I arrived in downtown Nashville yesterday with not a lot on my agenda, so it was relaxing to settle in and prepare for a week of a little business and a lot of catching up with friends. I was able to meet up with our Advertising Director, Erin Lee, who lives down here. That was great. It was also fun to see the new stickers, postcards and shirts I designed for the HM Showcase we're having on Monday. That's always rewarding to hold something in your hands that you worked on. It's a priviledge and I still get excited when I can hold those things in my hands.
I spent the last few hours of the night in my room watching TVU. It's a non-commercial Christian rock video channel/station. During GMA Week they arrange with the hotel to have the channel fed through the building's cable programming. It was fun to catch up on lots of videos of bands we cover. The Devil Wears Prada, Family Force 5, Underoath, Pillar, Red, The Almost, August Burns Red, Becoming The Archetype (with lots of fire), Skillet, As Cities Burn, Anberlin, Project 86. I have pretty much seen most of what's in their current rotation now.
I'm excited to have found a cyber cafe in the Convention Center, which has a wifi connection. It wasn't the best of prospects to think I'd be cut off from the internet for five days.
God bless you!
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at April 20, 2008 12:14 PM