I am starting to wonder, how many times will it take before I actually start using and writing in the blog on a regular basis. That and when will I use my website for something regular and productive. I should really do something with it because I'm paying for it. Hmmmm... If anyone has any good ideas I am definitely open. Right now it's here: DevonSchreiner.com.
I actually have kind of a good story though. Yesterday Kevin and I took a nice trip to Sioux Falls with two lovely Russian foreign exchange students. It was really fun and interesting even though half the time we couldn't understand each other. We went to the mall, Guitar Center, Last Stop CD Shop and even to the Falls Park. Fun day.
So other than that I'm not sure what to do. I'll probably (or hopefully) just start posting a bunch of random stuff like this because I don't really know what else to do. I'll try to keep it a little interesting though, unlike this post...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
News: The Next Fad
I'd like to start with a question today. (I've probably done that before but this time I'm stating it so you're ready.) Why do you pay attention to the news today?
Just like everything else in this world, news has become a thing of fads and trends that really doesn't provide anything of content. All there is on TV, Newspapers, Magazines, News Websites, and Social Network Sites is fad news stories that spike people's interest for a couple days, then we completely forget about them.
Take Michael Jackson's death. Here is the Google Trend's for Michael Jackson over the last 12 months.
All of a sudden, Michael dies and everyone buys and listens to his music. Why? His music isn't any better now that he is dead. It's always been there and it's not going to go for a while. But guess what. All 12 million people that downloaded Thriller on iTunes the Thursday he died because they 'Love Michael Jackson and love his music and want to remember him forever!' have already forgotten about him. Everybody left Billie Jean, Thriller, and Smooth Criminal on repeat all day long Friday, then let the songs get lost in their immense library to not be listened to again.
This is only one example of many. All of the celebrity deaths lately, (Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays, Steve McNair) The protests in Iran, Air France, any of these ring a bell?
Why are these news fads becoming more prevalent? Why do people have to get so passionate about breaking news and then just forget about it the next day? If anyone has any insight on this, it would be great if you could share it.
Just like everything else in this world, news has become a thing of fads and trends that really doesn't provide anything of content. All there is on TV, Newspapers, Magazines, News Websites, and Social Network Sites is fad news stories that spike people's interest for a couple days, then we completely forget about them.
Take Michael Jackson's death. Here is the Google Trend's for Michael Jackson over the last 12 months.
All of a sudden, Michael dies and everyone buys and listens to his music. Why? His music isn't any better now that he is dead. It's always been there and it's not going to go for a while. But guess what. All 12 million people that downloaded Thriller on iTunes the Thursday he died because they 'Love Michael Jackson and love his music and want to remember him forever!' have already forgotten about him. Everybody left Billie Jean, Thriller, and Smooth Criminal on repeat all day long Friday, then let the songs get lost in their immense library to not be listened to again.
This is only one example of many. All of the celebrity deaths lately, (Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays, Steve McNair) The protests in Iran, Air France, any of these ring a bell?
Why are these news fads becoming more prevalent? Why do people have to get so passionate about breaking news and then just forget about it the next day? If anyone has any insight on this, it would be great if you could share it.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The Devon Schreiner Concert Calendar
Tonight marks the start of the tour of concerts and festivals that I have planned for this year. I think there is a pretty good line-up already.
Tonight, at Nutty's North in Sioux Falls, Saving Abel is playing. Opening for them tonight is Pop Evil, Monty Are 1, and Taddy Porter. This should be a pretty good concert. If anyone wants to go, the tickets are very reasonably priced too.
Also, at the end of July, Dave Matthews Band is headlining The 10K Lakes Festival. They play on Saturday night along with the hundreds of other bands playing that couple of days. Now, I am not sure if this is going to work or not, but I'm hoping it will. DMB is playing on Saturday night and there is a concert in Brookings on Sunday night. Staind, Shinedown, Halestorm, and Chevelle. I would like to go to this one too, but that may be a lot for one weekend, we'll see.
Other Concerts that are on the radar but not confirmed yet would include Journey in Sioux Falls on July 19th, and you can't forget about Alice Cooper and Big and Rich at the Sioux Empire Fair. Then you can't forget Aerosmith, Saving Abel, Hinder, The Guess Who, Buckcherry, Tesla and a few other good ones out at Sturgis this year.
All-in-all, that looks like a good summer to me. Let's see how many I actually get to.
Tonight, at Nutty's North in Sioux Falls, Saving Abel is playing. Opening for them tonight is Pop Evil, Monty Are 1, and Taddy Porter. This should be a pretty good concert. If anyone wants to go, the tickets are very reasonably priced too.
