I am still rockin' from ZZ Top on Thursday night.

I went to my first ZZ Top concert in the mid 70's -- and I think it was probably my first "big city" rock concert and it blew my mind (well, my mind had a little help that night!!). So it was awesome to rock to the Top again!


The Vancouver Sun review was ok, but incomplete:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=8f8f1d9d-5f52-471d-a765-c158a574dad9&k=18578


Let me guess, Corden left early and missed the final tunes... how else could she say: But ZZ Top best known for their '80s hits, and it wouldn't be a 'Top show without "Gimme Your Lovin'" "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man". The group saved 'em for last, and the hyped audience sang along at the top of their lungs.


Um, the last songs were La Grange and Tush, done in classic ZZ endless renditions that went on and on - frigging AWESOME!!

My fav video at the moment is the same combo recorded in 2005 -- watch this clip and enjoy -- esp. the women crawling up on the stage:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xwpajCyAO7A

no more bad boy blums in Atlanta?

I forgot I was reinventing my blog... so talk about a topic to shift gears: Read this while having coffee in public this morning and laughed out loud -- good thing I didn't sputter coffee all around me:
Atlanta declares war on hip-hop-style trousers

hilarious! Though I did see a guy lose his pants here in Vancouver the other week....

A new year, a new blog.

Happy New Year 2007!

I hereby officially retire my old blog, which was mostly focused on business. The stuff I was tracking and commenting on just doesn't jazz me anymore to the point where I feel compelled to blog them (though I still have interest in the subjects).

My new blog, well, it will be something more focused on me and who I am and what interests me and what I think -- and not caring what anyone else thinks about that. More of a personal journal.

What I've come to recognize is how much my inner self has changed these last few years. I lost my sister a little over 2 years ago, and her final 18 months were pretty painful, so I find that who I was 4 years ago is a lifetime different than who I am today. What mattered to me then means little to me now. I haven't really figured out what matters to me now, but I feel like I am continuing to shed my old skin. Eventually, the new one will emerge.

I have always liked new years, because they represent new beginnings. There is something symbolic in a new calendar year that always resonates with me.

For the couple of months I have been thinking about what the next year means to me. It's not clear, but it's coming into focus.

This year is about health.

This year is about travel. Not so much doing, but laying foundations for travel in 2008. I have begun planning a trip to Europe, maybe a month, maybe two. But where do I want to go, what do I want to see, what type of experience do I want? These are the questions I've begun to explore and will shape my inner world in 2007.

The first focus - health - is deeply connected to the second focus - travel. I've pushed my luck on my health and it's time to get real with myself -- and I'm not going to be able to travel well, or freely, if I don't have my health. It's all interconnected.