I've been hearing about the 11th Star Trek movie. It's still not yet in production, but they are planning it. The movie executives are all sitting around a sterile table on the 30th floor of some building in L.A..

"Alrighty, we've done nothing new with the Star Trek franchise for nearly a year since we killed of Enterprise. The fans are ripe for something new in the series. What kind of scripts do we have?"

"Here's one."

"What's it about?"

"Who cares? Fans don't! I mean, it's STAR TREK!!!!! They're a bunch of geeks. They don't care about how good the story is... do they?"

From a corner. "Um... excuse me, but... um."

"What is it!?"

"Do listen to those podcasts?"

"Pod-what?... Oh yeah, I think there was one of those things led the harrassment about Enterprise. Don't pay attention to that crap! We KNOW our series! So script. Throw me on and let's make the movie!

Star Trek vs Predator. I LOVE IT!"

Nine months later, we get another piece of sh*t from the theatres. If anyone is game for placing a wager, I'd go 10:1 that the script will suck!

Anyone, anyone?

Once again, it's that time to find out what articles folks find when they are looking for my website. Voila!

• Bagpipe Music
  
• What Is Filk Music?
• Happy Birthday to You and Me
• The Ballad of Jayne Lyrics
• St Patrick's Day Parade of Music & Poems 2005
• Auto Glass Repair in Austin
• .com eBay Auction Gone MAD! and Other Ridiculous Websites
• Cat Hair Removal from the Carpet
• Web Hosting Reviews - Lunarpages
• Choosing a Powershot S30 Digital Camera
• Irish Song Lyrics & Free Music Downloads
• Free Content for Your Websites or Newsletter
• Door Refinishing in Houston

Actually, I should clarify. These aren't the Top of April. They are the top ever... articles... Yeah. that's about it. Lots o'traffic come their way. Yay!

I was curious how people found my website. So I did a check to see the top webpages on my site. It looks like a free music download paradise. Here they are:

• Free Funny MP3s
• Celtic & Folk Music Downloads
• Free MP3s Music Download of the Month
• Free Irish MP3s
• 19 Celtic Music Websites with Free Music Downloads
• Free Folk MP3s
• Free Scottish MP3s
• Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers
  

Not too shabby. Now I'm gonna look up the OTHER popular websites...

I can't wait. Just a few more weeks and we start our great adventure.

It's nearly a year since, Andrew and I started playing music full-time as the Brobdingnagian Bards. I quit my job at the University of Texas because I wanted to be a musician. It took me over ten years to reach my goal, but then something happened I didn't expect.

You see three years earlier, we were at the Houston Highland Games. There I spent a few moments talking with EJ Jones and and Jennifer Hamel of the band Clandestine. They had recently announced that they were breaking up. One of the reasons for it was because they were tired of touring.

EJ told me they would spend two months on the road. It was exhausting. He also said that three was about the longest they could easily handle.

I took their advice to heart. Working with the state of Texas, I couldn't do three week or two month tours. Now that I am a full-time musician, I can. However, the opportunity has never presented itself.

That's all about to change. Come May, we are doing our first three week tour. I'm excited too. We're driving to Cassidy's Irish Pub in Corpus Christi to the Georgia Renaissance Festival. Then we hope to supplement those shows with a couple gigs in Missouri and Nebraska, followed by a grand finale at the amazing Opus Fantasy Arts Festival in Denver, Colorado.

Grand time for all.

But first, we're heading back to Long Island for a Renaissance Festival.

Good times ahead!
- Marc Gunn, Bard

I went shopping today.

This may not sound like anything special, but I NEVER go shopping. I hate it. But I had to return some pants I got for my birthday because I've put on too much damn weight.

Plus, I've wanted to change my *look*. I'm sick of wearing jeans all the time.

Yes, I did get another pair of jeans, but I also bought a pair of slacks. Then I went over to Goodwill and found a couple more cool pair of pants. Almost better than the new pair I got. Goodwill rocks!

Plus, who knows long or if I'll be willing to wear them. So it's a good experiment.

I also got out of the apartment. Yay!

All in all a good day. Sure I spent too much money. But it was necessary.

Now I'm listening to Bella Morte. Then gonna watch Moonlighting. Eat dinner. Then out to Fado's Irish Pub to catch The Tea Merchants in my new slacks.

Oh! And I went to the Gym. Lets not forget that.

Brought to you by Song Henge, the online archive of free and legal Celtic music downloads. Find out more at SongHenge.com

#10 Great Big Sea

"Captain Kidd"
Great Big Sea
from The Hard & Easy

#9 Blaggards

"Bog Songs"
Blaggards
from Standards

"The Chieri"
Avalon Rising
from Storming Heaven
also from The Secret World of Celtic Rock

#8 Dervish

Dervish

#7 Dropkick Murphys

Dropkick Murphys

#6 Charm City Saints

"Never Go Home Again"
Charm City Saints
from Never Go Home Again (EP)

"Born to Be a Bachelor"
Gaelic Storm
from How Are We Getting Home

#5 Flogging Molly

"Factory Girls" with Lucinda Williams
Flogging Molly
from Within A Mile of Home

"The Orange and The Green"
Brobdingnagian Bards
from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales

#4 Amadan

"Johnny Cope/Green Groves of Erin"
Amadan
from Hell-Bent 4 Victory

"Banshee's Jigs"
Switchback
from Bolinree

#3 Fardaxu

"El Pericote"
Fardaxu
from Revolucion Celta

"Gwydion's Song to Lleu"
Emerald Rose
from Archives of Ages to Come

#2 The Elders

"Moore St. Girls"
The Elders
from American Wake

"Back When the Craic Was Grand"
Boston Blackthorne
from Better Late Than Never

Next time music from Niamh Parsons, Sarah Dinan, and Heather Dale in a special feature on Celtic women. Find out more about the podcast at http://www.celticmusicpodcast.com/

#1 The Bloody Irish Boys

"Drunk Tonight"
The Bloody Irish Boys, http://www.thebloodyirishboys.com/
from Drunk Rock

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Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats. He is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards. He is also Celtic music podcaster and promoters as well as publisher of Celtic MP3s Music Magazine.

These days, I'm always amazed by our shows. It seems like just yesterday that Andrew and I were trying to figure out how to make our live show better. Now it seems just about every show we do is not only completely original, but a helluva lot o'fun. That's a difficult combination to achieve, but it is also a total delight.

Tonight's show at Mother Egan's was like that. We made a number of new fans, sold more CDs than we expected AND YET I was sick! I've been fighting a sinus infection I picked up on the airplane back from New York. Yet our show still went over great. That's just amazing.

Thanks to everyone who made it out.
Slainte!