Me, my friend Par and his friend Lulu of Unifire all have our birthdays on the 11th and 12th of February. Par, promoter and CNG car expert (as well as smackin good DJ) decided he’d throw a party for all three of us at the Emerald Lounge, and he booked the Firecracker Jazz Band to play it. Par will DJ as well for part of the time, and he always gets people groovin’ so bring your soft soles or your high tops and prepare to wear a hole in the dance floor.
Come on out and help me celebrate what an awesome year 25 has been for me, and to rock and roll my 26th birthday! This should be an awesome time, I’m really excited.
- The Emerald Lounge on South Lexington [ Map ]
- Thursday, February 12, 2009
- Don’t park in the lot across the street.
- $5 at the door to cover the band (worth it — I promise)
- R.S.V.P. if you’re hip
Par asked me to design the poster, whch is all over town now. This took me about an hour and I’m pround of how it turned out, but I wish I could have put another two hours of work into it to really polish it up. This is probably my most public work to date, and I’m always trying to level up my craft.
I can’t believe I’ve only been living here a little over a year! This town has been good to me. Thanks, Asheville!
This strikes me as really corny and poorly done. Make music, not films.
Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre is awesome. Pun based visual humour with a vaguely Victorian tilt? Yes please!
Thanks, Malia. This rocks.
Ok, time to highlight some new additions to the blog roll.
Asheville Street Style
An Asheville street fashion blog run by MountainX. Rarely am I so vain, but I desperately want to get on there. I wear a necktie like 4 days a week! Come on!
Ukelele Rockstar
Ami plays uke and sings with Mad Tea Party, a great Asheville-based band. In addition, she’s a great gal that updates her blog frequently with interesting stuff from her experience as a musician.
The White House Blog
It went live at noon on January 20th. Come on, the President has a frickin blog? That’s cool. We should all read it. Check out all of the new tools to keep informed by the White House. It’s impressive that the Obama is STILL this 2.0 — s0 support it.
“Greatness is never given. It must be earned.” — Barack Obama
As some one who has had the occasion to do a lot of public speaking, I pay particular attention to speeches, speakers and general speechmaking of any sort whether it be impromptu, theatrical, extemperaneous or formal. The time for great formal speeches and statesmanship seemed to be in the past until the admittedly astounding rise of Barack Obama, and it is good to see such renewed interest in speeches from the Joe Six-Pack crowd. Yesterday, in the midst of a national moment of celebreation and rejoicing, we heard freshly sworn-in President Barack Obama’s first speech to the nation he now leads. More than just the typical quadrennial refreshing of executive authority and dusting off of pomp and circumstance, this event was widely anticipated to be a unifying touchstone and a lamplighting of historic proportion.
And it was.
Ok, yeah but how was the speech?
