Best Advice Ever!

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

Free Comic Book Day!

Free Comic Book Day is Saturday May 3rd 2008, a single day when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their stores.



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'70s Ultimate Playlist

01. Eagles - Hotel California (6:32)
02. Heart - Magic Man (5:26)
03. The Kinks - Lola (4:11)
04. Queen - Killer Queen (3:01)
05. Rolling Stones - Paint It Black (3:48)
06. Styx - Renegade (4:14)
07. Rick Derringer - Rock N Roll Hoochie Coo (3:42)
08. The Who - Pinball Wizard (2:57)
09. Neil Young - Old Man (3:22)
10. Pink Floyd - Money (6:22)
11. Eric Clapton - Cocaine (3:36)
12. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (2:18)
13. Bad Company - Bad Company (4:50)
14. Rush - Tom Sawyer (4:34)
15. KISS - Calling Dr. Love (3:39)
16. Black Sabbath - Crazy Train (4:57)
17. Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing (6:50)
18. Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water (5:39)
19. Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See (6:05)
20. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper (5:08)
21. Doobie Brothers - Black Water (4:18)
22. Foghat - Slow Ride (3:58)
23. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker (4:14)
24. Bob Seger - Turn the Page (5:02)
25. Santana - Black Magic Woman (5:19)
26. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (5:31)

Played on Nixxi's Pistola Manifesto on AKARADIO.com :)

Fortune Faded

"Being aware of your fears will improve your life."

My American Dialect

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The West
The South
The Inland North
Boston
The Northeast
North Central
Philadelphia
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

The Ultimate '90s Playlist

01. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun (5:18)
02. Nirvana - Plateau (3:38)
03. Toadies - Possum Kingdom (5:09)
04. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Knock on Wood (3:13)
05. Rancid - Ruby Soho (2:37)
06. KoRn - Good God (3:20)
07. Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song (3:14)
08. Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade (3:51)
09. Blues Traveler - Hook (4:50)
10. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt (4:24)
11. Tool - Stink Fist (5:10)
12. Tripping Daisy - I Got a Girl (4:03)
13. Cake - The Distance (3:00)
14. Candlebox - Far Behind (4:58)
15. Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn (4:51)
16. Weezer - Say It Ain't So (4:17)
17. Bush - Everything Zen (4:38)
18. Silverchair - Pure Massacre (4:58)
19. Green Day - Basket Case (3:03)
20. Beck - Where It's At (5:30)
21. Placebo - Pure Morning (4:14)
22. Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey (2:37)
23. The Offspring - Keep 'Em Seperated (3:19)
24. Metallica - King Nothing (5:29)
25. Smashing Pumpkins - Today (3:19)
26. KoRn - Blind (4:18)