After yesterday's gas violation, I went to this website called 1osange1esgaspr1ces to find out if there are any cheaper stations near my place. The cheapest gas is about 30 cents/gal cheaper than what I paid yesterday... which seems like a lot until you really think about it. For 10-11 gallons, it really only adds up to saving about $3, which means that I would still end up paying $50 for gas, which is still ridiculous.
I used to scour my neighborhood for the lowest priced station, but finding a station where you only pay $50 instead of $53 is still highway robbery. I'd rather take those 5 minutes doing something worthwhile...
On that note, minsoo and I talked about blogging everyday (minus traveling weekends) in solidarity with hannah, who is studying hard for the bar exam. While blogging does nothing to help her with bar classes, we think it might be a good temporary distraction. I don't promise that every day will be interesting, but I do promise that there will be something on this page everyday (minus traveling weekends) until Hannah opens up a can of whoop ass on the bar exam.
6/11/2008
6/10/2008
Obligatory gas prices suck post
I waited until I was running on fumes before I filled up gas. I drive a civic ex. I paid $53.27 for a tank of gas this morning. Yikes.
6/09/2008
book therapy
I had a horrible day, which turned around when I entered the bookstore this evening and saw Dav1dSedar1s' new book! MeTa1kPretty1Day (one of his older books) is the most hilarious book I have ever read and one of my favorite books. I highly recommend it.
Being at the bookstore reminded me of how I once wanted to be a librarian. I'm not kidding. Did you know that you have to have a master's degree in library sciences to be a librarian? I think I would be a rad librarian. I think I'd like to work in the map collections or the electronic data section. If I worked as a librarian, then maybe I could be the coolest person at my workplace (like someone I know). Boo-yeah.
Being at the bookstore reminded me of how I once wanted to be a librarian. I'm not kidding. Did you know that you have to have a master's degree in library sciences to be a librarian? I think I would be a rad librarian. I think I'd like to work in the map collections or the electronic data section. If I worked as a librarian, then maybe I could be the coolest person at my workplace (like someone I know). Boo-yeah.
6/05/2008
our small group is a bad influence
Minsoo & I are in a married couples small group at church. Even though a "married couples" group sounds horribly boring and straight out of a scene from bridgetj's diary ("smug marrieds"), the group rocks my face off because the people are all cool and normal. Anyway, I digress. Our group met up for dinner last night at a Mexican restaurant instead of bible study. We were told that a new couple was going to join us to check out our group so we were told by the couple that organizes our group to "be on our best behavior."
We ordered margaritas and coronas while we waited for the new couple and looked at the menus. When they arrived, I was thinking to myself, wow they look young. They were actually not married, but very recently engaged -- and recent college graduates. Oh man.
So I think they were surprised at the fact that we're all oldies (last night I was the youngest person) but also that we were drinking (gasp, Christians drinking!). I'm sure that since they're recently graduated but getting married that they might be a tad bit more conservative than the rest of us.
I'm not sure if they're going to be joining us regularly and honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about having such a young engaged couple joining us. I think we might be a bad influence on them. I would also hate to scare the girl with stories of what married like is really like. She still has that "I found a guy who makes my heart sparkle" look. (Hannah, that reference was for you.)
We ordered margaritas and coronas while we waited for the new couple and looked at the menus. When they arrived, I was thinking to myself, wow they look young. They were actually not married, but very recently engaged -- and recent college graduates. Oh man.
So I think they were surprised at the fact that we're all oldies (last night I was the youngest person) but also that we were drinking (gasp, Christians drinking!). I'm sure that since they're recently graduated but getting married that they might be a tad bit more conservative than the rest of us.
I'm not sure if they're going to be joining us regularly and honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about having such a young engaged couple joining us. I think we might be a bad influence on them. I would also hate to scare the girl with stories of what married like is really like. She still has that "I found a guy who makes my heart sparkle" look. (Hannah, that reference was for you.)
6/02/2008
fun photos
Instead of a deep post about tv, my job or our crazy neighbors, here are some fun photos...
