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  1. In trying to log in here, I forgot my sign in information and have been looking everywhere. Success! You should have stayed at the Hyatt with me. sheiladownunder and I ended up closing down the Hyatt lounge. And, the thingie at Birraporetti's was a Heaventini. And it isn't made with XXX, it is, ahem, X-Rated Liqueor Grey Goose Vodka Cointreau In no particular order. I felt like I was in heaven. After uncharacteristically bitching about his hair -- the rooster "monolith" thing -- at CV, and since I was the first person he greeted when he came out for our M&G, I felt obliged to acknowledge the new haircut and said, "Clay, I love your hair." He did his cute face thing and said, "Everybody keeps saying my hair looks great and I just got out of the shower." And merrieeee, next to me, said, "Keep it that way." It looked fantastic up close. And his SKIN! OMG! And we were so bold last night -- in many ways. It was divine. Note to merrieeee: We did make it happen, didn't we? I don't know what I'd do without you. Ernie was fantastic too. He was incredulous that of the 131 shows he has done of Innerviews, and all the DVDs that PBS has sold of that series, none has come close to selling as much as Clay's did. merrieeee and I explained it to him. Ernie asked us what it was about Clay that made us all so devoted --- he's seen a lot of celebrities but no one who has fans so loving and dedicated as Clay's. Again, we explained to him ... in detail. merrieeee and I have stories. Oh, and Clay told me "It's so nice of you to share" (my red sharpie). And I told HIM, "Thank you for coming" when he left. I'm just remembering bits and pieces now. I can't wait for my picture with his arm around me ... and he signed my copy of Learning to Sing. And he was, as Carol Burnett would intone, ... "squeak, WONNN-derful" -- the whole night was. I'll share more when I can think again and I don't have to pretend to be working. Hint for the recap: He's never sounded better. Ever. But first a little crummy photography from my cellphone (I can't wait for the REAL photographers to post because he was GORGEOUS, BABY):
  2. Congratulation luckiest1 and merrieeee! I'm excited for both of you. I didn't win an OFC M&G, never will, but I do have a PBS M&G in Houston, along with just about everyone of us who volunteered on September 8th. As I remember, that's why I volunteered, for a chance to buy a M&G, and then we were gifted with such a unique Clay experience that night. Can't wait to see him perform again on Valentine's Day, six months to the day from the last time I heard him sing live in Biloxi. I've known for a long time, but it's certifiable now, I'll never stop loving Clay's voice --- even if I'm the victim of an intervention and sent to solitary in Clay Aiken Rehab for a long, long time. I'd just hear that voice in my head. There's no cure.
  3. Here's the Houston Symphony email I received today (page 1): The tickets have been discounted today. But it's not all bleak. I kept reading where people were saying that tickets were available on Row A and B, but I checked today and it's the last seat on Row A and two from the end on Row B. I wouldn't want those seats, because they are bad seats, IMO. The next floor seats available in the Level 2 seating took me to Row R.
  4. Link to Ruben on the Today Show this mornng. Scroll down to the video with Simon's face: http://www.tvgrapevine.com/index.php/fox/84-chopping-block-2009/10214-american-idol-time-for-simon-to-move-on
  5. I thought Clay glowed in that big yellow shirt. I thought it worked for him in pretty much every photograph I saw. It may have been a fugly "shirt" but Clay in the shirt made it all better.
  6. Awwww, you're so sweet. But, then you're just about the kindest, sweetest person I've ever known, so it's just like you to say something sweet. I will tell you, I think he made us all feel "adorable" that night! We missed YOU! Back to my music search, it was that Corrina from Ratdog's Evening Moods -- I went to the KPFT.org radio archives and found it! If you want to hear GREAT music, eclectic, sometimes live, sometimes crazy, and always including some Dead and variations thereof in the 2-hour mix, I recommend the Deadbeat radio show on KPFT every Saturday afternoon at 3pm Central. It streams live, and you can download the shows to iTunes, too. There are many great and dedicated music shows on KPFT, but this one with Clay and Sandy (I love that, too!) is my favorite. It's commercial free, but for the next two weeks the shows are in pledge drive so it may not be the best time ... but maybe it will be. I mean, where ELSE can you turn on the radio these days and hear Van Morrison's "Who Drove The Red Sports Car" -- or Widespread Panic's "Sleeping Man" interspersed with "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" from the Dead's Postcards of the Hanging. It's my lifeline when I'm tooling around in the city on Saturday afternoons.
