This was a very good day indeed on the Road to Oprah tour. :-)
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Happy Holidays!
Hope you are having a wonderful week full of cheer with your near and your dear.
I don't know how, but my improv team "Not From Chicago" won AGAIN last week, which means we will be defending our defending our hard-won Student Cagematch Champion Belt at the iO WEST's Andy Dick Theater in Hollywood TOMORROW NIGHT (Thursday) at 10pm.
As an added bonus, my dearest Patrick Ian Moore will be joining the team this week -- the first time we shall ever perform Improv together! -- as many of my teammates are home for the Holidays.
And to make this night even MORE momentous... IF we win this next match, we get the opportunity to compete on the MAINSTAGE (which is a big deal in Improv-land!).
So... there are many reasons that we'd love you to come, the primary one being that the whole thing is more or
less a popularity contest, so it is imperative that we have folks come out to laugh, cheer, and VOTE FOR US.
We are raw, we are rough, and we are willing to make arse's of ourselves in public. Huzzah!
Hope you can make it!
Much love & laughter
Juli (of the Genitals)
Come see "Not From Chicago" in
The iO WEST Student Cagematch
Thursday December 27th
Andy Dick Theater (entrance on Cosmo)
10pm
FREE!
(there's valet parking and everything! cheap bar!)
iO WEST is located at:
6366 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Corner of Hollywood & Cosmo
http://www.iowest.com
Hope you are having a wonderful week full of cheer with your near and your dear.
I don't know how, but my improv team "Not From Chicago" won AGAIN last week, which means we will be defending our defending our hard-won Student Cagematch Champion Belt at the iO WEST's Andy Dick Theater in Hollywood TOMORROW NIGHT (Thursday) at 10pm.
As an added bonus, my dearest Patrick Ian Moore will be joining the team this week -- the first time we shall ever perform Improv together! -- as many of my teammates are home for the Holidays.
And to make this night even MORE momentous... IF we win this next match, we get the opportunity to compete on the MAINSTAGE (which is a big deal in Improv-land!).
So... there are many reasons that we'd love you to come, the primary one being that the whole thing is more or
less a popularity contest, so it is imperative that we have folks come out to laugh, cheer, and VOTE FOR US.
We are raw, we are rough, and we are willing to make arse's of ourselves in public. Huzzah!
Hope you can make it!
Much love & laughter
Juli (of the Genitals)
Come see "Not From Chicago" in
The iO WEST Student Cagematch
Thursday December 27th
Andy Dick Theater (entrance on Cosmo)
10pm
FREE!
(there's valet parking and everything! cheap bar!)
iO WEST is located at:
6366 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Corner of Hollywood & Cosmo
http://www.iowest.com
Friday, December 21, 2007
My boy Patrick's art is being featured at one of downtown Los Angeles' best artist collectives, CATALYST - artist collective, this month!
They are having an awesome Dub/Electronica Art Party tonight from 10pm - 2am, and it's only $10 ($15 if you come after 11:30pm).
Patrick has 7 pieces hanging in the show, and it's happening here:
CATALYST – artist collective
2079 e 15th St
unit 330
LA 90021 CA
3 blocks West of Santa Fe, building runs from 14th to 15th Street
You may follow this link into your web browser for a google map:
http://www.google.com/maps?q=1941+Santa+Clara+St,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90021,+USA&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1
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Directions from Westside:
10 East thru downtown
exit Santa Fe - South
Take Right on Santa Fe
Take 1st Right after Olympic on 11th St (ignore sign that says 12th St)
At end of Street Take Left on Santa Clara (you can only go Left)
park on Left side across from huge brick building
use door next to “sec C” under the address
go to 3rd floor & knock on metal door at head of stairs
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Directions from Hollywood or the Valley:
101 South past downtown
Exit 7th St
Take Right on 7th St
Go over bridge & Take Left onto Santa Fe
Take 1st Right after Olympic on 11th St (ignore sign that says 12th St)
At end of Street Take Left on Santa Clara (you can only go Left)
park on Left side across from huge brick building
use door next to “sec C” under the address
go to 3rd floor & knock on metal door at head of stairs
Note: Just to confuse you the building has a second address – 1941 Santa Clara St. (same place kids but more accurate with all online maps & navigation systems).
