country. In each of these examples the children all find themselves in an adult world. Alone. All adult figures around them are indifferent to them or look down on them.
Magnolia, Lolita and Chinatown focus on a different manner of cruelty. Active cruelty. Predatory cruelty (The Night of the Hunter fits here too). Their cruelty is action rather than the absence of action. In Magnolia a father forces his child to play game-shows for cash prizes. An impersonal environment to raise a child. We see the fate of a similar character, now grown up and the lasting damage. In Lolita we see the perverse hunt of two predatory men on a young girl; a long downward spiral.
It might not be the core theme of the film, but as a theme or a sub-theme it is there.
But why? Why do we enjoy watching cruel things happen to children? Are we supposed to? Film-makers have tapped into a nerve. Watching cruel things happen to children makes our guts turn. It makes us sad. But it makes us interested. It is a conflict. And conflict makes stories.
It would be a mistake to think that the sole purpose of film is entertainment. That is one purpose. Other purposes are to make us think. To help us reflect. To provide perspective. And more. It's not that we enjoy watching cruel things happen to children. But it resonates with us as humans because we are protective of them. This is why the scene in Under the Skin where Laura leaves the crying baby abandoned at the beach is so powerful in proving how alien she is. Because no human with conscience could do that.
It evokes emotions in us that are stronger.
The Loss of Innocence does not presuppose cruelty. Or even relate to the children. But cruelty to children is a direct relation to it. Watching children endure suffering on a road to destruction. We invest. We hope that these children will grow, become strong and withstand. When they don't, it hurts us. And we reflect on this. We think about ourselves as a society and how we treat other people. Or, we think about the nature of harming innocence. We see struggle and hardship from a perspective that we might not relate to. And we hope that things might be better. And maybe we become better for thinking this.
Filed under: film review | Tags: bottle rocket, comedy, crime, drama, film, review, wes anderson
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Directed by: Wes Anderson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115734/
Bottle Rocket is the first film by Wes Anderson. He has come a long way since. Bottle Rocket has none of the signature charm or visual style that came later. The obsessive symmetry is not noticeable here. But the film does serve to show how Anderson has evolved as a writer/director. It does have dysfunctional characters putting themselves into wild situations (or not so wild).
The film opens with Dignan (Wilson) breaking Anthony (Wilson) out of a mental hospital. A volunteer mental hospital where the patients are free to leave. The two then pull off a burglary. A burglary of Anthony's own house. They are the masterminds of unnecessary crime.
Though it isn't all for nothing. The two characters are building up to the big-time. It is all for practice, and all to impress a local crime organisation. The middle third of the film becomes a little confused. The character's go on the run after pulling off a local library heist. The film slacks into a romance. Like most of the film's internal crimes, it is unnecessary. It meanders, but comes together again for the end.
With such a low budget, everything rides on the script. Everything rides on the performances of the Wilson brothers. It rides on dialogue. Bottle Rocket is a great low-budget first film. But it pales in comparison to everything Anderson did after.
Filed under: film review | Tags: animation, drama, film, five stars, grave of the fireflies, review, war
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Directed by: Isao Takahata
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/
It is rare to find a film that hurts the heart in as direct a manner as Grave of the Fireflies. There are films that bait emotion. And then there are films that provoke genuine heartbreak. Grave is the latter. It is heartbreaking. I think it is the saddest film I have ever seen. And it is a true story.
Grave of the Fireflies is an animated film that tells the story of two young children. It takes place in Japan at the end of the second world war. After losing their mother to a bombing raid, the two children move in with their Aunt. They stay for a while, but the Aunt fills them with guilt and makes them feel a burden. She sells off the belongings of the children's mother for rice, but keeps most of it for herself. She berates the children for not contributing to the war effort and begrudges feeding them. So they leave, becoming homeless and living in a hillside bomb shelter.
But there is no illusion of hope for the children. The film opens with the death of the oldest child, Seita. Before the opening credits roll, we see his spirit reunited with his younger sister. We know how it ends before it even starts. Yet the film takes it's time to wrap around to this ending. It is lingering on moments of true beauty between these two children. And in these slow lingering shots we watch them succumb to hunger and malnutrition.
