Funny Typos | Posted by Jannie on 11 May 2009 @ 11:25 AM
My CD Release Show last night was fun, fun, fun — everyone said they really enjoyed it, even tho I slipped some mistakes past them. Ah, but what are mistakes but portals to enlightenment?
Now, how ’bout some more typos?
1. I love it when friends drip in unannounced!
2. Wish my hubby would stay camping for the night instead of leaving after the pot-lick dinner.
3. At my release show a few friends will be praying with me — should be fun!
4. Ain’t it strange how everythong’s changed?
5. I don’t think the horeless carriage will catch on either!
6. I’m worried I’ll end up back in my special room with my stingless uke.
7. I forgot to tank Rosie for my front cover sky.
8. I’m working on the guitar for “Rosie’s Song” and it’s really frying what bran I have left.
9. To feel elf-directed is a very meaningful thing [lifted from Patricia’s Wisdom comments section.]
10. $10.00 per CD. Low sipping and handling.
11. Can you believe it’s just 2 weeks until my release sow?!
12. I might even become master of my own slip.
13. How many galleons does your rain barrel hold?
14. My [wedding] gown of lice was white as snow.
15. Here I am late at night taping away at my keyboard again.
16. Happy Heater! [ her name’s Happy Heather, Jannie!]
17. Believe me, I MORE than understand having only so much time to get around to red blogs.
18. Soon my codfishing bot will speak again.
19. Bangs permed, rots colored, hair trimmed – check
20. Ooo, sorry to mention the chocolate cream pie when you’re on a crab restricted diet.
Here is the entire series thus far, in case you are interested. 🙂
Funny Typos 10… Funny Typos 9… Funny Typos 8… Funny Typos 7… Funny Typos 6… Funny Typos 5… Funny Typos 4… Funny Typos 3… Funny Typos 2… Funny Typos 1…
Ass Kicking | Posted by Jannie on 10 May 2009 @ 7:41 AM
photo credit: Lueken’s Liquors
CDs ready – check
PA system – check
Guitar, tuner, fresh guitar 9V battery, guitar stand, capo, microphone, microphone for Kelly, mike cables, 2 mike stands, guitar cable, surge board, stringless uke, spoons, shaker, tambourine, video camera charged, tripod, duct tape, scissors, barstool, music stands (just in case,) music book, set lists, reminder to Tracy, Adrian, Kalyani and Ryan to bring their cables, Kalyani’s mike stand – check
2 pretty cloth tablecloths, CD display case, bottle of Chandon sent to my house from Patricia’s Wisdom!!! Gorgeous FTD bouquet of roses et al sent to my house from Patricia’s Wisdom and Life Coach Davina at Shades of Crimson!!! – check
Dozens of bottled waters – check
Lemonade and jug, little cups, munchie plates, napkins – check
Shiny pink toenails – check
Bangs permed, roots colored, hair trimmed – check
7 hours peaceful sleep – check
Mantra – check.
Still to do (get,)…. 4 miles on running trail, guitar tuner batteries, ice, cheeses, crackers, fruit, munchies, more champagne, cookies, lightbulbs. Tracy chord chart on “Hearts & Bones,” call him about the B minor vs the D major 7.
Dudes, I’m going running and shopping!
xo
Ass Kicking, Song Stuff | Posted by Jannie on 5 May 2009 @ 8:16 AM
Got them last week! Was going to start taking orders yesterday but decided to wait until after the Release show Sunday, so I can focus this week on strumming my gee-tar, perfecting my macaroni sheep sculptures and kissing the running trail trees with my eyes.
Plus, I need to find me a fabulous new blue shirt!! And maybe even some super-funky pants.
Here’s the CD’s front cover.
Here’s the back cover. (Totally went for the barcode, Dudes!)
And this sticker… (but smaller than depicted here,)
will go on the outside of the shrinkwrap of the CDs to be sold in stores.
In total, “I Need A Man,” includes 8 full-color pages of art, photos, writing and other never-before-seen stuff. And the songs sounded good before but now with the packaging they sound, IMHO, pretty darn great. How is that?
CDs available locally at Waterloo Records, starting next week, I hope.
Mail orders available directly from me — each CD packed in a pristine bubble envelope with aromatic moonbeams, Texas morning air and a specially chanted Jannie love incantation. With a free Jannie autograph, if desired — the latter which will necessitate shrinkwrap removal.
$10.00 USD per CD. Low shipping and handling, details to be posted Monday on my new Buy CD page.
I plan to put the songs on iTunes too, when I figure it out. And maybe Amazon.com or CD Baby or some other such dew-fangled thing, if it makes sense.
Oh!! Guess what?! I’ve put another 6 MP3 snippets from the CD up on my Song Samples page. Have a listen if you’re so in the mood. They vary from about 45 to 60 seconds each.
And friends, my posting may be especially light for the rest of this week, to give myself a little pre-show “vacation” and allow me to get over with joyful abandon to read all your blogs. Yay!
So take care and I’ll see you soon!! xo
Rooftop Yodeling | Posted by Jannie on 1 May 2009 @ 1:09 PM
Remember tree nymphs stole my digital voice recorder? Yah. But I don’t begrudge them, they’ve got song ideas they need to catch too.
One of the files on my recorder contained about 30 brilliant questions I’d compiled one day when I was feeling especially jaunty. A list for Kelly’s seven-year-old video interview. (A video which I’ll post here. Eventuellement. Probably in 2 installments.) Which will now have to be her 7 and 1/2 year interview. And by the time I actually get to it, it will be closer to her 7 and 2/3 year interview. Oh My God, my baby’s growing too fast. Where is the time going!?!??
But enough of that!
Alas, the mood of that jaunty day seems to evade me now and I can’t remember any of those inspired questions.
I’ve managed to eke out a few again…
1. Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?
2. What do you think is humanity’s greatest current challenge?
3. If you could go one place in the world, where would you go? And why?
4. If you could meet one person from the past who would it be? And why?
5. If you could ask God one question, what would it be?
6. If you could have your kitty answer one question, what would it be?
7. Who wrote the book of love?
But I need your help! I’d love to hear your ideas for questions to ask Kelly for her video interview. If you could please submit them to my EFCS (Everloving Funster Commenting System) here below, I’ll be eternally even more in your debt than I already am. Thanks in advance.
Friends | Posted by Jannie on 29 April 2009 @ 2:15 PM
A whiff of body lotion can’t really transport us to peaceful places, right?! We’re all grown up and hip to advertizing hooey. YET… just one enchanting encounter with my new Aventine Hill “Relaxation Hand & Body Lotion” did sweep me gloriously farther away in 2 seconds than I ever was swept in years with another lotion. Must be that kiss of vanilla and lemon!
Sorry, certain brand of face soap, you’ll be seeing a lot less of me now that I have “Grandma’s Herbal Cleansing Grains” by Aventine Hill, with kaolin clay, rice powder, yogurt powder, colloidal oatmeal and other wonderful ORGANIC goodies!
Let’s face it, I’ve been obsessively good to my skin since my mid-twenties (except of course, for my tan in 1999 when Y2K was going to end the world and, gosh-darn, if I were going to meet my Maker at the young age of 35 – I’d meet Him with a great-looking tan.) So, combined with the suncare products I already use, Aventine Hill — created out of a love for nature — is the icing on my skin and soul-care’s cake.
Natural. Organic. No synthetic color. No synthetic fragrance. Handmade. Etsy. Great stuff.
And a GREAT VALUE too. Plus, a Big Mothers’ Day Sale Going on NOW!
So, hop on over there to Aventine Hill, y’all.
P.S. this is not a paid review, in case you were wonderin.’ 🙂
