Well, it's impossible to compete with all my friends having beautiful babies ( Read more... )

I am doing my very FIRST ever singer/songwriter/comedy/cabaret show at the Vortex Theater on August 12 & 13. Please come! It's gonna be good ( Read more... )

I just found out that I have two FREE tickets for two lucky peeps for the Kitty Kitty Bang Bang Whim-Wham Wednesday show tonight. I am one of the "friends" of Kitty Kitty Bang Bang and friends - and I shall be performing one of the songs from my upcoming show at the Vortex (Fri-Sat, August 12-13 - "gfire's summer vacation"). Plus, June has my ( Read more... )

I got an e-mail today asking me how my "vacation" was. Hmm, vacation. I spent a week at the Kundalini Yoga Summer Solstice in Espanola, NM. We drove 12 hours straight to get there two Wednesdays ago and we drove 13 hours straight to get back yesterday. Every morning at Solstice, I was awakened at 3:30 a.m. and urged to "Rise up, if you're awake ( Read more... )

Well on Friday, Jon broke up with me. I am still not sure of what to make of this whole brief (6-week) intense relationship with him. I mean he had asked me to marry him (and I'd said yes!) only a few weeks before. I figured that if he was ready to settle down, then he was ready to get a job and maybe take daily showers...I didn't think I was ( Read more... )

this was already sent to austin grrlz and slack, but it seems appropriate here:

I've had to deal with money issues with my family all weekend.........so I wrote this ( Read more... )

i'm sure some folks are sick and tired of hearing my little internal struggle about my voice lessons - with the world in the state it's in, disappointing election results, disasters yet in darfur and iraq, lots of really important shit, you'd think i'd have better things to waste my time on! but, since i have wanted to be a singer since age 7 or ( Read more... )

I think I would like to apply for some grant money for the research paper I'm working on about the use of sinus cavities during the vocalization process. Does anybody know anything about applying for grants?

love, gfire

Okay, I noticed that my last post was about 6 months ago, so I thought I would write something. I WAS ON TV!!! One of my students saw me DJ'ing at the Burlesque show on some TV news show. (apparently I still had my clothes on!) La la la la la - I was on TV. As Princess Mariposa would put it, that was about the best thing that happened to me ( Read more... )

So this Friday, April 9, we're going to show Bill Hicks videos and eat Southern food in honor of the 10th anniversary of Bill's passing. It will be at Sarah and Jack's house. Dinner 7:30, videos 8:30. Anyone wanna come? So far I'm only sure about me, Sarah and Gwen but I'm hoping there will be a few more who are interested! Sarah's making ( Read more... )