Today I sat on the docks in Hermosa Beach watching pelicans and a pod of Dolphins in the rain. It was stunning. One of those moments where I was so present to the unexpected - And to how beautiful and peaceful the unknown can be. With that said I would love to invite you all to be with me at my last show in LA before I leap over to NY for a homecoming at The Merc.
Wed 2/27 @ 7pm. The Hotel Cafe. 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles. w/Ben Peeler, Joe Carnes, Brendan Buckley
Fri 3/14 @ 830pm. The Mercury Lounge. Houston @ Essex. New York City w/The MF's. (also Les Sans Culottes & Elk City)
Look forward to seeing you all. Oh - also - if you get a moment, will you review the EP on Itunes?
Thanks!!! xoTiff
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Valentine's Day
This was my first Valentine's Day being single. and.... well - it rocked... My godmother Anita took me for a manicure and pedicure. We ate sushi. (I drank sake). Then she took me shopping and gave me some V-Day bling. Exhausted, we came home and watched a chick flick. ;) lol. Could it have been any more perfect? don't think so! Cheers to being single. This is such a strange experience for me and i must admit i am enjoying it. kiss
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
a day in la
Realized I stopped blogging for a while and i apologize. What happens is i get so overwhelmed with the amount of things happening, that i don't even know where to begin OR option 2, there are so many scandalous things better left unsaid ;) SO then i just avoid talking about it all together.
Started the day making a vision board. I've never done one, but oprah says its a must and it was actually kind of fun. Then spent the afternoon with a new friend, Charlie Mars who I met at last Monday's Hunnypot Radio Party. Was great to see everyone.. Charlie is a great songwriter - charliemars.com - listened to his new record which has a song that I fell in love with about listening to Dark Side of the Moon. very charming.. We went to check out Jim Scott's studio today which was basically like a big kid toybox.. i was kind of salivating. Lots of little toy piano's and colorful tapestries - Elvis paraphenalia - pure heaven. Going to the Donna's tonight at Crash Mansion in LA.
Started the day making a vision board. I've never done one, but oprah says its a must and it was actually kind of fun. Then spent the afternoon with a new friend, Charlie Mars who I met at last Monday's Hunnypot Radio Party. Was great to see everyone.. Charlie is a great songwriter - charliemars.com - listened to his new record which has a song that I fell in love with about listening to Dark Side of the Moon. very charming.. We went to check out Jim Scott's studio today which was basically like a big kid toybox.. i was kind of salivating. Lots of little toy piano's and colorful tapestries - Elvis paraphenalia - pure heaven. Going to the Donna's tonight at Crash Mansion in LA.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Ooh La La
Out in LA now! It's been such a fun week! Played a great show with the MF's at the Knit for the Limewire party. I feel like we hit a nice stride musically and of course as usual had a love fest that went late into the night. Then Greg and I drove out Wed night to Northampton, which is such a cute town.. We played for the gorgeous gals at Smith College and than rocked Guitar Hero all night at the Talbot House. It looks like we will probably be back in the spring again as well! Flew into LA friday - i think i travelled at least 12 hours... Lots of delays, a stopover in N. Carolina and when i got to LA I found out my luggage was left in N. Carolina! Yep - one of those ;) But now I'm here, it's beautiful weather, and i'm so excited!! Yesterday I got to drive my dream van around redondo beach. I will post pix on my blog this week!
Tonight I'm playing Tangier with my good friend and songwriting partner Ari Shine. www.arishine.com We're pretty excited to do our first duo performance - playing eachother's songs and songs we've co written. should be a fun show! Next week playing with the band at Silverlake! I'll try to send an update every week on how things are going! Love, Tiff
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Here are the upcoming dates:
2/3/08 @ 8pm. Tangier w/ Alex and Sam and Ari Shine. $10
2138 Hillhurst Avenue. Los Angeles, CA
2/11/08 @ 9pm. Silverlake Lounge. Full Band Show w/ Robert Francis.
2906 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
2/17 @ 10pm. Room 5. Acoustic Show
143 North La Brea 2nd Fl., Los Angeles, CA
2/27 @ 7pm. Hotel Cafe w/Full Band.
1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Tonight I'm playing Tangier with my good friend and songwriting partner Ari Shine. www.arishine.com We're pretty excited to do our first duo performance - playing eachother's songs and songs we've co written. should be a fun show! Next week playing with the band at Silverlake! I'll try to send an update every week on how things are going! Love, Tiff
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Here are the upcoming dates:
2/3/08 @ 8pm. Tangier w/ Alex and Sam and Ari Shine. $10
2138 Hillhurst Avenue. Los Angeles, CA
2/11/08 @ 9pm. Silverlake Lounge. Full Band Show w/ Robert Francis.
2906 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
2/17 @ 10pm. Room 5. Acoustic Show
143 North La Brea 2nd Fl., Los Angeles, CA
2/27 @ 7pm. Hotel Cafe w/Full Band.
