Looking for a little musical intrigue in your life? Love the idea of one album telling an entire story, start to finish? Can't get enough of magical curses and queens of forests? Than I have the album for you!
The Decemberists new album, Hazards of Love, is all that and so much more. They recently played Bonnaroo where a member of my group got to see them perform the album live and it was, in his words, one of the best musical moments of his life. Being as he's had some pretty awesome musical moments I decided maybe I'd better check this thing out. And have been doing nothing but listening to it, non-stop, any moment I can for the past two weeks.
The quick and dirty version is a young maiden falls in love with an enchanted man (Fawn by day/Man by night) whose mother happens to be the pretty all demanding queen of the forest. Mom obviously doesn't want son to run away with this woman so she sends The Rake to kidnap her (and pretty brutally attack her from what it sounds like). Enchanted man goes after his true love anyway, saves her, and then the two of them die together in a raging river. It's pretty damn awesome. There is a great song by song explanation (much wordier and more cleverly written than my own quick synopsis) located here. Which to be honest really helped me understand the whole thing, just scroll down a bit and the explanation starts.
And if you find you love this as much as me, and you have some free time and money (and you live in or near Chicago), they are coming to town. They are scheduled for a Friday night gig at Lollapalooza, which for $80 you can get a Friday day pass and check them out. I contemplated this and almost did it but then discovered, like many of the bands, they are playing a Thursday night gig at The Metro for much cheaper ($35). Of course I got my ticket as soon as they went on sale.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
More random Bonnaroo items
Most annoying moment:
Friday morning at 5 a.m. a neighbor camper decided to start advertising bloody mary's for sale. He did this by yelling "Bloody Mary!" over and over and over. For 3 hours.
Nicest Strangers:
A fellow camper overheard that my book/map/schedule that they handed out upon entering the grounds got trashed in the rain on Thursday. He found they had an extra and gave it to me.
Many people throughout the weekend got me high (or offered). Never when I was with one of the boys of course, but whenever I was on my own I found plenty of offers.
Weirdest attraction:
Late at night there was a carnival/circus show. Almost impossible to explain but it included an under-miked announcer, random acts including fire hulahooping, a man in a helmet pushing a lawnmower in a circle, and an interpretive dance with human puppets. Also large metal sculputres that belched fire into the sky. Sadly I was not high for this one.
Funniest overheard at Bonnaroo moment:
"This shit is crazy!" Overheard by a random stranger at the back of the late night carnival attraction. It was funny because it rang out over the announcer (who no one could hear anyway) and broke the weird hypnotic silence we were all sitting in.
Funniest non-bonnaroo quote:
"And Marty doesn't count" Said by me to my brother late Sunday night. Only makes sense to us.
Most Unneccesary food item:
Water. Not that water was unneccessary. Water is very important. It was just that since we spent all day in Centeroo I just filled up my bottle there and not at the tent.
On a side note I have 3 large containers of Ice Mountain water if anyone needs it.
Friday morning at 5 a.m. a neighbor camper decided to start advertising bloody mary's for sale. He did this by yelling "Bloody Mary!" over and over and over. For 3 hours.
Nicest Strangers:
A fellow camper overheard that my book/map/schedule that they handed out upon entering the grounds got trashed in the rain on Thursday. He found they had an extra and gave it to me.
Many people throughout the weekend got me high (or offered). Never when I was with one of the boys of course, but whenever I was on my own I found plenty of offers.
Weirdest attraction:
Late at night there was a carnival/circus show. Almost impossible to explain but it included an under-miked announcer, random acts including fire hulahooping, a man in a helmet pushing a lawnmower in a circle, and an interpretive dance with human puppets. Also large metal sculputres that belched fire into the sky. Sadly I was not high for this one.
Funniest overheard at Bonnaroo moment:
"This shit is crazy!" Overheard by a random stranger at the back of the late night carnival attraction. It was funny because it rang out over the announcer (who no one could hear anyway) and broke the weird hypnotic silence we were all sitting in.
