(Lainey) Elaine Garretson

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  • Lainey Elaine Garretson

  • 47 / Female
  • Plano, Texas, US
  • Last Login: 11/3/2009

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Details

  • Status: Married
  • Here for: Networking
  • Hometown: Dallas Texas
  • Zodiac Sign: Taurus
  • Occupation: Web Developer

Interests

  • General

    I really like these topics in my life
    My Dogs (fuzzy children), My husband Jamie (that big Norwegian berserker drummer), My music, PC Games, gardening, Information Technology. Scottish history BC (before Culloden)
    Creating things, my koi & koi pond, Computer science, Botany & biosciences, astro sciences, Dramatic Arts and acting techniques. I am a genealogist (Up to my ears in families and generations).
  • Music

    Vocal influences: Stevie Wonder, Charlie Wilson, Anne Wilson, Whitney Houston, Take 6, Brian McKnight, Steve Perry, Micky Thomas, Lena Horne, Chaka Khan, Bobby Kimble.

    Song Writing influences: Jim Corr, Elton John, Tears For Fears, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Acoustic Alchemy, Cheryl Crow, Kenny Loggins, Steve Morse, Eric Tagg, David Paich, The Chieftains, Bernie Taupin, James Newton Howard, Steve Lukather

    Orchestration influences: James Newton Howard, Thomas Newman, Ralph Vaughn Williams, John Williams.

    Favorite Movie Composers: John Williams, Thomas Newman, James Newton Howard, James Horner, Hans Zimmer, Andy Summers.

    Favorite Fusion Jazz players: Acoustic Alchemy, Russ Freeman, Tom Scott, Toto, Sting, Flim & the BBs, my band mates from North Texas State, Andy Summers, Jerrell Lamar(bassist from Houston Texas).

    Classical: Aaron Copeland, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Rimsky Korsakov, Vivaldi, Debussy, Andre Segovia

    Bands:(gosh where do I start?) Started out with my first band Pandora original and top 40 which did many concerts and opening for lots of bands like The Police and 38 Special, after breaking up I went to Karen Bella and Girls Girls Girls (I was a girl..lol), No Control, Emerald City (dallas), The Signal, Exact Change with Jerrell Lamar on bass and Dave Barnett guitar, Jim Abbott keys, Started another band The New Upsetters with Jerrell Lamar, O.T. Hayes on drums and Chris Smith keys,then went to a band called Big Time(who?), left to join a band with Joe McBride on keys/vox and O.T. Hayes on drums, Adam Palma on guitar, Shawn Letts keys in band called Heads Up. Then to the band "Geneva" which started with Bruce Cline and I ended up taking it over when Bruce bailed .. this band featured many different players including Keith Carlock on drums and Greg Beck on drums(a phenomenal bad ass!)at a different time. Ledell Ferrell bass and Kelly McNulty at one time on lead male vox and occasionally Rodney Bowen on sax including Randy Stevens keys and Rob Spindler keys. Geneva was one of the best bands in Dallas Texas for top 40 funk at that time. I'm old school and payed many dues to do my bands own originals through out the years.
  • Movies

    Acting Influences & Favorite Actors: Morgan Freeman, Ralph Fines, Jeremy Northam, Sean Bean, Merell Streep, Liam Neeson, Densel Washington, Dame Judi Dench, Jody Foster, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Billy Connolly, Helena Bonham Carter, Ioan Gruffudd(that Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts "RADA" keeps churning them out) Sidney Poitier, Willem Defoe, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Jim Caviezel, Martin Landau, Greggory Peck, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Ray Stevenson (Rome,HBO & King Arthur "Jerry Bruckheimer"), Gerard Depardeau, Christian Bale, Amanda Richardson, Clive Owen, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole (my fave), Christopher Reed, Hume Cronin, Kate Hepburn and Donald Sutherland, Emily Watson, Ken Watanabe any Strasberg actor.
    (more comical) Gene Kelly,Donald O'Conner,Jack Lemmon, Harrison Ford, Lucy Ball, Roselin Russell, Bette Midler, Robin Williams, Tim Curry, Jim Carey, Eddie Izzard

    Favorite Movies:Shawshank Redemption, Lord of the Rings, Patton, Road to Perdition, Out of Africa, Armistaad, Dead Poet Society, Amadeus, Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, Brave Heart, Rob Roy, Under the Tuscan Sun, Chocolat,To Kill A Mockingbird The Majestic. Anything with a great Strasberg Actor
  • Television

    Sci Fi, History International, Travel, Nasa channel, Discover,History Military,A&E
  • Books

    Sphere, Michael Crighton(so sad he passed away), Issac Asimov

    Diane Gabaldon Outlander series....I have to say I was breathtaken from the first two books Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber. Someone will make this into a movie...even though they will leave alot of stuff out of the script!

  • Heroes

    My ancestors from the Civil War, John Williams, Elton John, My Grandparents, My Ancestors from France in 1740, Great, great grand father John Westley Garretson, Great Great grand mother Annie West Wilson Garretson, My Scottish ancestors MacCulloch (of Thomas Mackulagh & Gallovidian McCullochs) and Mortons. My friends who went to war Desert Storm, Vietnam & Iraq both RAF, and US Army , Navy and Airforce, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Leonardo DaVinci, Jacque Cousteau, The Medieval Brits and Scots, Robert the Bruce, The Garretson's who ended up in Cornwall in 1066....lol..

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About me:

I was born and raised in Texas & have been a pro. musician since 1979....to present. I am a Web Integrations Specialist for E.A.N. (Expedia Affiliate Network) Expedia.com/Hotels.com and a web master of e-commerce sites and portals based in several types of Java frameworks.
I am the daughter of a classical composer and started playing piano and had ear training from age 4. I took after my father who also had a Masters in Music theory and composition and passed some of that knowledge down to me. I am also very scientific like dad too. I started playing guitar and flute at 16.
I sort of have that right and left brain thing switching on, back and forth at all times. So creativity and imagination are a couple of embedded brain processes I was never short of. I had been in choirs through grade school and wrote songs for contests during those years.
I have perfect to relatively perfect pitch,largely due to hearing wave forms and feeling the waves from notes as well as feeling waves or vibes from people and chord changes. To me it's the same thing and allows shaping that note or sound better vocally. I appreciate science in it's various different forms. I love animals and usually want to be around them more then humans.
Feelings and vibes are very important in my life
I admire and respect theories of the universe (space time continuum , cause and effect, the string theory etc.) and Albert Einstein is one of my heros as well as Steven Hawking.
I took acting a good part of my school years as well as camera acting classes and Strasberg classes. I love an intelligent sense of humor like Robin Williams and Eddie Izzard. I love to laugh and will find any opportunity to do so by laughing at myself. Life is to be laughed at and looked at on a higher level of thought process. I believe people should be honest no matter what, and treat others like we want to be treated. I'm not one to put people on a pedestal but to know any person for who they really are. I think everyone is different in their own unique way regardless of religion or where they're from and everyone should respect that in each other. Remember being kind and full of light comes from the depths of the heart. And is completely selfless.
I love intelligent and gifted people....... Life is determination working at what you believe in.
"...for us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one." Albert Einstein

Believe it or not I can't stand going to a club and listening to a top-40 band doing the same music everyone else is doing adn has been doing for 30 years. I enjoy listening to original live music and prefer it in a location other then a bar. I guess I lived too many years in bars playing the Top 40 scene. It's not original and life is too short. Back in those days I wanted to do more original music then someone else's music.

Who I'd like to meet:

Albert Einstein, Anne Wilson (Heart), Cheryl Crow, Gandhi, Ben Franklin, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Elton John, Tchaikovsky, Greggory Hines, John Williams, Thomas Newman, James Newton Howard, Robert Redford, Mary Queen of Scots, Leonardo Da Vinci, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Elizabeth I, General Colin Powell, Johnny Depp, Robin Williams (although we would probably just sit and laugh at each other ...no words needed)

That's what I'm talkin' about people
A real performance!

