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how do everybody? been an odd couple of weeks....well a couple of things first....Got a call from new york the other day from some woman at ASCAP( which is a, uh..well they look after tracking songs on radio/tv/movies/bars etc) anyway....apparently they and heinken( good beer) have a grant for helping songwriters and apparently of a gazillion songs....they picked " Dance With Me" as the winner of best pop/rock song and i won a check and will get some good publicity from it as well....I never win anything....so it came as quite a shock....

i believe its almost official that " Ashes " will be out in many parts of Europe on Blue-Rose records....pretty exciting.....

Christmas season coming up and though i'm am thrilled with the number of orders...we made it so cheap so you guys would be able to give em out as presents for the season....i'm grateful and honored by your continued support but not seeing as many new names as we would like....so order BTA for other people they wont know how much it costs and we'll send it to them and if you want us to put a note in it we will....gotta start shaking things up and get a new groundswell going....like the republicans....sorry bad joke

the bodeans gig was fun...beautiful theatre....funny moment i was soundchecking and i was playing " One way to go " on piano and Sammy came out of the shadows on stage right and though i wasn't singing he started singing " Murder on Her Lips" but he was changing the words around and it was pretty funny...but the lyrics he was using i can't really repeat.

Ron Artest is insane.

Don't forget to vote on Wxpn's albums of the year....pretty please??
XRT's will be coming up shortly too....

...was nice to watch endless hours of JFK shows considering the anniversary of his death./...wanted to see the movie " JFK" but was suprised not to find it anywhere on tv.

Have a GREAT THANKSGIVING everybody...i'm so thankful your here reading this...i'm honored...i'm humbled....God bless you !

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