Funniest non-bonnaroo quote:
"And Marty doesn't count" Said by me to my brother late Sunday night. Only makes sense to us.
Most Unneccesary food item:
Water. Not that water was unneccessary. Water is very important. It was just that since we spent all day in Centeroo I just filled up my bottle there and not at the tent.
On a side note I have 3 large containers of Ice Mountain water if anyone needs it.
Adventures in Bonnaroo land
(Thought I published this last night, whoops! Will finish later)
4 pillows, 3 camping chairs, 2 tents and 1 broken cell phone later I have returned home from Bonnaroo. It was an amazingly awesome experience and if you ever have $250 extra dollars (plus transportation, gas, food, and beer money) laying around combined with the ability to take a 5 day vacation, I highly, highly recommend it. I saw part or all of 20+ bands in 4 days and it was fucking fantastic, though pretty exhausting at the same time. So for anyone interested, here's the breakdown. Word to the wise, this will probably be stupidly long since my blog window is so narrow (and a hell of a lot happened). Sorry.
Wednesday night: Me, my brother and my boyfriend (here on out referred to as "the boy") hit the road in our upgraded 2009 Silverado around 11 o'clock at night. We had initially rented a full size vehicle (a Nissan something or other is what they would of given us) but due to the joys of renting from urban Enterprise locations they neglected to actually have the car on site when we showed up for our reservation. Options were to be driven up to another lot for our full size car or take the quad cab truck at the same price. We went with the truck. The plan was to drive through the night to hit Manchester, TN around 7 am. Brother (who is a bartender and used to working nights) would take the first shift and wake me up when he started to fall asleep and I would lead us in. I crashed out in the back, unable to sleep, while he drove through what ended up being torrential downpours all through Indiana at half our intended speed. We ended up hitting the entrance line around 9:30ish instead.
Thursday: Then came the 4 hour, idle slowly, use the "park" gear often, and drink beer section of the drive. People would get out, roam around, throw Frisbees, all while we slowly inched our way to the coveted farm land. As we were getting ready to roll in it started raining again making for a pretty damp and rushed tent pitching party later on. The gates to get in took awhile because they search every car for glass (no glass at all is allowed, which turns out to be a pretty damn smart idea after all the shoes I saw lost throughout the weekend) and drugs. We of course made it through a-okay. Orange flags and volunteers led us to our parking spot which is also your campsite and we raced through claiming our territory. Not much that we wanted to see was happening Thursday and we were all pretty exhausted so since the rain had let up we decided to just wander in to the music area and get a feel for the place. The boy had one band he wanted to catch at 7 so we had plenty of time. The walk from our campsite to the actual music festival grounds was quite a hike. We ended up being pretty much at the back of the whole camping area (if I can scan a copy of the map at some point I will try and show you where).
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Okay as I'm typing in this format I'm realizing this is going to take forever but I don't really want to start over so I'm switching how I present this weekend.
First Music - some of these I saw the entire show, some I just hung out for a few moments, and some I basically could only hear since I was so far back.
Thursday: MURS
Friday: Gomez, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Ani DiFranco, Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Phish, Public Enemy, Girl Talk
Saturday: Bon Iver, Of Montreal, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, NIN, Yeasayer, moe, Ben Harper (those last four I really only saw between 5-15 minutes of each, it was the end of the night and I was freaking beat)
Sunday: Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg, Phish
Favorite musical moments: Watching Bruce come on stage at the end of the first half of the Sunday night set of Phish and play Mustang Sally and Glory Days with Trey and the band. Ani DiFranco (always, always wonderful), seeing Justin rock the fucking house with Bon Iver (I used to hang out camping with that guy, it was weird to see so many screaming fans for him!) and watching 40,000 white kids clap off beat to Snoop.