The NU crew
The sisters:
Fun times.
It's minsoo's 30th!
The NU crew
The sisters:
Fun times.
5/19/2008
not profound, just a blog
When I sit down to blog, I usually have several things running around in my head that I want to write down. For example right now I'm thinking about the people in the area near Chengdu and feeling sad, the great weekend I had in the bay area, and trying to hold my breath because minsoo's farts have permeated every inch of the apartment.
Today I will talk about how I need to get a new cell phone. Apparently instead of text messages, I've been sending picture messages to people. When I called the phone company the tech people told me that this problems is common to my phone model... they also told me my warranty ran out last month. How convenient. So in the meantime, no text messaging. Normally, I would just ignore this broken feature but my coworkers have started texting me instead of calling me so I need to have an operational text messaging feature. Ah, this is such a boring post.
I think I've decided that we need to have parties more often. It seems as though people enjoy our shindigs and fun times are always had by all. I also like the parties because our bay area party crew represents.
I also appreciate our friends who post pics of their kids from far away (yes, you know who you are). I love seeing how they grow and getting to know them even if I can't be a proper auntie. Yay, keep doing it! I love it!
I'll end this post now. I think I'm going to have to tell a certain someone that farts mean it's time to poo.
Today I will talk about how I need to get a new cell phone. Apparently instead of text messages, I've been sending picture messages to people. When I called the phone company the tech people told me that this problems is common to my phone model... they also told me my warranty ran out last month. How convenient. So in the meantime, no text messaging. Normally, I would just ignore this broken feature but my coworkers have started texting me instead of calling me so I need to have an operational text messaging feature. Ah, this is such a boring post.
I think I've decided that we need to have parties more often. It seems as though people enjoy our shindigs and fun times are always had by all. I also like the parties because our bay area party crew represents.
I also appreciate our friends who post pics of their kids from far away (yes, you know who you are). I love seeing how they grow and getting to know them even if I can't be a proper auntie. Yay, keep doing it! I love it!
I'll end this post now. I think I'm going to have to tell a certain someone that farts mean it's time to poo.
5/13/2008
5/04/2008
no... sleep... 'till brooklyn?
This weekend was all about the LA APA film fest... saw some really excellent films and some semi-well known Asian celebrities. Don't worry, I played it cool.
I'm headed out to Baltimore this week to hang out with McNu1ty and Bunk and duff at charm city cakes*... Okay, okay, I'm going there for a conference. I don't even think I'll get to see the city at all. Boo.
I also have to get ready for minsoo's big b-day bash. Yes, 30! A lot of the San Jose crew are going to be hanging out so I have to get my apartment ready for a massive sleep over.
I'm tired just thinking about this week. I thought that April was hellish, but think I also overbooked myself for May. Oops. It turns out that every weekend this month is completely booked with events (birthday/graduation/wedding/film festival) and every week is booked with work deadlines. June doesn't look any clearer.
So far this year, I think sleeping is optional. If the past 4 months are any indication, I'm going to party like a rock star and work like a dog as I head into my 30s. Bring it on.
*For those of you who don't watch an obscene amount of tv, McNu1ty and Bunk are from thew1re and duff is from ace0fcakes on the f00dnetw0rk.
I'm headed out to Baltimore this week to hang out with McNu1ty and Bunk and duff at charm city cakes*... Okay, okay, I'm going there for a conference. I don't even think I'll get to see the city at all. Boo.
I also have to get ready for minsoo's big b-day bash. Yes, 30! A lot of the San Jose crew are going to be hanging out so I have to get my apartment ready for a massive sleep over.
I'm tired just thinking about this week. I thought that April was hellish, but think I also overbooked myself for May. Oops. It turns out that every weekend this month is completely booked with events (birthday/graduation/wedding/film festival) and every week is booked with work deadlines. June doesn't look any clearer.
So far this year, I think sleeping is optional. If the past 4 months are any indication, I'm going to party like a rock star and work like a dog as I head into my 30s. Bring it on.
*For those of you who don't watch an obscene amount of tv, McNu1ty and Bunk are from thew1re and duff is from ace0fcakes on the f00dnetw0rk.
