Monday, February 18, 2008
Why do men die first?
If you put a woman on a pedestal and try to protect her from the rat race ... you're a male chauvinist. If you stay home and do the housework ... you're a pansy. If you work too hard ... there's never any time for her. If you don't work enough ... you're a good-for-nothing bum. If she has a boring repetitive job with low pay ... this is exploitation. If you have a boring repetitive job with low pay ... you should get off your lazy behind and find something better. If you get a promotion ahead of her ... that is favouritism. If she gets a job ahead of you ... its equal opportunity.
If you mention how nice she looks ... its sexual harassment. If you keep quiet ... its male indifference. If you cry ... you're a wimp. If you don't ... you're an insensitive bastard. If you make a decision without consulting her ... you're a chauvinist.
If she makes a decision without consulting you, she's a liberated woman. If you ask her to do something she doesn't enjoy ... that's domination. If SHE asks you ... it's a favour. If you appreciate the female form and frilly underwear ... you're a pervert. If you don't ... you're gay.
If you like a woman to shave her legs and keep in shape ... you're sexist. If you don't ... you're unromantic. If you try to keep yourself in shape ... you're vain. If you don't ... you're a slob. If you buy her flowers ... you're after something. If you don't ... you're not thoughtful. If you're proud of your achievements ... you're full of yourself. If you don't ... you're not ambitious. If she has a headache ... she's tired. If you have a headache ... you don't love her anymore. If you want it too often ... you're oversexed. If you don't ... there must be someone else.
Why do men die first? Because they want to.
If you mention how nice she looks ... its sexual harassment. If you keep quiet ... its male indifference. If you cry ... you're a wimp. If you don't ... you're an insensitive bastard. If you make a decision without consulting her ... you're a chauvinist.
If she makes a decision without consulting you, she's a liberated woman. If you ask her to do something she doesn't enjoy ... that's domination. If SHE asks you ... it's a favour. If you appreciate the female form and frilly underwear ... you're a pervert. If you don't ... you're gay.
If you like a woman to shave her legs and keep in shape ... you're sexist. If you don't ... you're unromantic. If you try to keep yourself in shape ... you're vain. If you don't ... you're a slob. If you buy her flowers ... you're after something. If you don't ... you're not thoughtful. If you're proud of your achievements ... you're full of yourself. If you don't ... you're not ambitious. If she has a headache ... she's tired. If you have a headache ... you don't love her anymore. If you want it too often ... you're oversexed. If you don't ... there must be someone else.
Why do men die first? Because they want to.
Gasoline prices headed up...
Explosion Rocks West Texas Oil Refinery
BIG SPRING, Texas (AP) — A sheriff's dispatcher says an explosion rocked an oil refinery in western Texas.
It's unclear whether there are injuries or whether a fire is burning at the refinery owned by Dallas-based Alon USA, which employs about 170 people and produces about 70,000 barrels a day.
Howard County sheriff's dispatcher, who declined to give her name, said: "All I know is that it blew up."
John Moseley, managing editor of the Big Spring Herald, heard the Monday morning blast and said, "I thought it would knock the walls down."
Blake Lewis, a spokesman for Alon USA, said the company had an unconfirmed report of an incident but did not know any details. He said a plant manager was on the way to the site.
Big Spring is about halfway between Dallas and El Paso.
latest... only one is hurt... all are safe, workers and contractors... but the smoke cloud is HUGE!! foxnews is carrying it live of course...
Jake Moffat Music is now on Rhapsody.....
Oh my goodness....
I am one proud poppa..... sorry to bore everyone... but I personally know the very long and twisted road this one artist took to get to this point!!
Yes, Jake has 3 CD's and they are now on itunes.com, Rhapsody, etc... on Rhapsody just type in his name and stream away... one does not have to buy the tunes, and just by listening Jake get's some revenue... how bout them apples???
His music now is helping him with some income... haha...
Sorry to bore all, but I am one proud poppa!!!
Have a great day!
I am one proud poppa..... sorry to bore everyone... but I personally know the very long and twisted road this one artist took to get to this point!!
Yes, Jake has 3 CD's and they are now on itunes.com, Rhapsody, etc... on Rhapsody just type in his name and stream away... one does not have to buy the tunes, and just by listening Jake get's some revenue... how bout them apples???
His music now is helping him with some income... haha...
Sorry to bore all, but I am one proud poppa!!!
Have a great day!
This photo is another I found... and it is plain cute.. caption read... love hurts...
great black and white...
love hurts... right Dylan and Andrew??