  7. Yes, me to. I love to watch Paul, Eric, Dhani, Ringo, Jeff Lynne, Billy Preston, Gary Brooker, Klaus Voormann, and company, make new magic with Something and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Sam Holland did a great job too on her song. I also love to watch the R&R Hall of Fame edition of Guitar Gently Weeps with Prince. Prince blew my mind on that one. I wonder if Gary Brooker can still sing A Salty Dog, or even White Shade of Pale? What classics were on that stage that night! ETA: jmh, I have a Dead inquiry for you .... Do you have an opinion on Ratdog's best version of Corrina? I'm looking for one I heard on the radio a couple of weeks ago that was too fine for words. There's one on Evening Moods, but I wonder if you have a recommendation. I LOVE the way Bob Weir sings that song!
  8. The new "Clay Aiken Essential" on iTunes. Pretty damn cool! The Basics Unchained Melody Invisible OMWH Can't Take My Eyes Off You BOTW The Way Without You You Don't Have to Say You Love Me Mary, Did You Know Moon River My Grown-Up Christmas List Measure of a Man Because You Loved Me The Real Me Solitaire Next Steps A Thousand Days Lover All Alone Suspicious Minds Everything I Do (I Do It For You) This Is The Night Crying I Will Carry You Something About Us What Kind Of Fool Am I Where I Draw The Line I Survived You All Is Well I Want to Know What Love Is Falling What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
  9. Anyone hanging around tonight waiting for clack, I URGE you to watch the following YouTube of Fort Worth City Councilman, Joel Burns. This is something every person in this country should watch and has moved me beyond words. I don't know Joel Burns, but I'm so proud of him.
  10. I missed that one. He didn't intro with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, same as the CD? I'm jonesing for the full-blown tour in February!!!!!!! It's gonna be a long, cold, lonely winter.
  11. Hope all our attendees have a marvelous time with my boyfriend tonight! I must say that it is extremely fortunate that I didn't buy a ticket for tonight because I probably would have had to eat it, or at least frame it. Not only is work kicking my ass completely and totally, but my daughter and grandson are coming in from DC, as in "moving home", and my favorite cousin is moving to Eureka Springs and having a big going away party tomorrow, and that's not the half of what I have to do in the next couple of days. I will make some time tonight for the cellcert, even if I have to lie, cheat or steal to do so! But you guys that are there, enjoy it to the hilt!!!!
  12. From Quiet1ne at CH: Tall guy is not Andrew Fitch. Andrew lists his height as 6'0". Just heard from my sister who reports that the tall guy in white shirt could very well be the guy she saw with Clay at A Little Night Music. That night she told me that the guy was very tall, taller than Clay, had dark or black hair, and was conservatively dressed. She said it's hard to say definitively that it's the same guy because the picture quality is so poor, so while she couldn't testify in a court of law to it being the same person, she thinks it is. While there has been speculation as to why Clay was at Duke Chapel yesterday, and we surely don't know, I believe it may have had something to do with a group of guys going to the chapel for a service or even just personal prayers for the gay teens and young men who have committed suicide in recent weeks after being tormented, and especially in light of the fact that yesterday was National Coming Out Day. I read that there were services being held across the country.
