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Happy MOVE Day!!!

Today is the day Third Day's new CD MOVE comes out! Woo hoo! You are going to LOVE this! It's also the day we MOVE into the new ThirdDay.com with it's new all-inclusive online community Third Day Connect! This is like Christmas for Third Day fans! We've so many presents to open from the band today!

Speaking of presents, or actually prizes, I've got two more autographed copies of MOVE to give away. The winner of yesterday's Countdown to MOVE-1 Day Contest is Leslie! Congratulations Leslie! 

Here is the last contest. This is the Happy MOVE Day Contest! Last round of questions. Third Day is planning a spring MOVE Tour:

1. What bands or artists would you like to see them tour with? ("Alone, where they play for 3 hours," is not an option as an answer. We all want that. That goes without saying. :) )
    
2. What do you want to hear them play? (For example: the entire MOVE album start to finish, or their greatest hits, or lots of old school songs, or just the hits, or all requests, etc.)
    
3. If they were to grant you three song requests, which three songs would you want them to play?

New Third Day Website & Community - Third Day Connect

Third Day has given us a brand spankin' new website and a new online community called Third Day Connect. If you are a WIRED member, you've already gotten your email invitation to come join us there. If you're not a WIRED member, you'll be invited by Tuesday, when Third Day's new CD, MOVE, drops. 

You are going to love the new site! There's so much to do there! One major upgrade is that now everyone can listen to Third Day concerts without being a WIRED member! You can also see set lists from the concerts, and you can click on each song to read all about it. There is just so much to do on the new website, you could get lost in it for hours!

Watch the Tour Live Tonight!

Tonight Third Day and the Make A Difference Tour are in Austin, Texas. I'll be there with a lot of Gomer friends. If you are not there with us in person, you can be there in spirit, and watch it live from your computer! Watch it stream live by registering here: http://ezshare.me/madtour2010

Text "Haiti" to Celebrate Third Day's GRAMMYs This Sunday!

Here's another way to celebrate Third Day's GRAMMY wins this Sunday by giving to help those affected by the earthquake in Haiti. (See the post below for the full explanation of what we are doing.)

As you are watching the pre-telecast part of the GRAMMYs on www.GRAMMY.com/Live, every time Third Day, or any of your other favorite artists wins an award, make a donation by texting the word “HAITI” to 40579 on your mobile phone. Your $10 donation will be added to your phone bill. (Standard text messaging rates may apply.)

Your donation will go to the NRB's (National Religious Broadcasters) Haiti Relief Fund. They’re working with NRB member organizations like Compassion International, Samaritan’s Purse, and Operation Blessing, who are qualified to bring both material help and spiritual hope to those in need. And it couldn't be easier than to give by texting!

Please share this idea (and the previous post) with your friends. Such a simple and fun way to celebrate with a purpose!

Watch Third Day Win Three GRAMMY Awards Sunday!

Guess what? We can watch the pre-televised part of the GRAMMY Awards, the part where they give out the Gospel awards, LIVE! How exciting to get to watch Third Day receive their three GRAMMYs! Just go to GRAMMY Live and watch!

Win a Mark Lee Special Edition PRS Guitar

From ObscureGenius.com

There are several ways to have a chance. And you are not limited to one! Just follow the instructions below Mark Lee's picture.

Paul Reed Smith Guitars and Third Day have had a long history of mutual admiration. Mark Lee faithfully leans on his extensive line of PRS guitars, and the fine folks at PRS really like to hear the rock music that emits from his playing. What a great pair!

Finally, PRS and Third Day have paired up to produce a Special Edition SE One guitar dedicated to Mark Lee. The pick guard is etched with Mark's autograph, and Third Day's "Come Together" logo is embedded in the fret board. This guitar is finished in "Revelation Red" to commemorate the success of Third Day's latest release "Revelation". A black PRS soft gig bag (back-pack style) is also included. Scroll down to see entry methods. Don't forget about the Live Interactive Web Conference with Mark Lee TONIGHT!

Register here and ask your question for Mark Lee!

Enter to win:

TWITTER
Start following @obscuregenius and Tweet the following:

Third Day PRS Guitar in need of home http://budurl.com/mlguitar

FACEBOOK
Become a Fan of the Obscure Genius Facebook page and leave a comment.

WEBSITE
Create an account at Christian Rocker.com at no cost. 

ATTEND THE EVENT
Register now for free! This will get you into the event tonight and register you to win the guitar.

Participate in the Mark Lee Interview on ObscureGenius.com

Mark Lee will be answering your questions on ObscureGenius.com, the same website that interviewed me back in May of this year. If you listened that night, or downloaded and listened to the interview since then, you know that they like to keep it light and fun, while at the same time probing a little deeper than most interviews have time to, so this should be interesting! 

