OMG
3 hours since first LJ update and I can happly say I'm still feeling the creative hue.
And can't sit still or calm down.

But OMG - I decided to listen to !!! again.
Lord have mercy (wait huh what? these southern folk are wearing off on me) but i've almost fallen out of my chair 3 times now shaking my booty.
I forgot how much I ADORE !!!.
Holy carp.

I want to follow them around the world and eat their singer up with a spoon and bowl of cottage cheese.
Cause i lurve cottage cheese.
But omg they make me silly and fan girly.
and wanna dance my ass OFF.

I mean hello sally!


*sigh*
"hey? is this thing on? am i making any sense? everybody thinks i'm fucking crazy....." (yes those are !!! lyrics)

oh ya - http://www.myspace.com/chkchkchk

AND OH MY GOD
CASEY SPOONER IS MAKING A CAMEO ON YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS TODAY!!!!!!
HOLY CRAP!!!!
And guess who forgot to set her DVR last night in the throes of creative passion?
So, I'm going to go to the gym at 12:30 and watch it!!
LMAO!

Funny interview with Casey

It really helps illustrate what I find so fascinating about what he does

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hgbd-W1nOgg

I love his whole take on pop culture and art.
I told him he's got it from the inside, outside and other side.

So, yesterday some dude who manages 2 musicians who worked with Dave Gahan on Hourglass wrote to the FS myspace page about collaborating on something so I forwarded it onto FS's manager.

I got all gooey thinking about it.
He doesn't manage Dave, he's talking about the 2 musicians he manages collaborating with Casey and Warren, but even the thought of both Casey and Dave Gahan in a room together makes me swoon.

So Melissa, FS manager just dropped me a line saying thanks and she emailed this guy and I wrote back:

"Sweet.

Man, that would be my total wet dream - Casey singing with Dave Gahan.
Not that Daryl manages Dave ... I'm just saying - those 2 men are sex on a pogo stick to me and rarely do i get to put them in the same sentence.

ok ... back to our regularly scheduled program :)"

Usually i try to maintain an air of decorum and professionalism when talking with Melissa, but i just couldn't help myself on this one.

I mean come on - the only thing hotter than Casey and Dave is Matthew Bellamy and Dave and that dream came true (although i never saw evidence i do know DM played a festival with Muse last year).

Man, I had a productive night last night!
I got home and immediately went to cleaning the house for Erics parents arrival tonight (although he just called to let me know Wisconsin is being pounded again by snow and flights have been cancelled) and then to reward myself for the cleaning I wanted to whip through a scrapbook page I had been thinking about since Tuesday when the prompt was given at the 365 blog.

I got it done in an hour - just in time to see my "girl" Chris March win the Project Runway challenge!!!! (spoiler sorry)

I love this page! It doesn't look that impressive on 2D computer and if the sun is still out when i get home from work I may try to photograph it again - the background paper has a glimmer to it as well as the transparency so I was having a total challenge trying to capture it without glare.

The journalling reads (it's a play on a U2 song btw):
Create the world you want to live in.
Create out loud!
This is my world and this is the world i want to live in

"Create" is my word for 2008 a la Ali Edwards.

( I am the art! )

I had this short email conversation with Casey Spooner Sunday night.
This man inspires me so much.
Something about how simple he can make complex things.
Something about his passion for life, art and love.

Here's the convo for my records (before it gets lost in a sea of other email):

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CS:
both. any. all of it.

is meaningful.

the fact that you are doing it at all is when the meaning started.

Monday again.
I feel well rested though - yay!
Had a lovely weekend.
Woke up to some lovely love, courtesy of octopusouphut at SiS.
Thanks girl - it means so much!

Got a cool scrapbook page(s) done.

Rediscovered U2 and my passion for them by going to see the U23D movie and being haunted by if for the rest of the weekend.

