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Hi, This is Wayne. This is my site, my stuff, my blog, blahblahblah. The site itself is powered by WordPress and the Scary Little theme. I thought it was cool, and I still do.
Today I’m guest-posting over at The Absurdist.
As mentioned yesterday, her blog is NSFW (Not Safe For Wayne). So if your pretty little eyes and ears are easily offended, or if you’re not prepared to see me in a slightly different light, I wouldn’t click the link. Just check back here tomorrow for your regularly scheduled Wayne Goodness.
In other news, I’m hella excited about seeing Celtic Woman tonight here in Austin at the Frank Erwin Center. It’s going to be a great show!
Almost half a year! Now if only I could make GOOD habits last that long…
Last week I posted a picture of our almost-done XMAS tree, and now it’s finished. Here it is with a complete bottom AND top:
and this picture has 100% more Jaden for your viewing enjoyment.
Sure, it took me three sittings to actually watch the whole thing because I kept getting interrupted left and right, but I really really liked this movie.
It was funny at the right parts, had PLENTY of action, was superbly acted and it was somewhat believable (the “fire sale” part and many technical plot devices). You can say Bruce Willis has this character down pat. I liked most of the technical stuff in the background and paid attention to most of it, looking for mistakes.
Of course, it didn’t hurt to have the “PC vs Mac” guy turn from a gutless wonder to someone who actually could do what he needed to do to save the day. His comedic contribution to the movie was priceless.
Tonight I received a call letting me know that Celtic Woman was on TV again but this time it was a Christmas Special
WOW! I started my DVR recording late, so now I’ll have to go find where to buy it because I love Christmas music over almost any other kind of music, and I love Celtic Woman almost as much, so when they’re combined it just blows me away.
And I saw across the top of the screen that they’re coming to Austin! I saw them in San Antonio earlier in the year and it’s easily one of my all-time favorite concerts ever. Well, except for Schoolhouse Rock of course.
You can check me out on twitter on that night and you’ll be sure to get some full-on appreciate for Celtic Woman.
I don’t pay attention to Emmys or Oscars or Tonys or speed limit signs or calories like some of you out there, so you won’t be seeing any report about them from me.
But something I haven’t blogged about yet but is pretty important to me is the Celtic Woman series.
I love these DVD’s!
The gist is - five beautiful and talented women (6 in the second DVD) get together with a supporting choir and a full orchestra and perform some amazing songs. One of them is a fiery fiddler and the rest are powerful vocalists. Some of the songs just send chills through you with how good they are and the punch they deliver to your soul.
There are two shows that they’ve performed, and both have been featured on PBS. You may have caught them once or twice during their pledge drives.
Celtic Woman actually has a touring show, and I was fortunate enough to catch them in San Antonio in the past year, and boy, what a show. By that time, I had only known about and seen the first DVD, so the event pleasantly surprised me with some new songs, some of which showed up on the second DVD.
It looks like YouTube has several postings online (and I’m unsure of their legality, given that this would presumably be copyrighted material). My favorite singer is Lisa, and she’s featured in this piece here called “The Voice”.
Lisa also has her own website (UPDATE: seems someone snagged her domain name and made it a parked site; oh well. Try her profile at Celticwoman.com or her Wiki entry) and I have one of her solo CD’s. So beautiful, so talented, with a voice to curl up in.
Other favorites of mine:
And what is probably my favoritest song at the moment: Dulaman from the second DVD.
I wish I could get the English translation of the words, tho. The flute solos are awe-inspiring.
Around the house, we frequently pop the DVD in, turn off the TV and just turn up the sound. Since our DVD player auto-plays the default track on the DVD (movie, whatever), it works out well.
Question for you:
I own these DVD’s and I love the music. I also own the CD soundtrack from the first DVD. However, the music on the soundtrack CD is slightly different than the DVD, and it’s in a different order. So I rip the music OFF of the DVD onto my mp3 player and to make my own CD. I’ve done the same with Xanadu - the soundtrack music is so different than the music *in the movie*, and I want to listen to the movie.
Is that wrong or illegal?
And if you “know” one way or the other, is it just something you feel should be right, or do you actually know the law? Could I technically get busted for making my own copies of my own DVD’s, even though it’s in a different format?
