{"id":50322,"date":"2011-07-08T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/50322\/july-8th-joko-history\/"},"modified":"2011-07-08T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T03:30:07","slug":"july-8th-joko-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/50322\/july-8th-joko-history\/","title":{"rendered":"July 8th in Joko History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doesn’t the very term “Joko History” itself imply narcissism?\u00a0 See, I could name two or three things that have really bugged me over the years as I have observed other bloggers that I am in danger of\u00a0 repeating right now:\u00a0 an inflated opinion of oneself (by using the calendar as a medium for re-posting, I am dispelling some\u00a0 of that perception in that these vids that\u00a0 just so happen to coincide with this date), or that one’s past works were so important that they deserve re-posting.\u00a0 The latter is more of an issue when one has a contiguous community like the old MySpace and bloggers begin re-posting things that a good portion of the reading community have seen before.\u00a0 Of my to two to three score regular readers on FriendBurst, I’m confidant that at most, half a dozen of you have seen any of these before.\u00a0 If you are one of those half dozen, I beg your indulgence.<\/font><\/p>\n

This week in Joko History:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Four years ago this week:<\/font><\/p>\n

ATLAS INVISIBLE-<\/strong> This was one of these weird God-shot incidences that I happened to catch on video. Ten, 15 years ago, I wrote a song called “Atlas”, which was about a person (an ex of mine) taking too much upon themselves…\u00a0 I wrote it down.\u00a0 Many years later (at the time of this vid), I found those lyrics, but without the chords that went with the song (which I had forgot).\u00a0 I went to go look for them… and found myself on ATLAS <\/strong>Road.\u00a0 Weird coincidence or “God shot”?
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Next we come to July 8th, 2008.\u00a0 By this point I had moved from California to Washington state.\u00a0 I had a whole new territory to explore and record as part of the Tour d’Joko.\u00a0 One thing that the western slope of Washington’s Olympic Mountains are known for is that they are the only place in the continental USA where one can find a rainforest.\u00a0 I went and found it. Unfortunately, as it is quite undeveloped, there are no signs that tell you “WELCOME TO THE RAINFOREST!”, so it becomes possible to become lost.\u00a0 Which I did.<\/font><\/p>\n

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FAST FORWARD ANOTHER YEAR<\/strong><\/em> to July 8th 2009.\u00a0 This video, for me, represents a bit of a transition that I did not even know I was making at the time.\u00a0 Who here remembers the blogger “JD” from the old MySpace days?\u00a0 His blogs would the make the top 20 in the heyday when half a million blogs came out everyday on MySpace.\u00a0 We became friends through MySpace, and he was visiting Seattle at the time. <\/font><\/p>\n

“As if everybody here expects everybody else to read every fucking thing they put online!”<\/font><\/p>\n

“EXACTLY!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Even in just two years, it is funny how my opinion of how who will read what whomever puts online has changed.\u00a0 JD (who is a really good writer whom has probably written all kinds of amazing stuff that I have not read, nor has he read my stuff in the last two years simply because we are not on a common platform like the old MySpace used to be.\u00a0 He expected all his readers to follow him to his new platform [naughtyjester.com] just as I expected all my readers to follow me here to FriendBurst.\u00a0 Neither thing has happened).<\/font><\/p>\n


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And in conclusion, we come to the Summer of 2010.\u00a0 One year ago. It was a summer of much creativity, produced by my newly found SObriety…<\/font><\/p>\n

One year ago today, I put out this video of me playing El Condor Pasa.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The first week of July is like the first week of “true” summer, no matter where you live in the USA. Got any memories that aren’t reliant on YouTube archives you can share? <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doesn’t the very term “Joko History” itself imply narcissism?\u00a0 See, I could name two or three things that have really bugged me over the years as I have observed other bloggers that I am in danger of\u00a0 repeating right now:\u00a0 an inflated opinion of oneself (by using the calendar as a medium for re-posting, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,8],"tags":[3860,107,3861,81,3863,1538,3085,1536,2681,106,3862],"class_list":["post-50322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life","category-music","tag-archive","tag-fun","tag-jd","tag-joko","tag-naughty-jester","tag-seattle","tag-shoes","tag-stuff","tag-uke","tag-ukulele","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}