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Calling 912: Is Stuart Heritage OK?

My statcounter is BLOWN up with hits from the United Kingdom; they are hitting posts I’ve written about or around Stuart Heritage over the past few months. It has me concerned. Man, with all the celebrity deaths, and other madness in this world, I’m having concerns whether Stuart Heritage is OK… I don’t want to hear he’s taken a tragic tumble off Big Ben or off one of those outrageous bridges that cross the Thames and is in some sort of serious way.

I mean people, you are concerning me. Man, if anyone knows him contact Someone- Anyone. Talk amongst yourselves and spread the word. *grin* Perhaps we need a 912 number. You know like 911 only this one is 912 “Stuart is OK” or some shit. You know Mr. Heritage and I have had our differences but man, I Care. I just have to say, I’m in awe of the responses I’m seeing. (Taylor Hicks, baybee, apparently you are NOT Stuart Heritage.)

Conversely and taking the negative slant, being Libra and part Lioness (my moon sign) I have to look at all aspects, Certainly IF anyone of you readers are thinking about stealing my Thunder or my asinine and mundane posts hit the road Jack, I’ll hunt you down and like a good Texan, shoot you. It’s how we roll, baby. But seriously, my statcounter is Freaking me the Hell out. I mean, WHO KNEW?

Stuart Heritage I hope you are fine (well, I know you ARE THAT) and dandy (and whatever that entails) but I hope the Hell these are not attorneys hot on Sunny’s ass. Wouldn’t THAT be Ironic.
Alanis Morisset “Isn’t It Ironic” ( You regulars knew that was the song, right? )

ETA…ETA…ETA
Well, it has been determined, it seems Mr. Heritage is right as rain. No need for concern people.

Hadden Sayers Band and Sunflowers

Hadden Sayers is a Texan born in Nacogdoches, raised in Sugar Land. He started playing guitar as a teenager, and like many of us became immersed in live music. He attended Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, but music was his preference. He’s hung out with Blues and Texas Music legends Gatemouth Brown, Joe Ely, Omar and the Howlers, Eric Johnson and the “The Ramones”. Sayers did get a degree in Journalism, then moved to Austin, TX where he was fortunate to enter into a “blues internship” with legendary BB King rhythm section “Silent Partners”.

Sayers then joined Bluesman Lucky Peterson’s touring band, followed by returning to Houston and hooking up with Miss Molly and the Whips making his recording and songwriting debut on her first 2 releases: “Miss Molly” (EFM 1992) and “In the Garden” (EFM 1993).

Sayers began work on his own album in late 1993 and the Hadden Sayers Band was born. In 2004 Sayers moved to Columbus, Ohio to re-invent and re-invigorate. After a two-year hiatus from relentless touring, Sayers has returned to the studio and stage with an armload of new songs that decidedly more “Texas” than the material he wrote while living in the state. “Its a classic case of absence making the heart grow fonder.” “The material I’m writing today is directly linked to the dance halls and stages I frequented in my first groups…..blurring the line between Country, Rock and Blues”. (excerpted from Hadden’s bio on-line)

Our Saturday night “Garden Party” featured the Hadden Sayers Band, and until then,I’d not heard or seen them live. It was through one of DMan’s band pals we had the treat to finally hear and experience them, live. “R.” had seen them while on a trip to Houston. I was impressed with them, the night of our party there were just three of the band members present, but those three guys made some great sound. Apparently the size and number in the band varies depending on venue and availability.
Hadden Sayers Band, “End of the Road”

Now the lead singer, Hadden Sayers, doesn’t have Taylor Hicks or Joe Cocker style of vocals, his vocal tonal sound remind me a little of Stevie Ray Vaughn, really, and he’s certainly proficient on the guitar. The band had us dancing in the moonlight until our legal curfew. We’ve decided to make this an annual event and expand it yearly. It was like our own festival, kids running with lighted glow jewelry, running with sparklers, grills cooking a variety of things from corn on the cob to ribs. Margarita machines and home made brews. Tables were set up and down the long street that we had blocked off. Fireworks at dark (yes we know they’re illegal). Next year, since this street is so long we’re going for a band at each end. We definitely would want the Hadden Sayers Band to return.
Hadden Sayers Band, “Everybody’s Talking”

