Currently Watching Whale Rider By Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa see related

The DNC

The Democratic National Convention has been in town for some time now.  It's been fun seeing our streets get cleaned up, people walking and biking around extensively, and solar panels being put up.  I love that the DNC has been deemed a "green event."  Now more than ever, we need to start looking toward clean, renewable energy for a sustainable future for our country - not dirty, finite fossil fuels.  I'm glad this is a big focus of Obama's campaign.  I wish McCain were more on board with these values. 

Watching all of the speeches given at Invesco field on TV was quite inspiring - especially Obama's big speech tonight - and I wish I would have tried harder to get tickets to see the big event live.  Tickets were gone pretty darn quick.  My housemates and I tried looking out our windows when the fireworks were going off (we're just a couple miles away from the action) but alas could not see past the neighborhood trees.

I hope I can someday say that I was at one point just a few blocks away from the President of the USA...

Currently Listening Eastmountainsouth By Eastmountainsouth see related

Wah Wah

Last night my Cry Baby came.  I'm not talking about a person or even a real baby.  No, I'm referring to the incredible guitar effects (wah) pedal that Jimi Hendrix made famous in the '60s.  It alters the tone of a (guitar) signal to create a distinctive effect, intended to mimic the human voice... and it's just plain amazing.

So experimentation with adding a little "wah wah" to some of my songs has begun.  It's a lot of fun but kind of tricky, because you have to be coordinated enough to play your guitar and move the pedal up and down at the same time - kind of like a drum set.  I like this new challenge, though.  The effect of your efforts makes such a ridiculously fun noise it is incredibly gratifying to do. 

Currently Listening Black Sheep By Martin Sexton see related

Tour de Cure

I have officially formed a team to ride in the Tour de Cure for diabetes on August 23 in Boulder/Longmont, CO.  We are always open to having more people join us, though, so if you are interested let me know.  There are four distances you can choose from to ride: 100 mile, 100K, 50K, and 20K.  I am planning on doing the 50K (31 mile) ride and some of the people on my team are doing the big 100 mile century ride!!  Right now my donations goal is $300 and I am 87% there.  If you would like to help support me please click on this link: http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/TourdeCure/TDC510018030?pg=personal&fr_id=5190&fr_id=5190&px=4247288 

To learn more about the Tour de Cure Colorado you can click here: http://www.tourdecurecolorado.com/

Hope some of you can join our team or support us!

Watch this!

I got to see a sneak preview of this and loved it.  It airs April 15.

Currently Watching Into the Wild By Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Brian Dierker see related

Clean air