Also, at the end of July, Dave Matthews Band is headlining The 10K Lakes Festival. They play on Saturday night along with the hundreds of other bands playing that couple of days. Now, I am not sure if this is going to work or not, but I'm hoping it will. DMB is playing on Saturday night and there is a concert in Brookings on Sunday night. Staind, Shinedown, Halestorm, and Chevelle. I would like to go to this one too, but that may be a lot for one weekend, we'll see.
Other Concerts that are on the radar but not confirmed yet would include Journey in Sioux Falls on July 19th, and you can't forget about Alice Cooper and Big and Rich at the Sioux Empire Fair. Then you can't forget Aerosmith, Saving Abel, Hinder, The Guess Who, Buckcherry, Tesla and a few other good ones out at Sturgis this year.
All-in-all, that looks like a good summer to me. Let's see how many I actually get to.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Washing Trailers Is Not Fun
I really hate washing out trailers. It's not a fun thing to do. Climb back 53 feet into the back of the trailer with the pressure washer and start spraying until everything starts flying. You get completely soaked and covered in everything that was in the trailer.
Today was not a fun day. We had to spray out a trailer that kept leaking crap out of the walls as soon as we would spray it out. I sprayed and squeegeed the trailer out for almost 2 hours before the guy from Tennessee was happy.
Which leads me into another great story. This guy from Tennessee pulls his truck into to get the trailer washed. I don't know what made him harder to understand, the fact that he had such a heavy accent or that he didn't have any teeth. So not only can I not understand this guy, I can't understand him for the 2 hours that I'm spraying out his trailer and he's trying to talk to me and tell me what to do.... Awesome.
But I guess this is what I'm getting paid to do, so I better do it with a smile. I tried, but it was hard... Oh well. Better luck next time.
Today was not a fun day. We had to spray out a trailer that kept leaking crap out of the walls as soon as we would spray it out. I sprayed and squeegeed the trailer out for almost 2 hours before the guy from Tennessee was happy.
Which leads me into another great story. This guy from Tennessee pulls his truck into to get the trailer washed. I don't know what made him harder to understand, the fact that he had such a heavy accent or that he didn't have any teeth. So not only can I not understand this guy, I can't understand him for the 2 hours that I'm spraying out his trailer and he's trying to talk to me and tell me what to do.... Awesome.
But I guess this is what I'm getting paid to do, so I better do it with a smile. I tried, but it was hard... Oh well. Better luck next time.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Transformers 2: Almost Perfect in the Eyes of Devon
I went to see the fabled "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" the other day. I was ready for this movie to absolutely suck no matter what anyone says about it. The first one was pretty good and I figured there was no way for these guys to make another one that was anywhere near being called good.
First thing I noticed, it got a little bit long for me. It could have ended about a half hour sooner and I would have been fine with it. I don't need hours and hours of a movie to make me happy.
The next thing that I didn't really like about the movie was the amount of swearing it had. I do not remember the first movie having this much swearing in it. I thought that was a really stupid move on their part. You don't need swearing in a movie to make it good or cool. I felt like I was being vocally assaulted by a group of middle school boys that just heard a new swear word from a video on the internet and think they are cool for using it. It was a little bit much for me.
Another thing that I really didn't care for was I thought they were trying to be way to funny in parts that didn't need it. Like who were those two mentally retarded Autobots that they decided to put in the movie? Those two were definitely not necessary and I could have done without them. And how about when the giant, construction bot is climbing the pyramid and we get a nice gander at his 'wrecking balls'? That was also a quick little shot I didn't need to see.
One of the other things that kind of bugged me was Sam's roommate Leo....There's not much else to say than the fact that he bugged me. Sorry.
How about those action packed battles though. They were awesome right? Except for the fact that they were so cluttered, everything was moving so fast and the camera was shaking so bad that you couldn't tell what was going on. I think that's why everyone is so in awe about how awesome the battle scenes are, because obviously if you can't tell what's going on, it must be amazing. Just take my advice, watch the movie again and see if you can actually tell what is going on in during the battle scenes. Is that his leg or his head?
All-in-all, I thought it was a lot better than it was going to be. Good second try Michael. Maybe the third time will be the charm and it will be perfect. But until it is, I'm going to keep pointing out the flaws.
First thing I noticed, it got a little bit long for me. It could have ended about a half hour sooner and I would have been fine with it. I don't need hours and hours of a movie to make me happy.