Had a cool photo shoot using transparency and lighting - i love how the photo challenge is really pushing me to try new photo methods

Last night Eric and i hung out with the fancy pants and watched puppy bowl and super bowl on their 62" HD flat screen TV. Let me tell you though - there are some details a big TV with HD pick up that really is too much information - like ALL the ripples and sweat and jiggle when football players get knocked to the ground.
It was mellow evening.
Which was fine.

I didn't stick to my diet the way I had wanted too ( :( ) but i didn't eat super shit.
At least i exercised both days (which is possibly why i'm in a good mood).

I also had a lovely e-conversation with casey spooner yesterday. I'm going to post some of it here for my own records. He usually is so inspirational to me - he knows how to words things succinctly, simply and in ways i get it. Totally. Unfortunately i still have questions for him, i can so easily get him off on a tangent, but i've come to notice that when you can get him talking he'll talk, but most of the time he's so busy and distracted it's hard to get him back. have no idea if that makes sense....

I also proofread that CDC application which is due tonight at midnight, got the logo design job done for ryan and gave up on a Word format job for Derek - i couldn't figure out how to format his Word doc and was getting so frustrated i said fuck it, money isn't worth it. And it was so so so nice out yesterday - finally in the 60s again.

We took the dogs to the dog park!
Yay! And said hello to old dog park friends.
Charo was social and outgoing. Herschel found a girl terrier that he wanted to rape and it was really awkward and embarrassing because he would not let her go. Finally I had to put him on his leash to keep him off of her. But all in all good vissit - i miss the dog park so much.

Got alot of chores done but not the big one - clean my scrapbook studio so Eric's parents can sleep in there next weekend. At least we got it aired out - i am a little concerned about them sleeping in there with all the paint and glue fumes.

Oh, and went to a Hawks game with my brother Saturday night.
First time since he took the job in London i felt a pang of "awww, i'm gonna miss him"
oh well.

I just went to the gym and walked for 47 minutes and ran for 7 minutes!!
My personal best!
OMG I love to run. I've never in my ENTIRE life run.
In gym classes in high school I always faked injury or just fast walked.

But OMG I listened to Fischerspooner's #1 on the headphones.
Which is probably why i could run 7 minutes.
Oh - and it wasn't all at once - it was in intervals.
I can't go for more than 2 minutes now.

But OMG.
That record brings me back.
It was so FUNDAMENTAL to my recovery and new life in 2003.
Every second of every song there was a memory or a feeling that popped into my head.
My eyes were wide open and i was walking on gym equipment with people all around me, but all i could see, hear, smell, feel was Fischerspooner memories.
The first few notes of Sweetness (the first song) got my heart racing and immediately transcended me back onto my bike - biking to Print-Tech. It was the song that got me going in the morning and woke my ass up. And all I could see was the beautiful video.

By the time Emerge was on I was absolutely in another world.
That song is so ace. It's so perfect. it's so magnificent. It's so genious.
It's so.
I nearly started crying tears of joy. On the treadmill. In the middle of the gym.
Uh huh that's right.

This album saved my life. And by album I mean the whole shebang - performance of it.
Casey Spooner.
Casey Spooner.
Casey Spooner.
Casey Spooner.

Did I mention?
Casey Spooner.

If there's been one constant in my life the last 5 years it has been my adoration for this band and man.
damn.
that's a long ass time.
love love love love love love love.

OK ... step away from the endorphins.

holy crap
Casey just sent me this link:
http://jdvisiontheblog.com/
(the monday superfan entry)

A "superfan" made him this painting.
I can't BELIEVE the detail!
I mean I am awestruck, dumbfounded and stunned.
I mean - the fonts are PAINTED.
I can't wrap my head around that.
I mean the talent! The drive! The skillz!

I haven't met Joseph (yet) but we've talked via email.
He's a very intense, interesting fella.

This entry started out 3 paragraphs about a dream I had last night and turned into a huge convoluted mess about dreams of CS and Adam Yauch and what I think they mean.
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I miss talking with Casey so much.
He could infuse me with such energy with an email.
I know he's super busy doing the play and recording the CD and our relationship has turned more professional than personal.
But still.

