tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32996932285578808932024-03-05T01:12:03.628-08:00The Away TeamThe Away Team electronic music group, updates, rants, newspennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-39719097482040941772021-03-02T14:40:00.000-08:002021-03-02T14:40:12.008-08:00Tributaries by Penny Little<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/_H2tauKyR5U" frameborder="0"></iframe>pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-73831620341612214722016-03-16T12:40:00.000-07:002016-04-08T11:33:41.367-07:00Keyboardist Nik Green dies after battle with cancer March 13, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nik Green lost his fight against cancer Sunday, March 13. He smiled and wave goodbye to some friends that morning, but his weakened condition and complications of pneumonia were too much. Just a couple weeks earlier, Nik was going to the studio for a couple hours each day to finish up some of his mixes of his music. I promised him during his last day that I would finish his mixes, especially the mix of "Starless" which he'd been working on. Nik's own music deserved more recognition. He didn't seem to know what category it fit into, or how great his music was -- but every piece was a journey, a mini movie. Together, we were "The Away Team", and besides being musical partners, we've been married since 1994. <br />
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There will be a tribute to his life and music in Santa Barbara, CA He was loved by so many for his sweetness, his quirkiness, for his kind heart. TBA.</div>
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Nik was a childhood prodigy, who would pick out melodies of songs on the radio at age four. After rejecting formal classical training, he was introduced to synthesizers and taught himself "pretty much from scratch". After a stint with Roy Harper and Jimmy Page, Nik joined Blue Murder, a hard rock outfit lead by former Whitesnake guitarist John Sykes, releasing several albums, touring alongside notables like Jon Bon Jovi. After Blue Murder, Nik and I formed the Away Team. In our first incarnation we had a Chapman Stick player, James Fanning, with both Nik and I on keyboards. Our last gigs were a series of album release parties for "Topsy Turvy World" and playing the Summer Solstice Festivals. <br />
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Nik was first diagnosed with squamous cell cancer of the head, neck and lung in October 2014. It was already in an advanced stage by the time a lump appeared on his neck. He underwent chemo, radiation and immunotherapy treatments which reduced the cancer in his neck by 85% and the lungs by 50%. Nik contracted pneumonia in October, had a downturn, from which he never fully recovered his strength .Immunotherapy medicine Nivolumab kept the progression of the disease at bay. When Nik had another bout with pneumonia, he was still hopeful that he might recover and get back to music. Squamous cell cancer of the head, neck and lungs is a formidable beast. In spite of all this, he remained in good spirits. He died peacefully, simply stopped breathing, no gasping, no fear. Twenty minutes after his death, his mouth which had been wide open, closed and he had his wry little smile on his face. We watched as this happened. He left us a little "gift".</div>
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It is nearly unfathomable for me to imagine life here on Planet Earth without him. <br />
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Because he did not have an insurance policies, a friend, Dawn Perrine has set up a Memorial Fund to cover costs of Cremation, Services, and final medical bills. <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/t5un8evw" target="_blank">Nik Green Memorial Fund</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23.8px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Another Benefit is in the planning for October, again to cover the extra expenses and burdens of having to cope with cancer. Nik is finished with radiation, and only on immunotherapy and various supplements. The tumor in the neck has shrunk considerably, but there are new nodules appearing nearby which need to be stopped. He's in good spirits, but not working largely because of energy and pain levels, which are variable. We will have more updates soon!</span><br />
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Rock Out to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/iron.curtain.54" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #e8554e; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Iron Curtain</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/darlabea" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #e8554e; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">DJ<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Darla Bea</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>and the Ronelles. Be there Saturday Aug 1st for a fun evening! Support Nik Green in beating his cancer!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Benefit dance with 2 rock bands and a great DJ to support expenses for the complementary treatments of Nik’s cancer.</div>
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You can get tickets at the door or<a href="http://www.theawayteam.com/nikbeatscancer.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #e8554e; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank"> donate or get your tickets online</a>. Your name will be on the guest list. Special mention will be made from the stage for donors of $100 or more (not the amount)</div>
