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the cool thing...

...about getting more involved with my online world again is the response i've gotten in just the last day...i answered a bunch of myspace messages last night. it was really cool to reconnect with the people who listen to my music and share their lives with me. a real lack of free time along with a few bad experiences made it really easy to distance myself from myspace and youtube, but i decided that i need to make more time to communicate with the people who actually get something from my music (unlike many of the other people i have to make time to talk to and deal with on a daily basis).

it's been wonderful to be in contact again with real people listening to real music. i remember some of the things that excited me so much just over a year ago, when i started to notice that my songs were reaching people around the world, and that their reactions were really big. people shared stories with me that were truly inspiring. their stories and reactions to the songs i was posting online made the difficulties of this path seem worthwhile. please don't misunderstand - i love what i do and i am grateful every day for the opportunity to follow this path - but it's really hard.  this might sound odd, but in many ways it's harder now than it was when i was driving around the country and sleeping on couches. again - i'm still completely grateful. it's difficult to explain. and i think much of the difficulty comes from the transition. so i might soon find things a bit easier.

last night inspired me to do a couple of fun things, too....i decided to give away my guest list tickets for the upcoming tour.  ran a little contest on myspace about an hour ago and  gave away 3 sets of tickets to each of the shows. actually, the 2 tickets for dublin and  3 for castlebar are still available, so if anyone is reading this and wants to go, just send me a message on myspace and i'll add you to the list if there is still room.

i also decided to revisit the virtual tour, and i will post a new video every night of the tour, from my hotel room. or maybe the bus. depends on where i am after each show, i guess!

the guys and i are SO excited. i'm feeling much happier today than i felt last night, and am finally allowing myself to get excited about this tour and ready to enjoy every minute of it. including the disco cover which i have been asked to perform on an irish morning radio show. should be VERY interesting.  disco is not really a genre with which i've had much experience, so i welcome the challenge.

that's all for now....
xo

let's start at the start

i will admit to being a bit confused by the major transition from los angeles to london, from driving myself around in my car playing shows to having people drive me to shows, from feeling like there was nothing to lose since i really didn't have anything anyway to feeling like there is so much invested in my career now. it used to be just my dreams, my years of work and struggle, my time, my (lack of) money - and now there are so many more people involved...so many more expectations...

most of the time i'm excited. well, a lot of the time. wait - does excitement feel like fear and anxiety? hmm...we filmed the video for the 2nd single, 'up here,' in los angeles and it was an incredible experience. i guess that's all i can expect out of this journey. lots of incredible experiences. and there's not much more to ask for in life, really. the video is great. i know this. i can honestly say that it is a beautiful video and i cannot imagine it being any better. we were able to fly my band in at the last minute, and i was so grateful to have them there with me and in the video.

we also ended up doing a last minute recording session for the 'up here' single.  it's going to be a very special single.  it will include 2 songs which i have not previously recorded and i'm really excited about it. it's out in november.

let's start at the start...so why did that line pop into my head when i sat down to write this blog....oh ya...i guess i want to be more involved with my blog and website and myspace and youtube again. there aren't many things over which i have control these days. obviously, the music i write, the shows i play, the decisions which are made regarding my career - those are things which i am very actively involved in. but the other things - all the unknown and "pointless to think about" things - those are out of my hands. all i can do is continue to do what brought me to london in the first place.  and maybe will take me away from london and to wherever else i end up spending some time. who knows.

it's amazing how the same issues present themselves at every stage of this career. and the same questions. and i don't know what keeps me going sometimes but i haven't stopped yet....so........

happy october

hey everyone...

i'm in los angeles and it's pretty great here.

played at hotel cafe last night. the show sold out in pre-sales, so i hope everyone was able to get in. it was a really fun night for me. thank you to everyone who came down and made it such a great experience. i remember when i first started playing hotel cafe. i think 10 people came to see me and i was so intimidated by that room! amazing that it feels like home to me now. so warm and comfortable. it's my favorite venue in LA and i hope i can play there every time i visit this city.

i'm enjoying LA a lot more now that i don't live here. experiencing all the things i love about this city and hanging out in the sunshine. haven't been to the beach yet, but i will go in the next day or so, and i can't wait. i really do love southern california. don't know if i could live here permanently, but it's a beautiful part of the world. now if only we could remove some of the people who inhabit this place....it would be perfect. (oops. did i say that?)

oh - i can tell you guys about the cool thing i wasn't able to tell you about until now.
we're opening for the fray for half of their UK tour. (6 dates) i'm really excited. will have more tour info soon....

and i think that's it for now...

hope everyone is well and i can't wait to visit some new cities at the end of the month...

xo
terra