1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Monday, January 28, 2008
NYC/MA/LosAngeles
Hello love birds,
Frantically trying to get ready to head out to LA! Of course I will miss you all, but am thrilled to say I will be frolicking on the sunny West Coast ;) I have some amazing shows lined up (if you are out West and interested in booking me for an event or private performance, please let me know). Then in March I head back to NY to record an album w/Valeze. Check out www.tiffanyrandol.com I've now got a video link on the site that plays two Live videos that I filmed on FOX Fearless Music.
Tonight is my Cali Kick Off party!! Please join! It's a free Limewire event that starts at 730. I play with the MF's at 9pm. We get hardcopies of the EP in today, so I will have copies for you all, as well as a new line of tshirts and other goodies. Thursday I play with Greg McMullen on pedal steel at SMITH COLLEGE in Northampton, MA. Then fly out to LA and begin a stint of weekly shows out West starting with Tangier on 2/3 with Ari Shine and Alex and Sam.
I am also playing a game to create 1500 downloads on Itunes by Feb 15. How can you help? Download the EP on Itunes, call 10 friends and ask them to download it, and send out an email blast to all your people! If you want to be on the team to help this happen, please email me and let me know. Word of mouth is everything at this stage in the game and I thank you all for your unending support and love! xo Tiff
Tour Dates as follows:
* 1/28 @ 9pm Knitting Factory Tap Room. Tiff Randol and the MF's. Free Event from LIMEWIRE. 74 Leonard St. NYC.
* 1/31/08 @ 9pm Smith College Goldstein Lounge, Northampton MA
* 2/3/08 Tangier 2138 Hillhurst Avenue. Los Angeles, CA w/ Alex and Sam and Ari Shine. $10
* 2/11/08 @ 9pm Silverlake Lounge 2906 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA w/ Robert Francis
* 2/17 @ 10pm Room 5, 143 North La Brea 2nd Fl., Los Angeles, CA
* 2/27 @ 7pm Hotel Cafe, 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
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Kiss Me Kiss Me, a 5 song EP produced, written, and engineered by Tiffany Randol "is a breathlessly intimate sketch on unconditional love that's drawn comparisons to June Carter, Kate Bush and the sun-drenched harmonies of Lennon and McCartney.”
- Matt Allen, MOJO Magazine
Download "KISS ME KISS ME" on Itunes!!!! www.tiffanyrandol.com myspace/tiffanyrandol
Frantically trying to get ready to head out to LA! Of course I will miss you all, but am thrilled to say I will be frolicking on the sunny West Coast ;) I have some amazing shows lined up (if you are out West and interested in booking me for an event or private performance, please let me know). Then in March I head back to NY to record an album w/Valeze. Check out www.tiffanyrandol.com I've now got a video link on the site that plays two Live videos that I filmed on FOX Fearless Music.
Tonight is my Cali Kick Off party!! Please join! It's a free Limewire event that starts at 730. I play with the MF's at 9pm. We get hardcopies of the EP in today, so I will have copies for you all, as well as a new line of tshirts and other goodies. Thursday I play with Greg McMullen on pedal steel at SMITH COLLEGE in Northampton, MA. Then fly out to LA and begin a stint of weekly shows out West starting with Tangier on 2/3 with Ari Shine and Alex and Sam.
I am also playing a game to create 1500 downloads on Itunes by Feb 15. How can you help? Download the EP on Itunes, call 10 friends and ask them to download it, and send out an email blast to all your people! If you want to be on the team to help this happen, please email me and let me know. Word of mouth is everything at this stage in the game and I thank you all for your unending support and love! xo Tiff
Tour Dates as follows:
* 1/28 @ 9pm Knitting Factory Tap Room. Tiff Randol and the MF's. Free Event from LIMEWIRE. 74 Leonard St. NYC.
* 1/31/08 @ 9pm Smith College Goldstein Lounge, Northampton MA
* 2/3/08 Tangier 2138 Hillhurst Avenue. Los Angeles, CA w/ Alex and Sam and Ari Shine. $10
* 2/11/08 @ 9pm Silverlake Lounge 2906 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA w/ Robert Francis
* 2/17 @ 10pm Room 5, 143 North La Brea 2nd Fl., Los Angeles, CA
* 2/27 @ 7pm Hotel Cafe, 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
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Kiss Me Kiss Me, a 5 song EP produced, written, and engineered by Tiffany Randol "is a breathlessly intimate sketch on unconditional love that's drawn comparisons to June Carter, Kate Bush and the sun-drenched harmonies of Lennon and McCartney.”
- Matt Allen, MOJO Magazine
Download "KISS ME KISS ME" on Itunes!!!! www.tiffanyrandol.com myspace/tiffanyrandol
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The Master Game
The Master Game
By Robert S. DeRopp
Seek, above all, for a game worth playing. Such is the advice of the oracle to modern man. Having found a game, play it with intensity – play as if your life and sanity depended on it. (They do depend on it.) Follow the example of the French existentialists and flourish a banner bearing the word, ‘engagement.’ Though nothing means anything and all roads are marked ‘no exit,’ yet move as if your movements had some purpose. If life does not seem to offer a game worth playing, then invent one. For it must be clear, even to the most clouded intelligence, that any game is better than no game.
