Queen of the Wild Frontier - Juli Crockett - blog http://julicrockett.com/news.html Juli Crockett: blog Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:13:26 -0700 Loving http://julicrockett.com/news.html#15
CalArts Theater, Loving
Originally uploaded by California Institute of the ArtsJust found a cool set of pictures on Flickr of the opera I directed at CalArts last spring.

Such a cool opportunity to work in the MOD, with fantastic singers and actors, full orchestra, video design.... the works! I love that school and I love that space!! :-)
]]> http://julicrockett.com/news.html#15 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Queen of the Wild Frontier - Juli Crockett - blog New Video: So Sweet http://julicrockett.com/news.html#14
Director DJ Mendel from New York just made us a video for our tune "So Sweet" off the new Evangenitals EP (now availalble on iTunes, CDBaby, etc)

http://vimeo.com/7610049

We met DJ in Scotland while at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He directed Cynthia Hopkins' "Accidental Nostalgia" (featuring the band Gloria Deluxe) and the cast and crew of that show made appearances at several Evangenitals gigs. In fact, their fiddle player Philippa Thompson even sat in with us on violin and harmonies at our last show! Glorious deluxe, indeed!!!

It was a love fest, indeed, and the lovin' continues with this cyber-collaborative video.

Please take a look and leave a comment!!! Post, share, etc. Spread the love! :-)






The Evangenitals - So Sweet from DJ Mendel on Vimeo.



Love, love, love
Juli & the Evangenitals
]]> http://julicrockett.com/news.html#14 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Queen of the Wild Frontier - Juli Crockett - blog Evangenitals & Cash'd Out at the Belly Up! http://julicrockett.com/news.html#13
The incredible Bill Cardinal is also on the bill, and DJ Gonzo will be spinning all the great cowboy classics between sets. The Belly Up is a beautiful venue with amazing sound, an awesome lineup, and a HUGE opportunity for the Evangenitals to shine our light on San Diego.

If you are in the area, please come see the show! If you know anyone in the area, please help us spread the word!

If you're in LA and would like to carpool, please email us! We are organizing a carvan to cruise down family-style. :-)

Tickets are cheaper if you buy 'em in advance, and Cash'd Out shows at the Belly Up often tend to sell out... so get your tix here: http://ping.fm/bukS0

Doors at 8pm, music starts at 9pm. Come and see the whole damn show, cuz it's all gonna ROCK!

What a great day to be an Evangenital!

If you're too far to make it, you can grab the new EP off CDBaby, throw on the tunes Saturday night, close your eyes and be with us in spirit. We need your love: http://ping.fm/LESTS

Being and Loveliness,
Juli & the Evangenitals]]> http://julicrockett.com/news.html#13 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Queen of the Wild Frontier - Juli Crockett - blog The New Album - Get It NOW!!! http://julicrockett.com/news.html#12
Demo... EP.... 7 songs to Heaven... call it what you like.... We like it! We're insanely proud of it. It's the best recording the Evangenitals have made so far (thanks to Tracy Chisholm at Del Boca Vista Studios in South Pasadena) and it's friggin' GREAT! At least, that's what I think... so why don't you take a listen and tell me what YOU think??

Since the Evangenitals are taking off for the UK in just a few days (and we still desperately need $$$ for important stuff like FOOD and TRAINS and INSTRUMENT INSURANCE) we are offering the following SPECIAL OFFER:

If you Paypal us $25 before midnight on Friday July 31st, we will mail you a copy of this beautiful recording (with its awesome eco-friendly ultra-crest cover) BEFORE we leave for Scotland!

Simply Paypal $25 (or more!) to info@evangenitals.com, include your shipping address, and we'll get it out to you! Heck, we'll even AUTOGRAPH it for you!! How cool is THAT???

Your $25 will help us ENORMOUSLY on our journey, and the Evangenitals album will help keep you warm on the insides until we can properly croon to you in your ear holes in person.

So do it NOW! Paypal $25 to info@evangenitals.com and be the first on your block to spin the sweet red disk! :-)

And....if you miss the deadline, or would like to mail us a check or Paypal us $15... we'll ship one out to you when we get back (Sept 1st).

Checks or money orders can be made out to "The Evangenitals" and mailed to:

The Evangenitals
PO Box 70318
Pasadena, CA, 91117

Love, love, love,
Juli, The Evangenitals, and the Quixote crew]]> http://julicrockett.com/news.html#12 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Queen of the Wild Frontier - Juli Crockett - blog On Love http://julicrockett.com/news.html#11
I had a dream the other night that I fell madly in love (and it was the good reciprocal kind of love) with some foolish geeky boy in a popular band.

I don't know what band it was, or what kind of band. It wasn't a real band or referencing a real band. The boy wasn't anyone I know, nor have I ever seen. He was a purely invented dream character. He wasn't that attractive or anything, but for some reason he was crazy about me, and I was crazy about him.