The interview is live and interactive on your computer or phone (You don't even need to be near a computer, as long as you have a phone!) Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at 9:30 PM Eastern Time. But you do need to register. Sign up here to be a part of this event! If they ask Mark questions like they asked me,and I know they will, it will be a very entertaining night!

Don't forget, if you sign up, not only do you get to listen, you also get to participate and ask Mark Lee your questions about Third Day! Sign up now, and start thinking up those questions!

UPDATE: Mark Lee PRS Guitar Giveaway! http://budurl.com/mlguitar

Mac's Q&A Twitter Session

Last night, while we were having fun with "You might be a @ThirdDay @3DGomers if . . ." on Twitter last night, Mac Powell (on Twitter he's @MacPowell) was having some fun of his own. He opened the floor for fan questions. In case you missed it, here are the questions and his answers. (Keep in mind, you only have 140 characters on Twitter, hence the abbreviations and short answers. All of these are tweets by Mac. The beginning part "RT" means "Retweet" which means he's copied hte question the person asked, along with their Twitter username at the beginning. Mac's answer is at the end of the question. I made his answers in Bold and Italics.)

• any one have any questions?
  
  
• RT @kjbug40: when u come 2 knoxville (me & my dad will b there!) in October can we hear some Rocky Top? none of that Roll Tide stuff :) Nope
  
  
• RT @daddyzprinzess: @macpowell What in your life has surprised you the most? I can fall more in love with my wife and kids 

Take Part in a Live Online Gomer Party!

Don't forget to go to ObscureGenius.com and sign up on their email list, so you can participate in the Live Interactive Online Event tomorrow night!

I told you about this earlier here. It's a call-in show with me, and we can talk about Third Day, Gomers, GMA Week, anything you'd like (within reason, of course.) I think it's going to be a Gomer party! I hope lots of you will listen and call in!

Info from the ObscureGenius.com website:
EVENT: Corrine aka Mama Gomer - Live Interactive Interview
DATE & TIME: Thursday, May 14th at 9:30pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT, SIGN UP ON THE MAILING LIST

Hear you there!

Gomers on Twitter

I've just set up a Twitter account for the Gomers. You can see the feed there on the right. Come follow us for Gomer & Third Day updates! www.Twitter.com/3DGomers See you there!

Looking for a Revelation?

I know a lot of people have been going to the ThirdDay.com's online store lately looking for a copy of Third Day's newest release Revelation, but upon arriving at the store and clicking "Music" they find no link to buy Revelation. This is because we've been changing our store, making it new and improved! And now it is up! The new and improved Third Day online store! Come check out the new store!

And it's just in time to be filled with the presale of Third Day's new DVD Live Revelations: On Stage, Off Stage, Backstage! There's lots of cool package deals with the DVD, the CD, and a cool new tee shirt!

And don't forget, if you are a member of Third Day's Wired, you get a 20% discount on your ThirdDay.com store purchase! Not a member? Check out Wired here! There are so many awesome benefits, including special Meet & Greets after the concerts! And you get to listen to Live Third Day concerts whenever you want to, right from your computer! Definitely worth the price of admission!

New Third Day Website!

I have seen the future and it is bright and clean, beautiful yet very functional!

Third Day's Weblackey, Dale Manning, has a brand spankin' new Third Day website for you! Y'all are going to love it! Come check out ThirdDay.com to see for yourself!

Come On Home, Gomers!

I told you all about the new Gomertopia before it was opened. The time is here to come join! We have a lot of your friends and fellow Gomers on there already! So come join at www.ThirdDay.com/Gomer ! We're waiting for you! (Even if you don't consider yourself a "Gomer", come join us anyway! We'd love to have you!)

Brand Spankin' New ThirdDay.com!

The Third Day website has been re-vamped with lots of fun features! There are even coloring pages you can print out for the kids, and a library for cool Third Day scrapbooks, and lots of new things you can put on your computer and your webspaces. Plus, you can now pre-order Third Day's new CD Revelation! And as soon as you order, you can start listening to it! (Once again, instant gratification!) And we have a bunch of cool new things in the online store. There's more, but I'll let you find it all for yourself!!! Dig in!

Your Art, Your Revelation, on the new ThirdDay.com

Salvation Mountain is a real place. Located north of Calipatria, California, it has been entered to the congressional record as a national treasure. Leonard Knight created Salvation Mountain as a large public art project designed to send the message that "God Loves Everyone."

