analog

Date: Tues, 12 May 1998

hey everyone, it's been a lonnnnnnng time since i've written
anything...so i thought i better do it now while i have a bit of
inspiration to do so. the thing is, is that SO much is happening with me
right now, that it get's to be too overwhelming a task to figure out a
way to type it all out and to correctly convey it. so i give up on that.
it's all just happening so fast...so much stuff...mostly to do with my
music, and then a lot of personal stuff too, that i cannot discuss out
of respect for their privacy.
so, let's see...where do i begin? ummm, it's super windy here today and
i'm putting off doin laundry ( as usual). i have to get laundry done so
i can pack. i'm going to fly to las vegas on thursday morning
and then i think i have a radio interview that day..i'm not sure ( you
can check up on this stuff at my music site ANAVOOG.COM  i did not even
know i was doing this radio interview until i saw it myself at that
page!)
then friday i'm playing a cameo at the luxor hotel in a club called club
ra(after the egytian sun god...one of my fave gods, btw :)
there is a huge 3 day radio convention going on there, george martin is
the key speaker! but i do not get to partake in any of the festivities,
for i am one of the festivities. i think  radioactive ( my label) set my
up with a about 3 trillion interviews while i'm there , too. please send
me positive energy to be coherent that day! ha!

then, the next morning i fly to L.A. to do another show at sin-a-matic.
i have never been there. i've never been to any clubs in either nyc or
l.a. every time i get to go, there is no time!
then, i fly home the next ,morning after that.

ba-da-bing-ba-da-boom wam bam thank u mam!
so don't make me sad by emailing me all the cool places i could visit
when i go to these places. i'm going to have no time to see anything.
...cry :(

but it is certain to be a very interesting bizarre as hell experience!
i am SO nervous! 
perhaps i will write secret messages in chalk at the places i go to see
if anyone will find them later...
i will write a secret message in the guidon's bible at the hotel ( if
they have one) :)

i cleaned my house for 6 hours straight last night! but you cannot tell!
( getting off the subject...)

ok, how was the VIBE show, u ask? 
well, i'm so tired of telling the story now..that i will have to give
you the boring condensed version...sorry...hehee

went on vibe. did not make any huge mistakes( like passing out, throwing
up, or tripping over anything). sinbad was very nice..he is just as nice
as you'd think he'd be. everyone that worked for that show was VERY nice
and helpful. of course, i was nervous which is why i turned  into a
giggling thing during the interview. it wasn't so much that i was
nervous during  the interview as i was just SO HAPPY that i made it
through that song without any mistakes! ( except...i said the word
"fuck" by accident...and strangely..the censors did not catch it!) so,
anyway, as i floated on up to the couch for the interview , as giddy as
can be...i was just rushing with adrenalin and joy that i made it
through. :)
weirder than being on the show, though, was WATCHING the show later on
that night! then it kinda hit me that i was on tv. very WEIRD feeling.
my mom wrote down the wrong day and MISSED it. and my dad is on
sabbatical staying at a place that has no tvs...so BOTH my parents
missed my tv debut! aaaaaaaa! and they still haven't seen it. i don't
have a copy of it yet.

the next day i woke up with an ENORMOUS headache. ( partly my period,
partly too much champagne!) i took some midrin to get rid of it..
and midrin just turns me into a zombie. and this would be fine if i
could just stare...which is my natural state :)
but NO! i was going to be interviewed me E! for an hour long special
they are doing on "woman of the web".
so i had top get ALL my make-up back on and sit very still under these
bright lights while trying to be as coherent as possible. my mouth was
all dry and my lipstick was too glossy..but i think i made it through. 
i don't know when that piece will be shown..maybe next month?

i got to do one of those E! id things...lol :) i had to say "if it's
happening in entertainment , it's happening on E!"
( this was an extremely funny thing for me to say, if you are decadent
enough to get that little drug joke there)

right after that, i had an hour to pack and get on the plane home.