Biggest let downs: Missing half of Grace Potter wandering around trying to find brother and boy. Dragging my dancing ass out of Phish to find out Public Enemy basically played the same concert as when I saw them at Pitchfork last summer ("For the second to last time ever we're going to play It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in it's entirety!")
How I worked it: Basically I would hang out around camp till the first band I wanted to see started then hike down to Centeroo (the music area of the farm) and stay there all damn day (longest was Friday, went in at noon for Gomez and got back to tent around 4 am). This led to not a lot of beer drinking because I found it expensive and unnecessary to drink $6 Budweiser's all day. In the end this was probably a good thing since because of that I actually remember most of the weekend.
Lost and Found and other broken items: I only got lost once. Friday night I was on my own (we mostly all split up all weekend) and as stated previously had been out since around noon. I was hoping to catch Girl Talk for awhile as my last set of the night but by 3:15 a.m. I was done (they were supposed to start at 2:15 but didn't get going till about 3). I tried to head back the way I thought my camp was and ended up wandering around for close to an hour. Luckily I didn't get too freaked out about it which is pretty damn big for me who often can panic when lost in the dark in a field in a foreign state.
My phone was in my back pocket all day Thursday and when a late night major thunderstorm caught me out and about I think it finally gave up on me. Friday morning when I went to open it it was obviously water logged (the screen was all kinds of fucked up) so I took it apart in an attempt to dry it and left it alone. Tried it again on Monday and it was a no go. I now have a replacement phone being shipped to hopefully arrive in 2 days or so. Yay for insurance I guess.
General Atmosphere: The place was filled with stoned out kids as you probably already imagined. In the beginning I felt a bit old (and a lot sober) but I got over it pretty quick. For the most part everyone was pretty passive (when you're that high trying to fight is not even conceivable) and with only beer being sold inside Centeroo it kept things low key.
.....................
Yikes lightning is flashing around me in my apartment so I'm going to jump off this ancient beast I claim is a computer. I'll try and come back later and finish it off!
4 pillows, 3 camping chairs, 2 tents and 1 broken cell phone later I have returned home from Bonnaroo. It was an amazingly awesome experience and if you ever have $250 extra dollars (plus transportation, gas, food, and beer money) laying around combined with the ability to take a 5 day vacation, I highly, highly recommend it. I saw part or all of 20+ bands in 4 days and it was fucking fantastic, though pretty exhausting at the same time. So for anyone interested, here's the breakdown. Word to the wise, this will probably be stupidly long since my blog window is so narrow (and a hell of a lot happened). Sorry.
Wednesday night: Me, my brother and my boyfriend (here on out referred to as "the boy") hit the road in our upgraded 2009 Silverado around 11 o'clock at night. We had initially rented a full size vehicle (a Nissan something or other is what they would of given us) but due to the joys of renting from urban Enterprise locations they neglected to actually have the car on site when we showed up for our reservation. Options were to be driven up to another lot for our full size car or take the quad cab truck at the same price. We went with the truck. The plan was to drive through the night to hit Manchester, TN around 7 am. Brother (who is a bartender and used to working nights) would take the first shift and wake me up when he started to fall asleep and I would lead us in. I crashed out in the back, unable to sleep, while he drove through what ended up being torrential downpours all through Indiana at half our intended speed. We ended up hitting the entrance line around 9:30ish instead.
Thursday: Then came the 4 hour, idle slowly, use the "park" gear often, and drink beer section of the drive. People would get out, roam around, throw Frisbees, all while we slowly inched our way to the coveted farm land. As we were getting ready to roll in it started raining again making for a pretty damp and rushed tent pitching party later on. The gates to get in took awhile because they search every car for glass (no glass at all is allowed, which turns out to be a pretty damn smart idea after all the shoes I saw lost throughout the weekend) and drugs. We of course made it through a-okay. Orange flags and volunteers led us to our parking spot which is also your campsite and we raced through claiming our territory. Not much that we wanted to see was happening Thursday and we were all pretty exhausted so since the rain had let up we decided to just wander in to the music area and get a feel for the place. The boy had one band he wanted to catch at 7 so we had plenty of time. The walk from our campsite to the actual music festival grounds was quite a hike. We ended up being pretty much at the back of the whole camping area (if I can scan a copy of the map at some point I will try and show you where).
