Michael

hello friends and family. please pass this on to everyone. (slight correction...baltimore, not boston). thank you to each and every one of you for your continued support, love, and prayers through this difficult time. we truly appreciate it! you have all been touched by laurie's vibrant personality and strong will. thank you so much for everything!

much love,

amanda

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"Hi everyone.....I am in need of some great help from you and your friends....so please pass this message on.

A few of us are organizing a benefit for Laurie Marlatt. At this time it is set up for Saturday, March 18th....not a lot of time to prepare but from all of us and all of our friends we can pull this off.

Laurie met the million dollar mark on her insurance so it will no longer pay. They will be burdening the expense of the air flight back from Boston as well as her IU hospitalization, the ambulance ride home and hospice care. This benefit will help them to offset those charges.

We are going to do a dance, bake sale and auction combo. I am in need of bake sale items as well as if anyone would like to donate gift certificates, new items as well as craft items to be auctioned off. The auction may just be a silent auction...not sure yet because I am in the planning stages. The admission to the dance will just be a free will donation.

Please let me know what you or anyone else can do to help. I can be reached at at gkuhn96@verizon.net or my phone numbers are 932-4805 or 561-0827. I am currently on maternity leave so I am available one way or another.

Thank you for all of your help in advance. I know Laurie and her family appreciates all that we do to help her.

Gina Kuhn"

Friday!!! = Day 4 for me. Counts are at an all time low, which was the plan and as of tomorrow i'll be getting "60 million dollar man"-like hormone injections to boost the old stem cells into something like production.

Stem cells? - Controversial? My arse!

Anyway, as soon as things are on the up, I'll be producing th epodcast as per usual, well actually as per a bit better than usual. I'll finally be able to get in touch with the bands that have got in touch with me and actually get to see them, maybe do some stuff in studios and record some live stuff for the podcast. I'm pretty much itching to get going!

Also, in the spring we'll be hoping to get our weight behind a night at the sidebar dedicated to some quality rockabilly / skiffle / general fifties type music. This is us testing the water as we're going to try and record this and podcast some of it at a later date. If this all goes well, technically, we'll certainly be doing more live stuff, hopefully with some of the artists previously featured on the telecast.

That's pretty much it - I don't write in this much, see above for reasons. I may write again though if I get bored again before I get outta here!

See the message below from Sam of Lejeune and eiher email me or email Lejeune.

"Hello, Michael and fellow artists from telecast No. 11.

Sam Bishop from DC's Lejeune here. First off, thank you, Michael, for featuring us again in your podcast series---you always group us with fine company. Secondly, Lejeune is currently in the throes of putting together a mini-tour of the mid-Atlantic (with The April Skies from Hershey, PA) that would put through Baltimore on Thursday, 3/9. Might any of y'all have recommendations for a good point-of-entry club for a couple of pop/rock bands?

Any suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Cheers!

Sam/Lejeune

www.LejeuneMusic.com"

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I've never been much of a blogger really to be honest, but it's late - i'm pumped full of drugs and wide awake - so what the hell eh? Now, what do I even have to say? I'm glad that i managed to get T10 out on the website yesterday before I left the house as I want to try and keep things as consistent as possible.

You guys have been sending me some good stuff lately, keep that coming and if you're in a band, send your stuff in. If you know people in a band, hassle them to email me, If the music's good - I'll definitely play it!

Things will change after my transplant in that, believe it or not, I'll have far more time in the house so I'll be hoping to increase the podcast length and will be investing in some decent equipment as well. You only live once eh?

One of the major things I had to decide when I was diagnosed was whether or not to return to Scotland for treatment. To be honest there was some doubt in my mind as to whether I would have even been diagniosed as soon as i was had I been living in Scotland. I would have gotten the same treatment there, up to a point, I would not be going throught the transplant process should I have been there, that's for sure. - I think that in the long run, I made the best decision to stay here, you can't really argue with the quality of hospital here at hopkins - everyone I have came into contact with has been fantastic. I am well-insured though, it's just a shame that it may well be one rule for the goose and one or the gander...

The good news is that the next couple of Mondays should be OK, but after that I'll be putting them on as and when I get the chance.

I'll be undergoing my last RICE chemo this week, and then it's an Auto PBSC transplant - this means a hosptal stay, which means that the podcast will have to be taking a back seat for a wee while (not that it's really ever been in the front seat anyway).

Keep sending me music though as the iPod will be coming in with me and I'll be itching to give all the new stuff I've got a thorough listen.

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Alright. I’ve never really been that into this blogging thing really, to be honest I’ve never really seen the attraction in it, but since starting this I feel I really should be giving some sort of update on reaction / progress since we started.

What’s the point & why bother? Well originally the plan for Tiny Elephant, about 2 years ago, was to find bands and release records with the first project being a compilation CD featuring 10 bands from Baltimore. Not exactly the most original idea eh? Anyway, in order to do this we figured we would obviously have to attract bands, and what did we have to offer? Well – not much really - 2 guys with an idea of starting up a label, no money and no reputation. Baltimore already has many bands doing their own thing, releasing records and selling merchandise, any band worth their salt are doing this. We figured we’d wait for something to jump out at us.

Inspiration came in a weird way, I was listening to NPR and they had a section on podcasting – the guy they featured was a guy called Mark at the Tartanpodcast, he was podcasting unsigned and independent bands out of Scotland, and doing it very well. To be honest though, at that point I was just enjoying the music on the tartanpodcast, I am a bit slow though.

Tiny Elephant were concentrating on one band at this point, hoping to put out an EP for a local band. It was summer, we were being lazy. After a few months of listening to a few podcasts, and the implosion of the band we were focusing on we figured finding something new was the best option. So why podcast? – In short everybody gets something for nothing really, bands would get exposure, if people listened, we would get to find new bands, new music, quality music - and of course everybody would get to have a bit of fun.

So, to the real point, what’s been happening since we started? Well the response we’ve had from all the bands we’ve played has been fantastic, everyone seems to be glad to be getting involved and spreading word about the telecast. We’re going to be continuing pretty much as we have been, putting out quality local music, and also some from out of state – but the more we get from Baltimore the more we’ll play. Once we get technically better, we’d love to do some in-studio work with a few bands and do some session shows. Indeed we’ve already had some interest from a few bands interested in getting us down to their rehearsal space to record – we will be following this up and if you’ve any ideas, we’re always open. It’s also the plan to record some live shows and maybe some backstage stuff with artists also, again dependent on us ironing out some technical stuff. As well as that, we’ll hopefully be able to work on some band nights in Baltimore – after all, the whole idea is to enjoy the music.

Eventually we may put out some records, but at the moment I think we’ll be sticking to the podcast. Cheers, Michael.

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