You know - or maybe you don’t - I don’t call Meredith by ‘Mere’ very often. I’ve always loved her name and though Mere is much easier to say and fits her personality, for some reason I can’t bring myself to do it.
However, there always comes a time for change. And that time is now. All thanks to my little friend known as Twitter and his limits on username length.
Ever since Meredith and I met, one of the things I have loved most about her is her one liners. No matter the subject, mood, time of day, or setting - she always has a way of putting things into her own words. I’ve always wanted to keep a log of her quotes, but have never gotten around to it - until now. Twitter seems to be the perfect tool for this. No matter where we are, I no longer have to worry about having a pen and paper in hand to capture the things that she says. I can simply text it to Twitter! The added bonus is - you guys can join in the fun too! Though Twitter doesn’t allow me enough space to explain the context of her quotes, they are pretty easy to figure out most of the time.
I’m not a Coldplay fan. It’s not that I don’t like their music, I’m just an anti-bandwagon type of person. Usually if everyone else loves something, I will wait till things simmer down a bit before testing it out. Well, the time has come for me to listen to Coldplay. Why? Because right now on Amazon MP3 you can purchase their X & Y album for only $2.
My last post about Bonnaroo was very brief, so I thought I would share a couple of details about the design contest. Anyone with an account on bonnaroo.com could enter by creating a design and uploading it to their personal profile. The process was extremely easy for the designers and it allowed all bonnaroo.com users to rate each design, save them as favorites, or leave a comments on them. In all the judges selected designs by five people. Each design will be on Bonnaroo merchandise, available for purchase at the festival, and hopefully online at a later date as well. The design contest was a great way to get Bonnaroo 2008 attendees invovled and encourage creativity. This is actually one of my goals at LifeWay, so it was great to have this sort of user experience on the Bonnaroo website.
The prize for winning is two free tickets for the festival. Because the tickets are free to us, and Meredith works for Creative Artists Agency (which got us BOTH in for free last year), we have had about 20 requests from people either to take them off of our hands at no cost or to purchase them from us. We are not sure if Meredith will be getting a free pass from work or not this year, so we have not made any promises to anyone about whether or not the tickets will be available. Thanks to those of you who sent a nice congrats rather than simply asking for a free ticket. Your intentions and sincerity have been noted :).
Some of the artists I plan on seeing are Death Cab for Cute, My Morning Jacket, Pearl Jam, The Raconteurs, Ben Folds, OAR, De Novo Dahl, and Steel Train. I will also peek in on the New Orleans Superjam with Johnny Vidacovich. He is one of the greatest drummers from New Orleans and it would be a mistake pass it up. I really haven’t had time to plan out my entire schedule, but I’m sure there will be others I will want to see as well.
The winners were officially announced on the Bonnaroo website yesterday - here is a screenshot! Or view the live page.