The next thing that I didn't really like about the movie was the amount of swearing it had. I do not remember the first movie having this much swearing in it. I thought that was a really stupid move on their part. You don't need swearing in a movie to make it good or cool. I felt like I was being vocally assaulted by a group of middle school boys that just heard a new swear word from a video on the internet and think they are cool for using it. It was a little bit much for me.
Another thing that I really didn't care for was I thought they were trying to be way to funny in parts that didn't need it. Like who were those two mentally retarded Autobots that they decided to put in the movie? Those two were definitely not necessary and I could have done without them. And how about when the giant, construction bot is climbing the pyramid and we get a nice gander at his 'wrecking balls'? That was also a quick little shot I didn't need to see.
One of the other things that kind of bugged me was Sam's roommate Leo....There's not much else to say than the fact that he bugged me. Sorry.
How about those action packed battles though. They were awesome right? Except for the fact that they were so cluttered, everything was moving so fast and the camera was shaking so bad that you couldn't tell what was going on. I think that's why everyone is so in awe about how awesome the battle scenes are, because obviously if you can't tell what's going on, it must be amazing. Just take my advice, watch the movie again and see if you can actually tell what is going on in during the battle scenes. Is that his leg or his head?
All-in-all, I thought it was a lot better than it was going to be. Good second try Michael. Maybe the third time will be the charm and it will be perfect. But until it is, I'm going to keep pointing out the flaws.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Two Thumbs 'Up'?
I think when there is so much hype for a movie that everyone has seen it and everyone knows what its about, I start to form an opinion already. For some reason, it seems like no matter if people really like it or people really hate it, if its a big movie, I tend to pick the opposite opinion than everyone else.
So right off the bat, I didn't like 'Up' because everyone else did like it. It's also a Disney movie which makes me less likely to like the movie because I'm not a seven years old anymore. So 'Up' already had a couple of strikes against it before I walked into the theater.
I just want to say up front, I thought the movie was very illogical, irrational and highly improbable. Let's start with the easy one, Carl floated his house away with baloons....really? If that was anywhere near possible, somebody probably would have done it by now. But sadly, it isn't possible, don't try it. And especially don't try to steer it with the curtains....
Then there's the dogs with the talking collars and the crazy bird that is similar to the Road Runner but is faster and can teleport.... I'm not going to go on though, you've seen the movie, you know how out there it is.
But alas, I am onto my second year of college and probably just can't appreciate the masterpiece of a children's movie that this is. I guess when you look at Disney's greatest classics, there isn't much more sense. The Jungle Book, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Shrek, the list goes on. So all in all, it's another great, off the wall, crazy Disney movie.
Make sure you check out my website, DevonSchreiner.com, and Kevin Loker and I's new podcast, HeyTalkTo.Me.
So right off the bat, I didn't like 'Up' because everyone else did like it. It's also a Disney movie which makes me less likely to like the movie because I'm not a seven years old anymore. So 'Up' already had a couple of strikes against it before I walked into the theater.
I just want to say up front, I thought the movie was very illogical, irrational and highly improbable. Let's start with the easy one, Carl floated his house away with baloons....really? If that was anywhere near possible, somebody probably would have done it by now. But sadly, it isn't possible, don't try it. And especially don't try to steer it with the curtains....
Then there's the dogs with the talking collars and the crazy bird that is similar to the Road Runner but is faster and can teleport.... I'm not going to go on though, you've seen the movie, you know how out there it is.
But alas, I am onto my second year of college and probably just can't appreciate the masterpiece of a children's movie that this is. I guess when you look at Disney's greatest classics, there isn't much more sense. The Jungle Book, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Shrek, the list goes on. So all in all, it's another great, off the wall, crazy Disney movie.
Make sure you check out my website, DevonSchreiner.com, and Kevin Loker and I's new podcast, HeyTalkTo.Me.
Underage Drinking (and Kevin and I's HeyTalkTo.Me Podcast)
So, Kevin Loker and I have started up a new weekly podcast called HeyTalkTo.Me.
We had toiled with just goofing around on the radio before with this thing called "Our Perspective," but we wanted to try out something that, well, actually had a purpose.
What we're doing now with HeyTalkTo.Me is creating a dialogue about national trends and issues through the lens of local events. Our first show looked at the voter turnout at Mitchell's recent local election, and specifically, it looked at what motivates people in our town to come out to vote. We talked with Superintendent Joe Graves, got his opinion, and the part that I think is the most cool, we went out and talked to people on the street. As you may have guess from the name, our goal for HeyTalkTo.Me to be honest and casual.