Third Day drew inspiration from Salvation Mountain to create the album cover for their new album, Revelation. The cover is an artistic interpretation of Knight's creation composed of the song titles of  the album to send our own message of God's love to the world.

Now here's where you come in.

Using Third Day's music as your inspiration, create your own piece of art, your own revelation. It can be anything from a short story inspired by a song, a music video, a short film, a painting, or a cartoon. Anything! We'll post your art on the Revelation page of the new Third Day website to share with the larger Third Day community.

Send your submissions to tdrevelations@gmail.com to be considered for placement on the website.

All video or audio samples must be uploaded to YouTube and link sent. Please: Do not send raw audio or video content.

We'd like to have some entries before the website goes up on April 23, which means we need them soon! Be the first to get your work displayed on the website!

New Single "Call My Name"

Third Day's new single, "Call My Name" from their upcoming CD Revelation, hits the airwaves this week!

Be listening to your favorite radio station to hear it. And don't forget to call and request it! You can listen  to a preview of the song on AllAccess.com. (You have to click Contemp Christian on the menu bar at the top, right, and look under Cool New Music. Click the song title.) And hear Third Day play it live at a number of concerts NOW on the WIRED Online Radio!

The new single will available for digital download first on AmazonMP3.com for a two week exclusive starting this coming Tuesday, April 8th leading up to the Dove Awards. The Doves are airing LIVE this year, and Third Day has a featured video spot of them performing "Call My Name," so be watching!

The Boards are Down

No, it's not your computer. The Third Day boards are down. We are moving to a new and improved server, so they will be down for a few days. So you don't go through too much withdrawal, you can use the comment space here to post, or visit the Third Day MySpace and the Gomers MySpace. And did you know there's a chat room inside Gomertopia? Log in and chat away! There's always someplace to post about Third Day!

It's almost here! The new Gomertopia!!!

I've just seen the new Gomertopia!!! Wow, you guys are just going to love it! Dale has outdone himself! Right now, we're testing it out, making sure it's all that we want it to be before we open it up to you all. Boy, is this going to be great!

The new Gomertopia is similar to Facebook, ShoutLife, and MySpace, in that you will have your own profile. When you log in, you will see a feed of what your friends are doing, and you can go to their profiles to visit them. You build up your profile with whatever you want people to know about you, your likes and dislikes, favorite things, as much of your background as you'd like to share, your philosophy of life, favorite scripture, all kinds of things. You even have your own place to blog! And it will be safe from spam and the other nasty things that go along with MySpace.

And you know how hard you work to post your photos in the tour forums and Creative Arts forum, only to have them deleted after a while? Well, on the new Gomertopia, you will have your own photo albums! You can display your concert photos, family photos, all your photos, right on your own profile!

I think of it as each of us having our own little homes, right on Gomertopia. I've always thought of the Third Day message boards as our town square. When you go there, you can see who all is there. You go into the shops to look around (the forums). When you find something that interests you (a thread) you can check it out further and discuss the subject with everyone else. You can private message people and see a little about them on their profile, but that profile is very limited. To know someone well, you have to go to their house and see what it's like, what pictures do they have on the wall, how is it decorated, what kind of a host are they, things like that. So while we'll still have the boards, our town square, to get together and discuss things and chat, now we'll be able to show more of our own personalities in our own Gomertopia homes.

And like the boards, which has a nice, clean, friendly Christian atmosphere without being watered down or so safe that you can't discuss the real issues of the day, crack a joke, or poke fun at a your friends, Gomertopia will also be clean and safe. I know many Christians don't have MySpace profiles because of the spam, X-rated friend requests, and other nastiness on there. But you can be assured that the new Gomertopia will be kept free from all of that, the same way the boards are.

So now you are wriggling in your seat, because you can't wait to see the new Gomertopia and join up, right? Well, just a little while longer now and you will be able to! So start gathering your thoughts about what you will post on your profile, and your photos for your photo albums, and get ready for the new Gomertopia!!!

I'm drooling here

At Rock the Universe in Florida a couple of weeks ago, I broke my phone. It was all Mac Powell's fault. He told us to take pictures of David Carr singing Happy Birthday to his son Wyatt, and I always do what I'm told. ;) It had been raining, hard, for a good part of the evening (if you read my review, you already know that part). By the time Third Day played, the rain had stopped, but my fingers were still damp and pruney. When I tried to take a video of David singing, I must have gotten some dampness from my fingers into the phone's keypad, because after that moment, my keys only work every great once in a while. All that to say, I need a new phone.

I'm falling in love with (drooling over)

Texting

We just can't leave our technology behind, no matter where we go. Isn't it wonderful to be so close to our friends, no matter how far away they are?