Pacific Coast Time

Here are the trailers for the new A.M. project "Pacific Coast Time" in order.
All directed by Just Chill.

As the whole world is very aware of, Michael Jackson, is no longer with us. Going through my own memories of the man I can't help but think, damn, another missed opportunity.

I will never have a chance to see M J do his magic live. The only reason this bothers me is history. History that I missed twice. Long story short I had a chance to see Kurt Cobain and Old Dirty Bastard before they passed and on both occasions I chose to do something I don't even remember now. Funny how opportunity is like that, what you don't grasp your often wishing you did. Don't let one precious moment pass. the next one isn't promised.

R.I.P. Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Old Dirty Bastard and everyone else in the universe who is no longer with us

Mag Flux Presents:A.M.-"Pacific Coast Time" June 30th

This is the latest project from my company. Acromic and MYO put together some great Hip Hop. Bless yourself download this June 30th !!!

Nerd with Swag

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Just Do it!!!

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke

How Fast is Too Fast ?

I recently had a conversation about the difference between working and progress. Can you move to fast? Is that really possible? I've come to the conclusion with focus and a vision that is effective speed can be good. The most important thing though is to consistantly do the things that propel your objectives forward. That's way more productive then speed without focus will ever be.

This week:

* I'm getting more organized
* Catching up with my writing for the album
* Re evaluate my goals
* Continue to read new book
* Pray more

Until the Forward

Stay Up and Stay Blessed

Oda

Young, Sexy and making an Impact

This is the motto of our creed. What we strive to live by as we go through this world. I just thought I would share it with you.

Stay up and Stay Blessed

Oda

This Week Was Crazy

This week we refocused the company. It was well over due. I finally realized that I can't do everything, not if I want to do it well. So it was time to get back to the core of what we our about. For my company its music. If we play the game right we will change history. Thats not a bad place to be.

Next Week:

+Start reading this business book
+Work on sales
+marketing plan

Until the forward

Stay up And stay blessed

Mr. Oda

Sketches Of Spain

This is the album that got me into jazz. Thanks Pops, your were right.

WHAT'S HAPPENING

This is whats going down this week in the lovely city of San Diego. If you need more info hit me up @magneticmogul@gmail.com

Wednesday 22

Soul Train San Diego w/DJ Big Willie Style and Julz @ The Static Lounge
DJ Who @ The Sandbar

Thursday 23

DJ Windz @ Morena Club
DJ Who @ Thrusters Lounge

Friday 24

DJ Who @ Sin Night Club

Saturday 25

DJ Who @ The Ivy Hotel

Tuesday 28

DJ Who @ True North Tavern

IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE

If you can find this album you are in for a real treat. Cody Chestnutt created one of the most unique mix of lo-fi gumbo I have ever heard. This double CD combines Rock & R&B in songs that go by at the pace of a punk album. (note:If your a Hip Hop fan one of the songs will sound familiar)
It's a very rare album buy every thing that worthwhile takes work

Mr. Oda

What's Happening

These our events going down this week in San Diego hit me up at Magneticmogul@gmail.com for more information

Wednesday-

Soul Train San Diego@ The Static Lounge (18+)
DJ Who @ The Sandbar(21+)

Thursday-

DJ Windz @ Morena Club (21+)

Friday-

DJ Who @ Universal (21+)
Exclusive @ Onyx/Thin (21+)

Saturday-

DJ Who @ Barwest (21+)

Tuesday-

DJ Who @ True North (21+)

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Actions Speaks Louder Than Dreams

I finally got around to reading this book I had for a minute



And there was a quote by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre that was just so real

"One is free to act,but one must act to be free."

This is the war of our lives, the battles we fight every day. Every action we do brings us closer to freedom or burdened with bondage. It so easy to be a slave to credit card companies,our job, sex etc. etc. If we take the action necessary we can buy our freedom. It's a decision we all have to make. I already made mine

The Power of Faith

Faith:(1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust (3): something that is believed especially with strong conviction.