..............................
Okay as I'm typing in this format I'm realizing this is going to take forever but I don't really want to start over so I'm switching how I present this weekend.
First Music - some of these I saw the entire show, some I just hung out for a few moments, and some I basically could only hear since I was so far back.
Thursday: MURS
Friday: Gomez, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Ani DiFranco, Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Phish, Public Enemy, Girl Talk
Saturday: Bon Iver, Of Montreal, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, NIN, Yeasayer, moe, Ben Harper (those last four I really only saw between 5-15 minutes of each, it was the end of the night and I was freaking beat)
Sunday: Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg, Phish
Favorite musical moments: Watching Bruce come on stage at the end of the first half of the Sunday night set of Phish and play Mustang Sally and Glory Days with Trey and the band. Ani DiFranco (always, always wonderful), seeing Justin rock the fucking house with Bon Iver (I used to hang out camping with that guy, it was weird to see so many screaming fans for him!) and watching 40,000 white kids clap off beat to Snoop.
Biggest let downs: Missing half of Grace Potter wandering around trying to find brother and boy. Dragging my dancing ass out of Phish to find out Public Enemy basically played the same concert as when I saw them at Pitchfork last summer ("For the second to last time ever we're going to play It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in it's entirety!")
How I worked it: Basically I would hang out around camp till the first band I wanted to see started then hike down to Centeroo (the music area of the farm) and stay there all damn day (longest was Friday, went in at noon for Gomez and got back to tent around 4 am). This led to not a lot of beer drinking because I found it expensive and unnecessary to drink $6 Budweiser's all day. In the end this was probably a good thing since because of that I actually remember most of the weekend.
Lost and Found and other broken items: I only got lost once. Friday night I was on my own (we mostly all split up all weekend) and as stated previously had been out since around noon. I was hoping to catch Girl Talk for awhile as my last set of the night but by 3:15 a.m. I was done (they were supposed to start at 2:15 but didn't get going till about 3). I tried to head back the way I thought my camp was and ended up wandering around for close to an hour. Luckily I didn't get too freaked out about it which is pretty damn big for me who often can panic when lost in the dark in a field in a foreign state.
My phone was in my back pocket all day Thursday and when a late night major thunderstorm caught me out and about I think it finally gave up on me. Friday morning when I went to open it it was obviously water logged (the screen was all kinds of fucked up) so I took it apart in an attempt to dry it and left it alone. Tried it again on Monday and it was a no go. I now have a replacement phone being shipped to hopefully arrive in 2 days or so. Yay for insurance I guess.
General Atmosphere: The place was filled with stoned out kids as you probably already imagined. In the beginning I felt a bit old (and a lot sober) but I got over it pretty quick. For the most part everyone was pretty passive (when you're that high trying to fight is not even conceivable) and with only beer being sold inside Centeroo it kept things low key.
.....................
Yikes lightning is flashing around me in my apartment so I'm going to jump off this ancient beast I claim is a computer. I'll try and come back later and finish it off!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Long winded cult invitation***
So I'm trying to sell some of my stuff on Craigslist once again. I have found that I am notoriously bad at this because A) I never take the time to write good descriptions, B) I rarely add pictures which is key to getting folks to your ad to begin with, and C) most of my stuff is pretty crappy.
But this time it wasn't just something I could shove in a box, or in the back of the closet and forget about so I decided to try once again to get through the magic gates and become a bonified craigslist seller (instead of just they buyer I've been up until now).
