What I'm Doing With My Life.....

 by  James Altucher Sometimes I wish the mother ship would land and take me home. I look in the sky. Where is the ship, with the beautiful aliens. The ones I belong with. Why did they leave me here on this pathetic planet. Did they really want me to grow old and die here? In the past 15 years I was probably suicidal on at least three different occasions. How would I kill myself? Who knows. I googled it. It’s hard to actually find a technique that works. Try googling “I want to die”. You’ll  just end up back on this blog. Which won’t tell you how to die. Because there is no good technique. Trust me. But all of those moments had several things in common. I couldn’t take the pain. I didn’t want to die.  I wanted the pain to die.  I had gone from a high to a low (being constantly at a low doesn’t do it. You have to go from a high to a low to experience the sense of loss) and when I thought the only way my kids would be happy is if they wer...

View Gallery Stills from Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' music video Uh-oh – it seems that  Katy Perry  has landed herself in hot water with her Muslim fans. The US pop singer has come under fire for featuring what is being viewed as a blasphemous scene in the music video for her latest single, Dark Horse. An  online petition  has been launched by a British-Muslim fan demanding that the video – in which a pendant featuring the name of Allah is seen being burned – be removed from YouTube. At the time of publishing, the petition had received 35,378 signatures. Dark Horse features Katy dressed as Katy-patra, the object of many pharaoh’s attention. Just over a minute into the video, the singer is seen zapping a man who is wearing the necklace. Katy Perry has come under fire for featuring what is being viewed as a blasphemous scene in the music video for … The petitioner, Shazad Iqbal, explains that the video is “considered as highly controversial...

Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia plays a guitar during a rehearsal of closing concert of the Biennial of Flamenco in the Andalusian capital of Seville October 9, 2010. CREDIT: REUTERS/MARCELO DEL POZO Paco de Lucia, the influential Spanish guitarist who vastly expanded the international audience for flamenco and merged it with other musical styles, died suddenly on Wednesday of a heart attack in Mexico. The 66-year-old virtuoso, as happy playing seemingly impossible syncopated flamenco rhythms as he was improvising jazz or classical guitar, helped to legitimize flamenco in Spain itself at a time when it was shunned by the mainstream. "I learned the guitar like a child learns to speak," the guitarist said in a 2012 documentary. Born Francisco Sanchez Gomez, he became famous in the 1970s after recording bestselling album "Entre Dos Aguas", becoming the first flamenco musician to perform at Madrid's op...