Help For The Holidays

UMe has created the ultimate holiday widget so you can keep all of your shopping needs straight – it’s a great tool that I think your readers on Widsets will find useful during this time. It’s all set up with a checklist for all of your gift giving ideas, and also includes recommendations and some cool games featuring UMe artists like a Rob Zombie Hangman game, a Jimi Hendrix crossword, Bob Marley, Insane Clown Posse, plus puzzle games of hundreds of album covers of your favorite UMe artists from U2 to James Brown to Weezer and many, many, more…

UMe holiday widget:

http://ume.f2m2.com/giftlist

Led Zeppelin.

Let's keep it pretty simple and just bask in the glory in having our beloved return to us.

You must check out the vintage videos on Zeppelin's Myspace Page here.

and then

Compare and contrast to the awesomeness of their O2 performance here!

Sheryl Detours With "Detours"

Singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow will release her sixth studio album, Detours, on February 5, 2008. The album marks the return of producer Bill Bottrell, who previously worked with Crow on her breakthrough debut album Tuesday Night Music Club, which earned the singer three Grammy Awards, and sold more than ten million copies worldwide.

“This is the most honest record I’ve ever made. It’s about being forced to wake up,” says Crow. Lyrically the album is the most politically and personally outspoken record of her career, addressing the current state of the world from different perspectives as well as some of the personal challenges she’s faced over the last several years. The album, which in the end remains spiritually hopeful, retains the raw freshness of Bottrell’s Tuesday Night Music Club-production and subtly pushes the boundaries of her previous work into new musical territories. Track titles include “Shine Over Babylon” (currently available on iTunes, and the centerpiece of the album in Crow’s opinion), “Love Is Free,” the Arabic-tinged “Peace Be Upon Us,” “Lullaby for Wyatt” (from Grace Is Gone, starring John Cusack) and the stark folky album opener “God Bless This Mess.”

Sheryl can be seen performing tracks from Detours on CNN’s “Heroes” on CBS’ “A Home for the Holidays” on December 21st.

Be sure to check out the new video for “Shine Over Babylon” at Sheryl’s YouTube page HERE.

Season of the Witch in Hard Cover

Prepare to be seduced…

A gothic thriller for the twenty-first century, Season of the Witch tells the tale of two beautiful witch sisters and the love triangle that consumes the man sent to investigate them.

Gabriel Blackstone is a hacker, information thief, and skilled “remote viewer” – he makes an excellent living stealing other people’s secrets. When a former lover asks him to look into the disappearance of her stepson, Gabriel’s investigations lead him to Monk House, a rambling Victorian home where time seems to stand still. Gabriel becomes increasingly bewitched by the house, and by its owners, the beautiful, enigmatic Morrighan and Minnaloushe Monk.

The sisters are “solar” witches, obsessed with the study of alchemy and the Art of Memory, a practice invented by the ancient Greeks. Gabriel believes that his client’s son has been murdered and that one of the women is the killer. But which one? Gabriel finds himself drawn inexorably deeper into the sisters’ complex world – becoming entranced even as he realizes he is in mortal danger.

Swirling together elements of the Matrix, Interview with the Vampire, and The Historian, this enthralling novel takes on big themes – love, death, alchemy, the power of the human mind to transform and transcend reality – and will beguile and entrance all who turn its pages.

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