Cursing your luck? Read this.....

Jason exemplifies the traits that British researcher Richard Wiseman ascribed to lucky people in a 2003 article called The Luck Factor: "They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophecies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good."

In one experiment, Wiseman asked two groups of people - one who described themselves as generally lucky and one who said they were usually unlucky - to count the photographs in a newspaper. The unluckies spent several minutes flipping through and counting the photos. The lucky people got it in a few seconds. How? On page 2, Wiseman had inserted a message in giant headline type: "Stop counting - There are 43 photographs in this newspaper."

The lucky people, always on the lookout for unexpected good fortune, spotted it right away. The unlucky people, whose minds are closed to such signs, missed it completely.

(I grokked this from CNN money)

Lyrics that Rock...

Some songs have these thought provoking verses/lines that just stay with you for life.
These are a few that i can think of on the spur of the moment:


I know you'll be a star in somebody elses sky,
but why can't it be mine?

Pearl Jam - Black

Moving on is a simple thing
What it leaves behind is hard
You know the sleeping feel no more pain
And the living are scarred

Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde (Dark, tragic, like most of metal)

Megadeth - Peace Sells but who's buying? (All of it)

I'm running down a dream
that never would come to me
working on a mystery
going wherever it leads

Tom Petty - Running down a Dream

The Waitresses discussing politics
as the businessmen slowly get stoned
and they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But its better than drinking alone.

Billy Joel - Piano Man (Awesome song about how everybody is trapped in lives that they don't want to lead)

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
How many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind

Bob Dylan - Blowin in the Wind ( The whole song is beautiful, anti war)


Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.

Greenday - American Idiot (Very relevant song for the political scenario in 2004 very californian, what say ?)


Life is bigger
Its bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no Ive said too much
I set it up
Thats me in the corner
Thats me in the spotlight
Losing my religion

REM - Losing My Religion

(Losing My religion is a southern slang which means 'to lose ones temper')

We're Just, two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Runnin over the same old ground, How we find
Same old Fear , Wish you were here.

Pink Floyd- Wish You were here (Pink Floyd's tribute to Syd Barret )

My child arrived just the other day
Came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
He was talkin fore I knew it
And as he grew he said,
Im gonna be like you, dad,
You know Im gonna be like you.
And the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man n the moon.
when you comin home?
son, I dont know when. well get together then.
You know well have a good time then.

Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle

What else should I be
All apologies
What else could I say
Everyone is gay
What else could I write
I don't have the right
What else should I be
All apologies

Nirvana - All Apologies (Probably one of Kurt Cobain's best)