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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 which was sucky sucky.

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]]> http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#30 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Step into the fantastical abyss! - Jenn Friedman - News http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#26
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.]]> http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#26 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Step into the fantastical abyss! - Jenn Friedman - News http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#25
Please go here and download "Alibi" for free!! Its free for you and I get paid per download!! Thank you!!

http://www.myspace.com/windows?homepage=jennfriedman]]> http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#25 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Step into the fantastical abyss! - Jenn Friedman - News http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#24
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?]]> http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#24 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Step into the fantastical abyss! - Jenn Friedman - News http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#23 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!!]]> http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#23 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Step into the fantastical abyss! - Jenn Friedman - News http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#22
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]]> http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#22 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Step into the fantastical abyss! - Jenn Friedman - News http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#20
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There is a disconcerting correlation between internet spammers and my website guestbook. What my guestbook did to attract these spammers is unbeknownst to me; I can only hope that it lured them in with its unrivaled charm and debauchery. However, best case scenarios aside, it is still blatantly, feverishly UNACCEPTABLE!

So, in an effort to rid my guestbook of the spamming kind, I've been forced to turn off my guestbook option. And do you know something? That hurt. Its like having to punish the whole class because a couple of jerks decided to act like defective tools. Its simply not fair.

As if that weren't bad enough, let me take you deeper down the rabbit hole: the spammers somehow cracked the signature ban and went on spamming as though they were on holiday! Immunity Day for Spammers! Free For All for Porn Link Providers Day, come out come out wherever you are and mess with my page till the cows come home!

As you can see, I am not happy about this predicament. But if there's anything to be taken from this life-lesson-in-the-making, its that...guests are a problem. I wouldn't ever advise having them. There's nothing wrong with being your own guest, folks. Nothing wrong at all...

I had this thought the other day:

What if a man spent his whole life standing in the middle of a road in front of a hospital entrance simply because he thought, 'Well, if I get hit, what better place to get hit than in front of a hospital?'

Do you understand? Isn't that a cool thought to have? Discuss?]]> http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#19 Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Step into the fantastical abyss! - Jenn Friedman - News http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#18
I formally invite you to my next social affair.

Its this Sunday, May 24th, 9PM at:

Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Free Tips

In honor of playing at Monday on Sunday, expect a corresponding song. Its called "Monday" and it goes "Tomorrow is Monday." I wrote it years ago in anticipation of this day.

In other news, Vermont was raaaaad. The place Chantilly and I played at, called Langdon Street Cafe, had an old converted cigarette dispenser! There was an amazingly other-worldly quartz pendulum in there for three dollars! Unfortunately the machine was stuck and no pendulum was had. But I asked them to mail it to me if they ever got it opened, and I would send them three bucks. They put it in a log for all to see. I have been immortalized!

Also, they fed us. Food equals Life Force. Free Food equals Gas Money on the Way Home. We were fortunate enough to have both. I was fortunate enough to have my performance fuel in the form of a Tempeh Reuben. Ahhhhh...heaven on a plate, my friends, heaven on a plate...

Thank you Chantilly for setting up this gig!! See Chantilly at: www.myspace.com/Chantillysongs.

Stay cool fools.

Love,
Jenn

http://www.reverbnation.com/jennfriedman

BUY MY MUSIC AT:

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

Thanks. ;)]]> http://jennfriedman.com/news.html#18 Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Step into the fantastical abyss! - Jenn Friedman - News