The mystery behind the obvious
To me it’s already obvious that only a percentage of you will like what I have to say. Obviously some of you are thumbing through looking at pictures. Obviously the first two sentence’s didn’t annoy enough of you for me to announce myself as the MOST IGNORED AUTHOR of OUR TIME. The one thing that’s never obvious is the in your face and to the point fact that the obvious eludes us.
How many times have you watched someone twist the lid off of a carbonated beverage only to have it explode in a furious and white foamy superfast moving liquid glue, after you watched them knock it on its side only seconds before? When the obvious eludes you this type of response is what you can expect. It’s always fast, negative, and usually preventable.
Now I’m going to move a little deeper into the realm of the obvious, and I’m going to dig into the subject of the local venue. With the local venue comes the local talent, vying for your attention, not for popularity, not for recognition, but usually because they know they have a knack for making something people enjoy, and are hoping you’ll be the next to come by, look, listen, or taste that funky thing they do. Looking for a new fan? They are. Looking to make their mark? Sure they are. Is it selfish in nature? From all of them I’ve met or talked to, it is not. The obvious point missed when we talked about the creative minds that surround us is that they do it because they are good at it, and along the way they want to make a large group happy doing it. Obviously this is self -serving, but the missed obvious is that these musicians, artists, photographers, and chefs are also big time people pleasers, very unselfish in nature if you were to ask me. They give so much away just to get you to buy into what they do, that in the end they break even, or worse, paid you to like them.
Wichita has never bred a supportive base of people. This is obvious when you look at ticket sales of local sports teams during a season which they struggle with being competitive. People in Wichita only want to watch winners, and will stay away from any group that actually needs their support. With the creative minded, they never lose, and they never win, they just get out there and do. In my eye’s they are doing so against the odds. Even though Wichita is becoming more supportive, it has to scary just putting yourself out there like that. Obviously I’ve never done it so the thrill eludes me at this time.
Some obvious and wise choices in Wichita is it’s within its music scene. Yeah I know, Wichita and music scene in the same sentence. Weird. I’m a metal, rock, kind of guy so this is a biased list. Skrapyard, Manteum, Dead Friend Walking, Caged Hollow, The III’s, Widows Arm, Kingshifter, and it has become obvious to me that I will run out of space if I list them all. Go ask Alice really satisfies my limited hip-hop tastes.
You want to see some really good photo’s? I’m talking good enough to hang on the wall of your home or office. Check out Darrin Hackney here in Wichita. A master of his craft, this guy can take a picture of the food he’s getting ready to eat, and you will smell it. His picture of the downtown store fronts reflecting back at the lens via flood waters is something that is obviously worthy of wall space. If you’re closer to, or for some reason have to be in Oklahoma, check out Dakota Lee. A very new name to me (two weeks) this woman impressed me instantly.
Like art? Obviously everyone does in some way. There are people that literally put art on your belongings or even on your person, embedding ink at the perfect level under your skin so that it never washes off. Dennis McPhail needs no plugging, and has become the obvious choice for many. Want something painted on a tank or an eye patch check out Aleycia Crawford. Aleycia Eye Candy as she calls herself, also does a mind blowing photo session that my description would do no justice.
Or you may enjoy to sit around the laptop watching people hurting themselves and others, or would rather view something slightly obscene, Nerdrage by Proxy has some stuff on YouTube that will make you feel dirty inside, http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.subgenrestudios.com%2F&h=iAQHoF_EE is the link to check out to find those that condone such video offenses.
If you like to hear that which is already familiar to you, Wolfgang does covers of all that we grew up on and they do STYX. Who does STYX? Wolfgang does, and a member of Wolfgang whom we’ll call Neal (that’s what all the chics on Facebook call him)is a cut up that will surely keep you entertained .
Like chocolate? Who doesn’t? If you know someone that doesn’t a shot to the head or heart should take out that worthless example of the walking dead. Chocolate is the equivalent of human sexuality, and no one makes lusting after something better than Beth Tully and her crew at Cocoa Dolce. I think about that place at least once a week. I haven’t been there in months, but that place is always on my mind. Infusions, out of this world flavor combos, yada, yada, yada, etc. etc. I’m going crazy writing this. Beth and her gang of chocolate experts ruined the idea of chocolate being from Pennsylvania. It comes from East Wichita and no one will ever tell me different.
Obviously the point I’m making is get out there and seek out the talent around you. You live with these people day to day, be supportive. What’s not obvious is my need to use the word “obvious” and I’ll say it this way, I’m not as creative minded as those I speak of. Obviously I need something to set my creative spark into fire. Otherwise the words elude me and I’m left with a page of meaningless letters jumbled together in code that even the author himself can’t decipher. Wait, now that I think about it, I bet that is exactly how all these awesome people that create do it.
6/14/12
To me it’s already obvious that only a percentage of you will like what I have to say. Obviously some of you are thumbing through looking at pictures. Obviously the first two sentence’s didn’t annoy enough of you for me to announce myself as the MOST IGNORED AUTHOR of OUR TIME. The one thing that’s never obvious is the in your face and to the point fact that the obvious eludes us.
