Lend me your ears. This is so exciting now in our land. We need that change, which has become so frequent a word that we must not overlook that it still means something.
Obama is very close. Will it be a landslide? Or will we wait all night and pour more champagne and get groggier and groggier as dawn approaches and Anderson Cooper is still trying to stay fresh!
I am starting to paint a Gibson guitar that is going to be auctioned off for a 'MusiCares' event where the money will go to musicians who have fallen on hard times one way or another. Of course I feel that it will not be good enough. So far I have gessoed over the wood that was stained a strange red color to appear like a great Brazilian forest cross section of one of it's rarest trees. I think maybe not. I don't know. I'm trying to think of what to paint once the gesso dries (probably tomorrow). I think I have a hook, but I'm not sure. I love to paint though and I haven't done it in a while. It's not unlike writing a song.
The Atlantic City concert was so great. It was supposed to have been billed: Carly Simon with Ben Taylor and David Saw. Because some of the audience (apparently) weren't pleased with my leaving out some songs or changing the arrangements of some of what they were used to, they wrote nasty letters. I'm so surprised, that any of you wouldn't look further into what it was supposed to be or that minds were not open enough to accept new concepts. But I understand too. If I went to a Rolling Stones concert and they sang "Honkey Tonk Woman" as a ballad and really melancholy in parts, some part of me would be disturbed.
The good news is that I loved it. I really loved it. It is one of the first times I ever felt really comfortable on stage. That is in large part to Ben and David and the rest of the amazing band. I think the review from Fox
News was a reflection of what most of the audience felt. Of course I have a great need to please, all entertainers do, so I feel as if I want to say excuse me if I didn't come across in the way you wanted me to.
I've really been thrown by this time change last night. I was up all night and was also very hot. I couldn't get even asleep and then I woke up at five and thought I'll get up and start painting the guitar and it was really four. Couldn't get back to sleep. I'm not even tired now. I think it's the thyroid pills that I was just put on for having mild hypothyroidism, or however it is pronounced.
So I leave you with lots of love and high expectations for Tuesday. I'm so excited that we're going to have a little dance. Just the nuclear family, but a dance nonetheless.
I love you and good night!
Carly
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