january 16, 2005 - january chow chow chow chow chow. february chow chow chow chow chow. this friday (the 21st) listen to wfuv. my friend jill will be dj'ing from 8-11pm. i gave her large amounts of payola (crack, kitkats, cafe bustello) so she would play a song off my upcoming album.

december 28, 2004 - i bought a new calender. this could be the year my luck will turn around...or not. did u know that on jan 1, 1934 prohibition of alcohol ended in the US? did u know that on that same day in 1804 the haitian slaves, led by jean jacques desalines declared independence? me neither....but now that i bought this new organizer...2005 is bound to be a banner year. i am playing this thursday as a guest for an improv group. the show is called "beauty, love & truth". It is at juvie hall under the gene frankel theatre on bond between layfayette and bowery here in nyc. i play 5 songs starting @ 8:00pm and people act them out. could be good....could be awful. kind of like 2005.

december 8, 2004 - hey look! there is an interview in indiepoprock.net! also, please check out my new and possibly favorite holiday song of all time -- bigfoot and santa. i heard it while i was down in nashville finishing up my record. i went back and recorded 6 more songs. i had a great time and bought more socks.

november 3, 2004 -- maybe not.

november 2, 2004 --just got back from voting!! the lines were very long. it took me an hour and 1/2. i hope this is a good sign!!

october 29, 2004 - This goes under the title --- what was I thinking. This is not new by the way. Many of my friends have made fun of me over the years for things like this --- driving into the subway; getting eaten by an escalator; falling thru a window that wasn’t there. My friend Jill says my life is a continuing Lucile Ball episode. My friend Brad came over a little while ago and left saying, thanks for letting me make a guest appearance on  the sitcom. But it isn't like they all know they saying these things independently of each other. Ok back to the story, so maybe I have seen Roman Holiday one too many times. And maybe it was just a fashion thing. But, I bought a scooter on eBay.  I was very excited. I was thinking helmets. Outfits. The nice people at Brooklyn Bretta accepted shipment and put it together for me.  I went to go pick it up last week. When I got there, I realized I had gotten more than I bargained for.  First of all, it came in the wrong color. Green not Red. Somehow it looks more serious to me in green. But I then I thought....well, I guess it is not so bad.  But then, I found out it has things like clutches and gears.  I thought it would be like driving the mopeds you rent when you go to Hampton Beach or something.  I was wrong.  So I just left it there. I went back yesterday. This time I brought my friend Matthew who drove me home on it. It was fun riding on the back. It was little like a Williamsburg holiday. I started getting excited again. I started thinking more about outfits.  And the green really isn’t so bad. It is kind of Emma Peel British.  So, I locked it up. Ran back to work. After work, I went to visit my friend Tracy. She’s just got a new pug puppy named pancake. I had a glass of wine, I played with pancake. I sang pancake "on the edge of country". I subwayed it home. And, I just couldn’t resist!!!  The scooter was sitting there shinny and new. All I wanted to do was see if I could start it. I live in a brick building with an iron gate around it --- you know, with those rod iron fences that are around every city apartment building in NYC?  I turned the key..nothing.  I pushed down on that metal kickstand kind of start thing.  Biiillllah. Stalled out.  Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. And ---then -------woooooooooosh  ---  BLAM.   The scooter it is fine. Not a scratch. Me? Not so fine. I ripped my jeans.

Cut up my ankle, which is bumpy in new ways.   Bruises are developing by the hour. The fence, it is bent.  Bent by the impact of my ankle crashing against the rod iron. Yes, I guess it is hard to crash a scooter within a five-foot radius. But I did it. And now, I have a scooter for sale. Anyone want to buy a scooter?  It is REALY NICE.  In other news, I am going back into the studio at the end of next month. I can't wait! I am recording five new songs and finishing things up.

august 26, 2004 - thanks to everyone who came to the LA show. hope to be back soon!!!

july 12, 2004 - more macaroni facts...this one i learned from my friend Bernard.

july 6th, 2004 - a couple of songs that i co-wrote the music for will be featured in a musical which is starting on July 20th. the name of the play is prozac and the platypus. it is a piece yoko herself would love!!

july 5th, 2004 - yesterday i learned that in the song yankee doodle dandy when it says... "put a feather in his hat and called it macaroni"...they are not talking about spaghetti. macaroni is an italian word for fancy dandy dress --- who knew!
 

june 29, 2004 - happy belated jean baptiste day!

april 27, 2004 - here is a home recording of, "i'm ready for my luck to turn around"

february 23, 2004 - i am home! i am done! well, i am done recording and mixing. i had a great time. we recorded and mixed 12 songs. i did not bring enough socks. but, i bought some new ones. i ate at fat moe's and pancake pantry. i did not get new jeans.

february 13, 2004 - i am packing to leave for nashville. i hate packing. i am the type of person who forgets everything. i always seem to forget socks and toothpaste. i don’t know what to bring....should i bring my rocket or just my 335? ok, well i guess i better get back to it.

february 6, 2004 - it is a rainny day in brooklyn today and i am being a shut in. did you know that in nyc  approximately 110 manhole and service box covers along with 157 light poles have been found to have stray voltage. did you also know that the "marykate o'neil" record is available to be downloaded at itunes, musicmatch, real player and napster.  woo woo woo woo woo woo wo.

