Retraction&Free Music&Donating

Just some random things…

First, I must post a retraction.  I realized that the Excel sheet I was using to count my concerts was not completely accurate so Burham’s performance at the Road Dogs game in August was not my 100th concert in Connecticut, it was in fact Keith Urban in September.  The excel sheet appears to be accurate again after driving myself nuts over the weekend making sure everything was being calculated properly. (It was counting shows I have listed that were canceled in addition to everything else)

Target is offering a free download of a bunch of Christmas songs – one being “Toy Jackpot” by Blackalicious which is used in one of their commercials and I have quickly fallen in love with.  The compilation is called “The Christmas Gig” and feature Guster, Jenny O, Bishop Allen and more! It can be downloaded at http://www.target.com/christmas for FREE!

Kris Allen fans are once again rallying to raise money in Kris’ name, and the latest project is “Alright with Music”.  Just by donating, you can be entered to win a guitar! (You must donate a minimum of $25 to be entered) There are 3 guitars which will be given away, and Kris will be signing them once he is back from his radio tour.  If you’d like to donate – the money is going towards the music empowers foundation – you can do that HERE and more about the project can be found at http://www.alrightwithmusic.com/

Retraction&Free Music&Donating

Just some random things…

First, I must post a retraction.  I realized that the Excel sheet I was using to count my concerts was not completely accurate so Burham’s performance at the Road Dogs game in August was not my 100th concert in Connecticut, it was in fact Keith Urban in September.  The excel sheet appears to be accurate again after driving myself nuts over the weekend making sure everything was being calculated properly. (It was counting shows I have listed that were canceled in addition to everything else)

Target is offering a free download of a bunch of Christmas songs – one being “Toy Jackpot” by Blackalicious which is used in one of their commercials and I have quickly fallen in love with.  The compilation is called “The Christmas Gig” and feature Guster, Jenny O, Bishop Allen and more! It can be downloaded at http://www.target.com/christmas for FREE!

Kris Allen fans are once again rallying to raise money in Kris’ name, and the latest project is “Alright with Music”.  Just by donating, you can be entered to win a guitar! (You must donate a minimum of $25 to be entered) There are 3 guitars which will be given away, and Kris will be signing them once he is back from his radio tour.  If you’d like to donate – the money is going towards the music empowers foundation – you can do that HERE and more about the project can be found at http://www.alrightwithmusic.com/

Hanson Sounds Like Paper concert โ€“ LIVE tonight

Some of you may remember the Hanson/Drake concert in NYC in June got canceled due to fans rioting.  Well, Paper Mag and Hanson are trying to make it up to us! Tonight at Roseland Ballroom in NYC, Hanson along with a few other acts will be performing for free. (No, Drake is not included)

Although I have tickets (that don’t guarantee admission), I still haven’t been able to shake the cold that I caught during my Hanson weekend at the end of last month, so unfortunately I don’t think I will be attending.

BUT! There is good news for me and everyone else who can’t make it to NYC tonight!  Beginning at 9:15PM EST Hanson will be streaming their set (scheduled to end around 10pm) at Hanson.net.  While it’s not the same as actually being there, it’s the next best thing.

Josh Gracin EP! FREE!

Josh Gracin has recently released his “Fan Appreciation EP”.  Josh was one of the contestants on Season 2 of American Idol and is one of my all time favorites. He is coming to the casino at the end of next month so I have my fingers crossed I can make it there to see him! (and perhaps meet him again)

If you would like to download his new EP, check out the widget below! All you need to do is submit your email.  You’ll get an email confirming you want the download and will get subscribed to his email list.  Then just download the zip file and enjoy!

Mine is downloading right now, but I know I will love it ๐Ÿ™‚

  http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1280437426

#AlrightWithMoo

For Kris Allen’s 25th birthday, rather than buy him gifts that he most likely will never use, a group of his fans decided to donate on his behalf to Heifer.org.

