Early 4th Party Games

i don't know if it's a real condition, but i suffer from that thing Josh Hartnett talked about in Lucky Number Sleven (i can't remember what it's called and i don't feel like ganking the movie online right now). just watch the first 3rd of the movie (netflick it or something). he explains it to Lucy Lui (most stuff just doesn't bother me-point).


it is a bit of an exaduration. but i just don't mind making a fool of myself sometimes (imma clumsy oaf at times-can't help it-gottta use what i got).

that being said-when i get bored-especially in situations that seem like they're supposed to work out a certain way-i don't mind stiring the pot (i'm an instigator).

my friends in DC are a lot more subdued and composed all the time. at parties people are supposed to talk to people they don't know and meet people they may eventually not get along w/. (rambling again-just wanted to give a bit of background).

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i like facilitating motion in a party. i come up with games to meet people and help other people meet each other (if i end up being the guy that everyone is talking about, doing that weird thing that no one else gets-at least everyone is getting engaged and meeting new people-the point of getting off the couch)

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i went to an early 4th of July celebration about a day ago and i felt like i was in a middle school dance. all the single girls were sitting next to each other on a couch-all the single guys were in the kitchen-everyone was talking to people they already new.

i was getting bored fast-cause i knew 1 or 2 people and they were distracted. so i came up with a game i could play by myself that involved everyone in the party-after pulling off an Omarion move from his Icebox days in the middle of the living room (proud to say i got a few ooo's and ahhh's).

-learn and remember everyones' name in the party that i've met and forgotten or never met b4-
the party involved alcohol, so this seemed to be the most interesting way to 'stir the pot.'

i started in the kitchen. if i didn't know the guys name-it was brian. if i didn't know the girls name it was-chickadee (bad idea because a few of the girls were femmanists and i've been chewed out multiple times for saying chick).

regardless, everytime i saw someone being bored or boring-i tested myself on the names that i remembered. i told brian to ask chickadee her name for me whether i actually forgot it or not. i had 15 names memorized b4 the night ended in a bar called wonderland-that was the name of the bar, seriously.

at least 2 people gave me fake names more than once. i was reminded 'we'll probably never see each other again-u don't have to remember my name' again and again.-the game was too fun and everyone else seemed so much less boring and cut-off from each other the more i 'stirred the pot.'

passed out on my friend's couch-be responsible-i was just sleepy.

games are fun-point

maybe i'll let someone else in on the gag tonight-this party is supposed to be ritzy.

untill i can get to a computer and rant . . . l8r.

Barefoot Cornhole and Bizcards

i don't like wearing shoes, but i can't get into most places w/o them-not even in FL.

my friends, from Orlando and PSJ (Port St. John) even, always give me a hard time.

"y aren't you wearing shoes? jeez, jdot."

i just like to pick up things with my toes-they r a lil longer than what i would consider normal-and i like the way pavement, stone and sand feel on the soles of my feet-and it helps me fall on my face less (can be a klutz).

regardless . . .

i got conveinced to enter a cornhole competition at Bubbahlous (a restaurant off of HWY 50 and Challenger PKWY-in orlando). most of the people in the competition were regulars that play there every Tuesday and Thursday. i was severly intimidated, so i had to practice (shoes on).

(side-note: for any1 that has never played cornhole before-it's a game w/ sandbags and plywood boards held up by 2x4's with a hole cut towards the rear of it-1 of the most fun games ever-like horseshoes-irony-fake laugh)



i couldn't make a shot to save my life-maybe i was leaning on the board too much-maybe my freind, who was an ex-Hooters girl that i used to work w/ was distracting me-maybe it was the workout my other friend made me tag along on, after having not worked out for nearly 3 months. eiher way i was sucking it up royally.

finally we picked numbered poker chips to find out who was gonna be on what team. i got so lucky-1 of the guys that goes their all the time ended up being my partner. my workout buddy told me we had it in the bag and i felt a lil competative.

took off the shoes (as if you couldn't tell that was coming)-and it helped. we lost our first match, but i was shooting good. we won the second-got another shot 'cause it was double elimination. lost the third 'cause i got cocky and lost my shot.

no shoes good 4 shot-trying to impress a hot ex-Hooters girl by loosing a 5 bucks in a cornhole ternament bad

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there was also a dj there from a local radio station in the competition-didn't feel like pimpin myself to win a contest i had no chance in @MTVTJ

met another local dj at a bartending competiton at Fridays-got there too l8 to see bottle flipping-got his card-he kindah looked like Guy from Food Network.

better story from home-less rushed.

