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| May 30, 2007 Ah, so much has
been going on...I moved the video to my myspace page...Holy Moly!
I did a new Podcast (check it out here)...Shazaaam!
I've got a bunch of new shows up for the summer...KaPOW! And here
are some pics of the fan of the week: Michael, aka Davento, the wonder
rings/bar/gymnast/ beach guy extraordinaire...BIFF! Davento and his
gang are down at the old muscle beach south of the Santa Monica Pier
every Sunday from 2 p.m. till sunset...BlaKEWWIE! (I just made that
last one up.) May 9, 2007 Getting settled
in my new home...Getting ready for my show next week. Getting some
new pics up! Here's a May 1, 2007 Yes, I know, I've been totally MIA. But it's been for a good cause. I flew out to North Carolina to watch over my niece and nephew for 10 days while my sister and brother-in-law went on vacation. Wow. Music is so much easier than parenting. Anyway, the real parents arrived home safe and sound this evening, and we're all intact and not too traumatized, and soon I'll be back in Lalaland practicing and writing away...Getting ready for my Hotel Cafe show in a couple weeks. Hoping to reaaaaallllly rock it well. Got some good song ideas with the kids. Unforutnately most of them having to do with poopy and peepee. But, you know, I'll work it out. April 9, 2007 Happy day after Easter, Happy week after Passover, Happy no particular reason. Actually I'm happy for a VERY particular reason this morning: I think I found a home. I've been like a puppy at the pound, waiting for someone to adopt me before I become rabid and drooly...Anyway, I'll find out for sure later today, but I think I'm in. It's this sweet little 14,000 square foot mansion in Bel Air next door to Justin Timberlake. Just kidding. Everything else has been subsumed by the house search. Except that I have taken the time to write my first song since leaving New York...A bit of a character study, really. I'm hoping to play it at my Temple Bar show on the 17th... In other news, Billy Block from Western Beat called me up to ask me to play a 3-song set at his showcase this Thursday, hosted by Chris Morris from Indie 103 radio. I LOVE it when that happens! I should go on at 9 o'clock, and it's at the M Bar on Vine in Hollywood. Just like the muppets would have wanted. Except that it's not exactly at the corner of Hollywood & Vine. If it were, maybe Orson Welles would be there handing out Rich & Famous Contracts. If he were still alive. Or even his ghost. Who knows. It's the idea that keeps me going. March 21, 2007 So even
though I said I would find my voice, I couldn't. I looked everywhere. It was nowhere
to be found. Not until just yesterday, really. And that's probably because I'm
in Tucson and my mom is making yummy things like this salad...Mmm!
March 13, 2007 Good
show in Dallas last night. My voice is gone Daddy gone it's gone gone gone...Road
cold! All winter long I bragged and felt righteous as all my friends fell to the
flu...God has smote me. But I will find a voice by tonight. Here's a shot of me
last night, playing with Lewis Case on violin...Yeehaw! March 11, 2007 Well I'm on the road again...Doobee doom doobee doom...I've gone through about 6 climate changes since leaving New York...It was snowing the day I left..By the time I got down to Charlotte it was early spring--cherry blossoms and 60s sun. I had to actually (gasp) WASH my car--which if you know me you know it's a rarity--to get all the salt off. Played a marvelously fun show at the Evening Muse, then took off across the south. As I passed through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, it got warmer and warmer...Until, yesterday, when I hit Texas, I thought--Oh my God I'm HOT! Thank you God. I've
enclosed a photo that my 4-year-old nephew took of me, because that's
cute. But I WISH I had taken pictures of the Motel 6 I stayed in in
Jackson, Mississippi last night. I wish I had taken pictures of the
blood stains on the carpet, in case the police needed them for evidence.
Or I wish I had taken pictures of all the teenagers who kept going
in to have sex and leaving right after. Or I wish I had taken pictures
of the bug on the pillow when I walked into the room. I wish I hadn't
stayed there.
February 23, 2007 Okay, here are my Oscar predicitions. I know you're on pins and needles waiting to see what I predict. So predictions are forthcoming. I predict that I'm about to give you my predictions. Right-here we go. ...I'm going to
have a pizza party on Sunday night and get down with all the dresses...Helen
Mirren will win Best Actress (duh), Forrest Whittaker will win Best
Actor and poor Peter O'Toole will have to look gracious as he seethes
about his damn "Lifetime Achivement Honorary Loser" Oscar...Eddie
Murphy will win Best Supporting Actor and will make the evening's
most interesting speech. Jennifer Hudson will win Supporting Actress
and as the music swells to sweep her offstage she'll shout, "In
your face, Simon!" (I don't even watch American Idol.) Janurary 30, 2007 Noticed that the last pics were barely visible...Low light is one thing--NO light is just hard to see. So here's a shot of me with the boys of Kharma Bums fame at Arlene's Grocery, working our way through a tribute to Janis Joplin's version of "Me and Bobby McGee"...