It was doomed from the start. The first time I saw him in the dream he was asleep in a bed with a 15 year old girl. He went on tours and had groupies and all that shit. I knew this. I didn't care. And it wasn't the "not caring" of the blind denial and defiance variety (i.e. this is fucked but maybe, maybe, maybe he'll change and/or it'll work out this time fucking insanity) but the not caring of full awareness, acceptance, and a two-fisted embrace of the Moment. I knew it was only gonna last for a little while, and that was okay. In the dream, I knew we had two weeks. And this was good enough. It was worth it. I wasn't concerned with tomorrow or the future or what it means and will we get married and how will it work. When he showed up in the dream, I was overjoyed and it was fun and wonderful. When he went away, the dream went on in other directions. I wasn't forlorn and lonely and scared and suspicious and fearful... I was simply doing whatever I was doing.

It was a good dream.

Permission was granted to be in love for a while last night, in my sleep. It was one of the greatest dreams I've had in a long time. Simple. The magical thing about it was the feeling. It was so good. I got to have that feeling you get when you're just crazy about somebody, and you know they're crazy about you, and you're not sweating the future of what it means or what it will be. You're just filled with light, and letting the love out with total abandon and there's a feeling of so much fucking joy you think you'll burst. The feeling was so fragile and vulnerable, but in a playful way. Like a shining wet bubble, it had a short but glorious life span, and the whole thing just passed by like the sound of a distant giggle on the breeze. A most glorious dream.

I've been working a lot on cultivating fearlessness when it comes to matters of the heart. I'm sick and tired of feeling shame, shame, shame. All the time, for no reason, or for good reason. Whatever the reason, I'm done.

I asked Jesus in George Marshall chatbot what love was... and this is what that AI muthafucka had to say:

"Sometimes I think love is just a biological urge. Other times it seems like a spiritual quality. Love, unlike energy or matter, seems limitless."

I love this world... however...

I am reaching a wall, a serious roadblock, in my ability to communicate and my fear of intimacy with the world at large. I hide. I have been having strong desires to place my head in a door jam and slam the door on my head until it is a bloody mess. I'm not kidding. I am hungry for the real and am doubting everything in my mind... I have got to get through this fear. Fear of being an idiot, fear of having nothing to say, fear of opening my mouth and having nothing to offer but puke and farting noises. It must be okay. Fail better, more, with joy. Fail. Shamelessly.

My physicist friend says that I lack faith. Faith that there is something for me here, now... in this dimension.

Belief in Transcendence is an insult to what is.

I am a big phony and I hide behind revolutionary and dangerous SOUNDING ideas that I am very comfortable with... just as I became a master of self-derogatory humor to pull off the seeming appearance of Radical Honesty without having to get to close to my true self. I have built walls around my thoughts and feelings and I am working on busting 'em up. I need help. I need correspondence. And I need to stop having any desire to impress others in any way, so I will admit, up front, that I am a fool. And I'm not saying that to be cool. I am a selfish ass. I know this.

I also suffer from profound spiritual hunger. But I am too much of a coward to sacrifice myself completely to the immolating flames of humility. The smashing of ego is the most painful prospect ever... August Strindberg described it as "spiritual suicide."

"What was it you said that was so gall-darn brilliant?
I’d give anything to remember how you put it so beautifully!
I just can’t seem to remember any of the wonderful
things you say! gee, that’s funny!

You have the most interesting way of seeing things!
Imagine! Approaching the whole world like a cold toilet!
I can’t remember exactly how you worded it at the time,
but I have the distinct impression of paying close
attention. like a child does”¦

there is no pain greater than your pain there is no
laughter greater than your laughter there is no reason
to believe that what you are doing is not the greatest
act there is no person I’d rather fumble about with
these are only some of the things in discovering in
learning

how is it when I see you coming I am not struck down
dead trampled on killed a hundred times by my own purple
meanness baseness eaten and my flesh pecked off by birds?
Why is that? I think you told me once."

(from a poem by Gordon Torncello)

So... after all that:

Love is?

Anyone?

Anyone?

(this is a strangely repeatedly applicable old piece of writing I did that seems to keep coming back in waves of profundity... thanks to Miss Lisa Dee for reminding me of it this morning)]]> http://julicrockett.com/news.html#11 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Queen of the Wild Frontier - Juli Crockett - blog Goodness gracious, I'm GRATEFUL! http://julicrockett.com/news.html#10 cash'd out show tonight. this is a good thing, cuz there is always a 50/50 chance, it seems, that i can view a situation either as a great opportunity or a total pain in the ass. :-)

TODAY i'm feeling good. perhaps this is because it's day 3 of my birthday challenge. perhaps it's because i just had a full day by myself in my own house to hang out in my underwear and do yoga in the living room. perhaps it's because i had a fantastically intimate and wonderful talk with my best friend miss lisa dee last night. perhaps it's a lot of things. perhaps it's because my heart is bursting with a love i can't control, and don't really want to. perhaps, perhaps.