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Nik Green is a Santa Barbara resident, a fantastic musician and recording engineer who has performed and/or recorded with Jimmy Page, Roy Harper, John Sykes, Blue Murder, Barry Palmer, Cougar Estrada, and others.</div>
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Nik was diagnosed with squamous cell cancer of head, neck and lung, and is undergoing traditional treatments – chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiation along with complementary alternative treatments, including non-THC CBD oil, and nutritional support.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wounded Knee, a Line in the Sand <span style="color: #0084b4;"><a href="http://huff.to/1pxFnv9">http://huff.to/1pxFnv9</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Helvetica Neue';">a new movie by Kevin McKiernan</span><span style="color: #0084b4; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Helvetica Neue';"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0e2105;">comes in the midst of a firestorm of controversy generated by </span><i style="color: #0e2105;">American Indian Mafia</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0e2105;">, a new book written by the FBI Special Agent-in-Charge of the Wounded Knee siege.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 1973 Kevin McKiernan, a young NPR reporter who didn't think the media should be embedded on one side, penetrated the cordon of agents and soldiers around Wounded Knee and made his way into the village. He stayed until the end, smuggling out reports and film. <span style="background-color: #f7fafa; color: #0e2105; font: 16.0px 'Helvetica Neue';"> While other reporters were reporting the official story, Kevin witnessed and filmed the siege from the inside. This was a turning point in modern Indian history and is considered the longest public disorder in US history not counting the Civil War. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why would Kevin McKiernan revisit this 40 years later? Is it because the truth in media is essential to a free society? He opens the trailer to the movie with the above quote from George Orwell. When we look at how a controlled media can change the story, change history, the politics, and the power structure, finding out what really happened at Pine Ridge, could have an impact our future. Every time another lie is written as history, there's another nail in the coffin of a freedom</span></div>
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pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-21550751147628712072014-06-29T12:16:00.001-07:002014-06-29T12:26:47.997-07:00Don't Trickle on Me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">There are problems with trickle down economics for musicians in the digital age “If we can’t make enough from digital media to pay for the record that we’ve just made,” Mr. Ribot said, “then we can’t make another one.” Marc Ribot, It seems it's still about the Big Three. Read all about it<a href="http://tinyurl.com/prwu6tt" target="_blank"> here</a></span><br />
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The trickle down economy theory has been refuted even by our current Pope Francis:<br />
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But what does this have to do with music? Nothing really. But it has everything to do with the music industry, making a living, and what's happening in the economic landscape. The rich get richer, the one percent, that is, .01%, and the 99.99 percent are left to be pissed on and used. <br />
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Even some of the one per-centers get this. Like Nick Hanauer who published a Memo to his Fellow Zillionaires - <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#ixzz35r1vMLA1" target="_blank">"The Pitchforks are Coming" </a> He sees the writing on the wall. To quote Nik Green: "W<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">hen you tilt the playing field too far, everybody falls off…"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">So, we have the BIG THREE in the music industry who still seem to own the playing field, and the gap between the haves and have nots is expanding exponentially. There are few stars at the top, the Miley Cyruses and Justin Biebers, and there is very little middle ground - i.e., middle division or middle class. Even though the promise of the Internet was to level the playing field, who out there is making a living at music? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> "They" - the marketers - tell independent artists that you have to do other things like sell t-shirts, merchandise and engage your fans. Sounds great. I always wanted to sell t-shirts. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Do they really mean it when they say that you glean one fan at a time? Let's see how long will it take to get 10,000, and out of 10,000 maybe one will buy your CD? Or, there's the idea of 100 core fans who will spread it out to the masses. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">On the Internet, there are flukes and it seems those who are interactive with their audience can have some degree of success. Look at <a href="http://amandapalmer.net/" target="_blank">Amanda Palmer. </a> She's workin' it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">But hey, most people these days think music on the Internet is free . . . . isn't it? Or, the paid services might give you $4.43 for those 10,000 streams, one fan at a time. Musicians don't have to eat, we don't have to pay rent, there are no travel expenses, we don't have to buy expensive equipment . . . Yet if you want to make money at it, you have to be good, right? And that means you must spend most of your time doing it. How does that happen with a full time job? Or three part time jobs? Well, I have a time machine and I slip into it every night and write songs, woodshed, and get my beauty sleep. I come back after my journey into the future or past completely refreshed having lived another 24 hours as a practicing musician in another time dimension. Oh, that was a dream. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">With every other band begging on Indiegogo or Kickstarter to get their albums made, doesn't it feel like we're all street musicians with our begging bowl out, defending our turf in the subway or on our virtual "block" waiting for some of that change to trickle down? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The royalty are the BIG THREE and those who are anointed get to play in their court, and millions are lined up in the cue to be their servants. The Independents are vying for their positions in the hierarchy. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">What's that trickling sound? Drip drip drip . . .</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">My question, if being a solitary musician or band with a pitchfork doesn't work, what if we get together and light some torches to create a new type of union, a new type of network, where there is the potential for a more level playing field, potential for those with talent and persistence to succeed at finding an audience together? I don't know what it is or what it will look like, but am open to suggestions. A gigging network? A distribution network with some built in tools for PR? </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Does it already exist? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I know there are sites out there for independent musicians, and some are these are great; musicians have more online tools at our disposal than ever before. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">But ultimately, it's usually gigging and being in front of an audience that brings rewards. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">If you're an acoustic singer-songwriter, it's easy to pick up and travel to gig in - or even beyond - your home town. If you're a band or have to rent a truck to leave home, need a roadie and a driver, the threshold to gigging success is a lot bigger, often with smaller rewards. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">With musicians competing for smaller and smaller openings, it makes sense to try a different model: collaboration. It's what cells do in a body to keep it alive.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Ideas anyone? I've got a quite a few, but . . . ideas are cheap. In the next chapter, I'll elaborate more. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> I've got my torch and some time on my hands. </span><br />
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pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-25036316309137996422014-06-07T22:18:00.000-07:002014-06-07T22:19:56.123-07:00Website Overhaul for the Away Team<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It began with moving some furniture around, and pretty soon we were taking down the walls. If you move one thing, something else has to move. That's a bit like editing. You have a chunk here and you want to fit it there. Now the chunk that was there needs to go somewhere. . . . one thing leads to another. <br />
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What if it's just a bunch of blocks and you move the blocks around? This is a bit like preschool. But what goes in each block? What do we want people to see when they arrive at The Home of the Away Team? Or, maybe we should ask, what do YOU want to see? Maybe not. If every decision became a collective one here we would all be stuck now wouldn't we? <br />
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Which leads to the ultimate question: How democratic can this really be? Does there need to be a Dictator, something like the Conductor who keeps it all together? Who is the voice of the band? Is it simply a Do-ocracy. Whomever does it . . gets the word in edgewise, the first word, the last word. Add Twitter and FaceBook so we can communicate and have a dialogue.... Amend and edit later . . Ok. . <br />
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Distilled the blocks became: Music, About, Tour, Videos, Blog and Contact. <br />
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Check it out: The Away Team's Amazing New, but Somewhat the Same New and Hopefully Improved <a href="http://www.theawayteam.com/" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a><br />
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pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-19542688966061372202014-05-25T12:30:00.001-07:002014-06-08T10:01:12.483-07:00Pay to Play<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yay, I saw Jami again on the street. and she's doing much better. She's in the video "Hey There Sugar Pie" and I was getting really worried about her since I hadn't seen her in months. She still hasn't seen the video, but she's really happy to know she's in it.<br />
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Penny Little and Nik Green aka the Away Team performed on the main stage for Summer Solstice Celebration 2013, as part of the largest 3 day arts festival in Santa Barbara County. Solstice artist Pali-X joined the Away Team, with another dancer dressed as a Unicorn. <br />
