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A Day In The Life, Concerts, Contests, Culture, NYC, Paul McCartney, Photos, The Beatles, Videos

Paul McCartney’s Secret Gig at the Highline Ballroom

June 14, 2007by Sean Henri9 Comments

Paul McCartney at the Highline Ballroom

I’m back from the Paul McCartney concert!  Time for the recap:

Let me go back a few weeks to explain this.  About a month ago I
found out that Paul McCartney would be doing some type of live
performance in NYC to promote his new album Memory Almost Full.  Any
large-scale world tour would be postponed to next year due to "personal
issues" (his divorce from Heather Mills).  So being a huge Beatles/Paul
McCartney fan, I did some intense research until I found out the
details of what would be going down.

I found out that the show was going to be a small-scale "secret"
show about two weeks ago and that I’d have to win tickets through a
radio station contest in order to go.  Only a few hundred contest
winners and invited guests would be given tickets.  So after looking
through the websites of nearly every FM radio station from the
country’s major cities, I finally found a contest where you could enter
a raffle to win tickets by correctly answering 20 questions about
Paul.  I didn’t win.  But my friend Steph did, and she offered to take
me.  Amazingly, my friend Bret won as well and offered to take my
brother Justin.  So now we had 3 people from CT’s smallest town attending a concert that thousands of people from around the world were trying to go to, and I was one of them.

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Art & Design, SCSU

The new Southern News website

April 25, 2007by Sean HenriNo Comments

Southern-News.com

I was hired to give SCSU’s student newspaper’s website a cleaner, more modern look and to keep it up to date with each new weekly edition.  The previous website hadn’t been updated since October, and it looked like it was designed in the mid-90’s.

I think what I’ve come up with works very well.  I tied in SCSU to the design by using the school’s colors and by including the column of the school logo.  I used a Gothic font for the first two letters in the banner but I didn’t want it to feel too stiff, so I switched it over to a more simple serif font for the rest of the letters.  I tried to make the articles very easy to read and the structure easy to navigate.  I also tried to set it up in a way to encourage readers to leave feedback and to share the articles via Facebook and email. 

So far I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback and students seem to be using the site as I intended them too.  We had over 1,000 visitors during the first day and the traffic has remained steady ever since.  If you check it out please let me know what you think.

http://Southern-News.com

A Day In The Life, Concerts, Culture, NYC, Paul McCartney, Photos, The Beatles

Ecce Cor Meum at Carnegie Hall

November 15, 2006by Sean Henri5 Comments

Ecce Cor Meum at Carnegie Hall

Last night Steph and I went back into the city to attend the United States premier of Paul McCartney’s latest classical album Ecce Cor Meum.  The concert took place at Carnegie Hall, which was one of the few major places in the city that I had yet to visit.  We arrived minutes before the show was to begin, walked right in and took our seats on the main floor.  We were excited, but not shaking with anticipation as I had thought we’d be, probably because we had just met Paul the day before, but still, it was great to be there and I couldn’t wait for it to start.

A minute or two before the performance was scheduled to start Paul entered a box maybe 10 feet directly above us and sat down with a bunch of celebrities.  The crowd went nuts and many got out of their seat to get closer.  Eventually they sat everybody down and the show began.

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A Day In The Life, Concerts, Culture, NYC, Paul McCartney, Photos, The Beatles

How I Met Paul McCartney

November 13, 2006by Sean Henri27 Comments

I have now met one of The Beatles.  The other day I finally got to meet Sir Paul McCartney, the most successful popular-music composer and recording artist ever, at the Times Square Virgin Megastore in NYC.

Meeting Paul McCartney

It took some effort to get the opportunity.  Steph and I arrived 22 hours before he was scheduled to arrive.  We had expected maybe 30 people or so to already be standing in line, but instead found a line that wrapped all the way around the corner and down W 46th St.  A man towards the front of the line started passing down a list for people to sign, and we found that we were the 114th and 115th persons in line.

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The Outdoors

Getting Lost on the Appalachian Trail

June 16, 2003by Sean HenriNo Comments

My friend and I once decided to go on a backpacking trip along the Appalachian Trail. It’s probably the best known hiking trail in the United States, and stretches all the way from Maine to Georgia. It climbs over some of the nation’s highest peaks east of the Rockies, and can be a challenge even for the most experienced hikers.

Steve and I were both Eagle Scouts and had gone backpacking on countless other occasions.  We had full confidence we could pull this trip off. We were thinking of maybe doing a 20 mile stretch through the Massachusetts section, going 2 days in one direction and then 2 in the other. We knew it would be challenging, but challenges can be fun. So we did a tiny amount of research – getting all of our maps from the internet. Sadly, we thought this would be enough. We’d soon learn otherwise.

And so we went. We had perfect weather, and plenty of food, clothes and equipment.  The trail was clear cut, well marked, and provided us with stunning views of nearby mountain peaks and the occasional waterfall. It was only minor ups and downs, and with the comfortable temperatures and lack of humidity giving us a boost in energy, we were finding ourselves way ahead of schedule.

By 3PM we had hiked our first full 10 miles and reached our destination for the night. It was an aging shelter filled with an abundance of annoying mosquitoes. I took one look at the shelter and said "you wanna just push on to the next shelter?" “Of course”, he said. So we pulled out the map and saw that the next shelter was only 3 miles down the trail.  It was a no-brainer to just continue on.

Three miles came and went, but we there was no shelter. Another half mile, another mile… we were lost. Maybe the maps we had printed from the internet weren’t that great after all!

But we pushed on, it was crucial that we found the shelter because we were running very low on water and the shelter was our next source. "Keep going" we kept telling one another.  But there was still no shelter. The sun was setting, we were starting to get blisters on our feet, and despite the comfortable temperature we were drenched in sweat.

We never found it. The sun had now set and our mouths were so dry we could no longer even talk. My tongue began to swell and I could no longer bear the weight of my pack. I dropped it on the ground, and without even saying a word Steve dropped his and began setting up his tent.

We looked around for any drop of water- no puddles, no mud. Nothing. We were in deep trouble. I thought that maybe if I tried eating my stew the water content could help somewhat, but my mouth was so dry I couldn’t even swallow it.  I went to sleep that night wondering if I would even wake up. I couldn’t imagine having the energy to walk back to the nearest road. It seemed hopeless.

We woke up early the next morning, dehydrated, exhausted, and in pain.  But somehow we managed to make it back to the road, and hitchhiked into town.  The one bright side to our disastrous trip: our driver was a hot young girl in a bikini.  It was a true miracle.

She dropped us off at some cheap motel where we crashed for the night and recovered from our miserable hiking trip.  It was the best night’s sleep I’ve ever had.

One problem remained: we still had to get ourselves back to the car, and it was close to ten miles away.  Once again we had to hitchhike.

But this time there was no beautiful girl in a bikini.  It was a creepy redneck driving a beat up car from the 1970’s.  He had two huge dogs in the backseat and as soon as he got out we were regretting ever sticking up our thumbs.  He called us over and suggested we toss our backpacks in the trunk.  “Let me just move this gun farther back so your packs don’t rest on it” he said.  That should’ve been our cue to run, but for some unexplainable reason we still got in. 

Once again we thought we might die.

But soon enough we saw our parked car coming up in the distance, and we made it back alive.  We came back a day early and a bit humiliated, but we had a damn good story to tell.

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