Procrastination Proclamation

Hey All, sooooo many interesting events have happened in the past month that I actually got overwhelmed and just didn’t write about any of them. I’ll start with the first one and catch up over time. A few months ago I arrived in Nashville for a writing trip. My friend Daniel Tashian walked up to me and said “I was just reading about you in a book” I said “are you sure it wasn’t Juliana Hatfield?” he said “no, it was definitely you.” The title of the book is “The World In Six Songs” and it is currently a New York Times bestseller. The author Daniel Levitin, chose to analyze a song from my first record, “Something Peculiar.” The song is called “I’ll Get You Back” and he does a detailed (and perfectly accurate) analysis for two pages! How cool! The internet being what it is, I was able to instantly find his contact info and reach out to him to say thank you. Turned out he was coming to Los Angeles over Christmas. We’re both Jews so we had Christmas dinner together! Talk about the wild web! So anyway, go check out his book… it is an anthropological study of the evolutionary imperative of song singing, the 6 categories of songs we sing and why. I feel so much better having gotten the lead out with this little anecdote and am quite confident that I can slowly pay down the blog debt I’ve incurred by all my useless running around and living. Bye for now, Jx out and over