All I Do Is Win (feat. T-Pain, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg & Rick Ross) – Single – DJ Khaled

Watch the video on YouTube

Check out more on their MySpace page.

The song of the week is brought to you by Michael Zampelli, former owner of Southern California punk rock icon, Zed Records. For almost 30 years, this mecca of punk and alternative music kept Southern California enthusiasts adequately supplied with unique, original and innovative music.

Currently, Zampelli manages a hockey fan message boards at www.letsgokings.com with thousands of subscribers. He takes photos for the LAist and the LA Derby Dolls. Each week he will contribute a song with a theme, a message and a beat. Enjoy and stay tuned.

:
:
Support Get Galvanized, Visit our Sponsor page.

If you spend more time on the internet than you do watching T.V.; if you get a major chunk of your media input from YouTube, you have no doubt heard of Internet sensation Antoine Dodson.

Dodson (up until recently) lived in the projects in Huntsville, Alabama called Lincoln Park. One night, while he was minding his own business hanging out on Facebook, he heard his sister scream. He ran to her room and saw her struggling with a bed intruder, a man who was trying to rape her. The rapist was scared away before he was able to carry out his sexual assault.

When news cameras arrived at Dodson’s doorstep, he was still angry, scared and worked up over the ordeal. He was very animated on camera and it was entertaining to watch. So entertaining that the Gregory Brothers, who are known for auto-tuning the news made a song of it and took it viral. At this point in time the Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder song has about 14.5 million views on YouTube. At one point, it was #3 on the iTunes popularity list.

Bed Intruder Song (Remix) (feat. Kelly Dodson) – Antoine Dodson

Today I heard a little bit of the story that put a twist on things for me. Dodson’s sister has a 2-year old daughter. The daughter is aware of the trauma and tragedy and she is scared. She is scared for herself and she’s scared for her mom.

I am currently teaching a class about Victimology at Long Beach City College and we talked about sexual abuse just last Thursday. We watched a video by Marilyn Van Derbur called “Once Can Hurt a Lifetime” and we talked about all the ways sexual abuse impacts the survivor. Here’s what we came up with (click on image to enlarge):

Despite all these known consequences for sexual assault survivors, resources to help people are a very low priority on our list at voting time. The impact of lack of funding is evidenced by the closure of Sexual Assault Crisis Agency in Long Beach. For those who need support with overcoming the impact of sexual assault, a good place to start is RAINN (Rape Abuse and Incest National Network).

In class we also talked about some of the ways abusers wield power and control over others. Here’s our list (click on image to enlarge):

We discussed how gaining personal power was a positive step to avoid falling prey to victimizers. If you want help to strengthen your mind, visit icreatehabits.com for a free hypnosis MP3 titled Create The Life You Want. Or, visit Start a Master Mind Group.com to find out how to use group energy to strengthen and improve yourself as a person.

The story begins on a Southern California afternoon when Chad Chronkite spots a wallet and a Blackberry in the middle of Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach. He stopped his truck, went into the middle of the street and retrieved the wallet and Blackberry. He looked through the contents of the wallet and found the passport, ID and credit cards that belonged to Scott Boras. He also found $2,300 cash.

There was never a doubt in Chronkite’s mind as to what he would do. He went the the Internet to try and figure out how to contact Boras. It was then that he realized he was holding the wallet of a multi-millionaire baseball tycoon. Without hesitation, he contacted Boras to make arrangements for him to get his wallet back, with all contents intact.

Along the way, he told a few friends the story. One of those friends was Michael Zampelli, the site administrator for a popular hockey-fan website, letsgokings.com. Zampelli posted Chad’s story on his site which created a buzz and got the attention of Press Telegram sports writer Doug Krikorian. The story was featured on the front page of the sports section Friday, August 20, it was also published on the web. A day later, Matt Coker blogged about it at OCWeekly.com.

Today, Sheri and Erin interviewed Chad Chronkite and he confirmed he was never offered a financial reward for his good deed. The surprising part of the story is, he didn’t want one. He just wanted to do the right thing. To hear the story in Chad Chronkite’s own words, check out today’s episode of The Sheri and Erin Show.

