Request #1: Ability to forward received SMS text messages.

On my LG Verizon phone, I could forward on to one of my contacts a text message I had received without any issue. Although I didn’t do it very often, it would come in handy. Not sure how Apple would do it with the conversation style format of the current SMS application.

I’ll probably be adding to this whenever I find other things to add, for now though, that’s all…

On my way home this afternoon, I had a chance to listen to a lot of XM Radio and my iPod. A song that I have heard over the past week has been “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It” by Darius Rucker. If any of you have heard the song, you’ll notice Darius has a very familiar voice. He was the lead singer for Hootie and the Blowfish. It took me a week to figure it out until I finally looked it up. I really like the song, and he has an amazing singing voice. Take a listen to his new release!

I went home this weekend for family pictures in Wichita, KS. Of course, I also had to enjoy Sunday lunch with my family at my grandmother’s and eat some wonderful food! Every time I return home to Winfield, it’s about a 3 hour drive from Kansas City. I get a chance to listen to a lot of music, and look at a lot of fields and rolling plains. But there is one thing that I thought about on the way home…

Growing up in the country, you will know what I am talking about, especially if you drive a truck. It’s an unspoken bond between farmers, and people of the country to be friendly. Of course, this is during the day before the whiskey comes out a night, which is another story. For the most part, country folk are friendly people. When you’re driving outside the city in any rural part of Kansas, you’ll find that total strangers will wave at you from their vehicle in passing. By wave, I mean the two or three finger wave with their wrist still on the steering wheel, somewhat nonchalant. Whether or not you know them, they just do. I’ve noticed it a lot more since I have driven a truck for every vehicle of mine from the time I was able to drive. For some reason, it doesn’t happen quite as much in cars. Either way, it’s something I think is pretty cool. So, on my way home, I followed suit, and waved right back to those that waved at me, hand on steering wheel, with two fingers.

So, next time you are in a rural part of Kansas, be friendly, you may just get a wave or two without even trying.

I got an email today from YouTube stating one of my recent videos was rejected due to copyright infringement. I had posted a video last week of Widespread Panic covering Van Morrison’s “And It Stoned Me”. I really like this song by Van Morrison, and also dig Widespread’s cover of it, which I saw live at Uptown Theater here in KC.

Anyway, it was one the second video I had posted of some of video I have taken at several concerts I have been to so far, but the first copyright notice I have gotten. In all fairness, YouTube does state pretty clearly that any footage of concerts without the express permission of the copyright owners is prohibited. So, nothing I can really do.

The internet has become so congested with piracy this, piracy that, lawsuit here, lawsuit there. Recently, VIACOM sued Google (YouTube’s parent company) for a billion dollars, and a judge ordered Google to hand over every user’s information, how many times they watched any video, what they posted, etc. This is coming from a judge that probably knows very little about the internet. However, it is setting a pretty bad precedence on a user’s privacy. I have a feeling this type of thing is going to continue until the Recording and Movie industry can figure out a way to capitalize on the internet as an advertising and distribution medium. The only thing they’ve figured out so far is how to sue people. Seems to me like they’re trying to paddle upstream here.

For now, I’ll abide by the terms YouTube has set forth. Maybe someday we can spread the word of artists so that new fans can go out and see live shows, instead of pirating their mp3s off the internet and never knowing how great live shows are.

I haven’t written here in a while, and couldn’t sleep (probably because I took a 2 hour nap earlier). Anyway, I should probably write here more, otherwise, it’s somewhat pointless to have your own site don’t you think? Yeah, me too.

I watched a movie tonight, “Definitely, Maybe”. I know, it’s a chick flick, but I can do that every once in a while. I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. I had seen the trailer, and though it would be your run-of-the-mill love story, which it kinda was, but I could actually relate. The main focus of the movie (without giving any spoilers), is a single dad, telling his daughter, the story of how he met her mother. Unlike “How I Met Your Mother”, which is one of my favorite TV shows, it focuses on the sappy stuff, not the situational comedy stuff. Besides, who wants to watch a love story every Monday night for 30 minutes during prime time? That’s why they make movies I guess.

Back to the whole me relating to the movie thing. Growing up, my parents were divorced, like the girl in the movie who’s parents are also going through a divorce. Ryan Reynold’s character plays a typical male, who goes through dating in college and post-grad, which many of us can relate to. It tells of why you may think that one person is “the one”, and doesn’t work out, for whatever reasons. The trials and tribulations of dating, and how things turn out after time. There’s a symbolism in a book that has significant meaning which I too, have an item much like the book in the movie. And without giving too much away, there’s something that the dad tells his daughter, that I have also been told by my dad. All of which, make you think about things.

So, even though this was a “chick flick”, it was a movie that accomplished it’s purpose, telling a story that hopefully someone out there can relate to. I know I did.

If you’re interested in any of the movies I watch, check out my movies page, I try to update it when I watch new stuff, but as you can tell, I can fall behind at times. Anyway, thanks for reading…