They are having an awesome Dub/Electronica Art Party tonight from 10pm - 2am, and it's only $10 ($15 if you come after 11:30pm).
Patrick has 7 pieces hanging in the show, and it's happening here:
CATALYST – artist collective
2079 e 15th St
unit 330
LA 90021 CA
3 blocks West of Santa Fe, building runs from 14th to 15th Street
You may follow this link into your web browser for a google map:
http://www.google.com/maps?q=1941+Santa+Clara+St,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90021,+USA&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1
===============
Directions from Westside:
10 East thru downtown
exit Santa Fe - South
Take Right on Santa Fe
Take 1st Right after Olympic on 11th St (ignore sign that says 12th St)
At end of Street Take Left on Santa Clara (you can only go Left)
park on Left side across from huge brick building
use door next to “sec C” under the address
go to 3rd floor & knock on metal door at head of stairs
===============
Directions from Hollywood or the Valley:
101 South past downtown
Exit 7th St
Take Right on 7th St
Go over bridge & Take Left onto Santa Fe
Take 1st Right after Olympic on 11th St (ignore sign that says 12th St)
At end of Street Take Left on Santa Clara (you can only go Left)
park on Left side across from huge brick building
use door next to “sec C” under the address
go to 3rd floor & knock on metal door at head of stairs
Note: Just to confuse you the building has a second address – 1941 Santa Clara St. (same place kids but more accurate with all online maps & navigation systems).
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Holy crap!
My improv team "Not From Chicago" hath done it again. Tonight we won our 2nd Student Cagematch at the iO WEST, which means we're going up against a team of frisky newcomers next Thursday at 10pm. Mark your calendars!
Patrick is going to be joining my group as a "guest star" to fill in for vacationers, so this will be a rare opportunity to see the two of us improvise together for the FIRST TIME EVER! Woo-hoo!
We need LOTS of friends to turn out and VOTE FOR US because.... (drumroll please).... if we win NEXT week, we become the challengers in the MAINSTAGE cagematch at the BIG theater! That is very important in Improv land. Seriously.
So, please mark your calendars now... and please, please PLEASE come out and support us. The longer we win, the more experience we get on stage, and the better performers we become. There's only one way to get better in improv, and it's trial by fire, people! Come see us get burned. :-)
Love,
Juli
My improv team "Not From Chicago" hath done it again. Tonight we won our 2nd Student Cagematch at the iO WEST, which means we're going up against a team of frisky newcomers next Thursday at 10pm. Mark your calendars!
Patrick is going to be joining my group as a "guest star" to fill in for vacationers, so this will be a rare opportunity to see the two of us improvise together for the FIRST TIME EVER! Woo-hoo!
We need LOTS of friends to turn out and VOTE FOR US because.... (drumroll please).... if we win NEXT week, we become the challengers in the MAINSTAGE cagematch at the BIG theater! That is very important in Improv land. Seriously.
So, please mark your calendars now... and please, please PLEASE come out and support us. The longer we win, the more experience we get on stage, and the better performers we become. There's only one way to get better in improv, and it's trial by fire, people! Come see us get burned. :-)
Love,
Juli
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
This Thursday night at 10pm my improv team "Not From Chicago" will be defending our hard-won Student Cagematch Champion Belt at the iO WEST's Andy Dick Theater in Hollywood.
If you don't know what any of that means, let me explain:
A few months ago, I started taking Improv classes at iO WEST (formerly the Improv Olympic) and I fell in love. I found a nice group of dorks who enjoy making fun and furious long-form improv with me and we formed a team. We call ourselves "Not From Chicago".... as we are not from Chicago. Get it? Don't worry about it.
The important thing is that we participated in our first Cagematch last week (competitive improv!) and due to the fact that a bunch of friends turned out to vote for us, we WON! The whole thing is more or less a popularity contest, so it is imperative that we have folks come out to laugh, cheer, and VOTE FOR US.
If we win 10 times in a row, we end up on the Wall of Fame. If we just win a couple more times, we get to have the valuable experience of performing improv in front of a live audience.
For our first Cagematch, I hardly invited anyone I knew because I was petrified. Luckily, my teammates delivered and their friends turned up en mass. This week, it's my turn to show my bare ass to the world (metaphorically) and invite my friends and loved ones to come watch me wrangle with this new passion of mine. I am raw, I am rough, and I am willing to make an ass of myself in public. Huzzah!
Hope you can make it!
Come see "Not From Chicago" in
The iO WEST Student Cagematch
Thursday December 20th
Andy Dick Theater
10pm
FREE!
(there's valet parking and everything! cheap bar!)
iO WEST is located at:
6366 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Corner of Hollywood & Cosmo
If you don't know what any of that means, let me explain:
A few months ago, I started taking Improv classes at iO WEST (formerly the Improv Olympic) and I fell in love. I found a nice group of dorks who enjoy making fun and furious long-form improv with me and we formed a team. We call ourselves "Not From Chicago".... as we are not from Chicago. Get it? Don't worry about it.
The important thing is that we participated in our first Cagematch last week (competitive improv!) and due to the fact that a bunch of friends turned out to vote for us, we WON! The whole thing is more or less a popularity contest, so it is imperative that we have folks come out to laugh, cheer, and VOTE FOR US.
If we win 10 times in a row, we end up on the Wall of Fame. If we just win a couple more times, we get to have the valuable experience of performing improv in front of a live audience.
For our first Cagematch, I hardly invited anyone I knew because I was petrified. Luckily, my teammates delivered and their friends turned up en mass. This week, it's my turn to show my bare ass to the world (metaphorically) and invite my friends and loved ones to come watch me wrangle with this new passion of mine. I am raw, I am rough, and I am willing to make an ass of myself in public. Huzzah!
Hope you can make it!
Come see "Not From Chicago" in
The iO WEST Student Cagematch
Thursday December 20th
Andy Dick Theater
10pm
FREE!
(there's valet parking and everything! cheap bar!)
iO WEST is located at:
6366 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Corner of Hollywood & Cosmo
Friday, December 14, 2007
My improv group "Not From Chicago" just won our first student cagematch ever at iO WEST! Huzzah!
It was my first time performing Improv in front of an audience, our first time performing in front of an audience together, it was messy as hell, and tons of fun.
Yes, I know I didn't really tell anyone about this or invite anyone... I was scared! I wanted to get the first time out of the way in semi-private (Patrick was there to keep me calm) and NOW that it's over, I'm ready to shout from the tree tops and do my part to stack the audience in our favor. :-)
The whole Student Cagematch thing is more or less a popularity contest, so it is imperative that we have a bunch of friends to vote for us. The longer we stay in, the more experience we get, so that's awesome.
So I hope y'all can make it next Thursday and see me be a total spazz on the stage!
And be sure to come to the Evangenitals Record Release Party on Sunday, too!
Good times.
It was my first time performing Improv in front of an audience, our first time performing in front of an audience together, it was messy as hell, and tons of fun.
Yes, I know I didn't really tell anyone about this or invite anyone... I was scared! I wanted to get the first time out of the way in semi-private (Patrick was there to keep me calm) and NOW that it's over, I'm ready to shout from the tree tops and do my part to stack the audience in our favor. :-)
The whole Student Cagematch thing is more or less a popularity contest, so it is imperative that we have a bunch of friends to vote for us. The longer we stay in, the more experience we get, so that's awesome.
So I hope y'all can make it next Thursday and see me be a total spazz on the stage!
And be sure to come to the Evangenitals Record Release Party on Sunday, too!
