You know, if I had a lick of sense or forethought – which clearly I don’t – I totally would have asked the internets to submit questions for your various and sundry singer / songwriter people last night, and then I would have tried to ask some of the singer / songwriter people your Very Important Questions and posted the answers here on the blawg.
That would have been fun if I had thought of it about fifteen hours ago.
But don’t worry: I’m filing away that idea for all my future – albeit currently non-existent – liveblogging endeavors.
It may very well be the best bloggy idea that I never get to, you know, use.
So since I dropped the ball in terms of taking your questions to the famous people, I thought I could at least address a few of the questions that you asked me last night.
1. Lots of you asked: What kind of awards are these ASCAP thingies, anyway?
Confession: I totally paraphrased that question.
The use of the word “thingies” probably gave away my editorial license.
And you can read all about ASCAP – as well as their Christian Music Awards – right here.
2. Bella asked: You have a nice gig going there, don’cha know?
Yes, Bella, I certainly do – because I love me a behind-the-scenes project.
Remember: I AM A TOTAL HOMEBODY – my idea of an exciting night on the town is to put on my pajamas and write some blog posts while I drink diet Coke (OVER ICE! IT MUST BE OVER ICE!) with some sort of reality television playing in the background.
So to sit and blog in a room filled with people whose music has had an incredible impact on my life and my husband’s life – well, IT WAS VERY SURREAL.
It was also very, very fun. In a must-not-make-eye-contact-because-the-glare-of-the-songwriters’-brilliance-may-sear-my-corneas-forever sort of way.
3. LeeAnn and Nicole had really similar questions: Just exactly how are you live blogging? So is your laptop up on the table next to the peachy cobbler? How is this working?
The country club had wireless internet, but unfortunately I could not access said wireless internet. And I even took TWO laptops just in case one of them had trouble, because there is nothing that screams I LIKE TO GET MY GEEK ON quite as effectively as carrying some sort of back-up computer.
Fortunately, Sister also had her laptop, and she was able to access the internet. So I sat in the very back corner of the ballroom and blogged from the table. I’d put away the laptop when the servers brought out, say, the cakey peachy cobbler, and then when I finished eating that course I’d put the laptop back on the table.
I was sitting with a group of people who knew exactly what I was supposed to be doing, so they were very understanding and gracious about sharing their dinner with someone who pretty much typed the entire time.
And as far as I could tell, no one else at the dinner had their laptops with them, but there was A LOT of texting going on. Ohmyword at the texting. I’m starting to think the texting is an epidemic, because people don’t seem to be able to sit through any sort of event without texting.
Of course, I have no room to talk about the whole texting thing since I BLOGGED FROM THE DINNER TABLE AND ALL.
4. Cindy asks: Who is David Crowder?
Oh, Cindy. I am so excited to make this introduction. Not that I actually know David Crowder or anything, but still.
David Crowder is an absolutely brilliant worship leader who won an award last night for his song “Everything Glorious.” He leads a band called, oddly enough, David Crowder Band, and you can check out their (very cool) website right here.
And in addition to David Crowder’s passion for Jesus and people, he has hair that is a force of nature.
Don’t believe me?
Look.
I totally took those on the sly, by the way.
Because I am a chicken.
But after I put some things in my car last night and was walking back in the building, David Crowder happened to be walking out of the building and DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THEN?
David Crowder smiled and held the door open for me.
So obviously we are best friends now.
And I just thought y’all would want to know that.
Between you & Brody ya’ll have some of the coolest non-jobs ever. I have got to get me a non-job!
Hey Internets!
My sister is so modest. Don’t let her fool you for a minute. Plenty of people there knew the outstanding BooMama and her blawg. And if they didn’t know her, I shoved her in front of them and introduced her. :)
I just love you! :) You crack me up every day! What a fun night and how I would have loved to have been there with you.
David Crowder is awesome and I got all giddy when I read that he smiled and held the door for you. Totally cool.
That sounds like such a great night. I’m living vicariously through you.
When Crowder opened the door for you, did you have to walk very, very carefully not to trip or do something totally embarrasing. If it was me, I totally would have done something totally goofy – like tripping or not getting my thank you out correctly.
I would have SO tripped over myself to have even made eye contact with David Crowder… much less have him open the door for me… that would have guaranteed that i ran into the other side of the door frame… or worse… ran straight into HIM! I am so proud that you stayed focused enough to get through the door… AND you got a smile! so impressive… if you ever need a roadie to carry all your computers, let me know:)
I’ve met folks who were famous before and it’s so hard (even when they are Christians) to just go UP TO THEM and introduce myself because I can just picture them looking at me like Kathy Bates in “Misery”…and that would NOT be good.
STILL spring green with envy, but thrilled for you.
I KNOW the effect that good Christian music has on one’s life…which is why I was reading your last, oh, 5-6 posts with my mouth hanging open and drool pooling on my keyboard.
:)
So neat…glad you had a great night and made some new BFF’s. =)
And just for the record? David Crowder? He’s a Baylor boy. Sic’em.
Love David Crowder. Oh, he’s so gifted at all the writing.
But, don’t you kind of think he looks like a billy goat?
I’m just sayin’.
Gasp – WHO is David Crowder? everyone knows who David Crowder is! or maybe not….
he’s the “billy goat” of CCM – right cindy? he he!!!
enjoying the live blogging, boomama!!!!
I totally agree with y’all. I thought I knew him from the Golden Book about those three billy goats. “the ‘billy goat’ of CCM” — love it!
He does have fabulous worship music, and I love that too.
Oh Sophie, keep on live blogging. I love livin’ vicariously through you, darlin’.
Oh My Goodness, It sounds like you had an experience. When you said Chris Tomlin said the blessing and you felt like you were right at home, I thought, “Except for the freedom to drag a roll across your salad plate and sop up all that tasty deliciousness.” I am quite certain you should have felt free, but hey. Did you read that Beth was there over the weekend and spoke at a Sunday morning service. You are so cyber-soul-blogging siestas if I ever seen ‘um. And, you know… she sat and people watched, too. This is a fabulous thing you have done givin’ us a bird’s eye perspective – we felt like a fly on the proverbial country clud wall. Was our friend Fry Daddy in the room?
Blessings.
(SHEEPISH GRIN)… that last sentence, you know the one before the question should read “country club” not clud…. UGH! I hate it when that happens. My fingers just act bizzare on this keyboard sometimes, and they definitely don’t know how to spell on their own!
Since you and David are now BFF does that mean that when he eats Christmas dinner with y’all that I can come too? I’d be delighted to bring some chicken and dressing or homemade blackberry jam cake or whatever you’d like me to bring….
I just had to let you know that your comment about you and David Crowder being best friends now totally made me laugh :). I’m having a rough day with my kids and I needed that- thanks!
I’m surprised you didn’t faint! You could have very well held the door open for him then as he resuscitated you. :)
Oh I heart David Crowder…he is on my Ipod, and I dig him so much.
I love his funky hair too.
When he opened the door for you, you should have said,
“Why thank you David, you make everything glorious” “I am yours” (ok that would have been sick)
Keep the famous spottings coming.
This is as cool as when I drew blood on Dustin Hoffman’s dad, as Dustin sat and WATCHED ME……
Kelly S.
No way!! How very cool.
By the way, I said, “No way!” out loud. Now our almost 20 month old is walking around the room saying it over and over :)
when my daughter went to David Crowder’s home for dinner one night (along with many other Baylor freshmen), he met her at the door and asked her name.
“I’m Haley.”
“Is that Haley with and H or Kaley with a K?”
“Haley with an H.”
“Oh, I’m David with a D.”
I love that you brought an extra laptop.
Can’t we just be BFF? I would be your secretary and haul all your electronic equipment around for you and trip over the cords because I was gaping openmouthed at all the Great Christian Talent!! How wonderful to be living vicariously through you thanks to your great blogging! Only thing that could top this is if it was at Humprhey Coliseum!
Mercy. I thought I had hair issues.
Do you know how jealous I am of you! Of course it is a godly jealousy…but I could SO get into live blogging events like this! So cool…..
Yes, yes, but WHAT did you WEAR? This is a pressing question that must be answered!
I have enjoyed reading the posts on the ASCAP. I love that you have a picture of the back of DC’s hair – LOL!
SO obviously he is the one sporting the really long goatee – interesting.
I love music but totally could not pick anyone out of a line up b/c I am a dork that way and most of the time have no idea who sings what just that I like a certain song. My hubby on the other hand knows every lyric to every song published since 1980 (only a slight exaggeration) and exactly who sang said song. I think that is why God has put us together – he he
So glad you had fun!
Blessings,
Kim
I am sure you would ahve told us if you had…. but did you run into Beth Moore while you were in Nashville? From her blog sounds like she was at the same event as you.
Oh my you are the coolest, and I touched you. It’s almost as if I touched them. I feel the energy surge.
One day I want to be you. And I will let you be me. And you can come do my laundry. Because that is the coolest thing I ever do.
I think you should take your fellow Birminghamite with you one day. I could park my laptop next to yours and we could totally look like a press box. Think we could get press badges?
Wow. Africa, David Crowder, Winter Jam…..Boomama, you are a woman God loves to bless! But in return you bless all of us.
You live the coolest life! How fabulous that you live blogged this for us between bites of tenderloin and peachy cakey goodness! And me?? I would’ve squaled right out loud when SCC walked in the room! You know, you totally coulda gone right up to Mr. Bannister and traded in on FryDaddy’s name and acted all cool that y’all have a mutual friend. Altho’ for future reference, next time you’re eating fancy ham in the same room as Brown Bannister maybe don’t actually drop the name “FryDaddy” because then he’ll think you’re some sort of poser.
And I have a similar memory, reading the liner notes to my Amy Grant cassette tapes and wondering just who in the world this Brown Bannister guy was, stealing Amy’s thunder. I understand now he’s the thunder behind a lot of my faves!
I luh-hove David Crowder. Again, I’m jealous. Stinkin’ fantastic.
YOU ARE SOOOOOOO FUNNY! Hey, I’d be a chicken too! You really have a lot of BFF’s don’t you?
Sister, not only am I not surprised that many of the major talents in that room know our Boomama, but I would not at all be surprised if one of those famous songwriters wasn’t taking a picture of her on the sly and telling their friends …. “Look, I got a picture of Boomama’s hair. Isn’t it SO SASSY?!”
Dear Internets,
It is I, the humble host of the ASCAP Awards last night. Yep the night wuz tres schwankeee. Boomama’s bloggity goodness filled the room with Shekinah Glo-reee. Our fave artists and writers gave and received all kinda love and affirmation. There was an overspill of man hugs goin roun!
As I returned to my home – as featured on Cribs Of The Pudgy Middle Income Dudes Over 50 With 4 Kids and A Mortgage to Gag a T Rex – I remembered it was late Monday night. This is significant because Tuesday morning is Trash Pick Up Day.
Only moments before, I had been Mr. Christian Show Biz Pimp Daddy in hair product and a new mack daddy suit. I reflected on this as I made my way to the curb, in said suit, dragging our fully loaded, fragrant trash dumpster at 1am in the glamorous morning.
God…He’s got Him one sense o humor don’t He…
Oh Cindy, Cindy, Cindy … you have much to learn. David Crowder is only amazing and talented and humble to boot! He ROCKS!!!!!!!!
And, had he opened a door for me, I don’t know that I ever would’ve made it through said door. Hr would probably be, at this moment, with his lawyer filing a restraining order against the crazy woman who hung herself off of his neck when he was just trying to be polite!!
I’m just sayin’.
Thanks for the reminder of Dave Crowder music….I’ve been wanting to download that song for a while now…finally did it!! Have fun in Nashville!
Wow, that is some awesome hair! You are funny! This is my first time here, I’ll be BAAACK. (get it? Like Arnold. Never mind.)
I am totally squealing for you down here in Texas. And I am all worked up lately because I just recently found out that Shane and Shane has a secret recording studio about a half mile from my house. If I can get over there with my connection I may experience some of heaven.
Good for you Boo! Me and DC are also BFF’s. How weird! I met him at a concert where I stood in line for his autograph. His “secret service” person said that was the last autograph of the night…so I lunged at him and told him my son would be heart broken if I didn’t get him to sign a t-shirt. He smiled a scary smile and signed away…totally BFF’s.
I love David Crowder and his “key-tar” – we saw him with Third Day a few years back. Love that hair!
So, I totally quoted that song he won my blog yesterday. Musta been the Spirit, cuz I had NO IDEA he would’ve won it….weird, spiritually speaking anyway.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the David Crowder band! I joke about being his biggest almost-40-year-old fan but by the looks of your comments I’m not alone! :-)
Sounds like a great environment to make lots of new pretend-BFFs!
You might have to give up your traditional/old school cell phone for the texting kind. It is more than mildly addictive and still allows you to hold a diet coke.
I LOVE DAVE CROWDER.
I went to UBC (the church where his band plays) a few times in college. It was wonderful.
My husband’s family lives in Waco, and my sister-in-law has BEEN TO HIS HOUSE. Because he and his wife are so cool as to open it up to whatever Bible studies at their church need a place to meet.
I also know how much he paid for his house. Contrary to what you may think, I am not a stalker. It was in the Waco Sunday paper one day while I was visiting my in-laws, because they were doing a thing on how Waco’s downtown is becoming a pretty sweet place to live.
This tickled me to no end, seeing those hair pictures – because I read it AT THE SAME TIME I was working on this. Oh, sweet mercy.
Cool Crowder Coif!
I have worn my ipod OUT listening to David Crowder. Love him. Love him. Love him. I think if I would have been in the same room with him and YOU …..I would have passed out from happiness. :-0