9/26/10-Day 6-MTVTJ candidacy advocacy

it's been about a week since i've blogged (almost no interweb access, no smartphone-only 1st stage itouch, that i won in a contest at my old job). it's hard getting my brain back in that mode.

here's what my notes say anyway:

the drive from Alexandria VA took about 15 hours w/ my dad-suprisingly one of the more entertaining car rides i've had.

he has this thing about changing the station on the radio to keep himself up-worked out for me though. music helps me think-the drive let me just think about stuff and come up with ideas.

everytime he turned the station something else would hit me-u know what it feels like when you have an idea and you write it tound 'cause you think it's gonna make you a mill-when you try to write it out it doesn't come out the same. (rammbling again-to the point)

he flip to a station while we drived through NC that only played old motown and i heard Beibers first single-but it wasn't the swoop king. some group made the song in the late 60's. i couldn't find it on the motown/universalwebsite cause none of the songs played.-i'll admit Beiber's version is better.

i guess it's not a cover it you snag the riff and courus from a song older than you that your record lable owns. Usher did the same thing with an old school Stevie Wonder song-couldn't remember the name of it. it's the one w/ Nikki Monaj-lil freak. (Stevie always make some good stuff -whoever gave that man a synthesizer made a mistake-just like when they invented vocoder).

the entertainment industry works in cycles like any other. they spelled it out in B Cool-the travolta remake of Get Shorty. when i was listening to the radio, watching cornfeilds pass by, talking to my dad about famous chicks he kept trying to hook me up w/ in some theoretical universe in his head.

recap of that before i go back to beiber:

him-Rhiana?

me-nope, couldn't deal w/ the five head (her people hide it good w/ the bangs and ll, but it's still their). my kids are gonna have enough to deal w/ when it comes to my lopsided dome. our kids would end up too top heavy.

him-Janet (Ms. Jackson-if you're nasty)?

me-nope, couldn't deal w/ her fam. my fam is off the wall enough. i couldn't have a brother-in-law willing to name their kid Jermajesty. her brother-MJ-was a genius, though.

here's the point-promised @KayKiSpeaks.

him-Christina Millian

him-maybe, then i remember she already had a kid and she's got a dude (in one of KayKiSpeaks older blogs). theoretically-yeah if i had a chance, but i can't have too many dreams.

and to make a long blog even longer-back to bieber:

when i heard that song all i could think of was Bieber in a shiny suite like all those Motown groups in the 70's-doing that doowop snap and slide.-he'd probably still sell a million copies and get 13 year old boys to put 'em on to impress the boppers.

(insert-funny vid of Biebers head on the temptations or swooping his hair with those giant shades that lighten up towards the bottom of the lenses.-not putting up vids yet)

9/25/10-Day 5-MTV TJ candidacy advocacy

yesterday i went to the Apple store in Pentagon City Mall. i needed a charger for my Touch, 'cause i'm leaving my laptop in D.C. when i go back to FL for a week (so my sister can continue to look for a more permanent gig).

i gotta b able to let the interweb know that i'm still here (gonna b scrounging for WiFi again-rents got dial up). and forgive typos in posts after today (not as good with the thumbs as a keyboard). might get some good tucker maxesque stories out of this trip though.

back to the apple store adventure-i knew that the iphone 4 was releasing, but i didn't think i was gonna have to stand in line for 40 min just to grab a charger. Apple did it up right, for its valued costumers.

a dude w/ donut wholes and water bottles was trolling the line. apple workers were constantly keeping the crowds energy up with games and candy bags. everyone got treaty like they found a golden ticket when it was their turn to enter the store (guided in by an Apple employee making relationships that would last the span of the 10 steps from the door to the store, where people were just playing with i-stuff and amazing themselves with apps).

i did meet a cool IT guy for Ocean Conservancy once i finally got n the store. he was getting ipads for the VP's of his company, while he was playing on his iphone 4 (got it early-must be on face2face terms with Jobs). we talked about compatibility issues between PC's and Macs. he recommended software to fix quicktime issues, while the cashier got change for me (never use cash at a store that doesn't have a register that dings-it does stop the world behind u).

guarantee i'll never see that guy again, but i did get his card so that i could link to his organization in this blog. go Ocean Conservancy ('cause he didn't give me guff when i told him i was gonna blog about our talk). i just realized that the IT guy looked just like the guy from gizmodo (irony-and no it wasn't 'cause they're both asian).

9/24/10-Day 4-MTV TJ candadacy advocacy

a good idea shouldn't be owned.

in all honesty good ideas come a dime a dozen (a good idea will get u a couple click throughs and maybe a twod-tweeter knod-if that). it all comes down to how far that idea goes after it's out.