We’ve also put in motion a group, band related trip, to New Orleans for Fall. Really digging the new band members DMan and his buddy, R., have compiled, especially love my new BFF, Patrick. He’s a classically trained pianist and plays beautifully. He sent a bouquet of sunflowers through DMan last night because he was having thoughts his calling me an “Ass” right after we met might deserve flowers. DMan assured him, it was one of my favorite parts of the night, I found it so cool he was so uninhibited with me. The sunflowers though, nice touch.

The guys are are set to play more gigs throughout the Fall and have a New Year’s Eve date to be excited about. Do I think they’re going to be The Next Big Thing in Dallas music? No. Am I happy they’re having such a great time together and DMan gets to keep playing? Yes, he loves performing.

Regarding the Hadden Sayers Band, if you’d like to explore their sound a little more, their complete discography can be found in that link.

We Went to a Garden Party

Last night we went to the most incredibly enjoyable party. Darling Man won my forgiveness as well, but I’m still not doing his laundry this week nor cooking for him as a measure of reminder for his bad deed Friday night.

As some of you readers know, Darling Man’s in a band and they play small gigs around town. I met the new keyboardist for the group, Patrick. We hit it off immediately. One of the first things he said to me, “You’re an Ass”, after a comment I made. We looked at each other and laughed until tears came. Instant recognition it seems. He’s right too.

Conversation turned from their next gigs to birthdays. Seems his birthday falls close to mine so now we’re having a big birthday party to celebrate his 32nd and my…well we need not talk about it… What has endeared him to me for life, he could not believe how old I’m about to be, he absolutely freaked. Flattery will get you everywhere with me. I asked DMan if I could keep him. I’m taking photos of he and the guys, next open practice. He’s gorgeous, handsome and completely hilarious. We walked to his house after the party and he and DMan played for us, they work really well together.

At the party, we had the Hadden Sayers Band perform – had a huge turn out with the street blocked off. This band has played with The Derek Trucks Band and The Blind Boys of Alabama as an opening. They also provided background for the 2007 International Auto Show commercial. (click to listen)
Hadden Sayers Band

Hadden Sayers Myspazz

Darling Man Bent on Wrecking Havoc

I do a fine job embarrassing myself. Really, I don’t need any help in that department. Seems Friday night, after consuming a healthy quantity of Jack Daniels, my Darling Man decided I needed some unwanted assistance.

The blogs are beginning to look like some sort of circus, certainly we have the lions, then there’s the bird life, unicorns (OK, maybe they’re imaginary – or are they?) and definitely, it can be said, Clowns. Loads of clowns running a muck with the Clown leader apparent writing this post.

With actions verging on justification for death, or at least not doing his laundry this week, my Darling Man, whom I live with for the time being anyway, trespassed my blogs. Lesson learned, always sign out of them after vacating them and preferably Never fall asleep with them, live, up on the computer. With the blogs up and open he was able to access to all my posts, edits, drafts, notes, links, etc and decided to have a little fun. His version of fun. DMan proceeded to twitter, he did a post on each site and then scanned through my statcounter. Of course, the sites, thinking it’s me, allowed him access. What do they know, they’re merely pixeled regions on the internet.

Conclusion, DMan thinks he’s quite clever, and is absolutely not a fan of a certain Stuart Heritage. It’s a misplaced hatred of poor Mr. Heritage considering the circumstance and the short period of time I was associating with him. I mean after all, Heritage hates me, so this sort of goes round a full circle, albeit a misplaced circle.

One thing, I am very thankful for, I did not have up my emails open for DMan to rifle through. He’d been considerably less amused at those and what they contain regarding that maligned Mr. Heritage guy.

Dog House Boogie

I fell asleep on the sofa and apparently left up my blogs, twitter, etc. DMan had some fun so just excuse the previous post (now taken down) as a man’s wacky humor and yes, he’s in the dog house.
“Dog House Boogie” Seasick Steve

bow wow, wow.