Anyways, he dropped me a note yesterday about something and I replied with this verbal diahrea.
I wish i knew how to express myself better, but I thought if anyone would understand he would.
Anyway, copied and pasted to LJ for posterity.
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back in hotatlanta.
i hate using that word, but when it's 107 out, its pretty applicable.
took the day off to recuperate and i just love love love being home.
goddammnnggnnn.
and charo is being the sweetest cuddle monster ever.

been on the computer making up for lost time for 5 hours straight now.
was on AIM for awhile - had up to 6 conversations going before i put a stop to that and just talked with matthew.
i miss him soososososoooooo much.
and its not like new orleans is that far away but the money and the partying and etc that is involved with hanging out with matthew.

some day.

been catching up with CS too. He's on hyper overdrive after the european shows. but so cute. he was on his myspace answering messages. little did he know a small shitstorm will occur since he never gets on myspace. oh well.

spent about 1.5 hours just now with eric sending out resumes. he's actually functionally illiterate so i told him he's not allowed to send his resume out anywhere unless i do it for him. it's really bad, his spelling that is. really bad.

off for an hour of crafting before i have to drive up north for my diet meeting. i am DREADING getting on that scale. its such a slippery slope into oblivian cheating on this diet. So far today I've been good though. I guess I'm back to one day at a time.

um erm um
casey spooner just gave me his phone number inadvertantly.
um erm um

i'm actually ferklempt.

thank the good lord i am:

1) not stalking him anymore
2) not crazy in love with him anymore
3) not getting drunk on wine anymore.

oh my
so rambling....
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i just emailed casey.
I've totally lost the whole fan dynamic and that makes me a little sad.

But, today I saw a video of an interview with him at the Benicassim festival and it totally sparked my enthusiasm for him again. And made me remember why I'm his biggest fan. ;)
And he's one of my biggest inspirations.

They've been in Europe touring festivals and in the interview he talks about some airline in Portugal losing ALL of their couture costumes and even some instruments. So he had to "make do" and in that he discovered some things about himself and his performance.

Anyway

This was my email to him, for lack of me trying to explain anything, i thought i'd just cut and paste:

haven't emailed you in awhile cause, well, duh, you're out of the country, workin it and stuff.

but, i just had to tell you something while it's fresh on my mind.

i saw your interview on NME and i think i like that you're getting more comfortable in dropping some of the illusion you've worked so hard to create.
And feeling some sort of release in the presentation of your performance.
Makes me a little giddy in a second hand way.

Goes to show there's always a reason for everything.
And how would you create if you weren't trying to better a mistake?

can't wait to hear some stories upon your return.
there's definately some momentum building on that myspace page of yours.

xoxo-lara

and while i'm a posting blitz.....

this morning for some really odd reason
while on the MARTA i flashbacked to my "date" with Casey Spooner in Chicago 2 years ago
and i started giggling out loud and people were looking at me.

I got all fuzzy warm remembering sitting in the corner chatting like old friends (and arguing over which one of us told the other to stop emailing the other, like duh i would've said that?!) and then how we were all holding hands and hugging. omg the hugging.

i'm giggling again.

i had a beautiful dream about casey spooner last night.
beautiful isn't quite the word, but it was very lovely.
a little awkward but mostly happy.
and unfortunately had to end at 7am with the sound of my alarm clock.
( long detailed dream recap behind cut )

OK 3 things on my mind.
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saw regina spektor last night at the roxy.
it was beautiful.
she's beautiful.
it's the first rock show in recent memory where the audience was so quiet during parts i thought i was the only one there.
she really knows how to bring a room to their knees.
i hope my recording came out half decent.

today looks gorgeous!
i love weekends with nice weather.
and so do my doggies.

yesterday i felt really bad about casey spooner.
the day before i had given some information to a music blog about fischerspooner being in the studio (because i know they are) and i didn't lie or stretch the truth - i literally copied and pasted from different emails him, Ian (drummer) and his assistant have sent me about it and arjan posted it on his blog and casey got a bit pissed off that we hadn't run it passed him first and thought it was premature to be letting the public know about it.
He didn't use mean words but i could tell he was a little frustrated and disappointed.
I don't want to disappoint casey.
ever.
anyway i apologized to him profusely and before i went to bed last night recieved this email from him:

that's cool.
I am way into your enthusiasm.
just loop me in before you go to press next time.

