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1 Million Love Messages Contest
I've noted the 1 Million Love Messages blog many times here. Mauro started his project back in July 2006, with the goal of collecting 1 million love messages.
I was lucky enough to be the first message, and have added a few more like this one for PAUL over the while, and continue to support his project, and even awarded him The Spreader of Love Award. Mauro has given me a blog award in the past, and I have given him a few promos including recently mentioning him on Miss604's interview of me, as one of my recommended blogs.
He recently sent me a little info on a contest he is doing to promote his blog.
The Prize he will offer to the Winner if this 1st Sexy Contest will be:
1 – A 125×125 Banner in the Sidebar of our Blog during 1 Month. Worth $60 as you can see here. The winner will benefit of almost 1.000 unique readers that visit us everyday! Cool way to increase traffic, ah?
2 – The Official T-Shirt of 1 Million Love Messages will be sent to the lucky winner (we will need to have some winner details so Cafepress can send this prize)
And what do you have to do to enter this Competition?
Easy, easy, easy….
· Blog about this competition – Make a post about this Competition and let your readers know about it. You must link back to this post.
· Blog about this Blog! - Blog about 1 Million Love Messages project. Write a short review about this Blog, what it's about and link to our main site with any of the follow anchor texts: love messages, 1 million love messages, love blog.
· Make a Comment in his Post (click this link) - Tell him that you are part of this 1st Sexy Contest! Write a comment with the links to your posts (point 1 & 2).
And that's all!
The deadline for this contest is May the 15th.
The winner will be chosen at random – Random.org - on May the 16th and a post will be made shortly thereafter announcing the winner.
Flickr Focus Friday 6: Billy Warhol
Every Friday I am going to feature a Flickr contact I think you will enjoy. I think I have a lot of interesting Flickr contacts and they take some pretty amazingly wonderful photos.
This week I am focused on Billy Warhol
WARNING: There is a lot of nakedness in Billy's Flickr sets, so if you don't like boobies or are offended by sexual images, or aren't of age, you might not want check out his work. You have been warned.
Billy Warhol seems to be a very social photographer, attending all sorts of gatherings and snapping images to remember them by.
Billy Warhol is also a blogger and had the wonderfully entertaining blog Billion Dollar Baloney which he highlights a lot of photos on but to get the full force of what Billy is all about you have to check out his extensive photo sets and spend some time reading the wit that emerges in the commentary.
Picking only a few photos to highlight has been a task and with sets with titles like BIRDSHIT ISLANDS PARADISE, CATS WHO RUN FROM THE CRIME, WASHROOM SEXXX DRUGZ ROCKnROLL, where does one begin.
[Note: Thank gawd I pre-write a lot of content for this blog, because on days like today where I am sick, it helps to be able to just hit Publish and be done.]
TT14: 13 Concerts
I am and forever shall be a music lover. Even before my mom got us the MuchMusic channel when it first came out in the 80s, I was into music. It is a big part of me, you'll catch me singing as I do things, shopping in the Safeway, even while i brush my teeth before bed, I always have music in me. My own terrible stage fright has kept me from doing it as a living, I could never shake the shakes, as it were. I now fear the idea of even trying to perform in front of people, but I still love music. I still dream about being up there belting out a song... In all that I have always been around music, and music makers, and loved going to concerts and performances. I even did a little run as a music critic for Exclaim Magazine a decade ago. So with out further explanation here is:
13 music performances or concerts I have been too that for whatever reason have stuck in my memory banks over the last 22 years.
(Side note: I will finally see Oasis this August and I am sure it could become another brilliant moment.)
13. Bon Jovi July 14, 1986 - I had just finished Grade 7. Some girls from my class had an extra ticket and asked if I wanted to go. I'd never been to a big concert before, or any really, so I thought why not. IT BLEW MY MIND. He flew out over the crowd (on wires) and the people in the seats in front of us were smoking pot. I remember coming home totally wired. My brother was working on his shitty Honda Civic, and asked me to help him push start it down the street, and I was just talking away all hyper excited about it to him. I all ready loved music, but the live aspect had just been discovered.
