I'm back and blogging....

Thanks to everyone who has contacted us with best wishes and positive comments on The Bridget & Carey Show. We have way too much passion to watch from the sidelines, hopefully we will be back on the air in the very near future. Please check back here often, as I'll be posting several weekly updates. In the meantime, if you know of a solid opportunity in Austin Media, online, TV, Film, Radio, PR, or marketing, write me at careysonair@yahoo.com or go to my Facebook page and message me! You call also call or text message me at 281.660.1277. Thanks!
Carey

Jagged Little Pill...

Like I mentioned on our B&C Show today, I have had a sleeping problem for years and for a long time I had been keeping my weird stories about what has happened to me while on Ambien CR to myself and just a few close friends. After I finally decided to talk about my problems with Ambien on the show today, I was blown away by the response we got for hours on the request line (512.390.5947). I was always aware on the side effects of Ambien and read some of the scary sleep-driving stories of people who take Ambien in the New York Times.
But not until I brought this up on our show today, did it really hit me...I need to stop taking this sleep med! We got calls that never made it on the air today, simply b/c there wasn't enough time, from listeners that had gotten DWI's while on Ambien, had sex without realizing it, even one woman who had siad her uncle committed suicide while on the sleep drug! I've been online looking at even more Ambien nightmare stories and now I'm wide awake with the reality that Ambien is probably not for me. Check out some of our listener responses here. Maybe you have a story about Ambien...write me! Thanks.

Austin area Doogler' could win it all.

Google is doing a cool contest for kids, called Doogle For Google" where the winning young Doogle'r gets their Google artwork displayed for millions on Google's home page. Here the info and how to vote.. Jadon Mann from Tippit Middle School in Georgetown is a finalist for the 7-9th grader group! Check out Jackn's artwork and vote for one of Austin's own kid! The winner also gets $15,000 college scholarship to be used at the school of their choice, a trip to the Google New York Office, a laptop computer, and a t-shirt printed with their doodle! And since Google gets several hundred million hits per DAY, that's major worldwide exposure!

U2

Check out the brand new U2 video, Magnificent. It's cool. The closest U2 comes to us is Houston on October 14th. Best seats still available are no where near the floor for an unbelieveable $250.00 a ticket! Damn.

Every dog has his day...

Saw online earlier today that the world's oldest dog is celebrating her 21st birthday with a party in New York at a dog hotel and spa...crazy!

Denice Shaughnessy of Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., said her dachshund, Chanel, would celebrate 21 years -- 147 dog years -- at a party in New York's Manhattan borough with a few of her closest canine comrades. Chanel was crowned world's oldest dog by Guinness Book of World Records after a 28 year old Beagle kicked the bucket last year. A great site for figuring your dogs age based on years, weight, and breed is here. According to this chart, my airedale, Blaze (who looks exactly like the airdale in this picture, is 62...crap! Maybe I should get her a doggie AARP card.

MTV Movie Award Nom's out today.

MTV's 2009 MTV Movie Award Nom's are out today with Twilight and Slumdog leading all the nominations. For the first time MTV is letting the audience vote on who really wins! You can vote here.BEST MOVIE (voting stays live throughout the 2009 Movie Awards ceremony)
•The Dark Knight - Director: Christopher Nolan, Producers: Charles Roven and Emma Thomas (Warner Bros. Pictures)
•High School Musical 3: Senior Year - Director: Kenny Ortega, Producers: Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush (Walt Disney Pictures)
•Iron Man - Director: Jon Favreau, Producers: Avi Arad and Kevin Feige (Paramount Pictures)
•Slumdog Millionaire - Director: Danny Boyle, Producer: Christian Colson (Fox Searchlight)
•Twilight - Director: Catherine Hardwicke, Producers: Wyck Godfrey, Greg Mooradian and Mark Morgan (Summit Entertainment)

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
•Angelina Jolie – Wanted (Universal Pictures)
•Anne Hathaway – Bride Wars (20th Century Fox)
•Kate Winslet – The Reader (The Weinstein Company)
•Kristen Stewart – Twilight (Summit Entertainment)
•Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount Pictures)

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
•Christian Bale – The Dark Knight (Warner Bros. Pictures)
•Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man (Paramount Pictures)
•Shia LaBeouf – Eagle Eye (DreamWorks SKG/ Paramount Pictures)
•Vin Diesel – Fast & Furious (Universal Pictures)
•Zac Efron – High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Walt Disney Pictures)

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE FEMALE
•Amanda Seyfried – Mamma Mia! (Universal Pictures)
•Ashley Tisdale – High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Walt Disney Pictures)
•Freida Pinto – Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight)
•Miley Cyrus – Hannah Montana: The Movie (Walt Disney Pictures)
•Vanessa Hudgens – High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Walt Disney Pictures)
•Kat Dennings – Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Columbia Pictures)

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE MALE
•Robert Pattinson – Twilight (Summit Entertainment)
•Taylor Lautner – Twilight (Summit Entertainment)
•Ben Barnes – The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Walt Disney Pictures)
•Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight)
•Bobb’e J. Thompson – Role Models (Universal Pictures)

My weekend take...

Friday night's Death Cab show at Austin Music Hall was the best people watching you could get this weekend in Austin, and Ben Gibbard, lead singer was on!...Mike Super's Illusionist show at The Paramount was amazing. Very cool to see it at The Paramount vs. some specially built Vegas stage with custom lighting, etc. The motorcycle stunt was c-r-a-z-y. Can't wait for Mike Super's show in January '10...Planet Cancer party at The Monarch Saturday night was off the hook! It was the Flamingo A GoGo Party and it rocked, way cooler than the past parties at The Monarch. You should volunteer for next years' event here if you are interested being apart of something very cool helping people in their 20's & 30's with Cancer. Next year I'll have to wear a pink Izod...get the "flock" outta here...Sunday at the lake was relaxing with great weather...Sunday night on the patio at The Belmont was perfect, those steak fajita apps and mussels rock...how was YOUR weekend? Write me back!
Carey

Coldplay just announced something cool...free CD's! A few hours about on twitter Coldplay http://twitter.com/Coldplay says it will give away free copies of a new live CD at most of its remaining live shows in 2009.

The disc, entitled "LeftRightLeftRightLeft," will be distributed free to attendees at all the band's shows, except festival venues, starting with its first North American tour date at West Palm Beach, Fla., on May 15

They're be in Houston right after that, 7/22 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion