Move Your Money Contest

For the first time, I have to make a personal appeal, but it's for a good cause.

Have you heard of Move Your Money? The movement was started by Huffington Post and is all about getting folks to...:

..move their money out of the Wall Street banks and into community banks and credit unions. Community banks are typically more conservative about how they manage their money, they’re more closely connected to the people and businesses who live near them, and they’re more inclined to make loans they know will get paid back. In other words, they have the values that more people would want banks to have.

Coincidentally, a friend and I both work in credit union organizations and play together in a band called The Disclosures. Recently a contest opened up that asked for people to submit a 2-minute video around moving your money - the only stipulation is you had to start your song with "Money in a bank. Money in a bank. Looking like a fool with your money in a bank."

Almost all the other entries are rap...but we came up with this. Enjoy!



Voting started this week and is open until Wed. March 17 - anyone with an email can vote. It's easy and only takes a second.

> VOTE FOR US HERE (#5 - the Disclosures)

Then please share our video with others and ask them to vote.

Thank you!

Separated Twins Reunite Decades Later

I love stories like this (and in my own backyard too!):

A local woman has been reunited with her twin after 52 years.The family's story starts in Japan, continues with family scattered from Madison to San Diego, Calif., and ends with twins finding each other on the Internet.

Watch the video recap:




> Read the full story here (Channel3000.com)

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It's Not All Bad - 100 Things That Are Getting Better

I came across this list at CNN.com and aside from strange listings (#2-shapewear?), it's a nice read for you pessimists:

> Read 100 Things That Are Getting Better (at Oprah.com)

Random yes, but personally I do hope those crazy fees from the big banks go away (#10) and I somehow make it to the moon before I leave this earth for good (#3).

"Major Leagues" by Pavement

I've been thinking and listening to Pavement a lot recently - one of my favorite bands of the nineties. They broke up in 1999...but are actually and amazingly reuniting this year to play some select shows (one in Chicago even!).

Anyway, they have a wealth of songs that would fit in the Sunday Sublime songs category, but it feels right to have a song off their last album included here on the blog.

Close your eyes and listen:



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"I Met the Walrus" - Video

As a Beatles fan (and John Lennon fan too), this video is really cool to watch and listen to. Enjoy.

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for 'New Approaches' (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet).

"Let Yourself Feel" - Video

Had a long day at work? Enjoy:

let yourself feel. from Esteban Diácono on Vimeo.

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Haitian Siblings Survive Earthquake & Meet Adopted Parents

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