hi everybody,
first things
first. i am writing to remind you that this sunday at tupelo music
hall in NH i am going to be playing songs from my new record "the
near demise of the highwire dancer" and others. http://www.tupelohall.com/
just
recently, the record received a very nice (we think) review from holland.
according to the google computer translation: "The harmonies of John
Gorka and the aforementioned Kaplansky jump in the eye." so that's a
good thing. also " Shin Dell Duvekot has undoubtedly decisive
ingredients. Formerly wild Antje Duvekot's music is sometimes limited to the
lovers of the narrative listening song." so i think i am really
going over in holland.
now. it's
that time again where i let you in on my stream of consciousness. which i
guess is all the rage these days, right? to twitter, tweet, blabber,
blogger on and on about your state-of-mind, whereabouts, etc, lol. sorry
nothing to laugh about, i just wanted to say "lol". i never
have before. you see i'm really trying to get on board with the modern
media age but to be honest it makes me feel like i am from another century*.
you see i like things that grow (woods, meadows), things that talk to me
specifically (aka real people), art, touch. maybe a few facts thrown in once in
a while. for example my boyfriend and i were watching CNN last night. within 30
seconds we've caught on to the 'fact-part' of the reporting (namely, obama
released bush-era torture memos) but what ensues then is basically jerry
springer. opinionated people yelling at each other (albeit more
articulately than on JerrySpringer) and no news. i mean, isnt CNN
supposed to be the 'serious' news channel? if i wanted
propaganda-tainment, i would go to fox or msnbc (where rachel maddow's snippy
self-righteousness drives me bonkers!). for the record, i am left-leaning
but whatever happened to straight news? in my native country
of germany, we have state-funded news channels that just give you the news
straight up and it is ACTUALLY informative. here we have "welcome to CNN,
we have been at the sight of where the miners were trapped for the last 24
hours now and we're telling you EVERYTHING that is happening which is currently
NOTHING". some argue that journalism isnt dying but rather it's
becoming more democratic and diversified. you can now get more varied points of
view from the internet than before. but that's just the problem. they're
only points of view. and too many of them. the modern media age requires you to
be a keen detective about news outlet's hidden motives at best, or, at worst,
it requires you to be numbed into submission by people fighting each other on
tv while you're waiting to hear some news in the first place. oh geeez.
i'm sorry. i didnt mean to be a kill-joy calvinist about it all, but if you
need me i'll be hanging out in the forest and mumbling to myself something
about moral decay and how everything is better in germany :) lol
two last
things i mean to tell you.
one- the
talented chris obrien is opening my sunday show.
two- i am
supporting a cause called INVIIBLE CHILDREN to rescue the 3,000 child soldiers
in Uganda. In support of The Rescue I'm giving away a free
download of my song "Merry go round" on biggestlabelever.com.
Please visit the site and download my song as well as hundreds of other artists
for FREE after registering and learning more.
cheers,
antje
duvekot (formerly wild)
*of course
technically i AM from another century since i am more than 9 years old, but you
know what i mean...