Grandpa is smiling.. but soon it will be Kaitlyn and Andrew ... when Dylan gets bigger... haha...
Sunday, February 17, 2008
From one of my daughters comes this note.... "hint... She is a teacher!"
The Teacher Applicant
After being interviewed by the school administration, the teaching prospect said, "Let me see if I've got this right: "You want me to go into that room with all those kids, correct their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse, monitor their dress habits, censor their T-shirt messages, and instill in them a love for learning. "You want me to check their backpacks for weapons, wage war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, and raise their sense of self esteem and personal pride.
"You want me to teach them patriotism and good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, and how to register to vote, balance a checkbook, and apply for a job. "You want me to check their heads for lice, recognize signs of antisocial behavior, and make sure that they all pass the state exams.
"You want me to provide them with an equal education regardless of their handicaps, and communicate regularly with their parents by letter, telephone, email, newsletter, and report card.
"You want me to do all this with a piece of chalk, a blackboard, a bulletin board, a few books, a big smile, and a starting salary that qualifies me for food stamps.
"You want me to do all this and then you tell me... "I CAN'T PRAY?"
Ok... this came from Tammy... Thanks Tammy for sharing this..
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Dale Carnegie’s Top 10 Tips for Improving Your Social Skills
Dale Carnegie’s Top 10 Tips for Improving Your Social Skills
“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?”
“Who was Dale Carnegie?” you may wonder. Well, he was a guy that was born 110 years ago. He died in 1955. He was a rich man, a very successful man.
He wrote a little book called “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. It went on to sell over 30 million copies. It still sells today and is probably one of the best books on how to improve your social skills.
Carnegie then continued to write more books and to create courses on how to interact with people, on how to make friends and on how to gain influence.
Here are 10 of my favourite tips from Dale Carnegie. And as the opening quote says, these tips have been time-tested for the last few hundreds or thousands of years. They are pretty solid. :)
1. Create your own emotions.
“If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.”
Emotions work backwards too. You can use that to your advantage. If you are stuck in a negative emotion then you can often shake it off. Change your body - how you move, sit and stand – and act as you would like to feel. Enthusiasm and other positive emotions are much more useful and pleasurable for everyone in an interaction. Because…
2. It’s not so much about the logical stuff.
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
This is so key. Logic is good but in the end, in interactions and in life, we are emotional creatures. We send and receive emotions from other people. That is one reason why body language and voice tonality is often said be up to 93% of communication. Now, those numbers were for some specific situations but I still believe that these two ways of communication are very, very important.
The body language and the voice tonality is a bit like the rest of the iceberg, the great mass below the tip of the words we use. Those two things communicate how we are feeling and give indication to what we are thinking. And that’s why it’s important to be able to change how you feel. To be in a positive mood while interacting. Because that will have a great impact on how you say something and how you use your body. And those two things will have a big impact on your results and relationships.
3. Three things you are better off avoiding.
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”
Now these things may not be easy to avoid all together. Much of our interactions and perhaps even bonds are created and maintained through those three negative C’s. There is a sort of twisted pleasure in criticising, condemning and complaining. It might make you feel more important and like a better person as you see yourself as a victim or as you condemn other people’s behaviour.
But in the end these three C’s are negative and limiting to your life. Bringing up negative stuff and wallowing in it will lower your mood, motivation and general levels of wellbeing. And this can trap you in a negative spiral of complaining, complaining with other complainers and always finding faults in your reality.
You will also be broadcasting and receiving negative emotions. And people in general want to feel good. So this can really put an obstacle in the way for your interactions or relationships.
4. What is most important?
“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
Classic advice. Don’t talk too much about yourself and your life. Listen to other people instead. However, if they ramble on and on, if they don’t reciprocate and show and interest in your life then you don’t have to stay.
Some things people may treasure the most include ideas, children, a special hobby and the job. And…
5. Focus outward, not inward.
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
A lot of people use the second, far less effective way. It is appealing because it’s about instant gratification and about ME, ME, ME! The first way – to become interested in people – perhaps works better because it make you a pleasant exception and because the law of reciprocity is strong in people. As you treat people, they will treat you. Be interested in them and they will be interested in you.
I would like to add that one hard thing about this can be to be genuinely interested in the other guy/gal. Your genuine interest is projected though your body language and tonality. So, just waiting for the other person to stop talking so you can talk again isn’t really genuine interest. And that may shine through. And so your interactions will suffer.
