My vision on livejournal is to connect with other writers to form a collaboration social network. I have connected with friends on myspace, facebook, soundclick, kompoz, googleReader, whatfreaks, youtube, and poetrypoem. The goal of my circle of contacts, including myself, is to inform, share and entertain each other with our gifts and our talents. You never know what important information you might get if you would just communicate with people. The best way to discover and learn new things is to become affiliated in a network in some form, getting the latest highlights on topics, news, gossip, and events. People got hired on to some of the best jobs and careers by word-of-mouth. I would feel great if I helped somebody get on to a great opportunity based upon a lead that I gave them. I might not be qualified to build a railway, but I sure can give somebody else the information who is if I accidentally ran across an ad while I was looking for a particular job. Communication is the key in any relationship whether it's a business relationship, or a personal mutual relationship, and organization is the key to success. How can a person achieve success without a potential target to hit, or a focus? Well, networking is the communication, and media is the illustration, and when you bring them together, you have made what is known as an organization of integrated systems. What do I mean by "systems?" Notice that I mentioned illustration and media. An illustration is an imagery and not necessarily a graphic image as most people think, although illustration is mostly preceded by graphic imagery. When websites offer a service to its members, particularly the feature of uploading photos and videos, that is one system in itself. When a different website offers its members the service of sharing documents, sending attatchments from microsoft presentations, and the option to sell and promote their products online, that is another system. All of this falls under the category of technology. Today's computer programming engineers have advanced our systems with newer innovations, and as companies expand and network, the entrepreneurs, business associates, and home computer users like you and me continue to build upon those innovations until more new discoveries are made. On the largest scale, that is the definition of a computer-industry revolution. Websites have improved their "help" pages with video tutorials to enrich their users with the knowledge and tools to customize and build their own network systems while improving their sales percentages, net traffic, and increasing their chances of a successful marketing career. Concerning my network, I invite everyone to join me for a collaboration. Following is a set of links to my sites where you can become a part of my friends network groups. For writers of poetry: http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?sitename=aheartofnotes&item=home&poetry=true For musicians who have a software for making music: http://www.kompoz.com/compose-collaborate/memberId-6000/profile.member If you are a comedian or simply have an interest in song parodies, or any kind of parody for that matter, please become my friend on myspace, and check out my song parodies here: http://ksolo.myspace.com/actions/showSongProfile.do?rid=996778&sid=27298&uid=4016997 If you are pretty active in summer events, or if you keep yourself informed of changes and trends in the entrepreneurial world, then join my group on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100000347770315 If you are an independent artist looking to promote your music and connect with other artists, then I invite you to my page on soundclick: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=884741 For googleReader bloggers: http://www.google.com/profiles/Da.ShizNick Bloggers: http://www.blogg

According to Wikipedia, "A parody, also called send-up or spoof), in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation." I am a parodist, and I enjoy poking fun at people's creativity and work. I also enjoy imitating other people. I don't know why I do, but it's just one of my hobbies. Other familiar terms are lampoon and spoof. I do what is called parody songwriting, taking popular melodic tunes and combining them with my own set of lyrics. I believe that that it is a potentially good market for anyone who is a good comedian. All parodies are subject to critique, and not everyone can write a good parody. The best parodies are performed and/or presented to the public media in 2 forms, and they are film and music. There is a such thing as film parody. Remember the film Master P. made that parodied the original movie, "Scarface?" Master P. played Tony Montanna. That is one example of a film parody. There are music video parodies all over the internet. A lot of them seem to poke fun at Rihanna, Chris Brown's old girlfriend. Here's one of those videos, http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcp464_lady-gaga-beyonce-telephone-parody_shortfilms One thing that I read is that the reputation of a parody has outlasted the life of the inspiring work. One of the greatest icons in this field of work is Weird Al Yankovic. I recently learned that parodies are automatically protected by law, and that the parodist isn't required to seek permission to do it, although Al Yankovic does it as a personal rule inspite of the "fair use" law. There is another form of parody known as lampoon or spoof, very common today, especially on the internet. Think about the movies, "Terminator," with Arnold Shwartzennegar, and "The Greatest Story Ever Told," which featured Charleton Heston. Now take both of the main celebs from both movies and bring them together to make a new movie. Well, that would produce a very funny film known as a blank parody. Blank parody, is when the parodist takes the skeletal form of a play or production and place it into a new form to give the context from the original form a new shape and a new meaning sort-of-speak. For an example of that, please visit the following link. http://www.youtube.com/wath?v=VGnNfTywjpk This is synonymous to impersonating someone while placing that person in a fixed setting to exploit their image in a humorous or satiric manner. A lot of people make comedy videos in which the object is to ridicule a particular person whose reputation is very widespread among the public view. Take the Pastor Kearney Thomas spoof for example. Too many people ridicule so-called evangelists who encourage people to send them money in return for a healing. I find this to be very bad, and nobody should send them money, but instead, parody those fake evangelists in a video. If I have to call someone to get healed, and send them money in return for a "blood-of-Jesus" handkerchief, then something is wrong there. Check out the spoof below. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-6gMNZ7NvW6l/pastor_kerney_thomas_screaming/ Parody itself is identical to the attributes of music in nature in that it has its own style, genre, structure, and message. Some parodies are political while other ones are religious. Most parodies are secular and have nothing to do with religious figures. Each and every comedian have his/her own style of comedy. Even if two comedian do the same act, the act itself will be interpreted differently by both comedians. I am currently networking with other artists and comedians to for a collaboration social network. Please share your comedy with me if you happen to be a comedian of some sort, and I will be very happy to add you as a friend. We can write some stuff. The last lin&#

I am now writing and performing parody songs. That is what I do also. I have posted several parodies of mine on whatfreaks.com, amIright.com, badave.com, youtube.com, and myspace.com. Political satires, spoofs, and lampoons is not my taste, but parodying well known beats and songs by famous artists is what I enjoy doing. However, it is just one of my hobbies besides playing chess. I look forward to posting more of my parodies on my profile here on soundclick. I hope you listen to them and tell me what you think. Artist whose songs I like to parody are Alicia Keys, Beyonce Knowles, Mary J. Blige, Lil' Mo, Robert Kelly and Ron Isley, Brian McKnight, and Whitney Houston, and including Billy Joel.

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It seems to me that celebs are always getting themselves into trouble. Money doesn't change a person. If it does, then something is very much confusing about the way nature works. Money cannot change a person's nature. That's like saying that money can change a leopard's spots. Impossible. Likewise, if Lil Wayne was a gangsta before or up to the start his career, then he will continue to be one throughout his career. His success and fame did not help him to clean up his act. That is something people must do by will power. From what I read it had something to do with a gun charge according to Rapid City Journal. Why would a person need a gun if they are doing what they're supposed to be doing? Why put yourself at risk if you know you shouldn't be doing something? Lil Wayne had no business in a gang for one, and 2, he had no business with a gun. What's wrong with our role models today? How are we going to allow our kids to take after such rap artists? This is not how I want my children to live. I want to keep my child out of prison. We as parents must understand that just because someone is famous doesn't mean they are a good role model for our children.