Looking for a Few Good Guest Bassists

Demimonde Slumber Party and the Long-Distance Bassist

We have a bassist we love dearly. There’s just one problem - currently he lives in Seattle, and we live in Eugene, Oregon. What this means is that we need one or more Guest Bassists! This could be you!!

As a Demimonde Slumber Pary Guest Bassist, you would play shows with us from time to time, practicing with us in the period before a show as necessary. If you also play keyboards or another instrument, it may work to play all our shows as a fourth band member.

You can hear samples of our music at our website:

http://www.dspband.com/

More samples are on iTunes and CD Baby.

If you or someone you know is interested, send us an email at dsp@dspband.com!

Hooray for Number 2!

Guest Post from Kim, Demimonde Slumber Party drummer!:

For the past two weeks we gave our fans a choice of two different mixes of our David Bowie medley and asked those who were inclined to do so to vote for their favorite. Well, the masses have spoken and version #2 is the clear favorite! So from now on new email subscribers will not be offered the clearly inferior David Bowie #1 mix. Enjoy your number two!:

http://www.dspband.com/

If you haven't yet, check it out. It's not stinky!

Demimonde Slumber Party YouTube Channel

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!

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

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.....

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!

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