Thursday, October 30, 2008

my George Harrison dream

Recently, I had a dream that George Harrison was at my house...
I have no idea where this came from... but, he was walking around my house, and all I could think of was "I can't let him see all my Beatles stuff.. he'll think I'm crazy"..
In my dream I was worried about hiding my Beatles collection, and I was remarkably calm about the fact that he was back from the dead....So...what does it mean ?

After a couple of days somebody sent me a link to MTVMusic (which has thousands of videos from the days when MTV played music) as I was looking around at the videos I found this video of the Traveling Wilburys , a great band featuring Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Roy Orbinson, Bob Dylan, and George Harrison...I remember when this video came out... Roy Orbinson had passed away,... and the scene with his guitar in the rocking chair (at 1:45)  just floored me...
and now when I watch it, and see George...

more Traveling Wilburys

"Handle with Care"

Monday, October 27, 2008

McCain

We brought in PA, video , and lights for a McCain event in Zanesville, Ohio...

Load-in was Saturday at noon, and we went till midnight...

We were back in at 9:00 am on Sunday to finish setting up, and making a million changes...
at 1:00 we had to go outside while the Secret Service did a sweep then at 2:00 we were back inside.
 
Doors opened at 2:30...music... lights...
Senator McCain spoke at 6:oo....
and we left at 11:00 PM....

Friday, October 24, 2008

"To make an apple pie from scratch, 
you must first invent the universe." 
Carl Sagan


Spiral Galaxy NGC 7331

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Friday, October 17, 2008

please, please, please...


please, keep it going....

Sara Evans

We brought in PA for Sara Evans at the McCoy Center...

EV XLC's - 8 cabinets per side:
view from the cat walk

view from the follow spot
from FOH - pre show

more pictures are at Picasa
 



Tuesday, October 14, 2008

thirsty....

Stats

"90% of all statistics can be made to say anything 50% of the time."

Podiums in the news...


Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi accidentally bumped the podium during a toast to President Bush at Monday night's White House state dinner -- and the podium fell apart.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Endeavor to persevere


"I wore this frock coat to Washington, before the war. We wore them because we belonged to the five civilized tribes.
We dressed ourselves up like Abraham Lincoln.

You know we got to see the Secretary of the Interior.
He said "Boy you sure look civilized." He congratulated us and he gave us medals for looking so civilized.

We told him about how our land had been stolen and our people were dying.

When we finished he shook our hand and said "Endeavor to persevere"...

They took our pictures and the newspapers said "Indians vow to endeavor to persevere."

We thought about it for a long time.
"Endeavor to persevere."

And when we had thought about it long enough,
we declared war on the Union."


Lone Waite, Indian chief - from "The Outlaw Jose Wales"

"les Indiens jurent de s'efforcer de perseverer"

Things I never wanted to know

From Wikipedia :

"Churn rate, as applied to a customer base, refers to the proportion of contractual customers or subscribers who leave a supplier during a given time period. It is a possible indicator of customer dissatisfaction, cheaper and/or better offers from the competition, more successful sales and/or marketing by the competition, or reasons.... "   more...

back from Las Vegas, off to Chicago...

it felt like a month...
 but it was only a week in Las Vegas...