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Alison Groves The Ultimate Social Experience

I have two passions in life, music and social network marketing. Well, three if you count the Houston Astros. What I love most about music is that it is the ultimate social network. Have you ever sat back at a show with 65,000 people there and wondered why each of those people came? At the end of the day, it is because they all connect with the music on one level or another. And that is an amazing, powerful tool that should be harnessed in any way possible. Thankfully all of the tools are at our… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on June 10, 2008 at 10:04pm — No Comments

Alison Groves Just Say No To Child Labor



Radiohead wants you to just say no to child labor. As do I. Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on May 31, 2008 at 6:17pm — No Comments

Alison Groves The John Denver Experience



Yesterday I made an impromptu trip to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. My love for amusement parks knows no bounds, for not only do I love roller coasters, but they are the breeding grounds for all things that are wrong with this country. We encountered something in Kentucky Kingdom that was so… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on May 27, 2008 at 10:27am — 1 Comment

Alison Groves You Are the Only One I Trust

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Posted by Alison Groves on May 17, 2008 at 8:12pm — No Comments

Alison Groves Show Me, Show You



Remember this oldie but goodie? How totally disturbing is it still?… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on May 13, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Alison Groves Stop Stalking Me, Tina Fey!



If anything ever summed up my life and men, this would be it. I'm going to start charging Tina Fey for ripping off my life. Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on May 6, 2008 at 12:53pm — No Comments

Alison Groves Enjoy Your Delusion

This showed up in my Twitter feed... "comcastcares @grovesa16 the problem is probably something else, Yes there is compression, but it uses an advanced multi pass technology" Here's your problem, Comcast. You're trying to cram more than will fit on the bandwidth you have available, so you compress the shit out of it, and then use words like "multi" and "technology" to make me feel warm and fuzzy. Enjoy having your ass beat by FiOS because you are too lazy and complacent to upgrade your network… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on May 1, 2008 at 9:25am — No Comments

Alison Groves Love/Hate

Loving this week

Colin Meloy Sings Live! - Lead singer of The Decemberists tackles some of their songs in guitar/vocal fashion. Even though the arrangements are always fantastic, hearing them stripped down is pretty damn good too.

30 Rock - Every week Tina Fey tosses out the best show on tv. There are new jokes to find on even the fourth and fifth pass. I wish everyone on the planet watched this show so that I could rip off all of it's joke… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on April 25, 2008 at 3:45pm — No Comments

Alison Groves Got A Chainsaw We Can Borrow?

This morning as I was walking out to my car, I noticed that our backyard had suddenly disappeared, and in it's place lay the remnants of 4 trees. I figured out how to crawl around them somehow and this is what it looks like from behind... The stu… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on April 23, 2008 at 9:58am — 1 Comment

Alison Groves All the Luck Ran Out

Anyone who knows me knows that next to music, sports is my life. And since we don't have a pro baseball team, and minor leauge baseball is only fun when the beers are $1, I started to follow the hockey team. The Preds began the same year I moved here, so I've had fun over the years slowly learning about the game and the team. Most people don't share in my fun though, which found me having to buy a single ticket to game 4 of the first round of the playoffs this week. And I was pretty much OK wit… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on April 18, 2008 at 1:44pm — No Comments

Alison Groves Love/Hate, Part Two

What's making my world go round this week?

Love

John Adams - Yup, still loving John Adams. What will I have to look forward to doing Mondays after work when this is over? Hilldog drinking like a real human - Saw footage of Hillary doing a shot of Crown over the weekend and chasing it with some sort of Miller Lite looking beer. The Fox News commentary was of course 100% pure gold, and according to them Hilldog enjoys the Blue Moon. I bet… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on April 14, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Alison Groves Love/Hate, Part One

With TV on hiatus for so damn long, I've been vary lax in writing for the places I normally write and need to get back into the swing of things. I wanted to start a weekly post on this blog to force me to write at least once a week as well as give me a soapbox my ego so desperately wants. No one loves to negatively rant more than myself, so to counterbalance my severe negativity issues, I give you the weekly L… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on April 8, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Alison Groves The 2008 Nashville Geek Mux-Off!

