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Name: Candi
Gender: Female
Interests: I love music and movies, I love trivia, I love reading, scrapbooking so i can remember my kids first awesome days on earth... and of course being with my kids!!! :)
Did I mention that I love my kids??
Expertise: I came up with a new title for myself, because I'm so tired of saying "I'm a homemaker" when people ask me where I work... So I decided that I am an Executive in Education and Research. I would say that is an honest assesment. I am definitely doing some Education and there's tons of research involved in parenting... so there you go. I'm an Education and Research Executive. It was either that or call myself the Head of manufacturing...;)
Occupation: Executive
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message me
Member Since:
10/15/2003
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| The only reason I ever log on to my Xanga anymore is to make comments on Pope On A Bomb's delightful blogs. You can find me on Facebook if you want to know what I am up to. | | |
| I love my Mac. Love it. Wouldn't trade it for a dirty slow PC for anything, but there are some people who should not be allowed to have Garage Band. One of those people is Charlie West. Now, don't get me wrong, Charlie West is one of the most brilliant songwriters I have ever met. He has written some of my favorite songs of all time to boot. His ability to write catchy, smart, and meaningful songs allows him to get away with being a proficient musician and a moderately passible singer. On his first four albums (Daisy Chains, The Locust Grove, Days of Nero and Mystery Live) Charlie surrounded himself with wonderful musicians and singers, allowing him to put his talent as an arranger on display and really causing his songs to dance off the disk every time. Despite some personal issues Charlie and I have had in the past long forgotten, some of my favorite songs of all time remain his and I still keep and listen to those first four albums often. Since his acquisition of Garage Band, however, I have noticed a sadly alarming trend towards mediocrity and downright butchery of his own material. You see, while Garage Band sets some musicians free to explore the outer reaches of their potential without ever having to see another living soul, Charlie's best work comes when he delivers his songs to the capable hands and voices of other people. With the proliferation of his newer material he has relied on his own ears and has released digitally bloated, self-indulgent versions of some of his best songs that just don't do them justice. He has also come to use digital voice modulation as a trademark and when contrasted against his folk-rock style it just doesn't mesh. (Plus, let's face it, you shouldn't use that trick too often. Or Ever. Even Cher didn't manage to pull it off the one time she used it on her song "Believe" and that was a techno track.) Two of my favorite songs of Charlie's, If I Could Say Right Things and Wait Below a Whisper are almost impossible for me to listen to now. So, here's to all those closet musicians who can now produce their own material thanks to the brilliance of Garage Band. And here's to Charlie West, with a request: break it down, yo. If you remove all the digital layers you have added to your masterpieces you just might find that the brilliance is in the pure simplicity of your creations. | | |
| I figured since my baby is now a month old I should probably put some pics of her up here and let you know that she is born...
Zoey Nicole Summers
4-15-2008
8 pounds 7 oz
20 inches long
Born at home just like my last baby. I am a rock star, yes I am. :)A rock star of birth without drugs. Something like that. Normally I would not brag on myself, but in this case I have earned it. No one but me will ever really understand how hard core I am.
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| In honor of POPEONABOMB I give you a story about boxes... which I left as a comment on his blog about moving in which he talks about how great boxes are. I agree, except:
Boxes really ARE fabulous. I love them. I save cute ones. And by cute I mean any box that has a laminated surface, an apple logo, or is smaller than 6" wide. Box saving can go too far, though. I discovered this when I decided to clean our attic last year, where I discovered (much to my horror) that my husband had been saving EVERY BOX that came into our possession up there. FOR 5 YEARS. It was positively bizarre. It reminded me of that moment in "A Beautiful Mind" where John Nash's wife discovers the shed full of weird clippings and pushpins and yarn and realizes she has left her child alone with that guy... SO, I spent an entire day throwing boxes down onto our garage floor from the attic, then climbing down and breaking down the boxes and tying them into stacks with twine and putting them on the curb. I had three stacks of flattened boxes that were each 5 feet high. I can understand saving the box our Apple G5 came in, and the boxes for your speakers and audio components... those have specially shaped foam in them... but my husband had the box our toaster had come in and we no longer had the toaster. I digress. I think my point was that while I love boxes, discovering that your husband has a box-saving psychosis and has turned your attic into a huge fire hazard that houses millions of roaches is not a positive experience. YAY BOXES, though.
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| You cannot make a show about a talking car who fights crime and not have it be CHEESY no matter how many cool shots of the car nanotechnology changing the color of the car and repelling bullets you have. I guess my deep deep love of the original Knight Rider was really misplaced, but considering that I was 6 years old at the time I can be forgiven. I cannot believe that NBC cancelled Bionic Woman, which I thought was pretty freaking awesome, but they picked up Knight Rider for a trial run. Bionic Woman in it's new incarnation was as awesome as I remembered the original being when I was 5 or 6. At least Pushing Daisies will be back next Fall. I like pie. | | |
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