Antjepalooza

Antje is Alissa's college roommate from her freshman year at UDel. I fell in love with one of her songs from her very first tape ten years ago.

I was a full-on Antje groupie before I met her a few years ago at a small show in Philly. Her song "Long Way" became my personal soundtrack when I moved to Florida. Her song "Anna" makes me cry, and then it makes me call my Nanny (who is doing much better and not totally hating the nursing home these days, as she made two friends and is going to the dining hall for meals now and likes the hairdresser and met a nice man who is cute for being 80-something, except he's deaf but supposedly he smiles a lot, which is nice- You know? When I write it like that, it sounds like I'm talking about someone in their freshman year of college, if the cute guy were 18 instead of 80).

ANYWAY, I did a photo shoot for Antje and tonight she released her first ever polished studio-recorded CD at a concert in Boston. She was amazing tonight. I offered to document the evening for her, and got to sit right up front and took a lot of photos, which I will share with you here soon. I'm so awed and touched. She was mobbed- MOBBED I tell you- at intermission with people wanting autographs and to tell her stories of how her music touched their lives and I felt so lucky to sort of be a part of it, to see it, and hear her and watch it unfold it and know that this is really, really, really just the beginning of amazing things for her.

Water... (cough cough)... Water

You know the old iconic image standby of a man in a desert, crawling toward an oasis, croaking "Water... Water.."?

I've been trying for the last five minutes to figure out where this pop culture reference I'm referring to originates, but I can't remember. It's spoofed in a lot of cartoons, commercials, maybe even that scene in National Lampoon's Vacation where Chevy Chase is trying to get his family to WallyWorld and their car breaks down and he wanders through the desert with a pair of pants on his head? You know? I'm like that right now.



I am in the midst of My Biggest Project EverTM. Thousands of jpegs. Hours of sound clips. KILLING. ME. I.. can't.. go on...

No, wait! You know who I am? I'm not Chevy Chase in "Vacation." I'm Steve Martin in "The Three Amigos" in the jail scene where El Guapo chains him in the jail, and he takes one laborious step.. then another... and the chains strain.. and then whappity-whappity-whappity he gets flung back against the brick wall. You know? Anybody? that is so me right now.



I want my mommy.

What I Did On My Spring Vacation

Yosemite photos, now in slideshow form! (Can you tell today is Slide Show Saturday?) I used up all my updownloaded space at flickr with the wedding, so I'm experimenting with a shutterfly show. Click here, please.

Wedding Slide Show

Just a heads up that there is a sneak preview slide show for Becky and Geoff's wedding viewable here.

You can also access the flickr set page from there to see slighly less pixelated images, or you can go to the main web page here, where I will be updating more frequently now that I have actually gone through and edited all 1,000+ photos Joel and I shot. MMM... long plane trips....

Flickr has not yet devised away to set their slide shows to music, but I recommend watching it while listening to "Feel It Turn" by Great Big Sea or a favorite romantic song of your own choosing. Or just listening carefully, and you might just hear me humming it all the way from New York. ;)

Enjoy!