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Music is refreshing to the weary soul. When you listen to music, it releases feel good hormones endorphins to the brain cells. There are concerts and operas all around the world for people to come and listen. It brings a spring to your steps and makes you feel alive. Music lifts up the moody person and makes him happy again. Sentimental music and oldies are the favorites for most people as they are relaxing to listen and calms the nerves. It removes tension and stress to the pent up soul. There is also music therapy for the depressed and suicidal person.
I was browsing through the internet when I stumbled upon a cool web site that shares music online - www.audiobiblio.com. You can register for free and start to upload your favorite songs online using it. This music network site aims to unite people of all races from around the world together. You can make friends with others across the ocean. This audio community is a friendly bunch who just loves music. You can discover and listen to other people’s favorite music through the streaming media. And you save money from buying more music CDs or compact discs that cost a lot of money.
Just turn on your computer, browse to www.audiobiblio.com and start listening to streaming audio online. What’s more? You can also contact the different members of more than 500 in their database and make new friends. You can look at their profiles, their gender and location. As mentioned earlier, this is a good site to make friends who have common interests - sharing music. And you can now listen to music online for free. And you can be assured of a good variety of songs uploaded in this web site. Just check out this nifty web site today.
While recently browsing through the Akashic Records of the Universe, I discovered that the greatest relationship advice counselor to have ever incarnated on Earth was Ughh, a caveman born in 123,566 B.C.
My local Rent-A-Psychic outlet provided a channeler and now thanks to her unique talent, I am bringing you Ughh’s eternal dating wisdom and answers to your dating and relationship questions.
1. Question:
I’ve been dating my current girlfriend for 23 years. She’s 45 and I’m 48. She tells me she needs her own space and has taken time off and on to find herself. Lately I’ve realized I’d like to get married and have children but she is still telling me she is not yet ready for committment and needs to get her head together before settling down.
What should I do?
Answer:
When a woman takes meat from you, spreads her legs but returns to the skins of her mother and father, she is telling you that either the meat you fed her or the meat between your legs did not fill her up. Let another hunter feed her cubs.
Find a girl who is a good cook and has a fast hand for catching grasshoppers. Feed the hot heart of an antelope to her mother and father and the liver to her. Then, if she tries to crawl back under the bearskin of her mother and father, they will kick her until she returns to you.
After you have fed her five antelope livers or the winds of the Gods have planted a cub in her womb, she will remain yours until the walls of ice to the north melt.
2. Question
I am 35 years old and have not had a second date since college. The women tell me I’m too nice of a guy for them and they just want to be friends.
What should I do?
Answer:
You must be a lazy hunter. When the women see you sleeping in the sun every day living on grass instead of bringing back strings of rabbits and squirrels, they curse your manhood and rightly so.
If you want a woman you must prove you can feed her and her cubs.
If your cave has no available females, capture one from another tribe.
If your heart is too small and your bowels too loose for that, resign yourself to sleeping cold until you die.
3. Question
I’m a girl who loves to go to raves. I used to go home only with guys, but lately I’ve been bi-curious with other girls and I’m getting confused. Am I a lesbian or is it just the Ecstasy?
Answer:
Life is short. Many women die young in childbirth. Many men die young in hunting accidents or war parties. Everybody can die young from starvation, winter cold and disease.
When a woman’s husband is gored by a wild pig and she has three cubs and the other hunters in the cave already have as many wives and cubs as they can feed, it can be good for that woman to share her skins with a hunting woman or he-girl.
The woman and her cubs get meat and the hunting woman gets a hunting ground for her tongue as well as her food cooked and her skins sewn.
The same is true of a man left alone with cubs when there’re no available women in the tribe. A she-boy can warm his skins with her hole, watch over the cubs and cook for him. In return for her share of the mammoth steaks.
The Elders noticed that the Gods do not plant new cubs in the bellies of the women. Therefore for the future of the tribe it is best for young girls and oys to warm each other and leave she-boys and he-girls alone until necessary.
4. I’m a 38 year old successful professional woman. I have had numerous relationships but so far no luck getting married or having kids.
Men are selfish animals. They don’t want to have a serious committed relationship. They want to lay you then cheat on you.
How can I find my soulmate?
Answer:
An enemy put a horrible curse on you when you were still very small, because you are quite obviously the vicious kind of woman who tells men what you do not like about them. You eat the meat they give you and then refuse their spears. They leave you with their hearts, bellies and spears still hungry. You smell like a dead animal but nobody can find the decaying corpse.
You must consult your local shaman and pay him many furs to travel through the spirit world to take this curse from you.
5. Question:
I’ve been living with my boyfriend for 16 years and we have three children together. Our parents are asking when we’ll get married but neither one of us is sure we’re ready for committment. How do we tell them to mind their own business, that marriage is just a piece of paper?
Answer:
When a boy shares a hide with a girl it is his responsibility to feed her and the cubs the winds of the gods plant in her belly. As long as he feeds her, the girl must open her inner cave to his spear whenever he wants, except of course when her moon blood flows. She must also cook the meat he brings home and patch skins into lothes.
What is a piece of paper?
6. Question:
My lover just cheated on me. Should I dump them?
Answer:
As long as a man keeps his woman’s belly and inner cave full, she will not want to lie underneath another man. But if a man is lazy and does not feed his woman, he cannot blame her for looking for meat to satisfy her hunger.
A strong hunter can have as many women as are available. But when his eye dims and his arm is no longer strong enough to bring down 5 rabbitts or squirrels a day, he must expect his second and third wives to seek younger and stronger men.
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Have you ever done any of the following?