There is a beautiful scene where the children collect fireflies and use them to light the cave where they sleep. The next morning Seita finds his sister burying the dead flies. "Why must fireflies die so young?" she asks. We ask the same question.
The most painful of all is the feeling that all the while, this tragedy could be prevented. If the people who surrounded the two children were a little more caring, maybe they would have lived. But it becomes about pride and about self preservation. For Seita, he could never return to his Aunt. An apology to her might have saved them. But pride prevented it. Seita tried to carve out a personal heaven in the hillside cave, but it became a tomb instead.
That being said. You can't begrudge a child their naiveté. But you can begrudge every adult who showed no care for them. To the world, these children are nuisances, thieves, burdens. Even those who show slight compassion do nothing to help. Their inaction condemns these children to death.
Grave of the Fireflies is a war film. But it is not a film about war. It's not about politics. It's not even about soldiers or the military. It is about the impact that war has on innocent people. It is a beautiful, painful, emotional masterpiece.


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over the river and through the woods
So I was watching the Oprah Winfrey Network on Easter morning. Super Soul Sunday. I tuned in because one of my favorite spiritual teachers, Adyashanti, was going to be on. Oprah's a guilty pleasure for me somehow, but in a virtuous way, like a bag of baked chips. She's so uncool but I'll be damned if I miss an issue of her magazine, and while I never watched her show religiously, I always popped in for things like Tom Cruise jumping on the couch. Event Oprah. And Adyashanti is a huge box office star in my own little firmament, so the boys got sent outside to ride their scooters so Mama could concentrate on the goods.
Oprah and Adyashanti sat outside under some trees in what looked to be some morning sunshine. I sat inside with my cup of coffee, with the sun streaming around the curtains. We had a nice vibe going, the three of us.
Adyashanti talked about how families carry a kind of signature energy down through the generations. Like there's a spice, a flavor there, a family brand. And he said that usually there's some kind of negative charge that's the most binding thing in that family recipe. I mean, no, he didn't say that, not in those words. He said something else. But that's the gist. And he described an exercise you can do where you set up two chairs across from each other, sit in one of them, and let some kind of bummer feeling arise, something associated with your family. Once you have a hold of it, you flash on the face of the family member that feels associated with the bad feeling. Whoever comes up, you just go with it. And then when you've got the feeling and the person, you get up and sit in the other chair with the intention of leaving that particular bad feeling from your family behind. You leave it in the first chair and then from the other chair, you bless it and set it free. That's apparently the key step. If you don't bless it, you're stuck with it, so you'd better bless that shit if you want it to fly away and leave you in peace.
"Takes five minutes," said Adyashanti.
"And it's really powerful," breathed Oprah.
Well, hell, I thought. I have five minutes. I have a family feeling or two I wouldn't mind setting free.
So I jotted down the steps and planned to do it sometime. Then I sat down yesterday afternoon to start writing this post, and before I even got started I was like, fuck it. Let's set up those chairs. And I pulled the two white wing-backs in our bedroom across from each other and went for it.
I'll tell you what happened, but first I have to tell you about Granny. Get comfy because she was a piece of work. It's going to take a minute to conjure her.
Before my family moved to Seattle in 1978, we lived in Port Chester, New York. And right next door to us lived my grandmother, Dora. Granny. My grandfather lived there, too, but he died before I turned three, and that left Granny as sole operating grandparent. I had a grandmother in Finland whom I never saw, foggily holding up the other end, but Granny was the only flesh-and-blood grandpresence.
It could have been great, living next door to my grandmother. And considering who she was, it should have been straight-up magical. Granny was a famous clairvoyant and healer, packed with stories like a supernatural piñata. She wrote a book when she was nineteen called The Real World of Fairies (which is still in print) and another book about the chakras and another book about the aura, and a couple more as well. She could see and communicate with ghosts, angels, tree spirits, you name it. I'm not going to give you her whole history here, but it was juicy. She grew up on a sugar plantation in Indonesia and then left her family and moved to Australia when she was eleven to train her clairvoyance with a man named C.W. Leadbeater. (They're in the picture up top. Dora's on the right.) At fifteen she was relaying messages from soldiers who had died at Gallipoli to their families. At nineteen she was thrown from a horse, broke her back and moved to Hollywood (not for showbiz reasons—Hollywood was still a sleepy little community back in the early '20s, and that wasn't her thing), and there she lived next door to Dr. Seuss and down the street from Gloria Swanson. Later, with my grandfather, she bounced around with people like Henry Miller and Beatrice Wood and Salvador Dali (watch your feet: so many falling names....I think you're safe now), and traveled all over, lecturing and teaching for the Theosophical Society. Eventually she was the president of the Theosophical Society in the U.S., which in our crowd made her some kind of great Dowager Empress.
