LAST GIRL ON EARTH HAS MOVED

Hey everyone, I've spruced up my act and moved to a cooler, easier to remember address...

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I'M MOVING SOON!

Just want you all to know that I'm not sitting around eating bonbons. I've actually been working on my new blog home! That's right. Hopefully by this weekend, I'll be sporting my snazzy new LAST GIRL ON EARTH digs.

I bid a fond farewell to Blogger. We're switching everything over to WordPress. We might lose some of your old comments which REALLY SUCKS! But hopefully, you all will come through with new and unique things to say...

Anyhow, since I'm moving shop, I will also be sporting a new address, which is VERY close to the last address, but I'll let you know what it is as soon as we're ready for the housewarming party!

In the words of the Great Wizard Of Oz:

GO AWAY AND

COME BACK TOMORROW!

The Garage Is His Castle

My Dad's garage is the BANE of my mother's existence. For 20 years I've heard her complain about this space. No matter how much she goes on about it, she just can't get my dad to clean it up. This is a pretty tough situation to be in for a Jewish Mother.

This is not a story about Lenore, though...

This is MORT'S GARAGE we're talking about here... The only space in this world that he can all his own. Lenore doesn't go in there. She's much too mortified by the accumulation of years' worth of STUFF! Dad is encouraged to only open the garage door a crack so that the neighbors won't see the clutter and make my mother cower in shame at the next Coco Woods get-together!

This is a place to store all of his private treasures.

AND MORT HAS TREASURES...

If you want a bowling ball, just ask my dad. He'll disappear into his hideaway for a few minutes and come back out with four bowling balls. Take your pick!

You want some wine? Out comes Mort with a fine vintage of something extra tasty... like Manischewitz... 1992... A very good year for Concord Grapes I hear!

I STILL have no interest in golf, but IF I ever wanted to take it up, I could take my pick from several lovely sets stashed in Dad's garage.

Want a cookie, or some candy? I KNOW he's got a private stash out there. Just don't tell my mother. She'd have a conniption!

What really scares us is the chemicals that Mort has stored in his garage for the past 20 years. I'm not sure what the shelf life of mildew cleaner is, but I'm sure chemistry students would have a field day using my Dad's garage as a science experiment.

I fully expect to get a phone call some day to tell me that the garage has blown up from the fermenting paints and solvents. (Of course, that will be on a day that Mort & Lenore are out bowling!)

I TOTALLY understand my Dad's behavior. I always defend him to the hilt when my Mom goes on about the mess in the garage. Because I am a collector too, and I believe that everyone should have a space of their own. A place to get away and gather your thoughts... surrounded by THINGS only you can appreciate! A place to collect years' worth of useless shit...

I AM MY FATHER'S DAUGHTER!

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I'm in the process of redesigning my blog. About time if you ask me! There should be a major overhaul in the next couple of weeks! YIPPEE!!!

MEANWHILE... I'm putting together all of my lists, and checking them twice.

And now I'm putting this out to YOU...

If you want to be linked to the all new, all improved LAST GIRL ON EARTH, just let me know. You know how it works...

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Everybody Wants To Rule The World!

Ever since I began touring, I’ve become really manic about demanding my frequent flyer points whenever possible. I must be signed up for every travel program known to man. At least I thought I was… until last week.

Last Thursday, I needed to go to Washington, DC for a one day trip. It looked like the train was the way to go.

After making the discovery that I wasn’t already a member of the AMTRAK GUEST REWARDS PROGRAM, (I could have sworn I’d joined that years ago!) I proceeded to sign myself up.

THIS WAS TOO GOOD! If you go to the sign-up page, this is what you get:

BE... ALL THAT YOU CAN BE ….
There wasn’t a choice for QUEEN… so I’ll settle for PRINCESS…
"PRINCESS OF THE IMPERIAL COURT" to be exact ...

Let's Eat!

Our Love’s Got An Attitude!

A few years ago, a very close friend of mine wrote commercial jingles for a very high-end advertising agency in New York City. He was really successful at this, and would occasionally call me in to play and sing on some pretty big commercials… like McDonalds, Hellman’s Mayo and Dr. Pepper to name just a few.

My buddy would produce the demo, and if the client accepted it, then they referred to it as “going final”. Shortly after that, you guys would all hear it on TV or radio… and we would break open the champagne!

Not all the commercial demos that I played on went final, although if you ask me, they all sounded like anything on the airwaves today… My friend is a real pro!

There were a couple of times that a demo went down the tubes, but I thought it was too good a musical idea to be trashed for good. So I got together with my friend and “borrowed” the original idea, and we turned it into a full song.

Because I’m going to be heading up to Woodstock to try to finish my CD this weekend, (I hope, I hope, I hope!), get a gander at what I’ve provided for your weekend listening pleasure:

First, I would like for you to take a listen to the original Dr. Pepper commercial demo that I sang on. Go ahead. Press the little play button...

Now enjoy the song we wrote based on that little ditty. It was on my first CD. I just love it when a weird soft drink inspires me!
(If you like it, buy it!)

Have a great weekend

Can We Get Personal?

Some of you have written to me privately to ask about the progress of my new CD. I'm taking my friend CW's advice and sharing with my new blog family! Here's the scoop...

Last week, my manager and I drove to Woodstock on Sunday to try to finish up mixing the tracks into their final versions. I lovingly refer to him as BRIT BOY. He's from Wales, so this drives him crazy... but that's my job!

First off, we got into my van with B.B. driving. I personally hate driving this monster. I always refer to it as The Love Boat... it's a big ASK-ME-ABOUT-MY GRANDCHILDREN high-top Chevy Van. AND IT'S GOTTEN REALLY OLD!

So we got a half hour out of the city, and the damn thing started fucking up. Well, because it was a holiday weekend, neither of us wanted to risk breaking down, so we turned around and went back into the city.

After spending the next hour or so on the phone, we realized that because of the 3-day weekend, there were no rental cars available, but we finally found the last rental car in NYC and headed off again towards Woodstock.

We started the session only 3 hours late, and then we were informed that there was a snowstorm on the horizon. No biggie. We were planning on staying at a hotel in Woodstock for the night anyway.

At 12:30 PM, I had to use the facility, which is in our producers' house, and realized that the snow was up to my knees. It looked like it was time to leave before we got stuck in the studio for the night.

On Monday, we were THREE SONGS AWAY from having the record mixed when the producer got a call that his mother was in the hospital and it looked serious.

So we left! Without any of the mixes that we had just completed... nada... nothing! It is SOOOO frustrating to be this close and still be in limbo another couple of weeks longer.

We started the record in September. The project had to be pushed back a month as our producer broke his arm in August... Then he broke it AGAIN! He's also playing almost all of the guitars on the record, so we really had to wait for him to heal. Time marches on!

BUT... THE MIXES ARE SOUNDING GREAT!!! (At least from what I can remember of them!) It's really sounding like a record, and I can't wait for you all to hear it. Soon I'll be able to post some snippets from the new recordings...

Last Girl's fans looking at their watches wondering when the record is coming out!