Stay tuned!!!

Will be returning to the blog once again... for my past year's adventures, you'll want to go to my travel blog ...

http://lizettetravels.blogspot.com

I'm back in the states 23rd of July and will start using this side again :)... that is, till I go out traveling again... :)

My dear Spiegelman makes news again!!

http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/18/technology/yahoomusic.fortune/index.htm

Yahoo Music wants to top the charts again
The former No. 1 music site taps classic rock as part of its comeback strategy.

By Devin Leonard, senior writer

NOVEMBER 19, 2008: 7:31 AM ET



NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) Music isn't necessarily the first place where you'd expect to find hordes of Grateful Dead and Black Sabbath fans.

But David Skye, a new blogger on Yahoo Music, elicited hundreds of passionate comments last month when he listed the top 10 rock and roll bootlegs of all time. His picks were unauthorized live albums by classic acts like The Dead, Black Sabbath, Bruce Springsteen and Pink Floyd, all of whom were rocking long before anybody imagined listening to music on a PC.

That is exactly what Yahoo Music chief Michael Spiegelman wants to hear. He is trying to revamp Yahoo's music site, and he's fairly certain classic rock can help. "The youth market is a very important part of the audience we serve, but we also have a lot of people in their 30s, 40s or 50s," he said. "They are passionate about music. But they are not necessarily waiting for the new Rihanna track."

Yahoo Music needs to do more to keep its users - both young and old - from decamping to competing sites. As recently as October 2007, Yahoo Music was the Internet's largest music destination with 22 million monthly users, according to comScore. A year later, Yahoo has lost 18% of that audience and has fallen behind AOL Music (TWX,Fortune 500) and MySpace (NWS, Fortune 500) Music.

Part of the problem is the ongoing turmoil at Yahoo as the company has struggled with a hostile takeover bid by Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) and a shareholder revolt led by Carl Icahn. On Monday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang himself announced that he is stepping down from his post and returning to his old job as a "Chief Yahoo."

There has also been an employee exodus from Yahoo Music. In 2007, Dave Goldberg, then head of Yahoo Music, abruptly departed to join a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Benchmark Capital. His successor, Ian Rogers, jumped ship early this year to run TopSpin Media, a much-buzzed-about startup that helps artists market their music directly to fans.

"I think [Yahoo Music] just lost direction with Dave Goldberg departing," said Ted Cohen, managing partner of TAG Strategic, a digital media consultancy. "Then Ian took over. I think Ian just got tired of raging against the machine to move forward."

Spiegelman, who joined Yahoo Music in 2003, is trying to recover lost ground. He has closed the company's music download service, which was never a strong competitor to iTunes. "We don't necessarily want to be in the business of selling tracks," Spiegelman said. "We want to be connecting you with other users and providing you with perspective."

Instead of selling songs, Yahoo is trying to build a diverse community of music fans. That involves redesigning the site, adding concert information, music blogs and video playlists.

Under Spiegelman, Yahoo Music is also targeting older fans whom he says might be turned off by youth-oriented music destinations like MySpace and iMeem.

That makes perfect sense to David Dorn, senior vice president of new media at Warner Music's (WMG) Rhino Entertainment. Dorn has provided Yahoo Music with exclusive tracks and videos by so-called legacy bands like the Dead and Led Zeppelin.

He has prodded Yahoo to do more outreach to classic rock fans: "There's nothing wrong with the new Katy Perry single," Dorn said. "But there's a big audience there that has to be served."

Along with posting unearthed tracks and video, Spiegelman is also beefing up the editorial content devoted to classic rock on Yahoo Music. New partners include GetBack.com, a music-oriented web site targeted at people in their mid-thirties and older. GetBack is responsible for the much-discussed ten best bootlegs post.

Baby boomers rhapsodized about the choices of GetBack.com's David Skye. Meanwhile, younger music fans protested his failure to include more current hit makers such as rapper Lil' Wayne . But not all of the Yahoo users in this demographic were dissatisfied. "Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, they rock no matter what - and I am 11 yrs old," wrote one pre-teen classic rock fan.