January 17, 2007 OH MY HOLY GOD GOODLORDHAVEMERCY WHOA MAN WHOA IT'S COLD. Nineteen degrees as I write, shivering, quivering, willing myself to remember the days when it didn't hurt to take a deep breath. Yes, a little melodrama is good for a cold morning. I ain't kidding, though. It's 19. Nineteen. I can feel heating oil prices rise in my veins. Luckily, before
it got FREEZING here, I had a wonderful show at a great little place
called Rockwood Music Hall on the Lower East Side...It was in the
40s so people weren't afraid to go outside. Had a rollicking good
time. The lighting was low, the wine list was fantastic, and there
was percussive audience participation for a spontaneous a capella
encore of "Mercedes Benz". Good times. Low light examples
follow. January 2, 2007 Merry New Year!! A new year, a fresh journal... I had a fantastic
entry into 2007: a morning of fresh bagels, afternoon nap, the best
damn ragu I've ever had, a house party with friends and family, a
walk up to Prospect Park just in time to have hugs and kisses at midnight
and jump up and down watching fireworks fall all over us...A toast
to James Brown, homemade ice cream and cookies at about 2 o'clock
in the morning, and wayyyyyyy too much champagne. A soft rain starting
falling right after midnight, washing us clean for the new year. Yes,
yes, yes. Oh! Also, I went ice-skating for the first time on New Year's
Eve! Fun!
December 11, 2006 Had
a wonderful show at Arlene's Grocery right here in NYC last week...Debuted
my new song, "Christmas Love Song" and really let it all
hang out for my last show of 2006. Then I had a tough come-down this
weekend..It's hard to feel sanctified and then land back on earth
again...It helped getting my first New York Christmas tree, though.
When you brush the branches it says "Fuggeddaboudit!" Just
kidding. And my buddy Marco made homemade eggnog!! Yummmmmmmmmmm... November 29, 2006 What an exciting
few weeks...Thanksgiving, a friend's wedding, and the best part: opening
3 shows for Dan Bern! I wore pink corduoroy pants; drove up the Pacific
Coast listening to a really weird but really fun Bob Dylan album (Shot
of Love); watched the palm trees and people wave; sang my heart and
throat out; watched Dan do a BIZARRE riff on "Project Runway"
to describe sending Planet Pluto into non-planet exile; and generally
had the time of my life. I want more!! Special thanks to Volker Neumann
for sending me a few pics of the Slim's show in San Francisco...
October 30, 2006 Well,
I just HAD to put up some cause and effect...Cause: going up to Connecticut
and picking apples.
October 20, 2006 Jeez, a whole month, huh? Bad me! But with so many bloggers and so little time, you know, whatevs man. Plus I'm really starting to get into my whole podcasting series...It's like when I was 4 and I would use this flexible navigating lamp on my parents' boat for a microphone and do shows...It's the same kind of fun! Yeah I'm still a kid. What's your point? Let's
see...Last weekend I had a fun time playing at Crash Mansion with
my buddies the Kharma Bums, and the fabulous Tom Licamelli from the
Knockout Drops accompanied me on his gleaming white strat. Here are
a few pics...That's all for now because I have to practice nonstop
to get ready to open for Dan Bern next month!!! September 21, 2006 I had a great week in LA: playing shows, celebrating my grandfather's 90th birthday, and swaying with the palm trees. I miss palm trees! But I was happy to come home, happy to discover that the leaves are just starting to tease us with the idea of changing color...Not so happy to discover that my car had been broken into, but even that was done nicely. No broken windows, nothing taken (nothing to take), just a bunch of my papers strewn all over the car and street. Ah well. I would love to show you some fabulous pics from LA, but SOMEONE (I) forgot to bring the camera charger, so no pictures were taken. Trust me--it was fun. Last but not least, I just uploaded my new podcast, so please check it out if you're so inclined! (www.sarahdashew.com/feed1.xml) August 29, 2006 Here's what's
going on: Andre Agassi is still alive in his last U.S. Open, and my
first New York mouse pet is not. Friends were over for dinner on Sunday,
and we discovered an uninvited guest, who we promptly named Johnathon
Livingston Mousey. Then we killed him. I'm sorry, PETA. It had to
be done. He wanted the pecorino. But I made sure to say a little prayer, asking him for forgiveness...
p.s. Stay tuned for my next podcast, due next week!!
