This was just a brilliant and fun thing to do on your home computer, that I had no idea was even possible. All you have to do is youtube your favorite song, then punch in “karaoke” in the title, and most the time it will pull up the lyrics with the music! All you have to do is sing along! I happen to have a microphone plugged into my computer for voice-over work, so I was able to add some bad karaoke echo, which made it so much more painfully fun to try to teach my friend how to sing ……..previously I had tried to teach him how to sing harmony, without realizing he kinda needed to learn how to sing melody first.
So thank you Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock. We did the best we could.
Well, although it has been a few days, I have been doing one thing new a day!!! I took a trip to Vegas last week, and I was finally was able to gather a few of the NEW things I did there, that did not require me to gamble, eat too much at the buffet, or get into trouble. Here is a clean, fun and invigorating activity to do in Vegas, and something you might never have even heard of!!!!! Check this out!!! I recommend taking note of cool things as you walk by them, and maybe do something new and spend a few bucks trying a thing that you might just write off as a gimmick……..because this little water massage “gimmick” never felt so good………..click play to see why!!!!!
Happy Earth Day everyone!!!! How could I find something NEW to do on EARTH DAY? I could recycle, walk to work, or hug a tree,……yet I just felt as green as those things are, I wanted something to do a NEW THING that would blow me away. A new “Earth Day” thing that would be fun, that would be surprising, and something I had never even seen before…..and I found it!!!! The EARTH DAY fair in Topanga Canyon provided my favorite NEW THING to do to celebrate this special day…….if you can believe this, it is a bicycle generated smoothie maker. Although I felt a little bit like Fred Flinstone startin up the car, I couldn’t believe how delicious riding a bike could actually be, not to mention I got my heart rate up, and never once used electricity Check out this video!!!!!! Cheers to the EARTH! (and to banana strawberry smoothies)
Well, there is a magical restaurant that opened in Los Angeles in 1922, called The TAM ‘OSHANTERN and every month they have an amazing wine pairing!! I have always enjoyed wine on its own, but never realized that pairing really good wine with really good food, could be such an incredible venture!!! I was so excited when I found out that there was a wine pairing happening at the OLDEST restaurant in all of Los Angeles, and that this could be my NEW THING for today!!!!! I have never tried such amazing bites of food, with amazing sips of wine, if you never did this kind of thing before, I would recommend that you look up in your local paper where there is a place that puts good wine with good food, and let the magic begin!!!!!! This was a NEW THING that for me was like a taste -bud orgasm, and I will NEVER forget it!!!! Life is so beautiful and it has such spectacular things to offer!! It is just up to US to seek it out and ENJOY these NEW THINGS!!!!!!! Here is what it is like to throw yourself into a professional WINE PAIRING!!!! BEST TASTING NEW THING OF THE YEEAR!!!!!!! Could I possibly use any more exclamation points?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, if you can’t save MONEY in Vegas, here is a great way to save TIME The moment I landed in Vegas, I had my camera in hand, ready to play my hand at DOING SOMETHING NEW! Moments later I was filming a new trick I learned, that might save people A LOT of really important gambling time.
If you want to know how to surpass any taxi-cab line in the Vegas airport, or any airport for that matter, (and believe me, even during the WEEK the line can be up to 2 hours, just to get a CAB!!!!) Here it is. I am a little nervous letting this trick out, because the more people that know about it, the more that it will make my trick no longer serve it’s purpose! However, for the sake of DOING SOMETHING NEW and for my Blog followers,….here it is……click play to learn my FAVORITE Vegas trick. I hope you can use it.
Well, after having one of the best most intoxicating drinks of my LIFE at a bar called “The Mansion” in Dallas Texas, (it might have been the company too, not sure) I had to find out what was in it. I had an experience tasting a drink from what was professionally called a “MIXOLOGIST” who did everything from muddle strawberries and mix herbs and cucumber and who knows what else…..but I had never really understood what it meant to be a “mixologist” So right then and there I was on a MISSION to uncover what this MIXOLOGY was all about.