Good times.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
the muck of sickness is upon me!
my nose is caked with slime & gunk and my throat feels like i swallowed broken glass. i tried to walk the dog and felt as if i were going to fall over. by the end of the walk i felt a little better, though my skin felt rather prickly.
i am now embarking upon a shower to cleanse myself of two days of sweat and sickness and purify my very soul. somehow i feel that this will cure me. i've got some dr bronners peppermint soap in there, so i know that i shall be blessed.
amen.
my nose is caked with slime & gunk and my throat feels like i swallowed broken glass. i tried to walk the dog and felt as if i were going to fall over. by the end of the walk i felt a little better, though my skin felt rather prickly.
i am now embarking upon a shower to cleanse myself of two days of sweat and sickness and purify my very soul. somehow i feel that this will cure me. i've got some dr bronners peppermint soap in there, so i know that i shall be blessed.
amen.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
I am eBaying!
That's right... I have officially and most joyfully burst my "selling on eBay" cherry. It is probably equal parts financial desperation and need to clear out some shizzz that I don't use at all, and it is fun!
The first item I put up was this video and film editing book that I bought long ago when I thought I was going to go to an editing school, and then didn't. It was really expensive, and still is, as you can see here:
I have a bunch of really good editing books that I'm going to be putting up for bidding. For someone who is actually an editor, I would think they'd be a score, so tell your editing friends to jump on the bidding train! I held onto these books forever thinking that I would someday read them and spend long hours learning to edit. This afternoon, in the midst of a crappy cold, I came to the realization that I've got other fish to fry and different artistic strengths to focus on! Huzzah.
That's right... I have officially and most joyfully burst my "selling on eBay" cherry. It is probably equal parts financial desperation and need to clear out some shizzz that I don't use at all, and it is fun!
The first item I put up was this video and film editing book that I bought long ago when I thought I was going to go to an editing school, and then didn't. It was really expensive, and still is, as you can see here:
I have a bunch of really good editing books that I'm going to be putting up for bidding. For someone who is actually an editor, I would think they'd be a score, so tell your editing friends to jump on the bidding train! I held onto these books forever thinking that I would someday read them and spend long hours learning to edit. This afternoon, in the midst of a crappy cold, I came to the realization that I've got other fish to fry and different artistic strengths to focus on! Huzzah.
Monday, November 26, 2007
I'm very excited about this!
I haven't seen Patrick in a play since "The Lonely Shopgirl" in 2001, and that was friggin' awesome.
Supposedly they've got him running around in tights and wigs and flouncy shirts and he's sword-fighting and melodramatic-ing and all sorts of other silliness.
The play opens this Friday... I'll be going to the opening & closing nights and one in the middle for sure, so if you'd like to join me drop me a line!
Woo hoo...
Julio
I haven't seen Patrick in a play since "The Lonely Shopgirl" in 2001, and that was friggin' awesome.
Supposedly they've got him running around in tights and wigs and flouncy shirts and he's sword-fighting and melodramatic-ing and all sorts of other silliness.
The play opens this Friday... I'll be going to the opening & closing nights and one in the middle for sure, so if you'd like to join me drop me a line!
Woo hoo...
Julio
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
250,000 Empty Bottles = One Man's Floating Mexican Island Paradise
If you can’t afford to buy your own tropical island paradise, why not build your own? The original (now destroyed) Spiral Island sported a two-story house, solar oven, self-composting toilet and multiple beaches. What now? Its creator is building a new recycled island paradise that he plans to float out to sea and travel around the world on!
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If you can’t afford to buy your own tropical island paradise, why not build your own? The original (now destroyed) Spiral Island sported a two-story house, solar oven, self-composting toilet and multiple beaches. What now? Its creator is building a new recycled island paradise that he plans to float out to sea and travel around the world on!
read more | digg story
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Sign of the Apocalypse???
Here is something I never expected to see...
The Evangenitals at WalMart???
Crazy times we're living in! I dig it. :-)
Here is something I never expected to see...
The Evangenitals at WalMart???
Crazy times we're living in! I dig it. :-)
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Finally.... someone has reviewed our new album! Thankfully, they really liked it. :-)
Peter is a fan from the UK that we met when we opened for Trainwreck at the Knitting Factory. He came to see Trainwreck, and left loving the Evangenitals. I was hoping he would really dig our 2nd album, especially after waiting for it to make the long journey across the Atlantic.