Welcome to the 2008 Nashville Geek (and anyone else who wants to participate) Mux-off! Al Gore's interwebs have given us a bright, shiny new tool in the form of Muxtape.com to create a 12 track virtual mix tape to share with the world. Think you've got better musical tastes than the other nerds? Then join in the Mux-off! Here's how.... -Point whichever ultra secretive beta version of your browser de jour to Muxtape.com and create a user. -Start uploading the son… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on March 26, 2008 at 2:27pm — 1 Comment

Alison Groves Fierce Tranny!

I hated Project Runway but this SNL sketch was so goddamned hilarious, I can't stop watching it. The best quote? “You’re a tickety-tack tranny hot mess,… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on March 11, 2008 at 9:41pm — No Comments

Alison Groves OMGMarryMeTinaFey!!!!

For some reason this oddly blew my effing mind when I saw it this morning. Obviously self penned, and whether or not it is her true beliefs, I love her balls.… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on February 24, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Alison Groves 5th Annual Birthday Extravaganza

The 5th Annual Birthday Extravaganza has come and gone, and left me with whooping cough and scarlet fever in it's wake. Baby jesus allowed me to make it through the party, but then told me to go eff myself on my actual birthday. My photos are… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on February 12, 2008 at 1:01pm — No Comments

Alison Groves If the Mafia Was A Wine....

The Mafia Of Wines
...it'd be Gary Ferrell Pinot Noir. If you were ever to drink wine with my dad, I'd bet you $20 that he'd say, "This is good, but have you ever had Gary Ferrell?" According to my parents, this wine is impossible to find. They can't ever get… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on February 6, 2008 at 3:08pm — 1 Comment

Alison Groves If the Mafia Was A Wine....

The Mafia Of Wines
...it'd be Gary Ferrell Pinot Noir. If you were ever to drink wine with my dad, I'd bet you $20 that he'd say, "This is good, but have you ever had Gary Ferrell?" According to my parents, this wine is impossible to find. They can't ever get… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on February 6, 2008 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Alison Groves The Biltmore

IMG_8478 Photos from our recent trip to the Biltmore can be found aqui. Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on January 23, 2008 at 6:37pm — No Comments

Alison Groves That Bird Is A Liar!

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Posted by Alison Groves on January 21, 2008 at 12:47pm — No Comments

Alison Groves Crimes Against Humanity



That my friends, is a $275 bill from Blue Cross stating that my coverage no longer includes "wellness" exams and that I must pay 100% out of pocket for a physical, pap smear and cholesterol testing. TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS. To check and make sure I'm not sick. I really don't think I've been as mad in my life as I am at this moment.

I'm sure many of you know… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on January 19, 2008 at 2:13pm — No Comments

Alison Groves Famous Friends

Pretty soon, he's not going to want to hang out with us. And by "us", I mean the plebs of the world. Dan already had major autism breakthroughs, now schizophrenia, I say he should cure cancer next. Chop, chop.
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Posted by Alison Groves on January 17, 2008 at 10:18am — No Comments

Alison Groves QOTD

"In 2006 EMI, the world's fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. “That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,” says a person who was there." Well what d… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on January 14, 2008 at 4:40pm — No Comments

Alison Groves The Radiohead Hypothesis

The fact that "In Rainbows" sold close to 130,000 physical copies after being available months beforehand online was facinating to me, given the fact that Radiohead's fan base is mostly (I would assume) digital savvy. Their last record out in 2003 sold roughly 300k which begs the question...has digital proliferation reached only half of a (presumably) educated music buying public, did people buy a copy online as well as a physical copy, or are album sales really that shitty these days? Well we a… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on January 11, 2008 at 2:19pm — No Comments

Alison Groves Best Shirt Ever?


This is so awesomely obscure that I have to weep. Thank god I have a birthday coming up....
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Posted by Alison Groves on January 8, 2008 at 10:23am — No Comments

Alison Groves Favorite Albums Of '07

Not even remotely a "Best Of '07" list since I really didn't hear all that much new music this year, here's what I really enjoyed listening to over the last twelve months.

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (By far my favorite album of '07)
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger and Follow the Lights EP
Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex Girlfriend
The Decemberists - Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Not an official release, but a bootleg… Continue

Posted by Alison Groves on January 7, 2008 at 4:52pm — No Comments

Alison Groves New Year, New Site, New AG

Testing the tubes and pipes over here. We'll see what happens.
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Posted by Alison Groves on January 4, 2008 at 1:49pm — No Comments

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