Thursday, December 10, 2009

Dear Jack

Music is a very big and important part of my life. One of my favorite bands for the past 83457943 years is Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin both headed by Andrew McMahon. Without even actually knowing him, he's still been a really big part of my life. Even my video series "I Woke Up in A Car" was inspired by the Something Corporate song "I Woke Up in A Car."

If you don't know, Something Corporate released a few albums and then in 2005 as Andrew was preparing to release the debut Jack's Mannequin album he was diagnosed with leukemia. Originally he had a small camera to film basically a behind the scenes of making the album, it then turned into making a documentary of him living in the hospital while he fought leukemia. Eventually beating the disease, and another album release later, Andrew remains an inspiration to me and many others. The documentary and "Dear Jack" album are available now on iTunes and are very emotional. I watched recently and cried a ton I'm not ashamed to admit.

Anyways, Andrew founded the "Dear Jack" foundation which is a great charity helping fund cancer research. I strongly suggest you donate, as I will be.

So please check out: http://www.dearjackfoundation.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/dearjackhq
And of course the album and dvd on iTunes.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You don`t say so!

Anonymous said...

My friend and I were recently talking about how modern society has evolved to become so integrated with technology. Reading this post makes me think back to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.


I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as memory gets less expensive, the possibility of transferring our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could encounter in my lifetime.


(Posted on Nintendo DS running [url=http://kwstar88.zoomshare.com/2.shtml]R4[/url] DS QDos)

Anonymous said...

The skin disease is characterized by multi-colored fiber-like (filamentous) strands extruding from the skin!
[url=http://www.morgellons-disease-research.com/]morgellons[/url]

Anonymous said...

I am glad to see you all
[url=http://ctajhmx.xn--gewhnt-yxa.de/73/index.html]call email death t[/url]
[url=http://cxuowje.zu-pferde.de/55/map.html]free and 1gb x[/url]
[url=http://cxuowje.zu-pferde.de/41/index.html]email address source m[/url]
[url=http://cysevcu.verausgabt.de/36/index.html]reminder free email I[/url]
[url=http://cuukvcj.troesten.de/32/map.html]email pogo cheat h[/url]
[url=http://ctroxkc.einsparen.eu/46/index.html]email bill 602p N[/url]
[url=http://cuzldhs.de.pl/65/index.html]find work someone27s u[/url]

Bye

Anonymous said...

Is it far from here?
---------------------------------------------------------
Signature:buy levitra professional online xxk

Anonymous said...

Hey Everybody,

i have been trying to figure out a good place to start the acai free trial & was just wanting to know if anyone had some thoughts on whether or not the stuff works for weight loss? So far here's the one [url=http://acaiberrydetox.ndesignsblog.com/2010/03/12/get-to-know-acai-berry-free-samples/]article[/url] I've been able to come across that seemed realistic for what my goals are. Opinions?