I was determined to find out what it meant to be a MIXOLOGIST, but I was also going to DO SOMETHING NEW and learn what they do, how they create such fanciful drinks, and see if I had the talent to do it myself. Oh, and I had to wonder, why wasn’t “mixology” a college course???….if only I could have gotten credit for such a thing…..
I got my masters in Spiritual psychology, but had I only known….was there a school for spiritual mixology?
So lift up your glass in celebration, because I achieved my goal, and tracked down one of the BEST mixologist in all of Los Angeles, who runs a fabulous place called The Martini Shop, and I got the chance to not only learn WHAT THE HECK mixology is…but I also got the chance to DO SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW and put my natural born mixology skills to the test, and I actually created the “Dosomethingnew” cocktail!!!!!!! click, clink, and enjoy!!!
I thought I had tasted everything, but recently when I was in downtown Los angeles, on my way to an audition, my hunger forced me to stop my car for food. I ran into a place that would not ALLOW take-out. As I looked around I realized that I was surrounded by “Little Tokyo” and the only place open was this cute hole- in- the -wall -totally authentic tokyo diner. (is there such a thing?) My instinct was to get back in the car and find a nice fast unhealthy fast food drive -thru. Yet, I had never tried authentic Tokyo food, and this was the year of doing NEW things so…
I sat down, met a girl who also was in a hurry to eat but could not order it “to go”, and the two of us were forced to sit together at the food bar, and order the ”Tokyo lunch special”. The best part of this was that I got the chance to meet this really cool girl, and exchange philosophies about life, metaphysics, spirituality, and of course, the concerning escapades of Tiger Woods, all over raw fish and a soup that still remains a mystery.
So for YOUR new thing, forget take -out food, and sit at an authentic restaurant that is in a place like “Little Tokyo” (or a japanese place that seems VERY authentic) and order whatever they recommend as the “special”!!
I admit, McDonalds would have been the safer bet, and saved me a little more time, but, the only reason I did this one was because I am committed to —TRYING SOMETHING NEW!!!!!! I encourage you to do the same!! (not to mention I now have a really cool new friend!)
well, as I was on my way to AGAPE tonight (the place I like to go on wednesdays for a little shot of spiritual liberation,) BUT since I have been meditating daily, I have been getting strong intuitive hits to do certain things that do NOT fit in with my plans. As I am driving there, I hear a voice to “call Dave, stop by” and it tells me 3 time to do this, even though I fight it. I finally call David, he answers, tells me he was been thinking about me this very day, and to stop over. Well, you might have guessed by now my friends are ANYTHING but normal, they are all pieces of a beautiful creative puzzle, and when they are put all together, it just might form a picture of all the aspects of myself.
SO I stop by, his friend is playing drums, he is on the guitar, he pours us all a drink and we start to jam, sing, make up songs all night. At this moment do I realize that this experience IS church itself. Not only do we “hang out” (who even haas the time or freedom of mind to do THAT anymore?) we CREATE. This is like it is with my blessed family of friends I have here. We create, laugh, and inspire when we are together. So tonight, as we were making up the most ridiculous songs about what ever my blabber mouth was talking about…(which was about someone I recently met and believe could be soul mate) and laughing and making up songs till we could not breathe (lots of things rhyme with soulmate we found out)….I stopped and said—THIS IS MY NEW THIG FOR TODAY!!!! Lets make up my LETSDOSOMETHINGNEW THEME song!!!! But we have to do it IN THE MOMENT—-NO rehearsal, NO planning ahead or knowing what anyone will sing!!!! 1,2,3, and I turned my camera on……..and this is what came out!! nothing but 3 musicians playing around with the idea of doing something new….This was a BLAST!! Imagine if we actually put WORK in into this song……but as for now….it is my new thing THEME SONG!!!! And I love it! It was new for ALL OF US to write it and sing it and play it and record it on the SPOT—all about living in the CREATIVE moment of the NOW!!!!!
I hope for your new thing today you can spend a moment, a sentence, an interaction, just saying whatever is on your mind, and trust that the moment will provide you with whatever you need to make the conversation sound like MUSIC!!!!! Here it is….the Letsdosomethingnew unplugged version, one day for the new thing, we will go into a studio and REALLY do the theme song justice, but for now, it was a beautiful thing!!!!!!!
enjoy…..
iILOVE LOVE LOVE this one and I am now inspired to get it into a studio, with some name musicians and make a recording from it!!!!
