Music, Reiki, Recovery! - Jenn Friedman - News

Reiki for Animals!

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Stay tuned for updates on my Animal Reiki services! I'm sorting out some logistics at the moment but will be back shortly with more information. I'm so excited to be a part of this beautiful healing modality!!!

Eating-Feeling Connections

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Eating Disorder Advocacy

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

I have decided to turn this site into an eating disorder advocacy site that will incorporate but not primarily focus on music.

I have learned so much throughout my recovery that I love sharing with others, and I love keeping the circle going by gathering wisdom from others.

So, a heads up. I will blog about my ongoing recovery, and I hope you can get something out of it. I'm always open to feedback and conversation. :)

Take care for now,
Jenn <3

Buy "Open Book" with Paypal

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Tuesday Morning Rubbish

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Noteworthy things: Brandon (guitarist) and I sat in a green room in Barnes and Noble before going on. a GREEN ROOM! Serious coughage taking place this morning. Its the remnants of my attonement. I fasted yesterday for Yom Kippur which was good but then I ate too much at night. I have discovered that my new target audience should be sixty plus. I woke up at 5:30 AM today which is a new record for this season. I am so going outside for a morning walk right after I finish this blog. I need to sell my keyboard - 88 weighted key roland rd 150 - any takers? I did my first protest Saturday. an abortion clinic defense counter protest. There was a free donut involved but that was a fluke. Regardless, I'm going back this Saturday, if not for the free donut, then for the feeling of empowerment and community. If you want to come, email me at jenn.fried@gmail.com. Good people, really great cause. And in closing...apparently there was a beetle in my bathroom, and apparently that beetle is no more. i'm in mourning. enjoy this crisp and lovely autumn day! I loooove fall... <3

World Peace and Butt Signing

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

If you live in the vast and glorious state of Connecticut, you should come to my show tonight at the Buttonwood Tree! 605 Main Street, Middletown, CT. 7:30 PM. $8, $5 for students.

If you don't live there, you should at least have some sort of DESIRE to go...a seat will vibrate in your honor.

Tomorrow, if you live in or around the UNITED STATES, you should come see me at Barnes and Noble on 66th and Broadway in New York, NY, Friday 9/25, 6PM. Performance and signing. I'll sign your cd, your coffee cup, your butt. Oh and get this - the signatures are free. You won't find a deal like this anywhere. COME AND SEE THIS MOST FABULOUS SHOW!!! Guitarist Brandon Vetrano will be there. If you're nice to him, he will sign your butt too.

I am going to write a blog soon called "Fat and Unempowered." Its going to be about "days like these." Not today, not me, not specifically, just days like these for whomever, wherever, and why on these days we equate feeling bigger with losing power. That blog is going to be hot.

Today marks one year, ten months and eight days of no smoking. I'm not anal...

I thought about smoking on the train this morning, and then I thought about religion, and then I thought they're kind of one in the same. Absitence from smoking is like finding your religion. There are ten million ways to do it and when it boils down to it its all the same. We fight over which way is best, we have a very strong conviction that our way is actually the ONLY way, and we preach and get in each other's faces. (I'm different, I KNOW my way is best hahahaha). Seriously though...You know what would be fabulous? If people from all different religions sat in a room together and discussed the feelings that arose from their religion without alluding to what the religion is. That would be fun. World peace OMG.

I was also thinking, wouldn't it be a cool experiment to go through an entire day without looking at the time once? from waking up until going to bed? preferably on a weekend or holiday. I think that representatives of the United Nation should try this experiment. It would relax the entire world for a day, hence world peace again, hollah!

Try it. Try it! Wake up Saturday and don't look at the clock. Eat lunch without looking at the time first to see if you should be hungry. Go out and play. Do your work. Exercise. Do whatever you want. Just make sure you don't know the time at any point throughout the day. Go to sleep when you're tired. Don't be anxious...swing with the natural shifts that go on throughout the day! You'll know its night when it gets dark out. hrrrm.

i'm such a hippie, geez....

Alright. Later folks. Enjoy Thursday, it never did anything to you. and thank you for downloading "Alibi"!!!! And thank you in advance for coming to my show tonight, spiritually or physically, and for buying my cd, physically or digitally.

www.cdbaby.com/cd/jenn2
www.itunes.com/jennfriedman

Loves you.

FREE Download of "Alibi"!!!