january 14, 2004 - recording recording recording in the cold...and in the snow. this time at the magic shop in nyc. it is a very neat-o place. they have all this recording gear that looks like it came from a 1950's space movie. klatu verada nepto...or something like that. next month, i go back to nashville to finish the record. wooo hoo :). here are some photos from the magic shop.

december 31, 2003 - HAPPY NEW YEAR! this year i am going to join the gym and actually go. i am going to pick up my clothes off of the floor. i am going to find a new apartment for the same price...but one that doesn't leak every time it rains. i am going to watch less of the superstation. i am going to grocery shop. i am going to eat out less. i am going to try and not to be late all the time. i am going to learn to speak french. i am going to take piano lessons. i am going to start and then quit smoking.

december 18, 2003 - howdy! just got back from nashville where i have begun the beginnings of the next record. i had a great time. here are some photo's of everyone. it is being produced by my pals jill sobule and roger moutenot. the very talented mr. mickey grimm is playing drums along with various rhythmic objects. a lovely fellow named mr. hags is the man on the bass and bill demain is making his piano debut on a song. jason lehning is playing keyboards on most of the songs and i met a nice man at the luggage store who is a big fan of my hairdresser. also participating is matthew caws -- who is doing some singing; robin eaton -- who is doing some singing; rob burger -- who is doing some playing and eli aka LIJ -- who is doing some playing.

october 10, 2003 - "make a mask smaller than your face. let it drink wine instead of you". yoko ono 1962

october 3, 2003 - i am listening to Neil Diamond - Live in America. VERY highly recommended!! :) for everyone in the nyc area i am doing a free show at pete's candy store on october 26th. come on down if you can, i will be playing some new songs. i am just about done with the writing of the next record and will begin recording next month. can't wait! thanks to everyone whose been writing....and i am sorry for all the pigeon stories.  i hope that my brushes with them will end soon. 

september 9, 2003 - this morning i did a fun interview with john broughton in melbourne, australia at 3SER-FM.  did anyone hear it?

september 8, 2003 - viewing fun.

august 26, 2003 - ok this isn't really news. but what are the odds. today, a pigeon shit on me. it was unpleasant. but the thing is...last week a pigeon shit on me in the very same spot! i am told that if a pigeon shits on you it is good luck. i had never heard of this prior to being shit upon. i think it is a made up nyc myth. i guess it is supposed to make u feel better for getting shit on. but, it doesn't make me feel better. i just think i should stop walking under tress all the time. 

june 3, 2003 - bonjour. just got back from paris. had a wonderful time. here are some photos.

may 13, 2003 - can it be called a world tour if you are leaving the country? SURE IT CAN. so i am getting excited to embark on my world tour. it begun in bayshore, then goes to LA, then to the exotic land of williamsburg, then paris, lyon, london (maybe), back to paris. i hope i have time to buy some new outfits.

april 22, 2003 - spring is here!!! and not a moment too soon. it was the winter from hell here in brooklyn. but now the flowers are in bloom and i am getting very excited for my french tour -- ooo la la!! i will also be doing an east coast/west coast thing in mid may. i have also been busy doing some home recording with my friend jacob lawson running those knobs and levers. it has been great fun. other than that...i have no good stories....ok..well i have one. the other night a bunch of friends went to sammy's romanian in the LES -- it was so fun. they serve chicken liver and bottles of vodka in blocks of ice. AND i got to sing "you don't bring me flowers" with my pal richard julian --- i was neil of course!

january 8, 2003 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!! to start off the new year the record will be released in France, Switzerland, Italy and Portugal on Polaris records. Yea!!! Also, there is an article about me always being late in the new issueof rockrgrl. AND...i got a new pair of jeans for x-mas!!

november 26, 2002 - "mundane dream" is one of the songs being featured on a compilation of artists selected by cmj.

november 16, 2002 - i just picked up from the williamsburg post office a package sent from koji in tokoyo. tomoyo has recorded "radio shack" and "sunny day" and i think they sound GREAT :)! as my boston friends would say (without any irony intended) -- it's wicked awesome!

november 12, 2002 - japanese pop star tomoyo harada has recorded 2 of my songs which will be featured on her upcomng alblum. i  haven't heard any of it yet, but am looking forward to it!

november 1, 2002 - cmj was very fun. there are a whole bunch of pictures up from it in the pictures section. also, there are a bunch of new photo's in the live section taken by some nice folks who came to the shows. 

october 12, 2002 - the record is now available in spain, australia and japan. 

september 16, 2002 - just recorded "traffic jam" for a teenage fanclub tribute which is due out in november. had a fun time recording it. my friends dennis diken, dave derby, james mastro, jill sobule, and chris collingwood all played on it. also...apparently tripping over pigeons is not an unusual thing!!!? who knew?!?! a couple of people wrote me and told me the same thing has happened to them!!! one person even rescued their injured pigeon and nursed it back to health before freeing it into the wild. what is that carpenters song...bless the beast and the children...? does that song apply? is this what they had in mind?

september 1, 2002 - today when i was walking down the street i tripped over a pigeon. has this ever happened to anyone? it was alive by the way.