4/28/2008
i think they're stalking me
I'm a part of the "count" team at church, which means that we count the offering at the end of service. After the offering is collected, we count it up in the attic/projection room above the cafeteria (we meet in a high school).
Last Sunday, when I was up in the attic counting with another girl, something flew onto my shoulder while I was counting. I brushed it away but it fell onto my sweater by my waist so I took another swat at it. While I was swatting it off my body I noticed that the thing that I was swatting off my body was a GIGANTIC COCKROACH. You know, the brown ones with the big shell... probably a cousin of the one that was in our apartment. FOUL.
I started screaming and so did the girl that I was with. We were scrambling around this 10x10 room screaming, all the while, the band is downstairs and everyone's singing and the roach is crawling around, taunting us. The money is just laying out on the table, meanwhile we were scrambling around the room trying to figure out what to do. I finally ran down the stairs and got our security guard to come up and kill it.
By this time, we were sweating (it was lik 90 degrees) and so exhausted that I hope we counted the offering correctly.
Now I'm wondering whether I have some kind of smell that attracts roaches... or whether they are drawn to the smell of fear.
Last Sunday, when I was up in the attic counting with another girl, something flew onto my shoulder while I was counting. I brushed it away but it fell onto my sweater by my waist so I took another swat at it. While I was swatting it off my body I noticed that the thing that I was swatting off my body was a GIGANTIC COCKROACH. You know, the brown ones with the big shell... probably a cousin of the one that was in our apartment. FOUL.
I started screaming and so did the girl that I was with. We were scrambling around this 10x10 room screaming, all the while, the band is downstairs and everyone's singing and the roach is crawling around, taunting us. The money is just laying out on the table, meanwhile we were scrambling around the room trying to figure out what to do. I finally ran down the stairs and got our security guard to come up and kill it.
By this time, we were sweating (it was lik 90 degrees) and so exhausted that I hope we counted the offering correctly.
Now I'm wondering whether I have some kind of smell that attracts roaches... or whether they are drawn to the smell of fear.
4/24/2008
the gr0ve: horrible and at the same time, not so bad...
I always take my out-of-town guests to the Gr0ve, but I really hate it because it's so LA (i.e. bad parking, trendy people make me feel ugly, too crowded, too expensive, too etc.)
It's funny that it takes a writer from NY times to describe exactly how I feel about this faux downtown mall thingie:
THE first time you go to the Grove, the immensely successful and completely fabricated commercial center in Los Angeles, you will try to hate it. But then you will watch the old-fashioned trolley passing by, or the dancing fountain as it splurts jovially to the cadence of a Sinatra song, and you will drop your snobby urban integrity and walk around consuming things in a mouth-breathing stupor just like everyone else...
The Grove is everything that is horrible and spectacular about our brand-saturated American lives. It’s a living version of every pretentious theory you may have read back in grad school: a facsimile of a space, a scripted zone, a generic city, a vituperative quote by Baudrillard or Deleuze. But it’s also totally great!
I think the fact that the writer speaks to a lot of things we talk about in urban planning really got to me.
Damn you gr0ve, how do you do it?
It's funny that it takes a writer from NY times to describe exactly how I feel about this faux downtown mall thingie:
THE first time you go to the Grove, the immensely successful and completely fabricated commercial center in Los Angeles, you will try to hate it. But then you will watch the old-fashioned trolley passing by, or the dancing fountain as it splurts jovially to the cadence of a Sinatra song, and you will drop your snobby urban integrity and walk around consuming things in a mouth-breathing stupor just like everyone else...
The Grove is everything that is horrible and spectacular about our brand-saturated American lives. It’s a living version of every pretentious theory you may have read back in grad school: a facsimile of a space, a scripted zone, a generic city, a vituperative quote by Baudrillard or Deleuze. But it’s also totally great!
I think the fact that the writer speaks to a lot of things we talk about in urban planning really got to me.
Damn you gr0ve, how do you do it?
