To my great surprise and delight, I learned that The Chillcast with Anji Bee has been nominated once again for The People’s Choice Podcast Award. I want to thank all of you - whoever you are - that took the time to visit podcastawards.com to nominate your humble hostess. You are the best! Of course, this is just the first step, to win the award, I would need everyone to go back and vote for me between October 23rd and November 6th, 2008. Now, I am much more concerned that all of my fellow Americans vote in the presidential election on November 4th, but it would still be pretty darned cool to win an award for the Best Podsafe Music Podcast!!! I must admit that, as fun as it was to win the group award for ShowGirls in 2007, it would be way more fun to have my very own Podcast Award here in my studio.

Its always interesting to find out how fans discover my music and podcast, and sometimes the connections are surprising. A recent post on Second Arts blog details Morris Vig’s musical journey, courtesy of Second Life. Apparently a chance MoShang performance in SL lead to the discovery of Lovespirals (via MoShang’s remix of “Motherless Child,” no doubt), as well as The Chillcast with Anji Bee, which of course has always been a strong supporter of MoShang. Even more fun is that MoShang was Vig’s gateway into the chillout music scene. May I be the first to say, “Welcome!”

The show starts off with a bang as I serenade you… Heh heh! Chillcast news, Lovespirals news, dental news, tax news, my San Diego trip, Wong Kar Wai's new film My Blueberry Nights, checking out The Camp, building thechillcast.com in Word 2.5, Pod5 Idol, Nokia N810 campaign news and that's about it! If you are in the San Diego or Orange County areas and dig vegan or vegetarian food, definitely check out the restaurants listed below!

Showlinks:

• Sipz
• Ranchos Northpark
• Native Foods

I recorded this the same night I did the Chillcast Video Edition #5 , but it got lost in the shuffle until today. Since CocteauBoy loved my grandma's dress so much, I figured I put the video up so he could hear the story. (Hey baby!) Besides my dress, I also chat about the then-upcoming but now completed Chillcast NIU Support Collabocast — which I highly suggest you check out if you haven't already (here's the Chillin' with Lovespirals Episode #48 I mentioned) , a recent trip to the beach (here's that Anji Bee Flickr link I mentioned), ongoing house repairs, the opening of my new house that Kirsty Hawkshaw gifted to me in Second Life, the Lovespirals remix contest on Peace Love Productions, plus a bit of rambling about Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen and my night owl tendencies. Just so ya know, I'm not pushing the vidcast on my anjibee.com site anymore, I'm just making them for those of you subscribed to my feed on iTunes. Enjoy!

Additional Show Links:

• The Chillcast/Lovespirals Beach House in Second Life
• Anji Riel on SLBuzz

Download Chillin’ with Lovespirals #48 MP3

Ryan and Anji are back with news and updates about their recording gear, “This Truth” Remix Contest, launch of a new Lovespirals/The Chillcast Beach Cottage created by Kirsty Hawkshaw in SecondLife, Lovespirals Feature on SolipsisticNATION, and 2 touching listener emails; one from fellow indie musician Tony Pucci, and the other from a NIU Grad Student. Please feel free to send your own listener email or audio comments into the band at info[at]lovespirals.com or just leave a comment on my blog! Visit the band site at at lovespirals.com.

Lovespirals Chillin’ in their SecondLife Beach Cottage

In an ongoing series of spotlights on women podcasters, the Podcast Asylum featured The Chillcast earlier this month. This feature was brought to my attention by fellow podcaster pal, Daniel Johnson Jr., who is quoted in the article as saying:

Anji could read the phone book and I’d probably listen to it. She plays great chillout and electronica music, and I love listening to it at work.

You may also want to peruse their humorous list of Podcast Syndromes; on reflection, I think I may be suffering from a mild case of “Special Editionitis” here on The Chillcast, as I find myself just now celebrating Episode 100, when in fact, I’ve uploaded 130 podcasts to PodShow as of this week!