6. Take control of your emotions.
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.”
It wrote about this problem a few days ago in 9 Great Ways to Make Yourself Absolutely Miserable. And it basically consist of being too reliant or dependent on external validation from other people. External validation is something someone communicates to you that tells you that you are person of value. That you, for example, are pretty, smart or successful.
This leaves much of your emotions in the hands of other people. It becomes an emotional rollercoaster. One day you feel great. The next day you feel like just staying in bed.
But if you fill that inner cup of validation for yourself instead then you take over the wheel. Now you’re driving, now you control how you feel. You can still appreciate compliments of course, but you aren’t dependent on them.
This will make you more emotionally stable and enables you to cultivate and build your emotional muscles in a more controlled way. You can for instance help yourself to become more optimistic or enthusiastic more of the time. This stability and growth can be big help in your relationships.
7. No, they are not holding you back.
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”
Caring too much about what people think will create and feed imaginary monsters within your mind. You may for instance think that people will condemn you if you try something. Maybe they will. But most of the time people are thinking about their own challenges and ups and downs. They just don’t care that much about what you do.
This may feel disappointing. It can also be liberating. It helps you remove inner obstacles that are you holding yourself back.
As you, bit by bit or in one big swoop, release those inner brakes you become more of yourself. You become more confident, you have a better chance at success, and you will feel more positive feelings and less negative ones. All these things can give a big boost to your interactions and help you sharpen those social skills.
8. So, what’s in it for me?
“There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.”
If you want someone to do something then will they care about your motivation for getting this thing done? Perhaps. Often they will not have that great of an interest in what you want out of something.
They want to know what they will get out of it. So, for the both of you to get what you want out of something tell that person what’s in it for him/her. And try to be genuine and positive about it. A reason for them to do it delivered in a lame, half-assed manner may not be so persuasive. And so you both lose.
9. How to win an argument.
“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”
Getting two egos wrapped up in an argument, having two sides defending their positions desperately, will not improve relationships. You are more likely to feel negative feelings towards each other long after the argument is over. And so you both wallow in negativity and you both lose. When possible, just avoiding unnecessary arguments is a win-win situation.
10. It’s about more than your words.
“There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.”
I often feel that there is a bit too much emphasis on the third way of contact (what we say). Don’t forget about the rest. Most people stereotype people at their first meeting. They might not want to but it is a way for their – and perhaps your – mind to organize impressions and people. So think about how you look. Think about how you make first impressions. Think about your body language. And how you are saying your sentences.
Think about how you feel because that will be reflected out into the world. And the world will often reflect back something similar.
“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?”
“Who was Dale Carnegie?” you may wonder. Well, he was a guy that was born 110 years ago. He died in 1955. He was a rich man, a very successful man.
He wrote a little book called “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. It went on to sell over 30 million copies. It still sells today and is probably one of the best books on how to improve your social skills.
Carnegie then continued to write more books and to create courses on how to interact with people, on how to make friends and on how to gain influence.
Here are 10 of my favourite tips from Dale Carnegie. And as the opening quote says, these tips have been time-tested for the last few hundreds or thousands of years. They are pretty solid. :)
1. Create your own emotions.
“If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.”
Emotions work backwards too. You can use that to your advantage. If you are stuck in a negative emotion then you can often shake it off. Change your body - how you move, sit and stand – and act as you would like to feel. Enthusiasm and other positive emotions are much more useful and pleasurable for everyone in an interaction. Because…
2. It’s not so much about the logical stuff.
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
This is so key. Logic is good but in the end, in interactions and in life, we are emotional creatures. We send and receive emotions from other people. That is one reason why body language and voice tonality is often said be up to 93% of communication. Now, those numbers were for some specific situations but I still believe that these two ways of communication are very, very important.
The body language and the voice tonality is a bit like the rest of the iceberg, the great mass below the tip of the words we use. Those two things communicate how we are feeling and give indication to what we are thinking. And that’s why it’s important to be able to change how you feel. To be in a positive mood while interacting. Because that will have a great impact on how you say something and how you use your body. And those two things will have a big impact on your results and relationships.
3. Three things you are better off avoiding.
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”
Now these things may not be easy to avoid all together. Much of our interactions and perhaps even bonds are created and maintained through those three negative C’s. There is a sort of twisted pleasure in criticising, condemning and complaining. It might make you feel more important and like a better person as you see yourself as a victim or as you condemn other people’s behaviour.