See what I'm selling is a day bed. Yup a whole goram* bed. You can see (hopefully)why this would be something that can not just be stepped around day after day. I own this because I originally used it as a bed in my studio and then as a couch in my one bedroom. But recently I have come into the good fortune to get an actual couch (a real live grown up piece of furniture!) so have dissasembled the day bed and leaned it up against the wall. In my bedroom. And it's starting to get really annoying.
So I got my shit together and posted it in the furniture section along with a ridiculously heavy and large wall mirror (most likely best for a mantle, unless you really trust yourself and your wall studs) and 2 DVD storage units. I figured if I was going to post one thing I might as well try and get a few other odds and ends out the door.
16 or so hours after it goes up I get a reply. Yippee, I think, I might actually make some spending cash to make up for Printers Row**. I read through the reply and it seems harmless enough. Woman looking actually for immediate bedding for two (some Church thing, I specifically made sure not to ask about it) and wondered if another bed would fit underneath. I replied I wasn't sure, I had stored boxes under there and so maybe a mattress flat on the floor would work, but I would measure when I got home to make sure. And if she could get it by tomorrow I would knock $25 off the price (I had listed it as negotaible and she had asked).
Her reply is that they are really looking for something to fit a rolling trundle bed under so she is going to pass on the one I have for sale. I could of left it at that. I could of walked away, deleted her emails, and never thought about it again. But (obviously) I didn't. I thought it would be polite to reply, to indicate I had received her turning down of the bed. I wrote...
"Sorry it won't work out, good luck in your search!
Cheers
Gradual Instant's actual name"
That's It. One little sentance. Thought it was a nice, quick wrap up. I moved my brain back to square one and hoped someone else might be able to come and buy this damn thing.
But then it happens. I go back to check my email and see she has replied to my final reply. I open it up, thinking "Hey maybe they changed their minds, maybe they want to wait to see what the measurement is". But no. No, not at all. Instead I get this.
(Names changed in case any one reading this actually knows these people and it freaks me out they might be able to find me.)
Hey Gradual Instant's actual name,
I saw you live in Lincoln Park. My husband and I are South Africans who are part of Newfrontiers, a church family with more than 600 churches worldwide. We are busy planting a church with our leaders Jack and Jill Crazypants into the Lincoln Park area and I was wondering if you would ever be interested in visiting us one Sunday. Its very relaxed at this point. As there are about 30 of us meeting in a home. We’re planning on moving into a building probably early January/February next year and in the meantime are gathering people that are keen to be involved in a new church plant into the Chicago/Lincoln Park area. We meet Sunday afternoons between 3pm and 5pm at this moment in time. No pressure, but just wondered if I could introduce you via email to Jack and Jill and get them to send you some information... Okay, gotta run, we live in Winnetka at the moment but travel into the city to be a part of what they’re doing. Its very exciting... They live on Ashland and Fullerton area. We have three kids under the age of 6 and Jill has two kids (one of which is almost 2 and the other is about 5 months old.
Cheers,
1) I do not live in Lincoln Park. I made this clear I thought in the ad when it said "Location" and I did not put Lincoln Park.
2) WTF?
3) No part of this is appealing to me. Not Lincoln Park. Not church. Not kids under the age of 6. Nothing.
4) Really, WTF? I just wanted to sell some furniture to you, not join your crazy cult!
So I guess the end result is this; if anyone is intereseted I not only have a day bed for sale but I may have an in to a sweet kool aid kicking hang out on Sundays. I'll drop you off at the door for $5.
* I have been watching way too much Firefly
** Printers Row was amazing and hopefully I will get a post up about it before I hit the road for my next adventure, or at least a book list of what I scored. And yes, Neil is hysterically funny and witty in person, but no I did not get to meet him one on one.
*** When I started this post I meant that the actual lead up to the invitation took awhile, but after writing it all I think I may also be long winded, so I guess we have ourselves a double serving title today. Works for me. At least one of us is working overtime.
