Earl made a cool experimental video from footage of my last concert in the creek, over an old unreleased instrumental version of I Can See You. (that features the keys). Love the colors, heart!
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Some cool coworkers and I started a group called Mixed Bag and sang “Lean on Me” at the DDCE staff meeting.
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Hank is a long-time friend of the family. My mom has a lot of his art, as do my sister and I. When I was at NYU I got to know him, sometimes sitting for him. Hank is a hero of mine for giving his whole life to his art.
Hank called me this morning, left a message saying to search for him on YouTube, someone had done a video portrait of him. Here it is.
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Ladies and gentleman, I am proud to present the world premier of the best damn video I’ve made to date (with great help, beginning to end, from Earl). This is my No More Shitty Gigs manifesto and pledge:
No More Shitty Gigs
No more sitting in my cube beneath the zombie lights
Where the light is too white and the walls are too tight
I need to go outside and a get big fresh breath of air
But I can’t escape the screen and my butt’s glued to the chair
No more standing on a stage beneath a TV screen
No more trying to sing over the coffee steam machine
No more waiting hours just wait for hours more
In some far off remote hope that my foot gets in a door
No more shitty gigs I’ve played enough for one life
No more shitty years it’s high time I decided
Let’s go for a walk, I’m gonna take show outside
‘Cause it’s my show and I decide where it will go
It’s my show and I decide where it will go
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As a geek dad this caught my eye: Agile programming for your family?! Make your family a self-managing team.
Feiler’s 3-plank Agile family manifesto
- Adapt all the time
- stay flexible
- don’t listen only to ‘experts’
- hook up with new ideas
- be open minded
- let the best ideas win
- weekly family meeting, 20 mins. ask
- What worked well?
- What didn’t work well?
- What can we all agree on to work on this week?
- Empower children
- stop ordering your children around
- enlist them in their own upbringing
- they come up with punishments and rewards
- plan their own goals
- set weekly schedules
- evaluate themselves
- succeed and fail on their own terms
- less what they do wrong, more on what they do right
- give them the tools to make themselves happy
- Tell your story
- as bedrock context for adaptability
- preserve the core
- define mission, core values, family mission statement
- tell story of family, where we came from
- difficult situations overcome
- family strengths and successes
- retell the positive and overcoming negative stories
- make a family manifesto
Happiness is not something we find, it’s something we make. Greatness is not a circumstance, it’s a choice. What’s the secret to a happy family? Try.
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