Cyber meet ups

I am getting anxious now. Tomorrow I am supposed to meet an lj friend from England for the first time, and in a few weeks, when in LA (yes, we got our tickets with a little help from a friend), I am going to try to meet another online friend, Kristy, from my Tears For Fears group on Yahoo for the first time. Meeting these cyber friends for the first time will be neat! I am looking forward to this.

More Dean related stuff.

A while back, a friend of ours, Shaun, who runs a Doctor Who convention in LA (the one we are going to in a few weeks) as well as an excellent companion website called Outpost Gallifrey, put a small Howard Dean for America "sticker" on the bottom of the website's homepage. Good for him! However, he has gotten some flack for it by some people. One of those people is one of our mutual friends. He says it has no place there, especially in relations to the BBC or something silly like that. Chas explained that it is Shaun's personal website and he can put whatever he likes there. They debated about this for a while and I don't know if he is any better about it now than he was back then, but he sent Chas an email with a little humor about it all. Chas forwarded it to me, plus his answer back to our friend.


( Email from Chas )

How could I have neglected to mention this...

Tears for Fears wants to rule world again
By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY

Tears for Fears, disbanded since 1990, embarks on a new beginning with Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, due April 6 on Arista. The album, a melodic pop collection, came together after Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith tested the waters of a reunion by collaborating on single Closest Thing to Heaven. The song, completed in one day, goes to radio Monday.



Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal
hope to make listeners
fall head over heels again.




At its peak, the British band topped the singles chart with Shout and Everybody Wants to Rule the World, both from 1985's Songs From the Big Chair, a No. 1 album that sold 5 million copies. Soon after 1989's The Seeds of Love, Smith quit to escape the pressure-cooker of pop success. He later made a solo album, hosted MTV programs, started a radio show and formed Mayfield with songwriter Charlton Pettus. Orzabal released three albums under the Tears banner and a solo debut.


The songwriting duo plans a tour but isn't sure yet if Happy Ending marks a fresh page or a final chapter in the Tears for Fears saga.

Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

It is definitely back to the "Seeds of Love" era Beatles-influenced sound for this song. I don't know if it will be a hit to the young kids these days and their mainstream music, but I hope it does well for them in whichever market they sell to. It might sell well to the Radiohead/train market since it is a slower song. I guess only time wil tell. For those interested, you can hear the single on the Arista website. To own a legit copy, you can get it for 99 cents at the iTunes Music store (which can now be used on computers with Windows 2000 and XP; it's not just for Macs anymore) and allegedly at www.mycokemusic.com for the same price. I could not get this site to work though.