To get to her house, you could either walk around the front and head down their long driveway, or you could go in the back yard, hop over the brook and walk through the woods. On paper, this is an amazing setup. You prance through the trees into the arms of your adoring grandmother who is also this sort of powerful sorceress, and she scoops you on to her lap and feeds you cookies and describes all the fairies sprinkled around the garden, and the tree spirits in the woods, and tells you stories about all the artists and movie stars she met, and how sad the ghosts were in Australia, and what they wanted to tell their families.
Nope. That was not the scene at all. That is not how it went down.
Granny didn't like me, right from the beginning. And I didn't like her, either. Apparently she held me for a second after I was born and passed me back with disinterest to my mom, saying, "She's going to be mama's girl." And that was probably our second-best interaction from my childhood. Once when I was five we were playing on this big flat rock between our houses which we christened The Monkey Rock. Granny and David and I were pretending to be monkeys. We were peeling sticks like they were bananas and waving them around and hooting. She was including me in the game, smiling at me and everything. I could barely believe it. Normally she didn't register my presence unless she had to. But that day she was giving it up for me. I gaped at her and waved my stick-banana, incredulous, soaking up the good vibes while they hovered in front of me. That was our best one. But our usual configuration was in opposition to each other. When my friends talked about their squishy, loving Grandmas and Nanas who snuggled them and spoiled them and made them cocoa, I seethed with envy.
She was mean, is the thing. She wasn't soft. She was scratchy and harsh and disdainful, except with my brother, whom she doted on. I didn't know why she was like she was, I never really knew why, I still don't know why. She was super-developed in some exciting ways, and completely raw and inedible in others. She's the biggest mystery I have.
I don't know how I'm going to wrestle her to the page here for you. This is a blog post, not a book. I'm going to have to do a fly-by to get you on board a little bit, so you'll know who was with me in that chair yesterday.
Fuck it. I'm going to try and cram her into a meme.
25 Things About Dora
1. Granny had a laugh like a crow, harsh and barking, and though she laughed all the time, it wasn't generally because something was funny. Her laugh was a weapon, a tool to reestablish her high status, which always had to be the highest in the room.
2. Granny could see auras, and they weren't just meaningless blobs of pretty colors. Your whole résumé was coded in there for her to check out. If you thought of somebody enough, that person's face could be hanging in there for her to see. She could see things about your character, your abilities, your fears, your health. It was unnerving.
3. This is a conversation I just had with my mom ten minutes ago.
I'm going to write about Granny today.
My mom:
May God help you.
4. Granny looked down on fat people, particularly fat women.
5. Granny loved men, and she loved doctors. If you were a male doctor: jackpot! She showered you with attention. I don't know if I'd call it flirting, because that implies a vibe that wasn't exactly in her wheelhouse, but it was as close as she came.
6. If you were not an impressive person of education and position, she was not into you. Unless you were a sick person. Then you were relevant.
7. Granny was a looker in her day, and had great legs she was vain about until she died at 95.
8. Granny devoted years of her life to doing energy healing work, and she treated thousands of patients for free, trying to ease their suffering. Cancer patients, AIDS patients, dying children. She had them over to her apartment and they'd sit on a chair and she'd stand behind them with her hands on their shoulders, cracking jokes and gazing occasionally into the distance, checking something out clairvoyantly. Her bedside manner was brisk and cheerful and fun. Soft, no, but the act itself was the softness.
9. Granny loved to argue. She'd call out to my brother, laughing, "Daaaaaaavid! I want to argue with you!" And they would giggle and argue and kick each other, for fun, for sport.