But in the end these three C’s are negative and limiting to your life. Bringing up negative stuff and wallowing in it will lower your mood, motivation and general levels of wellbeing. And this can trap you in a negative spiral of complaining, complaining with other complainers and always finding faults in your reality.
You will also be broadcasting and receiving negative emotions. And people in general want to feel good. So this can really put an obstacle in the way for your interactions or relationships.
4. What is most important?
“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
Classic advice. Don’t talk too much about yourself and your life. Listen to other people instead. However, if they ramble on and on, if they don’t reciprocate and show and interest in your life then you don’t have to stay.
Some things people may treasure the most include ideas, children, a special hobby and the job. And…
5. Focus outward, not inward.
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
A lot of people use the second, far less effective way. It is appealing because it’s about instant gratification and about ME, ME, ME! The first way – to become interested in people – perhaps works better because it make you a pleasant exception and because the law of reciprocity is strong in people. As you treat people, they will treat you. Be interested in them and they will be interested in you.
I would like to add that one hard thing about this can be to be genuinely interested in the other guy/gal. Your genuine interest is projected though your body language and tonality. So, just waiting for the other person to stop talking so you can talk again isn’t really genuine interest. And that may shine through. And so your interactions will suffer.
6. Take control of your emotions.
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.”
It wrote about this problem a few days ago in 9 Great Ways to Make Yourself Absolutely Miserable. And it basically consist of being too reliant or dependent on external validation from other people. External validation is something someone communicates to you that tells you that you are person of value. That you, for example, are pretty, smart or successful.
This leaves much of your emotions in the hands of other people. It becomes an emotional rollercoaster. One day you feel great. The next day you feel like just staying in bed.
But if you fill that inner cup of validation for yourself instead then you take over the wheel. Now you’re driving, now you control how you feel. You can still appreciate compliments of course, but you aren’t dependent on them.
This will make you more emotionally stable and enables you to cultivate and build your emotional muscles in a more controlled way. You can for instance help yourself to become more optimistic or enthusiastic more of the time. This stability and growth can be big help in your relationships.
7. No, they are not holding you back.
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”
Caring too much about what people think will create and feed imaginary monsters within your mind. You may for instance think that people will condemn you if you try something. Maybe they will. But most of the time people are thinking about their own challenges and ups and downs. They just don’t care that much about what you do.
This may feel disappointing. It can also be liberating. It helps you remove inner obstacles that are you holding yourself back.
As you, bit by bit or in one big swoop, release those inner brakes you become more of yourself. You become more confident, you have a better chance at success, and you will feel more positive feelings and less negative ones. All these things can give a big boost to your interactions and help you sharpen those social skills.
8. So, what’s in it for me?
“There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.”
If you want someone to do something then will they care about your motivation for getting this thing done? Perhaps. Often they will not have that great of an interest in what you want out of something.
They want to know what they will get out of it. So, for the both of you to get what you want out of something tell that person what’s in it for him/her. And try to be genuine and positive about it. A reason for them to do it delivered in a lame, half-assed manner may not be so persuasive. And so you both lose.
9. How to win an argument.
“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”
Getting two egos wrapped up in an argument, having two sides defending their positions desperately, will not improve relationships. You are more likely to feel negative feelings towards each other long after the argument is over. And so you both wallow in negativity and you both lose. When possible, just avoiding unnecessary arguments is a win-win situation.
10. It’s about more than your words.
“There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.”
I often feel that there is a bit too much emphasis on the third way of contact (what we say). Don’t forget about the rest. Most people stereotype people at their first meeting. They might not want to but it is a way for their – and perhaps your – mind to organize impressions and people. So think about how you look. Think about how you make first impressions. Think about your body language. And how you are saying your sentences.
Think about how you feel because that will be reflected out into the world. And the world will often reflect back something similar.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
wow
It has warmed up 22 degrees in last 3 hours according to mesonet.org in stillwater, and it is FEB!
Oh my.... this and that... haha...
Trish came by this am and said at 10:30pm last evening there was a text message on her phone for her to answer the door as her hubby was there and it was cold outside.. haha.. what a deal. Seems Jake blew in for clothes and a bit of rest before heading back out to the rig they are working on near Elmore City. They hope to be done this am, and I think he is planning on stopping by Jon's for a visit before heading back. They left early am on Monday for the site and of course the weather did not cooperate, as a front moved thru Monday pm and dumped tons of rain on them and they were working in the lightning and rain... welding.. sigh.. safety safety... haha.. guess that is not an issue...
