The Wedding Cake Facial

I don’t care what she says, no doesn’t always mean no.

Sometimes when a woman says “no” she means “I want you to do this but I can’t ask for it”. How many times do we see this today? I could write a whole book on this topic but I’m just going to stick to one example today.

Wedding cake.

Let me just make this very clear. Wedding cake was meant to be smashed in faces of the groom AND the bride. That is the way things should be but somewhere along the line a few women started telling men “ohhh it will ruin my make-up and all the time I put into making myself look good will be ruined”. Men being the logical people we are thought “oh she’s right, that makes sense so we should follow that reasoning”. What happened to emotion? What happened to the value of passion and playfulness in marriage? Isn’t that what’s missing from MOST marriages today?

What if instead of listening to his new bride, the man cuts a piece of cake, gets ready to feed her but instead looks his wife in the eyes, says “baby, I love you, but you look better like this…”, then smashes cake in her face (we would save the hair). Then after both parties have sufficiently smashed cake in each other’s faces they exchange a passionate, cake-filled kiss.

That action is what we crave in relationships today. There is no passion when we think logically and women, although they are amazing emotional beings, are being taught more and more to think logically. When a man knows a woman’s true heart and can penetrate that logic with passion and emotion, he will unlock the true beauty of a woman and the relationship will prosper.

Plus, aren’t cake smashing pictures the best?

My Art is Communication

I’ve been playing gigs at bars since before I was old enough to drink in them, and one thing has always amazed me:  I don’t get sick of playing the same cover songs night after night.  As I’m playing The Joker for the thousandth time on a stage in a bar somewhere I never think “oh here we go again…”, I’m still excited to hear people’s reaction and to make them want to sing a long.

 

The most beautiful thing about art is that it’s never boring.  It’s spontaneous, exciting and always changing.  It may seem that on the surface I play the same songs night after night but the music is not my art, my art is communication.  My art is how I interact with every single person that steps into the bar.  My art is how I call out to the girls walking by, telling them they should join us inside.  My art is the interaction with the listeners, and that is always changing, always exciting.

 

To me, music is and has always been about communication and interaction.  What I’m not saying is “music should always be about communication and interaction”, that’s not true.  For me, it’s what brings it home.  It’s the reason I started playing guitar in the first place… I saw how people reacted to a performance (I saw how girls reacted too).

 

Next time you see me play, keep that in the back of your mind.  If you want proof of all the things I just wrote here there is an easy way to do it.  Get a few friends together and start reacting to what I’m doing.  You can cheer, chant my name, dance, whatever, just get a little crazy and watch what happens. I’ll get even more excited, sing with more passion and feed that energy right back to you, it happens every time and nothing makes me happier.

 

How could I get sick of that?

 

Get What You WANT

Going out and getting what you want is better than accepting what comes. One of the amazing things that has made my life wonderful is a paradigm that I adopted a few years ago. I believe that all the GREAT things in my life have been the result of ME going out and getting them, as opposed to them falling into my lap. I used to be the kind of guy that just let things happen to him, but I noticed that even though I was happy, I wasn’t getting what I wanted and I wasn’t getting things on MY terms. This applied to business, work, music and women.

The truly great opportunities in life don’t need to come knocking on your door, and they won’t. Your choice is to be the kind of person who accepts what is given or goes out and get what she wants. Do the former and you’ll leave the great opportunities for people like me.

Go out and get what you want, that’s when you experience the best things in life.

Why I brag a lot

It may seem like to some people I “brag” a lot, meaning I highlight the awesome areas of my life in an effort to make others feel bad.  I don’t see it that way.  To me, I love inspiring people, and by showing some of the cool things I do, I want people to understand that I’m no different from them, everything I have, they can have too, it’s just a matter of working to achieve it.  Tim Ferriss, the author of The Four Hour Workweek is one of my favorite people in the world because he inspired me to live a better life.  If you look at his blog, many times it’s not filled with advice, but rather stories of really cool things he’s done. 

You know how to get what you want, it’s just a question of motivation.

Drinking alcohol to recover from a cold? Read on.

Let me begin by telling a story.

When I was living in New Orleans I got a common head cold and became congested, which of course is bad for singing.  For some reason my throat didn't recover as fast as I would have liked and I was hacking up stuff for over a month after I got sick.  On Thanksgiving weekend I took a trip to Nashville to see some friends and the first night we hit the town hard.  I was a bit over-served and ended up getting a little sick at the end of the night.  It happens, right?  When I woke up the next morning my voice felt great and the congestion was gone!  I thought this was a strange remedy but was glad it worked out by accident.

A few weeks ago I got another cold and here I am today still coughing a little more than I'd like.  My voice is at about 95% but I need that congestion to go away for the last 5% (and you deserve 100%).

So…

Tonight I'm going out with a few friends for Sushi and drinks.  A lot of drinks.  And there will be pictures.  A lot of pictures.

This is where you come in.  I don't know if you've heard all the twitter craze lately but I'm digging it, and I want to chronicle my journey on twitter for you to see.  I'll be updating my twitter page all night and posting pictures of the experience.  Check it out at www.twitter.com/davebooda and follow along as the night plays out, it might get out of hand.

For those in the San Diego area the plan is to be at Surfside Sushi at 6:30 then PB Bar & Grill around 7:45, come say hi!

Halloween Pics dressed as a Mormon Missionary

Well Halloween was a blast, with only a few weeks left here in New Orleans it was a bit of a last hoorah, so we were sure to go out with a bang.  3 of my friends and I dressed up as Mormon Missionaries complete with bike helmets, backpacks and nametags.  It was awesome.  The funniest part was we met a lot of real Mormons, and they LOVED the costume!  It reminded me of that South Park episode where Gary the Mormon comes to South Park and he's super nice to everyone even when they aren't as welcoming as they should be. 

Good times, here are a few pics, the rest of them are on facebook.