phone operators

My job consists of helping people over the phone, like so many others. I always dread calling places where I will have to do something like activate a credit card or a phone etc. I mean its horrible exspecially if you get cut off. More then once I know I have lost my temper at someone trying to help me. Sometimes it seems like they don't care.

What I am trying to say is: The people on the other side of the phone are people too. Its frustrating to sit at a computer all day answering phones and looking up accounts. Also having to deal with people who want to bite your head off is hard and depressing.

I feel bad now when I get frustrated with someone trying to help me. I know what it is like on the other side. Really I guess I am saying that please be kinder to those people. Maybe they'd be more productive if they didn't have people yelling at them all the time.

Its not their fault. They are only human too.

even they need some

Love
Harmony Peace

Black Gold

I wanna spend a little time posting about Black Gold. No not oil, the band. I'd thought that since I used my awesome blog power (not so much) to promote another of my favorite bands (VersaEmerge-go see them at warped tour! I am) I could do that for some other groups. I decided on Black Gold because I was listening to them today.

Black Gold is a group that consists of Eric Ronnick and Than Somethingorother (I feel bad I don't know his last name but my search online to find it didn't work). Anywho, they released their first album in February and it is amazing.

I decided to get onto their myspace and listen because Eric is the keyboard player for Panic at the Disco on tours, most of the time, you know unless he's touring himself . Anyway I'm glad that I did, listen to them that is. The first song I heard was "Plans and Reveries" featuring Brendon Urie (he seems to be everywhere doesn't he?) and it sent chills down my spine it was so good.

The songs on the album are so diverse and yet they work so well together as a whole. Some of the songs even take me back to the good old Disco days, not like I was alive then, but still.

I could sing their songs all day and the next day and the next day and the next day. They are so catchy but not in a bad way at all. (I tend to think that if songs are too catchy, then they lose a bunch of meaning that should be there).

Also before I finish off my post I want to say something else about Michael Jackson. Yeah he was creepy looking and the end of his life was sort of odd etc. but he was incredibly inspirational and it is a big loss to the world.

And last but NOT least, Good bye to Farrah Fawcett. Even though her death was sort of expected, your life and acheivements should not be overshadowed by another, unexpected death.

Peace Love Harmony

Rest In Peace

Wow!
I can't believe it.
Michael Jackson.....Dead?

Wow.
Wait he was 50?!
50!

I never was a big fan of you. I know I let my prejudices against you get the better of me so I never listened to your music, till recently, at least. Yeah, maybe I used to call you "Cruella Devil" since I saw a picture of you in a magazine (it was her to a "t" -what does that expression mean anyway?-). But I'm sorry you're gone, not sorry maybe that the Beatles (mainly Paul) will get the rights to his music back (I assume) but still sorry that a music, and dance, icon has died.

So sad. And shocking. He always knew how to get the headlines....

Bye man.

Real Love

A while back I typed out a entry on Love and I was just thinking about that.

"All you need is Love"

I still believe that with all my heart (no pun intended) and then I realized something else to and surprise surprise it has to do with music.

So RENT is my favorite musical, "rock opera" (whatever), right? Yeah I'm a total new-age RENThead. Anywho Roger says something really honest in the argument "Goodbye Love." He is actually referring to romantic love, or lust if you will, but I think that it works with Love in general.

"All your words are nice Mimi
But Love's not a three-way street
You'll never share real love
until you love yourself
I should know"

If you think that you are not loved it is most likely because you block out the emotions by hating on yourself. And with all that hate coming from so close a place, true love, sincere love gets blocked and what you may think is love is really just pseudo-emotions.

Just to be clear I am not aiming this at anyone that I know or speaking from experience, just from observation and my own thought process.

So special from me to you:

Harmony
Peace
LOVE!!

This morning as I was driving to work I was listening to Phantom Planet simply because I like them and I haven't listened to them in a while (I have like over 1600 songs on my iPod-and that would be a good old fashioned video iPod from like 2006-ish-). Anyway thier song called "Anthem" came on and well I really like it cause I think that they hit upon something really important.