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I am continuing this fundraising campaign using “Chipin” until October 16, and hope to reach the original goal amount of $1,500 to cover some of our out of pocket expenses from the premier, for replication, fliers, posters....</span></p> <p style=""><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Anyone who donates $100 or more will be included in the rolling credits as part of the special thank you and on the website - unless you wish to remain anonymous. $50 or more also gets you a mention on the website. Everyone who donates at least $25 will receive a copy of the 2 DVD set, which will help me achieve my goal of $1500. </span></span></p> <p style=""><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You can donate an amount of your choosing, using the Chipin button on the donate page.</span></span></p> <p style=""><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.911dust.org/donate.htm" style="color: #111111; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">http://www.911dust.org/donate.htm</a></span></span></p> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; line-height: 16px;"> <p style=""><span style="font-size: 12px;">Now that I’m settled in back at home from the premier in NYC, and we got some initial exposure for the film “9/11 Dust: A Healing Journey”, I’m feeling a sense of accomplishment. I am happy that the film was so well received, especially by those for whom it was made -- the people who are still suffering from WTC syndrome. One of the first responders who was at the premier said, “This is my life! This is our film.”</span><p /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Thanks again for taking the time to look at this. It is my hope that this film will be used to help those who are still feeling the effects of 9/11 daily as health survivors of the toxic dust at Ground Zero.</span></span><p /><span style="font-size: 12px;">-- Penny Little, Dir. 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Salerno</a>, <a href="http://www.tweeyoga.com" target="_blank" style="color: #111111; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">Twee Merrigan,</a> <a href="http://www.pcs100.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #111111; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">Helen Kramer</a>, <a href="http://www.ae911truth.org" target="_blank" style="color: #111111; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">Richard Gage</a>,<strong> <a href="http://www.muusa.it" style="color: #111111; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;"><span style="">Luca and Monica Bertini,</span></a></strong> each of whom offered something to our overall vision of providing a holistic, integrative symposium around the showing of the film to give people solutions, begin dialogues, and to reach out to new audiences.<br /><img src="https://d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net/_ssl/proxy.php/http/gallery.mailchimp.com/088be2f748eceda59fcbe123b/images/Pause_Press_Play_press_conf2.jpg" height="199" align="none" alt="" style="cursor: default; height: 199px;" width="300" /></span></span></p> <p style=""><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The press conference on September 11 was honest, emotional, and there were tears in the eyes of some members of the audience as John Devlin and Kirk Arsenault both of whom who have 9/11 related cancers, talked about how they haven’t received anything from the Federal government. They related how the Zadroga Bill, which now will cover cancer, may not be adequately funded. With the current funding their award may not come through until 2015 or 2016, and will definitely not cover 10 or 11 years of medical expenses which they have incurred.<br /><img src="https://d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net/_ssl/proxy.php/http/gallery.mailchimp.com/088be2f748eceda59fcbe123b/images/Pause_Press_Play_art1.jpg" height="199" align="none" alt="" style="cursor: default; height: 199px;" width="300" /></span></span></p> <p style=""><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The art installation curated by L-M-N-T Miami featured the Pause Towers, a plexiglass sculpture filled with medical packaging from ten years of prescription based treatments of a health survivor of the WTC illness. The artwork has found a temporary home in NYC, but we still need to find a more permanent home, a gallery space, or place to store it. Anyone with ideas in NYC? 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<b>Long Story Short:</b> I'm in NYC, Brooklyn to be exact, and my film is on it's way to the duplicator. </div>
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<b>Long Story</b>: I did something really stupid; it just goes to show how important "paying attention" aka “mindfulness” is. Not paying attention costs a lot. </div>
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I thought the film was finished at 1:30 am on the morning of my flight to NYC. I gave the DVD master to Nik so he could overnight the film to El-Man Productions (who has replicated my films and CDs since 2004.) I took one copy with me on the plane. </div>
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So, I arrived in NYC (after one substantially delayed flight - about 16 hours of travel and airport time) and discovered the next day that there were major problems with the sound. It was partly the rush and partly the encode process exaggerating my mistakes in sound levels and balance. "I hate it! It can't go out like this!" I shrieked. I sent an urgent message to Elman to stop the presses.</div>
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I had to do a complete sound remix of the entire film, and re-encode, and re-author, which meant another night without sleep </div>
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So the really stupid part is that at the end of that long day, I went to the corner shop to get a gallon of water. As I left the shop, I was looking at the water bottle, not the sidewalk, trying to figure out how to hold it, at which point the little 2” ledge was not observed. I heard bones crack, and suddenly. ... Big ouch, hobbling around, hopping ouch! And when I got upstairs, crawling seemed to work much better than trying to walk. I couldn’t put any weight on the foot without pain. </div>
