ideas.

if you gave me a penny for every distraction i have, i'd be straight chilling right now. that's the question: how do i turn a distraction into money? the answer might well be to work with the distraction, no? or, get paid to be distracted? but isn't that the whole point of a distraction? to take you away from your focus? couldn't the distraction become the focus? wait, that's obsession.

focus.

i found this book at hennessey+ingalls by paul arden called, "it's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be." and it's basically become my handbag bible. i carry it around with me everywhere. and every once in a while during the day, i'll take it out, open to a random page, and read. it's totally helping my game in a huge way. today my fave excerpt of the book is:

do not covet your ideas... at work, people are secretive with ideas... the problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. eventually you'll become stale. if you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. this forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish. somehow the more you give away, the more comes back to you. ideas are open knowledge. don't claim ownership. they're not your ideas anyway, they're someone else's. they are out there floating by on the ether. you just have to put yourself in a frame of mind to pick them up.

i don't know what to call this.

so i'm digging through google to see what all the hype on ron paul is about, but for some reason, my instinct is telling me that that's all this guy is: hype. let's just put it this way, any dude who comes off first by saying shit like they're the voice for a "foreign policy of freedom;" that they've "stood alone for freedom for many years;" and that they're "a true defender of liberty" must think that i'm some idiot. i'm not buying it. sorry folks, you can try to school me on this dude, but this is what i'm telling you:

ron paul is the new all-over-print shirt.

how are my peers born & bred in l.a., city or suburb igual, trying to talk to me about being libertarian? i'm talking about being over the invasion of iraq and it's like, "oh you're a libertarian too?" hmmm, i'm just not sure that a lot of my peers who are waving the ron paul flag really get what's going on. it's like howard dean in '04.

hmmm... ok for real though, a will ferrell character or some c-list model/actor (but really porn star) comes to mind whenever i hear the name ron paul. i see the ron paul '08 bumper stickers and i'm thinking it's some joke like the spears/lohan '08 stuff.

honestly.