But this time it wasn't just something I could shove in a box, or in the back of the closet and forget about so I decided to try once again to get through the magic gates and become a bonified craigslist seller (instead of just they buyer I've been up until now).
See what I'm selling is a day bed. Yup a whole goram* bed. You can see (hopefully)why this would be something that can not just be stepped around day after day. I own this because I originally used it as a bed in my studio and then as a couch in my one bedroom. But recently I have come into the good fortune to get an actual couch (a real live grown up piece of furniture!) so have dissasembled the day bed and leaned it up against the wall. In my bedroom. And it's starting to get really annoying.
So I got my shit together and posted it in the furniture section along with a ridiculously heavy and large wall mirror (most likely best for a mantle, unless you really trust yourself and your wall studs) and 2 DVD storage units. I figured if I was going to post one thing I might as well try and get a few other odds and ends out the door.
16 or so hours after it goes up I get a reply. Yippee, I think, I might actually make some spending cash to make up for Printers Row**. I read through the reply and it seems harmless enough. Woman looking actually for immediate bedding for two (some Church thing, I specifically made sure not to ask about it) and wondered if another bed would fit underneath. I replied I wasn't sure, I had stored boxes under there and so maybe a mattress flat on the floor would work, but I would measure when I got home to make sure. And if she could get it by tomorrow I would knock $25 off the price (I had listed it as negotaible and she had asked).
Her reply is that they are really looking for something to fit a rolling trundle bed under so she is going to pass on the one I have for sale. I could of left it at that. I could of walked away, deleted her emails, and never thought about it again. But (obviously) I didn't. I thought it would be polite to reply, to indicate I had received her turning down of the bed. I wrote...
"Sorry it won't work out, good luck in your search!
Cheers
Gradual Instant's actual name"
That's It. One little sentance. Thought it was a nice, quick wrap up. I moved my brain back to square one and hoped someone else might be able to come and buy this damn thing.
But then it happens. I go back to check my email and see she has replied to my final reply. I open it up, thinking "Hey maybe they changed their minds, maybe they want to wait to see what the measurement is". But no. No, not at all. Instead I get this.
(Names changed in case any one reading this actually knows these people and it freaks me out they might be able to find me.)
Hey Gradual Instant's actual name,
I saw you live in Lincoln Park. My husband and I are South Africans who are part of Newfrontiers, a church family with more than 600 churches worldwide. We are busy planting a church with our leaders Jack and Jill Crazypants into the Lincoln Park area and I was wondering if you would ever be interested in visiting us one Sunday. Its very relaxed at this point. As there are about 30 of us meeting in a home. We’re planning on moving into a building probably early January/February next year and in the meantime are gathering people that are keen to be involved in a new church plant into the Chicago/Lincoln Park area. We meet Sunday afternoons between 3pm and 5pm at this moment in time. No pressure, but just wondered if I could introduce you via email to Jack and Jill and get them to send you some information... Okay, gotta run, we live in Winnetka at the moment but travel into the city to be a part of what they’re doing. Its very exciting... They live on Ashland and Fullerton area. We have three kids under the age of 6 and Jill has two kids (one of which is almost 2 and the other is about 5 months old.
Cheers,
1) I do not live in Lincoln Park. I made this clear I thought in the ad when it said "Location" and I did not put Lincoln Park.
2) WTF?
3) No part of this is appealing to me. Not Lincoln Park. Not church. Not kids under the age of 6. Nothing.
4) Really, WTF? I just wanted to sell some furniture to you, not join your crazy cult!
So I guess the end result is this; if anyone is intereseted I not only have a day bed for sale but I may have an in to a sweet kool aid kicking hang out on Sundays. I'll drop you off at the door for $5.
* I have been watching way too much Firefly
** Printers Row was amazing and hopefully I will get a post up about it before I hit the road for my next adventure, or at least a book list of what I scored. And yes, Neil is hysterically funny and witty in person, but no I did not get to meet him one on one.
