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hello! the sylvie and bruno project is officially underway!!!!!!!

i just got back from Nashville where we recorded 10 songs! yeeee- haw! playing on the record -- besides sylvie and bruno -- are all of our super friends! jill sobule, brad jones, & roger moutenot. hopefully the sylive and bruno record will be out in the summer???

right now there is a little place holder webstie for the project -->

http://sylvieandbrunomusic.com/

on april 7, 2012 - i am playing a little folk show opening for my pal lianne smith. it is her cd release party!!! it has been in the works since i met her 10 years ago!! so i am super happy for her and honoered to be invited to open. show is at the living room, i go

on at 7pm. lianne goes on at 8pm. hope to see you there.

this is an old picture i found of "the rock" as you enter hudson. it makes me laugh.

as many of you may have noticed -- i went underground after releasing "underground". i kind of planned that when i came up with that *clever* little title.

i am hoping to step out with some pals to do some shows. in the meantime, i am working on a new band project called "sylvie and bruno" with my good friend robin eaton.

 

 

 

may 5, 2009 -- i have been hiding out avoiding swines. a new review came in today from the most fabulous people at fencepost who say:

 

Celebrating the bizarre and ever changing spirit of the bottom society is not a new idea at all. In this age of less is more, to be more than you really are is a state of humanity; it is convenient that Marykate O’Neil celebrates these ideas by naming her latest release, Underground. But, few can match the genuine artistic reality of this angel and poet of the modern day New York singer songwriter’s spectrum.

“Green Street” contains the perfect amount of chirp to have the everyday bohemian spinning in medium paced circles filled with love and joy for all. But, the slow burning cigarette in a 2 a.m. dive bar spirit is portrayed best on the title track. Marykate describes her fears of change and loss of resistance in the most wonderful fashion. But, each song on this ode to the mistaken merchants of poetic injustice is a gem in their own right.

Her songs mean something to someone, this cannot be denied. Even if you have no idea what she is talking about, you can sense the importance. Dylan spoke of Mr. Jones first. O’Neil seems to reiterate him to the world of today.

This gently paced album is a delicacy that fits well into this singer’s body of work. Her penetrating insights of the world are sought after, yet rarely a relic of magnificent importance as this. The entire embodiment of this grossly talented individual is a topic that all human beings of any spectrum would enjoy and care for in all it’s exceptional being.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to which i say....I YAYAYAYAYAYYYAAA! in other news i got a new bicycle! i am very excited!!! they mighty fine folks at continuum cycles are building it for me and when done it should look something like this. the frame used to belong to the owner so good karma abounds. IYAYAYAYAYAYAYYA! i am hyperactive today with excitement! hide the adderall!

 

 

february 20, 2009 -- in the next issue of VENUS underground gets 4 STARS!!:

"Marykate O’Neil’s fourth release, Underground, features a retro ‘70s singer-songwriter sound. It is true that her musicianship is above par, but it’s the Brooklyn-based artist’s clever use of words that are most striking. O’Neil peppers colorful New York lyrical detail (from exiting the subway at Union Square on the title track, “Underground,” to meeting at McCarren Park in the yearning-filled “Attention”) throughout her sharp stories. — Kim Newman

february 11, 2009 - i am officially sold out of 'underground'.  i only pressed a few thousand of them. i am not sure if i will repress yet??? but right now what is in stock at cd baby, amazon, etc. is all there is. it is available everywhere as a download near you.

 

 

february 3, 2009 - "underground drops" - cd release date!!!!

 

 

click to order "underground" here! or download @     !!!!!!!!!

 

today's free daily download at largehearted boy - is "one thousand times a day"! who has named "underground" a recommended new release!

 

 

"one thousand times a day" is a weekend pick on my crazy music blog!

 

 

"one thousand times a day" is on KEXP as a download of the day! WOW!!! i love that station!!!

 

 

the power of pop reviews "underground" & says: Simply magnificent! An essential for 2009.

Last year’s mkULTRA Ep was a tasty appetizer for the main course, Underground, and by all accounts, its a sumptuous feast! Underground (MK’s third album) encapsulates all that is wonderful and delightful about pop music. And when I use the term “pop”, I am talking in the classic sense, as in the kind of music that the world lapped up from Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, Carol King, Laura Nyro et al, all those years ago. 

Thus, the eleven songs on Underground bear testimony to MK’s grasp of melody, reverential pop sense and literate lyricism. Whether intentional or not, Underground can be split into two halves. The first five songs are sophisticated, smart pop that combine technical brilliance and instinctive coolness. Tracks like the smooth Green Street (last heard on mkULTRA with the line “And I lived back in the village/Where there’s no more any sign of Dylan” prominent), the melancholy Easy to Believe At First, the countrified Nashville (resplendent with its Harrisonesque slide guitar), the provocative Saved (where MK protests against being judged), the Nyro-Rundgren channeling Mr. Friedman (and perhaps my favorite of the lot) and song #10, the Honeys produced by Brian Wilson influenced One Thousand Times A Day.

The rest of Underground tends to a little more folky, with MK’s acoustic guitar high in the mix, whilst MK either tugs at your heart strings or challenges your thinking processes. The wistful Me, the Bee and the Miner, the strident title track (”I don’t wanna leave the underground” the declaratory statement of intent), the pleading Attention, the twangy Joe Jackson cover - Different For Girls and the closing So Long, a loving tribute to the late great George Harrison - “I have found religion/I follow the sun/I don’t care a smidgeon what you are/Or who you have done”.

 

interview here with pop culture press who calls *mko* buzzworthy!

neu futur magazine: gives us some love!

an interview with indie pulse here

an interview with pure music here!

new beats says, "Underground is a charming and winning old-school pop record".

 

have no money? me neither....so, trade it here:

 

 

new video directed by an automatic beatnik!!! click to watch daddy-0!!!

 

 

 

 

 

"underground" makes BLURT'S most anticipated records of 2009!!!!  "O'Neil has been releasing solo records of uncommon delicacy and delight since 2002"

 

 

 

underground!

 

 

As a continuation from 2008’s EP "mkULTRA," the fourth release by Marykate O’Neil not only remains true to form and style, but lets loose eleven more songs for the fans who crave more.  Well-crafted and filled with a retro singer-songwriter sound, Underground is a clever little album from this New York musician. Marykate O’Neil has gotten her name into people’s ears with her self-titled full-length, "1-800-BANKRUPT," and her recently released EP.  Now, with Underground she continues on the tradition of delivering crystal clear sweet vocals over fun, complex yet simple music heralding back to a time when songs were new and creative.  Perhaps it is the spirit of the underground community O’Neil throws into her music that gives it such a dynamic, intriguing and addictive sound. Songs like “Nashville” spell out a wonderful story and the beat behind “Mr. Freidman” is the pure sound of Carly Simon. A ‘70s feel sporting modern attitude. “Green Street,” also on "mkULTRA," has a chorus to die for. The wonderful mixture of new and old puts Marykate O’Neil not only in a category by herself but also forces the listener to take a step back and realize how much effort and skill has gone into this record. This isn’t just some simple pop record. "Underground" is an intricately woven set of songs that run the gamut of the poppy-melancholy singer-songwriter spectrum, but with class in every word and every pluck of the guitar.  -- Metro Spirit

 

