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Cat

Could someone tell the rockstars to stop eating all my fries? thanks...

About Me


Since I do FREELANCE WRITING for PRINT magazines (music, fashion and womens mags...) and help book bands on-air & work as a correspondent with the fabulous people at Fearless Radio in Chicago and their NEW MUSIC BINGE program, this page is being used for some of those interviews... unfortunately I can't post most of the print interviews/articles on here....
On a full-time basis I handle all MARKETING and MEDIA BUYING for a Chicago-based corporation-- I guarantee you're sick of hearing my commercials on the radio (sorry about that...!)... I also do freelance marketing/promotion/copywriting for small businesses, bands and individuals. I really enjoy doing marketing, pr, event planning, promotion, media, etc-- all of it! I also teach step and pilates classes on weekends... hmm, sounds like I'm kind of busy... ;-)
I also have this crazy bad habit of hopping a plane or hitting the road whenever someone mentions that there's a concert I should see or friends I should visit... :)
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My Interests


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GENERAL ABOUT ME:
♣ No matter how i try to fight it, I am an insomniac

♣ Being an insomniac probably explains why I have a hard time waking up in the morning...

♣ I too easily slip into a sleep pattern of 4AM-9AM... how unfortunate this doesn't work well with my job!

♣ I HAVE to have coffee in the AM (probably goes back to that insomniac, can't get up in the morning, 4 AM thing...!)

♣ I love going "on tour" and I have an unhealthy love of airports... ;)

♣ I was a child model but one day realized two things: 1.) i like food and 2.) i'm always going to be 5'4"!

♣ I love being around artistic / creative / musical people...

♣ I, however, lack artistic ability!

♣ I still wonder why i was resistant to piano lessons when i was little

♣ My family is filled with artists who paint and draw yet all i can draw are stick figures... ;)

♣ I have changed careers more times than most people do in a lifetime (I blame my Gemini nature...) ;)

♣ I changed college majors more times than I should ever admit (again I blame my Gemini nature...) ;)

♣ I love blaming my bad behavior on "my gemini nature" (maybe that's also why I have 2 myspace pages...)

♣ I'm inherently restless

♣ I probably indulge my inner-12 year old a little too much

♣ I love following my friends around with a camera playing paparazzi-- even though they duck and cover when they see me

♣ I love email, text messaging and my phone (goes back to that loving "chatting" thing...!)

♣ my friends are family to me-- i'm stuck with them and they're stuck with me for life. :)

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I'd like to meet:


a king, a rocket man, a piano man and a beatle all over dinner at the queen's....

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Music:


in no particular order:

Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers
Collective Soul (indie)
Jon McLaughlin
The Gabe Dixon Band
Gavin DeGraw
Watershed (indie)
Mary J. Blige
Toby Lightman
Joey DeGraw (indie)
Matt Wertz (indie)
Arden Kaywin (indie)
Train
Ernie Halter
Goo Goo Dolls
Butch Walker (indie)
Mat Kearney
Brandon Bush
Will Hoge (indie)
The Killers
Ray LaMontagne
Sugarland
Cary Brothers (indie)
The Fray
The Boy Least Likely To (indie)
Pat Monahan
Switchfoot
Nada Surf (indie)
INXS
Justine Blazer (indie)
The Faint (indie)
Ernie Halter (indie)
Tom Waits
The Damnwells (indie)
U2
Billy Joel
Athlete (indie)
The Smithereens (indie)
Martin Sexton (indie)
The Who
The Redwalls (indie)
James Blunt
Elton John
Michael Tolcher (indie)
Sheryl Crow
Audioslave
Counting Crows
Duran Duran
Butch Walker (indie)
Pink Floyd
Franz Ferdinand
Black Crowes
John Mayer
Everclear (indie)
Paul Carrack (indie)
Marvin Gaye
Pearl Jam
Better Than Ezra (indie)
Rob Blackledge (indie)
Paul Young
Howie Day
Oasis (indie)
Tom Petty
Stevie Wonder
Bon Jovi
Don Henley
Queen
Rolling Stones
Tonic
Gran Bel Fisher
Marc Broussard
Justin King
Sister Hazel (indie)
James Taylor
Dave Barnes (indie)
Aerosmith
The Beatles
and so on and so on and so on..!
there is no way to list them all!

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Movies:


almost famous (of course)

the wall

high fidelity

empire records

spinal tap

vertigo 2005

garden state

truth or dare

music & lyrics

The banger sisters

school of rock

coachella

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Television:


you expect me to say american idol, but i don't get into talent shows.
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Books:


i'm with the band

killing bono

laurel canyon the inside story of rock

don't try this at home

tommyland

hammer of the gods

backstage passes

rolling stone mag

Q magazine

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Heroes:


penny lane

bonnie f.

cameron crowe

the entire laurel canyon 'hood

jann wenner

tracy w.

pamela des barres

gela nash-taylor

yasmin lebon

heather locklear

kate hudson

niki taylor
because "begin" rocks!)

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My Blog

Looking for a photographer?

  If you're a musician in Chicago or touring the city and need a photographer, check out Rock photographer Patti Farfan at Green Eye Photography: Green Eye Photography (on myspace) or www.gr...
Posted by ~ Cat ~ on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:20:00 PST

Taking Down CHEAP TRICK

I had a belated birthday brunch with my dad, step-mother and some family friends today. We started talking about when I was a little girl and we were living in Rockford, Illinois.... Rick Nielson...
Posted by ~ Cat ~ on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:27:00 PST

Because he's a rockstar, dammit (or so he tells me...)

originally posted February 2006...       Earlier this week I found myself in a sports bar in NYC for several hours with a friend-- this particular friend is a musician with several alb...
Posted by ~ Cat ~ on Sat, 13 May 2006 07:54:00 PST

2005 concerts

  Concerts I attended in 2005: (in Chicago and other parts of the country...) Oasis Jet Train Duran Duran (my inner 10 year old still loves Simon a 'lil bit...)  U2 Killers (with Bono ...
Posted by ~ Cat ~ on Sat, 13 May 2006 10:07:00 PST

Scrabble, tarot readers and Blackberries and Treos...

originally posted March 29 2005 A little over a week ago I found myself in a hotel lobby and was asked by a friend; a musician who was playing the city I was visiting and who had just popped into the ...
Posted by ~ Cat ~ on Sun, 14 May 2006 09:57:00 PST