You’ll also hear from Manaj, a former male exotic dancer who is making a tell-all movie about the exotic dance industry and Linda Saito, a singer/songwriter extraordinaire who has appeared on stage with the inimitable Miles Davis and Ernie Washington (pianist for Billie Holiday).

You can subscribe to The Sheri and Erin Show in iTunes.
The Sheri and Erin Show-Get Gal Vanized | Blog Talk Radio Feed

—————
When you think about it, every creative group you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.

Do you have a creative project you want to complete? Do you want to find a purpose for your life?

If so, I invite you to come over to my brand new page called Start a Master Mind Group.com. I’m offering 4 freebies to get you started so you can get a sense of what the Master Mind is all about.

There’s nothing cool about holding back.

What are your influences? That’s what we talked about in Helping and Listening Skills this week. We came up with a great list and I liked it so much I took a picture of it.

I asked the students to tell me about the things that influence them. What do they value? Why do they do what they do; love what they love? This is the list they came up with:

Parents
Environment
-Friends
-Neighborhood
-Peers
-Religion
Culture
Schools
Food/Nutrition
Media
Mental Illness
Life Experience
-Observation
Socio-Economic Status ($$$)
Books
Music
Relationships
Friendships
Family
-Uncles
-Aunts
-Brothers
-Sisters
-etc.
Role Model
-Coach
-Minister
-Teacher
Law
Government
Health
Medication/Drugs
Language
Sleep
Fashion
Freedom
Travel
Pets
Sex
Arts
-Pictures
-Painting
-Dance
Entertainment
Perception

The point I want to make in this class is that you cannot know any of these things about yourself or anyone else unless you first learn how to listen.

A great Master Mind group is one that’s committed to honoring and respecting each other and that includes listening unconditionally and without judgment. It is honoring a person to trust that they know what’s best for their own life.

—————

When you think about it, every musical act you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.

Do you have a creative project you want to complete? Do you want to find a purpose for your life?

If so, I invite you to come over to my brand new page called Start a Master Mind Group.com. I’m offering 4 freebies to get you started so you can get a sense of what the Master Mind is all about.

There’s nothing cool about holding back.

Infinity – Guru Josh Project

Watch the video on YouTube

Check out more on their MySpace page.

The song of the week is brought to you by Michael Zampelli, former owner of Southern California punk rock icon, Zed Records. For almost 30 years, this mecca of punk and alternative music kept Southern California enthusiasts adequately supplied with unique, original and innovative music.

Currently, Zampelli manages a hockey fan message boards at www.letsgokings.com with thousands of subscribers. He takes photos for the LAist and the LA Derby Dolls. Each week he will contribute a song with a theme, a message and a beat. Enjoy and stay tuned.

:
:
Support Get Galvanized, Visit our Products page.

I took a ride on the Metro to Los Angeles on Saturday and did my first Pecha Kucha presentation at the L.A. Beyond Cars exhibit Downtown. But that is not the beginning or the end of the story.

Pecha Kucha is a 20×20 presentation style that originated in Japan as a way for architects to share project ideas efficiently. Basically you have 20 images that stay on the projector for 20 seconds each and your presentation is centered around these images.

I found out about Pecha Kucha in the Toastmasters magazine. I was intrigued by the idea so I went to the Pecha Kucha website. That intrigued me further. I decided I must do a Pecha Kucha so I contacted the representatives from Los Angeles and Orange County and expressed my interest in presenting at an upcoming event.

Mind you, I had never done a Pecha Kucha and the only experience I had of it was seeing a video on the internet. But my Toastmasters involvement has helped build my confidence to the point that I was able to take the plunge and trust that I could do it.

Nevertheless, I was nervous. Sure, I can now present comfortably to my fellow Agape Toastmasters and the students at Long Beach City College but I had never presented in Los Angeles and I had never presented a Pecha Kucha and I had no idea who would be in attendance, I only knew that there would probably be some architects and urban planners.

