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Why hello there fellow Oak City resident! Thanks for the follow!
Wonderful friends just started a free summer festival in Raleigh and they’re looking for staff… good music and amazing employers.Downtown Raleigh’s free concert series, Oak City 7, is staffing up for the summer season. Positions such as Greeters, I.D. Checkers, Bartenders, Barbacks, and more are available. Oak City 7 plans to fill over 30 part-time jobs for the summer season. Available positions, for the most part, are on event days only.
Those interested in part-time work at Oak City 7 should email Application@OakCity7.com to receive an application and details about the various positions available.
Oak City 7 kicks off May 31, 2012 in City Plaza on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh. Admission is free to the public and the events take place from 5pm to 9:30pm every other Thursday, beginning the Thursday after Memorial Day, and ending the Thursday before Labor Day. There will be seven shows total.
OC7 does not utilize any taxpayer money and is 100% sponsor driven.
The series will feature North Carolina music, Local and Craft Beers, and North Carolina food companies.
Oak City 7 sounds like fun. I might have to check it out!
Adam Horovitz of The Beastie Boys was recently interviewed regarding the passing of bandmate Adam Yauch. You can read the full interview here or a snippet of it below by clicking “Read More.”
My heart goes out to Adam Horovitz, and it was great that he was so honest and unrestrained in this interview. For me this was the best part:
How did you and Mike write with Yauch? Who did what?
When the shit hit the fan, after Licensed to Ill, we started having arguments: “I wrote 37 percent of this song.” “These 16 lines are mine.” We decided none of that mattered. From that day on, everything was split three ways. Whatever it was, whoever did what, we all got the credit. Except we had veto power. If you really hated something, you could be, “That can’t happen.”
I’ve spent too much time around musicians and bands lately (you don’t have to be a musician to be in a band, just trust me), and fortunately 95% of the bands I’ve observed run like this. Everything is split evenly, and no one is counting bars or notes for compensation. I even know of a couple of bands who threw out members who were NOT contributing creatively.
And then there are the other bands where ownership is not shared. Call a spade a spade. It’s not a band. It’s a brand (one or two people) surrounded by window dressing (backup musicians).
You want to know why The Beastie Boys and some other bands survived with their original lineup in tact for decades, while other bands can’t make it 5 years without a 75% turnover in members? The answer is ownership.
His mate was seriously injured after she was hit by a car as she swooped low across the road. He brought her food and tended to her with love and compassion.
He brought her food again but was shocked to find her dead. He then tried to move her….a rarely-seen effort for swallows. Aware that his mate is dead, he cries with adoring love. He stood beside her body with sadness and sorrow.
People cried after seeing these pictures when they were published in the leading newspaper in France. All copies of the paper were sold out on the day the pictures were released.
And many people think animals don’t have emotions.
(Source: missjulison, via khrushchevs-shoe)
mewithoutYou were recently interviewed about their new album and discussed how the material in it seems more secular than the band’s last few releases. You can read the full interview here or a snippet below by clicking “Read More.”
I like that this band is deviating from themes of “faith” on their next record. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to make music (or create anything) for yourself, and not for some higher cause. And yes, it does seem hypocritical to sing about humility and renouncing material things on a big stage with lights on you while you’re making money to sing the song.
This is 100% me.
(via infjconfessions)
The RIAA claims that file-sharing program LimeWire owes the association $72 trillion. Check out a full article here and a snippet of it below by clicking “Read More.”
Every time I read about the RIAA, that angry vein stands up in my forehead. Really? $72 TRILLION?
Yes to everything here.
That is all.
(Source: maincheese, via applezaira)
For the first time ever, I actually blocked someone that I considered a friend (at one point) on Facebook. He shared information from conversations (that did not occur on Facebook) both on Facebook and with his coworkers, and he shared a bunch of private conversations that he had (with date stamps and names) from an altercation with other people several months ago as part of a Facebook note.
The information he discussed with his coworkers bothered me, because he was talking about a friend of mine (specifically about her looks) that he has had absolutely no direct contact with on or offline, and the way he described his dialog with the coworkers was just damned creepy. Shortly after that happened, he decided to share a bit of information about my career plans on Facebook in a completely unrelated thread. Talking about my friend with strangers made me uncomfortable, but sharing details that could impact my career, my future employability, and my status at my current job is uncalled for.
I was dealing with his proclivity to over-share by distancing myself from him online, unsubscribing from his updates, and putting him in the Restricted list on Facebook. Today I decided to check on him, and I saw this long, elaborate Note he posted about that altercation he had several months ago before I met him. There were names and date stamps as well as actual dialog from Facebook chats, emails, and text messages. That’s just taking things too far.
What I read was way beyond just putting people on blast. It was vile.
Everyone shares a detail or two about their relationships with people outside of those relationships. Sometimes you need to vent, or you need to ask for advice, and you can’t always do that in hypotheticals. Sharing entire private conversations verbatim in a public forum on the web is an egregious breach of confidence. This is what convinced me to end my personal relationship with this person permanently, because anything that I say could later become available for public consumption. I can’t be friends with someone that I can’t trust.
I share a lot online, and sometimes I think I share too much. There are certain things that I will not share publicly (without permission), including text messages and chat dialogue. If you enter a one-on-one chat with someone or send them a text, it is inherently implied that the conversation is just between you and that other person. I shouldn’t feel compelled to start every conversation I have with someone by saying, “this is just between you and me.” This former friend is not a journalist. I should not have to indicate whether or not I am speaking off the record.
At any rate, I don’t think this incident warrants me tightening up on what I share with people on or offline. It does, however, compel me to keep a closer eye on the webscapades of people that I share personal information with, so that I can nip this kind of thing in the bud like I did today.
So for the first time since I got the flu back in April I’m breathing normally, and I’m only coughing sporadically. I’m really excited, because I can spend more time outdoors (when the pollen count isn’t out of control), and do more physical things without getting winded. I’ve gained about 5lbs just from being so sedentary from my breathing problems, and it’s a minor setback, but easily remedied.
While being able to breathe is wonderful, I managed to hurt my back, and I don’t know how I did it. It’s not a sharp pain, and it’s not in a very specific location. It’s just spread out over the middle of my lower back. It feels like a muscle strain, which is a lot better than the alternatives. Sitting and laying down are equally uncomfortable, so my sleep is suffering a bit, but I’m still getting plenty of rest. The good thing is that I can still go out and shoot shows and things as long as I don’t do too much squatting.
I’ve traded an inhaler for a capsaicin patch.
