Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda: On Getting Inspiration. Meeting Mike- Manifestation or Coincidence?
Am I getting better at manifesting or was this coincidence? Yesterday I was thinking about Fort Minor’s song and the next day I wake up and meet the guy behind it. (Let’s not forget the time I had a dream I met Jackie Chan while I was in Taiwan and the next day I get an email from my friend saying we are demo-ing for Jackie Chan. Read the story on “How I Met My Childhood Idol“). Here is the Mike Shinoda manifestation story:
I went to the East West Players Visionary Awards yesterday to do some interviews for Pacific Rim. There were a lot of great people there and talented Asian artists. =)
The strange thing was this: 4am the night before I was writing song lyrics for my business fraternity’s 10 year reunion event…
Past present blending through the ages
Destiny scripted on your manuals pages
From E-xi till DnI we cry and laugh
That sig on the back you can keep my autograph
A fraction inspiration, the rest is sweat
Building boats and memories we’ll never forget
In you and I got u.n.i.t.y.
Reach for those dreams the limit is the sky!
…and that line “a fraction inspiration, the rest is sweat” was inspired by Mike Shinoda or Fort Minor’s song “Remember the name”.
So at 4am I fell asleep thinking about Fort Minor’s lyrics:
This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
The next morning (same day) I wake up to a text from Pacific Rim saying “hey I know its kind of last minute but can you help cover the East West Players Awards at 6:30pm today?” So I said yes.. and BAM! I’m covering the event and I’m assigned to interview Mike Shinoda! It was awesome! I really like his music and style, and he seems like a very cool person.
If you guys don’t know, Mike Shinoda is an Asian American artist best known for his vocal and musical endeavors with two-time Grammy-winning, multi-platinum rock band Linkin Park who also has his own project Fort Minor. He also is an awesome graphic designer that graduated from The Art Center — and I happened to have just come back from The Art Center that day watching a screening for a graduate program short film where I was one of the actors.
Other performers were at the event as well. Here are a few other pics:
I had a good time at the event for sure. I also was hanging out with a fellow volunteer who taught me some improv games. There’s one where you pick a random letter of the alphabet like.. “G” for example so then I would say “Go get me some apples” and then the next person would have to start with the next letter of the alphabet “H” and they would say “Hellll no I’m not getting apples for you”.. etc. There’s another game where you can only ask questions… and that was fun too. I think I might try to check out some improv groups when I have more time. I heard about OPM (opening people’s minds) and a few other improv groups.
In summary- it may have been a coincidence or it may be that I have been quite active lately so I’m bound to “accidentally” meet these inspirational people, but part of me thinks that the universe definitely does work in such a way that if you go about it the right way, you can manifest the impossible into possible.