For example, James Rojas is the RailLA station design workshop co-chair and he was there. He’s the artist who developed a system of urban play with models. His work brings big smiles to children’s faces in urban neighborhoods when he shows up with his portable play shop. You can see his city made of Legos and hair curlers if you watch the video on YouTube.

I’m proud to say I showed up in Los Angeles and did my presentation. Though I will admit, I almost wanted to bail on it. In fact, I e-mailed the coordinator of the event just two days prior and told him I wasn’t sure if my images were going to work and I didn’t have time to fix them all. He assured me my images were probably fine and even offered to check them out for me.

I’ll be honest, I don’t know if I would have stuck to my guns if it hadn’t been for the fact that I told all my Master Mind partners and everyone at Agape Toastmasters that I was going to do this. I couldn’t bear the thought of showing up to see Ty and the Savvy Soul Sisters on Monday night only to tell them I cancelled my Pecha Kucha. It’s true, my ego couldn’t take a blow like that right now. So, I garnered my husband’s moral support and we got on the train together and took the ride to Los Angeles and my first Pecha Kucha.

Not only did I get my husband’s moral support, but I also got him to document the events of the journey on my FlipVideo camera. So, above is a little video montage of the adventure. You’ll see our trip on the Metro from Long Beach to Los Angeles, a little bit of the L.A. Beyond Cars exhibit and a portion of my Pecha Kucha, which included highlights from Long Beach Funk Fest and some of my fun times as a skater and Fresh Meat member of the L.A. Derby Dolls. Once I got my skate legs back (thanks to the Derby Dolls), I was able to be more adventurous about skating in my own neighborhood and at public events such as the Doo Dah Parade and the Long Beach Pride Parade.

In the beginning of the video you’ll see me driving in my car to the Beyond Cars exhibition but I was only in my car long enough to get to the Metro station in Long Beach where I would park my car and get on the train to Los Angeles. I enjoyed the trip, I hope you enjoy the video.

Don’t hold back.

*******

The event was put on by railla.org

The evening line up was:

Erik Alden

Paul Davis

Hong Joo Kim, a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Furthermore he is a has taught, lectured and critiqued at Harvard University, University of California at Irvine, University of Colorado at Denver, and Cal State San Luis Obispo.

Kristofer Laméy

Ron Milam works to transform Los Angeles into a sustainable city by facilitating effective meetings and raising needed funds for nonprofit organizations. Milam launched the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, growing the organization from an idea into a 1,000 member organization. Ron served on the Boards of Sustainable South Bronx and the Alliance for Biking and Walking, and currently serves as an LA Urban Ranger. He talked about the growing bike movement in LA and how it will help fuel an “LA Beyond Cars”, especially if its integrated into investments made into high speed and local rail transportation.

James Rojas, an urban planner who devotes a lot of his time to translating the impenetrable maps and language of land use planning into a activities that are visual, tactile, and playful — the language of how we actually experience the world. His goal is to create environments that elicit ordinary people’s ideas and solutions to urban problems.

Noemi Selisker, an official resident of New Zealand where she’s managed to change life paths, reduce her carbon footprint all by house sitting in other people’s home. It all started as a fluke but has now become a way of life.

Zane Tatum

Sheri Zampelli – (That’s me) College instructor at Long Beach City College, member of Agape Toastmasters, former therapist providing in-home counseling for foster youth living in Los Angeles County, coordinator for Choices, an after-school program for at-risk girls. Author of From Sabotage to Success and Donate Your Weight. I believe cooperative and community-oriented solutions are necessary when trying to effectively improve service to a diverse city like Los Angeles.

———-

When you think about it, every creative group you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.

Do you have a creative project you want to complete? Do you want to find a purpose for your life?

If so, I invite you to come over to my brand new page called Start a Master Mind Group.com. I’m offering 4 freebies to get you started so you can get a sense of what the Master Mind is all about.

There’s nothing cool about holding back.

Ethel’s mission is to teach all girls and women about the pleasure awaiting them in their clitoris. The Sheri and Erin Show is all about enjoying life to the fullest. Since sex is something that’s on everyone’s mind…whether they’re having any or not, we decided it’s time to talk about it frankly and honestly and that’s exactly what we did.

