February 2012
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I'm not skinny, and I don't care.
Recently, I was bitten with the desire to update my current website (www.chantelleconstable.com shameless plug!) and so I asked my boyfriend, who (I say with no bias!) is quite handy with a camera, to take some new “publicity” photos for me. Got to keep the fans happy with recent content on the ol’ interwebs, right?
Well, I sat down to my laptop and began scrolling through the...
January 2012
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Working on the final mixes for the upcoming Hotel...
So, yea, you should stay tuned… and be excited… and all that jazz…
Music Goals & To-Do List
* Start taking voice lessons again (even if it’s only twice a
month)
* Get *one* really awesome “stage” outfit. Maybe two, one for each
band.
* Keep writing. Writing, writing, writing. The more I write, the
better the odds that *something* good will come out one of these days…
* On that note… lower my standards. Record demos and release
them. Interact with...
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I used to dream about being famous for my voice. You know, maybe not The Voice of the Century or anything like that, but I wanted to be one of the voices of the century, at least. I wanted… well… I wanted to be known as a Good Singer.
Now, apparently vocal quality is the least of a musician’s concerns. Apparently all you need to be a Popular Artist are some pouty lips and/or...
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You heard it here first! Liveblogging...
There’s a (C#m)box that I keep in the (Bdim)corner of my (F#m)mind (C#m)Usually under (A)lock and key But (C#m)sometimes a ghost breaks (A)free
It’s (C#m)full of things that (Bdim)hurt me, made me (F#m)cry (C#m & A) Rusty nails that I’ve stepped on, bullets I’ve dodged (C#m & A) [—-line that I already forgot—-]
(E)Knives thrown at me Broken (D)glass...
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Shhh! Sneaky sneak preview. Hotel Gypsies ca....
December 2011
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Holiday Gig!
So apparently I got myself booked to do a holiday concert…
THIS FRIDAY!
Dec. 16, 7:15pm
Manhattan Town Center (Food Court)
RSVP on facebook : http://www.facebook.com/events/143879775720969/
November 2011
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Showtunes Album (an idea!) Survey
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Hotel Gypsies - Fever
Two things they told me...
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Blogs, I say →
This is either a severe case of a Mutual Admiration Society, or blog-within-a-blog a la Inception… but I just wanted to point out that Yours Truly has been added to the blogroll of The Hype Weekly. (Is the appropriate Hipster closing phrase, “Peace out”?)
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The iPod as a Social Device
Well, the time has come. I’m giving my iPod a makeover, but it’s not just because my music tastes have changed, it’s because I find myself more often than not using it socially, plugging it in for road trips, and it’s frustrating to feel like I don’t have a proper variety of music to offer people! It used to be that the iPod was just my personal music library, with...
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beginning: For me, the first time I heard... →
qazpo:
For me, the first time I heard Jacqueline Marie Evancho sing was like my first scuba dive in Indonesia. Before I heard Ms. Evancho, I’d heard thousands upon thousands of singers, singing everything from opera arias to Tahitian war chants to headbanging rock & roll to Jazz standards to avant-garde…
*spit take*
ARE YOU FOR REAL?
October 2011
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Well! I feel an obligation to post something here - seeing as how it’s
been so long since I’ve made a personal blog post - but there’s no real
earth-shattering news to share! Just more of the same.
Lithus has played some great shows around Kansas - in Topeka, KC, here
in Manhattan at Aggiefest, and most recently down in Wichita (now THAT
was a fun gig!). Right now...
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Lithus - “Invocation” (in the...
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WatchHell or High Water 10.02.11 (by Chantelle Constable)
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September 2011
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Sometimes people are so very nice.
I sent a message to the band guitarist (via the drummer) today, asking if he would mind cleaning my acoustic guitar’s strings before our series of gigs this weekend. (Since he’s the guitar expert, and has offered to clean them before.) Well, the guys were using my van to haul an amp down to the local guitar shop, and they dropped it off at my job when they were done. When I got into...
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August 2011
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A Special Request
I’m trying to raise funds for a personal, very special project on August 25th. (It’s a vain, frivolous cause— I’ll say that right up front!) But if a mere ten people would buy either my professional quality Christmas / classical EP from 2006, or a set of EIGHT demo-quality original songs, for only $5, I could reach my goal and do something very special on the 25th. Here are...
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I have decided that, for all practical performance purposes (Lithus, Hotel Gypsies, or otherwise), I need a cape.
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My "Influences" List for Hotel Gypsies
… which is my musical side-project with the Lithus drummer.
Jill Tracy, Sarah Slean, Judy Garland, Fistful of Mercy, Jennifer Knapp, Christine Schafer, Nicole Byblow, Mumford & Sons, Gustav Mahler, Kurt Weill, early jazz and blues, French pop and chanson, 20th century art songs, Appalachian folk, ragtime, hymns and spirituals (film) Arsenic and Old Lace, Alfred Hitchcock, Louise...
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July 2011
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If I Were Made of Music - Annie Haslam
If I were...
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Happy Birthday To Me! ;)
My “golden birthday.” 22 years old on the 22nd!
I’ve already…
- Stayed up late last night watching Doctor Who with Jusitn
- Been serenaded (with banjo accompaniment!) with “Happy Birthday”
- Eaten a delicious breakfast of homemade donuts
This is an excellent birthday thus far! :)
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“A strange sort of frontier honor
But he doesn’t know how to love the...”
– “Hotel Gypsies” lyric fragment
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“Phillip had some philosophical idea he had evidently been developing in the...”
– from “And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks” by Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg