Finally we've started a YouTube Channel for Demimonde Slumber Party (DSP)!:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DemimondeSP
So far we just have a couple of songs from a gig in 2006 - but we'll keep adding to the channel, including creating some new videos soon!
The two songs are "Up To Me", one of the first DSP songs. The other song "Playground" is on our previous CD 'green' available on iTunes and CDBaby:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/demimondesp
Hope you like it - the stage lighting had Tim (the bassist) in shadows most of the time, but fortunately you can see him part of the time in these songs!
Friday, July 10, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Free Songs and More!
Hi everyone! I am so excited to finally be back here writing to you. My band, Demimonde Slumber Party, is almost ready to release our new EP - more about that soon! - but right now we're giving away some fun MP3s!
Sign-up here to download two versions of our David Bowie medley - let me know which one you like best!:
http://www.dspband.com/
Check out our previous CD 'green' here:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/demimondesp
Sign-up here to download two versions of our David Bowie medley - let me know which one you like best!:
http://www.dspband.com/
Check out our previous CD 'green' here:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/demimondesp
Friday, February 27, 2009
Long Time Gone...
Well, I have been beyond overwhelmed - and not been back here at this blog for some time... I decided to try twittering, and you can see these short updates here - they may be more current than the blog posts for awhile.....
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Grrrlz Rock, Comedy, & Easily Overwhelmed Girl Getting Her Voice?
This month, my band Demimonde Slumber Party (DSP), is one of many performing in the Grrrlz Rock concert series. I plan to play a new song in which Easily Overwhelmed Girl (EOG) confesses her coping response to the increasing number of endangered species...
Giving a voice to the EOG inside me requires that I keep in touch with my sense of humor. It is not too hard for me to be comedically inspired after attending a great Grrrlz Rock event last week - The Oregon Women’s Comedy Festival. (For more info, here are a couple of stories about the festival from The Register-Guard: the 2007 festival ; the 2006 festival.)
Endangered species and humor? How does that work? Come see DSP play next Saturday at Cozmic Pizza and find out! It is an all-ages show, plus it is an early show, so that makes it easy for all of you with early bedtimes! Starts at 7 pm, with us slated to play second, with Beth Willis, Soulicious, and Complicated.
Hope to see you there!
Giving a voice to the EOG inside me requires that I keep in touch with my sense of humor. It is not too hard for me to be comedically inspired after attending a great Grrrlz Rock event last week - The Oregon Women’s Comedy Festival. (For more info, here are a couple of stories about the festival from The Register-Guard: the 2007 festival ; the 2006 festival.)
Endangered species and humor? How does that work? Come see DSP play next Saturday at Cozmic Pizza and find out! It is an all-ages show, plus it is an early show, so that makes it easy for all of you with early bedtimes! Starts at 7 pm, with us slated to play second, with Beth Willis, Soulicious, and Complicated.
Hope to see you there!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Ecopsychology – is Mother Earth in your Family of Origin?
I learned about the concept of ecopsychology at the first Bioneers Conference I attended (see post about Bioneers), and I found it to be very compelling.
Ecopsychology addresses ideas such as: a person's overall health and well-being is related to the health of the environment beyond just their physical health and well-being (i.e. polluted air, water, or food makes you physically sick). In other words, the destruction of the environment would affect a person's mental/emotional health as well. Conversely, living in a healthy ecosystem would increase a person's mental/emotional health as well as their physical health.
This line of thinking leads to considering that say, restoring a wilderness area would not only be 'healing' for the environment, but therapeutic for people as well. Another example could be children's overall well-being could be increased by participating in an urban garden, thinking of it as beyond just a learning experience or a chance to perhaps grow some healthy food.
This may all sound obvious, but such a ingrained part of 'Western civilization' includes ideas about 'taming the wilderness' and controlling nature, that this kind of thinking really goes against the way much of how society is structured. And that includes everything from city planning to the medical system - as well as psychology.
To me all these are connected, and make me think of such things as the 'study' that showed that mothers who lived in housing projects with green areas hit their children less than mothers in housing projects with no green areas, or that hospital patients with a view of trees healed faster than those with a view of a brick wall.
What I think is how healing it can be for both humans and the environment to heal the relationship between humans and nature. Indeed, our survival as a species (as well as the survival of many other species) depends on it.
Here is a wiki page on ecopsychology that has more info plus links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecopsychology
Ecopsychology addresses ideas such as: a person's overall health and well-being is related to the health of the environment beyond just their physical health and well-being (i.e. polluted air, water, or food makes you physically sick). In other words, the destruction of the environment would affect a person's mental/emotional health as well. Conversely, living in a healthy ecosystem would increase a person's mental/emotional health as well as their physical health.
This line of thinking leads to considering that say, restoring a wilderness area would not only be 'healing' for the environment, but therapeutic for people as well. Another example could be children's overall well-being could be increased by participating in an urban garden, thinking of it as beyond just a learning experience or a chance to perhaps grow some healthy food.