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

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Phoenix

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Before anything, I want to let you know that you all need to go here:

Phoenix's Blog - amazing feminist writing. This girl is ridiculous. I saw her perform her poetry the other day at Paradigm Shift and she blew me out of the water. Her words are....crunchy. Crunchy, delicious and wise. Please go here. You will fall in love and probably become a better person.

http://femme-poet.blogspot.com/

Since I am not too technically savvy (I think HTML stands for "Here, Try My Lentils"), I have not yet been able to link directly to Phoenix's blog. However, I have faith that she will gently help me through this without too much trauma to my sympathetic nervous system.

In other news, I went to Caffe Vivaldi open mic tonight for the second time, and I must say, it feels like a safe haven in an otherwise arhythmic city. I am proud to call myself a "regular." I feel mutual appreciation and recognition, and consistently leave smiling. I feel the "Cheers" theme song coming on and will immediately change the subject.

I guess if you're reading this, you're also on my mailing list, so you know what's up with me, but in case you are having a slow moment and forgot to check your email (but by some miraculous twist of fate remembered to check this blog), I'm going to be interviewed (aka grilled) on Rewbee's World - Wednesday at 4:30PM. Watch live as boundaries break and secrets from the womb are cracked: www.arizzmaradio.com. Its my fifteen minutes of fame, quite literally.

In closing, I would like to present to you some alternative interpretations of what we in the modern world have come to call "HTML."

HTML:

How To Make Lentils

How To Murder Lice

How To Milk Leopards

How To Mash Lettuce

Hoe Tush Money Lawyer

Have Triple Mocha Latte

Hammer Toed Monkey Love

More?

Paradigm Shift NYC

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

June 17th (I'm late with this) was incredible. I performed at the launch of Paradigm Shift's new website and blog. See them here: www.paradigmshiftnyc.com.

I met so many great people and feel more encouraged than ever to keep going. Thank you beautiful ladies for organizing this and having me perform!!

Chronologically Organized Wishes

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dear Myspace,

I have to say, for a long time, I disregarded you. I made light of you. I chose other social networking sites as my primary sources of debauchery. But now I come to you and request forgiveness. I hope that we can be friends again. That includes you, Tom.

I want to treat you all equally - that includes Facebook, Reverbnation, Myspace, my blog, and of course, this here website. So, I've just revamped my Myspace calendar and I hope you'll take a look. I will also maintain an up-to-date Myspace blog (namely, this blog insterted into that blog - two different textual bodies with identical text. This feels very existential). Anyway, I promise you, Myspace, I will not fail you.

www.myspace.com/jennfriedman

I feel compelled to tell you all the things I've been doing. I'm so excited. I feel a great musical resurgence and its making me so happy. This is my schedule. Revel in it! Play in it like a kid in a sandbox! Pick and choose the rides you wanna go on!

This was May:

May 6th - House Concert
May 19th - Vermont's Langdon Street Cafe with Chantilly
May 24th - Goodbye Blue Monday

This month:

Yesterday, June 4th - City Light Coffeehouse (NYC)
June 6th - Homage with Twilight of the Idle (Brooklyn)
June 20th - Pianos (NYC)
June 24th - Interview on Rewbee's World (NYC - You are invited to watch the showdown live!)
June 25th - "You Are Not Alone, Volume 2" comes out - a beautiful eating disorder recovery book and accompanying cd to which I contributed a story and song!

Next month (so far confirmed):

July 24th - All Call Inn (Ewing, NJ)
July 30th - The Underscore (NYC0

September 10-12: Utica Musicfest!!!! I don't have my exact slot yet, but it'll be during one of those days!!! This will be my first festival everrrr, and much like my first house concert, I am duly psyched. As should you be! Weeee!

I also have two radio station shows / interviews / podcasts coming up. I've been accepted, but do not have dates just yet. Stay tuned!

I am also organizing an event with the the project coordinator of "You are not Alone" at Bluestocking Bookstore in NYC to celebrate the book's release.

And if you will please keep me in your thoughts, I am (seriously) praying for a "yes" to something potentially amazing. I can't say anything more about it, but my conviction is, the more people who put "yes" out into the universe, the greater the likelihood of a blissful occurrence.

Also...Reverbnation. And a problem I reeeeally hope to fix just in the nick of time. If I fix it, you will know. I've been offered a really cool opportunity but some downloading problems might be preventing me from ceasing it. Lets just hope this can be figured out by Friday. I'm keep'n the faith, Reverbnation, that technical difficulties may never come between us.

(update: it worked!!! by god it worked! thanks for keep'n the faith, kids!)

Time for bed.

Love,
Jenn