Anyway... Trish was by said she was doing ok and that Jake will be here tomorrow to make their Doctors visit... it's getting closer... and closer.. when little Isabella Ann will be here, and we are all getting very excited...
How bout the weather.. wow.... who knows... or better who knew.. haha..
have a great day.. Off to the office...
by the way.. my office phones are ... besides my cell... Tough Records 405 780 7590 and Flatland Entertainment 405 780 7377 in case you need me... We now have a recording studio, a record label, an artist management company, and are a provider of Entertainment throughout the southwest and through paynecountyline.com the southeast... and are working on putting together a music publishing company... it's kind of an exciting time, to see us grow.. and we are doing it the slow and right way I think. Our first signed artist Nick Gibson released his new CD No Other Way to radio this past week, and we are very high tech doing it all electronically, even our contracts are electronic. In addition to all this I have paynecountyline.com and Greg has the Rocking Horse and Planet Rock in Ponca City to take care of. So we are a bit busy. We have a new band in studio working on their first CD, are in negotiations with a regional artists about managing and booking them, have 15 bands we help book for, work with four other management companies, and we are working on completing a Music University of sorts to run artist through to teach them the business side of the music industry, and on the side we are putting together a deal that might have a considerable effect on the music business, in our spare time.
Greg lives in Ponca and has four kiddos... two in school and to still at home... His wife works with a company that owns four radio stations.
I am trying to finish up the yearly Oklahoma Music Awards for Payne County Line.. this is an annual event and our 5th one ... and have added three new websites since the first of the year, with one being a major builder and supplier of Truck Scales.
so as Great Grandma Moffat would say, "if you think I don't do much, just try to keep up!!" haha.. and by the way, don't ask anyone who knows me or you might find out I really "don't" do much.. haha...
Enjoy the day, you never know when the day you have might be your last...
Anyway... Trish was by said she was doing ok and that Jake will be here tomorrow to make their Doctors visit... it's getting closer... and closer.. when little Isabella Ann will be here, and we are all getting very excited...
How bout the weather.. wow.... who knows... or better who knew.. haha..
have a great day.. Off to the office...
by the way.. my office phones are ... besides my cell... Tough Records 405 780 7590 and Flatland Entertainment 405 780 7377 in case you need me... We now have a recording studio, a record label, an artist management company, and are a provider of Entertainment throughout the southwest and through paynecountyline.com the southeast... and are working on putting together a music publishing company... it's kind of an exciting time, to see us grow.. and we are doing it the slow and right way I think. Our first signed artist Nick Gibson released his new CD No Other Way to radio this past week, and we are very high tech doing it all electronically, even our contracts are electronic. In addition to all this I have paynecountyline.com and Greg has the Rocking Horse and Planet Rock in Ponca City to take care of. So we are a bit busy. We have a new band in studio working on their first CD, are in negotiations with a regional artists about managing and booking them, have 15 bands we help book for, work with four other management companies, and we are working on completing a Music University of sorts to run artist through to teach them the business side of the music industry, and on the side we are putting together a deal that might have a considerable effect on the music business, in our spare time.
Greg lives in Ponca and has four kiddos... two in school and to still at home... His wife works with a company that owns four radio stations.
I am trying to finish up the yearly Oklahoma Music Awards for Payne County Line.. this is an annual event and our 5th one ... and have added three new websites since the first of the year, with one being a major builder and supplier of Truck Scales.
so as Great Grandma Moffat would say, "if you think I don't do much, just try to keep up!!" haha.. and by the way, don't ask anyone who knows me or you might find out I really "don't" do much.. haha...
Enjoy the day, you never know when the day you have might be your last...
There are teachers.... and then there are educators.
According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was recently faced with a unique problem.
A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom.
That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick,they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.
Every night the maintenance man would remove them and the next day the girls would put them back.
Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man.
She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.
To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.
He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it.
Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
There are teachers.... and then there are educators.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
for jon and randi.. since they live in Ada'r.....
