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So I am watching TB [Tamara Bedricky] right now at Oakland University in a little-coffee-house-type-thing they have at the student center. It’s my first time back to OU [Oakland University] since they remodeled the student center…it’s pretty pimp! When I get a camera (next toy purchase) I’ll take some pics and post them. The show tonight is a “storytellers” type of show…anyone ever watch VH1: Storytellers? Basically you have a band or artist play a small concert venue (a la coffee house or small stage scene) and in between songs they tell you about themselves, the songs, tours, albums…it’s story-time and they are the storyteller. That style of show is one of my favorite styles of shows; you get to see a little more into people who write the music you love. Just like art, it’s always nice to know what the song is really about; rather then what you think it’s about!
I missed the first song or two, but I just walked in and grabbed a seat in the corner so I can type away without anyone noticing the nerd typing away on his PDA. :) She just finished “Head over heels” and started giving a little insight into her song “still in my veins”…”it’s not a total rip off from John Mayer…” she starts out…his song was about losing someone and hers is really about a relationship that was not going to work out -the catch? She wrote it before it ended knowing that it was going to end, so it might be a bad thing if the guy knew that.
Other then singing this was the most words I have heard her speak so I got a kick out of her jokes and how personal she was with the crowd. She laughed about how a lot of her songs focus on being in love and it’s kinda funny singing them now when she is not in love anymore. At one point she started playing and bumped the mic with her mouth stopped and told a quick story about how she chipped her tooth on a mic at one show out of state.
That was the lead into “beautiful”. Every person I have gone to see Tamara with, from the first time I saw her open for Josh Kelley to a show last month: loves this song. If I loaned them a CD, they love this song. Which is probably why it was also chosen to be played on TV – Bravo’s Queer Eye for the Straight Girl [112:Kristin M.:Wedding Episode] played the song in it’s entirety. The version she played was redone from Cd version…and I am pretty sure it was the same as Magic Bag version I saw last month. Love it!
Next “tell me why”…for her good friend James, a good friend for life. Brief comments about James and their long talks…leading into “Coming clean” with a little different guitar solo that had a cooler fast type sound – bonus!
Then comes the work in progress song that when finished I think could top “beautiful”. Some of the lyrics:
“I want to taste it on your lips…I feel like we connected…got me thinking of you…its too bad it didn’t work out..”
The first cover song I have heard her play, “Linger” and it was pretty good! There were a few jokes about remembering the words, but from what I remember (and that was high school days) she was damn close. Some die-hard fans knew her for playing it, requested it…since it was at OU (where she went to school) with OU fans…why not?
A few more tracks (see track listing) played and then it was time for the last song, “so am I”. A personal song and “a get through it type of song” per Tamara. Give you the “hang tough” motivation. This past year was her toughest year for her personally and the last song she wrote for her album.
She’s playing again in two weeks at the Motor City Music Conference; I’ve got my fingers crossed I’ll hear my favorite song there or at least get to hear the work in progress song again…
Track list:
[45 min – 60 min]
left the track list in my notebook
– bd
Stem cells and dogs
WTF [What The F**k]?!?! Sick dog gets $45,000 stem cell transplant – Pet Health [MSNBC.com]…the world is a messed up place I tell you.
I wonder if the President is pissed because stem cell research to save lives is “bad”…I wonder if the Pope is screaming obsenities from above…I wonder if God is pissed we cheated him out of Comet’s soul -for the moment…I wonder if stem cell research is for the dogs (that was a stupid pun)…I wonder…??
I want one
Loftcube looks like a sweet idea if you ask me…then again I like wacky eccentric ideas and designs so the the hell do I know? 55k Euro? Hmmm, now if I could just find some realestate to put the thing on I would be a rock star!!
Yea yea yea…you know it :)
Worth a mention, good for a laugh
TGIF…it’s a “feature” day at BD@BS!! Friday’s are back with a vengeance; well not really. On with the sideshow!
