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JoCo and Paul & Storm are playing in Denver tonight. One of the Denver TV stations had JoCo on for an interview and a live acoustic song today. Brian, the awesome host of Coverville, recorded it and put it up on YouTube for us non-Denver people to enjoy.

Even though hellbob won't be able to join me - :( - I'm going out to Vegas in August! I'll be going for the New Media Expo. I'll be doing the free Exhibit Hall and Keynotes Only registration. Since I don't actually do any podcasting, it would be silly to do the full conference registration at $349!
It's gonna be so cool to meet all these people that I know just through podcasts and the internets!
If any of you on my flist are going to be there *looks towards Phoenix* be sure to let me know so we can meet!

But the BEST part of this trip?
The Coverville 500 Concert!
I'll finally meet Brian Ibbott in person after 3 years of email correspondence & keeping his song database for him. The concert he's going to have was the deciding factor in me going out there.
To celebrate episode 500 of Coverville he's hosting a concert of some of the favorite artists who have been played on his show: Richard Cheese, Jonathan Coulton, and Chance. Also, there will be a singer named Natalie Gelman who I haven't really heard. w00t! You know I loves me some JoCo. And Chance does the most awesome cover of Kelis' Milkshake ever!
If you are going to the NME and want to go to the concert, tickets will go on sale on June 1st. It's at a venue down by the MGM, so it's an easy monorail ride down from the Hilton. Only $20!

OK, so clan Foley has departed and I caught up on reading LJ. It was at skip 225! After only 2 weekend days! Of course, two of you on the flist were posting blogathon posts...
I've got many tabs open with the intention of commenting.
This may or may not actually happen tomorrow.

We left off on the last post with me having gone to a kick-ass Sunspot concert.

hellbob woke me up at 7 the next morning so we could head on up to the Iron Range. His grandmother's 95th birthday is tomorrow and so the whole family was up on Saturday to throw her a party. We were in charge of bringing the drinks so we stopped partway up and bought a ton of pop & ice, so the pop was cold by the time we got to town. The party was in the senior center in Keewatin. After that, we had dinner at Valentini's in Chisholm with Rick's dad, step-mom, sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew. Mmmmmm. Prime rib! Then it was back to Hibbing to stay at his dad's apartment for the night.

After a quick stop to see grandma again before leaving this morning, we hit the grocery store. $85 worth of meat later... we hit the road for home. I convinced hellbob we should listen to Coverville, and we went through 4 or 5 episodes before Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me came on NPR.

After getting home I turned on the internets and had to skip way far back. I didn't get to read anything though until the Foley's left. Now I have to go to bed because I'm gonna be getting up early tomorrow.
You'll never guess why...

I'm going to be working! At the place that laid me off! They are sooooo behind now that they got rid of two people that they really couldn't afford to get rid of and so they offered to let me come work on a temporary 'on call, as needed' basis. Works for me. They have to work around my schedule because I am doing `them a favor, but I can bring in some money while still looking. If I'm still there when school starts I will totally work fewer hours to fit my school schedule.

Of course, this isn't a permanent solution and I still want to find something else, but what the hell! I got my 7-week severance pay already!

So, off to bed with me now! :)

Because I've been slipping in my Coverville pimpin' duties lately I feel obligated to bring you the list of the top 40 favorite cover songs as voted on my the listeners of Coverville:

40) Ana Ng, covered by Self
39) Age Of Consent, covered by Grant Lee Phillips
38) My Way, covered by Sid Vicious
37) I Don't Like Mondays, covered by Tori Amos
36) Heroes, covered by Icehouse
35) Comfortably Numb, covered by Copper Box
34) We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions, covered by Jonathan Coulton
33) Highway To Hell, covered by Hayseed Dixie
32) Don't Worry Be Happy, covered by Yum! Yum! Orange
31) Mahna Mahna, covered by Cake
30) Redemption Song, covered by Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer
29) Crazy, covered by Ray Lamontagne
28) Oops...I Did It Again, covered by Richard Thompson
27) What a Wonderful World, covered by Joey Ramone
26) Plastic Jesus, covered by Billy Idol
25) Hallelujah, covered by Allison Crowe
24) Don't Dream It's Over (live), covered by Howie Day
23) Sympathy For The Devil/Livin' For The City, covered by Opie Gone Bad
22) Bohemian Polka (cover of Bohemian Rhapsody), covered by Weird Al Yankovic
21) (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, covered by Devo
20) Hotel California, covered by Gipsy Kings
19) Teenage Dirtbag, covered by Scala Choir & Kolacny Brothers
18) ...Baby One More Time, covered by Fountains of Wayne
17) Straight Outa Compton, covered by Nina Gordon
16) Nothing Else Matters, covered by Lucie Silvas
15) Istanbul (Not Constantinople), covered by They Might Be Giants
14) I Will Survive, covered by Cake
13) Hey Ya, covered by Mat Weddle
12) Bitches Ain't Sh*t , covered by Ben Folds
11) One, covered by Johnny Cash
10) Comfortably Numb, covered by Scissor Sisters
9) Common People, covered by William Shatner (w/Joe Jackson & Ben Folds)
8) Mad World, covered by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules
7) Wonderwall, covered by Ryan Adams
6) Milkshake, covered by Chance
5) Baby Got Back, covered by Jonathan Coulton
4) Lithium, covered by The Polyphonic Spree
3) Hallelujah, covered by Jeff Buckley
2) Toxic, covered by Nickel Creek
1) Hurt, covered by Johnny Cash

You can download the five episodes where these songs were all played at the Coverville website, as well as find links to the songs in iTunes and Amazon (if they are available there)

If you're looking for a specific cover song or artist that's been played on Coverville, the database is updated through episode 251

OK, kids. I just got an iTunes gift certificate from Brian over at Coverville.

What music do I need to get?

Brian at Coverville is doing an end of the year countdown of people's favorite covers. He's also doing a contest with snippets of 6 songs that will be in this year's countdown, that you have to name the title & artist of. Four of them had actual lyrics and the other two were just sort of la la la parts of songs. Two of them I got right off the bat, first listen, because they were two of the songs I'd voted for in the top 40. The other two with lyrics didn't take much listening to find. The two with no words sucked, but I finally found them! Yay!