Hellooo 2010!!!

What the heck is happening up in here, blogspot.com? I transferred my blog over to WordPress.com in December. I have total appreciation for blogger, I really do, but I have to admit that WordPress feels more "adult", and I don't say that just because they asked me what my "Gravatar" rating is (G, PG, R, X!)

I'm including a pic of my fun new friend Otis, whom I miss so so much! I had the privilege of hanging w Otis while his ?Dad? went away for the holidays. Got some serious, solid bro' time with Otis. I learned, on one of the first days walking him, that the Grateful Dead had a puppy/dog in their family named Otis. Apparently Bob Weir had a pooch named Otis and you can do a lil internetting to find out more about it.

Well, I'd like to make it official, that any bloggy-type posts will be made on my wordpress blog at: http://wonderpiece.wordpress.com/ Who knows what the flip will happen in 2010. Really looking forward to something being diff' about this year.

"Just Like Crazy Otto..."

I figured this is as good of a place as any, to chat up my computer screen. It's a nice, newer friends birthday today. She's a deadhead so instead of just posting "happy birthday" to her on her FB wall, I dug up a Ramble On Rose.

I had also brewed up some DELICIOUS loose "Redwood Chai" along w some mango black tea (ultimately love the organic mango black tea but I haven't been able to find it in the city...only at Way of Life down in Santa Cruz. I used some honey in it that a dear friend gave me from the Santa Cruz area, as well: Pacific Crest Apiaries Raw Wildflower Honey. MAJOR YUM!

Got my haircut yesterday. A newer friend who I feel I've known for years has been doing my hair for the last year. It's always a ridiculous scene going to see him, because I'm trying to grow my hair back out, except he loves cutting short haircuts, and frankly, I love getting my hair cut short! So, it's really kinda stupid. Anyways, it had been forevz since he cut my hair, so it was def getting long...well, he was telling me how this haircut he was giving me was sorta like a "Joan Jett" cut...and I was like...alright. That's fine. He went on to tell me that he cut a Joan Jett wig for someone at Halloween, and also a David Bowie wig, too. By the time our cut was done, he said, about my hair, "Well, it's kinda in between the Joan Jett AND the Dave Bowie cuts!" WHAT?!!! Whatever, it's actually really cute. And the whole reason behind telling you this hair story is cuz with all the 80's energy swirling from getting my haircut, I'm now going to see KISS tonight!!! Again...WHAT?!!! Cracks me up...

hiss golden messenger...again

i'm so into this HGM album & i urge you to buy it from this link that i'm providing to the iTunes store. i wrote a geeky review for the sucker on iTunes (i've NEVER done that) and this is what i said:

not easy to review this complex yet simple sounding album. i keep coming up w all these polar opposite ways of describing it: timeless but contemporary, vintage yet current, seemingly "less is more"-sounding but full at the same time. i find myself enjoying this album more every time i hear it. love when that happens.



and i'll officially use that as a great intro to my new gig doing Artist Relations at reapandsow.com, a digital music distribution company based here in SF. i may never have heard this album if i wasn't working at reapandsow. or maybe it just would have taken me a longer time. either way, i'm beyond excited at this new opportunity to work so congruently with what has obviously been a passion of mine for as long as i can remember. i almost credit peter gabriel, back in 1993, when i saw him on the US tour. or secret world. or whatever it was called. that show blew me away. it wasn't long after that i started seeing ekoostik hookah in tiny little bars on the east side of cleveland, followed by phish, then the grateful dead...so that was really my trajectory. then lots more hookah and phish...until i smashed head first into ryan adams music...but i digress.

reapandsow is an awesome organization filled with passionate people who commit their lives to music. now i'm one of them. thx for being patient as my transition from being a Fashion Jewelry Designer sales rep clunkily landed me doing what i want to be doing: serving a purpose to both artists and fans by connecting the two. not unlike what i was doing before just a switch of atmosphere. yay!

hope you get to follow your dreams today...

"on my hands & my knees, i will roll roll roll"

vid is a little rough, but well worth the 3m 41s:

scarlet begonias 4.27.77 YUM

happy sunday w jerry+ co...YAY!


okay. for the jonesers to see whats next, here's this. just wow

jerry & bob on letterman 4.13.82 AWESOME

i ADORE this little vid that a friend recently turned me onto...

"...Sleep In The Stars..."

a very pleasant & especially lovely 9 minutes and 49 seconds:

Night 2: one (wo)man gathers what another (wo)man spills!

guess my hand wasn't steady on this shot!!! crazy!!!

after a first night birthday bonanza show hearing the dead's first two albums, set one being the self-titled grateful dead album, followed by set two with anthem of the sun (are you kidding me? NO!!!), night two was under way with set one being AOXOMOXOA, and set two being live dead.

it didn't seem possible to get two st. stephens in one night, but it happened. after bobby guested on tuesday night, it was a curious thing to know...is he going to sit in every night? nope. last night mark karan stepped in. their are imaginable other guests for the next few nights as well (3 more nights of grateful dead music at the warfield as we know it). sooooooo...

thank goodness for a night off. tomorrow night should continue the trend of playing the next two albums in the g.d. catalog, and what that means for us is good news! workingman's dead, and american beauty. OMG.

phil and friends definitely is NOT the grateful dead. but i'd be lying if i told you that hearing the music of the grateful dead played by founding member(s) of the grateful dead did not somehow bring jerry just a little closer to my heart. still and again, thank you jerry!

honestly

wow.

saw dso, (DARK STAR ORCHESTRA) a couple times this last week. at the great american music hall (GAMH) in sf. one of my favorite venues. what a sick room. love that place.

i love hearing the music of the grateful dead in san francisco. i dunno. it really works for me. isn't that a lucky thing for me! i feel so grateful for music right now in my life. it is definitely shining some serious light

you guys listening to my morning jacket or what? if you are not, what are you waiting for? thanks to matt and shannon for turning me onto them once upon a time.

so yeah. dso at the gamh. good stuff.

i took that pic the 3rd night. good to see all the cute sweet nice kind faces*