4/21/2008
glug glug glug
That is the sound of me drowning in my work. All I have been doing lately is working, eating, dealing with cockroaches and sleeping -- in that order.
I'm starting to enter into the work stage when I'm asking myself: Do I still want to work here?
My boss is pregnant and leaving in a month. When she returns, she's being promoted. I, however, am not. Unfortunately not being promoted does not mean that I don't get more work. Most of her current projects are going to become mine. Boo.
Unfortunately, I really like the work my organization does, I just don't like the work that I am having to do now and the situation that I'm in now. I've been so burnt out in other jobs that I really want to prevent me from getting in the same situation....glug glug glug...
I'm starting to enter into the work stage when I'm asking myself: Do I still want to work here?
My boss is pregnant and leaving in a month. When she returns, she's being promoted. I, however, am not. Unfortunately not being promoted does not mean that I don't get more work. Most of her current projects are going to become mine. Boo.
Unfortunately, I really like the work my organization does, I just don't like the work that I am having to do now and the situation that I'm in now. I've been so burnt out in other jobs that I really want to prevent me from getting in the same situation....glug glug glug...
4/12/2008
cockroach terror
Last night I dropped Minsoo off at the airport for a flight to NYC and then returned home to find a BIG ASS Cockroach on my kitchen counter. It was one of those large brown ones with scaley brown backs and long antennae.
I was horrified because I was all alone, plus I was already exhausted from a really busy week and stressed out about speaking at a large work event today. I felt like it was some sort of spiritual battle. I called Minsoo but realized that I was all by myself.
So I called the friend that lives the closest to us: Nakji. Faithful friend Nakji was unable to killed the creature, but sprayed the area to keep it on its toes.
Last night, I was so exhaused that after Nakji left, I became totally hysterical. I closed the door to my bedroom and put a towel up against the bottom in case the beast wanted to come after me. I text messaged Hannah in desperation:
Huge roach loose in apt
minsoo on plane to nyc
barricaded in rm
cant sleep
big speaking thing tomorrow have to wake up at 6
freaking out
A phone call from Hannah gave me with some perspective while I cried under the covers and prayed for sleep.
Today, I was almost glad to work so that I could escape cockroach island (aka my apartment). After work, I realized that I needed some back up. So I called my parents and asked them to help me clean up my apartment. I think they also wanted to make sure I was okay since I left a hysterical message on their answering machine at 12:30am last night.
My parents helped me clean and then we left to get coffee. When we returned, IT had returned.
My Dad complained that it was "so tiny" (yeah right) and promptly stepped on it, leaving a streak of messy remains.
And that was it.
My Dad killed the big bug. Just like when I was a kid. I guess sometimes a 29-year-old girl still needs her Dad.
PS The event went well. I did my thing. People wanted copies of my powerpoint, which I guess is a sign that my talk was relevant and useful. I got accosted by a few weirdo "policy" people, but overall, I think I was received well.
I was horrified because I was all alone, plus I was already exhausted from a really busy week and stressed out about speaking at a large work event today. I felt like it was some sort of spiritual battle. I called Minsoo but realized that I was all by myself.
So I called the friend that lives the closest to us: Nakji. Faithful friend Nakji was unable to killed the creature, but sprayed the area to keep it on its toes.
Last night, I was so exhaused that after Nakji left, I became totally hysterical. I closed the door to my bedroom and put a towel up against the bottom in case the beast wanted to come after me. I text messaged Hannah in desperation:
Huge roach loose in apt
minsoo on plane to nyc
barricaded in rm
cant sleep
big speaking thing tomorrow have to wake up at 6
freaking out
A phone call from Hannah gave me with some perspective while I cried under the covers and prayed for sleep.
Today, I was almost glad to work so that I could escape cockroach island (aka my apartment). After work, I realized that I needed some back up. So I called my parents and asked them to help me clean up my apartment. I think they also wanted to make sure I was okay since I left a hysterical message on their answering machine at 12:30am last night.
My parents helped me clean and then we left to get coffee. When we returned, IT had returned.
My Dad complained that it was "so tiny" (yeah right) and promptly stepped on it, leaving a streak of messy remains.