10. There's an apocryphal story about Dora wherein she was walking down the street one day in New York City when her slip fell around her ankles. The story goes that she just stepped out of it and kept walking, which sounds pretty legit to me. For years I thought that it was her underpants that fell off, and I was disappointed when I found out it was just a slip. Underpants would have been both more embarrassing and more badass.
11. Granny walked two miles a day until the last few months of her life.
12. Granny hated bananas but she'd eat one every day for the potassium, grumbling, "It is my duty."
13. My mom once asked my grandmother why she was so cruel to my father—because she was—and her response was, "Well, his father loved him." Like, hey. At least he had one of us.
14. Once when I was nine I saw Granny without her dentures in, and it was a revelation, like seeing a tiger that stalks you all day transformed into a rag doll. She looked weak and mushy. I wanted her to stay like that.
15. Granny learned to meditate when she was four. If you didn't meditate, you weren't a serious person.
16. She never had a female friend to confide in.
17. But people contacted her day and night to talk to her about their problems. Living people, dead people. Needy beings hounded her constantly. She was a guru to many but a regular frail person with her own problems to basically nobody. People leaned on her, and once my grandfather died, she didn't have anywhere to lean herself.
18. Before she married my grandfather, she was in love with a handsome young man named Oskar, but it didn't pan out, and that was a big loss. She got her heart broken at the same time as her back.
19. She ate a lot of tahini. A lot. So much fucking tahini. Tahini all the damn time.
20. Her full name was Theodora Sophia, which means "divine gift of wisdom".
21. She spoke in a thick Dutch accent with heavily rolling Rs, and Ws that sounded like Vs, e.g. "I am a verrrrrry old lady" and "I am a prrrrractical girl" and "Vhere da hell is da mail?"
22. Her mother was clairvoyant, and so was her grandmother, and her great-grandmother, and so on.
23. Her guilty pleasure was reading romance novels.
24. She was a mother, but she wasn't cut out for the job. My dad was something she just had to figure out how to deal with somehow.
25. When she was a little girl in Indonesia, she used to bury her dolls outside. They didn't have auras, so they were obviously dead.
Okay, back to those chairs. Back to Adyashanti's exercise.
I sat down with the plan to do a Granny feeling. I thought about it, and the feeling that came up was the one where I was afraid to speak when she came into the room. It was a kind of flinchiness, an expectation of being laughed at, or snapped at, or put down if I said the wrong thing. Flinchy self-censorship. So I was ready. I had the feeling and the person.
I got up from the chair with the intention to leave that behind me. Granny could keep it, or however it was supposed to work. I think I wasn't totally clear on the procedure. But I sat down in the second chair, facing the chair where I'd left Granny and the feeling. I went to bless the feeling, and bless her, and send them on their way.
I couldn't do it. I just couldn't. I didn't want to. It felt jive, somehow. I had a contracted feeling in my stomach, and I imagined Granny in that other chair rolling her eyes, and I could hear that laugh and her voice saying something like "Keep your stupid blessing, sveetie, I don't need it." And I got testy, like, Well, I don't want to fucking give it to you anyway. You can't have it.
And I got up. It was a wash. I guess I'm stuck with her for a while.
P.S. We had some good moments, Granny and I. I want to say that for the record. We had a real winner, even, at the very end of her life. No big professions of love, but there was a show of mutual regard, even respect. Story for another day. But I don't know what it all adds up to. I don't know what I ended up with. I roll with an afterlife story, thanks to her, and I don't know what I've got out there now: friend, or foe, or neither, or what. Ambivalence, it turns out, is hard to kill.


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SEO As Your Marketing Instrument
SEO - What the hell is it and why do I need it?
Simply put SEO is both a tool and a method used to tell search engines like Google and Yahoo how to find your website, why it exists, what it contains and who they should send to it. It is an essential tool which may seem daunting at first, but once you know the basics, getting started is fairly simple. Think of your website as a a musical instrument. You have to learn to play it and just as any instrument, it helps to set up correctly from the start. Most of the most popular website building apps like Wordpress, Wix, Squarespace, Bandzoogle and / or your web designer should be able to walk you through some of the basics. Many of the have SEO tools or plugins that will help guide the way. Your website needs to be tuned fairly often, and occasionally you might need to change the strings. SEO is one of the major tools you will used to do this. They may not be your favorite tasks, but without doing them, nothing works quite right. When your band gets big enough, you can hire someone to do this stuff for you, but for now, it's time to learn the scales.
