Daily Archives: January 8, 2008

Music

CD – Ellis Paul's The Dragonfly Races

I have been a fan of Ellis Paul for many years now. He recently released a children’s album titled The Dragonfly Races. When Allison was pregnant with Eva we saw Ellis perform and we learned about the upcoming CD. We vowed that this would be Eva’s first CD, however she came first and we received a bunch of CD’s for her before we got this one. But this is the first that we bought her.

Ellis Paul is one of the premiere folk singer/songwriters out there today. His music is moving and powerful and invokes amazing imagery. On this album he is joined by many other talented singer/songwriters and even a few kids. We absolutely love the album and I can in no way do it the justice it deserves so I invite you to visit Ellis Paul’s website for a full description of the CD and the songs contained on it as well as to Ellis’ MySpace page and the MySpace page for The Dragonfly Races. If you like what you hear you can purchase the album from CD freedom or on iTunes.

And because I like Ellis Paul so much (he’s always been awesome with us whenever we’ve seen him) I am going to gift 5 copies of the title song The Dragonfly Races through iTunes to the first 5 people who can answer the three questions below. They need to be sent to my e-mail please do not post the answers on this blog post.

However you must visit Ellis’ MySpace, his website and the myspace for The Dragonfly Races and answer these three questions. Leave a comment on the post letting me know you want the song and then send me the answers to my e-mail address (don’t put the answers in the comments or you will be disqualified.) at abennett 96 @ g mail dot com.

Question #1. Who sings with Ellis on the song Abiola?
Question #2. Who sings with Ellis on the song Road Trip?
Question #3. What Ellis song mentions “armadillos“?
And for the heck of it let me know which song on any Ellis CD is your favorite.

Allison and Me with Ellis Paul

Photo-A-Day

Ugh! What the Hell! – PAD #1005

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Ugh! What the Hell! - PAD #1005

So, last night I decided that I would take my brand new camera out for the week on the road. I had charged up the batteries last week and I should be good to go. Wrong! I was on the plane today and wanted to monkey around with the camera and guess what, batteries were dead. Completely dead. And I didn’t think to bring the nice new sleek easy to transport charger with me this week, nope not at all. So I have two options for my photos these next few days. Web Cam ones and Camera phone ones. Neither is a great choice but hey, what can you do?

The strange thing is that today I am eligible to get my new camera phone which is a 2MP (Allison and I are getting the EnV from Verizon), not spectacular but it would have been better than what I have with me.

Today has not been the best for me and batteries. First was the camera then my cell phone and blue tooth headset crapped out at the same time. Luckily I have a great charger called the iGo Juice 70 and it can charge both items, just not at the same time. I can charge the computer and the peripheral at the same time just not the two peripherals. And since I cannot make a call or receive a call and talk to anyone without the headset I needed to charge them both. Fun, fun.

I make my Photo-A-Day posts via Utterz now for the automatic upload to Flickr I always add audio now and sometimes I add video. Today is one of those days. Audio, Video, and more at Utterz.com