Underground's a sometimes wry and sometimes warm (and often both, as the excellent "Saved" demonstrates in particular) collection of songs about life and love in a gentle, attractive vein. O'Neil and a core supporting duo on both songwriting and performing — Jill Sobule and Ken Maiuri — create, along with the support of various other performers, a number of excellent confections throughout Underground. The rich arrangement on "Nashville," with O'Neil and Sobule's voices plus some lovely guitar work on their parts, sounds like it should be on some radio station somewhere right this second, while the slow building glow of "Me, the Bee and the Miner" is at once the album's most understated song and perhaps its most successful, an embrace of near silence to excellent effect. Meanwhile, a stellar choice of a cover song — Joe Jackson's "It's Different for Girls" — gives everyone the chance to deliver, with a performance both rollicking and, with its concluding harmonies, beautifully serene as well. Often the best lines throughout the album are delivered with a perfect straightforwardness — thus on "One Thousand Times a Day," there are great bits about taking sick days and walking through familiar book shops, while on "Easy to Believe at First" when the song first hits its chorus and everything shifts from minor to major keys, it's delightful to hear O'Neil sunnily sing, with just the right pause at the right place, "Everything is going to be much better...when you go away." --- ALL MUSIC GUIDE

While its title may be a sly reference to the fact that her recognition factor still lies well below the surface, Underground is worthy of the big breakthrough Marykate O’Neil has threatened to pull off for quite awhile now. A record that revels in traditional pop platitudes, its songs sound timeless from the get-go, bringing echoes of Carole King, Gerry Goffin and that long-ago era when the Brill Building crowd dominated the musical charts. Indeed, in songs such as “Easy to Believe at First,” “Mr. Friedman” and “Attention,” O’Neil keeps her pop sensibilities front and center, bracing them with effusive hooks and a giddy school girl vocal that’s both shy but suggestive. A capable songwriter with a traditional sensibility, she offers only one cover, a surging version of Joe Jackson’s “Different for Girls.” It’s an apt match with the rest of the material, especially since she easily makes the song her own.  O’Neil’s dewy-eyed persona, a spunky stylistic stance that becomes ever more impressive as the album ambles towards its conclusion. Coming quickly on the heels of mKULTRA, a six-song EP released this past October, Underground suggests that O’Neil has indeed arrived. It’s certainly way past time the world watched her surface. ---- Amplifier
 

'After the recent 6-song EP this is the third longplayer by this New York based singer-songwriter ... and I mean songwriter in that old fashioned, sophisticated, these days so hard to find, brainy sense of the word, as once established by the likes of Carol King or Laura Nyro. Best heard in ‘Green Street’, she’s most usually sticking to the mentioned "tapestry" of sounds, occasionally "name-checking" other just-as-cool references, old and new, such as Todd Rundgren, Brian Wilson or Elvis Costello. To justify the Greenwich Village folky-beat looks on the cover shot, there’s a more conventional folky moment or two to be heard as well. In the covers department, this time it’s Joe Jackson’s ‘Different For Girls’, which she makes sound as if it could’ve easily been written especially for her". Popism

 

 

 

 

click here to HELP! get mko some radio play! ACT UP! RQST UP! "underground" sets sail to a radio station near you on FEB 2nd!

 

 

 

mkULTRA makes best of 2008!.

 

BEST OF 2008 @ #1 with metro spirit :

 "A BANNER YEAR: Her light voice and poetic lyrics made this EP the surprise find of the year."

BEST OF 2008 with "zero gossip"

BEST OF 2008 @ # 3 with absolute power pop!

BEST OF 2008 with "Metro Mix" for 'under the radar" :

 "The common denominator throughout O’Neil’s sweetly girlish vocals and keen melodic sense, which are strong throughout and flat-out stunning on “Map,” the EP’s highlight. Made for: Anyone who’s ever had a crush on that girl in the horn-rimmed glasses sipping cappuccino and jotting in a notebook at the neighborhood alterna-café…or, for that matter, girls who wear horn-rimmed glasses and frequent alterna-cafés.

 

click here to order mkULTRA!!!

 

 

 

some press for mkULTRA: 

 

 

 

"Intriguing and creative, mkULTRA’s danceable yet moody sound is a break from the usual miserable dime-a-dozen singer-songwriters. When it comes to fighting against the hordes of girls thrusting their heart out on a sleeve, Marykate O’Neil stands a full head taller than the rest" METRO SPIRIT

 

 

 

november 4, 2008 - just got back from voting! long lines -- hopefully this is a good sign!! this past weekend we did a video for the upcoming record. it is being directed by michael k. anderson - here

 

 

october 28, 2008 - FRANTONE DIRECTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

september 18, 2008 -- so i have this little blog. i ask my writer friends to write for it and other artists i know to contribute. it is really just a fun way to keep up with what each other is up to. my pal philip dray (who has a new book out) wrote this....and it is so so great - i thought this should be my real press release for the new record -- i pasted it in here. i hope that is ok :).