Below is a list of some of the top SEO research tools. Thanks to Ryland Bacorn and Rick Sanchez:
1. Search Engine Land - What's news in search: http://searchengineland.com/
2. Semrush - Find and learn about competitors: https://www.semrush.com/
3. Moz - Track your SEO progress: https://moz.com/
4. Screaming Frog - Crawl your site like a master: http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/
5. Google Trends - Find what users look for on Google: https://www.google.com/trends/
6. Google Webmaster tools (now Search Console) - Track your Google data: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
7. Google Analytics - Discover how your SEO is actually working: https://www.google.com/analytics/
8. Distilled University - Learn SEO: https://www.distilled.net/u/
9. lynda.com - Learn about SEO and Analytics: http://www.lynda.com/
Runaway Brains World Premier at the Nerdist SXSW Saloon. Sunday, March 13
SXSW - Sunday, March 13 the Nerdist presents the world premier of Rob Kutner's Runaway Brains.
Co-produced by Rick Sanchez at Post Haste Media, with a cast of thousands including Weird Al Yankovic, Ken Jennings, Joshua Malina, Lauren Lapkus, Mayim Bialik, Phil Hendrie and more..the journey is something completely different.
SXSW - Come meet us at our panel "Modern SEO for Bands and Brands"
Our SXSW panel " Modern SEO for Bands and Brands" will be at SEO on Thursday, March 17. 5:00-6:00 in Room Room 10B of the convention center. 531 E 4th St.
Moderated byRaymond Flotat with Kevin Cogill, Ryland Bacorn, and Rick Sanchez of Post Haste Media, it should be an interesting discussion for anyone wanting to get more, higher quality visitors to their sites.
One of the things I've come to learn is how easy and effective it is to do some basic SEO and analytics on even the smallest of websites.
Whether you are an artist or band just getting started, an indie label, a music blogger, retailer or other small business; making sure you set up your website and create SEO friendly content is an absolute must if you want people to find you easily.
Stay tuned for a simple cheat sheet of tips, tricks and resources.
Also be sure to check out the Antiquiet show on Friday at the North Door.
A Little Record Plant History
Two weeks ago at the NAMM TEC Awards, the two men who gave me my first job in the world of recording were honored with a lifetime achievement award. Chris Stone and Gary Kellgren built the Record Plant (Click on the link above to watch the video).
It was a dream come true for a 21 year old kid from Lawrence, Kansas. The day I started work, I looked on the daily schedule and saw that the Eagles were in Studio C, Stevie Wonder was in Studio B and Dave Mason was in Studio A.
I ran into John Lennon and Keith Moon in the game room and we chatted about the Japanese Fighting fish in the salt water tank. I was screaming in my head that I was talking about fish with a Beatle and a Who member. Stevie Wonder would play air hockey...and win. Frank Zappa would drink coffee by the gallon and work till the sun came up. Al Kooper would keep us all in stitches laughing.
Chris and Gary also knew how to hire a great staff. From the runners to the assistant engineers to the technical staff, sales and accounting people...they looked for the best. Where they really shined were in their choices of studio managers.
Rose Mann, Michelle Zarin and Nina Bombardier all ran a tight ship, keeping us all scheduled, sane and healthy. At any given moment they handled daily crisis, minute details and big egos with grace and style. All of them were tough as nails, brilliant negotiators and psychologists and worked their asses off. They also shared their insights and knowledge and kicked our butts when we got out of hand. We all owe them a debt of gratitude.
Chris and Gary built a family AND a very successful business. It could be crazy and exhausting at times, infuriating at others, but it was exciting as hell.
There is one memory that really gave me my respect and gratitude to Chris and Gary. It had nothing to do with music or entertainment. It had to do with humanity.
