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Things I learned on the just-completed moosebutter tour to Indiana:

-People in S. Indiana / Kentucky are NICE. I’ve met some nice people in my day, but these people are just NICE. Loved the people.

-Teppanyaki Japanese food. Yes, please.

-Louisville: pronounced ‘Loouhvle.’ If you are not from there, you cannot pronounce it correctly.

-Clarksville, IN: 2nd largest clock in the world (next to Big Ben).

-Surprised to open the concert program at the very nice Ogle Center on the Indiana University-Southeast campus, see moosebutter there all red-track suited and jumpy, and to also see a picture of my wife’s cousins, the 5 Browns, concert pianists, scheduled in the same hall next February. Surreal.

-Airport food: EXPENSIVE and almost never particularly good. This is not a new discovery, but one that bears bitter repetition.

-Loouhvle International airport music: Muzak megablend delights. Tacky, tacky piano rendition of ‘Tonight’ from West Side Story, lots of seventies string renditions of pop songs, and James Bond music.

-Chicago Midway airport music: Christmas. All Christmas. Week before Thanksgiving. Really, are we stupid?

Live show pics here.

Mister Tim talks with Voice Council, online magazine for vocalists, about the Star Wars YouTube video and a cappella stuff in general!

http://www.voicecouncil.com

Star Wars videos here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5_OSsawz4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGYAPr6UKhs

Read recent topics posted at CASA.org:

http://www.casa.org/blog/144

I’ve taken to writing most of my blogs over at CASA.org – the home page of the Contemporary A Cappella Society.  Check them out at this link:

http://www.casa.org/blog/144

This whole holiday season has seemed decidedly un-holiday-like… which is just how I like it.  Working in a service industry, my schedule is always wonky, I travel a lot, and I’m often involved in big events, big days, big holidays.  This year, instead of running off to a gig, I got to stay home for both Christmas and New Year’s.  The performer in me was rabidly jealous of everyone hitting the stage downtown, but the husband, father, and lazy lover-of-eggnog in me was jolly as a junebug to stay home, putter around the house, eat junk food, hang out with the kids, and glue shelves together.

Right.  Glue.  A couple weeks or so ago I saw a set of shelves advertised on craigslist – free – big things, looked heavy duty, so I drove across town at 2 am to pick them up.  Turned out they were heavy duty, and just plain heavy, and definitely bigger than I thought – I had to make 2 trips – but they are AWESOME and we can always use the storage space.  A few of the pieces were cracked, so we picked up some wood glue at the store and I’ve been slowly piecing everything together.

The only disadvantage of new shelves is that the whole house has to be re-arranged to fit them in.  There’s a built in advantage in that, though, which I note every time I haul a big box of garbage out of the house.  Garbage that’s been packed and moved three times in the last four years.  Garbage that is now GONE thanks to a bit of careful sifting.

I ended up going to be at 10 pm New Year’s Eve.  Nice sleep.  Hung out and opened presents with the kids Christmas morning, but other than that, the days feel like regular days – which is rare, and wonderful!

Corey Vidal and moosebutter have been nominated for a People’s Choice Award from the television network CBS. Link is here.

Click on vote, enter the code, and scroll to the ‘Favorite User Generated Content’ category.

You can vote daily until January 7th – go vote!

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