I know this might seem like on of the most simple things to do, but when a “new thing” idea grabs a hold of me, I have to do it. This one was when I was on a hike in the hills of lovely Hollywood California…..and saw one of m favorite trees stretching its arms out to me…… I had to respond. I actually got excited at the thought of climbing into the tree, and felt like a kid again. I remember a picture of me sitting in a tree in Africa when I was 6 years old (shirtless, which I still question my parents about) and looking like I was the happiest thing on the planet. I used to LOVE to climb trees. There is something about being in the arms of a tree, that as an adult, connected me back to nature. I stayed in the tree for about 30 minutes, ( with my shirt still ON by the way) and started really feeling like all “one with the universe” and stuff….. and if I had a few more years of patience in me, I just might have stayed there like Buddha, but instead my enlightenment came in the form of a dog named Howard, who sat and PEED on the tree, and was ready to go home.
I hope this inspires you to at least get near a tree today, sit under one, climb one, or just hug one. (Howard says don’t pee on one, that’s a dogs job)
I am so sorry it has been a few days, but I have been doing a NEW thing a day, it just gets hard to post the video every day! I have a few days to catch up on I know!! This one was one of my favorite…. especially since I LOVE singing!!! I got the chance to see THE living legend PAUL McCARTNEY….and although my footage is a bit fuzzy, what I ask of you is to tune in to the amazing energy of the place where 18,000 people came together and all sang along to HEY JUDE. If you catch me singing you might find it hard to believe that I actually taught someone harmony in my last blog, since I am sure my screaming Hey Jude was probably a bit off key. But please blame that on my excitement of being in his presence and also getting to sing one of my all time favorite songs with so many people who loved it as much as I did!! The song was 7 minutes, but I edited it down to just a minute and a half, so you could get just a small taste of what was one of the best concerts I have ever been to! …….oh and if you can’t make it to a Paul McCartney for your new thing to do today, just sing out loud in your car to your favorite song, because I bet somewhere in the world there are about 18,000 other people singing right along with you……but this is what it looks like when we are all in the same place….
This was something that I learned as a child and every now and again I meet someone who just has NO IDEA how to harmonize. I really thought it was a gift everyone had!
Then I realized, to create HARMONY in this world, you have to TEACH how to get there ! Not as easy as it sounds. Yet, since this IS the year of doing NEW things, I decided to give a 3 minute lesson to one my very best friends, on the art of singing harmony. I had him pick one of his favorite songs, and I would do my best to show him….. well, at least how to stick to his own note. I sang harmony and was just grateful if he could stay on the melody. Sometimes before you can graduate to harmony, you have to be pretty confident you can sing the melody. So, I gave it my all as a teacher, and whether or not the lesson sticks with him, I know these 3 chords are stuck in MY head for many years to come…..As for YOUR new thing today? well, notice songs today that have that awesome sound of harmony, and try to sing along…….hopefully it will sound better than…..this…
This organization is incredible, they do not just feed the homeless every weekend, they make SURE that these people get a chance for a better life. They are a “work for food” program, teaching the people from the streets how to get off the streets, get a job, and get a better life. It is called FOOD ON FOOT (please click on that name to see how to help or volunteer) One man decided to start this 735 weeks ago. He has never missed a week. His name is Jay Goldinger and he is one of the biggest secret angels Los Angeles has. He had hard luck growing up, was on the street himself at one point, and promised himself if he ever had the chance he would dedicate his life to helping people on the streets. He is now doing that. I was lucky enough to volunteer for this program a few years ago, and have been an avid 84 dollar a month member, because I know the money goes straight to this program, which helps get people off the streets, and feeds them as well. I decided as my new thing to film what he does, and volunteer again this past Sunday. It is only an hour, you get to feed the homeless, bring clothes to them, and watch the ones who want to get off the streets go through an awards ceremony that helps them gain self respect,recognition, and support. I can not say enough about Jay and what he has done. I believe in it, and if I ever make enough money he is going to get a large amount. He is doing such amazing things. Here is a 5 minute video that just might make you want to get up off your butt and go help someone. (feed the homeless close to where you live, or if you are in Los Angeles, volunteer for this!!!!) This do something new will change your life, and the lives of others.
