Happy Veterans Day, a big With A Shout Out to all those currently serving in the U.S. Military and all those who already have served. Our freedoms only exist because of your honor, code, and service. Today’s round-up includes information about Time Use, more heroes, a Cure documentary, and a final quote about freedom.

Sometimes articles, ideas, and even tweets lead to serious discord discussions in our decentralized offices. Today we discussed an idea Sahil Bloom sent us from The Friday Five section of his Curiosity Chronicles newsletter. Make sure you are caffeinated; Bloom cites a Ryan Holiday tweet; in the tweet, Holiday cites Robert Greene, who says:

If the discussion starts with action. Readers of With A Shout, know our answer. Break the concept down, and you are left with the following:

We used this as the basis to begin our own exploration of several events. We took two topics everyone in our office has discussed ad nauseam.

Too healthy or too fit. We are writing this on Friday, arguably the happiest of all the happy hour nights. Anyone over 30, sits at a desk of some kind for most of the day, has small, chicken nugget-eating children, and enjoys a glass of wine now and again, knows the battle for health and fitness is every day.

We have oversimplified a concept you already know. What we want to emphasize is your attitude toward the situation you are in can be the difference between success and temporary failure. If you look at each situation, you are in and say, “what can I do from here to get there?” If you make sure your soul knows that you get to make that decision and that the decision is yours to make, it helps you to gain control and move forward. Most of us have been in situations we did not enjoy; the sooner you decide to change where you are, the sooner you can get to where you want to be.

World-famous Chef Jose Andres has been well known for his philanthropy, and this year his work in Ukraine with his charity World Central Kitchen has won him recognition in The 2022 W.S.J. Magazine Innovators. Feed the hungry. And, yes, it’s that simple if you have ever seen a community rally around a family that has gone through a tragedy, or been a part of a family that seems to go through tragedy every time the seasons change, then you know how it’s done.

Andres is very good at what he does, and it’s not cooking and food prep. It’s in the middle of whatever the tragedy is, whether it’s an earthquake in Haiti, Puerto Rico after a hurricane, or a war in Ukraine. The Chef is unafraid to do what needs to be done because he can.

Click on the image below to learn about World Central Kitchen and Donate to this worthy cause!

Check out this excellent visualization created by Jan Varsava for Visual Capitalist. Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon dominate the chart.

[Music Notes]

We defy any other newsletter decentralized office to compete with, With A Shout’s, vintage tee-shirt collection. We’ve got tees from 2 Tone Records, Rough Trade, and I.R.S.; the same goes for some of our favorite bands; The Smiths, The Psychedelic Furs, and The English Beat. We came across the combination of our tee-shirt collection and another documentary for Wax Trax! Records. Wax Trax! is a record label out of Chicago in the 80s with bands like Ministry and Front 242. This led to a discussion of some of our favorite indie labels and gave us the idea to start to research these labels and build out a new section of the newsletter on the Legacy and Influence of the indie labels that brought us some of our favorite bands. Stay tuned.

As the music team watched hours and hours of music videos and documentaries, they stumbled upon a 5 part documentary on The Cure called THE CURE - UNTITLED DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES. As far as we can tell, this documentary was created by a fan named Ryan Worsley, who goes by Bear With No Face on Youtube. We have watched the first two parts of the 5 part series, and they have been excellent.

Part 2 starts at the end of the Head on the Door tour in the 80s and goes through the release of Disintegration in the early 90s. We are huge Cure fans at With A Shout, and we learned a lot about a band we grew up with. Several lineup changes over this 5 to 7-year period, most famously the loss of Lol Tolhurst, who founded The Cure with Robert Smith when they were in high school. Tolhurst wrote a book called Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys, about the beginning of the band.

Our favorite part of part 2 is how the band had to learn how to dance for the music videos on Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - especially on Why Can’t I Be You. It was awkward to watch back then, and it hasn’t aged any better today. Robert Smith also talks about not playing the guitar as much on Disintegration and working on being a better singer. We are looking forward to Part 3!

[More New Stuff]

Words | Music | Art | Unknown

Happy Veteran’s Day, and thank you for providing the freedom we are so fortunate to live under.

Click on the Apple Music Don't to Don't” to the s” ng on Ap" le Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

Thank you for spending a few minutes with us!

With A Shout Team