"Where can I download these?" asked another.

Shawn Amos, director of content for GetBack.com, said that is just the kind of varied response he's looking for. "We are discovering a generational fault line that exists on Yahoo, and we've been trying to stir that up," he said.

Indeed, GetBack.com's writers have also blogged about what Miley Cyrus could learn from older female rockers like Pat Benatar and Chrissie H ynd e and cheekily noted the stylistic debt that younger bands like Radiohead and Coldplay owe to the graying members of U2.

Will Spiegelman reverse the slide at Yahoo Music with these changes? It's too soon to say. "They've had a checkered history when it comes to music," cautioned Mike McGuire, vice president of media research at research firm Gartner.

But McGuire said the changes at Yahoo Music "make sense." What's more, he said the music site still is still a force to be reckoned with because of its enormous audience.

Spiegelman is quick to note that the Yahoo Music redesign is just beginning. He said Yahoo will add more features early next year.

"They gave us a presentation a few months back," said Jesse Ervin, director of online marketing for EMI Music's catalogue, which includes the Beatles, the Beach Boys and The Band. "It looks exciting. We can change and update our artist pages, just like on MySpace and Facebook."

It's unlikely that Yahoo would have given record companies such access to the site a few years back. But that was when Yahoo Music was No. 1. Now, to paraphrase Lennon and McCartney, it needs a little help from its friends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santoki

First Verse:
산토끼 토끼야 어디를 가느냐
깡총깡총 뛰면서 어디를 가느냐
Second Verse:
산고개 고개를 나혼자 넘어서
토실토실 알밤을 주워서 올테야


This brings back many memories! :)

hey guys!
you have alot of reading to do!!!!! I just updated the blog with all my various thoughts.....
theres like 10 different stories...

go!

http://lizettetravels.blogspot.com/

So, as far as any Peru related adventures, I will be posting here:
http://lizettetravels.blogspot.com/

random youtube videos and such i'll probably come back and post them here...

one more day and i'm off!!

Went to Google Analytics again to see what sort of random keywords people have used to eventually end up at my website.. here are some of the interesting ones: (oh and there were about a 100 searching for LAX parking)

dazzle border collie
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pretty lizette gems
"i also have a reliable shipping company that have shipped a pet for me in the past and they are capable of handling the shipping."
"irredento urbanita"
"mark loves lamp"
"ross blanchard" 2008
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dream i was infected by worms
eat tilefish
eligarden before and after pictures
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george michael
how often has christmas and new years fallen on a tuesday or a thursday
how to deal with penguins smelly farts
i am the ghost christmas past
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mediaeater
metro lyrics and gracenote
mullets
naked "our camp" "burning man"
orbinski
recipe roast penguin
steven hawkings
weird blurry blind spot
what does mean: we don't know for sure whether words save lives, but we know for sure that silence kills, said dr james orbinski
what eats a eastern redbud

Don't eat foie gras
and don't watch this video if you're squeemish...

Next year's burningman theme... Evolution.




Had an interesting burningman this year... it went super fast because I felt like I didn't quite unwind until Thursday, so it really only felt like I had a 4 day long burningman rather than 7... not surprisingly considering various factors (leaving to Peru, being on the emergency services mental health branch) it was a bit hard to let go of things on my mind... the last two years @ burningman it took me about 2 days to just totally shake off any sort of past/future worries and be absolutely in the present and just enjoy being out there... it was harder this year... (and for that reason I unfortunately think I won't be doing the emergency services stuff for at least a few more years).. on the other hand, I really liked being on the mh team... the people on the team are amazing and i just am awe-inspired by them... it fed my curiousity of what happens behind the scenes at burningman... i got to eat a yummy meal every day in an air-conditioned tent (huge luxury out there, especially considering i have a hard time eating when it's hot)... discussing various 'cases' and helping people out there was really neat... it's unfortunate that sexual assault and domestic violence occurs out there, but it's nice to be a part of helping people through it... so like i said, at the same time, it was hard to really 'let go' because of it.. and it's a real 'bummer' on your 'vacation' to be dealing with that sort of stuff.. i think in the slightly distant future i may be willing to take on such a responsibility and time commitment, but i think for the next few years i'm not ready..