In a nutshell faith is belief. Belief even when circumstance would show otherwise. Faith in your journey is one of the biggest factors in success.It is the magnet that attracts people to you. It is the thirst that will not be quenched until satisfied.

With a foundation of faith that is unshakeable you will not lose. Your belief will not allow it

Mr. Oda

I'm Cleaning Out My Closet

Go to myspace.com/magflux to get our latest mixtape.

Enyoy

We Don't EvenTalk Anymore

I've been thinking about connecting to my people a lot lately. In pursuing my passions I feel as if I lost the reason I'm living along the way . Why is balance so elusive in this world? Anyways I'm making it a priority to keep the positive people in the loop.

Carlo from Ape Logic Designs has come through with some ill ideas for our web page, and online content. We at Mag flux got some hot ish for the spring time. Check us out online (myspace.com/magflux)for more details

Every one stay up and have a great weekend

Peace

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The Best You

Sometimes life goes at such a fast pace you can become a passenger on another man's roller coaster. That is when you need to step in the slow lane and evaluate what your doing so you don't cause the traffic to stop on your dreams.
My company is moving so rapidly I have to make sure I don't let my personal development go down the toilet. In the end life is about balancing greatness and spreading it through all aspects of how we our living.
I was looking at my library and realized I have become a collector of dust cause nothing has moved of the shelf in ages. At that moment, as all leaders must do, I became proactive. I'm going to make sure no matter what's happening in life my growth will not be stunted. So I'm going to read more, this book which is a combination of 3 of Robert Kiyosaki's bestseller is my first choice. Financial freedom is the only freedom. Everything happens in "this" world comes from having it , trying to attain it, or living without it. You must master money to master self.

Quote of the Week

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Florence Scovel Shinn

In Case You Missed It

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Quote of the Week

"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate."

Publish Post

Blu Is Major

Blu one of my favorite rappers right now just signed with Sire/Warner Bros Records.We brought him down to San Diego last year and it's great to see his growth. I can't wait to hear the next album.

Soul Train San Diego

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You Our What You Think

This book is classic material on getting your mind right.

Just Like Old Times

Seeing the All Star game this weekend reminded of the good old days in LA. Imagine if the Lakers would have stayed together. A couple more titles would have been ours definitely. At least we had this game

Quote of the Week

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.

Scottish proverb

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Don't Mourn for Me

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so,
That I in our sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O,if,I say, you look upon this verse
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
But let your love even with my life decay:
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.(Sonnet LXXI)

William Shakespeare

No one can do it better

It's about time

Rumor has it we will finally get blessed with the return of Reflection Eternal this summer.
Now if we can get a Black Star reunion life will be good. (Only if the album is)

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Just do it

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt

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Quote of the Week

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Benjamin Franklin

I'm feeling it

This song grabbed me when I first heard it. I've been waiting for this cat to drop something in like forever. I believe the times we are facing is going to bring the best out of our culture.The future of hip hop is what we make it.

And you Don't Stop

This is a site I discovered from Cool Kids myspace page. They interview a wide spectrum of the hip hop community. What I saw looked pretty ill. Check it out www.247h.com

4th and Inches

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I got to say it was a good day.It seems like everything is starting to fall into place. Our faith and perserverance is paying off even with this economy in the dumps
Just got back from celebrating Just Chills birthday. Morena Club was dope. Windz did it up. Tonight were going to be performing in Mission Beach. Parker and the Numbermand and the mighty Pac 10 (I'm the one in the pink polo) Come down, you will not be disappointed.

What's next ?

I probably don't have to put you up on what the world is facing this year. It seems like everything we know to be true is being challenged and our reaction naturally is fear. We have never faced anything like this in our lifetime. All of the institutions we are suppose to trust have failed us. Greed and corruption have held our economy hostage and the perpetrators our suffering along with the victims. Our government has been generous enough to give 20-40% of our income to keep the major antagonists with enough money to throw Super Bowl parties and give executive bonuses .

