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| Snot, wallpapers, and chili |
| 01.25.06 (3:10 am) [edit] |
Why is it that when you're sick (or just getting over being sick), you always feel the worst at night? Of course you can't sleep at all, but then you feel better when morning comes around and can sleep all the live-long day. What's up with that? Why can't it be the other way around - feel crappy during the day, then feel great at night and get some sleep then? Argh. I'm not sick any more, but I still have a terrible sinus infection. The sinus pressure has been unbearable for the past three nights (mainly in my left cheek) - I've been awake all night every night, putting Vick's vapor rub all over me, downing all kinds of sinus headache medications, drinking hot green tea, and inhaling steam over a hot sink with a towel over my head. Yet, I've been sleeping all day without problem.So, of course, being up all night, I've had absolutely nothing to do but fiddle around on the computer. Here are the fruits of my boredom:
I've noticed how my style of making wallpapers tends to change every time I discover something new; my favorite style for the past half year or so has been a grungy effect. I love dirt, imperfections, newsprint, dirty brushes, and military/typewriter text (as in the ones of Ronnie, Johnny, and Rickey). I also dig the soft, glowing look, as in the one of the Explorer. I'll upload all of these to Daft & Demented as soon as I get the chance. OH, and... I'm really, really, REALLY excited because this Sunday... WE'RE GONNA SEE VAN ZANT AT THE KISS COUNTRY CHILI COOKOFF!!!!!!!!!!! *FAINTS DEAD* *recovers* Ahem...yeah. Anyway. Not only are Van Zant gonna be there, but also Gretchen Wilson (love her), Keith Urban, Trick Pony, and Craig Morgan. Video cameras aren't allowed, but I'm sure regular cameras are, so I'll be sure to take a ton of pictures. I'm stoked. |
posted by: dangerkitty (reply)
post date: 01.25.06 (5:53 am)
I wanna see Gretchen and Keith. I WANNA! I WANNA! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
posted by: michael (reply)
post date: 01.25.06 (6:18 am)
I am really gettin excited about the show myself!!!!!!!!!!I gotta go get tickets today!!!Right now as a matter of fact before there ain't no more!!!See ya,....Bye ,Bye........I'm gone!!!!!!..............Michael ...............P.S.I Havn't listened to KISS country(99.9)In a while and just heard that song about"You Can Kiss My Country A*s"...That song is awesome!!!!!I love it!!!Who is that?????Whoever it is, if that ain't a southern rocker!........."You Can Kiss My Southern Rock A*s"!!!!!LaterGater.
posted by: michael (reply)
post date: 01.25.06 (9:35 am)
Ok Mal, I made it back home and have 2 tickets.We will be there for shure now and can breathe a sigh of relief.It will probably sell out soon.Janet is still a little sick too and I hope you both will be in good shape for the show!(you two can compare wounds and tell war stories!)I am so lucky I did'nt catch it.YET!!knock wood!!NO!! absolutly not!!!I refuse to get it and will think positive!I have a concert to go to now!I will not get sick;I will not get sick...Say it with me now....You will not get sick!!........Thanks for your support.I love the two flags with the Korina Exlporer.I just installed it as my screen saver.Looks Just like the one Rickey plays or the one Allen used to use.I know that the one Allen played was a 1958 Gibson Korina Explorer.I have a picture I took of that very guitar Allen use to play that was on display at a museum/memory lane type thing that Judy put together for the weekend of the Movie(Freebird)debut in Atlanta.I think it was 1995(I would have to go look it up)As a matter of fact I have a ton of pictures from that weekend and other events thru the years.Maybe some time you could show me how to get them on to the internet(newbie here)sometime or I could give them to you to do or something.............Talk to ya soon........GB......Michael
posted by: michael (reply)
post date: 01.25.06 (10:16 am)
found another southern rock station...........http://www.tonyjohnson.net:8000/
posted by: michael (reply)
post date: 01.25.06 (11:12 am)
the tonyjohnson one is a new station I believe.One that has been around awile that I think is cool is http://www.freebirdradio.com/hiro/engmain_right.html The guy who runs this station is named Hiro.It originates from Japan and I think it is cool that they take interest in our music.It's cool to listen to their interpretation of our language.Try to drop them a line if you can sometime as they could use the support.Him and his wife(Chihina)are very friendly people and have a feature that I think you will like!.They have a very extensive catalouge of Skynyrd songs and play them on demend.Yep,.. Just scroll down on the home page to... Now You Can Request Songs! Click Here!....And follow the steps.They are first come first served and make's a list of all the upcoming requested songs for you to see.............LaterFloridaGater...............GB............Michael
posted by: michael (reply)
post date: 01.25.06 (11:44 am)
BTW...the freebird station only allows 5 requests at a time in the queue.