the main awesomeness is that i am making a living (meager though it may be) making ART in one form or another and TODAY i get to crawl into the cash'd out van and drive to San Luis Obispo to PERFORM. and then I get to do it all again tomorrow!

upon my return, i've got quixote rehearsals, evangenitals rehearsals, and now I have the honor and privilege of playing the upright bass in odious ari's awesome ensemble! it's a wonderful life.

my 34th year on earth is right around the corner and it feels like my blooms are blossoming. i feel good. i feel strong. my heart is getting some massive exercise in the ways of FEELING. i am that i am, and it's awesome.

life is a gift, and i feel that in my bones. i say thank you thank you thank you and yes, yes, and always yes.]]> http://julicrockett.com/news.html#10 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Queen of the Wild Frontier - Juli Crockett - blog Been a long time been a long time been a long... http://julicrockett.com/news.html#9 http://mikeking.berkleemusicblogs.com/2009/06/23/how-an-indie-musician-can-make-19000-in-10-hours-using-twitter/

This has been an exhausting week, and awesome. Had two really good fundraisers for our Edinburgh trip (House Party & Yard Sale) and the Kickstarter action is starting to pick up. We're coming up on 2 weeks left till our deadline, and we're a little over 25% of the way to the goal.

SO MANY PEOPLE keep telling us that they are planning on donating... and we are now telling people that NOW IS THE TIME! It's is a lot of money we're asking for... but there are a lot of people on this planet of ours, and if a bunch of 'em gave us just a few bucks each, we'd be golden!

So, if you're one of the ones who are waiting, the time is NOW: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/635470598/dawn-of-quixote-rides-to-edinburgh-fringe-fest

Seriously. RIGHT NOW!

We're whipping the show into shape for our big Castle Green fundraiser. My MOM is coming to town to help out. We're trying to figure out all this crazy new stuff like how to rent amps and upright basses for our shows in the UK. We've got gigs booked in London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh for the band... it's unbelievable. Such an exciting time. It's hard for me to really wrap my mind around the fact that it's all HAPPENING. And it's all happening NOW.

In the midst of it all, I got a ton of shows with Cash'd Out before we leave. Busy, overstuff, jalapeno popper good times.

Matt Ticciati (new bass player) from Fairfield, Iowa has proven to be a HUGE blessing... he's been instrumental (no pun intended) in helping compose the original score for the Dawn of Quixote.

I'm doing a radio interview early Tuesday morning on "the voice of Fairfield and beyond" KRUU 100.1 FM for the Lyrical Venus show (http://www.lyricalvenus.com). The host, Heather, is a friend of both Ticciati and Evangenitals drummer David Hurlin, who also hails from that zany TM town. Should be a good'un, and she's gonna sneak preview some new Evangenitals tracks on the radio. Woot woot!

If you want to listen in, you can do so at: http://kruufm.com

love love love this life
juli]]> http://julicrockett.com/news.html#9 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Queen of the Wild Frontier - Juli Crockett - blog The Evangenitals on the News! http://julicrockett.com/news.html#7 Evangenitals (Matt Ticciati on guitar, Andrea Baker on fiddle, and ME on Upright Bass!) did a quick promo spot on Channel 11 Good Day LA news this morning for the Lummis Day Festival!

Click here to check it out!



Yes... we were super tired getting up so early after last night's show with Antioquia at Fais Do Do... but we were totally excited to play a little gypsy groove on the news in support of Lummis Day. :-)]]> http://julicrockett.com/news.html#7 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Queen of the Wild Frontier - Juli Crockett - blog I'm going to Scotland and I need your HELP! http://julicrockett.com/news.html#6 The Evangenitals & cast of Juli Crockett's "The Dawn of Quixote: Chapter the First" have been invited into the OFFICIAL program of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival... but we need YOUR HELP to get there!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/635470598/dawn-of-quixote-rides-to-edinburgh-fringe-fest

In order to facilitate donations through a trusted source, we've started a fundraising drive on Kickstarter.com (powered by Amazon) -- the catch is, if we don't hit our fundraising goal of $9,999 by the deadine (July 14th) we don't get ANY of the pledged money!

That's right, all you have to do is PLEDGE money right now... so if you're brok at the moment, NO WORRIES... you won't be charged until we hit our goal on July 14th. :-)

Please visit our profile over on Kickstarter.com, check out our video infomercial, learn more about the project, and consider making a donation to the quixotic cause!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/635470598/dawn-of-quixote-rides-to-edinburgh-fringe-fest

ANY AMOUNT that you can give, from $1 to $9,999 would be enormously helpful!

THANK YOU!!!

Much love,
Crockett, Quixote & the Evangenitals


]]> http://julicrockett.com/news.html#6 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Queen of the Wild Frontier - Juli Crockett - blog Juli Crockett & Evangenitals play "BAD TOWN" at Mr T's Bowl http://julicrockett.com/news.html#8 ]]> http://julicrockett.com/news.html#8 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Queen of the Wild Frontier - Juli Crockett - blog