i tried SO HARD to capture all that happened in l.a. on my cam!!!
and it just DID not work :( i do not have a cell modem yet, so i
couldn't really take it with me anywhere, and since it was plugged into
the wall at the hotel, and i was never even AT  my hotel ,
practically...it ws like "hi, i'm in l.a.! and here is the lamp at my
hotel!"
then, on vibe...hard to explain...but the settings got all screwy and
the pictures turned out all pixilated and blurry, so sorry about that!
trial and error..

for this next trip i'm not bringing my cam 'cause i'll just be too busy
again..and i'm sure that "vegas lamp cam" will not be as exciting as
"ana's pet's couch cam"..for while i'm gone :)

i need to bring someone with me who can carry all that cam stuff around
and keep it working when i'm too busy to deal with it. plus a cell modem
or some such thing..so i can carry it with. 
all that costs BIG MONEY. so it ain't gonna happen this weekend, but i
still plan on doing it in the near future.

oh, and i had a show , here in minneapolis last thursday. it went pretty
well aside from the fact that my ear monitor sytem decided to completely
BREAK during the whole show! so i could not hear myself sing AT ALL! IT
WAS SCARY! but being the fabulous professional i am (hehee) i made it
through in one piece and no one seemed to notice that i was having
trouble with anything...

ummm....hmmm..what else? so much more! i'm probably forgetting to tell
you some interviews i did.. there was a mention about me in the
cincinatti enquirer...and the boston globe...

oh! i know what i thought was funny...jenni from jennicam  got a huge
article on her at abc news online...and i can't remember the excact
quote...but it was something like "...unlike other "cams" that call
themselves performance art...". and i had to laugh...as if there are SO
many cams calling themselves performance art! LOL! they did not mention
me by name, but that was the little nod/dig at me..haha :)

i'm going to write jenni a letter when i find the time..i always want to
word things right, so then i procrastinate on doing that. 
we seem to be spoken about in the same articles a lot now because we are
the two 24/7 life cams. before it was just her(btw, i have SO much
respect for her..and am a member of her site)...but now there is also
me...and i wonder if this ever irritates her, and i hope not. :(
i hope she does not get asked any questions like "so, ana considers her
cam performance art...do YOU consider yourself performance art?"
cause if she's getting asked that she must be so sick of it.
interviewers often say to me " it seems you've taken the idea of jenni
cam and taken it to a new level" and this really bugs me. because it's
like comparing apples and oranges. i do not like to think of things as
"levels" ..one being above another. i hate that whole competive thing
and i never want to get into this "jenni vs. ana" argument...which a lot
of people try to egg me into. 
i think of the band analogy...it's like jenni started a band and then i
started a band..and our bands just play different music...not one is
better than another or anything...we are just play different music.

and how we are getting stuck together a lot in articles is reminding me
a lot of when i was in my all female band called the blue up? at one
time there waas only one other all female band besides us called the
clams. and they ALWAYS booked us together...just because we were both
all-female bands ( isn't that cute? ). the press and the clubs
would just never seperate us, it got to be very annoying.

anyway, i think jenni is fabulous and a total inspiration to break down
that stupid perfect beauty myth and many more stupid archaic myths. i
also love that she shows a alternative healthier ways to eat on her
jennishow. :)

speaking of food, now i am hungry! and i am eating a brownie...i need to
take a few tips from jenni on how to eat better.

another incredible cam with is isabella cam "an erotic performance art
cam" she is my fave! (http://207.240.161.224/isa/)

and ANOTHER performance art cam ( i only know of three) is artcam.
artcam deals with a lot of gender and transgender issues.
(http://cpr.simplenet.com/artcam/info.html)
you can also link to these cams at the nose's homecams(www.homecams.com)

oh! and i now have a toll free # that you can hear ana updates and my
music at! ( u.s.a. and canada only) it's 1-888-226-5907
i'll be changing it every day :)

and there's lots of new updates at anavoog.com. more RA and wav. and
aiff files, poster size photos of me, and some of my lyrics and more to
come :)

if you'd like to join my mailing list go to www.coolist.com and where it
says subscribe , type: anacam

there is a new link added to the anarchives section...
it's dakota's ana-mations..go check them out! they are so pretty!