Blogger Help : Can I recover a lost post? – Holy guacamole Batman!! Read up! :)
The New Blogs – You remember my link to The Blogs? Well this is the new blog and new stories!
Peevishness and Botheration – You can’t help but laugh at the first page! Phat design :)
An Artsy Fartsy Weblog – Great posts and a good article here on how to get creative juices flowing.
The Official blog of fetus Spears – What the hell is this? Well since Brit is prego [pregnant] and claiming she isn’t, this blog is from her growing fetus…no really! Technology is so cool now and blogging is so trendy even unborn babies can blog!
Scorpio – InfoSpace
This might be a little freaky…my mission to renegotiate my salary has been the topic of conversation with my friends as of late. Hmmm very interesting Infospace…very interesting.
“Your ability to focus is the stuff of legends, and that goes double when you’re on a mission — like right now, for example. What might that mission be? Why, to outshine your coworkers so that you’ll be able to get that raise you’ve been bucking for. There’s no need to lose any sleep over it. Keep up like you have been and you’ll win what you want, hands down. Just don’t let any secrets slide.”
Daily Horoscope: Scorpio – InfoSpace
I love candy
Yes, I love sweets…but only certain types. Of course I like ice cream, cake and brownies. It’s candy that really pushes me beyond “love” and into the “lust” category. What am I talking about? Willy Wonka Bottle Caps!!
You see I have always loved this specific candy and every year at Halloween I would pray that someone would be passing them out. As I got older (like 38 older…riiiiiiiiight) less and less people passed them out. You didn’t see them sold in stores and I thought all was lost. One day someone at my office had them; her son got them for Halloween and disliked them -apparently having no taste for fine candy. She was so nice as to give me a few packs and show me where to buy them online. To my great dismay, I never ordered them.
Two years ago I found them. Two pound bags on sale during Halloween!! I bought two bags (that’s four pounds for the arithmetically challenged) and was happier then a kid not knowing he was about to get 40 cavities!
Needless to say, I ate almost a full pound of bottle caps the day I bought them…of course I ended up getting sick. Now before you pass judgement on me, think of two things:
1) I don’t care what you think because this is my lame-O life and I know it’s lame; so how sad is it that you have to read about me eating candy and tell me I’m lame? Pah-leez!
2) I love Willy Wonka Bottle Caps more then a sex-a-holic likes sex…so what do you expect?
So where was I? RIGHT! I had eaten nearly a full pound of these soda pop flavored bijoux before I turned my stomach inside-out. Yuck. Other then a glass of water and a nap I only wanted one thing: my taste buds to recover from the tart sweets I had been pounding. My tongue was so raw it hurt to drink water. Was it ever worth it!
After sleeping my sugar coma off I was on a mission the next day…to eat more Bottle Caps! This time of course moderation was key. There was no need to ruin my taste for something so unique, people fly around the world twice just to sample! — Note: that is a bold faced lie.– Needless to say I munched on Bottle Caps for a few weeks after that and I was smart enough not to make myself sick until I opened the second bag and repeated the process; sans turning my stomach inside-out.
This past year I found them again! However, they were in only one pound bags…how very depressing. I was even smart enough not to make myself sick at all. That intelligence lasted until this Spring when I found Starburst jellybeans on sale…my other sweet crux.
It was so important for me to eat them I totally forgot that I might get sick..maybe it was the lack of tart-burn (yes I made that up) on my tongue? Who knows?!? I do know that I was laying on my stomach on the floor because that was the only thing that felt good. I cried as I begged passersby to please eat just one jellybean and describe the taste to me…I wanted another one so bad! I couldn’t eat one more, I thought my life was coming to an end the pain was so great. Again I had to walk off the pain and sleep off the sugar coma.
I have not since repeated those events and I have no plans to…at least until Halloween, or the next candy sale.
.: the babbling dweeb :. 