posted by: chilli-whilli (reply)
post date: 01.25.06 (3:14 pm)
10:30 TRICK PONY
11:30 CRAIG MORGAN
12:30 VAN ZANT
2:00 GRETCHEN WILSON
4:00 KEITH URBAN
5:30 SHOW ENDS-michael is tired and needs to be put down for his nappy.
posted by: michael (reply)
post date: 01.25.06 (4:28 pm)
Hi Mal,I have decided to wear my black shirt that has in the front over the left breast pocket a small rebel flag that says "The Van Zants-Ronnie Donnie Johnny". On the back is a giant rebel flag and above it says "VZ".In the middle of the big flag is a small frame with a pic of Marion and Lacy in it.And below the flag it says..."Keep On Supporting Southern Rock And Roll".I will also have a Green baseball cap on.Janet will have a Black shirt as well with(front)38 Special and a picture of the guys across it in blue.And on the back is a giant 38 that is red white and blue flag.At the bottom of the 38 flag says "Tour 2000 USA".We both have brown hair(hers is long and mine is short) but mine is mostly grey and have a short beard.Hope we see you or you spot us one.We are gonna get thier as early as we can(hope between 700-900).I am gonna park at my mom's house and she will give us a lift over to the park.Though I told her we can walk the rest of the way but she insists that she drop us off.She lives at around Taft and 110th ave which is only like 10 blocks from the park(my childhood home).But ya dont argue with mama right?Right.You are welcome to park there too if you and your dad want to.I just have to let mom and dad know.Well, talk to ya soon..............GB..............Michael
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 01.25.06 (7:03 pm)
Hey Michael!!!!!
"You Can Kiss My Country A*s" is by Rhett Akins! (I had to look that up!) I love that song. I also love Ray Scott's "My Kind of Music" - have you heard that one? you'd like it!
Ohh, oh wait. ........LOOOOK UNTOO MY EYYYES!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU WILL ~*NOT*~ GET SICK! YOU WILL ~*NOT*~ CATCH IT!!!! *waves a brightly colored spinning hypnotic pinwheel thing in front of Michael's face* BEEELIEVE ME THAT YOU WILL NOT GET SICK!!!!
Heee heeee! I can tell war stories with your wife LOL! I'm actually feeling better at the moment, thank the Lord! I hope she is too. And your mom! Hopefully our voices will be all right to scream for Johnny and Donnie!!!
Glad you dig the wallpaper! The Explorer I used is very similar to Allen's and Rickey's, but theirs' have the.... what's that thing called... The stick thing that Rick broke off at the end of Freebird on the Vicious Cycle DVD... Quiver? quiver stick? Something like that! I'd love to see those pictures!! To get them in the computer you'd need to get a scanner - you can get them for fairly cheap now; mine's a Hewlett Packard and I definitely recommend it, they've got some great scanners at reasonable prices.
I'll check out those radio stations once my super-duper uber-awesome (I hope) Earthlink DSL gets here! Having more trouble with the connection today. I am SO danged tired of this crap. I'd like to take whoever's in charge of Comcast, shove a grenade down their throat and throw 'em to the gators.
Yeah.....Um................ANYWAY.
Sounds good! Glad you got those tickets - I'll tell Dad about parking at your Mom's and see what he wants to do - you think parking's gonna be real tough at the park itself? I've got the same 38 shirt your wife has!!
Here's a picture of me and Dad (his name is Mark, btw) - I'll be wearing this same shirt with jeans. I'm sure Dad will be wearing that Skynyrd hat. My shirt has the Skynyrd logo with a guitar stalk breaking through a steer skull on the back.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/daftanddemented/tennessee2005/TN-0905_16.jpg
Hey I have an idea - do you guys have a cell phone? We have one - if you could email me and I can give the number to you, one of us can call the other around 8, that sound good? I don't wanna post the number here for everybody to see. My email address is pamela_gratz@yahoo.com.
I'm gettin' more excited too!! HOLY CATS WE'RE GONNA SEE JOHNNY AND DONNIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Later Gater and God Bless you guys! see y'all soon.
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 01.25.06 (7:04 pm)
Reply to: chilli-whilli
AWESOME!!! How'd you get the concert times? I keep hearing on the radio that nobody knows what order they're in.
