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About Me

Howdy, and thanks for finding my little cyber home. If you'd like to be my pal and I don't already know you, please message me first, or I most likely won't add you. THIS INCLUDES MUSICIANS. I thank you kindly!
Everytime I write something here I end up sounding like a personal ad, so here are just a few little facts about moi:
- One-time musician, now, by most standards, I'm a professional music fan. LOL I still sit in with friends from time to time.
- American moderator of the KT Tunstall forum (alas, my only remaining claim to fame)
- Wanderlustful sojourner (I've lived all over the US and spent a good amount of time in the UK)
- Reluctant corporate whore, but it pays the bills
- Frequent imbiber of great lagers and superb wines
(No 2-Buck Chuck here, baby!)
- Connoisseur of fantastic food(Cooking is a passion.)
- Purveyor of laughter and un-PC humor
Really, I'm just a nice, chill, midwestern gal who's been around the block a time or two. Fancy a stroll?
Go buy Brandi Carlile's new album, "The Story," RIGHT NOW. After that, watch this:
Patty Griffin singing "No Bad News" at the Lizard Lounge in Boston (I was there...about 5 feet to her left...MAGIC...):
Oh, and I love this band (Amplifico! Check 'em out!):
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My Interests

MUSIC, especially female singer-songwriters with interesting voices and something of substance to say. Early 20th Century poetry, family history, writing, playing guitar, mandolin, piano, harmonica, anything else someone will let me play, going to see my favorite musicians play live, which I've been known to get on airplanes to do, traveling for business and pleasure.

I'd like to meet:

Fun, music-lovin', intelligent, worldly, non-pretentious folks. People with depth, thought, and presence. Emotional cowards and the timid need not apply.

Music:

My collection spans 1920s jazz to ambient trance, so here are just a few...

Current Obsessions: Brandi Carlile, Patty Griffin, KT Tunstall, Amplifico, Kate Bush, Imogen Heap, Abra Moore, Emiliana Torrini, Amy Correia, Emmylou Harris, Bjork, Shawn Colvin, PJ Harvey, Cerys Matthews/Catatonia, Judy Garland (as always), Showtunes (oh yes!), especially Sondheim, David Gray, Ray Lamontagne, Rachael Yamagata, Mary Gauthier, Willie Nelson, Michael Fracasso, The Starlings. There are many MANY more...just ask, chances are I have something of theirs.

The Exiles of My Youth: Indigo Girls, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Melissa Etheridge, just about any other Lilith-y chick you could think of. LOL

Movies:

The Wizard of Oz and all movies Judy (duh); Classic musicals (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Singin' In The Rain, Cabaret, MANY more); Classic film noir (e.g. Rebecca, Double Indemnity); The Shawshank Redemption; Orlando; The Piano; The Hours; Chocolat; Fargo; The English Patient; The Red Violin; Thelma & Louise; Aimee & Jaguar; Fried Green Tomatoes; Shine; Margaret Cho comedy films...MANY more.

Television:

British comedy (Ab Fab, French and Saunders, Little Britain); CSI; Law and Order; Grey's Anatomy; Antiques Roadshow (yes, I'm a PBS dork); all kinds of news magazines (ok, maybe just a dork in general).

Books:

Demian, by Hermann Hesse; Written On The Body, by Jeanette Winterson; To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf; sooo many others...but those are the ones that changed the way I thought about just about Evvverything.

Heroes:

My ma and pa; Karen Bald Mapes; Tom Simmons; Carl Klaus; Maya Angelou; Mary Oliver; H.D.; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Virginia Woolf; any and all musicians.

My Blog

Milestones - a novel (apparently)

I am always especially struck by the contrasts of life and the waxing and waning of things. I've written a lot about this kind of stuff lately - but I feel like these things keep presenting themselves...
Posted by Mis on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:16:00 PST

The joy of 64-track recorders

Eventhough I only need two. So I was working on a song tonight and as always, when I get stuck, I recorded a couple of covers. So here ya go. Be kind. Abraham & Isaac, by Joan Baez Glo...
Posted by Mis on Sat, 12 May 2007 02:00:00 PST

The "stuff I forgot to post" post

I can't believe I forgot to mention some of this stuff. Or it's stuff I have meant to post about, but just got busy and didn't end up doing. Caution: Randomness ahead. ***The Patty Griffin...
Posted by Mis on Fri, 11 May 2007 08:37:00 PST

Florida

...everytime, every yearthe travelers come and goyou see them landing with their pale wingsand flying back to the snow and the summer comes marching inwith his heavy boots onkicking along the blacktop...
Posted by Mis on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:14:00 PST

A Metaphor

I'm in Florida for work, in a hotel room with a veranda that looks out over Tampa Bay. There's a great big Banyan tree in front of my veranda, which blocks about 8/10 of the view. There ar...
Posted by Mis on Sat, 05 May 2007 07:33:00 PST

I would just like to point out...

That in the past 14 days, I have been in the following states:MassachusettsRhode Island (twice!)ConnecticutNew YorkNew JerseyPennsylvaniaMarylandWashington, DCVirginiaYes. Between work trips, taking t...
Posted by Mis on Wed, 02 May 2007 09:02:00 PST

Jet-set, or Chevrolet-set?

I'm so tired, I don't even know what that subject means, I just have the song going through my head. Probably because this is yet another entry about my jet-setting crazy busy-ness ways that shall be ...
Posted by Mis on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:57:00 PST

I'M GOING TO SCOTLAND, BABY!

So after a very long, very drawn out process whereby I had to produce all kinds of documentation and deliverable coverage plans and the like, my boss FINALLY approved my vacation time to go to Scotlan...
Posted by Mis on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:44:00 PST

Mis' Massachusetts Meanderings

Had an absolutely LOVELY weekend bumming around greater New England. I decided to take the train up, since I fly WAY too much for work and am just sick of airports at this point. The train...
Posted by Mis on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:31:00 PST

On this day in 1961...

Everyone is asked at some point where they would go back in time if they could. My answer to that question has been the same for about 19 years. Carnegie Hall. About third row, center.&nbs...
Posted by Mis on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:26:00 PST