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Two days later, I am looking back at my moments of non-attention, and lessons to be learned. Even though it hurt to distraction, and I could not walk on my foot, now it seems mostly healed. This was after using ice packs, an oil called Balsam Fir, and me telling the foot “Heal NOW!” over and over, while breathing and tapping. I’ve broken my foot twice - “ballerina” hairline fractures -- in approximately the same place, and it felt a lot like that. Nik sez the twist & fall probably just snapped a bunch of cartilage temporarily out of place. It was definitely seriously traumatized. I’m just feeling relieved and thinking this was a miracle because right now, I’m not crawling to the fridge for ice, and I can walk -- not skipping just yet. </div>
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So here’s to mindfulness, paying attention in advance or it will cost you in arrears. </div>
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The cost: $45.00 to send the corrected version via UPS (they deliver on Saturday), loss of sleep, and a few stressful moments. I think I’m lucky!</div>
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Me, bleary eyed and weary, having just completed the rework of the film “9/11 Dust: A Healing Journey” Such lovely red indoor light, late in the night. This shows about the way I really felt. So done</div>
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pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-15389320316823700062012-08-24T20:51:00.001-07:002012-08-24T20:51:55.093-07:00Composer hard at work<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/64W4AalikHbYZvSSYHJQ7roRxDmL9hN7Vtjkg6sKbGvYmEgFDs5KcJOd68ul/Nik-composing_0440.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Nik-composing_0440" height="285" src="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/dzYfdF8jIznFREoWTTsSSMj4jodNhOd8n5Cn7N8DyZH5Fgxm7LNWe5EEQaZk/Nik-composing_0440.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <br /><p /><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">Nik is working on music score for "9/11 Dust: A Healing Journey". Nothing like a looming deadline to stir the juices!</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://theawayteam.posterous.com/composer-hard-at-work">theawayteam's posterous</a> </p> </div>pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-90893968271018149562012-08-20T14:08:00.001-07:002012-08-20T14:08:57.696-07:009/11 Dust: A Healing Journey <div class='posterous_autopost'><p>The deadline draws near for completion of my new film "9/11 Dust: A Healing Journey" and the date of the preview premier also gets closer (September 8). In order to fill the gap left by the primary funder pulling out "due to philosophical differences and the direction of the film", I launched a Kickstarter campaign to feed the rest of the process and get me to NYC for the premier. Please check it out and if you like what you see, please consider a donation to help me meet my goal of $1500. </p> <p><iframe src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/236458696/9-11-dust-a-healing-journey/widget/card.html" frameborder="0" height="380" width="220"></iframe></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Liberation Sans, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">This short documentary is a followup to my 2006 film “9/11 Dust and Deceit” about people who have suffered from the health effects of the toxic dust of September 11, 2001, many of whom are still not getting the health care they need. The film seeks to show solutions, and asks how those directly affected by illness, and all of us still grieving, can heal from 9/11. </span></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://theawayteam.posterous.com/911-dust-a-healing-journey">theawayteam's posterous</a> </p> </div>pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-6058634768399936602012-08-18T10:28:00.001-07:002012-08-18T10:28:46.267-07:00Fukushima<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>One of the songs we performed at the Solstice Festival in Santa Barbara for the first time was "Fukushima" which I wrote thinking about how the government and officials act the same when disaster strikes, whether manmade or environmental; they don't tell the truth and it affects the health of people for years to come. Half way through writing the song, doing some research I found out that sunflowers absorb some radiation and were being planted by the millions in Japan. </p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XQyp7iWmkho?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://theawayteam.posterous.com/fukushima">theawayteam's posterous</a> </p> </div>pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-72312116277782634152012-08-18T10:19:00.001-07:002012-08-18T10:19:33.486-07:00The Away Team at Solstice<div class='posterous_autopost'>The Away Team performed at this year's Summer Solstice Festival in Santa Barbara, If you've never seen the Solstice Parade it is not to be missed. You can check it out here <a href="http://www.solsticeparade.com">http://www.solsticeparade.com</a>. About 100,000 spectators are entertained by the people powered floats, ensembles, dancers which can be likened to Brazil's Carnival Santa Barbara style. The Festival is three days with music, art, crafts and food, a drum circle, a DJ area, and a kid's festival. The parade began 38 years ago as a birthday party for a local mime artist Michael Gonzales, parading down the street in costume. <p /> It's taken me awhile to get back to blogging. After Solstice I had to seriously get in gear to get my followup to my 2006 film "9/11 Dust and Deceit" ready to go for a September premier in NYC. This short film "9/11 Dust: A Healing Journey" will look at how those affected by the toxic dust of 9/11 are faring, the Zadroga Bill, and looking at how we can all heal from 9/11. <p /> So, here's a photo taken by Steve Fields (from the band Bunnyhead) of Nik Green and myself, Penny Little, at Solstice 2012.