How many times have you watched someone twist the lid off of a carbonated beverage only to have it explode in a furious and white foamy superfast moving liquid glue, after you watched them knock it on its side only seconds before? When the obvious eludes you this type of response is what you can expect. It’s always fast, negative, and usually preventable.
Now I’m going to move a little deeper into the realm of the obvious, and I’m going to dig into the subject of the local venue. With the local venue comes the local talent, vying for your attention, not for popularity, not for recognition, but usually because they know they have a knack for making something people enjoy, and are hoping you’ll be the next to come by, look, listen, or taste that funky thing they do. Looking for a new fan? They are. Looking to make their mark? Sure they are. Is it selfish in nature? From all of them I’ve met or talked to, it is not. The obvious point missed when we talked about the creative minds that surround us is that they do it because they are good at it, and along the way they want to make a large group happy doing it. Obviously this is self -serving, but the missed obvious is that these musicians, artists, photographers, and chefs are also big time people pleasers, very unselfish in nature if you were to ask me. They give so much away just to get you to buy into what they do, that in the end they break even, or worse, paid you to like them.
Wichita has never bred a supportive base of people. This is obvious when you look at ticket sales of local sports teams during a season which they struggle with being competitive. People in Wichita only want to watch winners, and will stay away from any group that actually needs their support. With the creative minded, they never lose, and they never win, they just get out there and do. In my eye’s they are doing so against the odds. Even though Wichita is becoming more supportive, it has to scary just putting yourself out there like that. Obviously I’ve never done it so the thrill eludes me at this time.
Some obvious and wise choices in Wichita is it’s within its music scene. Yeah I know, Wichita and music scene in the same sentence. Weird. I’m a metal, rock, kind of guy so this is a biased list. Skrapyard, Manteum, Dead Friend Walking, Caged Hollow, The III’s, Widows Arm, Kingshifter, and it has become obvious to me that I will run out of space if I list them all. Go ask Alice really satisfies my limited hip-hop tastes.
You want to see some really good photo’s? I’m talking good enough to hang on the wall of your home or office. Check out Darrin Hackney here in Wichita. A master of his craft, this guy can take a picture of the food he’s getting ready to eat, and you will smell it. His picture of the downtown store fronts reflecting back at the lens via flood waters is something that is obviously worthy of wall space. If you’re closer to, or for some reason have to be in Oklahoma, check out Dakota Lee. A very new name to me (two weeks) this woman impressed me instantly.
Like art? Obviously everyone does in some way. There are people that literally put art on your belongings or even on your person, embedding ink at the perfect level under your skin so that it never washes off. Dennis McPhail needs no plugging, and has become the obvious choice for many. Want something painted on a tank or an eye patch check out Aleycia Crawford. Aleycia Eye Candy as she calls herself, also does a mind blowing photo session that my description would do no justice.
Or you may enjoy to sit around the laptop watching people hurting themselves and others, or would rather view something slightly obscene, Nerdrage by Proxy has some stuff on YouTube that will make you feel dirty inside, http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.subgenrestudios.com%2F&h=iAQHoF_EE is the link to check out to find those that condone such video offenses.
If you like to hear that which is already familiar to you, Wolfgang does covers of all that we grew up on and they do STYX. Who does STYX? Wolfgang does, and a member of Wolfgang whom we’ll call Neal (that’s what all the chics on Facebook call him)is a cut up that will surely keep you entertained .
Like chocolate? Who doesn’t? If you know someone that doesn’t a shot to the head or heart should take out that worthless example of the walking dead. Chocolate is the equivalent of human sexuality, and no one makes lusting after something better than Beth Tully and her crew at Cocoa Dolce. I think about that place at least once a week. I haven’t been there in months, but that place is always on my mind. Infusions, out of this world flavor combos, yada, yada, yada, etc. etc. I’m going crazy writing this. Beth and her gang of chocolate experts ruined the idea of chocolate being from Pennsylvania. It comes from East Wichita and no one will ever tell me different.
Obviously the point I’m making is get out there and seek out the talent around you. You live with these people day to day, be supportive. What’s not obvious is my need to use the word “obvious” and I’ll say it this way, I’m not as creative minded as those I speak of. Obviously I need something to set my creative spark into fire. Otherwise the words elude me and I’m left with a page of meaningless letters jumbled together in code that even the author himself can’t decipher. Wait, now that I think about it, I bet that is exactly how all these awesome people that create do it.
6/14/12
I'm Not Jordan or Farve
The prospect of retiring only to go right back to work in a couple of years or less has in my eyes is always a display of poor judgement and a lack of timing.
When I took the early retirement offered to me about twenty years ago I knew the lack of benefits would get to me. You see retiring early from mall shopping with your wife is a refreshing second chance in life to be happy. Sure you're going to lose a lot of the benefits such as picking out your own clothes, checking out the honey's that are always ten years older than you or a guilt inducing ten to fifteen years younger, plus you lose the brownie points that are allotted from the time spent with the wife. WORTH IT!! Stick around for details on how to nail yourself this same program that will buy you time to brush up that new song, or give you that solo time that you'll never be able to account for. Why are you keeping it a secret?(you may have your reasons for keeping it on the down low for which we appreciate).