For our next show, we want to focus on motives for and against underage drinking, specifically in Mitchell. As you may have read in The Daily Republic, Karen Allen recently helped out with a survey that gave statistics specifically on our community, and the numbers were pretty crazy. In addition, a recent study from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ranks South Dakota high up on the list of binge and underage drinking (and neighboring North Dakota ranked first).
We want to get Karen Allen's opinion on the matter, but we'd also like to get the opinion of underage kids in the community. And of course, this will all be anonymous. We're not looking for names, and we're not looking to report anyone, we just want some opinions.
If you have a minute or two, please take the time to respond to one of the question sets below, one of which is aimed at those who do or have drank underage, and the other aimed at those who haven't.
The questions are pretty open, so feel free to say as much or as little as you want, and please speak honestly.
Underage Drinking Set
1. What motivates you to drink?
2. Do you feel pressured to do so?
3. Why do you think some people choose not to drink?
Non-drinking Set
1. What motivates you not to drink?
2. Do you feel pressured not to?
3. Why do you think some people choose to drink?
Again, I stress that everything we'll be anonymous. We plan to read a few answers on the podcast, but no names or personal information will be given away.
Please send any responses to mail@heytalkto.me, and if you're interested, look for the podcast up on the website (www.heytalkto.me) towards the end of the week!
Thanks :)
Devon
We had toiled with just goofing around on the radio before with this thing called "Our Perspective," but we wanted to try out something that, well, actually had a purpose.
What we're doing now with HeyTalkTo.Me is creating a dialogue about national trends and issues through the lens of local events. Our first show looked at the voter turnout at Mitchell's recent local election, and specifically, it looked at what motivates people in our town to come out to vote. We talked with Superintendent Joe Graves, got his opinion, and the part that I think is the most cool, we went out and talked to people on the street. As you may have guess from the name, our goal for HeyTalkTo.Me to be honest and casual.
For our next show, we want to focus on motives for and against underage drinking, specifically in Mitchell. As you may have read in The Daily Republic, Karen Allen recently helped out with a survey that gave statistics specifically on our community, and the numbers were pretty crazy. In addition, a recent study from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ranks South Dakota high up on the list of binge and underage drinking (and neighboring North Dakota ranked first).
We want to get Karen Allen's opinion on the matter, but we'd also like to get the opinion of underage kids in the community. And of course, this will all be anonymous. We're not looking for names, and we're not looking to report anyone, we just want some opinions.
If you have a minute or two, please take the time to respond to one of the question sets below, one of which is aimed at those who do or have drank underage, and the other aimed at those who haven't.
The questions are pretty open, so feel free to say as much or as little as you want, and please speak honestly.
Underage Drinking Set
1. What motivates you to drink?
2. Do you feel pressured to do so?
3. Why do you think some people choose not to drink?
Non-drinking Set
1. What motivates you not to drink?
2. Do you feel pressured not to?
3. Why do you think some people choose to drink?
Again, I stress that everything we'll be anonymous. We plan to read a few answers on the podcast, but no names or personal information will be given away.
Please send any responses to mail@heytalkto.me, and if you're interested, look for the podcast up on the website (www.heytalkto.me) towards the end of the week!
Thanks :)
Devon
Monday, June 8, 2009
Winning The Lottery Would Suck
Congratulations to Neal Wanless for winning his 232.1 million dollars. He is one of the luckiest people in the world right now. I am definitely jealous. You can check out a local story from the Daily Republic here.
There are a couple things I am not jealous of though. When you actually look at it, Neal will only be taking away 88.5 million dollars from the 232.1 million that he 'won'. While 88.5 million is still an unimaginably enormous amount of money, it is only 38.1% of the original amount of money that he 'won'. What is that crap? You just won a lot of money! But we are even going to give you half of it! .....What?
That's fine, whatever, he is still a very lucky guy, now with a lot of money. I was reading this other article from the Daily Republic about how big lottery winners are isolated and their life will never be the same. It says that the winner has to become a different person, figure out how they are going to use and protect their money and find a way to stay in contact with their friends and other relationships they have. This doesn't sound like as much fun to me as just spending all that money however you want.
All in all, I think winning the lottery probably isn't as easy as it should be or seems. But I think, if given the chance, I would take that much money. If anyone has a lot of money that they just want to get rid of, it's to much of a burden for them, I will take it from you. Neal, if you don't want that burden on your shoulders, I would lift it from you and carry it myself. Let me know if ever need to get rid of it.
Also, make sure you check out the podcast if you haven't, we had a great interview with Superintendent Joe Graves about the local elections here in Mitchell. You can find that at HeyTalkTo.Me. Also look around either Thursday or Friday for another episode. Should be a good time.
There are a couple things I am not jealous of though. When you actually look at it, Neal will only be taking away 88.5 million dollars from the 232.1 million that he 'won'. While 88.5 million is still an unimaginably enormous amount of money, it is only 38.1% of the original amount of money that he 'won'. What is that crap? You just won a lot of money! But we are even going to give you half of it! .....What?
That's fine, whatever, he is still a very lucky guy, now with a lot of money. I was reading this other article from the Daily Republic about how big lottery winners are isolated and their life will never be the same. It says that the winner has to become a different person, figure out how they are going to use and protect their money and find a way to stay in contact with their friends and other relationships they have. This doesn't sound like as much fun to me as just spending all that money however you want.
All in all, I think winning the lottery probably isn't as easy as it should be or seems. But I think, if given the chance, I would take that much money. If anyone has a lot of money that they just want to get rid of, it's to much of a burden for them, I will take it from you. Neal, if you don't want that burden on your shoulders, I would lift it from you and carry it myself. Let me know if ever need to get rid of it.
Also, make sure you check out the podcast if you haven't, we had a great interview with Superintendent Joe Graves about the local elections here in Mitchell. You can find that at HeyTalkTo.Me. Also look around either Thursday or Friday for another episode. Should be a good time.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Farewell OP
So I know my last blog post was about Our Perspective being resurrected and how excited I was about recording again, but changes are under way.
After recording another episode of OP, Kevin and I decided that we wanted to change the format of the show up a little bit. We figured that not to many people really wanted to listen to what we have to say. What people really want to hear is themselves. We wanted to create a show that will allow people to get involved and hear what other people have to say about whatever we are talking about.
We decided that we couldn't keep the same name with this new format, so we are saying farewell to Our Perspective for now. The name that we came up with was HeyTalkTo.Me. There is a period right before the Me because in our domain, the .me is replacing the .com. Our new website address is http://HeyTalkTo.Me.
We are hoping that this show may go over a little bit better with some people and we hope to also give a different look at some important issues both close to home and farther away. This week we talked to some citizens of Mitchell about why they voted this week and we are going to talk to Dr. Joe Graves about his experience with local politics and elections.
You can also follow our podcast on Twitter by searching for HeyTalkToMe. We also have a facebook fan page and you can email us at Mail@HeyTalkTo.Me. Hopefully you listen to the show and enjoy it. Let us know what you think! Thanks!
After recording another episode of OP, Kevin and I decided that we wanted to change the format of the show up a little bit. We figured that not to many people really wanted to listen to what we have to say. What people really want to hear is themselves. We wanted to create a show that will allow people to get involved and hear what other people have to say about whatever we are talking about.
We decided that we couldn't keep the same name with this new format, so we are saying farewell to Our Perspective for now. The name that we came up with was HeyTalkTo.Me. There is a period right before the Me because in our domain, the .me is replacing the .com. Our new website address is http://HeyTalkTo.Me.
We are hoping that this show may go over a little bit better with some people and we hope to also give a different look at some important issues both close to home and farther away. This week we talked to some citizens of Mitchell about why they voted this week and we are going to talk to Dr. Joe Graves about his experience with local politics and elections.
You can also follow our podcast on Twitter by searching for HeyTalkToMe. We also have a facebook fan page and you can email us at Mail@HeyTalkTo.Me. Hopefully you listen to the show and enjoy it. Let us know what you think! Thanks!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Our Perspective has risen from the dead!
Our Perspective has risen from the dead!
Thanks to all our many supporters.....We have just about as many as actually read my blog here. Thanks for that. But what I am mainly writing this blog about is the fact that me and Kevin tried it again. We just got done recording our first podcast of this year. It is going to be different than in the past, but it is for sure going to be sweet.
For all of the details the best place to go is probably to Twitter and search for OurPerspective. Another good place to try to get a hold of us would be the facebook fan page. Check those out or email us at OurPerspectiveRadio@gmail.com. Or, hopefully I will be getting a page up on my website for Our Perspective with hopefully an OP exclusive website coming soon too.
If you want to download OP to listen on the go, click here. To listen to it online go to my website here.
Thanks
Thanks to all our many supporters.....We have just about as many as actually read my blog here. Thanks for that. But what I am mainly writing this blog about is the fact that me and Kevin tried it again. We just got done recording our first podcast of this year. It is going to be different than in the past, but it is for sure going to be sweet.
