- "I
find I'm so excited I can barely sit still to hold a
thought in my head..."
- -Red
Countdown Entry #1
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- 7:38 PM,
Sunday, December 26th, 1999:
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- Fellow Online
Supporters,
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- There's
simply too much to say. I've lived in Columbus my
whole life. Hell,
up until a few months ago, every time I moved I was
still in the same zip
code. I've been married, divorced, had two careers in
radio and then some.
At 21 I felt like I was 41 and my success in radio
almost kept me here
that long. I was soooooo close to becoming a lifer and
in the blink of an
eye I'm giving it all up to pursue
singing/entertaining/acting...the
California
dream. I'm still shaking my head. I'm finally going to
seperate myself
from so many dreamers in the world and DO IT. I guess
that brings me to
that quote above. I've attached a short
mpg
for everyone to watch. It's only 362 KB - I compressed
it pretty strong so you can all see it. Morgan Freeman
in Shawshank Redemption. I watched it a
couple of days
ago and it absolutely floored me how this quote
applies to me. It was exactly how I feel,
and exactly
where I am in life right now. I don't think I've ever
heard a quote
that hit me so close to home. He talks about being a
"free man" and I have
to admit that for the first time I feel the same. In
the sense that I avoided
the "comfort trap" of radio and I now go off to a new
land (although I
was COMPLETELY established and successful here) ready
to achieve a different
level of success.
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- So how did
the last show go? Heh heh... You HAVE to check out
the site.
(the blogs were not always emailed to the supporters
back then) It
was rather funny. It was by far the worst show ever.
EVER. Drunk assholes telling me I sucked after every
song. It soon became me changing all the words to say
how happy I was to be leaving this redneck city and I
must admit, I had more fun singing the last two sets
than I ever have since I started. Heh heh. Thank you
to Jim and his brother (sorry I never forgot your
name!) for coming out. I will always remember that you
made the trek to my last show on Christmas Eve. I'm
glad you enjoyed it.
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- Of course
from this point on there will probably be quite a few
updates. Many
of you have emailed me more excited than I am about
the trip. And yes Jill,
I will try to bring my computer to the HOTELS we stay
at and update you
on the road. To all of you it should be a very cool,
real-time soap opera
of an amazing adventure. And to me, you will all be my
talking diary. You
gotta reply! In numerous cases your words of
encouragement have simply
meant the world
to me. And the fact that I can write these little
entries and
have the book talk back to me is....hmmmm.... That
certainly seems like a
good idea for a book doesn't it. All the entries and
replies on the road to
success. Well shit, that's added incentive for you to
write back....you'll
all be in a book!!! :-)
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- So there ya
have it, I must now begin filling up my trailer and
packing up my dreams. PLEASE watch the .mpg I sent
you. Oh, and FREAKIN' see
Shawshank
Redemption. It's one of my favorite movies of all
time.
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- By the way
- I'll have my computer up and running until Thursday
morning (the
31st) so please reply with any "beginnings of the
book" you can think of.
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- Thank you
for all your words, and HOURS of listening...YOU made
this possible...
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- LATE
Columbus,
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- adam
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- REACTION
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