Well after twenty years I broke down and ended my retirement, and honestly I never thought I could hit the ground running the way I did. I was helpful and insightful. I paid attention when asked "Does this look okay?" I retrieved the right sizes when she went in to the room of mirrors and disappointment with the wrong stuff, and made her laugh through the whole trip. Actually had a good time, but just like the Jordan's and Farve's of that world, I'm regretfully announcing my return to retirement. Not an easy choice by any means after all I learned stuff, and I like stuff.
First of all I'm good at shopping with a woman and didn't know that until today. Hell of a way to end a career, finding out your specialty the same day decide to go back in to a resting posture at the mention of clothes and shoes.
Always looking for ways to make money, today inspired a plan to profit from the needs of other women that have husbands that will not shop with them. I will for a small fee I can escort these women on their hunt for the perfect assemble, I will give them thumbs up on those good picks and shake the brain case left and right if something doesn't accentuate the curves in a flattering manner. I will even be willing to enter the dressing room with them as the sort through the various summer sweaters, and high waters. This will be on a sliding scale based on nature and how well she is disciplined in the art of hygiene.
A few things I witnessed or observations and thoughts that came to mind.
1. Shopping for myself was harder than I thought. I should of invited my Vietnamese buddy who I'll call Tram.(That's what his family calls him) Tram would of slapped a shorts and shirt combo together that would of looked awesome plus he would of done it at the first stop.
2. I have never looked at a pair of dress pants and thought "If I cut those off at the knee they would make kick@!! shorts." Some one did though.
3. After viewing 478 pairs of sandals my wife finally found the pair that brought on a feeling of joy that has been missing from her life.
She even rejected the KISS styled pair with the three inch rise with pewter skulls that nestled between the toes.WTF!?
4. If debating yourself whether to get tools or clothes remember this You Can't Fix Anything Without Tools, But If You Have The Right Tools You Can Fix Anything Naked. That one I'm keeping for myself.
5. At last my biggest contribution to you, the plan that will insure you get OFFERED early retirement from shopping. Willingness to state your opinion and refraining for whining and moaning will always entice them to drag you out to participate.
The prospect of retiring only to go right back to work in a couple of years or less has in my eyes is always a display of poor judgement and a lack of timing.
When I took the early retirement offered to me about twenty years ago I knew the lack of benefits would get to me. You see retiring early from mall shopping with your wife is a refreshing second chance in life to be happy. Sure you're going to lose a lot of the benefits such as picking out your own clothes, checking out the honey's that are always ten years older than you or a guilt inducing ten to fifteen years younger, plus you lose the brownie points that are allotted from the time spent with the wife. WORTH IT!! Stick around for details on how to nail yourself this same program that will buy you time to brush up that new song, or give you that solo time that you'll never be able to account for. Why are you keeping it a secret?(you may have your reasons for keeping it on the down low for which we appreciate).
Well after twenty years I broke down and ended my retirement, and honestly I never thought I could hit the ground running the way I did. I was helpful and insightful. I paid attention when asked "Does this look okay?" I retrieved the right sizes when she went in to the room of mirrors and disappointment with the wrong stuff, and made her laugh through the whole trip. Actually had a good time, but just like the Jordan's and Farve's of that world, I'm regretfully announcing my return to retirement. Not an easy choice by any means after all I learned stuff, and I like stuff.
First of all I'm good at shopping with a woman and didn't know that until today. Hell of a way to end a career, finding out your specialty the same day decide to go back in to a resting posture at the mention of clothes and shoes.
Always looking for ways to make money, today inspired a plan to profit from the needs of other women that have husbands that will not shop with them. I will for a small fee I can escort these women on their hunt for the perfect assemble, I will give them thumbs up on those good picks and shake the brain case left and right if something doesn't accentuate the curves in a flattering manner. I will even be willing to enter the dressing room with them as the sort through the various summer sweaters, and high waters. This will be on a sliding scale based on nature and how well she is disciplined in the art of hygiene.
A few things I witnessed or observations and thoughts that came to mind.
1. Shopping for myself was harder than I thought. I should of invited my Vietnamese buddy who I'll call Tram.(That's what his family calls him) Tram would of slapped a shorts and shirt combo together that would of looked awesome plus he would of done it at the first stop.
2. I have never looked at a pair of dress pants and thought "If I cut those off at the knee they would make kick@!! shorts." Some one did though.
3. After viewing 478 pairs of sandals my wife finally found the pair that brought on a feeling of joy that has been missing from her life.
She even rejected the KISS styled pair with the three inch rise with pewter skulls that nestled between the toes.WTF!?
4. If debating yourself whether to get tools or clothes remember this You Can't Fix Anything Without Tools, But If You Have The Right Tools You Can Fix Anything Naked. That one I'm keeping for myself.
5. At last my biggest contribution to you, the plan that will insure you get OFFERED early retirement from shopping. Willingness to state your opinion and refraining for whining and moaning will always entice them to drag you out to participate.