I'm watching: "Paris, Je T'aime" (Paris, I love you.) 2006 C'est magnifique! 20 different directors each filming one five minute movie (2 days shoot time allowed) including the likes of The Coen Bros, Wes Craven, Gurinder Chadha, Nobuhiro Suwa, to name a few. They are all film shorts, in and about Paris and featuring a multi- national cast. I am enjoying it very much! Tales of love, heartache, humor, fantasy and bit of tragedy, all created by 20 different film makers, each one showing their …
Down in Birdland
I was down in Birdland at Cast Party again last Monday night. This time I sang "If I Can't Sell It" and I rocked the house. The audience was poppin' fresh. I just did my thing and rocked the joint. At one point I was trying to get the already enthused crowd to scream, and so I said: I WANT YOU TO SCREAM! AAARHH!!! I WANT YOU TO SCREAM LIKE THE GOVERNMENT'S GONNA GIVE YOU 700 BILLION DOLLARS!! The crowd screamed their heads off!! …
Miss Ann Hampton Callaway
Ann Callaway can sing her ass off. I just want to say that first and foremost. I had two reasons for going to NYC this month: 1. See Ann Callaway at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2. Sing at Birdland again It was a wonderful way to spend an evening in NYC. It was a perfect ending to a a day that began with the Armani adventure. …
Will I Stay the Course?
That's what I asked myself as I stood in line for Ann Hampton Callaway's show at Dizzy's Coca Cola in the Jazz at Lincoln Center facility. It was such a great gig. And it is big time. I couldn't help thinking that I was so far away from a booking like this in NYC. I felt a bit depressed by it - at first... then I began to ask myself: …
Back to the Big Apple!
Yep!! I am heading back to NYC to check out the fabulous Ann Hampton Callaway at Lincoln Center and sing again at Birdland in Midtown. I am gonna do "If I Can't Sell It" this time. It'll be new schtick to the audience in New York. I am thinking of even bringing a boa. Or is that too much? ha! Ann is the the person who first told me about Cast Party at Birdland and you all know what that night was like. Please check out her music and website! Ann Hampton Callaway's Site I met Ann at the …