the MARTINI SHAKER - Latest Comments

Re: My music boner.

Patchchord — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:45:29 -0000

You're talking to a guy that has 3 too many music degrees to be in advertising...

My music consumption has waxed and waned in terms of concerted effort and interest. I default to a lot of "comfort food" but have always enjoyed getting recos from friends and coworkers. Finding new music is a social experience...learning why it turns others on helps me understand my friends and acquaintances better.

We're a society built on reflex consumption (those damn advertisers!) but music is one of those sacred places where I try to buck that pressure.

Re: The squashed bug.

Ovidio — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:11:27 -0000

So if the probability of changing the past and rise a paradox when you travel is p=1 then your chances of traveling are q <= 1-p = 0
:)

Re: Does Sprint get the iPhone’s impact?

S. Aloway — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:24:59 -0000

I have been with sprint for 12 years now, the only reaseon I dont have this phone is because AT&T SUCK!!!!!! If Verizon get it before sprint, I love sprint but I am gone!

Re: In search of the perfect cocktail.

3rdmartini — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:51:41 -0000

Sounds interesting. My biggest challenge there is finding spare time to actually enjoy a cocktail outside of my home office.

Re: In search of the perfect cocktail.

Baxter — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:11:19 -0000

I gotta go have a cocktail with you some time.

Re: Spare me.

3rdmartini — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:02:09 -0000

I'm quite happy to say that Mr. Schimmel did NOT exhibit any of the bad habits that I ranted about above. I thought he did a fantastic job and that the event was one of the better ones we've had.

Re: Spare me.

InvisibleElement — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:40:40 -0000

Excellent, eloquent, and extremely well put!
I'm glad we're friends.

Re: Spare me.

twitter-38686988 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:04:12 -0000

I thoroughly enjoyed the last speaker I saw - and he fit your mold of expectations perfectly. Until reading this, I wasn't exactly sure why I enjoyed him so much. (Actually, I just assumed it had everything to do with how much fun he was to stare at for 60 minutes - handsome fellow). But I agree - It makes all the difference in the world when a speaker has clearly taken the time to consider the interests of his audience - not just his own.

Re: The pain.

3rdmartini — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:12:08 -0000

Yes, I get where you're coming from. I think that my problem is less about dwelling in the past and more about having little means to dwell in the now in a way that's conducive to creating more music. I have too many other creative demands eating away at my mindshare.

Re: The pain.

3rdmartini — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:09:25 -0000

Color me curious. What is it that you think might hurt?

Re: The pain.

guenterschenk — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:47:58 -0000

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...because the songs touched the visceral part of my cre ative core and said to me, “You could be doing this. You have done this before. Why can’t you do this again?”
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Your subconsciousness - here´s where creativity happens - is in fact a pretty simplistic part of your mind and can´t handle abstract stuff like past, present or future -- all it´s capable to realize is the here & now moment, and any attempts to try "taming" it by e.g. confronting it with what you "know" (e.g. a deliberate retrospection of what it was like in the past) are to no purpose, because this stuff is beyond the grasp of your subconsciousness as well.

I´ve been working as musician for 20+ years myself, and the conflict you´re describing that well is very familiar to me. What can I say ? In fact I stopped this career just because I realized that I can´t create something new by dwelling in the past. Well, this was a good decision after all, because nowadays I´m enjoying music and playing guitar much more than before -- assumingly because I´ve got rid of that "I need to recreate what I´ve done 15 years ago in order to..." self-inflicted burden.

Hope this makes sense ;-)

Re: The pain.

Hudson — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:08:27 -0000

I'm not so sure it's the creativity that hurts.

Re: The squashed bug.

andrewstrader — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:00:36 -0000

What can I say? I have thought about time travel a lot, for some reason.

Re: The squashed bug.

3rdmartini — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:26:33 -0000

I think that's the most serious comment/answer to a post that anyone's ever written on this site.

Re: The squashed bug.

andrewstrader — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:29:13 -0000

Very interesting. The alternative theory, of course, is that if you travel to the past, any influence you have will inexorably alter the course of events, so that you could never return to the future you once knew. Even disrupting a single atom can kill Schroedinger's cat. But the consistency problem is more likely to be resolved by the fact that real time travel would involve first travelling through space so fast and so far that you exit your own "light cone". Then any influence you have on "past" events wouldn't manifest themselves in your original light cone until after the space-time point that you left, thus preserving causality. For example, if you left Earth in the year 2000 and travelled to the year 1500, then you would have to end up in some location that was more than 500 light-years away from Earth. Even if you fired lasers at Earth from your new location, it would take them 500 years to get there, thus preventing any paradox such as you killing yourself with a laser two seconds before you departed in your time-travelling vehicle. This is in keeping with the apparent restriction of having to use black holes for time travel. You'd actually have to use two very large black holes (large enough that tidal forces wouldn't atomize you -- galactic nexi are good candidates). You would fly into the gravitational field of one black hole, accelerate beneath its event horizon, and sling shot yourself through hyperspace. Of course you'd have to aim directly for the event horizon of another, distant black hole, so you could slow yourself back down. Otherwise, you'd be trapped in the wrong inertial frame, unable to return to your own familiar space-time continuum. If you're lucky, you might permanently slingshot yourself into a parallel dimension, where events had taken a course more to your liking, even if they would have been paradoxical within your home matter-energy matrix. Oh, and did I mentioned that your space ship might have to be made of dark matter? Improbability engines would help with navigation too, but I don't know how those would work.

Re: The kick in the ass that you needed.

gregchristensen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:27:46 -0000

Thanks for the kind words. Glad to see you're also willing to pay it forward by sharing advice. Cheers.

Re: My first MP3 player.

twitter-14247536 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:35:44 -0000

Zing! http://instantrimshot.com/

Re: My first MP3 player.

3rdmartini — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:09:10 -0000

I was trying to wedge a Diamond Rio joke into the post somehow, and it just never felt natural. I'm glad someone's mind went in the same direction as mine.

In fact, I never could get the association out of my head when I first bought it. But, when I got yelled at for buying it I simply asked if we could just "Meet In The Middle."

Whew. I feel so much better now that I got that joke out.

Re: My first MP3 player.

twitter-14247536 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:47:37 -0000

I bey you kept a lot of Daimond Rio on your Diamond Rio... I would have.

Re: My first MP3 player.

christinafox — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:31:11 -0000

So much of your story made me smile...mainly the fact that you were the karaoke DJ at Georges! It's kinda fitting! Hope all is well for you and fam! Send my love!

Re: The kick in the ass that you needed.

Hudson — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:45:46 -0000

Solid.

Re: The original social networking site.

Coleman_sleeping_Bag — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:18:12 -0000

Great Video, I am going to add it to my website

Re: Back to basics.

3rdmartini — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:55:23 -0000

You're not really saying anything that he doesn't readily admit about himself. Well, maybe the liar part.

Re: Back to basics.

Tucker Max is a liar — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:33:56 -0000

Tucker Max is a liar and a douchebag.

Re: Smart Playlists be damned!

Michiel — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:32:05 -0000

I guess if the only thing to worry about is that one small aspect then it still can't be too bad. I must say on my phone I have a lot of tracks and I almost never have time to listen to anything!!! Hope you find a suitable solution!