Enjoy this video….believe me…this is food for the SOUL. It’s AMAZING. Amazing Grace, again.
Okay, I would like to say this might have SOMETHING to do with the “HOLLYWOOD” BOWL….but is does not….there was a place I went to in Santa Barbara that I believe will become the next HUGE GOOD4U FAD!!!! This place is called BACKYARD BOWLS and is truly amazing. I am hoping….wishing…waiting for one to come to Los Angeles….this is the kind of food you dream about…the kind of dish you know will make you a better person……and my friend Jeff Baietto made me go because he “needed a bowl” is what he told me. ( I was totally ready to see him get high) However, this bowl is based on the Acai berry…..which if you do not know……
Is the acai berry healthy?
Acai contains several substances called anthocyanins and flavonoids. It is considered a SUPERFOOD, full of antioxidants.
Anthocyanins and flavonoids are powerful antioxidants that help defend the body against life’s stressors. They also play a role in the body’s cell protection system. Free radicals are harmful byproducts produced by the body. Eating a diet rich in antioxidants may interfere with aging and the disease process by neutralizing free radicals.
By lessening the destructive power of free radicals, antioxidants may help reduce the risk of some diseases, such as heart disease and cancer.
This made me VERY curious and since he is the man of www.completebalance.com an AMAZING program to health and happiness, (please click on that link, it might change your life) I followed him like a hungry bee to a beehive, and he did NOT steer me wrong. Here is the thing…when you start to wake up to how amazing life is, you attract healthy, fun people, who then introduce YOU to healthy, good things to add to your life. This is one of them…..look out people, this is the next billion dollar idea, and if you have money to invest….this is where you need to put it……trust me, you’ll have a BALL!!! I mean a BOWL :) click play to see the next HUGE, HUGE NEW THING FOR ALL OF US IN THE HEALTHY FOOD LOVING WORLD!!!!! ( that was all caps. I was totally shouting this because that is how excited I am about it)
Okay, I would like to say this might have SOMETHING to do with the “HOLLYWOOD” BOWL….but is does not….there was a place I went to in Santa Barbara that I believe will become the next HUGE GOOD4U FAD!!!! This place is called BACKYARD BOWLS and is truly amazing. I am hoping….wishing…waiting for one to come to Los Angeles….this is the kind of food you dream about…the kind of dish you know will make you a better person……and my friend Jeff Baietto made me go because he “needed a bowl” is what he told me. ( I was totally ready to see him get high) However, this bowl is based on the Acai berry…..which if you do not know……
Is the acai berry healthy?
Acai contains several substances called anthocyanins and flavonoids. It is considered a SUPERFOOD, full of antioxidants.
Anthocyanins and flavonoids are powerful antioxidants that help defend the body against life’s stressors. They also play a role in the body’s cell protection system. Free radicals are harmful byproducts produced by the body. Eating a diet rich in antioxidants may interfere with aging and the disease process by neutralizing free radicals.
By lessening the destructive power of free radicals, antioxidants may help reduce the risk of some diseases, such as heart disease and cancer.
This made me VERY curious and since he is the man of www.completebalance.com an AMAZING program to health and happiness, (please click on that link, it might change your life) I followed him like a hungry bee to a beehive, and he did NOT steer me wrong. Here is the thing…when you start to wake up to how amazing life is, you attract healthy, fun people, who then introduce YOU to healthy, good things to add to your life. This is one of them…..look out people, this is the next billion dollar idea, and if you have money to invest….this is where you need to put it……trust me, you’ll have a BALL!!! I mean a BOWL :) click play to see the next HUGE, HUGE NEW THING FOR ALL OF US IN THE HEALTHY FOOD LOVING WORLD!!!!! ( that was all caps. I was totally shouting this because that is how excited I am about it)
Check out this video!!!!!! Cheers to the EARTH! (and to banana strawberry smoothies)