posted by: michael (reply)
post date: 01.26.06 (5:04 am)
Hi Mal,Yep I heard the Ray Scott song today(My Kind of Music).It's my kinda song and I'd like to hear it again.Kiss is playin some good stuff now a days.Yesterday around lunch time they played some Hank Jr followed by Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama.And later found that they also have some Outlaws now in thier playlist!Awesome!Just more proof of that very thin line that exists between the two genre's now a days.I took your advice as well and checked out the Gretchen 99.9 that you suggested and it rocks!I checked out the whole site and took that survey that they have on there where ya rate the songs that are on their current playlist.And when you take the survey your name gets registered to possible win chili-cookoff tickets for next year!I believe they give out quite a few tickets from that throughout the year.And BTW-I got that concert schedule from the wkis.com/ web site as well.I do have a bit of a sore throat today.But,Thank you for the hypnosis session! I really do believe that it has helped me from catching it full on...HeHe...To bad that does'nt really work.... and all I can do is keep my faith and leave it with god.I've taken all the preventative measures and it's all in his hands at this point.I am gonna stay home and rest all day today.Mom and Janet are both recovering and doing well.I know a little about the guitar and have been playin ever since the first time I saw Allen and Gary doing it so effortlessly.So I can tell ya a little bit about that guitar hardware you were talkin about.It is called technically a tremelo or tremelo bar.Most pickers just call them Whammy bars as to speak of all of them in general cause different companies have thier own pattents and have some of thier own names for them(bigsby etc).But genarally you hear them refered to as a tremelo or whammy bar.I think I may have heard a guy call it a wha-wha bar once,but,a wha-wha is actually a pedal that sits on the floor and is played with your foot.OK!,Anyway,enough of that.I will look into purchasing a scanner(thanks for the advice)and also have to have some of my boxes of Skynyrd memorabilia sent to me.It is all in a safe storage space with a good old friend that I can trust.I have to send money to have it all shipped to me.I cant wait to get my hands on all my old stuff!!It has been a while and when I left the stuff it was about 6-7 years ago and was way before I had a computer and I cant wait to get a lot of it on to the internet and share it with everybody.I would never sell anything or put the stuff on e-bay or anything like that.I have been known to give stuff away to close friends(other die-hard fans).Like stuff that I have doubles of.I would mostly like to set up a place were people can just come and take a look at all the stuff...I hear ya about the fools over at comcast and I will never regret the day I parted ways with them and I'm sure you will too.Check out Hiro if ya can some time and give a little support.They really try hard.As far as parking goes,It is not a problem it just takes a little longer to get in than being on foot.COOL!!VanZant just came on the t.v.!"Nobody gonna tell me what to do"!Sing along!OK,I'm back,had to check that one out. Thanks for the pick of you and dad.I dont think we will have any problem finding you folks.Or you finding us one.And yes it would be a good idea for us to exchange cell numbers(e-mail) just in case.It is now 10:00 am and Gretchen is playin on kiss!Cool...Nice way to end this post....Only 3 days to go....Sing it Gretchen(and Merle too)..............Talk to ya soon and God Bless.............Michael
posted by: michael (reply)
post date: 01.26.06 (5:07 am)
Yes,I have the tv(back and forth between GAC and CMT)and the radio playin at the same time!!
posted by: I Love Chilli (reply)
post date: 01.26.06 (5:25 am)
BTW-I love the Indian,A Beautiful Axe!!
posted by: Kelly (reply)
post date: 01.26.06 (1:19 pm)
Have a great time at the concert, Mal!
I love Keith Urban, he's got some great songs! :D
posted by: michael (reply)
post date: 01.26.06 (6:01 pm)
The Charlie Daniels Band 03-11-2006 Naples,FL. at Vinyard Community Park.....Maybe a short road trip in the future.It's just across the alley.About an hour ride or so..................Michael
posted by: chilli chilli chilli (reply)
post date: 01.26.06 (6:42 pm)
It sure would be nice to go to Cracker Barrel before the show on Sunday.But the problem I will more that likely run into would be getting Mom Dad and my Wife Janet up early enough to go.I am a morning person totally, but, I stand alone in this most of the time!I would also think that a lot of people are having the same idea seeing that CB(cracker barrel) is so close to CB (smith park).Could be very crowded!I will have to think about this one over the next couple of days..........God Bless............Michael...............P.S.The Barrel is on 75 and Sheridan,...but you probably already knew that.
posted by: Abby (reply)
post date: 01.27.06 (12:24 pm)
Like them wallpapers...I can see how you did the Lynyrd Skynyrd one with the sunset behind it. Now, about a Gary wallpaper? What version of Photoshop do you have?
If you get to talk to Johnny and Donnie tell them Abby said hey and she loves them VERY much. Especially Donnie. Be sure and say the Donnie part. Have a great time.
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 01.27.06 (4:02 pm)
Hey Michael, having problems with connection (what else)? please email me so I can call you! pamela_gratz@yahoo.com
posted by: Michael (reply)
post date: 01.28.06 (10:50 am)
Hey Mal,..Have you seen any of the following and if not would you like to? Make a list of the one's that you dont have or would like to see.I can give them to you before or after the concert on Sunday.As long as you take care of them like they were your first born child and you plan to give them back to me next time we all get together.OK?..All are VHS..OK well here we go.**100 Minutes with Lynyrd Skynyrd (1994).**Live At Winterland (1975). **Tribute Tour (1988). **Knebworth (1976).**German TV (1974)....A few for now to get ya started.I got a bunch more if ya like these.......GB................Michael
posted by: Michael (reply)
post date: 01.28.06 (1:44 pm)
I didn't know about this till today!Not that I would have been able to drive up and back and still have enough energy to go to the show tommorow,Or would I?Too late now find out anyway.