 

 

One time many years ago I was attending an avant garde theater performance at a loft on Lower Broadway when this Asian woman walked in and sat down in front of me.  She was wearing a large stocking cap that I feared would obstruct my view and I was about to tap her on the shoulder when someone whispered, "It’s Yoko."  Then I noticed that the thin, lanky guy she’d come in with was John. 

 

The show began.  It was a Richard Foreman play and the actors rode across the stage on bicycles, made disjointed philosophical remarks to one another, and occasionally removed pieces of their clothing.  At one point several actresses came to the edge of the stage and lifted their skirts, shaking their bare behinds right at the audience, only a few feet from John and Yoko, while offstage somebody clanged a cowbell.  I felt protective of John and Yoko for a moment, as in “I hope this ass-display right in their faces is OK, maybe they wish they’d just gone to a movie,” but then I remembered they’d invited the press to join them in bed, and Yoko had made a short film about a fly crawling around in her pubic hair.

 

Right after the show John and Yoko were the first to reach the door, but instead of making a quick exit, like we all expected, John held open this heavy loft door while the audience filed out.  He did it without being condescending, nor did he seem unduly wary of people.  It was almost like an impromptu performance piece of his own.  He stood there looking back and smiling at everyone as we filed out; he didn’t avert his gaze. 

 

John was taller than I had imagined, and had a lighter complexion than I’d ever noticed before, with light brown hair and even some freckles.  He was wearing a jean jacket and looked very casual; he seemed a little vulnerable, maybe, but in an endearing way. 

 

Of course within a year or so John was dead, and Yoko was commissioning messages of reassurance and love in skywriting over Manhattan.  Reagan got elected and set to making greed fashionable.  Things began to suck generally.  I bought “Double Fantasy” and Yoko’s solo album “Season of Glass,” but it made me sad to hear them.  I didn’t listen to the Beatles anymore.  I started writing books.  I got married.  I went to the village in Lithuania where my family was from – at the end of a dirt road in-between a forest and the tundra -- and heard about all the terrible things they’d narrowly, so very narrowly, missed.  I visited Cuba and felt ashamed at what America, out of petty meanness, had done to the place. 

 

Then one night I heard some music by a songwriter named Marykate O’Neil.  I started listening to Marykate tunes in the car, at home, on my Disc-man CD Player. 

 

Marykate is not John Lennon or Yoko Ono, nor should she be.  She is a gifted writer of pop music, and as a performer she is a real treasure.  In-between songs she tells funny-ass stories (if people don’t get them she cheers anyway.)  Once in awhile she’ll stop a song to go back and add something to a story.  Sometimes she cries out ay-ay-ay for no real reason, or wails a bit like her idol Yoko.  When you see Marykate you thank God you live in America, where such people are allowed to roam free.

 

If I was cultural czar of the United States, I would send Marykate around the world to sing and entertain, maybe with her friend Jill Sobule or perhaps my friend from Minneapolis, Slim Dunlap, who was in the Replacements and who onstage is the closest thing we have to Hank Williams living today and would complement Marykate well. 

 

The best thing about Marykate is that she writes songs that come from her own experience.  They never seem contrived.  There’s a feeling of exultation, like you’d get from running off on your own as a teenager to catch a Monkees show in New Hampshire (that’s one of her stories).  There’s also a hint of sadness and world-weariness, what Marlene Dietrich would call Weltschmerz, that feeling that comes from being ditched by someone you love and having to drive through a snowstorm to verify it by illegally entering their house and checking their emails (that’s another story).

