Actually, you should never meet your heroes if you want to keep them as heroes. They may wind up as friends or as disappointments or as pleasant surprises, but once you know them they immediately stop being heroes. (I’ve turned down several opportunities to meet Stephen Sondheim socially, because he’s practically all I’ve got left. Even David Bowie, who I’ve never even met, has managed to transmute in my head most of the way from DAVID BOWIE OMG!!1!* to my friend Duncan’s dad.)”
~ Neil Gaiman
~ Neil Gaiman
Cool gift!
Hubby bought these for me for my birthday. All ten audible octaves! What song should I try them out on first?Man in the moon
Jason is reading “1421: The Year China Discovered the World”. He shared the fascinating fact with me that Japanese children do not talk of the man in the moon, but instead of the rabbit in the moon.
Wikipedia has this page about the different perspectives of what resides in the moon.
Jamie and I celebrated our 50th THIRD DAY show Saturday night in Charlotte, NC!
Mixed tape: The Remix
Jason Ward loves a good mixed tape. He had dozens of them in high school and college. Most of them have gone the way of the minor bands that inhabited them. But one. One lone mixed tape has survived.In an attempt to show my complete adoration for this wonderful husband of mine, I have attempted to recreate the tape via iTunes. Believe it or not, Flesh for Lulu’s entire catalog is not available on iTunes. Who knew? Out of 23 songs, I was able to get 18 original artists and songs. One song is a cover and another is a clever stand-in. Three songs were untraceable.
Twenty-three 3 minute snippets of life philosophy; I wonder how they stack up now? Will most of them still ring true? Maybe one or two will be slightly off the mark. Maybe a couple will be ironic in the reflection of twenty- some years. And I have no doubt a few will be untraceable.
Feelin' like 'all that'
I answered the phone. A familiar voice questioned me; “Aunt Traci?…”
“Yes, Niece Hayley…”
“How do you make cake icing without using shortening?”
Then I heard her whisper to her stepsister, “I’m calling my Aunt Traci. She knows EVERYTHING.”
I feel like somebody today. :)
As a performer, it’s frustrating to look out and see a sea of cellphones instead of faces,” says Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein. “There’s definitely a problem where people are so busy documenting the moment that they forget to just live in the moment.
