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Okay, this is gonna be fun.

Why?

Why do I write the song I write?

Who knows? ' Cause most often I don't write the song I want to write. I just write the next song that wants to be written.

Why do I feel like I'm doing what I'm meant to be doing?

'Cause it feels Good... with a capital "G". I like helping people feel that they're not alone -- that somebody else walkin' around on the planet feels the same things.

Why do I say the things I say in some of my songs?

Ha! Okay! We'll get to that in a minute!

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Man ! We had an amazing time the other night at "The Something'th Annual Year End Concert" for 2010. If you were there in the theater with us, or if you watched it LIVE that night on the internet that night, thanks for showing up! If you missed the gig all together, you can sit back and watch the entire show right here at the website. I'm gonna leave it up for the rest of the year at least! Go make a pot of coffee. Pour yourself some tea or a nice glass of wine and sit back and watch this thing. Plug in some headphones or some earbuds if you feel like it. You can actually jump around and watch different parts o the show.

We had such a great time again this year in that theater!

(The audio got a little funky during Teresa Reynolds' Christmas song... but I'm do everything I can to fix that sooner than later. Check back.)

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OKAY! NOW!

Why do I write songs like this new anthem? Why would I take all the time and spend all the Creative energy to write something like "The Religion Song" and the newest song on the block called "My Stupid Country"?

This poll that came out this week might give you a clue!!!!!

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I don't even know what to say!?

Okay, okay...I actually almost expect that more than half of the people who call themselves Republicans think that human beings just appeared on the planet in their present form less than 10,000 years ago. I expect that because of the way their minds seem to process other issues... like blind patriotism, torture, rule of law, the death penalty, gay rights and so many more.

But the numbers which show that more than 3 out of 10 Independents and Democrats think the same thing astound me.

Now okay -- I can let the authors of that funny, completely disjointed, convoluted and contradictory collection of legend, superstition, impossibly bad morality and impossibly good morality off the hook... whoever they were! I mean, when the Bible was written human beings had no concept of science, space, the Universe... there was no carbon dating. They had no idea that the earth was round, that planets orbited the Sun, that there were countless galaxies of other suns or that illness wasn't actually caused by tiny elves or demons inside you.

But we're 11 years into the 21st century in the most technologically advanced nation on earth!!!!! How can we be marching so proudly backwards into the days before The Enlightenment!?

(sigh)

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Ha!

F*ck it! I'm just gonna play the song. This is the LIVE version!!!! We just played this song for the first time in front of a live audience on December 11th. It's today's FREE download! The music video is on it's way! You're gonna love it!!!!

CLICK TO HEAR THE SONG

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CHECK BACK FOR THE MUSIC VIDEO... MAYBE NEXT WEEK!

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I've had an amazing year in 2010, thanks to all of you.

Click on this banner for a tiny example of the fun we had this year in Central Park. (No matter where in the world you're reading this, if you've ever hung out with me you might find your smiling face in one of the galleries!!!)

Click to visit this year's gallery

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Click for the gallery from 2009

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Okay. Here are a bunch of photos from this year's concert.

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I'll be back tomorrow with another update.

If you were at the concert, or if you watched it LIVE on the internet, click on this link to shoot me an email and tell me what you thought of the night... and where in the world you watched it!

SHOOT ME AN EMAIL

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Here are a couple of different fun galleries to check out.

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HAVE FUN TODAY!!!!!! (And be cool to each other, okay?)

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Thanks for everything.

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PEACE