Networking

Comments

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  • Aug 10 2009 11:06 PM

    Thanks for inviting us. - Us
  • Jul 26 2009 1:45 PM

    Peter James' co-author, Gian Temperilli, will be on Radio Rod's show tonight at 10pm EST discussing newly captured Queen Mary EVPs.  Catch the archived show if you miss it.  Log in a little early to be a part of the broadcast.  To preview the EVPs beforehand, visit   mypace.com/peterjameslives   and visit the lates blog posting.  Enjoy all... 

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  • Jul 26 2009 1:44 PM

    Thanks for the add!

    Clan Murray

    Savage Crest

    Was Here!

  • May 30 2009 12:32 AM

    I thought you would like this. We should have covered this. I always wanted to play that song

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdq_xPcp8QI
  • Apr 19 2009 3:10 PM

    Thanks Lainey! Maybe one day we'll do one with your vocal on it.
    ;)
  • Mar 10 2009 2:32 AM

    Yea it was cool but we grew up :)
  • Mar 9 2009 11:21 PM

    You are the best :)
  • Mar 6 2009 10:32 PM

    Hi Lainey,

    Thanks for the welcome aboard. I know Peter would be greatly appreciative.
    I added footage Peter James conducting famed televised paranormal investigations under the ‘videos’ tag at myspace. com/peterjameslives

    Additionally, see the blogs for Peter James’ book discounts, co-author autograph offers and paranormal expert book reviews by Alexandra Holzer, KTLK Darkness Radio host Dave Schrader, Richard Senate, Heartland Ghost: Sallie’s House family member Debra Pickman, Planet Paranormal CEO Bob Davis, Producer / Director Chuck Williams, and many more. Enjoy all; and, feel free sign the dedicated myspace guestbook and leave comments at anytime...

    All the best,

    Gian Temperilli
    co-author
    "Heaven Can You Hear Me?" by Peter James

  • Mar 6 2009 3:13 PM

    Many thanks for the kind words and friendship.


    Love, Light and Music,
    -Alexandra
  • Feb 1 2009 3:35 PM

    It's been a while! I'm hoping all is well in Plano.
    Have an relaxing Sunday and let's do something!!! Btw, love Liam Nelson as Robert Roy McGregor too.;-)
    Give us a call,
    John
  • KK

    Jan 23 2009 12:25 AM

    thaaaaaaaaaaaaanks Elaine!

    It's an honour :)

    KK
  • Jan 17 2009 6:46 PM

    Hey great to see you!! It's amazing I was thinking of you 2 days ago!! Kisses.
    jerrell
  • Jan 17 2009 4:53 AM

    Girl after all these yrs.
    I am so happy really WOW!!!!! how did you find me?
  • Jan 16 2009 11:17 AM

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  • Jan 16 2009 7:23 AM

    Thanks for the comment and the very best to you Lainey!!
    Hope you enjoy!!
    http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=uYQtRWVhPXE
  • Jan 14 2009 4:31 AM

    Thanks Lainey!!! :)
    I appreciate the bday wish!!!
    ~D
  • Jan 11 2009 5:36 PM

    Heya Lainey!!!

    Thanks so much for the add... I don't know why it never hit me to send you a request... Duhhh!!! ;) LOL!!! I'm glad to have you on my friends list.
    :)

    ~D
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  • Nov 11 2008 7:50 AM

    Long time eh? :) Looks like you're doing well for yourself! I'm proud of you Lainster.
  • Nov 4 2008 7:37 AM

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    Hey Lainey - I hope life is treating you well.
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Companies

  • Lainey.com

    • Dallas, Texas US
    • Owner
  • Northrop and Associates.

    • LA, California US
    • Partner
    2007 ongoing
  • Match.com

    • Dallas, Texas US
    • Senior GUI Developer
    June 2007
  • Expedia.com

    • Dallas, Texas US
    • Senior Integration Developer
    November 2007