This may all sound obvious, but such a ingrained part of 'Western civilization' includes ideas about 'taming the wilderness' and controlling nature, that this kind of thinking really goes against the way much of how society is structured. And that includes everything from city planning to the medical system - as well as psychology.
To me all these are connected, and make me think of such things as the 'study' that showed that mothers who lived in housing projects with green areas hit their children less than mothers in housing projects with no green areas, or that hospital patients with a view of trees healed faster than those with a view of a brick wall.
What I think is how healing it can be for both humans and the environment to heal the relationship between humans and nature. Indeed, our survival as a species (as well as the survival of many other species) depends on it.
Here is a wiki page on ecopsychology that has more info plus links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecopsychology
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Chocolate - and Eating Local
Yeah, I like chocolate. I didn't have it for a very many years, because I get so addicted to it. But for now, I am having it again. I try to have as much of my food as possible come from local sources, so chocolate is an exception...
Speaking of local food sources, it is great that the idea of "Eating local" has become more widespread, for example, check out "The 100-Mile Diet".
Here are the two kinds of chocolate treats I currently am enjoying (well not right at this minute!). I chose them because they are organic, don't have animal products or much sugar, and don't have soy (Why not? see related post on soy):
1. Coconut Bliss
Dark Chocolate flavor of course! Delicious and only four ingredients! (organic coconut milk, organic agave syrup, organic fair trade cocoa, and organic vanilla extract) And as a bonus, it's a local company!
2. Vivani Organic Dark Chocolate – 85% cocoa
This is also delicious and only three ingredients! (organic cocoa mass, organic cocoa butter, and organic raw cane sugar.) It was hard to find a chocolate bar that didn't have soy lecithin. [I did find one other, Green & Black's Organic Mint Bar, it is very good, but also a bit sweeter than my 85% very dark chocolate] It is not a local company however - this chocolate comes from Germany!
I admit, when I first started having chocolate again, I nervously thought of the scene in the movie Chocolat where this guy eats a lot of chocolate in a chocolate shop window and then passes out... Hasn't happened yet, but you never know!
Speaking of local food sources, it is great that the idea of "Eating local" has become more widespread, for example, check out "The 100-Mile Diet".
Here are the two kinds of chocolate treats I currently am enjoying (well not right at this minute!). I chose them because they are organic, don't have animal products or much sugar, and don't have soy (Why not? see related post on soy):
1. Coconut Bliss
Dark Chocolate flavor of course! Delicious and only four ingredients! (organic coconut milk, organic agave syrup, organic fair trade cocoa, and organic vanilla extract) And as a bonus, it's a local company!
2. Vivani Organic Dark Chocolate – 85% cocoa
This is also delicious and only three ingredients! (organic cocoa mass, organic cocoa butter, and organic raw cane sugar.) It was hard to find a chocolate bar that didn't have soy lecithin. [I did find one other, Green & Black's Organic Mint Bar, it is very good, but also a bit sweeter than my 85% very dark chocolate] It is not a local company however - this chocolate comes from Germany!
I admit, when I first started having chocolate again, I nervously thought of the scene in the movie Chocolat where this guy eats a lot of chocolate in a chocolate shop window and then passes out... Hasn't happened yet, but you never know!
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Baby Elephants...
This is a small entry about a category of topics that are overwhelming for me - biodiversity/endangered species/the 6th extinction.... Making a difference in the preservation of the amazing diversity of life on this planet can seem so overwhelming...
So here's one thing. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is an amazing organization that works to help preserve African wildlife including orphaned baby elephants (and rhinos). Supporting their work by fostering an orphan (or supporting their desnaring project or other work) is one way to make a small difference! And you can give fostering as a gift to an animal lover in your life!
Here is a link to the Orphan's Project part of their website:
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphans.asp
Here's a link about a feature on them that was on 60 Minutes.
The story of this project is truly remarkable to read about, including the first agonizing years when Daphne Sheldrick was trying to develop a formula that would allow the orphaned babies to survive, and the dedication and devotion that these babies need - the keepers are with them round the clock.
If nothing else, just looking at the pictures of these playful and mischievous baby elephants will be sure to make you smile!
So here's one thing. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is an amazing organization that works to help preserve African wildlife including orphaned baby elephants (and rhinos). Supporting their work by fostering an orphan (or supporting their desnaring project or other work) is one way to make a small difference! And you can give fostering as a gift to an animal lover in your life!
Here is a link to the Orphan's Project part of their website:
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphans.asp
Here's a link about a feature on them that was on 60 Minutes.
The story of this project is truly remarkable to read about, including the first agonizing years when Daphne Sheldrick was trying to develop a formula that would allow the orphaned babies to survive, and the dedication and devotion that these babies need - the keepers are with them round the clock.
If nothing else, just looking at the pictures of these playful and mischievous baby elephants will be sure to make you smile!
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