MySpace - music v.40

Happy Monday!

I wanted to let you all know I put up a new song on my MySpace music profile this morning, which I composed about 2-3 years ago, called "Lover Fair."

Click here to listen to the new track!

Also currently featured on my profile are these other tunes, for your listening pleasure:

• How It Would Be
• Reality tv
• Brother (remix)
• Lilac Wine (J. Shelton)

I'd love to get your feelings on "Lover Fair," a slow, melancholy number which asks for a patient ear and open heart for the best effect. And for all you audiophiles out there: I will happily ship a free cd compiling some of my recorded to work to the first person to figure out from which song by The Orb I've nabbed a little riff.

I'll give you a hint, it's from this album:

Let me know if you need more clues...but see what you can make of it first. I'm looking forward to your feedback...and in the meanwhile, have a great day!!

Peace,
Joann

Courier Post blog v.21

Good afternoon, friends!

I wanted to cordially invite you to my last performance tonight at the Collins House Restaurant in Merchantville, NJ - the restaurant is not closing at present, but entertainment is ceasing in the aim of saving money and weathering a difficult time. Perhaps if you all start taking some meals there (and asking, "When's Joann Ellis coming back?"), business will increase enough to warrant my return. Sound like a good idea?

But for now, we have tonight, so let me give you the details, and I'll hope to see you there. Click on the address for directions, or the map below:

Collins House Restaurant
2 S. Centre St, Merchantville, NJ, 08109
tel 856-661-8008

That's it for the nitty gritties. Stay tuned for more blogs to come, with May gig info, and more. And in the meantime, feel free to visit my other sites below for more Joann Ellis new - music and otherwise:

joannellis: one blog to rule them all
MySpace Music profile
MySpace Personal profile

I hope to see you there, and I hope you're enjoying the beautiful day!

Peace,
Joann

earthrevolution v.3

The below post is from baby's first blog, created a few years back, called "earthrevolution." I just discovered it again, realizing it's been neglected for years. Now, no promises, but perhaps I will bring it back to life sometime in the future - you'll have to wait and see! (with held breath, no doubt...)

Anyway, I'll quote the text below. It's short and sweet. And I am tired and overtaxed. So I'm off to bed.

May you all be well, in good health, and enjoying your sleep!
Peace,
Joann

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(taken from my latest earthrevolution post, composed just a few minutes ago:)

"well, it's been a long time...and i'm not posting a 'real' post now, just a quick note to any person who somehow randomly finds this blog - i may resurrect this one (earthrevolution) at some point, but for now, i refer you to my other blogs here on Blogger.

You are also welcome to visit any, or all, of the following sites:

joannellis.com
myspace - music
myspace - personal
songbird podcast

And here are the other blog sites, btw:

master blog (new!)
courier post blog

i know, i know - how many websites and weblogs does one girl need? i guess that remains to be seen.

peace,
joann"

MySpace - personal v.45

Good morning, early birds...

I'm just up viewing a little eye candy before bed. No, not pretty faces or pretty keyboards, but some BMX magic from X Games 12 last summer. This is a video of Subaru Rally Team USA driver Travis Pastrana doing a ridiculous thing...and good thing he landed it!

Surprised to see this kind of stuff on my blog? I've actually been fascinated by the worlds of skating and biking for some years now - there's quite a lot of talent there. At some point in the near future I'll post some videos of some of the greats and well-knowns of the sports:

Tony Hawk

Bam Margera

...and a few notable others...

Bucky Lasek
Ray Underhill
Mike Escamilla
Bob Burnquist

Hmm...I guess I'll put in the extra effort and give you one more video! This one's Tony Hawk's Secret Skate Park Tour 3 (26-Sept-2006), footage from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:

I will certainly put more vids of this stuff up in the future, but I think this is enough for now. I hope you liked this little bike/skate nugget, surely the first (but not last) of its kind. To be honest, I've actually been thinking of taking up skateboarding myself. We actually have a skatepark here in Medford! What do you think - am I still young enough in body to do it (at 28)? I guess we'll see! Good thing Michael has a board, I can borrow his...

Must get to bed.
Peace & good dreams.
Joann

MySpace - music v.38

Hey folks!

Just wanted to remind you I have a couple of websites floating around there in the internet ethernet, just waiting to be pounced upon.

One of them is the Songbird Podcast site, which actually isn't a real podcast *yet* - just a few songs from my library. Two of them you'll currently find here on the MySpace profile - How It Would Be (original) and Lilac Wine (cover).

Here you'll also find a bonus track: a cover of "Elizabeth, You Were Born To Play That Part," a forlorn little number from the album 29 by one of my most favorite songwriters of late, the infamous Ryan Adams. (Btw: 29 was his third - that's right THIRD - album of 2005! Gross, I know...)

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Anyone vote for me to make it a real Podcast and start putting up some clips of me jabbering over the mic, a cappella, about what-have-you?

Or should I keep it music, and finally put another song up?


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Let me know what you think...if you think anything of it. And one more thing - a major difference between the Songbird Podcast and this site is that it allows you to DOWNLOAD all the songs. If that interests you, be sure to check it out!

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Oh, yeah......for those of you who didn't know, I also have a personal profile here on MySpace. I have the profile as #1 on my Friends list, for easy reference...it looks something like this:

I guess that's about it - again! Hope you're all doing well...

Peace,
Joann