For all of the details the best place to go is probably to Twitter and search for OurPerspective. Another good place to try to get a hold of us would be the facebook fan page. Check those out or email us at OurPerspectiveRadio@gmail.com. Or, hopefully I will be getting a page up on my website for Our Perspective with hopefully an OP exclusive website coming soon too.
If you want to download OP to listen on the go, click here. To listen to it online go to my website here.
Thanks
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Thanks
Hey everyone that's reading my blog, I know there are so many of you. But that's ok, I'm not writing this blog for you, it's completely for me. If you are actually reading this that's cool, I love feedback, and you should definitely keep reading when I do update and tell your friends. And to the rest of my non-existent readers, I hate you....
Well, sorry about that, I'm not really sure what happened there. But I just wanted to let everyone know that I finally wrote and recorded my second song. You can find "Thanks" and my first song "My Real World" at my website, DevonSchreiner.com. I also appreciate feedback on my music and everything I do, I always love getting better at things I do.
To tell you the truth, I wasn't planning on recording this song. I just wanted to write it out because I had it running around in my head. I wrote it out, it kind of sounded stupid but it worked and I had a melody that I thought I could put to it. I went into the radio station to record it, 8 hours later I walked out with an almost finished recording of it. I was very happy with it and actually surprised at how it sounded. I went back the next day, did some minor tweaking here and there and this is the song you are now listening to.
If you have any feedback at all either leave a comment or let me know on facebook or email me at devvon@gmail.com or something. Just let me know. Thanks. Here are the lyrics if anyone cares.
Looking back on the days I spent,
Just a few seconds seems longer than them.
There's only one thing, I need to say to you,
And that's thanks for bringing me back, back from the blue.
I gotta thank you for the laughter,
It's almost ridiculous enough.
I would bet you a million dollars,
I can't say this enough.
Thanks, Thank you for the laughter.
Thanks, Thank you for the good times.
Thanks, Thanks for bringing me back.
Thanks, Thank God for you.
That one word sums up what needs to be said,
To you and to all those that revealed this path to me.
Appreciation dawns to little to late,
I pray I don't die such a horrible fate.
I gotta thank you for the laughter,
It's almost ridiculous enough.
I would bet you a million dollars,
I can't say this enough.
Thanks, Thank you for the laughter.
Thanks, Thank you for the good times.
Thanks, Thanks for bringing me back.
Thanks, Thank God for you.
And there's one that I can't,
Forget to thank enough.
The one that changed my life,
In more ways than one.
I'm glad you let me down,
Thanks for breaking my heart.
Wounds heal stronger when they've been torn apart.
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks.
I gotta thank you for the laughter,
It's almost ridiculous enough.
I would bet you a million dollars,
I can't say this enough.
Thanks, Thank you for the laughter.
Thanks, Thank you for the good times.
Thanks, Thanks for bringing me back.
Thanks, Thank God for you.
Repeat until end.
Thanks.
Well, sorry about that, I'm not really sure what happened there. But I just wanted to let everyone know that I finally wrote and recorded my second song. You can find "Thanks" and my first song "My Real World" at my website, DevonSchreiner.com. I also appreciate feedback on my music and everything I do, I always love getting better at things I do.
To tell you the truth, I wasn't planning on recording this song. I just wanted to write it out because I had it running around in my head. I wrote it out, it kind of sounded stupid but it worked and I had a melody that I thought I could put to it. I went into the radio station to record it, 8 hours later I walked out with an almost finished recording of it. I was very happy with it and actually surprised at how it sounded. I went back the next day, did some minor tweaking here and there and this is the song you are now listening to.
If you have any feedback at all either leave a comment or let me know on facebook or email me at devvon@gmail.com or something. Just let me know. Thanks. Here are the lyrics if anyone cares.
Looking back on the days I spent,
Just a few seconds seems longer than them.
There's only one thing, I need to say to you,
And that's thanks for bringing me back, back from the blue.
I gotta thank you for the laughter,
It's almost ridiculous enough.
I would bet you a million dollars,
I can't say this enough.
Thanks, Thank you for the laughter.
Thanks, Thank you for the good times.
Thanks, Thanks for bringing me back.
Thanks, Thank God for you.
That one word sums up what needs to be said,
To you and to all those that revealed this path to me.
Appreciation dawns to little to late,
I pray I don't die such a horrible fate.
I gotta thank you for the laughter,
It's almost ridiculous enough.
I would bet you a million dollars,
I can't say this enough.
