just a personal update - i successfully made two pies for thanksgiving- and they turned out pretty well overall. the texture of the pumpkin was a little chunky and the apple pie was a little bland, but i'd give them good marks.

i spent some time and recorded a new song. you can download it on the tunes page. let me know what you think of it. it's called "i'm gonna love you to pieces". i think it's pretty good anyway, but of course i'm pretty far from objective.

peace to all,

jeremy

i got an interesting email from my dad today. it was an article from a corporate think tank about relating to young workers. apparently, young workers are turning down promotions at jobs due to things like stress or family time. i replied to my father with my thoughts on the article and i will summarize them here:

what's so awesome about work? when i see a guy driving down the street in a beautiful car i don't feel envy- i don't. i don't even feel jealousy or annoyance. you know what i feel? pity. that's right. pity. i think of how many hours they spent breaking their backs to get some polished hunk of metal and i feel pity. i think of all the people he had to manipulate to buy his ivory back scratchers. i think of all the workers making minimum wage, working part-time with no benefits, slinging low grade beef so he can pull up and order some fries. i wonder if he worries about his car at night. i wonder what he would be like if something happened to it. would he be distraught? upset? i mean, since everything material is temporary, isn't it pointless to become attached to merchandise? to crude matter?

so if this is true, which of course i think it is, why should i work myself to the bone just so i can buy some mass produced happy meal that is guaranteed to break? why would i make the accumulation of this stuff my purpose in life? i work to live, not live to work.

of course, there are exceptions: i don't always buy only what i need. i'm a consumer, sadly, and i am occasionally conned into buying the newest and coolest. i'm definitely not the ideal, but i don't have to be.

of course, i perhaps could be tempted to work all the time, but it sure wouldn't be for money. i suppose if i had a job i really believed in, if i had a job helping people or something, maybe then i wouldn't mind working. for anyone out there who knows of a job like that - i have a resume'. until then, it's only rock and roll for me.

hey, thanks to everyone that came out to cosmic's the other night. for those of you who weren't there, you missed a fantastic show with justin law and jon reine. i had total blast and it was fun seeing some people from bluer and north central (lisa! sing with me sometime!). i spent a little time remixing some stuff this weekend, so i should have some updated tunes on the website when i have some time to upload them. oh, i started a new job this week and it's going great.

so i just saw the new star wars trailer. once again it comes down to the domination of the story by special effects. once again it comes down to a giant toy commercial. once again i get all excited about it. you'd think it would have worn off by now, but no, my star wars obsession still lives on. it appears that i no longer have free will and must send all my money to papa lucas so he can draw one more annoying sidekick next to the jedi and ruin the movies that defined my childhood and an entire generation of young boys. hello mr run-on sentence.

ignorant people (regardless of political party, creed, ethnicity) really tick me off.