Fame or Famine

Musician’s Friend may be a great place to buy supplies, but that guy they have on the front page of the site…
Go look.
I totally want to look like that guy, dude.

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Or: SHUT UP!
In late summer of this year Andy bought a VW bug. This is relevant because suddenly I had my own car again and the radio stations were tuned not just to NPR and Jazz. Every day I listen to crazy pop stations, you know, just to keep up with what is grooving the kids these days, and there is this guy who is being hired to record, like, 6,000 commercial voiceovers.
His claim to fame seems to be an almost “surfer dude” bored drawl, and he slurrs half the things he says and he gets right …read more

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Today, Fabulous Reader, I was going to show you a small video my husband took on one of his gigs of a friend of ours blowing up a condom using his trumpet.
In a tragic turn of events, there is something wrong with the file.
Best laid plans, etc, etc.

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This is an email I recieved from Ali who works in the Chicago show scene. It is reprinted here with her kind permission.

For those of you who don’t know, Babes With Blades just opened our latest production, BWB: Cliffhangers, at the Breadline Center for the Performing Arts. It is a ton of fun and the material is new and even better than before. The show covers a multitude of genres from Science Fiction to Merchant Ivory so there is something for everyone.
For more info, check out www.babeswithblades.ORG After a year and a half off from …read more

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A great performance art blog is my friend, Tamu, atTamu Sutra. He’s a rising star in the Washington, D.C. hiphop scene.
Check out his tune Marijuanalog. Most excellent!

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At The Garden State Blog Zach Braff, who you know as JD on Scrubs (please to be excusing the makeup-laden photo), posts various things and keeps his fans appraised of what’s going on. Recently he didn’t have time to post, so as an atonement he made up a video thank-you for all his fellow bloggers. Check the top of the page.
This guy is as cool as Wil Wheaton about fan appreciation.
Check it out!

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I know, I know, I have been remiss in bringing you all that’s best in movies, music, dance and theatre. I, in a word, suck, but this blog is enough to bring me out of hiding.
The blog of the week this week is, Greg Hester Jazz. The blog is frequently updated and offers a great resource for the casual jazz fan looking for music opinions, links and photos.
Big swing bands have come and gone – some good, some even great – but since the early forties, the one quality for which all big bands have striven (strived?) – …read more

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Fabulous Reader, I would summarize the scientology developments with Katie Holmes, but honestly, Olivia Drab does it a thousand times better than I do:
Apparently, every time a woman screams “ASS WHORE!”, an alien loses his wings.
Also, just so you know I’ve been contacted by someone who is familiar with the Holmes family (and presumably her mother), and apparently Katie is 27 and can do whatever crazy dumbass shit she wants, like marrying freakman. The rumor has it that the fam is not overjoyed at the latest developments.
Rumor, but entirely feasable, because if she were my daughter I would …read more

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