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last night i went to this astrology lecture in SF. it was titled, "astrology and the art of healing". it was offered through the SF Astrology Society, a group that meets once a month at fort mason.

the content of the lecture was pretty interesting. it discussed astrology from the perspective of conception and gestation, and how all the planets were influencing your chart AND of course, your mother, thus making the period of gestation and the MOMENT of conception actually quite relevant, astrologically.

the dude's name was Tad Mann. he's written 20 books so far. you can check him out here.

wednesday night, i attended a "social media mixer" hosted by my web designer's company, hyperarts. seriously, if you need a PRO website, contact them. my website is pretty barren since i closed my biz, but you can still find it here, just for kicks.

back to the social media part, we were a group of professionals that decided we wanted to hear more about other professional's thoughts on the subject. there was a surgeon from UCSF that shared how having youtube video's on a website separate from the general UCSF website led to better relationships with patients. trippy! what else...hyperarts launched a brand new website, specific to the social media conversation. pretty cool!

lastly, i saw ben harper at the fillmore the other night. he was with his new group "relentless 7". i've never been one of the ben harper-heads, but i went to hang out with an old friend. the music was good. i watched myself trailing off during parts where other people were "finding god" and it reminded me how lucky we all are to like what we like. he did a cool cover of Queen's "under pressure", which of course at first sounded like "ice ice baby" at the beginning...admittedly, this was the song that struck me more than any of the night. it wasn't a new song, but i'd never heard it. struck me.

everything about me you like...its already gone

When Will You Come Back Home -...

dusted off this old 2005 chestnut. f*ck, that was four years ago! ridic.

There's something in the way she eases my mind
And lays me across the bed till I close my eyes
Stirs me in the morning till I can ever be satisfied
I leave Carolina every night in my dreams
Like the girls that try to love me that I only leave
Rock me like a baby doll and hold me to your chest
But I'm always moving too fast

If I could find my way back home, where would I go?
When everything about me, I used to be,
Shivers in the sheets and the blankets of snow
Lost out in the woods were you're looking for me

When, when will you come back home
No one leave the lights on in a house
Where nobody lives anymore
Loaded like the boxes up in the bedroom
Coming off the hinges like the door
The shadows dancing up in the window
They're not who we are but who we were
And I'm not gonna break, but if I do
I'm gonna shatter like the glass I turned your heart into
I'm broken like the windos in the house where I used to live
And If I could find my way back home, where would I go?
When everything about me, I used to be,
Shivers in the sheets and the blankets of snow
I'm lost out in the woods looking for you
When, when will you come back home
No one leave the lights on in a house
Where nobody lives anymore
Everything about me you liked is already gone
Everything about me you loved is gone
When, when will you come back home

information super pipeline love affair!

its may. 2009. what? how did that happen?

i'm a bit splintered in regards to what to make this post about...

guess i'll just spit it out~ i think i saw (one of) my favorite show(s) of 2009 a couple w/ends ago. it was (drumroll...)

THE MOTHER HIPS w special guest on keyboards JACKIE GREENE!!!

i know i get carried away with the things i love. i hear that it is part of my charm (supposedly). i mean, aren't most of our strengths also our weaknesses? so the fact that i can get so bat-shit crazy about some stuff, well, my passion for music that is harmonic, slightly complicated yet direct, earnest, ROCKIN'...these are all things that the mother hips music embodies, in my mind.

how do you all listen to music these days? i got tipped off about a new web dealio called "LaLa". apparently, it lets you listen to any song ONCE for free. i linked to (one of) my favorite 'hips album, just cuz, but you can cruz around on the site from there.

here's a MAJOR favorite 'hips song...learning how to embed this here...

Tired Wings - The Mother Hips

alongside being GEEKED on the mother hips music, i'm currently fascinated with SOCIAL MEDIA. it seems my eyeballs keep landing on those two words that appear back to back regularly now. i think seth godin, who you guys know i'm a fan of, pointed me towards this blog: the art of nonconformity, where this dude talks about how he became a real live writer in less than one year. so i'm reading that. also, someone tweeted about this site the other day on twitter: social media today, a blog about just that.

anyways, i see some of you faithful people come here even when i don't bother to say new stuff. i think that's just really cool. THANK YOU! i don't know what to say sometimes cuz i wanna say so many things at once, so i just say nothing. that's horse shit. you folks who KNOW ME know me KNOW how much i have to say...sometimes i get shy, yes. its true! yet, i'm the one who decided to start this freaky blog...i think it needs an update. even though blogger is easy, i like the fresh look of some of the other blog sites. need to deal w that. stay tuned!

if you take the time to listen to the track i posted here, tired wings, you'll hear why i named this post what i did!!! EPIC!!! around 2min 40sec...LOVE