Hanson mention for Best Christmas Songs

‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’
–U2 (1987)
It’s been covered by Cher, Hanson, Death Cab and Jon Bon Jovi, all of which makes sense: the song manages to be sassy, juvenile, shut-in and Jerseyish at once. A standout by Darlene Love on ‘A Christmas Gift for You, From Phil Spector,’ U2’s bighearted version trumps the original, not least because it features Love on backing vocals.

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Hanson mention on causecast

New York Walk – postponed

The walk on December 1st has been postponed due to personal reasons. We will be rescheduling it for some time in the beginning of next year, and will announce the new dates as soon as they are confirmed.

Article: Celebs, Pols to join housing works 24 hour world aids vigil on december 1

Pop band Hanson, Miss New York, Comptroller Thompson to participate

On December 1, 2008, Housing Works will hold its annual 24-hour “Reading of the Names” vigil in City Hall Park to commemorate the lives of people who have died of AIDS and remind New York City and State officials that they need a strategy to stem the rising tide of HIV infections. For 24 hours, hundreds of Housing Works staff, clients and volunteers will continuously read the names of thousands of people who have died of AIDS.

Housing Works will be joined by New York City Comptroller William Thompson Jr., Miss New York Leigh-Taylor Smith and Grammy-nominated band and AIDS activists Hanson.

WHAT: Annual “Reading of the Names” vigil
WHEN: From 12:01 am to midnight, December 1, 2008
WHERE: Southern tip of City Hall Park at Broadway and Park Place
WHO:

New York City Comptroller William Thompson Jr. (reads at noon)

Leigh-Taylor Smith, reigning Miss New York (reads at 7:15pm)

Grammy-nominated band Hanson (arrives approximately 9:30pm)

Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control released data showing that the rate of new HIV infections among New York City residents is three times the national average. Approximately 10 percent of the more than 1 million people in the U.S. living with HIV/AIDS live in New York City.

“It is unconscionable that even before the current national fiscal crisis hit, our elected officials slashed funds for HIV prevention and testing. We hope that the echoes of the names of those who have died from AIDS ringing through City Hall Park on World AIDS Day will remind our leaders of their responsibility to fight AIDS,” said Housing Works President and CEO Charles King.

HOUSING WORKS is the largest community-based AIDS service organization in the United States, as well as the nation’s largest minority-controlled AIDS service organization. Since our founding in 1990, we have provided lifesaving services, such as housing, medical and mental health care, meals, job training, drug treatment, HIV prevention education, and social support to more than 20,000 homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.

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Take The Walk Book

The Take The Walk Books have started being shipped out and many have already received theirs. If you’ve gotten yours already (mine is still in transit!) Please leave a comment with your thoughts on the book! Also – did you spot yourself in any of the photos in the book? Or perhaps you took a photo in the book and would like to point out which one(s)? (I hear that no credit was given so perhaps we can figure out who to give credit to here!)

HansonTickets.com is on hiatus

Not by choice, mind you. I have plenty that I could be doing but unfortunately my hard drive where I store all the data for the site went “bad” and I am in the process of having it sent off to hopefully be recovered. (If not, everything is still uploaded so I can get it all back, no major worries there!) I am still saving the ticket stubs as they are emailed and removing them from the list stickied up top, so please don’t stop sending in content – just know it won’t be posted for a while.

Also – the penny fund raiser is doing GREAT – there are only about 10 more pennies left and you can still visit the Donate page to find out how to get your hands on one of these! Remember they were limited to 300 being pressed and once they are gone, they are gone! I hope to mail off the second donation to HIVSA via Global Strategies before Christmas!

And if you have any concert-related content you think should be added to hansontickets.com when I can get it updated again – let me know! Would you like to see set lists there or do you get them from somewhere else? Anything else other than the tickets you’d like to see?

Article: Stop ‘Stop the Bop!’

This article was sent to me from one of my penny collector friends – Thanks Linda!

OK, I’m not knocking philanthropy or student involvement, but this ‘Stop the Bop!’ thing is just lame. Yes we’re all glad they are raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network and Little Lebowski’s Urban Achievers or whatever, but couldn’t they find a better way to do it?

For those not familiar with ‘Stop the Bop!,’ Knight-thon plays that annoying tune you love to hate by the Hanson boys, ‘MMMBop,’ in order to solicit donations to its charity. When they reach a certain goal they stop (not sure if its a daily goal or a larger goal). It’s sort of like torture, you know that thing that America does not do.

The problem is this, the people they are trying to annoy into donating are jetting through the common area of the Union. Most of them will only hear the song once as they dodge the gauntlet of posters and 2-4-1 Scoops fliers. The song only really gets to you the second or third go around so the only people they are truly annoying are the other students tabling in the area and they are the least likely to get up and donate money.

To be honest, I get a little nostalgic when I hear the song. It’s like watching VH1 during during their “I love the [insert decade here]” shows. Sure you would never listen to or watch any of that stuff habitually again, but hearing it once in a while isn’t all bad.

I know the ‘Stop the Bop!’ thing is just a small part of the Knight-thon fund raising machine, but it seems trite and a little pointless. It was fun the first time but now it seems like an exercise in futility. I could be wrong, they might be raising tons of money unbeknown to me, however I don’t exactly see people rushing the donation can or anything.

Then again, the whole endeavor was annoying enough for me to snap a picture and spend 20 minutes writing this post. Maybe it is working after all.

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‘Stop the Bop’ seems to be a popular fund raising idea in schools, did your school do something like this? I’m not sure that hearing MMMBop over and over again would really bother me that much, when I was younger and got in trouble I would put my 4-track MMMBop single on repeat in my room in an effort to piss off my parents. I think I’ve desensitized myself from any effects of going insane from hearing it over and over. (Unlikes the guys in their SNL skit, lol)

If you school did anything like this over this year and there are articles from your student publication – please send them in.

Video from Tour

Austin from everybody else posted a video on his facebook of some of the antics during the last show.

You do have to be a facebook member to view the video.

Article: Mmm-Bop Barefoot!

90’s boy-band Hanson (Isaac, Taylor & Zac) end their barefoot walk as they bring attention to the poverty and AIDS crises in Africa during their ‘Take the Walk’ tour in San Diego, Calif. on Sunday.

Check out their dirty feet!

Isaac is now 28, Taylor, 25 and Zac, 23! How time flies!

WHO WAS YOUR FAVORITE Hanson brother & Hanson song?

10+ pictures inside of Hanson getting Mmm-bop barefoot…

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Isaac’s Birthday

Someone at “The Sunday Paper” needs to do some research it looks like…

Former boy-bander Isaac Hanson makes it to 28 Nov. 17. Let him serve as a reminder to the Jonas Brothers about the fleeting nature of fame.

Former? I didn’t know that if you were still touring and recording in the same band for over 10 years you would be considered a “former” anything. Or if Hanson ever should have been considered a “boy band”, at least not in the *NSYNC sense of the word…

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