Reactions Over Resolutions

My New Years Resolutions For 2008

(in no particular order)

1. Exercise daily.

2. Eat a bit healthier (just a bit).

3. Take more photographs of life, before it passes me by.

4. Learn to speak French.

5. Go to a Nashville Predators game, like I used to.

6. Read 30 books (I never read, it's about time I started).

7. Blog once for every day of the year (more of a 'personal journal' type thing, for me, to remember the good days).

8. Pay off ALL of my bills before Summer.

9. Buy a banjo.

10. GO TO THE ZOO (I've been wanting to go since my senior year in high school and still haven't gone).

11. Work harder than I did in 2007.

12. Save money and learn how to invest it for when I'm older and will need it.

13. Put ALL of my cd collection on my iPod.

14. Learn to play piano better.

And actually, I suppose some of this is more like a to-do list, but I'll count them all as resolutions anyways.

Also, some exciting Backseat Goodbye news...

TOMORROW, December 30th, San Diego's radio station Sophie 103.7 will be playing "Technicolor Eyes" on their Unsigned Sunday show! This marks the official first time BG will be played on a big radio station such as Sophie.

And one big thing is I can use YOUR help to get "Technicolor Eyes" put on regular rotation, and if it gets put on rotation at this station there's a VERY good chance it can get airplay in even more big cities across the U.S.!

So here's all you have to do to help out...

Tomorrow (December 30th) you can visit http://www.radiosophie.com/pages/676962.php

and you'll see my photo in the middle of the page along with three other artists...

if you look beside the photos you'll see an area where you can vote called "Vote On It"...

all you have to do is click on the circle beside Backseat Goodbye and then click the little Vote box, and that's it! (you do NOT have to sign up for anything at all to vote, just two clicks and you're done)

And if you want to help even more, there's an area just below the artists that will say "Unsigned Sunday for 12/30", and just below that you can leave a comment. So please feel free to leave a comment saying how much you like "Technicolor Eyes" or Backseat Goodbye.

By the way, if you don't live in the San Diego, CA area then you can easily listen to the show from ANYWHERE in the world if you click on "Listen Live" in the top right at www.radiosophie.com

And thank you so so so so so soooo much if you help out with this, I appreciate it quite a lot!

Here's the view from my bedroom window today.

The sun finally started shining in TN again.

Good day, everyone!

- Chad

p.s. - Feel free to leave any cool resolutions you have for 2008 in the comments.

p.p.s. - Just a little over two more days until I announce all the huge BG news, don't forget!

p.p.p.s. - Thanks to all of you who left your favorite albums of 2007 in the last blog, I'm glad to see you all have amazing music taste :)

Is there a ghost in my house?

2007 is winding down, and in one of its' last days of air I've decided to share what I believe are the top ten albums of the year. If you see something you haven't heard, then I definitely suggest you check it out, because all of the albums listed below have found their way on repeat through my speakers sometime this year.

Top Ten Albums:

1. Tegan and Sara - "The Con"

2. Bright Eyes - "Cassadaga"

3. Motion City Soundtrack - "Even If It Kills Me"

4. The Rocket Summer - "Do You Feel"

5. Jimmy Eat World - "Chase This Light"

6. Arcade Fire - "Neon Bible"

7. Band Of Horses - "Cease To Begin"

8. Iron & Wine - "The Shepherd's Dog"

9. Steel Train - "Trampoline"

10. Say Anything - "In Defense Of The Genre"

Honorable Mentions:

Paramore - "Riot!"

Rilo Kiley - "Under The Blacklight"

Kate Nash - "Made Of Bricks"

Limbeck - "Limbeck"

The Format - "B-sides and Rarities"

Eisley - "Combinations"

A Fine Frenzy - "One Cell In The Sea"

Ingrid Michaelson - "Girls And Boys"

Rooney - "Calling The World"

Kanye West - "Graduation"

Cheers,

Chad

p.s. - Just 4 more days until I make the big Backseat Goodbye announcements here, don't forget, and be sure to tell any of your friends that might be fans of mine to check out the blog too!

p.p.s -Feel free to leave your top 10 list in the comments, I'd be more than glad to see them. (And like I've mentioned, you don't even have to sign up for anything or log in or anything like that to leave a comment on here, just click the little "comments" link below this and go for it)

A little late, but...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

- Chad (and Napoleon)

010108

Be here or be square.

(To be honest, everytime I hear that saying I think of "The Real Ghostbusters", the cartoon series, because of a line Egon was told once by this one badass monster.)

No, but really, I'll be exclusively making my huge announcement(s) right here on this blog sometime that day, so I hope to see you here.

And by all means, please feel free to leave comments on these blogs I'll be posting. (I can more than assure you that I'll be reading all of them).

- Chad

A New Hope.

So this is the beginning.

I've never really had a new years resolution,

but I've got a few this year.

One of them is to keep a daily version of my life in typed form.

That's mainly because 2008 is going to bring a completely new world to my music career for Backseat Goodbye.

So, beginning January 01st, 2008 I'll be keeping this "journal" of sorts updated.

I'm going to be going through a ton of new shit for the first time and I want to bring whoever the hell wants to come, right along with me.

By the end of the year I should have around 365 blogs, so if I don't keep that up you should get onto me about it, because this is a resolution.

And you and me, we're in this together, so if I start to slip, yell at me or something.

So this is a photo of me today, in the half laying down-in-bed-blog-posting-position. 

Hopefully by this time next year I won't have stressed out crackhead eyes and will still be smiling, we'll see.

LOVE,

Chad