December 31, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
Who was you with when you got tattoos?
Who was you tripping with when you did them mushrooms?
Who the f*ck threw up all over your car?
And then felt worse then you about that shit in the morning? (Friends ya’ll)
Who loans ya money, homie?
Who owes ya cash?
Who taught you how to use the bong for the grass?
I don’t know much but I gotta assume
When ya hit ya first neden, ya homies was in the room
These are the lyrics to “Homies” by ICP. This song has neared anthem status for those within the Juggalo Family, but more importantly, “Homies” by ICP acts as insurmountable evidence that horror rap can bring people together. Many anti-horror rap crusaders out there have long accused horror rap of being an overly violent, misogynistic genre of music that does nothing but turn youth against their parents, or existing fans against the rest of the public.
As “Homies” by ICP lyrics demonstrate above, nothing could be further from the truth.
But its not just songs like “Homies” by ICP that perpetuate the Juggalo family atmosphere among horror rap fans. Its the people and horror raps over-arching message that makes Juggalo and family go together like horror rap and Psychopathic Records.
ICPs Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, unarguably the godfathers of horror rap music, have always viewed themselves, for better or worse, as misfits. They dont fit in with mainstream society, and would have it no other way. This is where horror rap comes in.
Instead of moping about their status or feelings toward the public at large, the guys write songs like “Homies” by ICP to show a welcoming mentality towards other horror rap heads who feel the exact same way they do.
Has this strategy worked? To say the least, yes. Songs like “Homies” by ICP and the bands general attitude towards the Juggalo family have created an artist-fan bond so strong that ICP could retire now and never have to work again if they wanted to.
The scenarios put forth in “Homies” by ICP, as evident in the lyrics to “Homies” by ICP above, are perfect examples of this kind of Juggalo family love. Aside from their shared love of horror rap, those within the Juggalo family are just as strongly connected as stereotypically bonded relationships, like frat brothers or father-son, if not stronger.
Juggalo family members loan each other money, get too drunk, talk about girls (or boys for the Juggalette members of the Juggalo family) , etc.
So next time you think that horror rap only deals with themes of suicide, murder, Satanism, or other non-sense violence, remember “Homies” by ICP and the Juggalo family bonds! It they werent real, the Juggalo family and all other homies of ICP would have long since disbanded.
December 31, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
Great family quotes can be inspirational and insightful. Perhaps, you are not always on the best of terms with family members or even agree with each member of your family, but nor can you necessarily get along with just any person you. Enjoy the bonds of happiness and closeness that this collection of family quotes and sayings inspire.
Family Quotes
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy– the mother. -Claudette Colbert
A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree. -Helen Keller
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. -Alex Haley
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. -Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. -George Burns
Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. -Milton R. Saperstein
Family is the most important thing in the world. -Princess Diana
If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion. -Ashleigh Brilliant
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. -Jerry Seinfeld
Inspirational Quotes
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. -Albert Einstein
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt
Inches make champions. Vince Lombardi
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Seneca
Inspirational sayings are a great reminder of how to find inner strength. -Unknown
Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin
Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will. -W. Clement Stone
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. -Andrew Carnegie
December 30, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
Ron Pollack: He is back, more adventures to come
After a chance meeting with this man, you probably would have no idea that he had organized one of the biggest and most successful hedge funds in America. At its peak, the fund was valued at more than one billion dollars. Ron Pollack sat in his Florida office dressed in Florida casual–shorts and a T-shirt. He told us about his job as a hedge fund manager and short seller. He also shared details about his family, the charities he has been involved it, and the reason for coming out of a 6-year retirement to manage funds again. Ron says that “short selling is what I do and I need to get back to doing it.”
Ron Pollack is an alumni of Yale (Magna Cum Laude) and earned a M.B.A and J.D. from Harvard. After grad school, Pollack turned to stocks where he joined the ranks of many of his classmates in investment banking and fine tuning his skill as a hedge fund manager. Ron first learned short selling from the Feshbach Brothers.
