Eric is the good blogger.
I'm terrible.
I never know what to write about and the amount of constant inner-criticism is stifling.
He's basically good at practically everything, including an uncanny persuasiveness, in which the outcome is inevitably one of his friends painfully trying to create something by themselves.
The inner critic followed me very obediently into this venture as well. But this time I'm actually enjoying the pain.
Thank you, Eric, for convincing me to begin writing my own songs about 4 years ago.
Here is the first (VERY ROUGH!!) demo we've recorded. The Reckoning. I wrote this one for Julie, my dearest friend. More to follow. Hope they don't suck.
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING.
over and out,
h

For those of you that may enjoy contemporary classical music (this is the GOOD kind of contemporary music - melodic, dramatic, unusual and extemely engaging), I just realized you may be interested in some of these.
I have three CD releases so far with music by David Del Tredici (a truly brilliant composer, in my opinion, and a great friend...). They can all be found on Amazon (search under 'Hila Plitmann') - here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/002-0655483-8192833?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=classical&field-keywords=Hila%20Plitmann

Phew...I see why it's called a link... *)
ciao,
h

hola pumpkins,

here's a link to the interview they played this morning on NPR's "Morning Edition":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5421359

over and out,
h *)

Well here I am again...dust still settling from my baby-mooshed brain.

A week after a Los Angeles Philharmonic concert with some of the most difficult, gruesome music I've ever laid ears upon, it's so wonderful to just sit back and listen to something beautiful...

I've added two new short little bon bons from the soundtrack to "The Da Vinci Code", and a new photo of composer Hans Zimmer and I at the Air Recording Studios in London *)

What a friggin' adventure!!! It's requires such a different set of triggers than what I'm used to - recording some little bit over and over again and trying not to think too deeply about it (a new, shiny array of judges to contend with inside...).

Learning that you have to simply trust the people at the other end (control freak alert!!@!), that they know what it is they want and will make is sound good.

The recording sessions were this strange combination of fraternity dorm room mood (those guys work such hard, intense, long hours and - THANK GOODNESS - had some outrageous senses of humor) and one of the most professional environments I've ever been fortunate enough to experience. Phew, that was a very lengthy sentence...

I am so glad and grateful that I did this and can't wait for the next one...
over and out
h

Hello to ALL my awesome and wonderful friends!! Between one breast-feeding and the other (that's why we have two) I finally found five minutes to write - SO - I just wanted to tell y'all thank you for joining my myspace (lol) and that I read (and thoroughly enjoy) all of my e-mails and comments *-) please forgive me for not responding to each one in person right now - this new sweet baby Esh is quite the character and believes that his mom is a 24 hour entertainment unit... I send everyone lots and lots of that good love and PLEASE keep writing over and out H