Eric's House Of Ego

Lojo Russo had a CD release party in Des Moines last week, and ya know ... she's having another one in Minneapolis this weekend. So go see her already !!!

Friday, November 14th ~ 9p
ACADIA CAFE
Cedar & Riverside / Minneapolis, MN
Back to where it all began... w/ special guests, Talking Tree

She is one of the best performers I know. She is best known in fandom as the bass player in Cat's Laughing with Emma Bull, Adam Stemple and Steven Brust. If I wasn't already booked in Chicago, I'd come up for it.

Tonight I am going to see the ever so fabulous Lojo Russo at the ever so fabulous Ritual Cafe in Des Moines.

After, I am driving to Minneapolis. If anyone is up, and feels like giving me a call after 10 or 10:30, it would be helpful I am sure.

Saturday I am going to try to head over to where wyngarde is doing his bit for 24 hour comic day.

At 3:30 I am on the air on KFAI on Shockwave Radio Theater.

At 7:30 I am performing at Tillie's Bean.

See some of you there I hope.

It's gonna be a busy weekend.

If all goes well ... I get to see Lojo play tomorrow night ... FUN !!!

So ... I have the studio set up semi-permanently in the upstairs room of the warehouse out back here ... tonight is the test to see how things work. I'm hoping for good things ...

Anyway ... some more comments on the weekend.

I did a songwriting panel with Lojo and a guy named Kris ... I realized that I knew Kris from Boheme ... I saw some of his band's set later and they are quite good ... and I expect them to be VERY good in a year or so's time ... some really adventerous songs ... interesting dynamics ...

But ... the panel ... I suppose the main thing that amazed me was that no one asked "the question" ... who are your favorites ... probably just as well ... anyone who knows me knows that I can go on at some length about my favorite songwriters ...

I think of the panel as being as much of a jam as the jam session later that night ... we all riffed off each other and the folks watching ... and were all on the same wavelength ...

One thing that made me sad was that we didnt get a chance to get further into the "why" someone writes songs ... the necessity ...

We did get to hear a little of a song that Lojo had written that morning ... I'm listening to her pre-release CD right now ... man ... I can't wait for the whole thing to get released ...

canya tell that I am now a raving fan ???