But although it is sage to play the Master Game, this has not served to make it popular. It still remains the most demanding and difficult of games and in our society, there are few who play. Contemporary man, hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgets, has little contact with his inner world, concerns himself with outer, not inner, space. But the Master Game is played entirely in the inner world, a vast and complex territory about which men know very little. The aim of the game is true awakening, full development of the powers latent in man. The game can be played only by people whose observations of themselves and others have led them to a certain conclusion, namely, that man’s ordinary state of consciousness of which he is capable. In fact, this state is so far from real awakening that it could appropriately be called a form of somnambulism, a condition of ‘waking sleep.’
Once a person has reached this conclusion, he is no longer able to sleep comfortably. A new appetite develops within him, the hunger for real awakening, for full consciousness. He realizes that he sees, hears, and knows only a tiny fraction of what he could see, hear and know, that he lives in the poorest, shabbiest of the rooms in his inner dwelling, and that he could enter other rooms, beautiful and filled with treasures, the windows of which look out on eternity and infinity.
The solitary player lives today in a culture that is more or less totally opposed to the aims he has set himself, that does not recognize the existence of the Master Game, and regards players of the game as queer or slightly mad. The player thus confronts great opposition from the culture in which he lives and must strive with forces which tend to bring his game to a halt before it has even started. Only by finding a teacher and becoming part of the group of pupils that the teacher has collected about him can the player find encouragement and support. Otherwise, he simply forgets his aim, or wanders off down some side road and loses himself.
Here it is sufficient to say that the Master Game can NEVER be made easy to play. It demands all that a man has, all his feeling, all his thought, his entire resources, physical and spiritual. If he tries to play it in a halfhearted way or tries to get results by unlawful mean, he runs the risk of destroying his own potential. For this reason, it is better not to embark on the game at all than to play it halfheartedly.
By Robert S. DeRopp
Seek, above all, for a game worth playing. Such is the advice of the oracle to modern man. Having found a game, play it with intensity – play as if your life and sanity depended on it. (They do depend on it.) Follow the example of the French existentialists and flourish a banner bearing the word, ‘engagement.’ Though nothing means anything and all roads are marked ‘no exit,’ yet move as if your movements had some purpose. If life does not seem to offer a game worth playing, then invent one. For it must be clear, even to the most clouded intelligence, that any game is better than no game.
But although it is sage to play the Master Game, this has not served to make it popular. It still remains the most demanding and difficult of games and in our society, there are few who play. Contemporary man, hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgets, has little contact with his inner world, concerns himself with outer, not inner, space. But the Master Game is played entirely in the inner world, a vast and complex territory about which men know very little. The aim of the game is true awakening, full development of the powers latent in man. The game can be played only by people whose observations of themselves and others have led them to a certain conclusion, namely, that man’s ordinary state of consciousness of which he is capable. In fact, this state is so far from real awakening that it could appropriately be called a form of somnambulism, a condition of ‘waking sleep.’
Once a person has reached this conclusion, he is no longer able to sleep comfortably. A new appetite develops within him, the hunger for real awakening, for full consciousness. He realizes that he sees, hears, and knows only a tiny fraction of what he could see, hear and know, that he lives in the poorest, shabbiest of the rooms in his inner dwelling, and that he could enter other rooms, beautiful and filled with treasures, the windows of which look out on eternity and infinity.
The solitary player lives today in a culture that is more or less totally opposed to the aims he has set himself, that does not recognize the existence of the Master Game, and regards players of the game as queer or slightly mad. The player thus confronts great opposition from the culture in which he lives and must strive with forces which tend to bring his game to a halt before it has even started. Only by finding a teacher and becoming part of the group of pupils that the teacher has collected about him can the player find encouragement and support. Otherwise, he simply forgets his aim, or wanders off down some side road and loses himself.
Here it is sufficient to say that the Master Game can NEVER be made easy to play. It demands all that a man has, all his feeling, all his thought, his entire resources, physical and spiritual. If he tries to play it in a halfhearted way or tries to get results by unlawful mean, he runs the risk of destroying his own potential. For this reason, it is better not to embark on the game at all than to play it halfheartedly.
Monday, November 12, 2007
BK HOUSE PARTY!!!
Back from LA and Denver!!! My trip was amazing.. I met some incredible people, wrote with some amazing songwriters - Ben Peeler and Martyn LeNoble, played with my West Coast Boys - beans, ben and daniel pearson ;) Was really a great trip and I am anxious to head back out in February! Denver was gorgeous. I visited Garden of the Gods and did a seminar called Team management leadership program - which blew my mind.
Saturday was a scorpio bday celebration and mine as well ;) The MF's and I played a lovely set and met a bunch of fantastic brooklynites. Was a killer party - thanks bruno, dennis, katy and everyone who hosted and came out.
Here are a few pix: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tetheredtothemoon/sets/72157603113638014/
xo tiff
Saturday was a scorpio bday celebration and mine as well ;) The MF's and I played a lovely set and met a bunch of fantastic brooklynites. Was a killer party - thanks bruno, dennis, katy and everyone who hosted and came out.
Here are a few pix: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tetheredtothemoon/sets/72157603113638014/
xo tiff
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