Good Monday! I love technology right about now….I had a fun blog ready to go…filled with PICTURES and VIDEO and it just disappeared…FUN FUN. I am not letting this great on-air studio computer get me down…Look for my post later this afternoon…
KK
It has been awhile since I was really jazzed up about a new ‘up and comer’ in the music biz. (Well, I guess not terribly too long, I felt similar emotion regarding THE SCRIPT)
Anyhow, his name is Ryan Star-if you have been listening to Lake 961, you would have heard his debut single BREATHE.
I am a big fan of this guy…and I think he will go places in the industry.
Here is a little bit of insight from his debut album that just came out last week titled 11:59.
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I have heard it a million times, late at night on the self-help infomercials - “start living now.” I saw “Fight Club,” read “Brave New World,” and have always known that we are all high on “soma.” Not until now, in my last minute, do I get to really understand it all. My name is Ryan Star. My whole life I have been getting ready for a moment. I never slowed down to understand who I really am or what life means to me beyond music and beyond performance. The lyrics I have written since I was a kid have all been trying to tell me what I am just realizing. Life is RIGHT NOW. We are in it already. Make every moment count.
We all grew up hearing the romantic idea of carpe diem.
Seize the moment, live in the present tense. 11:59 is about just that. It’s the moment we witness a football player scoring a touchdown, the moment you achieve your greatness in whatever it is you do. For me, it is being on the stage.
Its moment like these - the now - that count in life. Let me turn the tables on you … what’s your 11:59?
Create a video explaining/illustrating your 11:59 moment - post it to our site here http://www.rstar.net/upload/ and make sure you put it in the “11:59 Contest” category (if you don’t your entry won’t be judged!).
You can view all entries here http://www.rstar.net/video/category/whats-your-1159/.
I have a feeling this guy will make it big! Watch out Howie Day-you have some competition!
Katie Kruz
I can’t believe my energy level on a MONDAY! Usually it takes me a whole POT of coffee to jump-start the week…I don’t know why but I will take the energy anyway I can get it.
I had a great weekend. I was hard at work on my GOLF CART float for the annual KRUZ Summer Golf Cart Parade that is happening August 14th! Every year we get together and pick a theme and transform our golf carts into floats! We are a bit sideways the KRUZ KLAN but we have such a good time.
As the years go by the competition gets intense as my great Uncle wins EVERY year with his cart! So it’s destination GET UNCLE BOB! lol
So we took the good part of Saturday to create, build and finalize our cart. This year the theme is Disney…I can not reveal what Disney movie we choose because competition could be snooping around for clues 
But we had a blast with it. Matt build the whole float and did such a great job…I did the paint work. I will post pictures after the parade!
HEARD ON TODAY’S SHOW:
After a day of outlet mall shopping and playing dodgeball with people all day I was SPENT. I come into the studios this morning and behold the solution to all my shopping worries….SWAP SHOPPING! I don’t know how I have missed this new poplular craze but I think I am in love!
Instead of Tupperware parties you can have SWAP parties! Even strangers are doing it online through trusted websites!
You can trade everything from clothes to DVD’s to unopened toiletries! WHERE HAVE I BEEN! ha!
The swap site is THRED UP or SWAPMAMAS.COM
Grab your girlfriends together and host a swap party!
Have a great week!
Katie Kruz
