{"id":874,"date":"2013-09-25T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calirose.com\/blog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2013-09-25T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:30:56","slug":"horn-tooting-and-all-that-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/horn-tooting-and-all-that-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"HORN TOOTING AND ALL THAT STUFF"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Don\u2019t we love our \u201cprojects\u201d? I have dozens of \u201cdem things to do\u201d in every corner of our condo tree house. My desk looks like an organized zone of chaos. On the piano, there are piles of songs to learn or write or arrange. The ukuleles sit sentry in every room beckoning me to forget all that other stuff and \u201cplay me, play me now\u201d!<\/p>\n

There are hundreds of emails to return, calls to make, social media to \u201cget social with,\u201d gigs, teaching. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending how you look at it, my body shuts down just about the time the sun is setting and with some measure guilt, I give up. And play Sudoku.<\/p>\n

But this week is pretty darned exciting around here. Well, extra exciting! So I\u2019m horn-tooting (because I have not hired a professional horn-tooter to do it for me).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My big CD Release Party and Concert is this Sunday, September 29, here in Culver City, at\u00a0Boulevard Music<\/a>\u00a0at 7:00 P.M. (I promise to be all perky because I’ll take a nap in the afternoon). If you live in Los Angeles and are willing to TiVo the final episode of\u00a0Breaking Bad<\/em>\u00a0and have twelve bucks to buy some sweet music and fun, please come party with us. My hubby,Craig Brandau<\/a>, will join me on a few songs, so you get a “two-fer”, by golly, and a mighty fine time in this very warm and intimate setting. I will perform songs from all three of my CD\u2019s including the Dr. Demento comedy stuff.<\/p>\n

Last week, Sandra Coopersmith, a lovely woman and writer from the\u00a0Culver City Crossroads<\/a>\u00a0newspaper, visited The CC Strummers. She arrived with a pencil and notebook, eager to gather information for a feature article she was writing about our ukulele group. And me. I put a yellow Makala soprano ukulele in her hands instead. She was there in the name of research, but I could see how the music and absolute joy of it all rubbed into the words she wrote. And now the article, \u201cUkulele Lady Cali Rose,\u201d is out there for all to see. Let me just tell you this\u2026 It\u2019s quite a rush to hear people say nice things about you.<\/p>\n

While you are still alive\u2026<\/p>\n

Please check it out.\u00a0Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

We rarely have the opportunity to step out of the \u201cdog and pony show\u201d of our life and see it from the mezzanine instead, to take the longer view. Thanks Sandra for giving me perspective. All the experiences, all the people, all the stuff\u2026 It kind of works out.<\/p>\n

With a lot of help from our friends.<\/p>\n

See you soon, my friends.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t we love our \u201cprojects\u201d? I have dozens of \u201cdem things to do\u201d in every corner of our condo tree house. My desk looks like an organized zone of chaos. On the piano, there are piles of songs to learn or write or arrange. The ukuleles sit sentry in every room beckoning me to forget all that other stuff and \u201cplay me, play me now\u201d! There are hundreds of emails to return, calls to make, social media to \u201cget social … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentry"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"blog entry"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Cali Rose","author_link":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/author\/crbauthor\/"},"comment_info":1,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"blog entry","slug":"blogentry","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":138,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":138,"category_description":"","cat_name":"blog entry","category_nicename":"blogentry","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}