My best friend from Kansas and I had always wanted to start a band in Los Angeles. He had just completed a world tour with Neil Sedaka, after never having traveled more than about 100 miles outside of our small town. When the tour was completed, I had been working at the Record Plant for about 2 months. He was staying in a small apartment with my sister and I and we were making big plans for the future. As it was, he had to go back to Kansas to pick up his stuff and move out to L.A. One night he flew out and the next morning I got a call that he had been killed with another young musician friend in an auto accident on the way back to Lawrence.
I was devastated...and broke. Apparently, someone at the studio, I assume it was either Rose or Michelle Zarin at that time, had heard about this and told me that Gary wanted to see me. I was nervous, as I had heard that he could be tough on the newbies if we messed up.
I found Gary in the hallway and he handed me an envelope saying that this was from Chris and him. It was a plane ticket to Kansas to attend Jody's memorial service. Chris told me to take the time I needed.
This gesture meant the world to me and I will always remember it.
Thank you Chris, Gary, Gloria, Marta, Devon & the Record Plant family. You're the best.
Olivia Harris Record Release
Olivia Harris Record Release - October 27, 2015
Olivia Harris just released her first single "Lonestar Heart". Olivia's first release is a tribute to her adolescence in Texas. The first of 6 songs on her upcoming LP was produced by musical director and multi-keyboardist Nick Milo. I recorded the vocals, Greg Adams horn and Liv Slingerland's impressive guitar parts as well as mixed the 6 tracks here at Post Haste Media.
Olivia's impressive team of musical collaborators included Nick Milo on Keys, Jack Irons, Eric Valentine and Johnny Salerno on drums, Yogi Lonich and Liv Slingerland on guitars, Holland Grecco on Ukelele, Rodrigo Enrique Bustos on Bass and Greg Adams on Trumpet. Writing by Olivia Harris, Nick Milo and Rocky Maffit.
Every other Tuesday starting November 10th, Olivia will release the other 5 songs on the EP, available on her own website and on iTunes. There is some exciting material from a very talented singer / songwriter so be sure to check them out and as always, support the music and artists you love by buying their music!
Stay tuned for more from Olivia, I think you'll be glad you did.
Good Bye BB King Thanks for a Lifetime of the Blues
It seems strange to say thanks for the blues, but the joy putting BB King's Live and Well gave me when I was a teenager was exactly that. A Joy.
My family loved music and I grew up with everything from Puerto Rican love ballads to Andres Segovia to Broadway show tunes and gospel music of my parents. Then came the Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Hendrix and of course researching where this music came from.
My friends Karl Hoffman and Steve Wilson who worked at Keif's records in Lawrence Kansas started to educate me. They would bring over armloads of records, take off what I had playing and let the lessons fly.
BB King's Live and Well was one of the records they brought out after school one day. I could not get enough of that sweet sound. The way he bent notes. How he make me feel so much using so few notes. His phrasing, vibrato and note bending. Perfection.
Why I Sing The Blues. A number of years later I had the opportunity to meet both the producer of that album Bill Szymczyk and more exciting, I got to record BB King in the studio. It was not one of his greatest performances, nor was it really the blues. It was a Budweiser Beer commercial in the style of the blues with BB King performing. It was still an honor to hit record and commit BB King's voice and guitar playing to tape.
This is the story.
Besides being one of the most influential and well known blues players in history, he was a wonderfully humble and nice man with a great sense of humor. I saw him perform multiple times, but one of the highlights of my early days as an engineer was to record BB King and his band in the studio.
No, it was not one of his many great records, but a Budweiser beer commercial. At the time, Bud's ad agency out of St. Louis was using various recording artists to do their take on the "This Bud's for You" theme. I did the Tubes version and BB King's version.
We had 6 hours booked. The King's big purple bus pulled up, the band got out. All of the amps and drums had been rented per the band's spec and were ready to go. They walked right into the studio, shook everyone's hand and got to work. He was all business.
They young ad team (I think there were six of them) obviously did not know much about either the blues or BB King other than probably an intern telling them that he had a guitar he called. Lucille. They had the band play the song with BB just singing the lyrics which they had written out. The lyrics were wall to wall for the entire minute.
Then the lead producer said "Now BB, get Lucille and play some blues". I cringed.
Mr. King picked up his guitar, plugged into the Fender Twin and I pressed record.
The song played for a minute and he did not play a note. The producer looked confused. "BB…ok. I want to hear Lucille sing" King looked up, nodded, then I pressed record. A minute later…nothing. The producer looked concerned. "One more time". Nothing. Again he said "BB, you're not playing…we need to hear Lucille".
Mr. King looked up, the band shook their heads and replied, "I'm singing. BB King does not sing and play at the same time". The rather dense producer said, "yes, but we have your vocal on tape already. I need you to play now. We need to hear Lucille".
I realized that BB King was hearing his vocal in his headphones. Since the lyric basically just repeated through the whole minute, I asked if I could try something. The producer said "whatever…I just need that guitar on there".
This time when I hit play, I let the vocal go for a short verse, then muted it. Immediately, Mr. King started to play. When the phrase finished I unmuted the vocal and he stopped playing. Another vocal phrase…then mute it and BB King started to play. Vocal…guitar…vocal…guitar.
The minute finished. BB King put down the guitar, smiled and said "That is the blues…now order us some lunch, you have what you need".
We did. The King of the Blues had spoken.
Fair Trade Music
Free Trade and Fair Trade are terms we often hear bandied about. Sometimes they get lumped together as the same thing. They are not. Before we begin, let's define the two terms.
Free Trade means unrestricted, uncontrolled access to an economy unburdened by tariffs and duties. In highly developed economies like the United States and much of Europe, this means that goods made in countries with very low labor costs have a distinct advantage over countries with higher wages. In theory, all boats are raised. In practical reality it seems that working wages in the developed countries are forced to come down much faster than working wages in the non-developed countries move up. Free trade is most often controlled by government at the behest of multi-national corporations.
Fair Trade, on the other hand, focuses on the actual wages paid to the people doing the work. The goal of fair trade is to give more power to individuals and improve the quality of their lives as opposed to improving profits for a corporation or other large business entity.
Most of us have heard about Fair Trade Coffee. The basic tenet of the fair trade coffee movement is to create a fair, equitable and ethical pricing structure from the farmer all the way to the end consumer of a delicious cup of coffee.
When it was found that coffee farmers were starving while coffee wholesalers and retailers were seeing record profits, Fair Trade Coffee organizations and activists began to spread the truth. This generated negative publicity for the large coffee importers and distributors. Exploiting poor workers was seen by consumers as unethical, cruel and greedy. A company getting a Fair Trade Compliant certification meant that the coffee was meeting a fair and equitable standard all the way from the consumer to the grower and everyone in between.
Consumers began to become aware that they could make a difference in the lives of people they would never have any interaction with. They wanted the people at the source to thrive just as much as they wanted to enjoy a good cup of coffee.
This fair labor and trade movement has grown over the years to include many things we consume from iPhones to clothing. We want to help the people at the beginning of the chain to prosper and are willing to both shame the companies who exploit workers and pay a slight bit more to monitor fairness.
One area where Fair Trade is just beginning to take root is in the creative arts. Everyone from writers of news to marketing to television to music could stand to benefit from fair trade. Content creators of all stripes could unite to make people aware that they also need to make a fair wage in order to provide the service to consumers.
Fair Trade Music is something we should all take a look at. To add a personal note to this story, I've been blessed to make a modest, but decent living for almost 40 years because of the work of writers. Songwriters, tv and film writers and copywriters have provided the foundation for the product I supply as a producer and sound engineer. I owe them a lot as do most of us who work in the business or who consume content on a daily basis. We want the best content possible at a fair price and we want the creators of this content to be able to feed their families just as we feed ours.
Take a few minutes and read about fair trade music and how YOU can help to make it a reality without having to resort to years of government bickering and competing lobbyists.
We as lovers, consumers and creators of music can make fair trade and wages a reality, but it takes getting off our butts and taking action. Spreading the word. Talking to people and getting aware of HOW we can make things better.
Let me know what you think can level the playing field for the people in the trenches. Thanks.
Navigating Rough Seas for Content Creators
Whether you are a copywriter, songwriter, session musician, recording engineer or content producer, times are tough.
Competition is fierce, streaming media and rapidly changing content delivery technology claim "we have no control" over what people put up, so getting paid for the content you create is now considered a quaint relic of the past. They tell us if you want to make money, you have to become a "brand" and that "we won't pay you, but it is great for exposure". Yeah? Tell that to your bill collector.
Sounds horrible right? Maybe...maybe not. Content creators have faced obstacles for many hundreds of years. The great thing about creative people is that we are good at solving problems and we find a way to survive. If we are lucky and work hard enough, we can even thrive. To navigate these rough waters takes some experience, some, trial and error, some fresh ideas or old ideas looked at in a different way and some hard work.
Over the next few months, I want to share some ideas from some very smart people. Some of them sound crazy. Some of them are common sense. All of them take people like us working every day to bring these ideas to life and to spread the word.
Post Haste Media supports creatives of all stripes and we want to help make sure the best of us don't get discouraged and have the opportunities that we have had.
Check back soon and share your ideas with us.


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Don't get us wrong, monetary giving is pertinent to our mission in Africa. But there are so many other ways to help Daystar U.S. that don't include opening your wallet!
1. Give while you shop.
You can give to Daystar U.S. while you shop at Amazon. AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Daystar U.S. every time you shop, at no cost to you. Just bookmark this link and use it when you shop:
AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service. But a portion of your purchase price will be donated to Daystar U.S.!
2. Review Daystar U.S. online.
This is one of the easiest and quickest ways to support Daystar U.S. Just leave a quick review of Daystar U.S. on GreatNonprofits, the leading platform for community-sourced stories about nonprofits.
3. Share a story on social media.
You don't even have to write the story! Choose one from our blog and share it with your Facebook friends or Twitter followers. You never know what might catch someone's attention.
One of our favorite stories is about a Daystar alumnus that is battling injustices in Nairobi after being wrongfully imprisoned himself.
4. Open other people's wallets.
No, we aren't suggesting robbery! ;) You can enlist the help of others by starting a GoFundMe or Everyday Hero page. Start your own Daystar campaign and raise money for our water project or for a scholarship student!
We'll even help you get started! Just shoot us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com so we can send you some helpful tips.
5. Pray for Daystar
Prayer is a powerful way to support Daystar U.S. and Daystar University.
Our Daystar U.S. board vice chair said, "I've found that when an organization is truly making a difference for Christ and His Kingdom, spiritual warfare is usually a palpable outcome. Daystar is not immune to this. Please pray that Godly leaders would continue to emerge from the student body, that temptations would diminish, and that the leaders and faculty at Daystar would be strong spiritual leaders."
We want to pray for you too. Click on the button to send us your confidential prayer requests so you can be included in our weekly prayer meeting.
6. Tell your friends and family about Daystar
If you support Daystar and believe in our mission then sharing it with your friends and family will be easy! Take someone out to coffee or simply shoot them an email telling them about the impact we are making in Africa.
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Small employers anticipate health care hikesPosted On Thu, July 29, 2010
Health care reform may have some unintended consequences. A recent survey by Fidelity Investments indicates that many employers plan on revisiting the health insurance benefits they offer employees.
Of the 459 employers surveyed, 20 percent said that they were considering dropping health insurance as a benefit. However, 64 percent indicated that discontinuing health insurance is something they weren't planning to do.
Increased costs is one factor motivating employers to revisit their health care benefits. Financial woes seem to be hitting small employers the hardest, with just under 50 percent saying that they anticipated a significant hike in health care-related expenses.
"There is a lot of confusion out there about the real impact of the health care legislation and the accompanying costs," added Patel. "Depending on a company's strategy in designing its future health plans, cost increases can be minimized."
Health care costs are expected to continue their upward movement in the future. Some employers have begun to sponsor wellness programs that aim to make employees healthier and in turn, reduce medical expenses.
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The Klickety-Klack Hobbyist and Souvenir Shop
The Klickety-Klack Model Railroad has an extensive shop for hobbyists and train enthusiasts! You can find everything you need to bring the magic of the model railroads you've seen to your home. We have a diverse selection of goods, from model trains, rocketry and cars, old and new hobbyist paraphernalia to antique train memorabilia.
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