Folks have been emailing me with possible reasons for my recent stat spike on The Chillcast; Frank suggested it was my appearance on the RumorGirls #73, for instance. Now I’m thinking it was my expletive laden audio feedback on the Daily Source Code #508. I teased Adam about Giselle and Adam, in turn, teased Patricia about me… Guess that got some of his listeners curious, huh?
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More of Anji Bee in 2007
I just had some good news from the higher ups at PodShow. I’ve mentioned in my podcasts that I have a few irons in the fire, but now it seems those babies are nice ‘n’ hot. So it looks like I’ll be pretty busy come the new year. When I stop to think about it, I’ve accomplished an awful lot in one year. I know it’s a little early for the New Year’s post, but I’ve never been one for traditional holiday activities, anyway… I’ll save the official announcements for launch, but suffice to say that you will be hearing more from me soon.
This reminds me of something Julien spoke of in his latest podcast. He said that we can each be our own “channel” via podcasts, vidcasts, blogs, etc. I think that’s what I’ve become since I gathered my various feeds into the one site. If you’re into me and my content, you can pretty much tune into anjibee.com every day to see what’s new. And I’ll certainly be looking for ways to expand on my site’s concept next year, as I only just created it — what, 3 months ago?
I *still* heart Jules!
Looks like it’s been a month to the day that I proclaimed my love for Julien Smith, and I stand by that claim today. In fact, I love him more with every passing podcast, blog entry, and – now – Flickr photo! Seriously, though, what an amazing guy. I had no idea who I was talking to last month, but having followed up on my glib pledge to be the charter member of his cult following, well, I am truly smitten. Lately he’s been talking about how he hesitates to promote In Over Your Head as a Hip Hop music show because people are apparently closed minded about the genre. That is really too bad, because not only does Jules offer more than a mere music podcast, underground Hip Hop has more to offer than the potential listener might suppose, particularly when it is selected by the knowledgeable and socio-politically conscious Jules. Oh! And he actually does play more than Hip Hop, including some very hip Electro tunes. So if you haven’t yet, go check his shit out!
I voted!
I participated in the democratic process today by getting off my ass and voting. Yay, me! I was considering playing the Biddies “Cast that Ballot” on The Chillcast this week, but my listener base is so throughly international that I decided against it. But I hope any Americans reading this did their bit today, too!
Bolsa Chica Wetlands Restoration
Went down to Bolsa Chica again, and took some photos of the recently completed inlet, which I believe is the final phase of the Bolsa Chica Wetlands Restoration Project. I’m so happy that the developers who were trying to fill in and build on the wetlands were stopped, and not only that, but that the wetlands are now in the process of recovering some of their former glory. Its only been a few weeks since the creation of the inlet, but already the water is cleaner and the birds more abundant. It’s wonderful to see!
Money, money, money
Holy crap! I’m owed money that I didn’t even know about. Good thing Sam just forwarded me this NY Times story about Soundexchange. I called them just now and determined that they do not have Lovespirals listed, and thus I would have missed out on performance royalties for plays on Pandora, Rhapsody and many other sites and services that I know my music is included on. Since I get checks from BMI, I thought I was covered, but apparently there’s more than one company gathering my money up for me. Sheesh there’s a lot to keep track of when you’re an indie artist!
Dia de los Muertos
After 3 years of flaking out, I finally went to visit Joyce for her epitaph project during the LA Day of the Dead festivities last night. She was off the main path from all of the big altars in a small grove of young trees that she hung lanterns from. Ryan and I offered to get her some food from one of the stalls and she was ecstatic when we brought back tamales with mole. I had a frijole e queso pupusa, myself. Joey and Rob seemed a bit reluctant to eat from the stalls. But we had just been enjoying some bread, cheese, marcona almonds and wine at his place… which reminds me of Lou. Mmm… we walked right by it to get to Rob’s and boy was it tempting!
Ooh my head!
Wow did I have a lot to drink last night… Finally made it out to Lou with an interesting group of folks and found myself drinking glass after glass of the tastiest wine! Started out with white, then progressed to red. Also munched on plates of olives, almonds, cheeses, breads; it was heaven. Joey and Rob talked about their recent trip to Paris and Antwerp, while Jonathan and Danielle shared tales of their European tour, including England, Morocco, and Amsterdam. The last trip I took was to Ontario, CA, for PodShow’s UnExpo — and I didn’t even spend the night! Speaking of Podshow, what the hell is up with their site today?
Breakfast on the beach
Snuck off this morning for breakfast at Crystal Cove. I know, I know, you probably hate me… Fall really is the time of year I go to the beach the most, because I prefer to avoid Summer crowds and am jonesin’ by the time Fall rolls around. I do some of my best thinking down there, so it’s a necessary pleasure.
Woo hoo!
The site is coming along quite nicely now. I just keep adding little touches here and there to bring it up bit by bit. I am currently chatting with PME 2006 Award Winner, C.C. Chapman, (heh heh) about Technorati. Let’s see if my plug in is working yet…