The season opener for the Chicago Cubs is today on the road. Home open is at Wrigley a week from today. There is always such optimism with Cubs opening day.
Below is a home video I came across today of the 1929 World Series at Wrigley Field. It features the Philadelphia A’s playing our beloved Chicago Cubs.
Here is to hoping Wrigley might host October baseball in 2007.
Time has decided that the Person of the Year is YOU. I could not agree more!
The talking heads on the FOX’s, CNN’s, and MSNBC’s of the world are saying that this is a joke and devalues the Time tradition of naming Person of the Year (it was Man of the Year till 1999). I’ve heard them say that it is a cop out. “How could EVERYONE be Person of the Year?”
Well, I think that Time is spot on. 2006 is the year that people realized that playing field has been leveled. No longer do you need a record contract to have a hit song. No longer do you need to be on Saturday Night Live to have you 4 minute comedy series seen by millions each week. No longer is the video footage on war what has approved for our sensitive eys. These things are all controlled by you. You create the media and you decide what to watch.
I say that Time hit the nail right on the head. We are all witnessing the transfer of power that is taking place in the Information Age. And that power is being transfered to you.
Maybe the talking heads on the FOX’s of the world are concerned and that is why they are calling it a joke.
Bank of America and MBNA merged. Two corporate guys decided that they should write and perform a take off of U2’s ‘One’ to celebrate.
I love that they take it so seriously…
I love that they get a standing ovation at the end of it…
I love that someone leaked it so all of us could enjoy!!
The new PS3 is hottest thing to hit the streets since the power pad. I thought I’d post a movie about the video game system that made me fake sick from school.
Another sub-20 year old has turned the music industry on its head, but not many people know it yet.
Anthony Volodin, a 20 year old student, has created The Hype Machine. The Hype Machine scans MP3 blogs for people posting messages about bands and songs. It aggregates all the “hype” and then posts them all to pages on The Hype Machine. The site features a media player, playing what is being “hyped.” With the click of a mouse you can buy what you like from Amazon and iTunes. All MP3’s is finds are cached on its servers. Try searching for something. You most likley find it.
Anthony’s concept is so simple. The really good ones are!
Check it out at http://hype.non-standard.net/
YouTube and online video has exploded onto the scene. Its power is undeniable. However, most of the links to videos that people forward through email have contained nothing more than Asian students in dorm rooms lip singing Justin Timberlake.
That is starting to change. Groups of independent producers are creating a wide variety of videos. Here is one that was emailed to me today that is really creative!
You can check out the rest of the series at HERE.
“Hypnotic, Hypnotic, Hyp, Hyp, Hypnotic” still rings in my ears from a party they played about a year ago. It was 2:30 AM and people were going crazy for them.
The Chicago brass band has headed to live in Queens.
These guys are great! One of the best brass bands I’ve seen. Hypnotic has played a couple parties I’ve had. Both of them late-late night, starting after midnight and playing until the wee-hours. They have such energy that it is hard for anyone turn away.
The New York Times has written an article yesterday and has a video with interviews and music. It did not take these guys long to make waves in the big apple. I could not be happier for them!!
Hope to see them in Chicago again someday.
Google Earth is the most unbelievable software I have seen in years!
It has been a long time sense I installed something that has captured my attention for so long. Yes I know that Google Earth has been out for a long time, but I just installed on my G5 and have played with it everyday for at least an hour sense doing so.
This is my first post. Not completely sure what direction this blog will take.
Welcome and thanks for taking a look!