Early this morning, I had to wake up as I had to meet the Lesson Plan Submission module on www.lessonopoly.org. Well thats almost done and I am happy with the results. Just waiting for the meeting with Sajid (Our Boss), so I can show this new wizard to him for approval and lets get ourselves down and dirty with the new things on Lessonopoly. Oh, did I say, Down & dirty, well that takes me back to the reason why I am writing this blog post. Read the full blog post to find out.

Well I received this email from HP (yeah Hewlett-Packard) just a few minutes ago and I was really impressed by how this new Laptop is being Marketed in a funny, interactive, eye catching, interesting, lovely, engaging and awesome way. Have a look at my Inbox.

Mike has done some really good acting stuff here on this website. His expressions are awesome and his dialogs are very funny. Check yourself here on the HP Site.

Yeah here comes another great youtube discovery of mine. There are million ways to be kool/ cool. The song is too damn good and its Title “Oh, Ok Go, You’re a million ways to be cool” says it all. The video is a backyard dance of these 4 guys as I just collected a picture from web of them

Bringing a distant family member to various school functions, and passing them off as your significant other: Not cool. Tights and oversized sweatshirts: Cool for salacious dance teachers, not cool for an awkward high school senior. However, impromptu choreographed dance routines? Always cool.
Unfortunately for most, dance routines are always out of place, and generally result with being banned from various establishments. Ok Go, on the other hand, can perform one in the middle of their set, and look cooler than the Backstreet Boys did when they did that thing with the chairs.
“We never really thought that it would be our video [for "A Million Ways"], we just wanted to come up with a dance so that we could drop our instruments in the middle of our show, and perform a dance routine,” said Damian Kulash, Ok Go’s lead singer and guitarist. “If we could make people feel like they were living in a musical for a second that would be totally awesome.”

Jazz hands and pelvic thrusts aside, Ok Go is currently on tour promoting their second album Oh No, which they worked on with the guidance of Tore Johansson, the man responsible for Franz Ferdinand’s debut album.
Tore, known for his almost authoritarian production methods would not let the boys settle for anything that was less than perfect. Harsh? Perhaps, but it was all in good fun and the end result was an album that could rock your face off.
“We wanted to make something more consistent than our first. Our first record and our demos are really spastic and all over the place – so we tried to indulge that and ended up with this really overproduced collage with a million different ideas … One gigantic production after the next,” Kulash said. “With the new record we wanted something that was simpler, and more consistent. The new record is much more spare, and aggressive, and a lot more human.”
After touring relentlessly for two years straight following the release of their first album, one might assume that the shattered social lives and destroyed relationships would deter a band from embarking on such an adventure again. Not Ok Go.
Once again, these boys are on the road promoting their new album with a ridiculously large and lengthy world tour, but have learned a few things from their previous experiences whilst traveling.
“[The Tour] was an emotion backdrop to songwriting, but I thought that every caffeinated revelation that I had in the back of the van would be another great idea for a song. I thought I had the most monstrous pile of song ideas laid out, and I would open up the creative floodgates, and it would be this geyser of brilliance, but it wasn’t,” he said. “It took about six months after we got back to learn how to write a song that we liked again. Still, there is a reckless sense to the new album’s lyrics that comes from the experiences we had while on tour.”

The ridiculous amount of touring, however, stems from the idea that every band has to start somewhere. Starting as a band of four guys back in Chicago, Ok Go spent a lot of time looking for a spot in the industry that, in their opinion, was obsessed with bands making music that was depressing.
Perhaps with some bitterness about their beginnings, Kulash and the rest of Ok Go have some advice for independent bands that are straddling the cusp between the garage and the main stage.
To put it bluntly, regardless of what type of music you play, and regardless of whether or not the music industry is leaning towards your style, wait until you don’t suck.
“Don’t play for people until you don’t suck,” said Kulash. “Don’t play for people until you practice. No one wants to hear a guy on stage that doesn’t really know what he’s doing. People think that when you’re up there on stage with all the lights on you and stuff that you just look cooler. Really, the truth is, you don’t.”
Ok Go play with Controller.Controller at The Casbah in Hamilton on Feb. 7.

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