August 06, 2006 Yes, I KNOW I haven't been writing much this summer; forgive me it's been apocolyptically hot in New York. But I've been managing to play some shows, practice, even (gasp) write, walk and walk and fall in love with this fair, multi-boroughed metropolis. I had a really wonderful show on July 28th at the Living Room; had a good crowd and man we all really went to church. Right now I'm nursing a cut lip from playing harmonica with my friend's band The Kharma Bums (Arlene's Grocery next Fri. the 11th), so I feel very cool. Thought I'd show a couple pics of playing in the city: subways with my gear, rocking out at the Living Room. Life is good. I'm getting very excited for my September show in LA and a trip to the beach!
July 11, 2006 The rest of the tour went very well, and now it's taken me close to 3 weeks to start accomodating myself to New York's humidity factor! Good God. I'm just so grateful that the subways are air-conditioned. So
far so good. I'm getting ready to play a couple solo shows at the
Living Room (without the boys--sob--but we'll soon be re-united),
and I just got Jealous Girl up on iTunes! Life moves along. Right
now I'm humming Bob Dylan's "Boots of Spanish Leather" and
wishing I could quit sweating long enough to play my guitar. Here
are some more fun pics from the road...Rocking out in Nashville, Charlotte,
and Billy Block's radio show...
June 13, 2006 Greetings
from the road! We've been winding our way up and down and all around
the country, playing
May 23, 2006 Last
week was busy and great...Played in San Diego and Santa Barbara...Good
practice for all the driving we'll be doing in June! But this journal
entry is dedicated to our friend Jack, the friend, the fan, the man
who made Santa Barbara a roiling fun success...He advertised, publicized,
witnesssed and dragged his friends! Thanks Jack--you make a great
street team!
May 05, 2006 Cinco
de Mayo. Viva la Raza. Another chance for good Mexican food before
the tour...I'm starting to get really excited--seems like it's coming
together nicely; a nice, cool drive through the Deep South in summer.
Mmmm... April 07, 2006 Big ups to
the rain people! We had a great time at Temple Bar on Tuesday...I
was shocked and awed by the brave folks who slipped and slid their
way into Santa Monica. The boys sang sweet harmonies, and we hung
out and bonded well. KCRW was in the house, featuring a cool band
called Bitter:Sweet and so we drank bitters and whispered sweet nothings
in each other's ears. Just kidding. I had an Amstel Light. March 17, 2006 Well Austin was
cool! The whole Ray Benson bash was a blast of goodness, sweat, legends,
serious rock n' roll! I ran up onstage with Ray, the Asleep at the
Wheel crew, Jeff Healey, Sonny Landreth, Bob Schneider, Stephen Bruton
and a handful of others to revel in the heat of playing to 1,500 rollicking
folks. "Hash it Out" was a hit, and I got a big high-five
from Ray. Yay! Here are a couple pics from the night...
March 06, 2006 Thanks to everyone who came out LATE Saturday night to Room 5! Very cool joint, nice vibe, good crowd. It was fun, even though we missed my new drummer Tommy, who abandoned us for a trip to Austria. How could he??!! Thank God Johnny Wells was there, rockin' the bass. And thank God I didn't get my hair stuck in my harmonica rack like I usually do. Success all the way 'round!
February 16, 2006 Thank you thank you to everyone who came out and helped make last night's show so great! We sweated, we rocked and rolled, my hair got stuck to my lip gloss, and my harmonica rack (damn that wingnut!)... It was heaven! Boy it was fun. The new boys--John Wells and Thomas Kafel--lent some sweet backing vocals and rocked the rhythm; it was a real party. Much good. I promised to upload pictures, but I can't find the camera this morning so it'll have to wait. That is all.
January 23, 2006 I finally joined Myspace.
Man is that thing confusing and huge. Apparently I have a very close
friend in Turkey now..Also I have 400 million people in my network
or something like that. Like the population of Europe. Anyway, I'm
having fun browsing around. Check out my page if you're so inclined:
www.myspace.com/sarahdashew.
Now onto more important things: my nephew turned three this weekend!
He requested a BatMa'am cake. Yep--not Batman, BatMa'am. Don't laugh.
This is a big improvement over calling him "J.J.". No one
knows why he did. For about a year. But it was great to see
January 09, 2006 I had to strain my ears,
but I heard it! I heard me singing "Hash it Out" on tv!
Whoopeee! Then it was
January 04, 2006 Well, it's a whole new
year and I'm trying to shake the holiday cobwebs out of my head and
get to Okay okay, I'm going to
practice. Strings need changing and people need calling, songs need
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