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Blake Shelton opens up about his high school escapades and good times with girlfriend Miranda Lambert. | |
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 CW recently talked with Blake about Clash of the Choirs, his gorgeous new single and karaoke singing. Here are some excerpts from that exclusive interview with the Oklahoma native. CW: Based on your experience directing your singers for Clash of the Choirs, do you think you might ever want to go into the studio and produce another artist at one point? BS: That would be interesting to do. At this point, if I was to drop everything, I think my strong suit would be helping somebody with their song selection and I know that some producers in Nashville, basically, that's all they do. To me, that's not enough, that's not good enough. I think you need more ideas than that and you need to be thinking more of out the box and arrangements and things like that. And I'm just not so sure, even though I have my ideas of what I like, that it would be the best for me to produce another artist just because I may produce an album that I thought would be good for me . . . and not necessarily be good for that artist and what would make the masses buy into what they are doing musically. I still don't think that at this point, even if I wanted to do it, that I would be very good at it. CW: I love your version of "Home". Tell me about the first time you heard it. A:It's funny I was making the Barn and Grill album and I walked into the President of Warner Brothers, his name is Bill Bennett, and I played him some of the cuts off the album and he said, "What about this song here?" And he played me "Home" by Michael Buble and I'd never heard the song before and I said, "You know what? I'm making my record. I don't need this from you." And I may have turned a deaf ear to it just because of that, just kind of being a punk. I didn't know who he was and I think the way it hit me is, here I am basically still a developing artist myself, I don't want to hear about this other artist that they are excited aout at Warner Brothers, even though he wasn't country, he was whatever genre of music he fits in. He definitely had nothing to do with country. And looking back on it, Bill was probably playing it for me for this reason here. He probably thought it would be a good thing for me to record and I probably took it as, "I don't care about any other artist's album right now, I'm trying to make mine." But, I remember that meeting distinctly because a year or so later—and Miranda is always putting music on my iPOD for me that she thinks I'll like—and I ended up with "Home&uqot; on my IPOD and listened to it and fell in love with it. Then the next thing I knew I was walking around singing it all the time and I ended up learning it and performing it a few times. And last November, I believe during CMA week, they did a fly away contest with some fans and had a private party at the Warner Brothers building and I performed "Home" and I remember as I was performing it, I looked up and I saw Bill Bennett standing there and he kind of had a smirk on his face. And it was like it hit me, wow, he was right. There's something about this song for me. After I performed it I said, "Well Bill, that's for you. I should have paid attention to you a while back. You know what you're talking about I guess." The bigger thing was, the entire staff at Warner Brothers got really excited about it and it's kind of a strange deal. What we've decided to do is we went in and recorded it just to see if the magic was really there and everybody's gotten excited about it now and they are relaunching the Pure BS album with "Home" as a cut on the album. For more on Blake Shelton, check out the Feb. 25 issue of Country Weekly. | |
The Second Annual Iron Thistle Scottish Games at the Kirkpatrick Park in Yukon, OK
The Second Annual Iron Thistle Scottish Games at the Kirkpatrick Park in Yukon, OK., 1015 S. Garth Brooks Blvd.
West on I-40, turn North on Hwy 92 (Garth Brooks Blvd.), go 1/2 mi., just north of Vandament Ave.
Friday - March 28th - Fire Ceremony & Introductions to to the clans(Open & Free to the public) starts at 6:00pm Saturday - March 29th - Scottish Heritage Festival and Highland Games
Gate will open to the public at 9am and will close at 6pm.
Non stop entertainment with On The Doss, Dustin Cooper, Jean Hill's Dancers. All About Irish, Flowers of Edinburgh, and Boru's Ghost on stage.
Open Session site available on the covered old time porch in the frontier town.
The big feature of Scottish Games is the fierce competitions with athletics, Highland dancers, and off site solo piping.
Join the Pipe bands, clans, vendors and food that make up the Scottish games!!!
For more info go to USCO web site at www.uscoscots.org
More information needed? contact Mr. Roger Graham <celticgraham@sbcglobal.net >
West on I-40, turn North on Hwy 92 (Garth Brooks Blvd.), go 1/2 mi., just north of Vandament Ave.
Friday - March 28th - Fire Ceremony & Introductions to to the clans(Open & Free to the public) starts at 6:00pm Saturday - March 29th - Scottish Heritage Festival and Highland Games
Gate will open to the public at 9am and will close at 6pm.
Non stop entertainment with On The Doss, Dustin Cooper, Jean Hill's Dancers. All About Irish, Flowers of Edinburgh, and Boru's Ghost on stage.
Open Session site available on the covered old time porch in the frontier town.
The big feature of Scottish Games is the fierce competitions with athletics, Highland dancers, and off site solo piping.
Join the Pipe bands, clans, vendors and food that make up the Scottish games!!!
For more info go to USCO web site at www.uscoscots.org
More information needed? contact Mr. Roger Graham <celticgraham@
Monday, February 11, 2008
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