With the Twilight movie starting Friday and the Rick Springfield concert on Sunday, I just realized this is a great weekend of entertainment for women in Springfield, Illinois!

Twilight is supposed to be big with teen girls and women up to the age of 50. I must admit, my twelve year old daughter is just DYING to see Twilight and is counting down the hours and minutes now. She even tried to convince me to take her to the midnight show tonight! That’s not going to happen, but we are going to see this movie soon. My daughter sucked me into the books and they read very quickly, so I’ve already read all 4 of them. Yeah, I’ll admit it, I’m looking forward to this movie too!

And Rick Springfield? Anybody out there seen him recently or heard his new album “Venus In Overdrive”? He looks pretty darn good and the album rocks pretty good, so I expect a lot of screaming female fans at the show Sunday night, me included! Women are from venus you know, and this weekend is overdrive!

Hope all you gals out there have a great weekend! I’d love to hear what you think about Twilight and Rick Springfield!

I went to watch the moving of the historic Maisenbacher House up Seventh Street this afternoon and was struck by the enormity of this project as I watched this massive house slowly creep up the street and continually stop for tree trimmings and adjustments. Looks like things were going smoothly. I saw the house reach it’s final location at 7th and Jackson Street, but couldn’t stay to watch the house rotated and backed up to sit on Jackson street, where it will stay on it’s wheels until the new foundation is finished. Wish I could have stayed to see the move finished, it was really interesting to watch.

Check out this new and fun video with a “Risky Business” twist from Fiction Plane for “It’s A Lie” off “Left Side of the Brain”. Lead singer Joe Sumner is Sting’s son and the video director is Jake Sumner, also Sting’s son. The Sumner kids are a creative bunch with a good sense of humor obviously. It’s also interesting they chose “Risky Business” because that movie was released in 1983 at the pinnacle of The Police’s success. Coincidence? I think not, more like Synchronicity, also released in 1983! I love this song, but it’s not one I like to jam in the car with my kids because before you know it they would be singing the chorus at school . . . “But all I wanna do is jump your bones, slam dance all night to the music of your moans . . . ”

The Police Certifiable comes out this Tuesday exclusively at Best Buy, and of course I need this as part of my Police/Sting collection to document the amazing Police Reunion Tour properly. But in the Best Buy Flyer out today I realize I have a dilemma! Should I get the CD/DVD combo, or the vinyl/digital download combo? I just don’t think I can be greedy and buy both with Christmas right around the corner (and since I’ve already spent way too much money on the reunion tour already). What I really need is a CD/DVD/Vinyl option! I have really been enjoying my turntable again and would love to have the Police Certifiable on vinyl too, but I really, really want the DVD to SEE the reunion of my favorite band of all time! What to do? I’ve got a couple days to think about it and decide.

Has anybody seen the bizarre new Burger King Mushroom & Swiss TV commercials? They are supposed to be a parody of Simon & Garfunkel, but I always think of Sting when I see these jokers with their LUTES! Makes me laugh every time. Here they are for your amusement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hpkAq4meTA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWYjktTdq3E&feature=related

Found this frightening Halloween message in the front yard of a house at the corner of Laurel and Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois!

I’m wondering why Santa’s House has appeared today, October 30, 2008 on the Old State Capitol Plaza in Springfield, Illinois? I’m used to retail stores pushing the start of the holiday shopping season, but why is the city of Springfield rolling out Santa’s unattractive mobile home before Halloween?

Fiction Plane rocks, so check out some of the tunes from their new album “Left Side Of The Brain” right here and now. I adore the song “Two Sisters”! And the vocals kill me, it reminds me so much of Sting back in the early days, which is not surprising at all since lead singer Joe Sumner is Sting’s son. If you like what you hear, take a listen to “Everything Will Never Be Okay” too, that’s my favorite album by Fiction Plane so far, but I’m looking forward to much more from this band.

I’m embarrassed for Springfield, Illinois after reading the news this morning in the State Journal Register saying that the executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has been placed on administrative leave for alleged shoplifting at the local Target. I’m more embarrassed to read that Richard (Rick) Beard was caught shoplifting previously at Macy’s in Springfield too in February 2007. How exactly did that first offense get covered up and not reported over a year and a half ago, I wonder? With the upcoming Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration only four months away, this is not the kind of publicity Lincoln’s hometown should be receiving.

Abraham Lincoln and shoplifting just don’t go together in any way, shape or form. I am truly saddened by this news and the shadow it casts on the magnificent Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the reputation of Abraham Lincoln himself and the city of Springfield. I think I felt the earth tremble this morning, and it wasn’t from another earthquake but instead must have been caused by Honest Abe rolling over in his tomb.

I just heard that Rick Springfield will be performing in Springfield, Illinois on November 23, 2008 at Sangamon Auditorium! I just got my old turntable up and running this weekend and have been playing all my favorite 80’s albums. Is it a coincidence then that a Rick Springfield concert is just announced for Springfield? I think not. I’ll be dusting off my old Rick Springfield albums in preparation for his show here!!! He’s performed in the Springfield area at least several times before. I saw him at the Sangamon County Fair in New Berlin in 2000, and I believe he performed at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in 1983. At his Sangamon County Fair performance, many middle-aged women were screaming and making fools of themselves, and I definitely recall Rick Springfield playing his guitar with a bunch of long stem roses. He kept throwing something in the air too, but I can’t remember if it was the roses or his guitar? Come on, who would want to miss excitement like that? Not me, count me in, because I will definitely be there!