He is just one of the most gracious, down to earth people.
Which is strange cause his stage persona says a bit otherwise.
But, as i told him via email, i'm still learning my boundaries and "duties."
I fear i let my fangirl out on this one, which is why i was afraid to be hired by FS in the first place.
again, live and learn.

Here is an excerpt of one of the email conversations Casey and I had today.
It's so perfect, and explains my enthusiasm quite well:


HEY!
thanks for your help.
at some point should we discuss payment for your work?
Warren and I discussed and we both think it is necessary and a good idea.
I know you had some hesitation about becoming an employee but I want you to be
compensated and to be motivated to keep everything active.
just thinking about this.

CS


Payment .... ya ... i was thinking about that after adding up the hours i spent last week on the project, even though i know thats just cause we were getting it going and getting used to working with each other.
If you and warren are able to work me in the budget i think it would be a good thing.
I have a better feeling about this whole thing now than i did a couple of weeks ago.

Thanks Casey!
-lara


yeah, I think now we can all judge what your involvement has been and could be.

now we can look into ways to get cash to pay you.

I think it is a great evolution of what you have been doing.

THANKS!
CS



>>I think it is a great evolution of what you have been doing.

that's funny you should say that because i was just talking about this yesterday with my friends.
i started fycs because there wasn't enough FS content on the web that i could find.
the first time i met you in chicago you told me your remixes were all over the internet,
but i couldn't find alot of them on P2P and music blogs weren't as invasive as they are today.
and i'm a very proactive person - so i started my own space to collect content.
and it worked!
and then i guess i got to greedy?
no, not greedy, but capitol wasn't having it.

so, it is such a kooky collaboration that now i'm helping the actual band i started a fansite for create a better space for themselves. with better and more content. the wealth of information on the internet has made people expect instant gratification and that's my goal for your myspace page.

xoxo-lara



EXACTLY.
it is a very natural extension and so fucking futuristic.
I am very thankful for all the work you have done over the years.
I am glad you archived everything.
You did what I couldn't do.
All of that material will still find it's way to the right people.
The music business has been in a state of panic.
And we are a part of a very interesting evolution in art and technology.
I am thankful we are living in this moment.
It is exciting and the world is never going to be the same.

CS


talk about your warhol time-capsule idea - its all in bits and bytes now.
when i just wrote "there weren't any music blogs then" - then was only 3 fucking years ago!!
i'd really like to see TWG Hamlet just to see the interpretation of technology into classic art.
And evolution of classic art into technology.
(as i understand it.)
myspace is a million times what friendster was and as i'm learning more and more if you want to be seen and heard thats where its at.
more bands than not, when i search for info about them, they have a webpage thats just a shell - it links to myspace where all their content is kept.

-lara


I'm going to be doing Hamlet for at least another YEAR!
NYC in March and next fall at The Public Theater.
And it will probably tour next summer too.
You will have plenty of chances to see it.

CS

crap, what was i going to lj about it?
oh ya.
muse.
but first, i'm actually feeling healthy today for the first time in 9 days. which means my brain is in hyper-active mode.

i logged on to write about my muse dream which i just remembered after hearing starlight on the radio, and it was like a "wait, did i dream about muse last night? i think i did, it's kinda nagging in the back of my head" and then bits and pieces started coming back.
And continue to do so.

oh ya, but i logged on then checked my email which had an email from Casey waiting for me offering me payment for my myspace services. i told him i am ready to think about this. I wish i had any clue to as to what to ask for., i have NO CLUE whatsoever.

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