Taking a page out of Kris’s book, we’d like to celebrate Kris and his birthday by making a meaningful gift in his name… a Cow! (plus other assorted livestock if we exceed our goal).

 The first goal was to raise enough money to donate a cow to a community who could benefit from one.  Within an hour, the goal was nearly met so they upped the goal to 2 cows.  Work quickly spread and the goal was bumped to 4 cows.  Then 10 cows ($5000) and then the goal was upped to $12,5000 or 25 cows – a cow for everyone of Kris’ birthdays!

The trend continued and quickly the $12,500 goal was met and the donation amount was upped to $20,000.

You guessed it – $20,000 has been raised and with Kris’ birthday tomorrow the goal has not been raised, however the page boasts that they would now like to raise $25,000 for Kris’ birthday.

Currently the total is very close to $23,000 and I’ve got my donation in.  Hurry and make your donation too!  Any amount will help – I saw someone donated $1 and change.  If we all work together we can easily surpass even $25,000 and will better the lives of SO many people!

When a family has a cow, every morning there’s a glass of rich milk for the children to drink before heading off to school. Classes are paid with the income from the sale of milk, and there’s even enough to share with the neighbors.
A good dairy cow can produce four gallons of milk a day – enough for a family to drink and share with neighbors. Milk protein transforms sick, malnourished children into healthy boys and girls. The sale of surplus milk earns money for school fees, medicine, clothing and home improvements.
Better still, every gift multiplies, as the animal’s first offspring is passed on to another family-then they also agree to pass on an animal, and so on.
And because a healthy cow can produce a calf every year, every gift will be passed on and eventually help an entire community move from poverty to self reliance. Now that’s a gift worth giving!

http://www.heifer.org/siteapps/teampage/ShowPage.aspx?c=swL1KcNZLxH&b;=5547921&teamid;=3783658

Ellis Paul โ€“ โ€œAnnaleeโ€ FREE Download!

I was contacted by Ellis Paul’s manager with information about a FREE download of his song “Analee” I decided to check it out – and I really like what I hear!

Some background about Ellis – his new album is called “The Day After Everything Changed” which has 15 tracks on it.  Five of these were co-written with Kristian Bush from Sugarland! (Grammy Award winning Sugarland!)  The album was completely funded by his fans and according to his manager is “truly one of the finest Ellis has ever recorded.”

Ellis is an independent artist and needs your help.  If you like music – head over to his website, http://www.ellispaul.com/free and you can download “Analee” completely free.  No strings attached! You don’t need to give your name, email address, anything! Just download it right off of his site!

All Ellis asks in return is if you download it and you like what you hear – pass the link along!  Make a post on your blog, link it on your twitter, tell your friends on facebook – and help get independent music out there!

I received no compensation for posting about this song. I was simply contacted by his manager and liked what I heard so I decided to share it with you all!

iTunes Stats

Found this on Facebook and thought it might be interesting.

iTunes stats…

How many songs total: 8948
How many hours/days of music: 23.1

Sort By Song Title:
First Song: A-E-I-O-U/The Caterpillar Song/Keep Your Temper – Alice in Wonderland
Last Song: 99% – The Mooney Suzuki

Sort By Time
Shortest Song: If I Were A Girl – Blink 182 (0:05)
Longest Song: Love Somebody to Know – Hanson (17:41)

Sort By Album
First Album: Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)
Last Album: 98 Degrees and Rising – 98 Degrees

Top Five Most Played Songs:
(I do most of my listening on my ipod, not my computer)
1. Honor Society – Can’t Box Me In
2. Honor Society – Over You
3. Adam Lambert – No Boundaries
4. Kris Allen – No Boundaries
5. Nick Jonas – Who I Am

First Song That Came Up on Shuffle:
The OC End Theme – Christopher Tyng

Search The Following & State How Many Songs Come Up:
Death: 18
Life: 176
Love: 577
Hate: 18
You: 1424
Sex: 54

Alvin and the Chipmunks with Honor Society

This is what happens when you post your year in review before the year is really over – something exciting happens unexpectedly.

