OBAMA Hallelujah!!!   Grumpy People on Airplanes, New York Bagels, Salsa in Mexico (the kind involving your hips) NEW CD in the Works and Everything In Between!!!

First, I just want to say how overwhelmingly wonderful it is that Barack Obama has been elected as our next President!!!  The enormous leap this country just made and the collective “Ahhhhhhh!!!” that was heard round the world goes without saying.

I am so grateful to be alive at such an historic time for all of us.   And a serious high-five goes out to the millions of people who all came together, b/c as much as this man has inspired us all, the hard work and dedication of so many is a testament that hope is alive and well and singing in the streets.

That said, I was on a plane in the last hours of the election on the 4th and was sandwiched in between two of the most undesirable people in the universe.  I was flying from New York to LA and after having missed my first flight b/c I was falling in Love with NYC so much I plum forgot to get on my plane.  

So I’m on this plane glued to my little TV set with baited breath, like most of the folks on the plane.  And as life’s lesson would have in store for me, I was flanked on my right by the most emotionally checked out woman I’ve ever encountered.   She was, this is no exaggeration, watching like, a knitting show almost the entire 5 hour flight.  Way to go apathy.

Then to my left was this marvelous piece of work who, when Obama won, was cursing and saying all of these really wretched things.  I wanted to sock him for trying to kill my joy.   I wanted to stick a sock in him for being such a **!!$%@!#*!!!.  So I cheered and woo wooed as pretty much the rest of the plane did, and just tried to take mental inventory on why I was experiencing such a profoundly moving and marvelous moment between Ms. rock and  Mr. hard place.

Anyway, my time in NYC was spectacular, injured achilles and all.  I witnessed the NY Marathon from my window, endeavored to find NY’s greatest bagel, sang in a flipping awesome venue (Blender Theater at Grammercy), watched with 100 thousand other cheering New Yorkers the magic of a Halloween parade, made new delightful friends, and finished off seven weeks of touring with a show in Ixtapa, Mexico last night with musicians from Cuba and Mexico.

I am currently attending to my seventeen mosquito bites and am going to celebrate the Obama victory when I get back to LA on the 13th, where I will also be starting work on my new CD!!!

I’m insanely psyched about my new music as it is a jump into sweet and spicy waters and I will be sharing it with you all along the way!  

I’ll also be doing cool shows in the coming months including performances at The Sundance Film Festival and my arse is going to be at the Inauguration, come hell or highwater, and even grouchy plane seatmates. 

So that’s my news for now.  I’ve posted lots of new pictures on myspace, facebook, and my website from the tour, so check them out if you’re on the crapper with your computer and have some free time on your hands.  

Many many many blessings to you all and much love and light to all of us as we enter a new era of hope and possibility.  YES WE CAN!!!

MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY CHEERS!!!

Nina