And that was it.
My Dad killed the big bug. Just like when I was a kid. I guess sometimes a 29-year-old girl still needs her Dad.
PS The event went well. I did my thing. People wanted copies of my powerpoint, which I guess is a sign that my talk was relevant and useful. I got accosted by a few weirdo "policy" people, but overall, I think I was received well.
4/08/2008
a career-defining moment? i hope not.
I got roped into being one of the speakers at an event on Saturday, which includes the second most powerful policy-maker in CA (the new assemb1y speaker) and the may0r of the sec0nd largest city in the country (yes, that would be LA). There's going to be anywhere from 200-400 people there.
I am also nervous because I've been really unmotivated at work and I'm not coming to the table with the best attitude. On top of that, I'm not the strongest public speaker.
Pray for me. I can't wait until it's over. I hope I don't suck too much.
I am also nervous because I've been really unmotivated at work and I'm not coming to the table with the best attitude. On top of that, I'm not the strongest public speaker.
Pray for me. I can't wait until it's over. I hope I don't suck too much.
4/06/2008
He doesn't want me to share this but...
Minsoo is this month's "role model" on our local Asian TV station. You can find the cheese-tastic clip on t0nylamf1lms dot com slash role underscore models dot htm. He he he...
4/01/2008
i gotta little bit o'seoul
... and then some...
Something's really funny. i'm not sure what it is.
At the dmz with ohmahnim and sistas hannah & sarah... 
Mixed drinks in a bag. yummy. that's minsoo's cousin and sista sarah.
Big hite...
I dream of hotteok
we think posing in front of the soldier is funny.
The trip was totally fun and crazy, full of food, laughing, "jhul", and chatty emo-nims. I had a blast.
Something's really funny. i'm not sure what it is.
At the dmz with ohmahnim and sistas hannah & sarah... 
Mixed drinks in a bag. yummy. that's minsoo's cousin and sista sarah.
Big hite...
I dream of hotteok
we think posing in front of the soldier is funny.
The trip was totally fun and crazy, full of food, laughing, "jhul", and chatty emo-nims. I had a blast.3/21/2008
3/08/2008
best.textmessage.ever
I received this photo on my cell from a co-worker who's at a policy conference in New Orleans, which I couldn't go to because I have family in town this weekend...
Yes, my friends, it is Wenda11 P1erce aka BUNK from themostawesomeshowihaveeverwatched thew1re. This photo came with the following message:
"...He says he wants to meet with us when he gets back to LA -- I said our Research Coordinator would be the best point on that." -- Research coordinator?! That's ME!!! The BUNK is interested in the work WE do?!
Yes, my friends, it is Wenda11 P1erce aka BUNK from themostawesomeshowihaveeverwatched thew1re. This photo came with the following message:
"...He says he wants to meet with us when he gets back to LA -- I said our Research Coordinator would be the best point on that." -- Research coordinator?! That's ME!!! The BUNK is interested in the work WE do?!
3/06/2008
on the phone with CA politcal celebrity (sort of)
Work has sucked lately so I haven't been motivated to post.
Work still sucks, but right now I'm on a conference call with Ph1l Angel1des, the guy who lost to the governator. I'm geeking out a little bit. I voted for him!
Work still sucks, but right now I'm on a conference call with Ph1l Angel1des, the guy who lost to the governator. I'm geeking out a little bit. I voted for him!
2/03/2008
hope is not a crap reason to vote for a president.
Really cool video from B1ack Eyed Peas' Wi11.i.am. plus why he recorded this video, from the huff1ngt0np0t. Sums up a lot of how I'm feeling about all of this and why I think the "experience" vs "hope" thing is a load of crap:
I was sitting in my recording studio watching the debates...
Torn between the candidates...
I was never really big on politics...
and actually I'm still not big on politics...
The outcome of the last 2 elections has saddened me...
on how unfair, backwards, upside down, unbalanced, untruthful,
corrupt, and just simply, how wrong the world and "politics" are...
So this year i wanted to get involved and do all i could early...