*** When I started this post I meant that the actual lead up to the invitation took awhile, but after writing it all I think I may also be long winded, so I guess we have ourselves a double serving title today. Works for me. At least one of us is working overtime.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Pennies for a rainy day
There are a million ways to earn money off the internet (probably) and over the course of the past few years I've come across a handful of them. I always get really, really excited which quickly breaks down into really, really bored. But since I've started one back up again I though I'd come list them all here (mostly so I can come back in three months when I've once again lost interest and laugh at myself for my short attention span).
Squidoo: Build thing they call "lens's" that are like mini webpages. Get others to view your Lens and click on ads and such. Earn money from those ads. At one point I was up to about $7 I think, but now when I log in I can't seem to find it. They have a rule if inactive for a year the money goes back in the bank sort of thing so I'm guessing I lost it. Whoops.
MTurk: Amazon's weird little worker bee community thing. People (or companies, or robots, I have no idea) post tasks/jobs for us worker bees to complete. These range in payment from a penny to up to a dollar. My lifetime earning from them is $21.98 but at some point I rolled that into an Amazon gift certificate and now have a whopping 89 cents for a current balance.
Google Ads: You all know about these. Dedicate some space on your site/blog to let google pick out ads (theoretically matching your content) to fill in the space. Then hope your readers click on them every once in awhile to send some revenue back to your pocket.
Moola: By far the weirdest money making set up I've seen. Basically play on line games (a small handful, maybe 3-4) and bet/earn money. You can earn extra for all those regular things as well such as referring friends, signing up for offers, etc. The newest thing though is using their search feature allows you to earn revenue. They had this before and I tried it randomly but never seemed to win. The newest incarnation however has returned at least a penny (and a few 50 centers) each time I've searched today. I started at $5.05 this morning and now am at $7.66. This seems to be the easiest if I can stick with it. I'm hoping to get to $20 by next week!
So these are my four random money generating activities on the internet. What will I ever do if I don't have a desk job to find this stuff?
***Update: Looks like the Moola winning might have been a glitch. While I legitimately needed to do about 40 searches, I'm guessing the system won't read it like that and will probably take back my money. That's okay. If it comes back online I'll just make sure to use it for a few searches a day and not my major internet work.
Squidoo: Build thing they call "lens's" that are like mini webpages. Get others to view your Lens and click on ads and such. Earn money from those ads. At one point I was up to about $7 I think, but now when I log in I can't seem to find it. They have a rule if inactive for a year the money goes back in the bank sort of thing so I'm guessing I lost it. Whoops.
MTurk: Amazon's weird little worker bee community thing. People (or companies, or robots, I have no idea) post tasks/jobs for us worker bees to complete. These range in payment from a penny to up to a dollar. My lifetime earning from them is $21.98 but at some point I rolled that into an Amazon gift certificate and now have a whopping 89 cents for a current balance.
Google Ads: You all know about these. Dedicate some space on your site/blog to let google pick out ads (theoretically matching your content) to fill in the space. Then hope your readers click on them every once in awhile to send some revenue back to your pocket.
Moola: By far the weirdest money making set up I've seen. Basically play on line games (a small handful, maybe 3-4) and bet/earn money. You can earn extra for all those regular things as well such as referring friends, signing up for offers, etc. The newest thing though is using their search feature allows you to earn revenue. They had this before and I tried it randomly but never seemed to win. The newest incarnation however has returned at least a penny (and a few 50 centers) each time I've searched today. I started at $5.05 this morning and now am at $7.66. This seems to be the easiest if I can stick with it. I'm hoping to get to $20 by next week!
So these are my four random money generating activities on the internet. What will I ever do if I don't have a desk job to find this stuff?
***Update: Looks like the Moola winning might have been a glitch. While I legitimately needed to do about 40 searches, I'm guessing the system won't read it like that and will probably take back my money. That's okay. If it comes back online I'll just make sure to use it for a few searches a day and not my major internet work.
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