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Inspired, compelling stories of love, loss and
longing spill out and take you, shake you, and wake you-emotionally
evocative, intelligent, vocal driven *pop
rock*...
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Greetings:
up close and personal...can you
ever really go back?
Last weeekend was my 20-year high school
reunion. Returning to where it all began...when I think back, I
consider 6th-12th grade the awkward stage of my life...when I was a
chameleon, choosing my colors year to year largely based on what my
friends thought or did. When it mattered to some whether I wore
Guess jeans or got asked to the prom; what kind of car I drove, if I
had a car at all.
Where once we huddled in our own separate
spaces, geeks and jocks and drama queens and class officers, the
cheerleaders and the hippies, the smokers and the loners, the
freaks...now, everyone mingled in the same space flashing I-Phone
pictures of their 3 kids; introducing bored or curious spouses;
exchanging virtual business cards and facebook addresses, stories of
exotic travel and recent milestones, and discovering who married her
high school sweetheart; who became a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, a
vet; who never left; who came back; who was out of
work.
We downloaded the highlights of 20 years to
our peers like speed dating searching for just the right
connection; checking out each others high school photo
nametags for simple recognition, for how we used to look, who we
once were; noticing who was bald, who looked like life had hardened
them; who hadn't changed; drinking way too much. Time stopped for no
one, I noticed. Surprisingly, many people asked about and said
they'd listened to my music thanks to facebook. The pop rocks were a
big hit. There was still the guy who drank away the night and took
his shirt off to jump into the photo booth with 3 willing girls (or
moms now). And as he did it, I exchanged glances and an eye roll
with an old friend as if to say "Yes, some things never change." At
least the awkward stage is over.
memorable
musical moments...the muse is chipping away; will the universe keep
sending energy ?
Just learned that I will be getting mixes in
a few short days of all six songs we recorded.
I am eager to
listen and to move them forward. I am getting excited to have some new and
very different Aoede material on love, loss, longing, and life to
share with you soon! Without revealing names, they cover songs of
the heart, tales of enchantment, and an anthem for celebrating just
where you're at. And the muse is also busy having fun (oxymoron?)
letting her Alice in Waterland characters develop and tell
the story to her :)
*COOL
STUFF* -check it out (sidebar) and let me know if
you have stuff to include next time!
SHOWS/RECORDING
We plan to step out of writing and
recording mode just long enough to do a few day shows over the next
few months, including Cole Street Fair in September. Our first will
be an acoustic gig outdoors at the Cannery in San Francisco on
SUNDAY Aug 29th (see shows, upper right side
column). We may have a special guest, singer/songwriter Lisa
Saffran, join us for part of the time as well! We are continuing to
write and record new material in the SF Bay Area and LA. In the
meantime, feel free to send email or connect with me on Facebook. We will
continue to keep sending newsletters of course!
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)
WHERE CAN I BUY PUSH AND
PULL?
BARNES & NOBLE
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SHOWS!!
AUGUST
Sunday, AUGUST 29,
2010
12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Aoede outdoors and acoustic
Del Monte Square @ The Cannery
2801 Leavenworth Street, San
Francisco
*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!
your vote can help fund $250K research to make juvenile
myositis (muscle disease) a memory-something near & dear
to my own
heart...top 2 get funding.
Very beautiful, creative ad using hands and phones
A recipe for salted water for boiling-comments are witty
Will Ferrell's Tour of Tech That Never Took humorous & compelling!
How the Pavement Picasso does
it-video
10 creative bathroom ads
Yeah, That's Not What I Was Looking For After All-wacky
blog about a missing cat & other strange tales
Make your own bird mobile for baby (a friend's new
venture!)
Useless FACTS-o-the-month
*Playing cards
were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked
in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
*Ben and Jerry's send
the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs
love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
*Wilma Flintstone's
maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty
Jean Mcbricker.
*The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
*The
housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
*Assuming Rudolph is in
front, the number of possible way to arrange Santa's other eight reindeer
is 40,320.
*Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones
are the largest anagrams.
*The average person falls asleep in seven
minutes.
*Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the
13th."
*The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write
approximately 50,000 English words.
*On average a hedgehog's heart
beats 300 times a minute.
*Right handed people live, on average, nine
years longer than left-handed people.
Dave-O's
Cool Metal Picture-O-The
Month
early works-Wheat Sculpture
for Maurice's restaurant
click for
Dave's gallery pics
WORDPLAY
made up
words-o-d-day
DRAIPSE
To hunt all over
town for window treatments
METRONOME
An elf who lives in town
(whether real or urban myth, these are great if you
like wordplay!)
ADS
THAT MAKE YOU SAY, "HUH?":
Outside a disco:
Smarts is the most exclusive disco in town. Everyone
welcome.
(and a Close 2nd and
3rd)
On a plumber's truck:
We repair what your husband Fixed.
Outside a country shop in West
Virginia: We buy junk and sell antiques.
Quick
Quote:
"What lies behind us
and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared with what lies within
us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
screen shot of vocals, Oakland, CA July
2010
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