Join Charlie Daniels and his friends as they rock the Ford Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds on Jan. 28th. Gates open at 1pm and the music starts at 2pm.
Scheduled to Appear on the Dallas Bull Stage
The Charlie Daniels Band, Montgomery Gentry, Jason Aldean, Trick Pony, The Marshall Tucker Band, Confederate Railroad, Steve Holy, Ray Scott, Cledus T. Judd, Chad Brock, Keni Thomas, Wiley Fox, and Joey Daniels.
We'll be using a split stage set-up to keep the change time between acts to a minimum.
2-2:15 pm: Wiley Fox
2:20-2:35 pm: Joey Daniels
2:40-3:05 pm: Keni Thomas
3:10-3:40 pm: Trick Pony
3:45-4:10 pm: Ray Scott
4:15-4:40 pm: Steve Holy
4:45-5:10 pm: Cledus T. Judd
5:15-5:40 pm: Chad Brock
5:45-6:30 pm: Confederate Railroad
6:35-7:20 pm: Marshall Tucker
7:25-8:10 pm: Jason Aldean
8:20-9:20 pm: Montgomery Gentry
9:30-10:30 pm: The Charlie Daniels Band and the famous Jam
Click here for ticket information.
Performers subject to change without notice.
Help us help the kids at The Angelus.
posted by: michael (reply)
post date: 01.28.06 (7:05 pm)
Mal !!! I just now got your E-mail(sorry we missed your call!..I dont know what happend?) and it is about midnight and probably a little too late to call your house so you can try us again in the morning.You can call us anytime after 6:00 am. We will be getting up first thing tommorow morning at 6:00, so feel free to call us anytime after that... Home 731-5127 Cell 297-2208 If you dont get this message and we dont hear from you by 9:00 or 10:00 , We will call you then.OK....We are all gonna have a great day!!.....God bless and see ya real soon!!...............Michael
posted by: chillichillichillichillichillilllllllllllllllll (reply)
post date: 01.29.06 (1:54 am)
Yes Mal, We sure as heck are!!!(WE'RE GONNA SEE DONNIE AND JOHNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!)WE are leaving are house at 730-745 and going to my mom's house for a big breakfast.Then we dont have to worry about interupting any part of the show to eat!Mom talked us into eating at her house to save some time and avoid the crowds!Cant wait to see Gretchen too!My second fav of the day!I do believe that Gretchen will be playin some Heart and some Led Zeppelin in her set!The VZ'nts will be playin Sweet home,B'yard Road,Reb,Wht and Blue and Wild I'd sthrn boys.!!!So I've been told at least.Go to go now bye bye and GB!!! ....Talk to ya real soom!.....I should here from you around 10:00 or so..:-)....................................Michael...dsijgb I cant type any more too excited ijvhb Bye
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 02.01.06 (12:21 pm)
Reply to: Abby
Hey Abby! A Gary one will be the next on my list!! I have Photoshop 7.0. I did get your request before the concert and was sure not to forget it, but, we didn't get to meet Johnny and Donnie :o(
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 02.01.06 (12:31 pm)
Michael! Where to start... lots of comments to catch up on here! First off, GREAT meeting you and Janet at the concert, had an awesome time!!!
KISS certainly is playing good stuff nowadays!! They sometimes play Marshall Tucker and Charlie Daniels too, it's awesome! I'd love to see ol' Charlie in Naples, but I asked Dad and he slumped his shoulders and said "...wait until they come closer." LOL He doesn't feel like driving right now I guess. He doesn't like going across the state very much! I'm sorry we missed the show at the Ford Amphitheatre, good gosh that sounds like it would've been AWESOME! Ray Scott was there!! Montgomery Gentry too!
Thanks for clearing me up on the "whammy bar"!! I wonder where I heard it called a "quiver" before...
Reguarding the videos, the only ones I've seen at Freebird The Movie, part of the tribute tour, parts of Lyve From Steel Town, and the Vicious Cycle DVD of course!
(OMG WE SAW DONNIE AND JOHNNY.)
posted by: Abby (reply)
post date: 02.02.06 (1:58 pm)
Wish you had seen them...for both of our's sake.heh heh.
I have Photoshop 3.0..I feel so outdated! Gary..siiighhh.
posted by: dustyjumpwings (reply)
post date: 02.03.06 (7:11 pm)
Reply to: Abby
;o) 3.0!! It must be stoneaged!! I could send 7.0 on a disk to you if you wanted!