 

In the remote past somewhere in Ireland I think a female ancestor of Marykate’s sat around a fire, barefoot and in a filthy dress, strumming a lute, singing Celtic ballads; in the 1960’s Marykate would have been cast in a beach movie along with Terry Garr or been a dancer on “Shindig,” or maybe hung out with John or Yoko. 

 

Her secret?  She doesn’t try and beat you down with some huge female vocal that is really too honking big.  Instead her singing sneaks in and around everywhere, finding all the right nooks and crannies.  Even when her voice enters a cul de sac and you think “no way in hell she gets out of this one,” Marykate usually finds a way.  If not, she’ll just start the applause herself. -- Phillip Dray

 

 

 

 

 

september 12, 2008 - the song "green street" is going to be featured on a cd compilation given out at all landmark theatres. in nyc that means the sunshine and i guess basically means at an art house theatre near u! also on the record is: radiohead & uh huh her.

 

 

september 2, 2008 - videos are being made!!! YAY!! i can't wait to see them!

 

michael k. anderson - will be doing "nashville" - learn more about his work here

 

shannon manning - will be doing "so long" - learn more about sparkle television here

 

 

august 28, 2008 - the press photos and cover for mkULTRA are up.  they were taken at professor sarah woolley's lab at columbia university where they study song birds! how perfect is that?!!

 

besides being the name of my new album -- what is mkULTRA? read more about it here

 

august 14, 2008 - GET BLOGGIE ON IT! BEE CHARMER

 

July - in an act of sheer lunacy i went and recorded another song for the EP. it is now in LA being mixed by the most excellent christopher fudurich.

march 10, 2008 - i think the name of the new record will be called "underground" ... i am working with my friend criag eastland on the artwork. go to his website and look at his work. ya ya ya.

march 6, 2008 - my long time pal jill sobule is funding her next record jerry lewis style. click on image

and donate.

february 26, 2008 - the 3rd mko record is all mixed...shaked and baked. it will actually be my 4th full length studio album. but the thing is the more i make them the less 'studio' and the more homespun they actually feel to me. my first record i made at ft. apache in boston with my band piewackit. we did it all on 24 track analog tape. all vintage all the time. the knobs were pretty, the board was old. this new record i made in some my favorite places with my favorite people --nashville, brooklyn and nyc --- jill sobule, brad jones, robin eaton, ken maiuri, jacob lawson, roger moutenot. here are some photos from the sessions in my apartment ---->

i recorded 8 songs in nashville. then moved to my apartment and recorded 7 more. my neighbors in bed-stuy were not happy (however, during mixing brad heard some beats coming in thru the windows from across the street -- so go figure.). i then moved to stratosphere and did some overdubs. then i went back to nashville and mixed with brad jones at alex the great studio. i love alex the great. i made my first record there. brad and robin have all kinds of wonderful books there and most of all the hippy is there.

 

february 2008- going to stratosphere sound on friday to record for the recording. i will be met there with a jack's americano by jill sobule, ken maiuri and james mastro.  rumor has it my new scooter is in thank to fine folks at brooklyn bretta!! YAY!

october, november, december, january 2008 - fall is for back to school and recording. shut in. shut in. shut in. shut in.

 

august - in ze studio-io-io. woodshed that is. pens and notebooks. de de de da dee de. writing, writing, writing. this photo has nothing to do with anything. but who does not like airbrushed unicorns?

 

july - i found the bastard who stole my scooter!

june 2007- the spring fling tours have been down right bouncy. click here to read all about it!

april 24, 2007 - the film Stephanie Daley is in art house theatres now! my song mundane dream is in it. yay. it is a really great movie with Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn  and Timothy Hutton.

