the soupmenu

I’m a firm believer in the wax and wane of the world. I’ve realized that the push and pull motion of all areas of life are perhaps the most consistent thing about the world. We’ve hit quite an interesting section of life that I’m quite excited for with the current world economic crisis. While part of me definitely wishes this all never happened, a larger part of me is thrilled for the change. My generation has had a unique ride so far. We have really have had no truly bad time in our existence. While other generations fought through fully-involved wars and great depressions, we have only been told to spend more while watching rich girls throw away new cloths on the hills.

My generation is, in fact, a huge part of the meltdown. I have many friends who just a few years ago would state wholeheartedly facts such as ‘housing prices only go up’ and ‘I hope to sell in a year for 20% profit’. They were simply a product of their experiences which have never seen anything other than double digit growth in the housing market.

While there will be a lot of hardship in the upcoming years, there will also be tons of opportunity and growth. With the changing of the guards in the financial world, my generation has a great chance to step in at a young age and make serious impact to the future world. On a micro-level, each one of us has a great chance to purchase stock, land, and resources at low levels in the upcoming year which will surely help out our own retirement planning.

The sweet isn’t so sweet without the bitter. I, for one, am ecstatic for our generation to finally have some serious change to be part of. Hold on for a fun ride.

I LOVE the summer mix series. It really has made my last few weeks great. I’d love to add my mix:

sad slow summer — part of the yewknee.com summer mix series 2008

summer is up and down. It’s not just about the excitement it’s also about the downtime. After the trip to the beach, after the day at the lake, after the week long festival, these are the times I truly appreciate summer. I hope these tunes are perfect for those times.

( Download – 51 meg .zip)

Eels – Bride of Theme From Blinking Lights
Geoff Farina – Olive or Otherwise
Kings of Convenience – Winning a Battle Losing the War
Elliott Smith – 2-45 am
Ben Gibbard – Such Great Heights
Cancun – Wind Up Bird
Elliott Smith – Thirteen (cover)
Doveman – Airbag (cover)
Brad Mehldau – Bottle Up and Explode (cover)
Ludovico Einaudi – Dessert Dans Le Desert
M. Ward – Let’s Dance (cover)

I love music. I love the artists. I hate the industry. Please support these artists through tshirts, concert tickets, or good meals.

2008 – All copyrights to respective writers / publishers / etc. Used without permission.

there are tons of advantages and great outcomes from web2.0.

I’d just like to point out a personal one. I did the simple task of embedding a flickr slide show into my info page. With not even two lines of code I instantly have a micro-portrait of my life. I know this will not have the impact for other people, but for me it’s great to look through the memories of the last ~3 years in a matter of minutes. Highs, lows, simple, complex, sad, exuberant…all there because of one simple tag.

just imagine the personal mashups in the upcoming years where you’ll be able to port messages, news, friends, pictures, and music all into an instant multimedia portrait of your life.

here it is for those who are bored: