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Mary Lyn Maiscott



Last Updated: 12/5/2009

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City: NEW YORK
State: New York
Country: US
Signup Date: 10/19/2007

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Friday, October 30, 2009 

Category: Music
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Last night I met singer Nellie McKay at a listening party at Jazz at Lincoln Center for her new CD, a Doris Day tribute called Normal as Blueberry Pie. Besides being talented, Nellie is lovely. I hope you’ll check out my vanityfair.com interview with her.

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And if you’re interested in books (e.g. The Rock & Roll Book of the Dead), movies (e.g. A Serious Man), and/or TV shows (Entourage, Californication), you may want to read my reviews and Bob Rosen’s on the Looseleaf Report.

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 

Have you heard the Brit singer Findlay Brown? He recently toured in the UK with Duffy. Read about my conversation with him--about guitars, among other things--after his recent show at the Mercury Lounge: it's on the Looseleaf Report blog.



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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 

Category: Music 
On December 23 I was interviewed on "The Louis Free Show," a radio show out of Ohio, about my new song, "Things I Lost," as well as my CD, Blue Lights, especially the two Christmas-related songs. If you get a chance, check it out; it will be archived at the link below for another week or so. The segment is in Part 1, a bit before the middle (once it's downloaded, you can move the button); it starts with a mashup of "Things I Lost" and "Blue Lights." I think I should mention that Louie is himself Jewish, since he starts ragging my husband, Bob Rosen, about not being into Christmas. Hope everyone had a good holiday, and happy new year!

Louie Free Archives
Currently reading:
Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon
By Robert Rosen
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Saturday, November 29, 2008 

Category: Music
Please check out my new song, "Things I Lost," currently on my player. It was produced by my talented nephew Sean. I'll soon be singing it on the cable-TV show "The Looseleaf Report," which will eventually be streamed on the Internet. I'll be sure to let you know when that happens!

Here's some background on the song: It was inspired by the loss of my black leather jacket, seen in the picture that accompanies the song--that's at a bar in Santiago, Chile, called La Piojera, "the Lice House," where I'm having a Terramoto ("Earthquake," made with cheap wine and pineapple ice cream) with my husband, Robert Rosen, author of the book Nowhere Man and the original owner of the jacket. On the return from Chile, I left the jacket on a chair at one of the gates in the Mexico City airport; this led to a Kafka-esque hour-long try (at around 5 a.m.) to get back to the area to retrieve it. I finally gave up (I don't speak Spanish), but it's OK because I got a song out of it!
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 
Saw the amazing Aretha Franklin in concert over the weekend in East Hampton. To read about it--including my encounter with Christie Brinkley and a great photo of her taken by Robert Rosen--go to Aretha concert . Thanks!
Mary Lyn
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Friday, June 06, 2008 

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Just posted a thought piece on David Letterman, inspired by his interview with Julia Roberts last night:

"A Kinder, Gentler Letterman?"

Hope you get a chance to check it out!

Thanks,
Mary Lyn
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 

Category: Music
Hi! I have a new post on Vanity Fair's blog; it's about an incredible concert Donna Summer did the other night in New York. Hope you get a chance to read it:

Hot Stuff! Donna Summer Returns

Thanks a lot,
Mary Lyn
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 
I've been blogging for Vanity Fair the last few weeks. The first posts were about musicians at the Tribeca Film Festival Music Lounge (you can find them by searching my name or the names of the singers at vf.com): Nick Lowe, Regina Spektor, Sia, Joseph Arthur, and Sixpence None the Richer; I interviewed all of them except Nick Lowe. More recently I interviewed John Cusack about his new movie, the anti-war satire War, Inc. Here's the link for that:
http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/blogs/daily/2008/05/qa-john-cusack.html
Last Friday, May 23, I talked about the interview on the radio and Internet show "The Louie Free Show." If you'd like to hear that segment, it's archived at http://media.vindy.com/louiefree/show.mpd.080523.0.mp3
It's near the end of the show (once it's downloaded fully, you can move the button).
Thanks!

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Saturday, March 08, 2008 

Category: Music
If you've listened to my song "Midnight in California" (currently the first song on the player), you may have gotten a sense of the beautiful Spanish island of Mallorca (where, in the song, an expat longs for her lover in far-off Malibu). In the lyrics, I tried to conjure up the intoxicatingly fragrant jasmine, the town squares with their bars and cafés, the ubiquitous lizards and sheep, the turquoise Mediterranean Sea—the special qualities of this Balearic Island (the other Balearics are Minorca and Ibiza, the celebrated destination of ravers and rock stars). I wrote the song in a 16th-century house in Fornalutx, a Mallorcan village in the foothills of the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range. For our delayed honeymoon, my husband and I spent the month of June 2002 in that house—a friend's—set at the top of a steep ancient street that ended in an emerald-green, stone-fenced meadow. The house led out to a courtyard (see the picture for "Midnight in California") with a separate kitchen, a wonderful little structure that looked out on a small garden. There each morning we'd drink strong coffee and eat blood-red oranges bought from a man who lived nearby, in a sloping section of town reachable only by wide stone steps—built for donkeys, not cars.

Fornalutx, with its sand-colored, green-shuttered homes—the big wooden doors generally left open so as to welcome guests—also inspired me to write a short story called "Pueblo Piedra" (stone village). The story is wholly fictional, but I could not have written it without experiencing the magic of the area. I'm happy to say that "Pueblo Piedra" was recently published in The Portland Review, a literary magazine, and is now accessible on its website. I hope that you will read it and that it takes you to a place even half as entrancing as Mallorca was for me.

Pueblo Piedra," The Portland Review, Winter 2008
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 

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As my husband, Robert Rosen, just pointed out to me, John Lennon opened the door for us in Mexico, and we walked through it. The people of Mexico, Chile, and other parts of Latin America have been extraordinarily receptive to Bob as the author of the Lennon biography Nowhere Man. Now they're beginning to extend to me the same openness: Guillermo Henry is featuring my CD, Blue Lights, on his Mexico City radio show, "Radio Etiopía," on Radio UNAM this Monday, February 4, at 11 p.m. in Mexico City and Central time in the US—midnight Eastern time, 10 p.m. Rocky Mountain, 9 p.m. Pacific, 5 a.m. on Feb 5 in the UK and 6 a.m. in Western Europe. The program, named for the Patti Smith album, is free-form radio—talk (mostly Spanish, of course) mixed with poetry mixed with music of all kinds. If you'd like to tune in, follow the instructions below:

1. Click HERE

2. Click on FM

3. Click on one of the players: Real Player, Winamp, or Windows Media Player

If you're in Mexico City or an outlying area, you can listen on your radio at XEUN 96.1 FM. (Si está en el DF, puede escuchar en su radio en XEUN FM 96.1.)

The station does not archive.

Getting back to John Lennon, perhaps Guillermo will play my version of the Beatles' "You Can't Do That," which we just put up on my MySpace player. Muchas gracias to Guillermo and to all of you!
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