Thanks, Thank you for the laughter.
Thanks, Thank you for the good times.
Thanks, Thanks for bringing me back.
Thanks, Thank God for you.
And there's one that I can't,
Forget to thank enough.
The one that changed my life,
In more ways than one.
I'm glad you let me down,
Thanks for breaking my heart.
Wounds heal stronger when they've been torn apart.
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks.
I gotta thank you for the laughter,
It's almost ridiculous enough.
I would bet you a million dollars,
I can't say this enough.
Thanks, Thank you for the laughter.
Thanks, Thank you for the good times.
Thanks, Thanks for bringing me back.
Thanks, Thank God for you.
Repeat until end.
Thanks.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Busy, Busy, Busy....
Busy, Busy, Busy....
Why is everything so busy all the time? I was really hoping that when summer hit everything and everyone would slow down and there would be some time to relax. I finally move home from school only to start working.
I am now working full time out at Steve's Repair and Shag. Now, this is actually really fun. I've never done anything like this and I am definitely learning a lot about trucks and about being a mechanic. These are good life skills here.
I am also still working at the Q107/KORN Radio stations. I linked the websites, they are finally up, but still definitely under construction. We are working as fast and hard as we can to get those up and fully functional.
And why not continue with school while I'm out of school? I am taking a Speech and Advanced Composition online this summer to hopefully get ahead in school. I think this was a mistake, I'm not really liking school during the summer.
Also, I've been doing a couple of websites lately. The websites listed above are all mine while I also just agreed to create the Holy Family Catholic Church Website here in Mitchell. Websites are fun. I've got a couple.
Why is everything so busy all the time? I was really hoping that when summer hit everything and everyone would slow down and there would be some time to relax. I finally move home from school only to start working.
I am now working full time out at Steve's Repair and Shag. Now, this is actually really fun. I've never done anything like this and I am definitely learning a lot about trucks and about being a mechanic. These are good life skills here.
I am also still working at the Q107/KORN Radio stations. I linked the websites, they are finally up, but still definitely under construction. We are working as fast and hard as we can to get those up and fully functional.
And why not continue with school while I'm out of school? I am taking a Speech and Advanced Composition online this summer to hopefully get ahead in school. I think this was a mistake, I'm not really liking school during the summer.
Also, I've been doing a couple of websites lately. The websites listed above are all mine while I also just agreed to create the Holy Family Catholic Church Website here in Mitchell. Websites are fun. I've got a couple.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Philanthropy
Just as everyone else is, I have been very busy the last couple weeks. And it's only going to get worse for at least a couple weeks to come.
On Friday, Phi Kappa Theta hosted their first major philanthropy event. Phi Kap put on a Lenten Fish Fry for Kids to benefit the Children's Miracle Network. It was a lot of fun to help make this happen. We were also a little bit surprised, but very happy with the turnout. Over 300 tickets were sold, over 80 lbs. of fish was fried, and over $1100 was raised for CMN. We are very happy with the results of our efforts.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon also had their annual philanthropy event on Saturday and Sunday, Dance Marathon. The event ran from 9am Saturday morning until 9am Sunday morning. The 24 hour period was filled with dancing, games, entertainment, food, and fun. I had the chance to also attend this event and it was more fun than anyone could imagine. SAE's national philanthropy is also CMN and the also raised a lot of money for the organization.
This is one of the things that I have found out since I have been at college. That doing community service and helping people out can be very rewarding for everyone, not just the person benefiting from the service. I think there should be more of this selfless giving on everyone's part, and there would be a lot more happy people around the world.
On Friday, Phi Kappa Theta hosted their first major philanthropy event. Phi Kap put on a Lenten Fish Fry for Kids to benefit the Children's Miracle Network. It was a lot of fun to help make this happen. We were also a little bit surprised, but very happy with the turnout. Over 300 tickets were sold, over 80 lbs. of fish was fried, and over $1100 was raised for CMN. We are very happy with the results of our efforts.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon also had their annual philanthropy event on Saturday and Sunday, Dance Marathon. The event ran from 9am Saturday morning until 9am Sunday morning. The 24 hour period was filled with dancing, games, entertainment, food, and fun. I had the chance to also attend this event and it was more fun than anyone could imagine. SAE's national philanthropy is also CMN and the also raised a lot of money for the organization.
This is one of the things that I have found out since I have been at college. That doing community service and helping people out can be very rewarding for everyone, not just the person benefiting from the service. I think there should be more of this selfless giving on everyone's part, and there would be a lot more happy people around the world.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Back From Tour
3/15/09
If you haven't checked out my new website yet, do it. DevonSchreiner.com.
