Video Blog #6: AOL Excitement!

homesickness

i know i always post such exuberant blogs, just chock full of hearty whole grain good news, but sometimes i just get homesick. i miss the east coast and the mighty state of new york so much it hurts. ow. i head home on monday for the holidays (including a show at my old favorite acoustic joint in the city, rockwood music hall) and i couldn’t be more excited. my neice is now in kindergarten (what?!) and my nephew is more apt with a laptop at 3 years of age than most. being away from my family is what hurts the most, and i can’t wait to see their beautiful, rosy-cheeked faces. that’s right, it snows in ny. winter has always been my favorite season since i can remember, and the 8 days of rain a year out here in la just ain’t cutting it for me. i know, waah, poor me, how awful to just live in sunshine, but i’m just a cold-weather kind of gal. so look out slushy roads and freezing rain - i’m coming home!!!

anyhoozle, as a wave of homesickness was passing through, i decided to share it with you. do you live far away from your family and the people that you love? what’s it like for you?

okay then, i feel better now. thanks so much for listening - and have a beautiful holiday!

jes

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New Home Recording Posted on Myspace!

hola.  i finally got my little home studio up and running (hooray!), and recorded a song that i had knocking around my head for a couple years now.  it is posted in my myspace player for your listening enjoyment!  it’s called “Just A Picture,” and it has always been a particularly cathartic song for me.  when i wrote it, i didn’t care if it was good, catchy, marketable, relatable, or even fun to listen to.  all i cared about was breaking my writer’s block and writing a song that i liked, even if i would be the only one who did.  it seemed an obvious choice to record first, and i had written all the parts in my head already, so i began.  about 6 hours later, i had this track.  i truly hope you have the time to take a listen.

thanks for your time!  i hope to bring you many more home recording experiments in the future.

have a glorious day.

jes

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I have decided to enter a new era of self-indulgent ramblings, so I’ve begun my very own Video Blog!!!  I truly hope you enjoy it.  If there are any topics you’d like me to discuss or if you have any questions for me, send me an email at jes@jeshudak.com. 

Beautiful breezes and Brooklynites

So my best friend alex from brooklyn and her boyfriend ricky just left yesterday. they live in park slope, brooklyn. every year for the past 5 or 6 years, alex has been hosting the world’s best july 4th bbq. this was the first time i’ve missed it since it’s inception. boo. but i did end up making it back to the city for a show at rockwood at the end of july…it’s just not the same without bottle rockets, beverages, and various meats. it was so nice to share my little relaxing square of southern cali with some of my favorite people.

i’ve been rather busy lately. i ended up going out with enrique iglesias again for a couple more dates. we did the isle of mtv in malta with onerepublic, the kooks, lady gaga, and n.e.r.d. i even had my own little trailer! you can guess that was one sweet backstage party. too bad my luggage had been lost and i had to go an hour before the show to get an outfit, makeup, underwear (very important when traveling), socks, whatever i could grab as i ran by basically…it was a wee bit stressful. but that night was one of the most amazing nights of my life. the crowd was about 50,000 deep, there was a huge, old, beautiful church at the back of the plaza, all lit up, and at one point towards the end of our set, fireworks started going off. damn. i got a little misty up there on stage. good times.

then we headed off to vienna, austria to perform during the closing ceremony of the eurocup final game. enrique’s song ‘can you hear me?’ was the offical song of the eurocup this year. the game including the performance was broadcast on abc all over the world. you may have caught of glimpse of me working my hot dance moves behind the pyrotechnic flame throwers. yeah. what.

now i’m back in LA, doing my thing on sundays at cafe muse at 7pm. it’s free, byob, they have delicious vegetarian food, and a beautiful upright piano. they even tune it. it’s nice. also, be on the lookout for my BRAND NEW SHINY PRETTY WEBSITE. i’m a little excited. it’ll be coming very soon.

i hope you have a lovely day!

jes

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