Music you should listen to

Brandi Carlile -- Josephine, The Story, Turpentine
L'Appuntamento -- From Ocean's 12 soundtrack
Mieka Pauley -- The Golden Room, Run, Marked Man, Hallelujah (only on video on youtube)
Holly Brook -- Like Blood Like Honey, Heavey

I also just finished Stephen King's "On Writing," which was fabulous. A must read if you enjoy writing in any capacity. Did you know that Stephen King and other writers have formed over the years some sort of a rock band? The Rockbottom Remainders -- Dave Barry on lead guitar, Ridley Pearson on bass, Barbara Kingsolver on keyboards, Robert Fulgham on mandolin, and backup singers The Dixie Cups: Kathi Kamen, Tad Bartimus, and Amy Tan. They were supposed to perform two shows at the American Booksellers Convention, get a few laughs, and that would be it. But the band never really broke up and they went on tour and wrote a book about it. They still play sometimes, now with Mitch Albom on keyboards and a few other newcomers.

I had read a reference to this band in sort of an autobiography by Amy Tan about her musings and philosophies, The Opposite of Fate. To hear about it again in another book and now to know they wrote a book about the band's tour, I must find that book!

*pause*

It is apparently called "Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude" It is out of print but I am sticking it on my online christmas list as a suggestion for certain family members as something that I desperately need at:

http://www.yourlistonline.com/showLists.php?listID=3888

Ok, shameless plug done. It's not so much that I want everyone to know what I want for christmas, it's just so much easier to make a list and put it online somewhere where my family members can readily access it instead of asking me over and over again what I want for Christmas, asif I'm being interrogated for murder and they're trying to see if my story changes....

See, I'm still more excited about Christmas than Thanksgiving. But Thanksgiving IS closing the gap a bit -- Friendsgiving may indeed happen this year!!!