Apologies toward a certain someone whom he apparently mentioned as well. Ahem. That’s what I get for leaving the “doors” unlocked…

“Indiscriminate Act of Kindness” Taylor Hicks, Ferndale

Thanks to ….. so much! Squee! “Indiscriminate Act of Kindness” Taylor Hicks

Click the link:

Indiscriminate Act of Kindness from edjorg on Vimeo.

Teddy Bear Man, Comedy Writer

Anyone who knows me understands I’ve taken a shine to that 140 character, social networking site, Twitter. It may be somewhat of a silly pursuit but it is a free, and how can you not like “free”, format to talk to anyone in the world? Thinking of how the minutes would fly on my cell phone should I utilize it to talk to some of my on-line friends make it a perfect venue for our interest related conversations.

Should you want to hit me on Twitter, I’m Suns39. No, the numbers not an age related combination, more of a numerology thing, but I won’t bore you with that aspect. I’ve met some new friends on the site and reconnected with a few old friends.

About two weeks ago this guy hit me as a “follow”. Twitter name, ‘eskimotuesday’; I was intrigued by his profile image, a lovely dark haired guy with really nice eyebrows, asleep, in bed. He had a small bear perched on his shoulder. Immediately I knew he was special. The guy, not the bear, of course, but I did like that bear. So I decided to keep him and follow him in return. To my pleasant surprise he began Direct Messaging me, which I’ve enjoyed. He refers to me “bear lover” because of my fascination with his teddy bear… He also has a curious aversion to capitalizing letters.

Teddy Bear guy’s name is Blake J. Harris; a writer out of New York City. It seems he’s started a production film company called Flying Penguins. He and his co-writers and partners have created a film called, “The Flying Scissors” under this production company.

It’s a comedy, you can read some details on “The Flying Scissors” IMDb. The film has its own MySpace site, you can visit to find out more information, if you’re curious – and you should be. The official website for the movie is at “The Flying Scissors” website.

Blake recently returned from a trip to Los Angeles but he’s not divulged any details of what he was accomplishing while there, simply mentioned some meetings. He operates a blogspot called, Tyranny Rocks and has an adorable blog with teddy bear tales, Scheming Bears operated by perhaps his bear alias, Claude Bear. Complete with pictures and everything. It’s lovely.

I suggest, dear readers, you check out my Twitter Bear man’s movie – I have the trailer for you, right here so you can get an idea of what Blake does in his creative moments beside posting playground polls and talking through teddy bears.

“The Flying Scissors” trailer

Taylor Hicks Videos from the Magic Bag

Taylor Hicks put on a show in Ferndale, MI at a club called the Magic Bag, Monday night. There was a video ban on the concert but this intrepid attendee managed to snare a few tunes. Sadly, no evidence of “Indiscriminate Act of Kindness”.

Sounds as though Taylor put on a great show. Lucky attendees. See you in Birmingham in September, people.

“Maybe You Should” Taylor Hicks

“Once Upon a Lover of Mine” Taylor Hicks

videos c/o Forever Taylor

Two more vids on IDOL BLUES

You Can Only Love What You’d Die For…

Shine the light.

I’ve had one of those days when I feel talked out. This is a tune from Foy Vance, a quirky man with tons of talent.

They say that love is hard to find
I sure found it hard to find mine
Though love walked right up to my face
She said you can only love
what you’d die for baby

Shed a little light so I can find you
Don’t let darkness hide you from my face
Shed a little light so I can find you
I’d surely die for your embrace

They say the second love reveals
Trouble is hot on its heals
Then love walked right up
and stood by my side

And said if it’s love or death baby,
no need to decide

Shed a little light so I can find you
Don’t let darkness hide you from my face
Shed a little light so I can find you
I’d surely die for your embrace

Shed a little light so I can find you
Don’t let darkness hide you from my face
I’ve got a light that is sure to find you
But it might just blind you before that baby…