"cause this whole world needs an anthem
And I?m trying to put the words where they belong
Yeah this whole world needs an anthem
And I'm hoping everyone will sing along"

Personally I believe that music is incredibly important to people, even if they don't realize it, and yeah we all have our National Anthems... but is nationalism the problem here? No, probably not. and btw- I am NOT anti-US or anything 'k? I'm just saying the when the world began to nationalise it seemed to make things in general worse.

My point is, well maybe the way to get people to cooperate with each other is to connect through something like music. I know that I am always open to new, different sounding things.

Until someone writes and Anthem for the world:

LoveHarmonyPeace

Flower Power!!

I am so sick and tired of seeing a whole bunch of Woodstock shirts and "Summer of Love" shirts around in stores. Yeah Yeah it is like 40 yrs later but we are not in the "Woodstock" feeling. Also no one who really embodied the spirit of those people there would never wear those silk-screen, mass-porduced shirts.
So the world is no where near the spirit of Woodstock. Unfortunalty Flower Power is dead today. I have to hope that it will be resurected somewhere along the line. I have to hope! However there is very little trust in other people today and without that feeling of community and peace and brotherhood, there can never be another Woodstock.
If there ever is another, I will be there no matter my age, unless of course I am dead, then look for some one carrying around a cistern with Peace, Love, Harmony painted on the side. If I am still alive then I will be wearing a shirt with that on it.
because
Peace
Love
Harmony
are the most important things to my life right now.

So what

Ok on the first note: my titles suck for entrys
secondly, so yesterday I went to buy a book at Barnes and Nobel, the second in a series. Well the only reason I bought the first one was because they had set them out on one of those table displays. They are by Rick Riordan and are fantasy about the Greek Gods. Well I love the Greek Gods, I always have. Well when I went to get the second one I had to ask an employee where they were, he led me into the kid section, it wasn't even in the teen section (which btw I still can shop in for a few weeks or so) (and btw last night was I think the first time an award show host said 'b-t-w' on TV, re: the Tonys!)

Anyway yeah yeah yeah I am reading a series deemed for children. BUT the books were right next to the Harry Potter series so HA.

I guess there really isn't a point to this except that AT LEAST I'M READING!!

Peace, Harmony, Love

"How do you measure..."

I recently bought RENT the Final Performance and I watched it the other evening, and cried of course.

Anyway the point is that afterwards I was thinking about how every time I see RENT in any form (movie, stage, dvd of stage) I always end up crying during the second act. Of course that's the act where Angel dies and everyone gets mad at everyone else. I think it moves me so much because every time I watch the show, it takes on new meaning for me.

Anywho the point I really want to make is this: "seasons of love" and all of the show really poses some very phiosophical questions. "How do you measure a year in your life?" Really how do you do that? What really is important? Or what is important to you?

I certainly don't know yet. I do know that everyday I hope for peace, love, and harmony in everything and everyone. But as for whatelse is important.... well I'm still trying to figure that out...

Meanwhile

Harmony
Love
Peace

"Quack!"

I've been working at two places this past 2 weeks and they could not be any different then they already are. One place I sit at a computer and take calls all day and get paid. The other place I never know what I'm going to end up doing and I usually end up outside, sweaty, and attacked by bugs of various sorts. And there I am not being paid.

Which do you think I would rather work at?

The second one definately. Except for the fact that I don't get paid for working there.

I go there tomorrow and I am really excited! There is always something different to do there. Today I am at the office one. Its not a bad job at all, just long and tireing and monotonus. Though yesterday I was on the phone with this one man, I explained something to him and he responeded "cool beans." That really perked me up because here was this man, probably in his 40s or more and he said the phrase "cool beans." It was epic.

One thing that working at these two places has taught me is that: when I get a full time job, you know once I actually get out into the real world, I don't want a job where I end up sitting at a desk for 8 hours and do the same thing everyday.

I don't know. At least I have a job and an internship. . . not that I'm really complaining

Peace, Love, Harmony