"If you missed the show at Hensley's Flying Elephant on Saturday, January 6th you missed one heck of a show. In fact, it's the kind of gig that makes me proud to play music and really encompasses why I set out to play live music in bars for people I don't know (and some I do).

Before I ever moved to California (hop into the Wayback Machine), I used to go see bands play in my former home of Tulsa, OK. Tulsa is known for it's amazing music scene and I loved going out to see some of the legends of Tulsa on any given night and sometimes witness what can only be described as musical magic. Forces came together and everyone in the crowd that night felt like they witnessed something that could never take place the same way again. I relished those nights when my local music heroes created that magic, with some of their friends from other bands sitting in or maybe just taking on a song they'd never done and finding that perfect guitar solo or whatever it might be on that night. But when you went home that night you felt like something special had just taken place.

Last night after our gig at Hensley's I felt like in some small way we had achieved that. Everything felt right about it and, from the looks on the faces of the crowd and from the comments of the music lovers at the bar, I know we did something right and left a lot of people feeling the way I used to feel after seeing Steve Pryor and the Mighty Kingsnakes tear the roof off the place or Jim Sweeney hook up with Bill Davis and create more soul than any other two white guys could ever produce. It may sound corny, but I felt the music gods smiling on us last night.

First of all we had quite a "who's who of skateboarding" in the crowd, starting off with Tony Hawk himself. Of course the legendary Matt Hensley owns the place, so that's a given. Jesse Fritsch and 80's legend Adrian Demain were also in attendance. We were joined on stage by Matt Hensley, who is also known as the accordion player in the well known band Flogging Molly. The usual amazing sets by Oliver, Dianne, and Michelle kept the crowd going and we finished up the night being joined by one of the monster bassists on the planet, Alan Deremo who has toured with a ton of famous bands including Glenn Frey of the Eagles, John Denver and Men at Work just to name a few. And we even got a quick back-up vocal from Pat Hawk who has sung with Michael Bolton, The Righteous Brothers, etc. If you've ever listened to the radio you've probably heard her sing. Of course Dave Quillen was on his own planet on lead guitar and Rob Quillen did more than his fair share of drumming duties last night. He was even looking pretty at home behind the cocktail kit.

Thanks to everyone who came out for the show. Thanks to Matt Hensley for owning a bar that puts music first and catering to a crowd who actually gets it. And thanks to Matt for lending his musical talents to us and helping create a little magic.

We'll see you there again soon!"

--Jaimie Muehlhausen

Isn't country music all about cliches?

If you're a:

Drunk: listen to "Alcohol"
Woman-picker-upper: listen to "Me Neither"
MySpace poser: listen to "Online"
Troglodyte: listen to "I'm Still a Guy"
Truck owner: listen to "Mud on the Tires"
Perverted outdoorsy-type: listen to "Ticks"
Jazz fan: listen to "Time Warp" (AWESOME) (instrumental)
Delusional band frontman: listen to "Easy Money"
Hollywood cynic: listen to "Celebrity"
Pessimistic camper: listen to "Better Than This"
Cigar Snob: listen to "The Cigar Song"
The Bored Church-Goer: listen to "Long Sermon"
Husband: listen to "She's Everything" (our wedding song)
Fisherman: listen to "I'm Gonna Miss Her" (dude....)
Boyfriend: listen to "The World"
Angry ex-boyfriend: listen to "I'll Take You Back"

If you're none of these, listen to Rascal Flatts.


His lyrics are the great, and his guitar playing even better. YAY!

Hi everyone't. This is what's going on in my world:

The Puppini Sisters: My new favorite group. Close harmony backed by an acoustic hot jazz trio. Reminiscent of the Squirrel Nut Zippers... I really, really like them. It may not be news that they're great, but hearing them, hearing about them…even their website is cute. I think it's incredible that their rendition of "Wuthering Heights" has surpassed "Time Warp" as The-Song-that-Defines-Rob-and-Me. It's Kate Bush to jazz, and an honorable tribute. Please check them out if it means shit to any of you's. I think they're so cute.

Brian Setzer Orchestra: Coming to Escondido on Dec. 17^th. I'm gonna save up my allowance because I haven't gone to see him since October of 1999. Or something. We're dear friendsn't.

VOX AC30: The amp that Rob wants for xmas. I love that man. So I may have spent almost as much to get him the Breedlove that he so greatly plays for our Jensen gigs… It may not seem like much, but I'm "hood rich" (meaning $50,000 is as much as $50 when you live in Vista). Priorities straight… I will get him what he wants. Thank you, pay raise.

Chocolate-chip cookies: I never had much of a passion to bake until Halloween came 'round. Last band practice was at our house...I finally had the butter to make the batter, and I made batter whilst singing the backup to a Ryan Adams song. Baking cookies is fun. Consider it "Cookie Therapy." Almost as therapeutic as peeling shrimp.

And I guess that's it.

To tell you the truth, the only reason I post blogs is because I think I have friends that might check in and care about what they're reading. I don't keep in touch with many people with whom I care to be friends; by saying that, I'm revealing why I was teased so damn much in junior high. For the same reason, I sometimes read someone's blog and mentally snicker at the author, thinking, "You think people fucking care, don't you."

I might just like talking to computers more than people.

So instead of reposting one of those dumb surveys with witty and premeditated answers, I'm being candid on a purely unsolicited basis via this blog entry. Yes, I honestly do think people fucking care. It's a good thing that I can admit when I'm wrong.

Speaking of indie movies, Rob's friend Russ Cootey has posted Push Film's latest creation, "Falling for You" on the Push Films page. I did a voice-over for it. Find it yourself.

Rob and Deliverance Machine's next show is at the Jumping Turtle in San Marcos on November 10 at 9:00 pm. Rob and I will perform again with Jensen and the Small Pox Mountain Boys at Finnegan's in Carlsbad on Nov. 18th. This set goes from 9:00 to 2:00 AM so we might have to pull out some of our original stuff.

We live a pretty simple life. It really does just requires love, music, and our cats. Things only get complicated when we don't have any one of those things. So we're good right now. We're very good.

That is all,
Michelle

I thought I posted this already. I made the cupcakes for our Halloween party. And the cookies were kind of shortbready-tasting with buttercream manicures. Yes, they're fingers.

Feliz Dia De Los Muertos bitches.