<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/90LsYsH2scebQCjBknYnXRcx2m5M3F2wTg7g9sTM5GpaEpR4tru3C30czYub/Solstice-gig-IMG_0548.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Solstice-gig-img_0548" height="375" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/JqfBEWMpWFObZQr749n2u93SmZgRtGQHytdq20Wi1Lb0cqIbaafTDKhebvuj/Solstice-gig-IMG_0548.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://theawayteam.posterous.com/the-away-team-at-solstice">theawayteam's posterous</a> </p> </div>pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-26703532822031776122012-04-26T22:45:00.001-07:002012-04-26T22:45:55.993-07:00Good Times Fly Music Video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /></div>pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-1117322017905057592011-09-12T08:21:00.001-07:002011-09-12T08:25:51.008-07:00The Away Team is Away - Pause Press Play launched on September 11, 2011<div class='posterous_autopost'>The Away Team is on two coasts, Penny in NYC and Nik in San Francisco for the ten year anniversary of September 11, 2001. In San Francisco, Nik performed his piece "Requiescant in Pace" to a montage of footage by Lenny Charles taken on 9/11 at Ground Zero, and the music video Topsy Turvy World was shown at the Herbst Theater. Check it out: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaVe1WV_YEs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaVe1WV_YEs</a><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/w7oUavrYncn0r198wzwTvaZyK5ekSIJQlh5ghP7pS9UUKnAjZHqerAELHQls/topsy-turvy-screenshot1.jpg"><img alt="Topsy-turvy-screenshot1" height="274" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/Ty5LEmzR2KkOnvmGWqqWtD9kzxhtBykijr71HYlIHfldLsIFyB8eUHVG5CZ1/topsy-turvy-screenshot1.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p><p>Penny is in NYC to do follow up interviews for an addendum to her film "9/11 Dust and Deceit", and a showing of her film as part of the PAUSE PRESS PLAY project and Health Help 9/11. The showing at the Walker Stage in NYC included a wonderful presentation by healing consultant <a href="http://www.creative-healing-arts.org ">Ama Lia Wai-Ching </a>from Singapore. <br /><br />In Miami, the event at the LMNT Contemporary Art Space included an art installation/exhibit, "The Pause Towers" - a plexiglass sculpture filled with prescription bottles and medical packaging from ten years of prescription based treatments from health survivors of World Trade Center illness. The Miami event at the LMNT Contemporary Art Space included an art installation/exhibit, "The Pause Towers" - a plexi-glass sculpture filled with prescription bottles and medical packaging from ten years of prescription based treatments from health survivors of World Trade Center illness. <br /><br />PAUSE Project Director Rachel Hughes who has struggled with the health effects the WTC Syndrome for the past ten years, says, “Pause delves deep into the questions I face on a daily basis. Because of my illness I have been forced to ‘pause’ and reflect on the questions surrounding 9/11.” This project launched on the 10th anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2011 launched with film showings, art exhibits and presentations focused on solutions. <br /><br />The 2006 film “9/11 Dust and Deceit” by Penny Little examines the questions of the health problems suffered by thousands of first responders, volunteers, workers who were exposed for months to the toxic dust in lower Manhattan. <p /> For more info: <br /><a href="http://www.911dust.org/hh911.htm">http://www.911dust.org/hh911.htm</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://theawayteam.posterous.com/the-away-team-is-away-pause-press-play-launch">theawayteam's posterous</a> </p> </div>pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-23904880593519604822011-08-16T22:30:00.001-07:002011-08-16T22:30:50.819-07:00Moving Along, Being in Motion<div class='posterous_autopost'>Moving is not fun, especially for cats. Cats do not do so well with change and being in motion. Our Weegie cat, a part Norwegian Forest Cat, especially does not like changes in his world. After all, did he give us permission to do so?<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Weegie_cat" height="327" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/NJqjMvbRmE54T23Y0b9lS8CVtbKVJLCcFtJrsJnDpEfYQYEUYg0mRgSpoXQB/Weegie_cat.jpg" width="450" /> </div> </p><p>Yesterday, we went to visit Weegie in the "cat slammer" aka Humane Society cat boarding. Great facilities, but it's still a jail. Weegie apparently hissed at one of the volunteers, a very un-Weegie like thing to do. Hissing is a sign that a cat is afraid. So, he's back home now that we've made our move. He's been purring for nearly 4 hours straight. Little does he know that we're going on the road soon, and that life will soon change again drastically. We're hoping for foster cat care instead of jail for Weegie. He has totally adapted to a new environment. He seems purrfectly happy right now. It took him 2 months to come out of the closet when we moved last year. Maybe all it takes is a little practice, getting used to upheaval. And I suppose that's what we humans need to learn as we prepare for our next leg of our journey. Before we left our wonderful abode, we had four weekends of house concert parties which were fantastically fun for us. At each party, there were some of the same folks and some new folks. We invited other musician friends to perform, like Love Lightning and Randy Lamb. We left a memory imprint and sold a few souvenirs aka Topsy Turvy CDs. And as we emptied and cleaned and cleared out, the musical set up was the last to go and finally the Yamaha piano sat alone in the living room, a few boxes here and there in the house, and another era ended.