You can read his review on our album page at CDBaby.com, and hopefully, for those of you who have heard the new album, it will inspire you to write your own!
http://cdbaby.com/cd/evangenitals2
You can also log in and review the album on iTunes. Every review is incredibly helpful, as it helps us get "star ratings" and spreads the good word about the Evangenitals.
And now, here's some Awesome News:
*We're on Last.fm! http://www.last.fm/music/The+Evangenitals
If you are not familiar with Last.fm, I'd highly recommend checking it out. It's incredible internet radio.
*We got an awesome write-up from Orphan Records!
Check it out!
*George's Birthday is on November 17th!
*We're playing a welcome home show at Mr T's Bowl with Ollin on November 26th!
And if you haven't seen/rated/commented and passed on the new Evangenitals video to everyone you know... you can do it here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3kMky9EinZY
Remember, anything you can do to help spread the word about the Evangenitals helps to keep the dream alive, so thanks for everything!
Cheers,
Juli & The Evangenitals
Peter is a fan from the UK that we met when we opened for Trainwreck at the Knitting Factory. He came to see Trainwreck, and left loving the Evangenitals. I was hoping he would really dig our 2nd album, especially after waiting for it to make the long journey across the Atlantic.
You can read his review on our album page at CDBaby.com, and hopefully, for those of you who have heard the new album, it will inspire you to write your own!
http://cdbaby.com/cd/evangenitals2
You can also log in and review the album on iTunes. Every review is incredibly helpful, as it helps us get "star ratings" and spreads the good word about the Evangenitals.
And now, here's some Awesome News:
*We're on Last.fm! http://www.last.fm/music/The+Evangenitals
If you are not familiar with Last.fm, I'd highly recommend checking it out. It's incredible internet radio.
*We got an awesome write-up from Orphan Records!
Check it out!
*George's Birthday is on November 17th!
*We're playing a welcome home show at Mr T's Bowl with Ollin on November 26th!
And if you haven't seen/rated/commented and passed on the new Evangenitals video to everyone you know... you can do it here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3kMky9EinZY
Remember, anything you can do to help spread the word about the Evangenitals helps to keep the dream alive, so thanks for everything!
Cheers,
Juli & The Evangenitals
Monday, November 12, 2007
NEWSFLASH! Rabid WEEN fan calls out the Evangenitals for "antic ripping"
I don't know how many of you frequent the Ween Forum but if you know me at all, you may know that I absolutely adore that friggin' band and they are a huge influence and inspiration to me. So you can imagine my combination of giddiness and utter despair when this forum post was brought to my attention:
"So, this band rips off WEEN'S stage antics... The band is the Evangenitals."
To be fair, I was totally doing an homage to Ween's "Painting the Town Brown" live album that night, which, if you don't know it, means that before and after every song I would say, "This song is ______, by the Evangenitals." Any serious Ween fan who listens to a lot of live albums and bootlegs would probably pick up on a number of shout-outs and nuances on my "stage antics" that are inspired by Deaner and Gener. Those boys are like icons in my mind that help me get through shows without having a panic attack. When in doubt, I simply pretend like I'm Gener prancing about in a Hawaiian shirt and his Las Vegas-worthy bravado helps me get through the night.
In the end, it seemed that the Ween Forum members, who are usually horrifically cutthroat, came out on the side of the Evangenitals... considering that Ween is a band who is known for the frequent homage, cover, rip off, and riffing on the styles of those who came before.
In other news, Ween's new album "La Cucaracha" has been on rotation in my iTunes with a horrific frequency lately. To be honest, I can't stop listening to it. That and Devendra Banhart's "Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon". The Devendra Banhart album is getting an average of 3 full plays per day, while Ween's La Cucaracha is coming in at an average of twice a day.
