Nicisms

OKGo’s new single: This Too Shall Pass. You cannot view this video on YouTube if you are in SA and various other countries. You also cannot embed the YouTube version of the video as the record labels don’t earn cash per play if the video is embedded.

Read the open letter from OKGo for more info on the whole situation with the Label and YouTube.

Anderson Cooper – CNN’s world-traveling investigative war-correspondent recently stepped in to Haiti and broached the #1 ethical debate by his heroic actions. Just a quick disclaimer – the video below verges on graphic content so if you are easily offended and don’t like reality, then don’t watch the below.

Now, the reason that I am quite intrigued by this particular video is that Cooper has dived in and made a very very big statement; by assisting the boy Cooper changed the news. He stepped in and altered his position in the Haiti situation. He is no longer simply an objective journalist, he is no a participant in the news and the one who altered the course of events that he was reporting on.

It’s not very often that journalists themselves become the news by their own choices. For Cooper to have stepped in he must have felt that the boy was in dire straights and needed assistance that he wasn’t receiving from anyone else at the scene.

Personally I completely respect and admire him for stepping in. I made the decision a while back that I refuse to be an observer. I am a doer and people who want to do things have to get involved and not just report the news. I cannot do this. So it’s very interesting to me that a journalist of Cooper’s quality, experience and standing chose to step in, instead of waiting for the news headline to create itself.

Gladly one of my resolutions this year was not to blog more. If it had been I would have failed in a massive way already.

Blogging still bores me somewhat right now. I honestly don’t know if I am going to recover sufficiently to allow myself to actually maintain 2 blogs and a lifestream (nicharalambous.me). I’m over it. I’m over talking, writing, opinions, publishing and the bollocks that goes along with it.

I’m frustrated and fed up. When is the next big thing getting here? I’m bored.

It’s a new year. And?

And I’m really bored of hearing people’s resolutions. You resolve what, exactly, that you didn’t resolve last year? And that phrase, it also bugs me, “Last year”. You mean 5 days ago right? That’s all it’s been, there is no big revolutionary change that all of sudden will make you able to go to gym more, lose that backstreet boy you ate in 2009, quit smoking or whatever other “bad” habit you want to rid yourselves of.

2010 is a mere 4 days in and already I’m irritated by petulant people talking bullshit and singing the praises of the new year. Pah. Idiots.

I’m not going to set any new year resolutions as I did not last year. I am going to set myself some goals.

Some of these are listed below. Some are new and some (a fair amount are carried over from last year):

1. Reacquaint myself with the Greek language.

2. Skydive

3. Bungee Jump

4. Learn a 4th language

5. Go for cooking lessons – My preferance is Thai food and Wok cooking.

6. Learn how to make sushi.

7. Go overseas – Preferably to somewhere I’ve never been. I hear Thailand is beautiful.

That’s it. Seven attainable goals for 2010 (some actually carried over from 2008. Wow, that’s depressing.