Me being fanciful

Okay, so today's a very quiet day at the office, and so I'm spending some time surfing YouTube. And I come across a video of Jensen Ackles singing with his friend Jason Manns at a wedding. (Jensen sings the harmony. I'm very impressed.) And I read in one of the comments that a full version is available on Jason's MySpace site. So I go take a listen. (Totally would not have recognized Jensen's voice if I didn't know it was him.) Anyway . . .

So as I'm listening, getting a feel for Jason's music, I'm looking at his bio, and it says he's from Bowling Green, Virginia. *blink, blink* So I Google-map where Bowling Green, VA, is in relationship to Culpeper. It's . . . not that far (by Virginia standards). He's kinda-sorta local-ish. (I mean, he's not local now, but he's from the area.) And this gets me thinking . . .

I work at a theater that will (hopefully) be up and running by the 2010-2011 theater season. And we're going to need to book artists. And one of my big things is introducing (and being introduced to) artists who aren't necessarily well known. Because a lot of great artists that I've just sort of stumbled across, whether via the Club Kuss series at that PAC, or Geo downloading them off iTunes, or whatever, aren't "mainstream." But they are well known in their respective circles. (Two of my favorite discovered-via-PAC's-Club-Kuss are Phil Keaggy and Eric Bibb. Mr. Keaggy is very well known by guitar aficionados, and Eric Bibb is the . . . son, I think . . . of blues singer Leon Bibb, an artist with whom Geo is passingly familliar.)

So given that Jason is from the area, I wonder if he'd be available for booking when we start booking performers.

Like I said, me being fanciful.

Alas and alack

Geo brought my 45 back today. His co-worker said that the record itself was incredibly clean (I always tried to take good care of my records).

But it appears to have been played on a player with a bad needle (not surprising, I suppose), and thus we were unable to get rid of the hiss.

*sigh*

Still, it is kinda cool to have it on 45.

One Year Ago

I do believe it was exactly one year ago yesterday that izhilzha introduced me to this show she really liked called Supernatural. She was here for a visit, and I told her on Thursday that if my understanding of SPN was correct, then she would probably really like The Lost Boys. (I'll have to do a comparison post between the two.) We watched the movie after SPN, and I do believe she did enjoy the movie (I recall she was rather impressed with a young Keiffer Sutherland), then I shared with her The Haunting (the original 1960 version, because the remake was little more than a mass hallucination that didn't happen).

Then on Oct. 27 (Saturday), she sat me down to watch the pilot episode of SPN. Which was really cool! And I thought, okay, now I know who this Sam and Dean are that she talks about. And I thought Geo would probably like it. So we watched "Wendigo." Which wasn't as good as the pilot, and I was worried that Geo would find the show cheesy, so I insisted that we go back and watch the pilot again. And after watching "Dead in the Water," between the '67 Chevy Impala and the classic rock and the arsenal in the secret compartment, Geo says, "We have to get these discs." It was at that point I knew I was doomed.

And with the purchase of these discs and further exposure to Jensen Ackles' incredible acting skills, and the creepy good stories, and the chemistry between the Boys, the rest is pretty much history.