Well, I was tagged by Kevin at FuelMyBlog’s Blog. I noticed that he tagged me on Twitter. Are you folks using Twitter? It is interesting for mini blogging.

About the MEME: I need to pick 7 CD’s or music tracks that I am listening to right now. 5 from CD player at home and two from the car. Here’s the deal, because I now have an iPod I hardly ever use my CD player in the car. I never really used it much to begin with but for now I listen to many podcasts. So I will mention the podcasts I am listening to as well as the music on the home CD/Alarm Clock.

Home.
1. A classical Christmas church album – (I don’t know the name)
2. Ellis Paul – Summertime 1st demo.
3. Jack Johnson – On and On
4. Mark Erelli – Hope & Other Casualties
5. Chris O’Brien – Rosa
6. The Offical LOST Podcast
7. Pop Candy Podcast

And now I tag some friends…
Allison – Sparky’s View
Mo – We’re In A Fight
Autumn – Autumn Indigo
Christine – Tales From the Ball Park

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Music Related MEME…

Today Allison and I started the day with some bacon, egg and cheese English muffins that I made. They were very tasty. I felt like making breakfast this weekend so on Friday when I got home from my trip I stopped at the store and got the supplies needed. I also added to Allison’s reserves of Limeade. She loves the stuff. Simply Limeade is the best because there is no high fructose corn syrup.

In the afternoon I got an e-mail message from The Transformers Collector’s Club. The registration form and brochure for BotCon 2007 had just come out. I immediately filled out my Registration form and faxed it in. There is a great feature this year which is an early screening of the Transformers Live action movie. You know, the one I’ve been counting down to for over 2 years now. Well, I will get to see the movie 6 days early as long as my registration was one of the first ones to make it in. Also this year the collector’s set is an all Decepticon one which will include the rest of the seekers. That will be pretty sweet. And I signed up for the top package so I will be getting a bonus figure as well as admission to the awards dinner on Saturday night. I hope that my friends Ryan and Don can make it to the convention too. It will be nice to go to this thing with friends. This will also be the first Botcon I will have gone to since 2003.

Tonight Allison and I went with Jenn to see Ellis Paul at the Common Fence in Portsmouth, RI. We had never been to this venue before but were eager to check it out.

The Common Fence Point Community Hall was very close to Evelyn’s Drive In. I figured that we would have a nice dinner there before the show but they do not open until this coming Monday. Oh well, we drove a little ways further to the Stone Bridge Restaurant in Tiverton, RI. The food at the Stone Bridge was good. They had a selection of seafood and Italian dishes and the view was very nice. We watched the sunset through the windows. I went outside and across the street to get the Photo-A-Day picture and a couple other pictures.

Sunset in Tiverton.

A ship on th water in Tiverton, RI.

Then we headed over to the Common Fence Point Community Hall. The place was already packed at 7:20pm. A little inside knowledge that we will keep for next visit is that the doors open at 7:00pm and you can bring your own food and drinks to the hall. We will know for our next trip. The Common Fence Point Community Hall was a very nice little place, there were tables through the middle of the room and folding chairs all around the outer edges. We sat by the back wall. As we were waiting for the show to begin we saw a friend of mine from College, Stevie D and his wife Kristen. We had seen them at a previous Ellis Paul show back in January of 2004. It was nice to talk with them and catch up a bit. We’ll probably see them in another 3 years at some other Ellis Paul show.

The show was very good. Flynn opened the show and he was really on his game tonight. I really enjoyed his music this evening and his story about meeting Cher gets better and better. Flynn has a great way of storytelling and is very enjoyable to watch.

After Flynn was done there was a short intermission and Ellis took to the stage. He played many of the songs that we have come to know and love over the years and he introduced us to two new songs. I do not know the name of the songs but one was probably called Summertime and the other had to do with wabi sabi. Wabi Sabi basically means treasuring those things that change in our lifetime and grow old and become more wonderful. I am paraphrasing but I think that was the gist.

After the show we bought Essentials which is a two disc set of Ellis‘ music. Then we got in line and got that CD signed by Ellis and Jenn took our picture with Ellis.

I also took a few pictures during the show. Only once did I forget and let the flash go off. The rest of the time I tried to capture Ellis and Flynn when they were not moving, so I have tuning pictures.

Flynn tuning his guitar.

Ellis tuning his Guitar.

Ellis and Flynn singing “Let it Be”.

Allison and I with Ellis Paul

I linked to both Ellis and Flynn’s MySpace pages, there you can hear many of the songs from the show including Summertime from Ellis and White from Flynn.

and one of the biggest happy surprises from the show was that Ellis is writing a children’s album. We are very excited about that one.

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Photo-A-Day #722 03/31/07

On Sunday night Allison took me to the Vance Gilbert concert at the Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry NH. Vance was incredible. But before Vance took the stage, as a favor to his friend Ellis Paul (Who was prevented from coming by a family emergency), we listened to some guy I think his name was Dave or Dan or something. Anyway he loves Jerusalem (He told us 25 times in one song, subtle)…. Yeah, well I hope that works out for you buddy. His songs were hard to follow and got annoying quickly.

Vance Gilbert was great though, this guy has such a range. He sings so well and he is funny as hell. He had to match wits with some lady in front of us who kept blurting things out at random times. But he handled himself well and didn’t let her rattle him. Obviously she annoyed me, but then again what doesn’t annoy me. But you all know that Allison and I have the absolute worst luck about picking seats at any event that we attend. It is a given that some wacko will be sitting near us and want to interact with us. I like to keep my interactions with wackos down to a once a week , tops.

For his encore, Vance Gilbert came out into the crowd and sang a song a capella and it was so powerful. We missed out and didn’t have our copy of Side of the Road with us so we got no autographs or photos. Maybe next time.

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Ellis Pa…. Er, Vance Gilbert Concert

Emerson College has a nice radio station. The call letters are WERS. I stumbled upon this station because someone (not naming names) used my car and had been listening to the station and left one of the presets programmed to 88.9FM. Each morning from 6-10:00am there is The CoffeeHouse.

The CoffeeHouse plays folk music, some of our favorites like Ellis, Vance, Christopher and Don are played often. I’ve even begun to enjoy songs by a few new people like Andrew Kerr (Listen to song Don’t forget your Fans), Mark Erelli, and Peter Mulvey. This station is great for the morning ride in. Check it out. You can even listen online.

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Radio Station: WERS