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Rockstar: Hey, talking to national builders and shit? Allow me to get all mushy for a sec.

Me: Ok

Rockstar: Because I’m majorly hungover, and just got done being very Irish for a night and Alex Chilton died, but I’m proud of you! You’re doing cool things, and it’s gonna keep going for you.

Me: Awww. Rockstar, I know your drunk right now, but that means a lot to me. Also, this remix of “Home” is making me wanna cry. This version is amazing. I like the other one too, but this is AWESOME.

Rockstar: Yeah, this is really good! I wonder who did this.  NO ONE TOLD ME THERE WERE REMIXES

Me: OH MY LORD. I want this in my ear space for all timez. If I ever get married  this is my song. I’m super cereal too.

Rockstar: It would be a perfect wedding song -  it’s a very timeless song.

Me: Fuck it’s so good

Rockstar: I’ll tell you a secret. When he says “jade, there’s something I never told you about that night…”  and talks about how he was falling in love with her…when she reacts

I believe that they didn’t rehears it

AND FURTHERMORE

that he really never did tell her that until just then!

…but I’m stupid

me: I just got goosebumps. Im serious. I love her voice.

I wish I was her.

Fuck

I hate myself

I wanna live in this song

Rockstar: Did you google it?! We need it!

Me: I’m looking, I’m looking!

*******

Many of my clients and contacts are interested in learning how Social Media can assist with home sales. It’s a question that comes with a lot of preconceived notions about social technologies—i.e. that they are only used to update friends with what you had for breakfast—as well as some deep-seated fears of transparency and the potential for negative feedback.

However, if you take the plunge and trust in the power of social networks, community and honest sales, then these new methods of sales and customer service can have an immediate and positive effect on your business. Be it small, large or even for a one-time exchange, Social Media is a powerful tool.

Need an example? Tim Moore, digital solutions specialist for the New York Times Company, recently tried a cool sales experiment that shows the kind of impact that social technologies can have. Moore set out to sell his home in 72 hours or less using only social tools—no realtors, only connections. And how did it go?

His home did not sell within 72 hours—it sold within 50.

I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Mr. Moore this afternoon about his experience. Enthusiastic and passionate about his industry, Moore said, “The simplicity of Social Media can pay off in really big ways.” When asked how he began his mission he revealed, “I grabbed a Coke from the fridge, picked up my iPhone and went from there. I just asked myself what questions I would have when buying a new home, and made sure I included every detail, even the embarrassing ones.”

Check out the full case study that Moore put together here. And be sure to check back for updates from Moore who will be starting a new series of posts on Twitter for small businesses.

So me and my cell mate (who shall remain nameless for his protection – he’s a pretty famous rock star) decided that the best way to close out a hectic work week is to memeify ourselves. Below are some besties of the day.

Confused by a few? Whatever, you’ll get over it. Just laugh like you do when someone tells an inside joke you don’t understand but you wanna be accepted by them so you laugh…a little too hard. Then everyone looks at you and it’s even more awkward than if you had just nodded and waited for the next topic to come up. God, you’re sucha weirdo sometimez. ← FACT: Z’s at the end of words make them 45.62% funnier.

I was surprised by an edit cell mate had made. This seemed like the most natural way to express my taken abackedness.

At some point today I said "they touch lips" and I fell in love with the phrase. Hence, the most amazingly suave frog of all timez.

Somebody in our office steals our milk from the fridge. This does not make me laugh. However, this kid getting all pissed about it did make me laugh. Still outta milk though.

I am the Social Media Manager for my company. I also love the movie Jurassic Park. Laughter rumbled something awful in my belly..

Cell mate was just being a jerk with this one after he read something I had to draft for my ultra-mega-radical marketing efforts.

In an effort to see what other folks were thinking, I posed these questions to a few people:

How much are you willing to invest in your relationships? When do you draw the line and cut your losses, or decide to go all-in and hope for the best. How big of a risk are you willing to take on another person?

