Tom Rapp wrote this great song. I’m experimenting with embedding mp3s right now.Just Me Or Everyone?
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When I say the word "start" it sounds like I'm saying "shart"
I could without this discovery. Other than that, I’m loving these videos that songwriter/performer @trappdog is making!
What kind of set should I have?
So I’ve been thinking lately that perhaps I should spruce up the soundstage upon which I record Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend which is located on a lot in Culver City though it’s designed to look like my living room in New York. It’s amazing what they can do with two pieces of foam board and a dream! So I wanted to ask you guys:
1) If anything were possible, what kind of set should have I have?
2) Give that not much is possible, realistically, do you have any fun ideas for things I could do to make it all more visually exciting? Here are some considerations: I’m poor, I’m lazy, I’m only one person, I actually live here when I’m not doing the show, I’m not zoned for cannons
Regarding my refined taste in art
I am an educated person with substantial thoughts so I’m not quite sure why it is there’s this big river of cheese running right down the middle of my taste in art. It hasn’t always been this way. The first painting I ever fell in love with, the first image that really moved me was this one by Goya:
I was five. (Around that time apparently I was also quite a gourmand.) But then the years were long and my attention span short and I took this cheese detour which I pretty much recovered from until I was walking the other day and fell in love with this, hanging in a store window:
To be honest, I couldn’t get this arresting image out of my mind! I spent a few days thinking about it and then woke up one morning full of promise and excitement not unlike the level of promise and excitement you feel when you have a new crush or plan to allow yourself to eat something you normally deprive yourself of. Or is that just me? Anyway, I set out to procure the painting/poster/print thing but lo and behold it wasn’t in the window anymore. It had been moved inside and wasn’t for sale, it was part of the store’s Easter display. They offered to sell it to me for $15 though. I held up my little paddle and clutched my pearls. Then I coughed daintily into my handkerchief. Then I told them I’d think about it and maybe come back.
The reason I began to doubt whether I wanted to bring this adorableness into my home is that there is a very specific kind of person who fills their home with this crap and it’s someone who pretends to be nice but if you dare mess with their thimble collection they will cut you. Also they have a lot of porcelain and cats and they probably keep the porcelain in a glass cabinet so the cats won’t knock it over. And they like the porcelain and cats more than they like human beings, which is actually ok since I’m on the fence regarding humans, but I guess I just don’t want to tip over into frigid-uptight-bitch-who-loves-cute-rabbits territory. You know?
But why is it that cute images like this are universally beloved by THAT kind of person? Because I don’t think that’s the kind of person I am.
So that’s why the painting is still in the store and I’m polishing my thimble collection with a brand new old rag.
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More songs from my show including an especially sensual pencil dance
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Here's an email from a guy I wanted to punch (video)
Here I am talking about ARIYNBF and online dating on America's Morning News radio show
Amn 03/24/2010 Hr2 by America’s Morning News (7537 KB)
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Trouble in parrotdise plus info on my show's first sponsor
A couple big announcements:
1) The parrot I was planning on interviewing on tonight’s show doesn’t speak on command so now I’m sans parrot. Damn! Any emergency birds out there who don’t get phone shy? Flap your wings twice for yes. Eat a seed or pace left to right and then right to left for no.
2) My sponsor for tonight’s show is Chip-N-Dough Cookie Company which is pure deliciousness in cookie form. I will tell you more about the cookies and the woman who runs the company on the show but just wanted to have something on here so if you are wanting to know where to go to get more info and you come here you won’t be all, “Where the hell is it? And where the hell is the parrot?” And if you use the promo code ARBF on any orders you place on Chip-N-Dough you’ll get $5 off. Yay! So please show my first sponsor some love and put some of her items in your mouth. But not like that!