Stephanie Daley: What if what I believe turns out not to be true?
Lydie Crane: Then stop believing it.
 

april 4, 2007 - back from France. it was truly an amazing time. please go to myspace to read up on all the existential essentials! i am doing a  show in nyc next week i think...should be super super fun. in other news, my luggage is still in france. i returned on the plane with just my guitar and baguette bag in hand. merci thank you to everyone who made it such a special trip. my only regret is that i didn't accept that bag from the attic from bruno!! here are some photos ---> amelie and i hope yoko would approve!

march 9, 2007 - i had a great time at last nights show. thanks to everyone coming out on such a freezing cold night!! like john denver i am leaving on a jet plane. ooo la la.

february 20, 2007 -- just got back from nashville. i had the best time ever and am exhausted. i recorded 4 new songs with roger and jill. it was so much fun as always. playing on drums is the most excellent mickey grimm. and my pal ken maiuri flew down with me from nyc and played many many instruments.  got to visit with robin eaton who is busy producing in his new bohemian palace of a studio. in the heart of country i ate an an orange croissant, lots of coffee, really bad chinese food, and really yummy thai. went to katy k's, a party at joe pisapia's.....and ummmm other places too.

february 2007- this month i will be in nashville working on the next record. yee haw. i am really excited to go back in the studio and work on some new songs!!

january something - i just found out 1-800-bankrupt made david bash's/amplifier magazines best of 2006. as they say in hee haw..yee haw!

january - my pal marianne petit just did a cool new video for the "sky is falling". see it here

 

december 27, 2006 - happy new year! i always feel that the start of the new year seems like it should happen in september -- not now...but this year it kind of does feel like a new year...so i think i am going to have 2 new years, 2 leaves turning over, and 2 sets of resolutions. i have been a shut in lately writing for the new project which is due out this spring. i am not sure if it will be an ep or a full length. i keep going back and forth.....which brings me to my original point...don't be so indecisive..... new years resolution # 8937493847. the working title of the record is 'invitation to a tea party'. speaking of spring i am due back in europe. i still haven't learned french.....new years resolution #0980830840928408540...but i plan on it.

september - 2006 - the video for 'past all the stars' is being featured on IFC as part of their film short series!! turn on your tv and look for it :)!!! meanwhile, click here and vote for it :)!

 

june 30, 2006 - back from paris here are some photos. more to come!

june, 2006 - oooo la la. paris. paris. paris.

 

6.07.06 - popmatters asked me to write an article of my favorite things. here it is :)!

5.13.06 - just saw 'stephanie daley" it was great. it stars tilda swinton, amber tamblyn & timothy hutton and won the screenwriters award at sundance. if anyone gets the chance they really should go see it :)!.

5.11. 06 - the film, "stephanie daley" is being show at BAM on may 12th and may 20th. go get popcorn with butter & hear my song "mundane dream" being played during the 'party scene'! here is nytimes article on the event

5.10.06 - the record will be released on june 19th in France. in September it will be released in Germany, UK, Spain, Benelux & Switzerland. this is the cover for the EU release:

 

click here to visit the EU website. see u in june in paris & i hope to be back to see more of EU in the fall to tour with the September release.

 

5.4.06 -

who knew the line would be so long? not me?! we are already in back order for 1-800-bankrupt. we hope to be restocked within the week. in other news today i saw a woman on a scooter (which was a honda passport like mine)..and over her helmet she had a grocery bag. i got a scary view into my future. 

 4.09.06 -- click here to watch the revolution. it is not televised just up on the internet. the blogs have spoken - this just in ...and under the headline "never been so happy and full of beer". actually the lyric is never been so happy and full of fear...hold me closer tony danza! --->FROM FLUXBLOG

april 5 - filter magazine has called me an artist to watch. i'm watching!!!! are you watching? and then you can click here to listen to the song "stay"! listen and watch.....watch and listen. i like to watch and listen. When I'm in the shower, I'm afraid to wash my hair. I might open my eyes and find someone standing there. People say I'm crazy, just a little touched..But maybe showers remind me of Psycho too much
That's why...

april - 4, 2006 -- click here to watch my very first music video by the fabulous marianne petit.

february 28, 2006 -- my pal marianne petit is doing a music video for the song "past all the stars" off of my upcoming album. here is a picture of me ...in it.

