Archive for May, 2009

LA living!

by Ginger Steiner

Being a part of the whole Mutineer team has made me challenge myself and push myself creatively…..There are so many talented, smart, interesting people in our group. Sometimes I have to admit that it can be a little intimidating. I consider myself the shy one…..I am the girl that in a large crowd of people tends to get lost….I came to this city with big hopes and dreams of stardom and movies: You walk off the bus and someone signs you to a movie deal…..”What, you mean that shit doesn’t happen in real life?” And I am the shy one….What the hell was I thinking moving to this big city?….It doesn’t matter how talented I am; if I can’t sell myself, I will never make it in this town….My heart is permanently attached to my sleeve, so the business end of “Show Business” would have eaten me alive. Read the rest of this entry »

Published in: Ginger Steiner, Other | on May 26th, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Be The Change

by Myron Davis

You must be the change you want to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

No matter how true or profound some quotes actually are, for some reason once they get added to enough bumper stickers and t-shirts they can start to sound naive or cliché. I used to hear or read the phrase above by Gandhi (one of my cousins uses it on her voicemail greeting) and think of it in the geopolitical sense. But, recently I have started to think of it as being powerful in small things. Read the rest of this entry »

Published in: Myron Davis, Other | on May 26th, 2009 | No Comments »

Noise

by Myron Davis

It was 1993. I was a freshman in engineering school and on my way home riding in the back seat during one of my college breaks. There were three of us in the car. We had been in high school together and had even once been bandmates in a battle of the bands competition. M-, the front passenger put in one of his alternative punk tapes and cranked it. I couldn’t stand what I heard. It was just noise to me, no solid rhythm, out of tune, but we were making decent time and were only about an hour away from home. Then, I started hearing what sounded like an incredible bass drum. I thought, “Wow, maybe I was wrong.” And, then I realized the car was slowing down. We had a flat tire. Read the rest of this entry »

Published in: Myron Davis, Other | on May 7th, 2009 | No Comments »