query?

If I changed my email address for ticketmaster.com to "jws-ticketbastard@aboutjws.info" would they get mad at me?

celebrating 5 years...

...by throwing good money at the great Disney empire. :)

Plans committed so far:

• Beauty & The Beast Friday May 11
• The Lion King May 12
• Front Row Mezzanine!
• Mothers day  brunch with faireraven 's parents in Jersey

Possible events during that weekend on the 12th

• Look stupid at Rockefeller Plaza on national tv on the Today Show on the 12th
  
• Go to the Top of the Rock while we're there
  
• (well, *everybody* does Empire State these days...)
• hang, chill, and groove with any NYC-area friends willing to come to Manhattan to meet us for lunch.  The daytime of the 12th is generally free.

Possible events after

• continue the vacation and fly down to Orlando for a Disney week
• Monday the 14th and Sunday the 20th are not only available for free flights given the insane # of miles I have on delta, they're available *first class* at the lower rate!  I'd actually still have miles left over.
  
• so then its just figuring out the best offers for hotels and park passes and all that typical fun stuff.

SSSOOOOOO

This is an open call for WDW advice from those "in the know" (as I do know several of you out there have done this recently) on what you've done, how you did it, best ways to save money.  Granted we're saving a lot (the flights would normally be $500 each) with the free flights, but keeping the hotel decent, near/in the site, but under $100, is kinda in the budget.

Some of you we'll email privately as well.  You probably already know who you are. :)

gee, let the guitarist do the mix and you can hear the guitar...

The original video releases for Rush concerts back in the 80s were mixed by Terry Broon (Exit State Left, Grace Under Pressure) and Geddy Lee (Show of Hands), who (in the first and third case) also mixed the cds.

Trouble with mixing at the time was that the keyboards were always so new and so different that it was easy for them plus the bass to swamp Alex's guitar, such a strong part of the live show in person, into a muddy morass of mush and indistinction.

Well, for the new 5.1 mixes in the Replay 3-DVD set, Alex himself did the mixing, and wow, what a difference!  This is the live Rush I remember seeing in '87, as opposed to the over polished keyboard wash of a sound that the Show of Hands videotape managed, given the limitations of VHS analog at the time.  Of course, now having such better equipment to play it on also helps. :) (on the other hand, a vhs tape doesn't have to freeze for a second while switching into the second layer!)

So anyways, I'm still in my own little bit of 80s reliving, with memories actually now of all of those Rush fans @ JMU that I loaned my videotapes to (dwenius , Rushfan and that oper_nazi agentplaid come to mind).  At least for that I got those back every time.

I'm still missing 6 cassettes, 2 cd's, and about half a dozen 80s-era concert t-shirts (including an awesome Roger Waters '87 3/4 sleeve I *really* miss) from those days...

Still, the immortality remains: "oh cool, is that Rush?"

At the Cap Centre HYF show, in November '87 (for myself, the last "nosebleed" show I ever saw), like all shows of that tour, they dropped red balloons with the album cover on it over the floor seats.  Two guys at my high school caught about 10 of them.  The most they kept at home deflated within a month.  But the *one* they put into an empty locker in the band hall?  That was still perfectly sized by June when we all graduated.  Go fig.

Yeah, the odd memories one holds on to...