The whole social media concept is very new to me - but the reality in today's age is if you want to build a career for yourself as an artist, you've got to do a lot more than just record…

 2-3 is a minefield.  With position and KhTh on a JT7K7 rainbow board, I went for what I considered a reasonable value bet of $60 into a $175 pot (particularly given his river check), and got checkraised all-in for effectively…

It's come up in a few recent conversations how it's pretty much impossible to hear your own song for the first time, since by the time you've finished writing it, recorded the demo, tweaked it, and gone through the formal…

Well, the Islanders failed in their bid to beat the Canes.  I guess some small consolation is that the Canes are thus far making the Devils look a lot worse in the next round than they did the Isles, so…

Was looking forward to a good Islanders playoff run this spring, but that now seems a remote possibility - given that they are heading into tomorrow's game in Raleigh trailing 3-1 in the opening round.  There's a strong argument to…

Lost a fair amount this weekend in two different 2-3 sessions at two different poker rooms.  The first loss (on Saturday) was pretty large, owing to a series of poorly conceived plays based on advanced strategies that I'm realizing simply…

Saturday morning, and trying to figure out what's next on the to do list for this upcoming video/single release.  The initial upload to youtube apparently failed, so... waiting for that two hour process to complete once again (hopefully with success…

How does a team come out so flat against an opponent that's not making the playoffs, isn't skating its best player (and several other regulars), and doesn't even have a full roster due to salary cap issues?  Isles have to…

Gearing up for a release has proven to be an incredibly involved process.  It's great that I'm running everything through the first time with a "preliminary" single that's primarily being used to get the social media ball rolling (which -…

Spending a decent part of this Saturday afternoon downloading wave files from the Glasgow string sessions.  It's a complex part of the project... properly recording an orchestra requires a variety of mic setups in different locations, and each of the…

Spent most of today back on bandzoogle figuring out the intricacies of setting up pages, graphics, etc.  One of the challenges was in trying to get the site to import my entire 30-post collection from blogger.com.  It stopped at the…

New video now live! In my studio playing my most popular classical arrangement of the Canon by Pachelbel. I hope you enjoy! Sheet music is available in my sheet music store. 

Lots of love,

Laura

The process of gearing up for an album release - when you're doing everything yourself - can be pretty overwhelming the first time around.  Trying to get a little something done every day will be beneficial for my psyche.

Matt…

The process of gearing up for an album release - when you're doing everything yourself - can be pretty overwhelming the first time around.  Trying to get a little something done every day will be beneficial for my psyche.

Matt…

Returned a little over two weeks ago from Scotland, where I travelled to witness the live recording of the string parts for the album.  I didn't really need to be there, as the sessions were run incredibly well by both…