1. Made excuses for not practicing because you “didn’t have time”?
2. Practiced the same licks and exercises that you did last year?
3. Felt like you had hit a brick wall in your progress?
4. Felt unsure as to what to practice?
Unless your name is Steve Vai, chances are you’ve done at least
one of the above!
They are all symptoms of having a lack of vision.
What do I mean by vision? Vision in this context is having a clearly defined picture in your mind’s eye of how you would like to play. It must be a crystal clear, exciting and inspiring
picture!
Without an absolutely clear picture of what you would ideally like to sound like, you will not know what you need to practice in order to realise that vision. You will also probably lose the drive and motivation to practice daily for many years until you can play like your vision. You may even start using the loser’s
mantra which is “I don’t have time to practice”.
Exercise One:
Think about how you would like to play in 10 years time. Close your eyes and try to see yourself playing exactly how you would like to play. Write down what you see now.
Make sure that it is detailed. What techniques are you a master of? What
songs can you play? What bands are you in? How many students do you teach? How does it feel when you play like you do?
Exercise Two:
Now write down what areas of your playing you will need to start working on in order to reach your vision. What techniques do you need to start practising? What chords do you need to learn? What music theory do you need to start learning about? Do you need to start doing ear training? What books, teachers, CDs and other tools will help you realise your vision? How much time every day do you think you will need to practise in order to play like you want to play?
Exercise Three:
Spend 10 minutes a day for the next 30 days imagining yourself playing exactly how you would like to play. Do this with your eyes shut. Don’t worry, it won’t make you want to start eating tofu or go around the neighborhood hugging trees! At the end of every time you do this, write down one small new detail about your vision. By the end of 30 days you should be feeling so excited that you’ll want to practice 24/7!
About the author:
Craig Bassett is a professional guitarist, guitar tutor and author living in Auckland, New Zealand.
http://www.pentatonic-guitar-lessons.com
If you’re not already publishing an e-mail newsletter or “e-zine,” then you should! E-zines are a simple, inexpensive, and VERY effective way to promote your business, attract new customers, and encourage repeat sales. While sending out a text e-zine may seem like a piece of cake, there’s more to it than you may think. *Good formatting* is the name of the game.
Here’s a handy checklist I use to make sure each of my issues is in great shape BEFORE I send it out. Please be my guest and use it for yourself!
1. Are all lines 65 characters or less?
More than that and your missive may come through looking messy to many subscribers. End each line with a hard return by pressing the “enter” key.
2. Have you made sure there’s no auto-formatting, such as bolding, italics, or underlining?
These features don’t translate well in e-mail and can come out looking mighty strange on the other end. Instead, emphasize words or phrases with *asterisks,* “quotation marks,” or ALL CAPS … sparingly. While words in all-caps make an impact when used occasionally, they’re extremely hard to read and can come across as “screaming” to your readers — not a good thing.
3. Are all sections neatly separated?
Use underscores (_____), asterisks (******), another nifty symbol ($$$$$, %%%%, @@@@), or a combination thereof () to help define each area and help your readers skim your issue more easily.
4. Do all Web links include “http://” before them?
Some e-mail programs won’t automatically hyperlink a URL in your text without this prefix. So don’t take a chance — make it easy for your readers to click and link, especially to YOUR site!
5. Do all e-mail links include “mailto:” before them?
Same idea here: Some e-mail programs won’t automatically hyperlink an e-mail address in your text without it. Be sure to leave no space between the colon and the first character of the address.
6. Is your masthead at the very top?
The masthead, or “nameplate,” typically features your e-zine name, your name, your e-mail address, your Web address, and the correct date, volume number, and issue number. Make it the FIRST thing your readers see. Do NOT put an ad first — your readers may mistake your e-zine for spam.
7. Have you reminded your readers right away that this is a *subscription* publication?
Don’t let them forget that they *asked* to receive this! Something like this right under your masthead will do: “You’ve received this e-zine because you subscribed to it! If you wish to unsubscribe, please scroll to the end for more information.”
8. If you have a table of contents (TOC), do its listings match this issue’s articles and features?
For example, if your TOC says your second feature in this issue is an article on Web site marketing, make sure it’s right!
9. Have you included a copyright notice?
At the end of your content, before your contact info, post “(c)” immediately followed by the year and your name or your company’s name. (For example, my copyright notice is (c) 2001 Alexandria K. Brown.) You should know that a copyright notice does not protect your ideas - instead, it protects the way you express them.
10. Are the correct advertisements in place?
Keep track of all your ad swaps and purchases in one main document to make this easy to look up each time. I use an Excel spreadsheet, which works great for me. Along the top rule, I list each issue date. Down the left side, I list my ad spots, which are sponsor ad, ad 1, ad 2, and ad 3.
11. Do you give clear subscribe and unsubscribe instructions at the bottom?
The subscribe instructions are to help you virally grow your list. Your ezine will likely get passed on to others who’d like to receive it themselves. The unsubscribe instructions are just BECAUSE - it’s plain courtesy, and the law of the land. : )
12. Does your subject line include both the name of your e-zine and the issue topic?
By seeing your e-zine title, your recipients will know the e-mail is not spam. And by seeing the issue topic, they will know what’s in store for this issue.
Example: “Sara’s Cash Flow Tips: Increase Your Income Today!”
13. Have you sent a test of the issue to yourself or an associate?
Make sure it comes through reading well and looking great! (Check for any strange symbols that magically appear, odd breaks in the copy, inactive links, etc.) And this is a GREAT time to give it a final proofread.
Alexandria K. Brown, “The E-zine Queen,” offers a FREE biweekly e-zine called “Tips from the E-zine Queen.” Learn how to write, publish, and promote a dynamic E-ZINE that builds customer relationships and increases SALES. Subscribe now via mailto:EzineQueen-On@lists.webvalence.com