Dr. Mark Drapeau is a twitter officianado (official type person) and a general social media impressario (makes an impression or inovates) for microsoft. he was my professor for a semester and his tutilouge help me develop my technique-if u can call it that.

earlier today he tweeted:

(srry bout the fuzzyness-screencapture-don't know how to embedd tweets yet. los links!!!-Part 1: http://is.gd/d1ZFD Part 2: http://is.gd/d1ZL9)

in these vids he mentioned something that i blogged about a couple days ago-'telling a good story.'

The Dizzle online-being a hologram-'by this kid' (forgot to put this link up when i first wrote this)

but he addressed something i only thought of later-'activating a community.'

that's something i barely considered in my blogging efforts in my candadacy advocacy series.

nominate @jdevo25 for @MTVTJ @ http://tj.mtv.com/open-nomination/ (sameless self promo)

i was just writing what was on my mind. is it better to reach out to a community and ask for support because u are one of them or because u need their support? if u r not one of them can u still represent them (will they even let u)? am i overthinking this (prbly)?

i know tit for tat works in a more complicated way when u r higher in the spere (blogo-, momo-, celebritypopo, et. al). regardless . . .

follow him @cheeky_geeky (if u don't already. he's got like 15, 000 followers-i'll get there contest or not) he's got a lot of things to say on social media objectively.

i gotta get involved, by doin me. then maybe i'll snag a spot.

9/23/10-Day 3- MTV TJ candadacy advocacy

after staying on this series for about two days, i'm already bored w/ it (my own content can't keep up w/ my ADD). it might be because i couldn't think of anything to blog about and begging for people to nominate me over the interweb isn't what my blog series should be focused on.

@jdevo25 nominate here http://tj.mtv.com/open-nomination/

this is the last blog about being nominated, but it is not the last in the series.

i do have to give a shout out to @AbbeyBrandon for giving me my first nomination and @AudreyReinhardt for my second officially (i hope i don't have to beg as hard for the rest that follow). i met both @AbbeyBrandon and @AudreyReinhardt after coming to D.C.

@AbbeyBrandon is more conservative with her tweets (it's just another way for her to keep up w/ face2face friends)

@AudreyReinhardt on the other hand is an aspiring travel blogger and her lighthearted disposition carries her from italy-to maine-to where she dreams of going.

both great girls and great friends.

nominate @jdevo25 for @MTVTJ @ http://tj.mtv.com/open-nomination/

9/22/10-Day 2 Mtv TJ candidacy advocacy

for the past few days, my mother, father, and sister have been staying with me in my VA apartment. i haven't seen them face to face in almost a year-how long i've been away since the 1 way ticket. i can already tell that this blog post is gonna end up being the twilight of my eclipsing melow-dramatic blogging days, however i luv my family and knowing it's lame i don't care if this one blog is a bit gushy and less caking.

long story short my sister is staying with me for the rest of the summer. it's funny 'cause she's a big time christian-no drinking-no smoking-and definately no other thing. and i'm a recovering tucker max wannabe (cause who could really match max-my cooking job helped bring this hermit crab out of his high school hell enduced hybernation.

if i can't find a brilliant blog idea to write about and link other stuff to within the next week that i have to get at least one person to nominate me-other than myself (short term goals-just like that chick in 'Julie and Julia'-again, lame-i know).

(side thoguht in the middle of writing:srry 4 the ADD)-that's an idea (taking it global). nobody owns their own ideas anymore. the moment it is out there the people that have the best resources and can use the idea the best get the most out of it-nothing to get frustrated about, 'cause the only way to make sure that's u (brokeness, crappy equipment, and lack of time travel tech-be damned) is to be the one that does it consistantly and differently.

put u'r unpredictable hats on kids . . . untill tomorrow.

9/21/10-day 1 of mtv canditacy advocacy

I am jdevo25.

i'm trying to be an MTV TJ, or at least i'm trying to get a shot at competing with 19 other people to be the first MTV TJ. and i know that there are to many people to count trying to do the same thing. i don't think that i am half as cool or interesting as the 18 that are already up on http://at.mtv.com/rJU



@PegahRashti

@OhItsRyan

@MissAllizona

@luvelizabethany

@LivitLuvit

@KayKiSpeaks

@jthrasher

@gabifresh

@bitty_boop

@officialdjx

@rlytle

@imjmi

@DanChiz

@daniellesmyname

@lifeisadream89

@lolamack

@katehutson

@rolfenorman



but my sister thinks i'm funny (sad but true). i'mma c . . . c . . . c . . . c . . . if i can be as interesting in just txt. no vids till i get my candidacy.



this one will have to hold ya.