So, if you want to know how to experience more pleasure in life, whether you’re having sex or not, you’ll want to listen to this show over and over again until you can wake up to the fact that life is here for you to enjoy it, not to suffer through it.

Leave comments here or come and join The Sheri and Erin Show Facebook page.

———-

When you think about it, every musical act you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.

Do you have a creative project you want to complete? Do you want to find a purpose for your life?

If so, I invite you to come over to my brand new page called Start a Master Mind Group.com. I’m offering 4 freebies to get you started so you can get a sense of what the Master Mind is all about.

There’s nothing cool about holding back.

I was driving down PCH on Sunday, listening to some vintage tunes and remembering the “good old days” when all I needed to be happy was music and a drive in the car. In fact, I actually relived the feeling and felt appreciation for the fact that I live in Southern California. I decided to capture my summer drive down PCH on video for a few reasons.

One is: at this time there is no Devo Blockhead video except a few live videos with poor quality and one with just a picture of the album cover. The other is, I figured, “hey, I’m not the only teenager from the ’80s who cruised up and down PCH in the summer listening to things like Devo, maybe someone else will want to remember the feeling with me.”

PCH has changed so much since 1983, in fact, everything has. I have found that I can be happy if I accept and appreciate the changes or I can be miserable and uptight thinking that things should be different. On this Sunday, I just decided to go with the flow and make the best of my ride. If you need a little mental get-away, this video might help. By the way, post a comment if you’re one of those people who is soothed by getting in the car, listening to music and driving along the coast. Beep Beep.

Duty Now for the Future (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered] – Devo

When you think about it, every musical act you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.

Do you have a creative project you want to complete? Do you want to find a purpose for your life?

If so, I invite you to come over to my brand new page called Start a Master Mind Group.com. I’m offering 4 freebies to get you started so you can get a sense of what the Master Mind is all about.

There’s nothing cool about holding back.

The Flaming Lips have recently covered the entire Dark Side of the Moon record by Pink Floyd. Here is their rendition of Breathe.

The Dark Side of the Moon – The Flaming Lips

Watch the video on YouTube

Check out more on their MySpace page.

The song of the week is brought to you by Michael Zampelli, former owner of Southern California punk rock icon, Zed Records. For almost 30 years, this mecca of punk and alternative music kept Southern California enthusiasts adequately supplied with unique, original and innovative music.

Currently, Zampelli manages a hockey fan message boards at www.letsgokings.com with thousands of subscribers. He takes photos for the LAist and the LA Derby Dolls. Each week he will contribute a song with a theme, a message and a beat. Enjoy and stay tuned.

:
:
Support Get Galvanized, Visit our Products page.

You can buy it or preview it on iTunes now.

Hey Girl/Liar Liar – The Living Dead Beats

Other members of The Living Deadbeats include London-born, Pete Fiend (previously the lead singer for legendary ’80s powerpoppers The FINKS) on Bass/vox, Dirty Swagger – Guitar/vox; and 19-year-old female drummer, Nadja. Band influences include Stooges, Cramps, The Gits, Jawbreaker, Detroit Cobras and X.

Here’s a video of The Living Deadbeats performing Hey Girl / Liar Liar in a parking lot.

You can buy it on iTunes now.

Hey Girl/Liar Liar – The Living Dead Beats

The band is from Vancouver, Canada and will be having a release party in Vancouver on Aug. 21 at The New Brandiz Pub. The Living Deadbeats will open for L.A.’s Woolly Bandits in Vancouver on September 11.

See more pics and stuff about The Living Deadbeats at The Living Dead Beats MySpace page.

——————–

When you think about it, every musical act you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.

Do you have a creative project you want to complete? Do you want to find a purpose for your life?

If so, I invite you to come over to my brand new page called Start a Master Mind Group.com. I’m offering 4 freebies to get you started so you can get a sense of what the Master Mind is all about.

There’s nothing cool about holding back.