“Saying the word ‘love’ is just a single moment in time, often as meaningless as a casual greeting; living ‘LOVE’ is a lifelong experience that becomes a part of you, even if it comes to a horrendous and hateful end. So how much am I willing to invest in love? Well, that depends on what we’re talking about investing here. If it’s two-sided compromise we’re talking about, then I’m all in, every penny I’ve got for the one I love. But if it ends up being sacrifice after sacrifice, bust after bust, then I refuse to go all in on such a Ponzi Scheme of a relationship. Call it a pipe dream, or just the words of someone who’s been out of a long-term relationship for about a year now, but you have to draw the line the second it becomes apparent. You know when you know.” – Bates

“I think that any relationship is either one of convenience or one of substance – relationships based on convenience are easy come/easy go and it’s pretty easy to tell which ones these are. Relationships of substance are the ones that you’ve really got to be all in for, both parties win all the time or you both lose – they take work, and they can be frustrating and infuriating, but in the end these friends and loved ones give your life meaning. Or something…I dunno.” – Jeff

“I think it depends on the person. Have you known them for a long time? Are they your family? Are they like family? When I meet someone who I don’t like, I would never bother to put in any effort to become their friend. This seems easier than trying to break it off after a relationship has been established. But that’s just me…I’m all about the path of least resistance.  Plus, I have a one friend at a time rule, and I’m all booked up at the moment.” – Jane

When you were small, you may recall feeling/thinking something like this: “I’m going to be friends with this person forever. One day we will be neighbors and have sleepovers all the time. We will have twin puppies and always hang out.” Maybe that was just me, but at some point there was probably a moment when you told yourself “these are the people I want around me when I’m fifty.”

Now let’s say that it’s a few years later and you can’t stand the sight of the same person. So you take inventory of all the things you’ve invested in that relationship—time, emotions, money, other friendships—and you start wondering if it’s time to give in and let go.

A big part of this process is determining how much you are getting out of the relationship. Sure, this person may be a total prick, but at least they offer sound advice, have valuable connections, give you homemade cookies, etc. If they aren’t providing value though, that’s strike one.

Next you have to ask if, in addition to not providing value, they are taking anything from you. Is it all just gimmie, gimmie, gimmie?

“I want your time. I want your emotional stress. I want your money. I want those leftovers. I want that booze you are drinking. Yes, that booze in that glass that is pressed to your mouth. Put it down. I want that.”

If this seems at all familiar then you really have to ask yourself what the point is of investing any further into this relationship. It may be a hard chord to cut, but cut you must.

Anyway, it’s just something that has been on my mind as of late. This probably comes across as a really random thing to post. It’s just that sometimes you need to take a moment and think seriously about how you are spending your precious years and who you are spending them with. When will you finally say enough is enough? I’ve seen so many friends struggling with relationships like these – work, boyfriends and girlfriends, brothers and sisters – and it sucks.

We’ve all been on one side or the other. We all have an opinion. That’s just mine.

I was going to start a new pretentious blog on which I would pair a wine with a movie. I mean, how awesome does that sound? Here was the ABOUT page:

ABOUT

There was a serious lack of pretention, or prétentieux, in my life. All the scarves, hip music and books in the world were not enough to quench my thirst for the magniloquent. Therefore, I embark on an intrepid journey whereon I shall attempt to provide you with a delectable pairing of cinema and vino. Bold, sweet, full-bodied—all words that have been used to describe me. Now, I shall use them to classify a diverse library of film and libation.

Movies. Booze. Words.

Enjoy.

Of course, when I told certain people about this they scoffed, pretentiously I might add. The first pairing was going to be Wings of Desire with a refreshing Dr Heyden Auslese Oppenheimer ’07. It was going to blow minds and excite palettes. Oh well. Maybe I’ll just make it a weekly feature on here instead.