According to my Last FM page, here is what has been getting the most play at home over the past 7 days.
01) The National
02) Jimmy Eat World
03) Face to Face
04) By A Thread
05) Explosions in The Sky
06) Coheed and Cambria
07) Led Zeppelin
07) Braid
07) Fleet Foxes
10) The Frames
10) Grand Archives
That sounds about right. As you might notice, heavily influenced by the top 20n records thing I wrote the other day, revisiting some albums. And Explosions in the Sky get played all the time. They’d be higher on the list, but their songs are about 8 minutes each, so they get half the spins of say… Face to Face.
In car, its all the new Franz Ferdinand or even some Gaslight Anthem.
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Madelyn turns one next Tuesday. The big birthday party in on Sunday, fun.
She almost walks, she almost talks… but almost doesn’t pay the bills! do better baby!
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I was thinking about adding some work to make some more money. Before I even advertised that I was looking for work (kinda, there were some emails and some rejections or no replies…), two companies contacted me looking for my expertise. Neat. No deals closed so no job attained yet. But if it happens then I can’t wait to share some future projects on here.
The work will be welcome.
We decided to up our level of catering for the wedding a few notches (OK a bunch of notches!). Our good friend Alix works for a company called Feys and Hobbs and they do A-list event food. We had a fairly frugal budget but they asked to make a bid anyways. Sure enough, their price was above what we could pay but the quality is way above… so two things happened… we asked our friend Alix to get on her knees (as in begged, nothing sexual you filthies!) to her boss for us to get us a better price (achieved) and Coral’s father stepped up with a contribution for our catering. So Coral and I are basically back to our old financial commitment for the B-level food but we can deliver the A-level experience to our family and friends. Needless to say, Coral and I are very happy and grateful.
Thank you Alix and Rob and Roberta!
This generosity comes on top of money already contributed by my folks which (depending how much people drink) should cover the bar… so the next morning when you’re puking up my Feys and Hobbs in the toilet cuz you’re so hung over, you can cheers, Grandma Mom and Grandpa Jack!
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It has been a challenging month for me but is now looking up. The Clubhouse had a great crowd on Tuesday which I hope is the start of some momentum heading into Spring. I have some stellar ideas and some contacts to try and make those ideas reality and finally a couple promising leads on some more work so I can pays me bills and save for our wedding. Actually last night I started sketching out a game changer concept for wi-fi radio! whoa, blew my own mind last night. Bad cuz I didn’t get much sleep, good because… well its a good idea.
Next week, an interview with the local author of the book “Becoming Batman,” Dr. Paul Zehr. Capital Rock City has an interview with Carpenter, in town Friday to open for Gob @ Lucky Bar. I am working on interviews with Chixdiggit and John Franco of By A Thread.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 