</p><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/Zwtq23RrgZIo9thmJFgJDakMqkYTYKXbdNRoWHfAOzTArPHYwtNfNhnezMMg/IMG_0193.jpg"><img alt="Img_0193" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/Kd9vIRrRt7S49B7KDFvyqFLv9xI2X3QKFKfI7TJ3HiZomxpSD8jVDECC7hve/IMG_0193.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p><p>Moving along. We're in motion..</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://theawayteam.posterous.com/moving-along-being-in-motion">theawayteam's posterous</a> </p> </div>pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-74096107735184159992011-07-31T21:37:00.001-07:002011-07-31T21:37:49.593-07:00The Away Team to play at the October Coalition Gathering in DC October 7<div class='posterous_autopost'><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; line-height: 25px;">October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions. </span><p /><p /><div><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Screen-shot-july16-2" height="608" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/pv3YPBDSWN2wb7CmtSahc3SNf8pr1kRJ6klwcSp8HdcMx1NcXVZsxhcboq1k/Screen-shot-July16-2.jpg" width="456" /> </div> </div><p /><div><div style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.65em;">We call on people of conscience and courage—all who seek peace, economic justice, human rights and a healthy environment—to join together in Washington, D.C., beginning on Oct. 6, 2011, in nonviolent resistance similar to the Arab Spring and the Midwest awakening.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.65em;">A concert, rally and protest will kick off a powerful and sustained nonviolent resistance to the corporate criminals that dominate our government.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.65em;">Forty-seven years ago, Mario Savio, an activist student at Berkeley, said, "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.65em;">Those words have an even greater urgency today. We face ongoing wars and massive socio-economic and environmental destruction perpetrated by a corporate empire which is oppressing, occupying and exploiting the world. We are on a fast track to making the planet unlivable while the middle class and poor people of our country are undergoing the most wrenching and profound economic crisis in 80 years.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.65em;"><b style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">"Stop the Machine! • Create a New World!"</b> is a clarion call for all who are deeply concerned with injustice, militarism and environmental destruction to join in ending concentrated corporate power and taking direct control of a real participatory democracy. We will encourage a culture of resistance—using music, art, theater and direct nonviolent action—to take control of our country and our lives. It is about courageously resisting and stopping the corporate state from destroying not only our inherent rights and freedoms, but also our children’s chance to live, breathe clean air, drink pure water, grow edible natural food and live in peace.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.65em;">As Mother Jones said, "Someday the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!"</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.65em;">We are the ones who can create a new and just world. Our issues are connected. We are connected. <b style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">Join us in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 6, 2011, to Stop the Machine.</b></p></div></div><p /><div><a href="http://october2011.org/musicians">http://october2011.org/musicians</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://theawayteam.posterous.com/the-away-team-to-play-at-the-october-coalitio">theawayteam's posterous</a> </p> </div>pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-7567983668044734962011-07-21T10:49:00.001-07:002011-07-21T10:56:06.526-07:00Launching into Spaces That have No Landing Places<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsCCMcRtRb-kiQqw9DtTM27B8gP-HdvvqgDrNnJ7hDy6JeT788NYSr58_a7e79yeFAzqdS96t-d2f-6BNIitIrC0eDoV-wtqFolBw-aOnVejyZkwO-5ZisJ0gIgoewbS6tPGSteJgtMns/s1600/The-Away-Team-above.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsCCMcRtRb-kiQqw9DtTM27B8gP-HdvvqgDrNnJ7hDy6JeT788NYSr58_a7e79yeFAzqdS96t-d2f-6BNIitIrC0eDoV-wtqFolBw-aOnVejyZkwO-5ZisJ0gIgoewbS6tPGSteJgtMns/s320/The-Away-Team-above.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631865842564503906" /></a><br /><div class='posterous_autopost'>CD UNLEASED PARTY JULY 16, 2011 <p /> July 16 is the anniversary of my mother’s accident. It was a rainy afternoon in Eugene Missouri, and she was coming back from shopping with a friend. Some drunk hit her. <br />I was thousands of miles away in Waipahu, Hawaii, had just returned from a dance class, in the mid afternoon. I started having some vision problems with my right eye. It was like looking through the world through a kaleidoscope of broken glass. I took a bath and it went away temporarily. Then it came back even stronger. I was beginning to be really worried; maybe this is what a stroke starts out like, or a brain tumor, or some misfire in my brain, or my retina has become disconnected, thoughts bordering on panic.... Around 5 pm my sister called and said “Mother has been in an accident. She hit the windshield, has some internal injuries and lost her right eye. She’s still in intensive care” At that moment, my eye cleared. Earlier today I was struggling with my feelings of loss, and jumped into that river for a few minutes, and cried like a baby about losing her, about losing my friend Cherie, about possibly losing our home, our cat, the life we’ve known. All those big losses came back through me in waves, past, present, future. My mother lived quite a few years after the accident, and in most photographs it’s hard to tell that she had one glass eye. That accident gave her the money that my father’s pension did not, and she moved to warmer winters in Georgia. I told myself that every big change, every big loss is a new opening, and we have to do whatever we can, and sometimes it’s all for the best. <p /> So here we are at the precipice of not knowing again. We either need to (a) find housemates in the next couple days or (b) start making plans to leave and (c) “What about your cat?” - who is staring with discontent right now So we’ve decided to have a gig-party every weekend until we (a) stay, (b) find a new place or (c) go on the road. Option (c) requires some sleight of hand to procure some worthy gigs for August/September ....The house is now a music venue, with the Nexo system and our pared down live rigs. <p /> All I can say is “I’m putting my faith in God, the Universe, whatever you want to call it.” This is truly one of those times in life when we’re launching into spaces that have no predesignated landing places. This paraphrased version came from Orthobionomy founder Arthur Pauls,who inspired me to write a song about that - a song residing in the archives of the hundreds of tunes I’ve written.<p><div class='p_embed p_file_embed'> <a href="http://theawayteam.posterous.com/launching-into-spaces-that-have-no-landing-pl"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/pdf.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <strong>pastedGraphic.pdf</strong> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/cBHG1CI8ZkDWklbRxnn2vN71FG9d57lfDQgpx1AybQy30nX2Ku8odz0aolhQ/pastedGraphic.pdf">Download this file</a> </div> </div> </p><p>The first CD Release Party on July 16 party was wonderful, and some of us danced till we dropped. <br />After we played, I was having a strange vision issue -- that kaleidoscope of broken glass began to cross my left eye, in waves. It didn’t cross my entire vision, but was annoying. I remembered it was my mother’s anniversary of her accident and the streaks began to fade. What is that about? I wish, just like the cat who talks to me in “meow”, that these messages would come in plain English. Why can’t I see? Why can’t I translate the message? What is she trying to tell me? Where are we going to go? What are we going to do? Should we look for a new place? Our landlord is traipsing people through our space every day. Will we find compatible housemates before he finds someone to rent the entire house? Or are we supposed to give it all up, and hit the road and promote our new album? Our friend Dawn who accompanied us on Unconventional Tour 2008 asks, “Why did we make an album if we didn’t intend to promote it?” <br />I’m scouring connections, reaching out to anyone who might help us book gigs, applying to Festivals in the Midwest (again?).... And, until we stay or go, I’m pretending we’re on vacation in our beautiful house in Santa Barbara. In this beautiful house we’ve called home for the past year, we’ll add songs to our set. We’ll get our media together. We’ll be really ready to launch, into spaces, where there are no landing places.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://theawayteam.posterous.com/launching-into-spaces-that-have-no-landing-pl">theawayteam's posterous</a> </p> </div>pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299693228557880893.post-35259899376288769102011-07-03T16:30:00.001-07:002011-07-03T16:30:08.868-07:00The Away Team at Summer Solstice some Pics from video<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/OVbaO2YayVOaCnnXIJTKCgVzWNIWLA88xw2FUnRIYJ2ro0fn5qD9c0j2ZfFu/Tat-Solstice-onstage-1.jpg"><img alt="Tat-solstice-onstage-1" height="306" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/Oe0FqQGEhcWVhI1h14AkmYOk3ULObgY7OOwhbWGR3MAYP1XqtKQ4GjI66Cgh/Tat-Solstice-onstage-1.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p>On the Main Stage at the Solstice Festival - screenshot of video shot by Ron Dexter</p><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/Pf7K2L6R2Woo3qWsxHyun4sh4i38F7ERmVA8jBxvldLFU7Jom2dHHTqVsbsE/tat-Solstice-onstage2-1.jpg"><img alt="Tat-solstice-onstage2-1" height="293" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/UXYtW5ia1NkanWRfFdG1lIxZy8YPJ4fZcq6L8iLMcfgHjQFFBkSrVN2pWiCs/tat-Solstice-onstage2-1.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p><p>Shot from Dawn Perrine Video</p><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/EB6AvXwDZypMwYyEMewyd0TzCFjnDZXvvoxzlqaxCXgPaix48NME594n47LT/Penny-CU-side-solstice.jpg"><img alt="Penny-cu-side-solstice" height="333" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/theawayteam/5OaO5zsegJIV6L79KundnQenrSwhH3gP60Epl6DkWoP4TcF8GgdoNpUAt4j1/Penny-CU-side-solstice.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p><p>Screenshot form Ron Dexter's video</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://theawayteam.posterous.com/the-away-team-at-summer-solstice-some-pics-fr">theawayteam's posterous</a> </p> </div>pennylittlesavagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545263579410457558noreply@blogger.com0