And i found myself torn...
because this time it's not that simple...
our choices aren't as clear as the last elections ...
last time it was so obvious...
Bush and war
vs
no Bush and no war...
But this time it's not that simple...
and there are a lot of people that are torn just like i am...
So for awhile I put it off and i was going to wait until it was decided for me...
And then came New Hampshire...
And i was captivated...
Inspired...
I reflected on my life...
and the blessings I have...
and the people who fought for me to have these rights and blessings...
and I'm not talking about a "black thing"
I'm talking about a "human thing" me as a "person"
an American...
That speech made me think of Martin Luther King...
Kennedy...
and Lincoln...
and all the others that have fought for what we have today...
what America is "supposed" to be...
freedom...
equality...
and truth...
and thats not what we have today...
we think we are free...
but in reality terror and fear controls our decisions...
this is not the America that our pioneers and leaders fought and
died for...
and then there was New Hampshire
it was that speech...
like many great speeches...
that one moved me...
because words and ideas are powerful...
It made me think...
and realize that today we have "very few" leaders...
maybe none...
but that speech...
it inspired me...
it inspired me to look inside myself and outwards towards the world...
it inspired me to want to change myself to better the world...
and take a "leap" towards change...
and hope that others become inspired to do the same...
change themselves..
change their greed...
change their fears...
and if we "change that"
"then hey"..
we got something right...???...
1 week later after the speech settled in me...
I began making this song...
I came up with the idea to turn his speech into a song...
because that speech affected and touched my inner core like nothing in a very long time...
it spoke to me...
because words and ideas are powerful...
I just wanted to add a melody to those words...
I wanted the inspiration that was bubbling inside me to take over...
so i let it..
I wasn't afraid to stand for something...
to stand for "change"...
I wasn't afraid of "fear"...
it was pure inspiration...
so I called my friends...
and they called their friends...
in a matter of 2 days...
We made the song and video...
Usually this process would take months...
a bunch of record company people figuring out strategies and release dates...
interviews...
all that stuff...
but this time i took it in my own hands...
so i called my friends Sarah Pantera, Mike Jurkovac, Fred Goldring, and Jesse Dylan to help make it happen...
and they called their friends..
and we did it together in 48 hours...
and instead of putting it in the hands of profit we put it in the hands of inspiration...
then we put it on the net for the world to feel...
When you are truly inspired..
magic happens...
incredible things happen...
love happens..
(and with that combination)
"love, and inspiration"
change happens...
"change for the better"
Inspiration breeds change...
"Positive change"...
no one on this planet is truly experienced to handle the obstacles we face today...
Terror, fear, lies, agendas, politics, money, all the above...
It's all scary...
Martin Luther King didn't have experience to lead...
Kennedy didn't have experience to lead...
Susan B. Anthony...
Nelson Mandela...
Rosa Parks...
Gandhi...
Anne Frank...
and everyone else who has had a hand in molding the freedoms we have and take for granted today...
no one truly has experience to deal with the world today...
they just need "desire, strength, courage ability, and passion" to change...
and to stand for something even when people say it's not possible...
America would not be here "today" if we didn't stand and fight for
change "yesterday"...
Everything we have as a "people" is because of the "people" who fought for
change...
and whoever is the President has to realize we have a lot of changing to do
I'm not trying to convince people to see things how i do...
I produced this song to share my new found inspiration and how I've been moved...
I hope this song will make you feel...
love...
and think...
and be inspired just like the speech inspired me...
that's all...
Let's all come together like America is supposed to...
Like Japan did after Hiroshima...
that was less than 65 years ago...
and look at Japan now...
they did it together...
they did it...
"We can't?...
Are you serious..?..
WE CAN!!!
Yes we can...
A United "America"
Democrats, Republicans and Independents together...
Building a new America
We can do it...
"TOGETHER"
Thank you for reading and listening...
will.i.am
I was sitting in my recording studio watching the debates...
Torn between the candidates...
I was never really big on politics...
and actually I'm still not big on politics...
