~!Happy New Year OH EIGHT!~

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here we go with a second little writing sesh here in this space of blog, not to be confused with blob, glob, or gob.

its new year's eve. i'm listening to my friend chip on LMR (www.littlemoonradio.com)...he just played the opening 3 songs from the halloween ryan adams and the cardinals show. great great great show.

i've got a very chillaxin scene here at my little earthquake shack. i've declined every invitation that i've received for this eve. this new year's eve. and, so far, so good. i've got some good tunes, good vibes, some time to write some of my thoughts about 2007, and consider what i want to create in OH EIGHT.

one of my favorite parts of 2007, was making some really incredible new friends. wow. whatever i did to get that lucky with all the new faces i mingled with, well, i hope i can stay on that super high frequency track. thanks to you for brightening my year! to the familiar faces in my life, thanks for sticking it out for another lap around the sun together. more to come!

the music front was, as always, pretty serious. i have the amazing privilege of having a band in my life totally worthy of fully flipping out over. its so fun! i feel so grateful to be inspired by it. i've had different favorite bands before, and there is something so different about being into this particular artist/band.

super stoked for more of my friends to be able to see some r.a. & t.c. shows in january, here in the west. FUN.

besides all that, saw jackie greene the other night at the great american music hall (GAMH), which was preceded by the night before with camper van beethoven and cracker at the independent. i had never seen either, camper or cracker. HOLY SHIT!!! the camper guitar player (not the lead guy) was NO JOKE~ wow! and he was totally unassuming~ like, he wasn't all "rockified" in his look/image, but totally rocked. great set of music from camper. i was super luke warm on cracker, and left after 2 songs.

but the jackie greene show. that's another bright spot on my 2007, getting to see jackie greene almost as many times as my favorite-est, the cardinals. that dude brings it. no doubt. as some of you know, i'm "so pro-jackie greene". super so pro...another great artist that i feel lucky to like.

saw some other great music this december: stephen malkmus at the GAMH, the mother hips (w jackie greene on keyboards) also at the GAMH. both of those shows were AWESOME. the stephen malkmus was new to me...dude from pavement. really awesome. his band is tight. the hips, well, that was just your good old fashioned california psychedelic rock~ GREAT SHOW.

so, i just recorded this kinda weird little movie as a NYE message. i still haven't decided if i wanna post it here, i could always re-shoot, but i'm afraid that it will be too calculated. this one was, well, very in the moment. maybe i'll get better at it. oh, well, here's a little face time, a NYE hello, if you will



i dunno. i figured, ya know what? it was 43 seconds of life. when i thought of it like that, i was like, well, if you hate it, its only 43 seconds worth...but if you don't hate, then you had a funny little face on your screen saying dorky stuff to you...or maybe ya skipped it.

well, briefly (seriously), i am putting an intention out there that my professional sitch be a more inspired one. i don't necessarily know what that looks like right this second, and that's okay. i know its brewing. i do. i feel like i am going through a growth spurt or something...like, its not all pain-free but i am growing.

neptune is transiting my mid-heaven. in aquarius. heavy shit. but its NYE. light and fluffy, please.

hope that you are feeling the love tonight and during your OH EIGHT~ i'm sending it from here to there, hope you can feel it!

Greetings*

Hi!

I've never done this before. I always seem to have a lot to say...the emails I send are always longer than most of the ones I receive...I often have to text message using the "multi-text" method...or else get that 'friendly' text from Verizon, telling me how many characters I'm allowed in one text.

I always try to find a way to say more with less words. It seems this may be a good place to spew some of the "extra" words that get left out, when I am hard at work, condensing my thick, expanding thoughts.

Or, on the contrary, maybe this will be a good place for me to practice my brevity, attempting to concisely give you my thoughts.

Or, maybe, I should say F*CK BREVITY and just ramble a bit. Either way, I guess I now have another place to say or not say what is going on in my world.

I just had a thought...should 'Blogger' be really called 'Bragger'? Because, you get in here, and you end up just talking about yourself, no? I guess it would only be 'Bragging' instead of 'Blogging' if the stuff you are saying is inherently stuff that someone else may want to be doing themselves.

I dunno. I've gotten so lazy with typing...capitalization being the biggest laziness. Speaking of capitalizing (which I am doing quite well in this here blog), here is a video that a friend sent me, in the spirit of the holidays. I was quite fascinated by it, so if you want to have a little "mini inconvenient truth" sesh, watch this vid (okay, I just learned how to be all fancy and 'embed' these vids, but for now, I can only do it thru youtube, so I had to pick just the trailer, cuz the actual video is 20 mins and is too long for one youtube session...BUT, I highly recommend seeing the whole vid~ www.storyofstuff.com, in the meantime, maybe this will get your head tilted just a little, AGAIN, like it did for me):



Okay, now that you are either done having your bubble burst about STUFF or skipped it entirely, maybe you are ready for a more light hearted holiday vid:



Both of these vids encapsulate my current holiday status: grateful, laughing, careful, and loving.

So, sweet peeps, I hope this "thing", this blog thing finds you feeling really good, surrounded by people and things and food you love, and laughing. I hope you laugh a ton during these holidays!

I don't even know...am I supposed to sign this thing? If so:

With love and light*
Michele
P.S. I chopped my hair!