Rob and Ashlee's Collage Barrage: October 2012

DISCLAIMER

"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield"

- Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1833

"live deep and suck out all the marrow of life"

- Henry David Thoreau, 1845

"Some guys, they just give up living

And start dying little by little, piece by piece

Some guys come home from work and wash up,

And go racin' in the streets"

- Bruce Springsteen, 1977

"...to the heart, there's no time for you to waste.

You won't find your precious answers now

by staying in one place"

- Frank Turner, 2009

"The best things in life aren't things

They're living and breathing"

- Michael Franti , 2011

"Well, this world is ours while we are in it
Grab a hold of my hand
And we can take it
Together, our lives are just one passing minute
It could be gold, if we make it"
- Jay Buchanan, 2012

"We've got these times of our lives

Let's take this time to let it show

'cause these are ours.

These are ours!"

-Justin Furstenfeld, of Blue October 2013

"I owned every second that this world could give,

I saw so many places, the things that I did"

- Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic, 2014

"No cash in the bank, no paid holidays

All we have, all we have is

Gas in the tank, maps for the getaway

All we have, all we have is time"

- Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, 2014

All written content and photos by Rob Fulfer unless otherwise indicated.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Let's hear it for the girls...

It's been all about the ladies recently for us. Most importantly, Ashlee's mom, Evelyn, who has been on a long recovery over the past six weeks from an aortic tear in her heart. Her serious medical condition has required us to miss a few shows and events we had planned together over the last month or so, but we were able to squeeze in a few things from some other special ladies during that time.

We caught the second show of Grace Potter & the Nocturnals' two-night-stand at the beautiful
Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Saturday, October 13th. With our friend, Wayne,
we had awesome front-row balcony seats that gave us a great view of the 2-hour-plus show.

We were fortunate enough to get a chance to meet Doris Roberts
of "Everyone Loves Raymond" fame as she spoke to volunteers at Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga during Evelyn's recovery. She was in Chattanooga for a seniors active-living convention and stopped by the hospital during her first-ever visit to the city. Thanks to the staff at Memorial for letting us crash the party.

We returned to the Ryman Auditorium on Friday, October 26, to catch another great lady of music, Alanis Morrisette, who hasn't toured in a few years, but you couldn't tell that from the energy she showed on stage (see a small part of that in the video below). Our 9th-row main floor seats were a perfect vantage point for the show that was packed full of her past hits (hear that, Jackson Browne, it's OK to play your hits!!) as well as new songs off her latest album. Our great seats were a far cry better than what we had the last time we saw her a long way from the stage in the general admission grass at the now-defunct Starwood Amphitheatre (RIP, old friend) many pre-blog years ago.

GET WELL SOON, EVELYN! WE MISS OUR TRAVELING PARTNER!!