I don't want to sound bitter, thats not the case at all. I understand the roller coaster because I'm strapped in the seat right beside you. My future is just as much at stake as anyone else's. I mean we our a part of the same world. And frankly I feel we our in the best of times as well as the worst.

The world is searching in a way that only happens out of discontent. Discontent is the father of change and innovation so I say ...what's next

What Storms May Come

Demar Douglas is one of the most creative individuals I know. This is a painting he did called "Soul Intent" for a Magnetic Flux project. On the 20th of this month he's unveiling a new masterpiece check out his blog page(www.demardouglas.blogspot.com) for more info

DJ Windz @ the Morena Club

The dj from my label spinning Old school hip hop, rare grooves, and electro every thursday.

Happy Birthday J C !!!

Come wish Just Chill a Happy Birthday @ Morena Club this Thursday

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Told You

I told you Steelers would end up victorious. Bruce Springsteen must have got the Cardinals hyped cause they made Pittsburgh work for it in the second half. Chargers going all the way next year.LT it's yours

Quote of the Week

All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively,he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly.

William Ellery Channing

Finally!!!

"I congratulate Michael Steele on his historic win as the first African-American to chair the Republican National Committee (RNC) and I congratulate the RNC for his selection. I think in a strange way the selection of Michael Steele further clarifies the need for continued civil rights leadership in the 21st century. With an African-American president and now an African American heading the opposition party to that president, we must have strong advocates that will clarify where our interests lie because clearly that cannot be decided by the color of those in power of either party. As we now in my generation have the leaders of both parties African-American, our generation must clarify and pursue our interests to close the race gap in education, the economic crisis, health care and the criminal justice system, which means we may at times find ourselves challenging people who share our color."

All I have to say is duh. Our country can not afford a population that votes on anything but merit. It frustrates me when people make their decisions based on color. People who voted for Obama because he is black are just as much to blame as the racist who would never vote for an African-American. If we our truly going to stay competive as a country the only thing that matters is we vote our conscious. Regardless of race,gender,religion or political party may the best person when.

Spread love it's the Brooklyn way

This song from Charles Hamilton is so fly. And just like him I'm not from Brooklyn but damn what makes that borough so tight. Here's some of my favorite Mc's period, enjoy.

Franchise Players

This is the collective that changed my life. I released this album of some of the illest Mc's in San Diego and together we started to shake things up in this small town.
If your in the city come to Canes this coming Friday you will not be disappointed.

Business Lessons from Bruce Lee

This philosophy from a legend works in the boardroom just as well as in the ring.

Crystal Ball Super Bowl Edition

As a Charger fan I hate the fact that this is true. Pittsburgh will destroy Arizona on Sunday. That being said good luck Cardinals (I want you to pull it off).

So So Fresh...!!!!!!

"....invisibility was its own kind of reward; it meant you had to answer to no one except the others who shared your condition. It meant you became obsessed with showing and proving, distinguishing yourself and your originality above the crowd. It put you on a relentless quest to prove to them that you were bigger, wilder, and bolder than circumstances dictated you should ever be, to try to generate something from nothing, something no one else had, until everyone around you had to admit that you had something they might never have, something that might even make other people-big, important people-stand up and take notice themselves, offer you money, give you power, or try to crush your very soul. That was the key to having style." Jeff Chang

This book is a must read.
Nuff said

It's a celebration, bitches !!!

If your in my city this is where you should be

Love or Passion

Is passion really important in making your dreams come true? Do you have to really love what you do to be great? No, any tasks that may bring you success may bore you to death. You have to find a destination that your passionately in love with. Something that makes the trials worth going through. Hate the task as long as you love the journey.

The Pursuit of Happiness

The number one question most people have in getting the most out of life is where to start. Simply where you are at this moment is the right answer. No one can give you purpose. The passion to succeed has to come from within. That being said the principles in this book will help you focus your thoughts into a plan of action that will make your dreams come true.

Quote of the Week

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”