  13. Happy Birthday Lin! It's your birthday, don't work so hard!!!!
  14. Thanks for the good wishes to you all. Here's what I really want for my birthday -- Lucky 13 so far for me: 6 - SRHP (DCAT): Frisco, Houston, Tulsa, Tampa, West Palm Beach, Orlando 5 - SPAM 2 - Timeless: Reno, Biloxi I have Houston and Grand Prairie to look forward to next year. ETA: cagney, I checked T&T while I was out buying a new microwave yesterday. Went to 2 Walmarts and one had 6 copies and the other had 12. Went to Target and they had one - probably the same one they had the last time I checked. Best Buy had 2. I planned to stop at Barnes & Noble to get a copy of Woodward's latest and check their T&T stock, but I picked up the book at Wally World for $21, so I passed on B&N. I hit Randall's instead for honey crisps.
  15. This Sen. DeMint is a big nutcase. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/02/demint-gays-unmarried-pregnant-women-teachers_n_748131.htmlI'm shocked that such as this caliber of human being serves in the United States Senate. What kind of police squad does he want empower to enforce his particularly sick brand of immorality on the world? On a lighter note, spent time listening to music today -- on the radio -- don't know what I'd do without Pacifica radio. Saturday is music during the day and it is some of the best and most eclectic, always enjoyable and entertaining, and rarely anything I've ever heard before. Anyway, one of the songs I heard today was a kind of folk/bluegrass tune that was a toe-tapper and the lyrics went something like this: What the world needs now Is another folk singer Like I need a hole in my head What the world needs now Is another Frank Sinatra So that I can get you into bed To be honest, I don't think the world needs another Frank Sinatra. The world never needs another anybody, in my opinion, because there's one enough of everybody, but it may be in dire need of a sexy, romantic singer with a beautiful voice and a hot delivery. I think I know just the man ..... And for something completely different, I bought the biggest, most delicious, perfect in every way, honey crisp apples today. $1.49 a lb. and worth every penny. I'm eating one now -- with peanut butter smeared all over the slices and they are downright decadent.
  16. I was reading an online reprint of the Rolling Stone Magazine interview of President Obama. The interview was conducted by Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner and will be in their October 15th issue. This was in the intro: So Rolling Stone's chief honcho is wearing multi-colored striped socks now? Wonder who started that trend?
  17. Oh, honey, you just called my name. I have in my car changer the cd that I burned with the core songs, followed by Who's Sorry Now, then Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, and ending with You Don't Have to Say You Love Me ... because it's all over when Clay intones that soulful "baby" at the end. What could possibly follow that?
  18. From CH: joycez at CH has an outstanding mp3 of In My Life available for download: http://www.4shared.com/audio/U72aOoAK/In_My_Life.html There's also a wonderful montage on YouTube of In My Life with incredible Timeless pictures by Invisible926: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47OxGTvuU2g And a sendspace you just do not want to miss, I promise: http://www.sendspace.com/file/r9jsk0 It's a good day for In My Life! I know I'll never lose affection for this song. I know I'll never lose affection for Clay Aiken.
  19. My Local Walmart Saturday Report: T&T CD's: 13 in stock Playlist CD's: 2 T&T DVD's: Sold out (they had 5)
  20. Couchie, I still have a swollen lump where I was bitten. It freaks me out that a spider could have been on my arm and I wouldn't have noticed. My powers of observation aren't what they used to be, but missing a spider on my body is just ridiculous. I did get my epi-pen refilled yesterday. headoverheels, you just made me feel so good first thing in the morning, I can't even tell you. That was pure sweetness on your part. It's real easy for me to express my feelings and opinions about Clay because I luvzzzzz him so much! Thanks again for making my day! I think we should put "Touch" back to sleep. I can't even enjoy listening to a song that Clay dislikes so much that he still talks about it. I think Clay does a lot with the song and sings it so well, but I'm with jamar regarding the intro and the faux-Latin vibe. The production didn't match what Clay brought to the song; but, my goodness, he doesn't like it in any way, shape or form. I was just thinking, most of the boards have names for their members, i.e., Meers at the Clack House and CVers at Clayversity, what are we? We find him here, so are we Finders? Or are we Seekers? Or are we Lickers?
  21. Clay: I turned 30, had a son and a whole bunch of things changed. And now I'm in my 30's and I feel like I'm comfortable with who I am and I am me. Ernie: Well we're comfortable with who you are too.
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