Secret to Succes? (Passion or Self-Discipline)

This post ponders the requirements for success: Which is better: passion or self-discipline?" and argues in favor of self-discipline.

"Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than
being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship... Self-discipline allows you take action and therefore get results no matter what your emotional state."

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/passion-vs-self-discipline/

SF Mayor: Court Jesterings

A pretty consice and informal rundown of all the candidates running for mayor in SF.
by H. Brown

Cake eaters revenge

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Daryl Hannah is a Green Diva

Once when i was staying over at a friends house, I was watching the much the newly installed cable tv very late at night. That's when all the really good stuff came on. By stuff, I mean shows that parents would not necessarily approve of their 12 year old son watching). I happened upon a lush and exotic love story set in Greece called "Summer Lovers". That's when I fell in love. With Daryl Hannah anyway. She's so easy on the eyes, it's a no brainer really. Yet it was the mysterious quality about her. Something hidden and breathtakingly real. And since then, she has portrayed an android (ah, Pris), mermaid, cavegirl, ghost, giantess, mental patient, pole-dancing stripper... to name a few. But she is more than an actress.

She has always expressed interest in the environment, but unlike other Hollywood types, she walks the walk. I just read that she is living off the grid in a restored depot in the Rocky Mountains, promoting biodiesel, and using mossy field rocks for her sofa. Swoon.

Daryl is a Green Diva.
Here's the whole article in Off the Grid an interesting zine.

Look who's in Wired! (Paradise Lost, Found Again at Laughing Squid Benefit)

Yep. There I am in Wired.com. I've just been roped in as the "sound guy" for Paradise Lost, the Laughing Squid and Black Rock Arts Benefit event at the new and deliriously sublime Flora Grubb Gardens. This was for a gooofy nonsensical skit by Chicken John, Dr. Hal Robbins's, and a slew of others. I had never done sound for anything. Chicken's on the other hand has done this before. He knows that a monkey could do it.

"No prob" I thought. Only two buttons to worry about. His instrucitons were what you'd expect from any vetran showman about to go on stage. Hasty. Distracted. Stepping away one minute to reherse. Then back to see if I got it. So we go over it again to be sure. "slide these two down" indicating two sliders in a vast sea of sliders, buttons and knobs. "You slide them down, up, down, see? When we're talking, sound. When we're playing the ukulele, no sound." Check. "If I shout 'tape!' turn the tape button." He points. I nod. And "You MAY have to to hit this button. Or this button." Ponting down low where I couldn't even see buttons. That's when I started to get nervous. More buttons! But no prob. I pulled up a crate beside the stage and enjoyed the show. And luckily it was a no-brainer. Just good fun.

Btw, Chicken did this show while running for mayor. That's just the kind of guys he is.
Vote for Chicken

Btw x2, the word "ukulele" is Hawaiian, and means literally ‘jumping flea’.


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