Plan C: The beginning

Over on my new blog, Plan C, an outline of the two things I’m working on, or how I’m finding my sea legs as an independent artist.
I’ll keep posting links to what I write there but won’t cross-post much, because that’s cheating. Unless I really want to.

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And the media circus begins!

From Eye Magazine:

…The Torture Memos’ strong narrative, decoupled from predictable verse/chorus structures, makes for anxious listening. When phrases like “self defence” or “whatever it takes” are stretched out like taffy, they turn into great hooks — just as evil slogans should. And Kristin Mueller-Heaslip’s fraught, full-throttle operatic vocals are absolutely brilliant, exposing the brutality dulled [...]

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The Torture Memos: Now on CD Baby!

Want a copy of the Torture Memos, but don’t want to send me $10 directly? Worried that I will spend the money on beer and ice cream and you’ll never get your CD? Well, here’s an option: buy it from CD Baby.

A perfect holiday gift for the NPR listener on your list.
It’s not [...]

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I’ll know when my squid comes along

For the past couple of days, rather than doing the usual things I do or even the interesting things I’m planning on doing, I have been making costumes.
Squid costumes.

This was just the prototype squid hat, made from this pattern from Instructables. It is only a beginning. I have made a Dark Priestess of [...]

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Bad karma + A review!!!!!!

Let’s do those in reverse order. The first review of the Torture Memos album:
The Torture Memos – The Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra (www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com): Composer Ben Mueller-Heaslip uses texts drawn from the writings of John Yoo and his colleagues at the Office of Legal Counsel for the George W. Bush administration for this unusual song [...]

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The symptoms of life

After another unsuccessful audition yesterday, I spent all of today doing nothing. Nooooooothing. Nothing.
Literally, this is what I did today.
9 – Got up, made coffee and muffins. Moped.
11 – Recorded and edited my podcast.
12 – Grocery shopping. Grocery store resembles a zoo. Why, if I don’t have a traditional day [...]

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A quick note

Forgot to do this earlier – I said in the podcast that I’d put up a note about whether or not I was doing the lounge show.  Unfortunately, while I’m a lot better, I’m still too sick to do a show.  Next gig of the same type will be Dec. 20.  I will learn Christmas [...]

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A very swinish influenza

OK, so I don’t know for a *fact* that I have swine flu. I do have something, either a bad cold or a flu of some type, so I’ve spent the past couple days off work, lying around and watching movies. It would be a lot of fun if I weren’t physically so [...]

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Unlike real life…

I had an awful dream last night. I had an audition for something – I can’t remember what, but instead of arias they wanted two art songs. OK, I thought, and picked two that were impressive and I sing well, and put the sheet music in a binder.
The audition was in one of [...]

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Unwise Ipod blogging

So here I am, on my couch, barely able to type because there are two basset hounds lying on me, about to unwisely discuss sensitive personal and professional matters on the internet.
I blame the combination of fish & chips, beer, and anime.
So I had an audition today. For what I will not [...]

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