dogs, weddings and keith olberman

first, congrats to the new orleans saints and their fans for beating the dog piss out of atlanta. i wish that john carney would've kicked two more field goals (fantasy football implications...i lost to my brother.), but i'm glad they got the win. after what the team and the city dealt with and is dealing with, good on them.

i missed the majority of the first half because i was taking two of my dogs (mugsy & lokie) to the vet (franklin road animal hospital. can't recommend it enough.), to see if we could draw blood from them to give to one of our other dogs (sadie). we don't know what's wrong with her, but it's either anemia, erlikia (don't know how to spell it, but it's a blood disease), leukemia, or cancer. she's been on antibiotics & steroids since friday, with no real improvement, so the vet said we should try a transfusion, since she's obviously losing blood somewhere. anyway, we drew blood, i took the dogs back home, with a stop at sonic for ice cream treats for everyone, and bwe stayed with sadie at the vet until 10.30 or so while they put the new blood, fluids and other things into her. she was at the vet for about 6.5 hours yesterday, i think without a break. sadie still isn't acting much better today, but i'm hoping that the medication has her feeling badly while she gets better. if things aren't noticeably different by thursday, we go back. i can't imagine doing this with kids. i'm a "hope for the best, don't worry about what you don't know" type guy, but even i'm worried about this.

while brooke was at the vet, i was at home, working on music for a friend's wedding. i'm playing in it. no, i don't know why he picked me. yes, he's heard me. it's a non traditional wedding (kind've), so i'm playing a couple of hymns, a couple of songs by hem, an atrocious bill gaither tune and "no depression" by the carter family, among others. i got almost all the songs charted last nite, which will be a big step toward not being the embarrassment of the wedding*. if you guys want a good laugh at a bad vocal arrangement, check out the gaither tune "tho autumn's coming home". i can appreciate the sentiment, but the vocal makes me want to bust into "my way" about halfway through.

after working on the tunes, and partly while working on them, i caught countdown on msnbc. boy lemme tell you, keith olberman was spitting nails last nite. he had an editorial at the end of countdown regarding chris wallace's (fox news) sneak attack of president clinton regarding his record on osama bin laden et al. once he got done with wallace, olberman turned his attention the commander in cheat himself, w. olberman ripped the pres for, among other things, sending a moron (wallace) to do a man's job (slandering former president clinton), dropping the ball on bin laden, and generally being a blight on the american presidency. right on, keith, right on. as soon as i can find a video of olberman's editorial, i'll post it. if you haven't seen chris wallace get what for from president clinton, check it out here.

all that said, i'm pretty stressed out about the situation with sexy sadie. say a good prayer for me, bwe and the dogs tonite.


*(chad, if you're reading this, DO NOT PANIC. we've actually got a good handle on things and i'm only exaggerating for the good of the story and the reading public.)

edit: condi does the dance for the w. wonder if she's gonna wind up dancing her way on top of a sword. or, for you snl fans out there, s words.

the saints are comin'

i'm normally not one for pre-game or halftime performances, but the green day/u2 performance floored me.

the 2nd song ("the saints are coming") sounded familiar, but i guess it's not. it's by a band called the skids.

i especially like that the bands, while remaining positive, musically acknowledged the issue.

attaboys.

ch-ch-check it out

before you dig into me about not posting lately, hear me out:

i've been busy.

busy running, climbing, working, writing, recording (yes, new songs soon), and trying to plan on planning a video.

i've also been trying to find new ways to make it into your hearts, dear listeners. and here's the newest way:

newton dominey ringtones.

check out the banner!



i'll be adding it soon to my sidebar, as well as my (sorely needing to be updated) website and myspace profile.

check it out and let me know what you think!

(if you guys like the idea, i might just...well, tell me if you like it first)

poco a poco

my spanish is terrible, but i know enough to know that the above means little by little or maybe even gradually.

well, that's about how quickly my "free cd for cds" promotion fulfillment is coming. last nite i managed to put 10 of the 40 cds together. all the labels and covers are printed. now i just have to burn 30 more cds (which takes longer than you think), cut out 30 more covers, attach 30 more stickers to the cds, print out mailing stickers, stuff the envelopes and get to the post office.

i promise i haven't forgotten, just been busy and didn't realize how long it took to get this stuff done.

you guys are awesome and i wish that i had the ability to show my thanks to each of you in some larger way. maybe when i'm rich and famous...

drum roll please...

i've been checking my email every 15 minutes since september 1, waiting to find out if my 62 cd sales this month (SIXTY FLIPPIN' TWO!!!!!!) was enough to earn me a spot on cdbaby's compilation cd. well, here's a portion of the email i just received from them:

Hey Newton -Your CD (NEWTON DOMINEY: Heater) was the # 50 top-seller at CD Babylast month, so it's eligible to have a song on our free compilationCD to be given away to our customers.

*blink**cough*sputter*whatthefock?!?!*

did i see that right? the number 50 seller for the month of august? little bitty me?

if only i had a video camera so i could show you guys what the "color me ecstatic" danced looks like...

thanks to all of you who bought cd's (multiple copies at that), told friends to buy cds, put messages up on myspace or on your blog, etc. it's the additional effort that you guys made on my behalf that got me on the cd.

i'm flattered...i'm thrilled...i'm dancing...

(oh, and i haven't forgotten that i owe approximately 56 people copies of my "unreleased" record. i decided it would be easier to do it all at once. you should have your copy by the end of the month.)