so lets see... if you've read any news articles, you'd probably heard about the two huge sand storms that happened monday and saturday... monday's seems to be the worst i've ever experienced (though i've only gone two years prior).. the playa was not so great this year either with the sandiness... in the years past, we'd be zooming along the playa, i'd have a camera in one hand taking pictures as art cars drove by and we'd see tons of art installations.. this year they seemed to be not even 1/3rd of the art and you needed both hands to just keep from falling off your bike and to push through the sand ....it was literally biking through sand... the heat wasn't so bad (apparently because of the storms)... and the whole week was much easier to tolerate since having ayren/eric's RV to get some relief from the weather

it's like visiting another country for a week :) i feel like it really re-sorts my life and priorities being out there somehow... not exactly sure what exactly it is that does that.. maybe the extreme whether.. being exposed to so many things that are not in 'real life'.. who knows... but whatever it is, i think that's what gets me going every year... well that and alot of other things...

here are some pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frunkus/sets/72157607115386746/

There are people out there that are just born to travel... I'm not one of those people and it often feels like I'm about to live the life of one... I'm very excited and looking forward to the experience, but it is very much out of my comfort zone...

Apparently a few others have the same sort of anxiety as I do about traveling...

Though, strangely motivational, there's this one demotivational poster I saw a while back (can't seem to find it on a google search)... that says something like: If you can do something that thousands of other people have done, with available tools and resources, then you can do anything.... yeah, not everyone quits their stable nice-paying job with benefits and up and leaves the country.. but there are alot of people who have done it...

Cuzco, Peru, 11,000 feet

so i made a joke in spanish class last week and no one got it....
we were talking about kitchen stuff and food and it came to the topic of the knife and cutting and the teacher was like... so what do we cut?.. (and of course all of this is in spanish) and people are saying steak... tomatoes... . and i yelled out 'queso!'... and no one seemed to get it .. hah.. oh well

I've had a *GREAT* birthday weekend so far! It started out with going out to the Getty (well this wasn't officially part of my birthday, it was more the Ayren/Lizette weekly gathering, but it was the start of my weekend)... from the folks we invited out, there was maybe 12 (more or less) of us picnic'ing and walking around looking at cool art. Then Saturday was off to Deep Creek Hot Springs for the start of "Britta/Lizette birthday weekend" where we had a FANTASTIC time.. my original expectation was that i was happy if it was at least britta, michael, brentt and I (I already knew ayren/eric couldn't go)... but it turned out there was about 20 people in our group who drove out there and did the 25 min hike to frolic in the hot springs and probably about 10-15 in our group that camped out that night... it was so awesome cuz a friend brought out a telescope (a huge, high-tech sort of one).. and we saw nebuli, galaxies, jupiter/moons, stars... etc... quite amazing and what a treat! It was just so nice sleeping under the stars.... Sunday was then going to Woodley Park for another GreenSector park party.... it feels like a while since i've gone out dancing so this was loads of fun.
Today we went to Sushi-Zo for Omakase and i think that was the best sushi i've ever had in my life... everything was just so amazingly fresh and just melted in your mouth. I do wish I liked wasabi better... since almost every piece had some in it already, but it was superb nonetheless... and the whole omakase experience was really nice :)

Tomorrow I'm going down for dinner with my mom, brentt, ayren and eric... we're going to go for korean food.. and then later that night I'm off to Technique @ Zanzibar (flyer is previously posted)... Can't get any better than DUBSTEP on my birthday... hurray!!

Next on the agenda... moontribe, moving, then burningman.

EARTHQUAKE!!

Strange tho cuz the map says Diamond Bar which is way far from the Westside where i am...

Night of my birthday: