Sleepy Good Morning’s Everyone,

I came home last night from the Festival, long drive after a long day, in order to finish getting my Boss ready to go on his tour this morning. I think all is in readiness. I want to send him out the very best of wishes, Bon Voage and Good Luck from Lorraine a’ Malena, we will miss you here, and yes, I will take care of both Cats and Garden, not to worry about anything.

Malena’s husband sent me this link ( which after the sweet thing she got and posted from HIS Mother, is going to make this all the sillier, see where our minds are at , hee-hee ) http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Ultimate-Hippie-Vacation_W0QQitemZ5614695213

I can’t stop laughing at this, it’s up to about $4000 now, and they are going to film it as well for a documentery….

Today, the Festival again ( note to self, make sure you get a nap in ) and back home and then off to the studio to finish the record in the morning, hurrah!

And then on Friday, Malena comes.

That’s all I have time and brain for this morning….Off to make tea.

Love and More Tea, Lorraine

The most destructive habit………………………………….Worry

The greatest Joy……………………………………………….Giving

The greatest loss………………………………….Loss of self-respect

The most satisfying work……………………………..Helping others

The ugliest personality trait………………………………..Selfishness

The most endangered species…………………….Dedicated leaders

Our greatest natural resource…………………………….Our youth

The greatest “shot in the arm”………………….Encouragement

The greatest problem to overcome……………………..Fear

The most effective sleeping pill……………………Peace of mind

The most crippling failure disease………………………Excuses

The most powerful force in life…………………………….Love

The most dangerous pariah………………………………..A gossiper

The world’s most incredible computer…………………The brain

The worst thing to be without…. ………………………..Hope

The deadliest weapon………………………………The tongue

The two most power-filled words…………………………”I Can”

The greatest asset……………………………………………..Faith

The most worthless emotion………………………………Self-pity

The most beautiful attire……………………………………..SMILE!

The most prized possession………………………………. Integrity

The most powerful channel of communication……..Prayer

The most contagious spirit………………………………….Enthusiasm

This has been the week of hell for our poor pets. My pig-dog-bat-frog, Monty had a seizure yesterday and Lorraine’s meow meow has a heart murmur! I guess we’re still way ahead of the world when it comes to suffering, but it was scary. You don’t realize how much you love the little creatures until you think they are going to die in your arms. Other than rescuing doggies in distress, I am doing fine. Soon, we will all be singing and dancing together at Renn Fest.

First off the important bits. The Kitty is a girl and her name is Misty. She is growing like the weed she looks like, day by day she gets bigger. She had her first vet visit, and seems to have a heart murmur , which isn’t good, but they don’t seem to worried. Misty the Muppet Cat does not let this slow her down tho, I never realized how many Things a kitten could get into. Now if she will just learn to use the littler box……

Festival this weekend was nasty and brutal. I am only now recovering from heat exhaustion. It was 90 both days and humid, you could not get enough to drink, and I am talking about Gatorade and water here. By the end of Saturday I was so tired I thought I would drop, and all I wanted was a cold shower, food brought to me and some TV before falling asleep at say, 9. Fortunately the Hotel Sofitel had all of those things right down the road, and I was just finishing dinner, having had the shower, and watching COPS and thinking how I had never noticed what an intellectual show this was before where the phone rings.

It’s Big Sexy, from the Tim Malloys and he is saying something about how Adam can’t make the gig they have tonight and could I just please please please come and play. From 9:30 to 2.

Brutal it was. The actual playing was a blast, I love those guys and we rocked the bar, everyone concerned had a great time, but now tired has gone so far beyond tired that it’s all kind of silly and wild. Speaking of silly and wild , there was a group of people from Uruguay who were great fun and loved the show, about 5 guys and a really beautiful goth girl. After we got done playing, they started , well, wrestleing eachother, all over the bar. The girl took them each on kickboxing, and beat each of them. Then they started wrestleing eachother. It was so funny to be packing up with these bodies flying all over. We started talking to them after things had calmed down, and the girl, who’s name is Sol, turned out to be a bass player, turned guitar player. She says she is sending me her cd’s and I can’t wait to hear them. I wasn’t clear if they all lived here now , or were just visiting, but I am hoping she checks in here and drops me a note.

The less said about getting up at 7 to do the festival Sunday the better. I actually fell asleep in between each show for as long as I could. Spent Monday and Tuesday trying to re-hydrate .

It looks as tho we are going to be having an online Halloween Party, with web cams, and sound and IM and anything else we can manage. Miss Malena seems to know exactly what she is doing, and we will work this out, as that would be some fun.

Today is Get a Massage Day, in about an hour. Then work, and of course, practice my parts for recording this coming week. May manage Change Strings and Clean Fiddle up too. And Walk. ( this weekend’s one redeeming feature was the weight loss factor, can’t eat when it’s that hot )

And I ’spect I’ll be talking with Malena.

Love and Kickboxing,
Lorraine

Hey! I just wanted to tell everyone in Minneapolis/St. Paul hello. I do love coming out there. It’s kind of like being on a pirate ship. Everyone is happy, loud, sincere and has a filthy mouth. Well, not everyone. Lorraine is always perfect. When I am with you guys, I can totally be myself. You don’t care if I’m wearing my spongebob jammies at the goodbye party or if I sing a wrong note. (Not that I plan to do either of those any time soon, but, hey…it’s real rock n roll loven’ baby) I feel like you are my extended family and I miss you all. When I listen to the LaM rough mix, I remember what fun we had recording. I’ve NEVER laughed so hard in my life… Adam and LEO!

You all inspire me in so many ways. As you know, in real life I am rather shy. Yes, a true recluse! Being around all these outgoing, crazy, fun, cool people reminds me to let loose and have fun a little more often.

So, get ready to rock! I’ll be out there on the weekend of the 23rd, screaming in the front row, “Fab u lous Lorraine! Fab u lous Lorraine! Along with 2000 other crazed-half drunk pirates, lords and ladies, and dudes dressed as “Zorro the gay blade”. Haaaaaaa Zaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!

Thought I would pass onto you quickly, that I found a really Fabulous store on Ebay late one night last week ( oh the Danger of late night Ebay! ) It’s called Kate’s Clothing and her website is http://www.katesclothing.com/customer/home.php ( sorry , still no linking skills ! ) but she also has an Ebay store.

I recieved everything I ordered from her this morning, very quickly, tho she is in London, and they are wonderful clothes! And unlike many retailers, Kate doesn’t seem to feel that all Cool Witchy Gothy women stop at size 10 and seems to know that we come in all shapes and sizes.

She was very friendly and the clothes arrived complete with ribbon and wrapping. Did I mention the prices are most reasonable?????

Have a look and you too might own 2 new shorts plaid skirts, a pair of spider arm bands, some skull socks and purple striped stockings!!!!!!

Love and cool clothes, Lorraine

Good Morning All!

This week went by SO fast I can’t believe it is time to go back out and do the show again! I have not seem to have caught myself up yet sleep wise and there is so very much to do yet, ah well…

I am much happier knowing Malena is coming with me for the last weekend! Truly that was a surprise that we didn’t think we could make happen, but we did it and are both over the moon! Halloween was simply to far away and to long for this band to be apart. I will have been in the studio all week at that point, and might even be at the mixing point, we shall see how it goes, I can’t wait to get this cd out tho!

Last weekend at the Festival there was as severe a storm as I have ever been in. We were up on the big stage watching it come in and trying to be entertaining. This ship has REALLY tall masts with metal flag poles on it. The lightning was very thick. I kept trying to find one of the stage crew ( who has sensibly fled ) to get Mark, the only one who can call the show, when he came walking up the asile saying Folks there is a Tornado Warning, get OUT of here now.

We didn’t know how close it wasand more clouds of Doom were coming all the time. All very exciting. Made me quite nerveus actually which is when I called Malena ( I now how she is and didn’t want her to worry ) who was also quite scared as she was driving into a forest fire.

Figures. Of course she was. Half a country apart and we can’t escape doing the same things at the same time, whether it’s gardening or Death Defying Disatsters…..

All’s well that ends well I say. Obviously, we lives. Both of us.

I am going to try and make Adam’s signing tonight, but there may be to much work for this country girl for that to happen, alas. He has, I believe two books out now, his own first novel ” Singer of Souls” and one he wrote with Jane Yolen ” Pay the Piper” Both are wonderful, read them over a few times now.

A lot of people wanted the Famous Chicken Stuffed Marrow receipe and since I am making it again for dinner, I’ll give it a go.

First you need a Marrow, which a WAY overgrown zucchini. If you live in the Midwest , this will not be a problem for you. People will leave them on your doorstep, ringing the bell and running, or on your car. ( not kidding ) if you have a garden with summer squash, you have a marrow in it, trust me.

Cut it in half, lenth-wise and scoop out the seeds. Put it aside . Make some sauce. I take olive oil, onion, eggplant and tomatoes and garlic from the garden and cook it all up together for as long a time as you can. Toss some spice in there, oregano, basil whatever you fancy, just let the things cook down together.

While that is cooking, take some chicken breasts and pound the heck out of them until you have flat little pieces. Dip them in floor, with some paprika, salt and pepper and fry them up in olive oil until the seem nearly, but not all the way done. Stick them in the bottom or your zuccinni boat. Cover them with sauce so the boat is full and stick ‘em in the oven for an hour at 375 -350 or so, for the last 15 minutes you can top it all with parmeasen cheese or something.

Dinner. And it’s just that simple.

Love , Storms and Food,

Lorraine

I thought you’d like to know that Adam Stemple will be promoting his new book at Dream Haven Books on friday September 9th at 6:30. So, since I can’t be there, go smack Adam on the butt for me and buy his book. ahhh….ok, let’s be serious, just buy the book.
He eheee

AND guess what? I am coming out to Festival on the weekend of the 23rd! Yeah! Lorraine and I are so excited we could scream. Actually, we HAVE been screaming for 2 days now. So, be sure to come up and say hello. Lorraine will be playing 11 shows a day! I will be acting as her Xena-esque body guard chic. She’s a super hero herself that woman. The CD will be ready for mixing by then. Eeeee! We’re getting closer my LaMies of Love. I want to see all of you while I’m out there. Yeah!

One of you sweet LaM-ies asked about this corset. Here it is! It’s on Ebay, item number 5422855020.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5422855020

Email Alter Ego for sizing info at:
AEE69@aol.com

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