Hey All, From time to time I receive spam I find entertaining. I decided to post this one. I especially like the sign off. Enjoy! Julianna x

Privet, my gentleman! 

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared. I am woman of one man. I am woman of passion and love. I will welcome you in my box, if you are serious person, who has like me his thoughts. No matter if your eyes is blue or black (my smile). Main in you, this your passionate relation to world, people, nature. Main is your bright individuality. Your great optimism of the adult man, who has not forgotten his the best children’s dreams and children’s altruism. I look for you, my Sweetheart, who could well keep the magic’s feeling of love and passion ! I look for you to share all my life with you! I really look forward soon to meet you! I miss you… 

Have a nice day

Katti M.

Hey All, So CDS are being pressed at this very moment and they will be finished by mid-february. Meanwhile I have a way to sell downloads on the site but I can’t figure out how to embed the skin so as soon as I do you will also have a way to purchase Dominoes downlaods from me directly. Finally, it will be available on itunes shortly as well… soooo we are virtually up and rolling.

I have 3 big showcases coming up in London so if you’re based there or have friends there please come or send them along. The dates are Monday, February 16 at the Bedford, Tuesday, February 17 at the Cobden Club and Friday, February 20 at the Regal Room. Hope to see you there!

In other news I did a bossa nova version of a wonderful Cy Coleman song called “I’m gonna laugh you right out of my life” which is on a compilation being released by Sony with a great lineup of female singers like Fiona Apple, Patty Griffin, Missy Higgins and Sarabeth Tuceck. We did a wonderful show at Largo a couple of weeks back which was filmed for the BBC so stay tuned for that. It was an incredible night of music and the cd was produced by the incomparable Dave Palmer, who happens to plays piano on Dominoes. He has crazy skills in multiple realms. 

That’s what I got right now. Stay in tune

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

Hi All,

I’ve been getting lots of email lately about when Dominoes will be available for purchase. It feels great to be so loved The answer is soon… perhaps February. We are getting ready to do a pressing at this moment so hold on and hold out… I’ve noticed at least one site illegally selling a pirated copy. DON’T DO IT Wait for the real deal please. Wish we could have gotten it to you for the holidays but it will be here soon enough.

In other news I’ll be singing with the fabulous Dave Palmer tonight at his Largo Holiday shindig which kicks off around 9:30. Otherwise I plan to play more live shows starting in Jan so I’ll keep you posted. 

Also of note is the fact that I’ve used this window of downtime to mercilessly scrub my apartment from head to toe and every place in between. For years I’ve been going on Zen retreats feeling like the dopey cousin because my robes are always in disarray. Now, suddenly out of nowhere I’m becoming Zen before my very eyes and I had nothing to do with it.

Thats all for now. May your holidays be full of good and grooving vibes emanating from all beings at all times.

Jxoxo

so Judith and Harry’s sing a long was some of THE most fun I’ve had on an LA stage ever! The evening was filled with the kind of community spirit that can be hard to find in a sprawling town of transients. Incredible voices and moving music… what more could you ask for? The lineup included Judith and Harry, Julia Fordham, Steve Poltz, Michael Mckean and Annette O’Toole. It made for a wonderfully diverse, balanced poignant and hilarious evening! I’ve realized how deeply important being part of a creative community is for me and I’m happy to be experiencing more of it in my life lately.  

I also spent saturday performing a couple of John Hiatt songs live for a reality tv show which will air in June. It was kind of an amazing experience. I will update with more info as that gets closer.

now to clean up my apartment.

over and out,
Jx

Title: Judith Owen and Harry Shearer\’s Holiday Sing Along
Location: Steve Allen Theater, Hollywood
Link out: Click here
Description: Spinal Tap meets Spine Tingling in this festive night of caroling to raise money for music programs in New Orleans schools still struggling from Katrina
Start Date: 2008-12-05
Start Time: 8:00
End Date: 2008-12-06
End Time: 8:00

Hey All,

So I’m participating in this amazing event at the Steve Allen Theater that Judith Owen and Harry Shearer are doing. It’s an evening of Christmas Carols with some amazing singers as well as those immortal rockers Spinal Tap, taking the caroling up a notch! The dates are this friday and saturday, December 5 and 6 at 8pm. The event will raise money to bring music programs to schools in New Orleans still struggling post Katrina. The cost is only $25!

I know it’s going to be a special night. Please c’mon down! Julianna xoxo

steveallentheater.com

Ok it’s my last night in Nashville… this trip has been a whirlwind. A highlight was when the Oakhurst band pulled up their eco-friendly grease fueled bus in front of Joe’s house and jammed all night in the living room… we did a kick ass twangy version of “dreams” I wish we had recorded. 

I really love this town. Coming here this time around has restored my faith in what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. Sometimes the self-starter nature of this business can really kick you to the ground. This week Nashville was like a compassionate mother and a steady father… I got picked up, brushed off and sent back onto the playground for another round. May the world offer you that whenever you feel downtrodden. I wish it for everyone.

ok so here I am in Nashville at the home of Joe Pisapia and Jennie Switzer. Joe and I wrote “Summer on My Mind” for my cd Dominoes and Joe and Jennie have graciously opened there home to me for my visit here. Jennie is currently making an experimental broccoli casserole for dinner as I write this while Joe is busy making the next Guster record up in NY. After an uber-stressful and brief trip back to LA from London I headed here and I’m happy to say things are starting to mellow. Great writing sessions and lots of local laid backness is seeping into my frayed edges and softening the curve of my spine. yes, I like it here alright and plan to spend more time in the future. The plane ride felt like a reunion of sorts… I ran into people from widely disparate yet related parts of my LA musical world. I feel like LA is a town of multiple orbits. A friend once compared it to the web itself and I think that’s an apt discription. whereas Nashville is a distilled community. when I get here I start believing all my thoughts are lyrics and all my actions are song worthy. Good. It’s good.

Testing 1 2 3… is this thing on? Hello all you beautiful people and welcome to my new virtual reality. As you may or may not know my Bossa Nova cd has begun it’s glorious journey to people’s ears in a rather slow fashion but at last, a crack in the music biz code. On Monday October 20, Dominoes will have it’s digital debut as a featured record in the Bowers and Wilkins Music Club series. This honor was bestowed by none other than Peter Gabriel and Real World Records in partnership with the high end speaker system company. Check out the fab interviews Ethan and I did about the record and get your free lossless sound downloads. Apparently lossless is the new founded, super duper high quality sound. Ethan will explain it all for you. Go check it out from October 20th and enjoy! Couldn’t be prouder of the work I and all particpants have done on this record. A beintot Julianna x

Julianna has completed her Bossa Nova inspired CD “Dominoes” with Ethan Johns producing. Stay tuned for information on it’s release. A track from Dominoes has been placed in the Charlize Theron film “The Burning Plain” due out in 09. Julianna performed the new material solo acoustic for CBS Studios’ on July 4th in their VIP room.

Julianna contributed the song “Such A Night” chosen as KCRW’s pick of the day, to Robin Danar’s Altered States CD.

Buy Julianna’s “Restless Night”

Review of Restless Night by Rock Critic Ken Tucker. Click here to listen!