Tuesday night I received an anonymous tip that Honor Society would be at the Pallisades Mall in NY to view Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 – a movie in which they have an appearance. Unfortunately this all came just SECONDS after Lauren had signed offline to go to bed and blackberry was having an outage so I couldn’t even try to catch her with a BBM. I opted to email her, but of course the outage was not only BBM but email too so she didn’t get the email until the morning – which confused her because I had given it a subject of “tomorrow” haha

She emailed me back and said that she would go – so I right away purchased tickets because we didn’t know how fast the “rumor” would spread amongst the fans. We didn’t want to risk it selling out.

By 4pm we were off – the GPS said it would take just an hour to get there, but before we even reached the CT/NY border we were stuck in traffic for 45 minutes. It ended up taking us just over 2 hours to get there and then of course there was the challenge of finding a place to park – at a mall – on christmas eve eve. (Although that was not nearly as difficult as we were anticipating, surprisingly)

When we arrived at the theater we spotted our friends and then spotted Mike. As we were chatting with our friends Alex and his family arrived. We opted to grab food (I was STARVING as I didn’t get a chance to pick up something to eat before we left and had nothing but a couple of cookies all day) and then get a spot in the theater. Alex ended up 2 rows behind us, Mike was 3 rows behind us and I never did see where Jason ended up. Andy was not there.

The theater erupted in to cheers when Honor Society’s scene, the opening scene of the movie, was on the screen. And once again when their names appeared in the credits.

After the movie (which was totally adorable and I loved it) the guys were hanging out near the Alvin and the Chipmunk statues. We got a group picture with them, then I got a drum history lesson from Alex (I asked him one thing, which he wanted to know why I asked, but instead of giving me the chance to answer he went into a history lesson. I am supposed to thank him when I go on Jeopardy or Millionaire lol) and then Alex took a picture of himself with a chipmunk tail. He should be tweeting it soon, and I am sure that it is hilarious.

Alex came back over to our group a bit later and I told him the dead rat story. His eyes like popped out of his head. The look on his face was priceless. He re-wrote the end of the story to “THEN I STEPPED ON IT AND IT CAME BACK TO LIFE!” which of course would have made things a lot more interesting…

Then it was time for the guys to go, we said goodbye to Mike and Alex and I don’t even know where Jason was, so we didn’t get to say goodbye to him. By that point it was about 10pm. Luckily traffic was not bad at all on the way home so we made it back in an hour, just like we should have ๐Ÿ™‚

It was a very pleasant surprise of a night.

Grease December 20 Saga

My long time friend Lisa and I had decided that we were going to take our Moms to see Grease at Oakdale for their birthday/christmas. We finally worked out a date and time when we would all be available (Sunday December 20 at 2pm) and as I was going to get the tickets, I saw that the Sunday 7:30pm show was being offered for 50% off. I contacted Lisa and she said that was fine so we went for the “bargain” show instead.

Meanwhile we found out that Ace Young, one of my favorite American Idol contestants, had joined the production as Danny Zuko. (We already knew Idol winner Taylor Hicks was in the show was Teen Angel)

A couple of days later I got an email that the 7:30 show was canceled, but we could use our tickets for any other day. Once again I contacted Lisa and we were back to our original Sunday 2pm slot.

Except Saturday night we got a HUGE snow storm – a foot or so of snow around where I live. My mom checked at 8:30 and it said the show was still on so she and my dad dug the cars out of the driveway. At 11:30 she told me we would be leaving in an hour to make sure that we got there in time and had time to switch our tickets. I went to Livenation.com and it said that the 2:00pm show was ALSO canceled.

Now I am just waiting on the refund from livenation – total bummer – we had missed going to this show when Ace was in it on Broadway as well. I guess it is just not meant to be…

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