Weekly update 7/7/10:Not a lot to say,

Ok, I'm gonna be honest. i really dont have much to put in this week's post, so here goes nothin.

I'm home. and have been since saturday night. vacation was fun, my dad's still a bti under the weather with a fever and everything after getting better for a breif bit, he;s going in to see his doctor tomorrow, but is on a prescription powerful antibiotic, so hopefully taht clears that up. The last few days of vacation were very uneventful (except for one harrowign experience that i'm not gonna post about on here on the internet cause i dont want it in a public forum like my blog (if you wanna hear about it, ask)). the main food highlight from the end portion of the trip for me was this awesome Penne pasta i had with a creamy-ish tomato sauce and fresh crab meat. OMG, so wonderful and decadent and the flavors worked so well! I really wish Crab meat was going to be more available in the fall. I hope Jungle Jim's has it.

So i've started work for the summer. For the purpose of anonymity, i cannot say much, but i am currently and unpaid intern at a school for kids wiht learning issues. Its my second year wokrign there for their summer program and it s a veyr fun and rewarding job, even if its tiring. though the past 2 days have been fairly low key. I only started on tuesday cause of monday being a federal holiday. Maybe yesterday and today were low key because i'm an assistant teacher/ intern in a room that already has 2 teachers and we've only had 3 kids both days this week for whatever reason. we're supposed to have 7 or 8. Today was more organized than the first day, which made me happy, and i know 1 of thhe kdis i have this summer from last year. The program is 5 weeks, and we're ending mid-week, i think on august 10th. So yea, and then i ehad back on the 13th of August, which i just found out is a friday (whooo boy). and i'm driving back out to school to help wiht NSO so that should be fun (if i'm left wiht any extra $ i may hit up Wally world that first night, or when i have a lull in NSO stuff). So yea, for the remainder of my summer, i'll be wokrign, which will be fun and rewarding. I'll give more thoughts on work as the weeks progress, after all, i do hahve 4 more posts while i'm working there i think.

Two minor things i wanna touch on to wrap up this post (see i wasnt jokign when i said i had little to post about).

1) Music: Slaves to Gravity, one of my favorite new rock bands who are making waves now (more so here in the USA than with thier debut i feel), have posted a video on youtube and an mp3 on the website for free dowload (the mp3, not the video) for their 2nd album's new single: "Good Advice". The vidoe is a bit weird, but i really am diggin the more hard hittign sound with driving beats the song has. Their first record was very nice, but it was mroe along the loines of your breaking Benjamin type bands in that it was mor alt-rock minus the Emo and angst but it also wasnt ad radio ready as some of BB's stuff. Anyway, if this first single is any indication of the album, its that hopefully the upcomign sophmore effort (underwaterouterspace is the name) will be more hard rock with hints of metal, which makes me happy.

2) With regard to my youtube channel (zizzlerizzle8707), i'm slowing crepign towards 200 subscirbers (which is mental) and i'm starrting to consider applying for youtube partnership, mainly so i can not be restrained by the 11 minute time limit i have as a non partner. but i have several questiona btou the whole thing, that maybe someone could elucidate for me in the comments below, or the corresponding Status messgae on facebook. heres my questions:

I'm considering looking into youtube partnership in the fall. Looking at my videos list and there views, i ahve three videos with over 1000 views and several more wiht over 300. I have no idea if this enough, hence the questions below i would like you guys's opinion on.

I'd mainly be Applying for partnership to get rid of the 11-minute time limit non-partners have on youtube.

So here's my questions:

1) what are some of the other perks outside what i mentioned a few line up?

2) whats the rejection rate?

3) do you have to have, for example, around 10 videos that are aroudn 1000 views total, or do you have to constantly get views in the tri[ple digits?

4) If i want to make partner, i fear i may have to re-do a helluva lto fo reviews, basucally all of mine from about February 2010 onwards, as one of the stipulations is you have permission to make money off of the music you use, or its your own music (none of my old garageband stuff is good enough for intro music and its all on an older comp which runs vista). Now the money thing i coudl care less about, but I really dont want to be using the music i've been using so far from "outerzone blues" by Dead End Lake (whcih i already use freely with permission from one of my collector friends, as something seems very "Wrong" or not fair to me about that. This si more of a comment, so i guess respond.

5) Is partnership acceptance dependant on number of subcribers?

Just some thoughts, dont expect much of a response on that from this blog's audience.

Thats it for me this week guys. See you on the 14th of July.

--Zack ZB