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Greetings:
up close and personal...we all
forget sometimes that we do make a difference.
How many times have you received that
chain e-mail that reminds you that someone in the world is thinking
of you before they go to sleep each night? Usually I smile when I
get it, sigh as I read the little quotes and quips about life and
love, and then forward it to a few girlfriends just to let them know
reading this makes me think of you. Sometimes I just delete it not
wanting to crowd their inboxes. Yet how often we forget the true
roles we play in each others lives.
Especially when we lose touch
with some of our friends or family for a time because of the other
cool stuff life has to offer. The new baby, the 30-day safari
through Africa, the scuba lessons...
Sometimes we forget
because of the "must dos" that we tell ourselves are our priorities
if we want to live the way we do, or the trials and tribulations
that creep up on us unexpectedly. All I know is that weeks or months
now whoosh by like days as we each live our lives. Thanks to
facebook updates or video chats, we get to see pics of the new baby
or cat or baby chicks, or trip, but largely we relate from afar...no
wonder we tend to forget how we affect one another. I've received
multiple reminders from you over the month that just doing what I
do-be it sending this newsletter to connect each month, writing
music or my children's story or just taking time to respond to you,
affects you. Thank you for reminding me and please remember-that
goes both ways. I am thinking of you today and thinking how
different my life would be without so many of you in it.
memorable
musical moments.. the muse is learning; is the universe
responding?
Four chapters into the
teen-water-fantasy story. This is hard! This is fun! Have you just
gone and done something new that you've never tried before? Tell me
about it! It is unfamiliar territory. For me, there will be lots of
reading about the craft of writing and writing for young adults (who
apparently are now called teens), and then there's reading books
about teens, and of course there's writing an actual book. All this
while setting things in motion to craft and record a new
album/singles, and to record the songs accompanying the book. Yes,
well, at least slow and steady is still progress. I can't think of
anything more perfect than realizing dreams either. Are you
realizing yours? Life goes by either way I am grasping...
I
sent my March newsletter to a new friend who asked to connect with
me after listening to I Lost, You Win. He responded that I inspired
him to pick up his guitar and play an old Alanis tune where his
"hands and heart still flowed smoothly" after many years of not
playing. That was another reminder to me about how we all affect
each other. Lucky for me, he told me!
Would love your help!
I just learned that Push and Pull is now
available at Barnes and Noble and Best Buy online. It would be
so
great if any of you who have and love the CD or have been moved by
the songs could just click the links and leave a few words about how
the CD makes you feel in the reviews so they don't look so
naked! many heartfelt thanks! :)
Cool
Stuff-check it out (sidebar) and let me know if
you have stuff to include next time!
SHOWS/RECORDING
In April
and May, Aoede is excited to be embarking on new recordings in LA! I
am honored also to be featured May 5
for a Music in Action series
and will send a link to the podcast. Our next performances will
likely be in June! We also plan to record in SF Bay Area during the
summer. In the meantime, feel free to send email or connect with me on Facebook. We
will continue to keep sending newsletters of
course!
Stories Behind The Muse-ic will be
back when the album is complete-it will be much more fun to tell you
these musical stories when you can hear the songs that they speak
to!
DO YOU
HAVE QUESTIONS,
SUGGESTIONS FOR ME?
Do you
want to know more about a specific lyric? Do you have ideas for
collaboration on a future project? Do you have thoughts for what you
want to see in the newsletter? Do you want to know more about the
directions we are taking with environmental awareness and music or
film? Hear us on a radio show and want to know more? Want to know
how to get us on your radio show? Want *POP ROCKS*? CONNECT with me!
Aoede
is:
Lisa Sniderman (singer/songwriter-vocals, acoustic/elec
gtr)
Dave Sands (Bass Guitar)
John Walden (Drums)
with
Marianna Ferris on keyboards/back vocals
WHERE CAN I BUY PUSH AND
PULL?
BARNES & NOBLE
BESTBUY
AMAZON
ITUNES
 
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SHOWS!!
APRIL
Check back next month for
Aoede shows!
*COOL STUFF*
Do YOU have cool stuff you want to share with
others for next month? Send it our way and it could appear
in the next newsletter!
story of bottled water (from the ones who did the story
of stuff)
Paris Panoramic! ooh la la
amazing staircases and even more amazing staircases
Developing Music Careers in Uncertain Times, Peter
Spellmann (for our musician friends)
five foods every woman should eat more of
peepshi (what to do with leftover peeps)
google translate for animals (an april fools joke)
If you are feeling spiritual and
zen...
the 12 Universal Laws
online sudoku get your fix
daily!
Useless FACTS-o-the-month
-On average, 12
newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
-The phrase "rule of
thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat
your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
-In 2003 Sher Singh Kanwal of Niagara
Falls, NY grew the world's longest zucchini measuring 6 feet 4 inches of
pure zucchini pleasure.
-Most lipstick contains fish scales.
-After
publishing his famous dictionary, Noah Webster rewrote the bible, replacing all the
words he considered were "naughty".
-Mark Twain's favourite cats were named Sour Mash,
Sin, Apollinaris, Beelzebub, Buffalo Bill, Zoroaster, Blatherskite, and Satan.
-The
longest word used by Shakespeare in any of his works is
"honorificabilitudinitatibus," found in "Love's Labours Lost."
-It's
illegal in Alabama to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in
church.
-You're subject to fines and/or imprisonment for making "ugly
faces" at dogs in Oklahoma.
-There are 102,981,500 ways to
combine six of the 8-studed Lego bricks of one color.
-The largest
stick of incense ever created was nearly 15 feet long and 6 inches in
diameter.
-The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell'
or 'picture element'.
-The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by
eight.'
Dave-O's Cool Metal Picture-O-The
Month 
Leaf Pot Rack!! SF, CA
(yes, now
we have happy pots!)
click
for more of Dave's gallery pics
WORDPLAY
made up
words-o-d-day
CANTELOPE
A
cousin of the antelope that can't do anything
BREAVER
One who mourns the
loss of water-dwelling rodents
(whether real or urban myth, these are great if you
like wordplay!)
BEST
Mis-Translation:
Hotel
brochure, Italy: THIS
HOTEL IS RENOWNED FOR ITS PEACE AND SOLITUDE. IN FACT, CROWDS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD FLOCK HERE TO ENJOY ITS
SOLITUDE (and a
Close 2nd)
On a poster in Sydney: ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT
READ? IF SO, WE CAN HELP
Quick
Quote:
- "Research is what I'm doing when I
don't know what I'm doing."
- Wernher Von Braun
(1912-1977)
Thanks to
Ziva Hadar for this photographic collage! |
