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| matt's journal march 28, 2007 |
| A note to anyone who used a credit card to buy a silent auction item at the Concert For Life on March 11 in Gurnee: we used an outside company to process all of the information (and to keep the cost at zero in order to raise maximum funds for the ACS), so you may not have noticed any charge on your credit card statements quiet yet. But rest assured that it is being processed and you should see something on your statement by the end of this week or early next week. Thanks for your patience AND for your donation. People have also been asking about the new song that I wrote for my girlfriend. You can download it by going to my MySpace page (click on the icon on the far right of my homepage). Once I have a version that's not a demo, I'll post it to this site for people to download. NEW SHOW I've been telling everyone that I'm not going to be doing any other shows during the NBA season. Well, I lied. On Sunday, April 22, I'll be playing a Concert For Life at Marquette University. The show is at 7:00 p.m. at the Weasler Auditorium - the same location where the other CFLs I've played at Marquette have been. It should be an exciting evening. I'll be joined by my regular crew and - hopefully - some other members of the Marquette University Liturgical Choir. We'll only play one set (no intermission), but we'll still have food and raffles. Tickets are just $5.00. I'll post more information early next week, but you can also obtain some information by e-mailing the concert coordinators at concertforlife07@yahoo.com. SO WEIRD I'm watching the Bucks game right now and I just heard an instrumental song of mine. I gave Jim Paschke, our TV play-by-play announcer, a song that I wrote for Bucks telecasts early last season and he's been using it from time to time on the team's My 24 broadcasts (games that are not on FSN North). It's just an upbeat, cyclical little tune, but it has a nice drive to it. He uses it when either going to or coming back from commercial. I laugh everytime I hear it. SPEAKING OF THE BUCKS ... The season ends on April 18. Entering tonight, we're 7 games out of the East's final spot with 13 games to play. Making the postseason is not very likely, but I still have hope! We're beating Dallas right now, 33-32. Okay, now we're losing, 34-33. Devin Harris just made a lay-up. Okay, I'll stop. 24 I don't watch a lot of TV. Part of it is because I'm not home a lot and part of it is because I usually can't sit still for that long. But one show that I watch religiously - to the point that I plan my life around it - is "24". I'm sure many of you that are reading this journal watch the show, too. And I hope you agree with me that it's the single greatest show ever invented (well, it may run a close second to MacGyver). "24" has so many plot twists and so many characters, that's it's often hard to keep up everything. Its chaotic format also allows it to get by with inevitable holes in the plot. The show moves so fast that, when you notice a plot flaw, it's too late to even care. But I do have one question. And only those that currently watch the show are going to understand what the heck I'm talking about ... There are two main bad guys in the show right now. A Russian named Gredenko and a Middle East radical named Fayed. Well, natural to the show's counter-terrorist theme, the two men are trying to blow up various targets in the United States with nuclear bombs. They have five of them (well, now only two, but that's not the point). In recent episodes, they've been fighting with one another and it appears that Fayed is ready to "dispose" of Gredenko. But everytime he comes close to "parting ways" with him, Gredenko says, "Without me, you won't know where your targets are." |