Banhart does have a bit of an advantage, though, as the album has a lot of super-mellow cuts which means I can keep playing "Smokey" late into the night in my apartment building without disturbing my neighbors. "With My Own Bare Hands" wouldn't go over so well at 3am... however, it has earned its place on my "if I were a stripper" playlist! It is filthy, fierce, and delightful. I love it.
I don't know how many of you frequent the Ween Forum but if you know me at all, you may know that I absolutely adore that friggin' band and they are a huge influence and inspiration to me. So you can imagine my combination of giddiness and utter despair when this forum post was brought to my attention:
"So, this band rips off WEEN'S stage antics... The band is the Evangenitals."
To be fair, I was totally doing an homage to Ween's "Painting the Town Brown" live album that night, which, if you don't know it, means that before and after every song I would say, "This song is ______, by the Evangenitals." Any serious Ween fan who listens to a lot of live albums and bootlegs would probably pick up on a number of shout-outs and nuances on my "stage antics" that are inspired by Deaner and Gener. Those boys are like icons in my mind that help me get through shows without having a panic attack. When in doubt, I simply pretend like I'm Gener prancing about in a Hawaiian shirt and his Las Vegas-worthy bravado helps me get through the night.
In the end, it seemed that the Ween Forum members, who are usually horrifically cutthroat, came out on the side of the Evangenitals... considering that Ween is a band who is known for the frequent homage, cover, rip off, and riffing on the styles of those who came before.
In other news, Ween's new album "La Cucaracha" has been on rotation in my iTunes with a horrific frequency lately. To be honest, I can't stop listening to it. That and Devendra Banhart's "Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon". The Devendra Banhart album is getting an average of 3 full plays per day, while Ween's La Cucaracha is coming in at an average of twice a day.
Banhart does have a bit of an advantage, though, as the album has a lot of super-mellow cuts which means I can keep playing "Smokey" late into the night in my apartment building without disturbing my neighbors. "With My Own Bare Hands" wouldn't go over so well at 3am... however, it has earned its place on my "if I were a stripper" playlist! It is filthy, fierce, and delightful. I love it.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
The Evangina show last night at TruXtop gallery was awesome. It's always a crazy and incredibly vulnerable experience when Lisa and I strip the Evangenitals act back to its barest bones and do the femme duet thing. Luckily it's also always a really beautiful and validating experience as well, as folks really respond to the sweet simplicity of our two voices and the minimal guitar accompaniment.
I was playing a new (to me) guitar, a really awesome junior Epiphone electric that super friend and super fan Albert gave me as a present. I am loving its sound. I mainly played bass lines and finger-picked on the tunes while Lisa covered the strumming and rhythm parts. It was super-intimate, super-tender, and ridiculously fun. We brought along our bin of play-along instruments and closed out with "Home"... which has now become a tradition since the Road to Oprah tour.
We did a few new tunes/covers... including the Ramones, Misfits, and some Bob Dylan. Good times! The art show was great, and I loved the gallery/space. Be sure to pay them a visit, check out the art, and support this new gallery. As for Evangina, I'm thinking that we need to get out on the town and play some more gigs. It's really good practice for us to put our asses on the line like that. :-)
I was playing a new (to me) guitar, a really awesome junior Epiphone electric that super friend and super fan Albert gave me as a present. I am loving its sound. I mainly played bass lines and finger-picked on the tunes while Lisa covered the strumming and rhythm parts. It was super-intimate, super-tender, and ridiculously fun. We brought along our bin of play-along instruments and closed out with "Home"... which has now become a tradition since the Road to Oprah tour.
We did a few new tunes/covers... including the Ramones, Misfits, and some Bob Dylan. Good times! The art show was great, and I loved the gallery/space. Be sure to pay them a visit, check out the art, and support this new gallery. As for Evangina, I'm thinking that we need to get out on the town and play some more gigs. It's really good practice for us to put our asses on the line like that. :-)
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
CD Exchange with Academy Award Winner Barbara Trent
While in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on the Road to Oprah tour we stayed at Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Trent's amazing farm house.
In the morning, we exchanged some Evangenitals CD's for her award-winning films.
Good trade!