The outcome of the last 2 elections has saddened me...
on how unfair, backwards, upside down, unbalanced, untruthful,
corrupt, and just simply, how wrong the world and "politics" are...
So this year i wanted to get involved and do all i could early...
And i found myself torn...
because this time it's not that simple...
our choices aren't as clear as the last elections ...
last time it was so obvious...
Bush and war
vs
no Bush and no war...
But this time it's not that simple...
and there are a lot of people that are torn just like i am...
So for awhile I put it off and i was going to wait until it was decided for me...
And then came New Hampshire...
And i was captivated...
Inspired...
I reflected on my life...
and the blessings I have...
and the people who fought for me to have these rights and blessings...
and I'm not talking about a "black thing"
I'm talking about a "human thing" me as a "person"
an American...
That speech made me think of Martin Luther King...
Kennedy...
and Lincoln...
and all the others that have fought for what we have today...
what America is "supposed" to be...
freedom...
equality...
and truth...
and thats not what we have today...
we think we are free...
but in reality terror and fear controls our decisions...
this is not the America that our pioneers and leaders fought and
died for...
and then there was New Hampshire
it was that speech...
like many great speeches...
that one moved me...
because words and ideas are powerful...
It made me think...
and realize that today we have "very few" leaders...
maybe none...
but that speech...
it inspired me...
it inspired me to look inside myself and outwards towards the world...
it inspired me to want to change myself to better the world...
and take a "leap" towards change...
and hope that others become inspired to do the same...
change themselves..
change their greed...
change their fears...
and if we "change that"
"then hey"..
we got something right...???...
1 week later after the speech settled in me...
I began making this song...
I came up with the idea to turn his speech into a song...
because that speech affected and touched my inner core like nothing in a very long time...
it spoke to me...
because words and ideas are powerful...
I just wanted to add a melody to those words...
I wanted the inspiration that was bubbling inside me to take over...
so i let it..
I wasn't afraid to stand for something...
to stand for "change"...
I wasn't afraid of "fear"...
it was pure inspiration...
so I called my friends...
and they called their friends...
in a matter of 2 days...
We made the song and video...
Usually this process would take months...
a bunch of record company people figuring out strategies and release dates...
interviews...
all that stuff...
but this time i took it in my own hands...
so i called my friends Sarah Pantera, Mike Jurkovac, Fred Goldring, and Jesse Dylan to help make it happen...
and they called their friends..
and we did it together in 48 hours...
and instead of putting it in the hands of profit we put it in the hands of inspiration...
then we put it on the net for the world to feel...
When you are truly inspired..
magic happens...
incredible things happen...
love happens..
(and with that combination)
"love, and inspiration"
change happens...
"change for the better"
Inspiration breeds change...
"Positive change"...
no one on this planet is truly experienced to handle the obstacles we face today...
Terror, fear, lies, agendas, politics, money, all the above...
It's all scary...
Martin Luther King didn't have experience to lead...
Kennedy didn't have experience to lead...
Susan B. Anthony...
Nelson Mandela...
Rosa Parks...
Gandhi...
Anne Frank...
and everyone else who has had a hand in molding the freedoms we have and take for granted today...
no one truly has experience to deal with the world today...
they just need "desire, strength, courage ability, and passion" to change...
and to stand for something even when people say it's not possible...
America would not be here "today" if we didn't stand and fight for
change "yesterday"...
Everything we have as a "people" is because of the "people" who fought for
change...
and whoever is the President has to realize we have a lot of changing to do
I'm not trying to convince people to see things how i do...
I produced this song to share my new found inspiration and how I've been moved...
I hope this song will make you feel...
love...
and think...
and be inspired just like the speech inspired me...
that's all...
Let's all come together like America is supposed to...
Like Japan did after Hiroshima...
that was less than 65 years ago...
and look at Japan now...
they did it together...
they did it...
"We can't?...
Are you serious..?..
WE CAN!!!
Yes we can...
A United "America"
Democrats, Republicans and Independents together...
Building a new America
We can do it...
"TOGETHER"
Thank you for reading and listening...
will.i.am
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