Hi all -- I know I haven't been here for a while, but I figure there might be someone here I can help.  I have a room reserved for the Festival in Brooklyn, but because I was not sure I was going to be able to make it, I hadn't said anything.  I'm in need of two, preferably three roommates for the Festival and the night before.

Regardless of whether you come in Thursday or Friday, the cost will be one night for the room $185.  Conversely, if I have no takers but someone still has space for one, let me know.  I'm writing here first rather than the roommate matchup service because I'd prefer to know who I'm rooming with, even if I just know you online.  Those of you who know my email from other groups, you may write to me there, or private message me here.  Thanks -- Julie

If you don't have this DVD, released at last year's Fest, you will see another side of Jonathan.  He is funny here, his wry wit shining through several pieces, and then he stuns his audience with a dramatic, serious climax.  For excerpts, check here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti46aIhyBMk

Julie  :-)

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If you've attended the last two Festivals, you may well have seen either my performance or the video of the song I wrote, "Light In The Shadows", inspired by Barnabas and Josette and which I now sing in tribute to JF.  I recently performed a very short version of this song for the USA World Showcase in Las Vegas.  While I did not win a judges' trophy (thanks in large part to a snafu in which my backing track failed and the judges were never aware of it because I just sang a cappella right away), I scored highly enough that I made it to the Web broadcast of the show.  The audience vote, ultimately, is what decides who wins the grand prize of the competition -- a guaranteed $5000 prize or the chance to choose three bags from six on a table.  You choose the right three bags, you win $100,000.

I know for a fact that I need the support of the DS fandom to get this done.  If you want to just vote without looking at the video, click here: http://www.mtscproductions.com/vote/1023.php  This will take you directly to my voting page.  You vote, and then click vote again to confirm your vote.  Now, UNLIKE the Rich LaBonté voting site, there is NOT a time limit between votes, you can vote as often as your little fingers can click the mouse.  (However, no electronic voting allowed.) 

I only have between now and midnight PDT Wednesday to rack up as many votes as I can.  There are 40 contestants this first week, and only 20 move on to week two, where the judges' trophy winners await.

If you want to see the performance video, snafu and all, go to http://www.usatvbroadcast.com, and click on Part 3.  I am the third performer on this video.  However, if you have trouble with video downloads for any reason, there is an audio version (with track) up on my Web site, http://www.juliesweb.com.  The video that I showed last year is on the Video page of my site, if you are interested in that.

I would love to stand before the audience in January 2009 as the Grand Prize Winner, and tell them all about how Dark Shadows brought this song into being, and how much the DS Nation supported me!  Thank you!

Julie 

Greetings to one and all...Many of you know me already from other groups, but I'm just now getting around to signing up here.  This site came highly recommended to me when I attended the Fest last summer -- it was my first Fest ever, and I'm hopelessly hooked.  I'll be around to check in, but for now, I'll be lurking the boards and figuring out all this stuff here.



Julie