on a sad note,my boyfriend siam's incredible ambient band broke up today
:( they were called ousia and they were my fave local band..as well as
just one of my fave bands in the world. i am so sad they broke up :(
R.I.P. ousia...

and siam is being interviewed tomorrow by the local paper called city
pages. they are interviewing him about the future of electronic music.

i'll keep you posted on that...he is an incredibly talented person, i'm
so lucky that he is my boyfriend :) he is venus as a boy :)

 here is the last email from the OUSIA mailing list:

                      Saturday, May 30, 1998
           
                   The Final Live Performance of 

                            O U S I A

                   Weisman Art Museum - 8:00pm

                       at FUTURE PERFECT V

          Also performing that evening:

           PURROTIKA {Featuring ANA VOOG & JASON SHAPIRO}

            LOST IN TRANSLATION

             SATOSHI SHINOZAKI
              
              DYLAN HICKS
  
               SQUELCH ONE

                CHUCK ZWICKY

                 and DJ's
                           ROB WILLIAMS

                              JAY WIX  

Stories of American Elders and Interviews from Smithsonian Folkways 
songwriter/performer: LARRY LONG

Visuals by: MAGIC LANTERN LIGHT SHOW and KARL HALVERSON

Webmaster: LORREN STAFFORD
Curated by: CHRIS STROUTH


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After much consideration, OUSIA has decided to hang-up the masks. 
Please
help us celebrate the conclusion of our sonic journey, by attending the
show which started it all:  FUTURE PERFECT.

    {Ousia's first performance was at First Avenue during the
     premiere FUTURE PERFECT on December 3, 1996}

Be sure to check out the City Pages on Wednesday, May 27, which will
contain an interview with Jason Shapiro on Future Perfect, Electronic
Music, and more.. 

The future of our latest CD "FACE THE ROBOT" is uncertain.  Either
UltraModern will release it, or we will try to release it on our own.
Check the web-page for updates on this:
           http://www.primenet.com/~wog/ousia.html

Also, the latest issue of Alternative Press contains a review of "Why Is
That A Four?" in the BPM section.

This is the last e-mail you will receive from the Ousia Mailing List. 
If
you would like to continue receiving updates regarding JASON SHAPIRO's 
work with ANA VOOG and others (occasional projects with the MILO FINE
FREE
JAZZ ENSEMBLE, etc) please respond to this message, and I will keep your
name on the list.  If not, do nothing, and this will be your final
e-mail.
To contact me, you can write to ousia@visi.com

PAUL HORN  will continue experimenting with sounds in his TRANCEMITRE
           STUDIOS, and can be contacted at wog@primenet.com

DAVE ONNEN is working with ANA VOOG, SKYE KLAD, and can be contacted
           at ousia@primenet.com

FRED TEASLEY who does not have an e-mail address, will also continue his
             secret sound experiments, popping up in the most unlikely
             places.

On behalf of Ousia, I would like to thank you for all of your support
over the last 1.5 years.  

Sincerely,
Jason S. Shapiro 

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Ousia  {ambient/drone/noise/trance}
Contact/Mailing List:  ousia@visi.com
Home Page:             http://www.primenet.com/~wog/ousia.html
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thank you for all the wonderful emails i've received, and all the
beautiful snail mail lettrs and gifts..especially around my birthday.
thank u to the person who sent me the book on frida kahlo. and thank you
to the person who sent me that t-shirt that said "i'm from fucking
space" and thank you to the person who sent me the earthworm jim action
figure. :)
i know i'm forgeting a lot of people...but it's late and i'm not
thinking straight...but i did receive and appreciate everything! :)

i've decide to discontinue anamart at this time, 'cause i'm too busy to
keep up with it...i'll start it up again later...

oh, and i get a lot of people asking if they can get my cd in other
countries besides the u.s. YES, you can..i'm pretty sure if you go to
musicblvd.com you can order my cd internationally. it is only available
on the net at this time. 

the wind is still rattling my windows. it's an exceptionally cold night
for may. i think i will snuggle under the covers now and watch some
trash tv :)

shine on,
ana