In the morning, we exchanged some Evangenitals CD's for her award-winning films.
Good trade!
We helped make history!
While on the Road to Oprah tour the Evangenitals and The 1 Second Film crew stopped off to help paint the World's Largest Ball of Paint in Alexandria, Indiana.
Here's a bit of "Ball of Paint" trivia: The only other celebrity to do so is Tom Green!
Here's a bit of "Ball of Paint" trivia: The only other celebrity to do so is Tom Green!
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Please allow me to introduce myself...
So I was sitting at home starting to doodle on some music for this "History of Water" piece that I'm working on and I decide to try to play "WATER" on the guitar. I figure the best way to do this is to convert the word to Spanish (AGUA) and play the nearest chords to those letters (I substituted "D" for the "U", since a "D" is like a "U" that fell over against a wall)...
I ended up jamming for about an hour on what turned out to be a variant way of playing the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil"
MERE COINCIDENCE???? Or is there some deeper connection here betwixt the Devil and Spanish Water? More to be explored...
It's nice to be home again. :-)
So I was sitting at home starting to doodle on some music for this "History of Water" piece that I'm working on and I decide to try to play "WATER" on the guitar. I figure the best way to do this is to convert the word to Spanish (AGUA) and play the nearest chords to those letters (I substituted "D" for the "U", since a "D" is like a "U" that fell over against a wall)...
I ended up jamming for about an hour on what turned out to be a variant way of playing the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil"
MERE COINCIDENCE???? Or is there some deeper connection here betwixt the Devil and Spanish Water? More to be explored...
It's nice to be home again. :-)
Monday, November 05, 2007
This is possibly the greatest music video ever...
This is Kate Flannery (Meredith on The Office) and Scot Robinson (my improv teacher at IO West, who was in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burghttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifundy) as "" - an awesome and slightly tragic lounge act duo that perform the first Saturday of every month at the Improv Olympic in Hollywood. I highly recommend the show.
If you like that video, their mash-up of Mandy/Brandy/Candy/Andy will knock your socks off!
Please take pleasure in loving them. :-)
This is Kate Flannery (Meredith on The Office) and Scot Robinson (my improv teacher at IO West, who was in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burghttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifundy) as "" - an awesome and slightly tragic lounge act duo that perform the first Saturday of every month at the Improv Olympic in Hollywood. I highly recommend the show.
If you like that video, their mash-up of Mandy/Brandy/Candy/Andy will knock your socks off!
Please take pleasure in loving them. :-)
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Blogging has been tough from the Road to Oprah. Too much going on, and when there is down-time we're usually in the middle of nowhere with no email/web services.
Chapel Hill with North Carolina was amazing. First we got biodiesel at Larry's Coffee in Raleigh NC and then we crashed at academy award winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Trent's house. We ate fresh veggies from her garden, ate under the stars on her back porch, and had a good old fashioned musical hootenanny after dinner.
In Washington DC the whole trip became a grand success when Michelle Brown gave us a check for $10,000 at a house party and became our #3 producer and the top personal donor to The 1 Second Film. We also got some awesome footage in front of the Capital Building and the Lincoln & Washington Memorials.
Baltimore is an incredibly beautiful and desperate city. There were more boarded up buildings and run down/uninhabitable neighborhoods in Baltimore than there were in New Orleans. We happened upon an event where Montel Williams was speaking and tried to get some time with him, however, we were kicked out of the area when folks began to get more excited about The 1 Second Film and our Road to Oprah tour than they were about Montel's free pharmaceutical drug program.
Linda Evans of the University of Baltimore got us hooked up with nice hotel rooms for the nice, which was super fantastic, then we were off to Philadelphia in the morning. We stopped at Baltimore Biodeisel, which shared a building with a truly fantastic Organic Market where we loaded up on some great juice, coffee, and B99 biodiesel.