Both Yale and Harvard seem to have a penchant for turning out successful investors: Jim Chanos (widely credited with exposing Enron as a fraud, and who Ron got to know back in the 1980s when they were both short First Executive Life), Zoe Cruz (a brilliant commodity trader who rose to the co-presidency of Morgan Stanley, a sectionmate of Rons at HBS), Jamie Dinan (CEO of JP Morgan Chase, who Ron used to play pick-up basketball with at HBS), Strauss Zelnick (media wunderkind and Chairman of ZelnickMedia and Take-Two Interactive, Ron’s roommate at Harvard), Scott Schoen and Scott Sperling (co-presidents of leveraged buyout giant THL, and friends of Ron from Harvard), Steve Pagliuca and John Bekenstein (of Bain Capital, friends of Ron from HBS and Yale respectively), Glenn Hutchins (of Silverlake Partners, also a Harvard classmate), to name just a few. Pollack, both a Yale and Harvard graduate, is no exception. After leaving Feshbach in the early 1990s, Pollack built a highly successful family of hedge funds; the most well-known was his short fund, appropriately named Dancing Bear. But towards the end of 2001, Pollack started to a look how he could spend more time with his growing family and helping charities.
“After the terrorist attack on 9/11,” Pollack said, “I was moved by what had happened and I really wanted to help.” The financial markets went into turmoil, and stayed that way, in the months following the attack. Ron felt pulled between his family and his investment business. In November, Ron was on vacation with his three children and his pregnant wife, sitting in a hotel room with his laptop watching the markets. The markets were just crazy and he realized that he had to get back to the office.
On the way back, a he hatched a plan that would not only give him time to spend with his family but also to give back more to society and help with the charities he was passionate about. In 2002, Ron merged his hedge fund business with the Monitor Group in Cambridge, MA. This allowed him to have more time for activities that he loved to do outdoors, volunteer work and spending more times with his kids. He also set up fund-raisers aimed at giving aid to ailing firefighters and law enforcement. Many groups were started because of him.
In his fund-raising role, he sometimes found himself visiting fund managers. Whenever this happened, he became somewhat torn because he had quit trading and he missed being involved. In all the time he served as a volunteer, Pollack actually made only a single trade.
{{{At a charity auction in Vail, Pollack had bid for a day of trading and instruction with a local stockbroker, “just for fun.” Little did this broker know who had won the bid. Needless to say, he was shocked to find out the depth of knowledge that his visitor had. Within the first 15 minutes, Pollack had completed a successful short sale and knew that he “still had it.”|At a charity auction in Vail, Colorado, Pollack, out of humor, was found bidding on a day of trading and instruction from a local stock broker. The broker had no idea who had won the bid. Soon after, he was shocked to find out the vast knowledge and experience his visitor had. Within a short while, Pollack had once again done a successful short sale and knew he was still “the man”|For a bit of personal entertainment, Pollack treated himself to a day of ‘personal training’ and trading with a local stockbroker, which he won at a charity auction in Vail. It was a major surprise for this stockbroker when he discovered who his trainee was going to be and even more of a surprise when he realized quite how much Ron knew about the markets. It took Pollack just 15 minutes to triumph and a successful short sale trade. He then knew that he had not lost his touch.|While at a charity auction, Pollack jokingly bid on a day
December 29, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
Almost all families are addicted to summer vacations. Maybe because of tradition, habit or simply split decision turn of events. Whatever it is, there is no reason not to spend quality time with the family. Why let this year’s summer vacation time with the family pass? Why do you have to wait for the next, next, next years ahead? Enjoy it now and have fun!
Summer vacation is simply described as spending quality time with loved ones in your choice of a vacation destination. Make it a habit to give yourselves a break from pressures of work, school and household tasks. If you are on a tight budget, adjust your plans and be practical. You can have picnics in amusement parks or even yet camping and tent pitching at state parks. Nearby Parks or overseas, it’s still summer vacation fun for parents and their children. When budget is low, it’s not where you spend summer vacation that counts, but how you spend it with the whole family!!!