I am finally back from tour with the Chamber Singers, what a blast that was. Now I get to work. So the Chamber Singers, after tour, get the weekend off before starting classes again. I got to work all weekend.... yay. But that is OK I guess, I am not opposed to making more money.
Also if you care, I just put up a new website for the local music shop here in Mitchell, Paulson's Music Center. If you want to check the website out, you can do that at PaulsonsMusic.com. It is still not very far along but you can get the general idea of what it is going to look like. All feedback is appreciated on things like that too.
I was thinking about bringing back Our Perspective, the radio podcast Kevin and I started a while ago and then let drop. But then I figured I can't even keep stuff like this up-to-date very well, how would I keep a podcast up-to-date? So maybe we will look into that issue again this summer or something. But chances are I will be just as busy this summer, but who knows.
If you haven't checked out my new website yet, do it. DevonSchreiner.com.
I am finally back from tour with the Chamber Singers, what a blast that was. Now I get to work. So the Chamber Singers, after tour, get the weekend off before starting classes again. I got to work all weekend.... yay. But that is OK I guess, I am not opposed to making more money.
Also if you care, I just put up a new website for the local music shop here in Mitchell, Paulson's Music Center. If you want to check the website out, you can do that at PaulsonsMusic.com. It is still not very far along but you can get the general idea of what it is going to look like. All feedback is appreciated on things like that too.
I was thinking about bringing back Our Perspective, the radio podcast Kevin and I started a while ago and then let drop. But then I figured I can't even keep stuff like this up-to-date very well, how would I keep a podcast up-to-date? So maybe we will look into that issue again this summer or something. But chances are I will be just as busy this summer, but who knows.
On Tour
3/9/09
Well as some of you may or may not know I guess, I am a member of the Chamber Singers at the University of South Dakota. We have been on tour now for a couple of days, since the 6th. We have already done concerts in Mitchell, Rapid City and Bell Fourche and we are on our way to Pierre right now to do another. If you haven't gotten a chance to see the concert and would like to see it, shoot me an email and I will reply as soon as I can get to it and let you know where and when the other concerts are.
I am currently on the bus right now, riding with my fellow Chamber Singers and watching a movie. The majority of the bus picked Wall-e.... How does this happen on a bus full of college students? And how was Finding Nemo picked yesterday for the bus ride? I don't get it. Is Disney still that appealing to adults that a bus full of college students chooses to watch them over anything else? I guess I'll just preoccupy myself with my computer here.
Speaking of which, I finally got a new laptop. I got rid of my randomly restarting, unbootable Macbook Pro and picked up a nice, new Macbook Air. Yes, you read that right, a Macbook Air. I never thought I would say that, but I guess here I am. Just so everyone knows, I'm not filthy rich, I sold my old Macbook Pro and got a heck of a deal on this thing and only ended up paying around $200 for this thing. Wouldn't you take a Macbook Air for $200? Ya, that's what I thought. I'll probably do some sort of review on it here in the near future, probably after tour sometime.
But I suppose, I'm going to get back to Wall-e, either that or read my book.....
Well as some of you may or may not know I guess, I am a member of the Chamber Singers at the University of South Dakota. We have been on tour now for a couple of days, since the 6th. We have already done concerts in Mitchell, Rapid City and Bell Fourche and we are on our way to Pierre right now to do another. If you haven't gotten a chance to see the concert and would like to see it, shoot me an email and I will reply as soon as I can get to it and let you know where and when the other concerts are.
I am currently on the bus right now, riding with my fellow Chamber Singers and watching a movie. The majority of the bus picked Wall-e.... How does this happen on a bus full of college students? And how was Finding Nemo picked yesterday for the bus ride? I don't get it. Is Disney still that appealing to adults that a bus full of college students chooses to watch them over anything else? I guess I'll just preoccupy myself with my computer here.
Speaking of which, I finally got a new laptop. I got rid of my randomly restarting, unbootable Macbook Pro and picked up a nice, new Macbook Air. Yes, you read that right, a Macbook Air. I never thought I would say that, but I guess here I am. Just so everyone knows, I'm not filthy rich, I sold my old Macbook Pro and got a heck of a deal on this thing and only ended up paying around $200 for this thing. Wouldn't you take a Macbook Air for $200? Ya, that's what I thought. I'll probably do some sort of review on it here in the near future, probably after tour sometime.
But I suppose, I'm going to get back to Wall-e, either that or read my book.....
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