If you're like me and you wanna help the people in Japan directly, you might wanna consider this group. DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS. I feel they do amazing work all around the world in the most important ways. And they're in Japan right now.

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We have a lot of fun around here, but it's important to "pay attention".

Welp!

(Hmmmm. Why do I sometimes put a "p" sound on the end of the word "Well"?)

Don't know.

ANYWAY! Let me welcome all of you in different parts of the country and different parts of the world. Here's a little photo gallery from last summer if you're new around here and you have NO idea what we're talking about when we say that I'm "That Guitar Man from Central Park". (You'll understand why I say that I feel like the luckiest man alive.)

Click to visit last year's gallery

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Now! Today I'm spending this weekend kicking around the songs and stories for the show. I'm feeling right now that the thing might be best served if I don't over-think it and just what we always do when we get together in a music hall...

HAVE FUN.

THIS IS THE PLACE TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE PROJECT AND TO BECOME A PART IF IT!!!

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Still, a show like this is going to have something to say. I mean, that's part of my job description. Like before we get to the stuff about the show, and the video... today's update here at this site is not gong to be particularly fun. But it gives me purpose. It gives all people of Reason a reason to get out of bed and write the next song or do the next Good thing. This week we learned that our president, the man in whom I had so much hope, has gone back on his word... again.

I mean, it's tough enough for me to accept that when he says "no one is above the law", that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and others are still walking around unaccountable and un-investigated after breaking U.S. and international law by having tortured people in my name. But... well... watch this little video...

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Then please take the time to watch these 2 music videos in succession. (And you'll know why it might be just the right time for people like us to get together on a Broadway stage and share a little Love and Reason with the world.)

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Here's an Academy Award-winner, an Emmy Award-winner, a man who's won several Tony Awards... and his lovely wife to explain what this show can be about! Why now might be exactly the right tome to "say something" and still feel Good doing it!!!

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THERE ARE SOME FUN VIDEOS FURTHER DOWN THE PAGE TO ROUND THINGS OUT!

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SO WHAT CAN YOU DO?

You are everything. Just like on "The Hill" in Central Park, none of this happens if you don't show up. The 3 most important things we need from you...

1. A generous donation of real money. (Yeah, like everything else... it's gonna take money to actually make it happen.)

3. We need you to take it upon yourself to be a little Paul Revere-ish... take it upon yourself to spread the word about this project every day to friends and family. Make it your own. We need you to come up with Creative ideas to get the word out about this effort.

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FIND THE EASIEST WAY TO HELP

Your donations are tax-deductible!!! Whatever you decide to give! (So cool.)

Just go to the IndieGoGo website and make a donation with your credit card or debit card...

Click here to visit the site and make a direct donation. INDIE GOGO

THE PLACE TO JOIN THE TEAM!

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Or if you like doin' it "old school" -- just make out a check to:

Fractured Atlas
(And write "David Ippolito" on the memo line.)

Then mail it to:

TABAK
360 East 72nd Street
Suite A 1108
New York, NY 10021

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WHAT YOU GET

Cool stuff -- really cool stuff -- amazingly cool stuff -- ridiculous stuff -- really ridiculous stuff -- f*cking ridiculous stuff...

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You'll see!

I'LL BE SETTING UP THE PAGE WITH A LIST OF ALL THE COOL PEOPLE WHO HELP US OUT. (If you'd like to remain anonymous... just let us know that, too.)

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If you're new around here, you might wanna make a pot of coffee or pour a glass of wine and browse through The ARCHIVE. Lotsa really fun stuff in there going all the way back to... to.. well, they go a long way back!

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VIDEO TIME

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WATCH THESE VIDEOS IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY -- and then shoot me an email to tell me if you think they might become a part of the story.

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Click to watch the very first LIVE performance of this song.

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I'm really enjoying all of your comments about the newest songs, so keep 'em comin'! This was the LIVE debut of this next song in December here in NYC.

CAN'T YOU SEE?

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HIT THIS LINK TO EMAIL YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS

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THE (entire) DECEMBER CONCERT

For you guys again today... the entire concert... "The Something'th Annual Year End Concert" is here for you to watch. 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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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 ☮