There are so many factors affecting the decision of a summer vacation for the family. Aside from financial capacity, availability of family members come next. Summer comes only once a year and the family must maximize this rest period and set aside daily tasks and responsibilities. Taking time out from daily routines by going on summer vacation will gain a lot of advantages for the entire family.
The number one advantage a summer vacation can give to your family is quality time to bond with each other. No amount of money can compensate the fun and fulfillment of spending an adventurous vacation escapade as a family. Playing, swimming, singing, dancing, camping, partying or just talking about anything with your children is a total vacation. With the nature of a busy world for parents and children today, it is so difficult to coordinate and keep the family intact. So grab the opportunity during summer time, no to office work and no to school work. A perfect time to be with one another. Go on and make your most unforgettable experience with your family. Spend a relaxing summer vacation.
Make sure that you will have fun and relaxation during your summer vacation. Relaxation and fun are so hard to achieve on regular days. Better yet, relaxation together with your family. This is another advantage of getting out on a summer vacation. When did you last experience relaxation and fun in your homes with the entire family? Your summer vacation destination will give that sought after relaxation and fun even just for a couple of days.
Another advantage in family summer vacation is enabling the parents and children to forget about office work, household tasks, schoolwork and other extra-curricular activities. All you will be doing during your summer vacation is rest, relax and enjoy the company of your spouse and children doing all those summer activities in your vacation destination. Summer vacation is not just spending, traveling and partying. It will make a new kind of relationship within family members.
During the course of planning for your upcoming summer vacation, enjoin your children to suggest anything they feel like contributing towards a great summer vacation. Maybe they have great ideas for the right choice of summer vacation destination and fun filled activities. Their involvement in family discussions and decision making will increase their self-confidence and self-esteem. They will enjoy and develop the feeling of belonging and importance in their own family.
Enjoy the gift of summer vacation. Get your family together and plan for your summer retreat. Discuss where you will spend it, your budget, if everything is running smoothly, also discuss what will be your activities when you get there. Summer vacation is the only time to rest as a family for a couple of days. So plan ahead and try to maximize those days with them. Try something new and surprising!!! Having a superb plan is the start of a very promising summer vacation.
December 29, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
Tattoos are becoming more and more popular nowadays, and people are taking a fancy to them because it allows them to have permanent reminders of their loved ones, of obstacles they managed to overcome, or of things or ideas they are passionate about. Moreover, today you can see tattoos on types of people that would have never done something like this ten, or twenty years ago. You may be surprised to see grandmothers with tattoos of flowers or of their grandchildrens faces. Thus, it can be said that tattoos are becoming quite a family business and they no longer have to be associated with criminal types or with eccentrics and rebels.
Family tattoo quotes are one of the types of tattoos that you can see on all kinds of people; whether its something they said, or something an important personality said, people enjoy inking this sort of messages on their skin. Family tattoo quotes can be taken from books, the Bible, lyrics of songs and basically whatever inspires you or gives you strength. Perhaps this new-found popularity is also explained by the fact that tattoo parlors are becoming more and more professional, employing only the best and most talented artists. What they can accomplish is so impressive and stunning that it becomes easy to understand why even religious people or conservative individuals cant resist the temptation of embellishing their bodies with an ink masterpiece.
Some tattoo artists have even gained the popularity of celebrities because of their skill and craftsmanship, and there are people making reservations in advance just to have a tattoo designed by such an artist. Some of the more popular family tattoo quotes sound something like this: There is no place like home, a quote from the famous book The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and which represents the magic words the heroine, Dorothy, utters when she wishes to go back to her aunt and uncles farm.
Other family tattoo quotes may be like A family is a gift that lasts forever by Terry Burritt, but you can basically choose whatever quote you like best. What you need to do though, is make sure you choose a good tattoo parlor that only works with the best artists and the best materials, because removing a poorly drawn tattoo can be painful and expensive. If youre still not convinced, search the Internet for images of family tattoo quotes and see how other people did it. You can have your tattoo placed on your wrist, an arm, on the back, or wherever you feel comfortable having it.