October 26, 2006, 9:09 am : Get a Free Show!
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Hey there everyone, We are looking for AN Animal House. Cory Ryan will be touring in November and we are giving out 3 FREE shows.
If you would like your High School or Fraternity to be considered then go to Drop Cory a Note and enter a short story on why your school or Fraternity can have the best time in the world.
October 23, 2006, 1:54 pm : Story Behind “Angry Chad”
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So here is a little story about the song Angry Chad.
Chad Is a buddy of mine, one Nashville morning I get a call 10:00 or so, from Chad, He is in Jail in Kentucky, needing bail. I think it is something like $7,000 or something, I guess he has quite a few unpaid speeding tickets.
So he needs me to raise the money then drive 4 hours to go get him out. This is what friends do. But we are waiters, $7000 is not easily accessable to say the least. So we are calling all friends, all family. I have one guy who can give $500 here but he gets out of school on the east side at 3:00, then there is this girl that we have to catch before she starts work on the West side at 3:30 and so on and so on.
The last person that is getting us the final moola in the form of a bank card at 8:00 right before his night class. So I get the $7,000 dollars and another friend wants to go with me so I pick him up and we start off. We get 30 min into the trip and Chad calls cussing us out that it took so long. Saying “don’t bother now, you left me here to rot, I have to be in court tomorrow at 6:00 am.”
So when he gets back to Nashville the next day he sends word that he is pissed. Pissed at us, the ones spending all day tracking down money, the ones organizing the rescue and the ones in the car going to pick him up.
Well time heals all wounds and a few weeks later it is all worked out. So he comes to my house with a bottle of wine and says tonight we are hitting the town, we hop in his car and head downtown, about 6 -7miles from my place.
So the night moves on and somehow I lose Chad, the Bar Closes and everyone is shuffling out, I wait at the front looking for Chad. Hmmm no Chad. I wait a bit longer. No Chad. So I think crazy me he is waiting at his car, I go to were his car used to be and no Chad, no car. Hmmmmm this sucks.
I call to say “things happen just call and let me know what so that I am not pissed.” No Call. Thanks for “not calling”. So there is the beginning line in the song. ”You can pick me up I will be right were you left me, By the car if there’s no car I’ll just assume you were arrested.”
So weeks go by and no call form Chad. Then out of the blue he asks me to play a writers night in Nashvegas. This is his first call since the “stand up” he makes no mention of the incident. So I play the writers night, I spend a few hours before hand writing this song to tell him how I feel. “I’m Fine I’m well but you can go to hell for not calling,” Stating incident after incident so that he has to know I am talking about him. Long story short I play the song we laugh it is now his favorite and we are good friends.
Listen to Angry Chad
October 19, 2006, 10:50 am : Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
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Well this week has been a bit crazy.
We just got out of the studio doing a new song for Raimbow Babies and Children’s hospital, it was a Blast.
We had Lester Estelle from Pillar come on in. and some folks that have worked with Keith Urban, take a listen for a good mix. All in all this was a blast.
It was a blast working with you guys I cant wait to hear a finished song. Dave Autrey, Matt Long, Kenny Carter. You guys are the best!
October 17, 2006, 4:05 pm : Rotterdam introduces the first ‘Sustainable Dance Club’
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Going out in a hip and trendy club and still be responsible. This idea forms the base for the Sustainable Dance Club. The presentation of this concept takes place at the 14th of October under the name ‘The Critical Mass’. It combines contemporary lifestyle with the latest ideas on sustainability. This club night is the kick off for the realization of the Sustainable Dance Club. Producing and consuming in a responsible manner are no longer reserved for a small group. Enviu – innovators in sustainability - and Döll - studio for the art of building - have developed the Sustainable Dance Club together. An attractive way of clubbing combined with a low impact on the environment. Soon you can generate energy while dancing. The color of the walls changes as a reaction to the heat without any energy use and you can drink a biological beer at the water basin on the ‘relax roof’. These are just a few examples of what the Sustainable Dance Club can entail. Check out The Sustainable Dance Club
October 9, 2006, 10:52 am : Mountain Biking Rocks!
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I am sorry I have been on the road for a bit. I think today I want to tell you about this phenomenal mountain biking experience. I had never been but wow you guys are crazy. It was so much fun but really what have we become.
It occurs to me that we constantly have to push the edge of building our bodies and destroying them or maybe I just hate working out to the point that I put myself in a life or death situation to get through it.
Matthew McConaughey and Lance Armstrong eat your heart out, street riding is for people who don’t have mountain trails.
October 2, 2006, 11:01 am : Domino’s Brownies
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Has everyone seen the new commercial for the Brownie bites?
Ya ya, then you know what I am about to say. Who came up with the walking furry doo doo square to sell brownies. There is a a pizza delivery guy that comes to the door of a mother and daughter followed by this hairy brown cube with legs. The unsuspecting patrons of this fine italian delicatessen find themselves in the presents of DOO, but do they say hay DOO get off my porch, no, do they stomp on it like so many flaming bags of such material, no, the little girl hugs it.
Then she gets DOO all over her, does the mom get really offended maybe ask the delivery boy to leave, no she pats the DOO and Laughs.
Am I the only one that does not want to eat Browne bites or anything for that matter after watching this commercial. Ya. you know what is crazy. Someone makes a living coming up with this, not only that but someone at whatever pizza company singed off on it and signed a check.
Not only this but it got as far as the hundreds of thousands they spent on advertising this campaign. AND NO ONE STOPPED it. I would have been much more inclined to want pizza if I watched 2 stoners, eating pizza and laughing and saying “you know what this needs, Brownies, Ya brownies.
It would have had the character recognition that could translate into sequel commercials or maybe a bachelor on a date trying to impress lady luck by thinking of this wonderful chocolate goodness that so many ladies love while ordering the safe always there pizza.
I NEED A JOB AS A MARKETING MIND. NO MORE DOO DOO CUBES.