 

december 20, 2005 - big news! "mundane dream" is going to be used in a film which will be shown at the sundance film festival. the name of the movie is:  "STEPHANIE DALEY". it is the story of  Lydie Crane...a forensic psychologist who is hired to determine if stephanie daily denied her pregnancy and committed suicide! yikes!!! it stars tilda swinton. did you see her in that movie the deep end? that movie is so good. anyway, here is more info on it:

http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=6654

http://imdb.com/title/tt0483812/combined  

in other movie happenings, last night the bomahs and myself recorded the basic tracks for the theme song to a short film called: "dale crawford".

in other news, it is really cold out. the nyc transit union went on strike and there is no subway service. in a way, i love these small disruptions because it is like getting a snow day when you were a kid....everything is forced to slow down a little bit and people are a bit nicer to each other. the same thing happened in nyc with the black out.

i just sent the artwork off along with the audio master to begin duplication!!! yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow!!!

october 17, 2005 - the arms i made for ted are being featured in a japanese music magazine. look!

july 26, 2005 - howdy! just installed arms on ted's (the man who mastered the record) speakers. i thought they needed them...what do u think? i am playing friday at my friend chris mill's happening. it will be short set at the magnet theatre. come on!!

june 18, 2005 - my super super cool pal mikki halpin is launching a new zine called CLOSET. for those who don't know, mikki is the co-founder of Ben is Dead magazine, and the former editor of Stim (which was called "The Next New Yorker" in Time magazine). the first issue is dedicated to break-ups and has both funny and sad tales of woe beneath its sheets. the launch party is on july 12th at black betty in williamsburg. the paaaaty starts at 10pm. COME ON! it begins with a showing of the film ROBOT PIZZA BUTLER. come on by and get your copy of the zine. it comes with a groovy cd compilation as well which features songs by: Nada Surf, J-Church, Jill Sobule, Cheeseburger, Julia Marvel, The Brought Low, National Stranger and ME. i just realized i will not be there...as i will be in LA. i have a show at the hotel cafe on the very same night! so NEW YORKERS go paaaty. get your copy of the cd. WEST COAST PEEPS please come to my show. i only get out there every couple of couple.

june 8, 2005 -- don't you think this family looks nice?

may 22, 2005 -- i got new jeans. i found this poster from my old band. i wish i kept more of them.

 

 

may 10, 2005 -- friday i am doing a wacky salon happening so-low. hope to see yaz (carl) there!

may 3, 2005 -- just got back from seeing my friend mia theodoratus play a show on east 27th. it was called the harp consortium. she sang and played harp while a boozy dancer put on make up and rolled around on the floor. it was great. AND to top it all off, i scooted there! all, i have to say is, it is a bit i ya ya ya going over the bridge! the next 2 shows i will be joined by my most fab backing band the bomahs: alec berlin; clancy (pop star kids); and david shuman (lilys). meep meep.

april - 25, 2005 -- have a bunch of nyc shows coming up. they should be lots of fun. each show will have a differnt cast of characters sitting in and playing with me. i have no idea what will happen. so, in a way they will much like all my other shows. in other news my friend fran unlocked my scooter from the fence! she picked the lock. (so emma peel) yeah!! i can ride again. now i just have to get license plates.

march something, 2005 -- talking to yourself is something your are not supposed to do, especially in public places such as buses, sidewalks, hot-dog stands, and church. i bought this 101/2 by 71/2 thing called Theme Book. it has a shiny yellow cover and wide marginal ruled pages and cost 25 cents, which anyone will tell you is quite a lot of money these days....just go ask daisy clover. i am busily working on the artwork which is always one of my favorite parts of putting out a record. bleep.

february - 01, 2005 -- i put this show together with a group of my friends. down with hallmark! down with whitman's samplers!!! mark your calendars for feb 14th & the "i don't heart valentines day hootenanny!" i will be playing at pete's candy store along with my pal mia a.k.a as the angry angel on harp, wire monkey (improv right out of the windy city) matthew caws and lianne smith. spooning with an RX.