12. Radiohead @ Thunderbird June 2001 - I had always liked Radiohead and the opportunity to see them in one of my favorite places to see concerts, was not one to pass up. K was pissed at me for not bringing ID with me to get into the beer tent but I didn't care. I was happy to be there. This summer on August 19, 2008 they will be playing Thunderbird again... maybe I'll go.
11. Pop Will Eat Itself November 25 1994 @ Graceland (now known as something else... the name has changed a few times) It was a brilliant show. I love PWEI and they put on a great show in that tiny wonderful venue.
10. Placebo April 12,1999 @ The Rage with Stabbing Westward. Placebo was outstanding. I love that man's voice and the show was bang on. In contrast, I was not a big fan of Stabbing Westward and I left during their headline performance.
09. Sheryl Crow @ Thunderbird Stadium July 17 1997 as part of Another Roadside Attraction with Tragically Hip. Never been much of a Hip fan, and their show was pretty blah, and yes, again I left during their show. However of the full days worth of bands, Sheryl Crow blew me away, I was really amazed at her stage presence and even though I never really got into her - that show always comes to mind when I think of amazing concerts.
08. Sinead O'Connor July 5, 1995 @ Thunderbird Stadium part of all day festival Lollapalooza. There was Elastica, Moby, Pavement, Beck (who I have seen about 4 times), Cypress Hill, Courtney Love's Hole, and Sonic Youth closed the night. I took the bus home alone when Sonic Youth hit the stage. But laying in the grassy field in the sunshine earlier that day, all trippy and silly with my friends, listening to Sinead's voice echo across the blue sky and fluffy clouds... WOW. And I mean WOW!
07. Curve @ The Town Pump (now some dance club) in 1994 & again June 28, 1998 @ Palladium (was Graceland now something different again) with the Dandy Warhols. I love CURVE. That girl has a voice and the music is so amazingly great.
06. Smashing Pumpkins August 30 1995 @ The Cloverdale Grounds, Lollapalooza featured Beastie Boys, Green Day, The Breeders, Nick Cave and an amazing show by George Clinton. Shamsing Pumpkins closed the show and by far stood out as something amazing to me.
05. The Charlatans UK @ The Rage October 15, 1997 with The Dandy Warhols. I liked the Warhols, but LOVE The Charlatans, and this was the first time I had got a chance to see them since missing them every other time. They are one of my top favorite bands and I went to the show alone because no one would go with me, but I loved every moment of it. Got a lovely red t-shirt which I wore a lot until it was toast.
04. Robbie Williams @ The Rage June 1st 1999. No one would go with me to see this show either, losers! Robbie Williams is one of the greatest showmen alive, and he put on a show of all shows. In the little club it was amazing to be a few feet away from his larger than life persona. One for the memory books and a performer I will always want to see again and again.
03. Orbital @ (The Drive-In Rave) in Cloverdale Summer June 29, 1996, although this was a Rave, the band performed on a stage with the Drive-In screen behind them. The nearly full moon was out, and the clouds were cutting across it as the played. They are one of my all time favorite bands and this was one night I will never forget, dancing almost in a trance with all the other ravers in the night.
02. Styx featuring Gowan, March 21 2008, was just last month but it is right on up here, because it was a show and finally getting to see my first crush Gowan was brilliant. I have never admitted this before, but I will now (because I told Paul), Gowan used to wear a big "G" earring in his ear, so I went out and got a big "B" for my ear (and admittedly a big G too because I was going to be Mrs Gowan). Just one though, and wore my "B" like he wore his "G", and that is how I became known as THE B... Since 1985 I have always signed things B, my artwork, letters etc, and for many years wore that big "B" earring in my ear. I was so determined to make it a part of me, that I even had 3 earrings in one ear and only that one on the one side. I didn't even out the sides until I was much much older. There ya go, pretty big nerd eh!?! (You can see even in the photos below from 1988, I only have one earring on one side and three on the other)
01. Depeche Mode, May 4, 1988... OMD opened. Mike Collins drove me and Carrie Milley down to the PNE. It was the first concert I ever purchased tickets for, bought the tee-shirt and to this day DM hold a special place in my heart. Music for The Masses. That was 20 years ago! Holy hell.