Philadelphia was a beautiful town and Nirvan's friend Rebecca from New College was a beautiful host. The place we played, Silk City Lounge, was a super cool renovated old 50's diner. The night could have been planned a little better, ran WAY late, and had really slow transitions HOWEVER we still played a great show and rocked the house that we had at 1am on a Tuesday night. :-)
On to Brooklyn! The event at Vox Pop was a crown jewel of the Road to Oprah tour thus far. So many old friends whom I hadn't laid eyes on in quite some time. It seemed almost everyone in the Evangenitals and Road to Oprah crew had some friends and/or family in New York that came out to see us on a rainy night in Brooklyn. Eric Talbert (who helped organize the event) and Webster from Golden Birds (the other band that played) are friends of mine from The European Graduate School in Saas- Fee, Switzerland and this was the first time that I had seen them on US soil! My brother (photographer Jaisen Crockett) came out, Dan Paquin from Dirt Bike Annie (RIP) whom I went to NYU with was there and gave me his new album of 15 second punk songs. Sean Lewis, performance artist extraordinare made an appearance. My favorite costume designer in the universe Irina Kruzhilina. Good people all around!
We slept in the bus on Flatbush Ave and right now we're driving down Houston heading toward Washington Square Park. We just rolled by Ground Zero and saw the big hole in the ground. In a few minutes we'll be heading up to Harlem to meet documentary film legend Albert Maysels, director of Grey Gardens and the first man to film the Beatles in the US.
More soon, I hope. The Road to Oprah is growing near the end!
Chapel Hill with North Carolina was amazing. First we got biodiesel at Larry's Coffee in Raleigh NC and then we crashed at academy award winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Trent's house. We ate fresh veggies from her garden, ate under the stars on her back porch, and had a good old fashioned musical hootenanny after dinner.
In Washington DC the whole trip became a grand success when Michelle Brown gave us a check for $10,000 at a house party and became our #3 producer and the top personal donor to The 1 Second Film. We also got some awesome footage in front of the Capital Building and the Lincoln & Washington Memorials.
Baltimore is an incredibly beautiful and desperate city. There were more boarded up buildings and run down/uninhabitable neighborhoods in Baltimore than there were in New Orleans. We happened upon an event where Montel Williams was speaking and tried to get some time with him, however, we were kicked out of the area when folks began to get more excited about The 1 Second Film and our Road to Oprah tour than they were about Montel's free pharmaceutical drug program.
Linda Evans of the University of Baltimore got us hooked up with nice hotel rooms for the nice, which was super fantastic, then we were off to Philadelphia in the morning. We stopped at Baltimore Biodeisel, which shared a building with a truly fantastic Organic Market where we loaded up on some great juice, coffee, and B99 biodiesel.
Philadelphia was a beautiful town and Nirvan's friend Rebecca from New College was a beautiful host. The place we played, Silk City Lounge, was a super cool renovated old 50's diner. The night could have been planned a little better, ran WAY late, and had really slow transitions HOWEVER we still played a great show and rocked the house that we had at 1am on a Tuesday night. :-)
On to Brooklyn! The event at Vox Pop was a crown jewel of the Road to Oprah tour thus far. So many old friends whom I hadn't laid eyes on in quite some time. It seemed almost everyone in the Evangenitals and Road to Oprah crew had some friends and/or family in New York that came out to see us on a rainy night in Brooklyn. Eric Talbert (who helped organize the event) and Webster from Golden Birds (the other band that played) are friends of mine from The European Graduate School in Saas- Fee, Switzerland and this was the first time that I had seen them on US soil! My brother (photographer Jaisen Crockett) came out, Dan Paquin from Dirt Bike Annie (RIP) whom I went to NYU with was there and gave me his new album of 15 second punk songs. Sean Lewis, performance artist extraordinare made an appearance. My favorite costume designer in the universe Irina Kruzhilina. Good people all around!
We slept in the bus on Flatbush Ave and right now we're driving down Houston heading toward Washington Square Park. We just rolled by Ground Zero and saw the big hole in the ground. In a few minutes we'll be heading up to Harlem to meet documentary film legend Albert Maysels, director of Grey Gardens and the first man to film the Beatles in the US.
More soon, I hope. The Road to Oprah is growing near the end!
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