Thursday, December 31, 2009

here's little something for you today..
that's right... it's 29 degrees outside and jet and i just got back from the park. he's sacked already and i'm still a little chilly, and there's nothing that will warm you to the bone like a little of this...
(source)

tonight dan and i are playing for a wedding. we haven't ever done this together before and i'm super excited cause it will be our first wedding we have attended since we have been married ourselves. oh the emotions, the craziness!, the excitement!!! it's so awesome to see 2 people you know are just perfect for each other make a commitment in front of God and all their loved ones to love each other and be together til death do 'em part. ... not promising to always get it right or to always be IN love with each other, or to never want to leave.... but promise to love and promise to stay. marriage is awesome.

happy new year friends!


Monday, December 28, 2009

winding up and down...

it's strange, yesterday i thought it was the day after christmas... for some reason i skipped a day in there in my mind. it seems as though that's how the last year has gone. i remember it, but it's just flying by and all of a sudden, here we are at the end of the year and wow. wow. last night at scum, i was listening to Mike Sares talk about 2009 and how for some it's been a great year and others not so much. i am fortunate to say that the past year has been a GREAT and hard, and exciting and GREAT year for me. just before 2009 started, my best friend asked me to spend the rest of my life with him. i said yes. from then on, it was wedding planning, stressing out, trying not to stress out, marriage counseling, wedding planning, experimenting with different BC pills and having anxiety attacks, lots of fun and parties and new friends and new family, the wedding, (Kauai!!) honeymoon phase, learning to live, sleep, and eat with another person everyday, more honeymoon phase, traveling, family reunions, music music music, recording 3 records, joining a new band, putting out the christmas project, creating a NEW band, touring, a decision to go back to med school, holidays, and here we are... the end of 2009. now that i write all that down, i really shouldn't be surprised by how much stress i seem to have and can't get rid of all in one afternoon. it's going to take time to adjust to all that has happened, all i have chosen, all we have changed in 2009.

it's funny, i seem to just expect that i can adjust to all that change overnight. i wouldn't expect that of someone else. sometimes i wonder why i'm so hard on myself. it seems as though all the change (on top of not really eating that well overall) plus the being hard on myself is this never ending snowball of subconscious stress and i need find a way to break the cycle. i have to.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

ho ho ho


it's 3 days until christmas. wow, time has flown by. 6 1/2 months since dan and i have been married, our first christmas together as a family (and with jet too!). wow. here are a couple pics for you...


dan did a bunch of studying today. he's been really great about working hard to get ready to go back to med school.... including practicing some exams...


and! our friends brought Jet a little christmas gift to spread some cheer. he poses for the camera so patiently. ;)


MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Jet

no, not the band... our new dog. yep. and he's wicked smart.


yeah, that's some of what i've been doing since my last post. that and finishing up my touring for the year. it's true, no more college shows for me for the rest of the year. i play a show with miss andrea ball at the meadowlark on saturday dec 5th which will be my last solo show for the year.... which sounds very official, but it's only a month really. :) i'll be better at blogging, i promise.

p.s... does anyone else get the song "say (what you need to say)" by john mayer stuck in their head like all the time?
p.s.s. here's another picture of jet. :)

Monday, November 23, 2009

Finally the end...

so, it has been a crazy couple weeks, that's for sure. for me, it all started nov 10 when i boarded a plane to minneapolis for a week long tour, came back to denver for the weekend and a show on monday night the 16th at the walnut room with angie stevens and terra naomi, then flew back out to minneapolis for another week of shows, flew back to denver at 7 am on saturday and started recording with dan and the band over at john macy's studio in denver colorado. it's been insane. we just finished up 2 solid days (3 for the band) of recording dan's new record... all songs that we are SUPER pumped about. here's a little video of dan laying some acoustic tracks on the songs. ... and a little shout out to chipotle. :)


Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Christmas Music




ok you guys... the christmas music we just recorded is up. we started a new band called oh, starling and the download of the christmas ep is up. it's FREE until thanksgiving so go get yours and if you love it, spread the word. we'll be performing these songs and some others (by popular demand) at the 'homevibe for the holidays' show at the gothic theater in denver on dec 12th. you should come.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

lovely and still - dan craig


i just thought you might like to read the lyrics from which this blog was named...from this album



Lovely and Still

Your thirteen muscles bunching up

Into a smile that fills my cup until it overflows

Sometimes it’s hard for me to let you in

When these are games that I don’t always win, but then your eyes close

And you look like a picture of my queen

Smiling like you’ve already

Seen the sun above my windowsill

It’s lovely and still

Hearts and records washed up on this shore

Where we have broken both before, don’t let it get you down

Cause every wave washes us clean

And you’re about the best thing that I’ve seen, and you know me

I’ve been around

Chorus

Break me down, I’ll be a child before you, but go slow

Pinch your lips, don’t say you’ll miss me baby cause I know, oh I know

So before you go, back to Chicago, kiss me softly with your eyes closed

And write this down

I’ve seen the sun above your windowsill, it’s lovely and still



copyright2008dancraigmusic



Monday, November 9, 2009

traveling


today i'm off to la crosse, WI.... where surprisingly it is 61 in november. playing colleges is so much fun and so draining all in the same breath. i used to travel a lot more before i was married, but this semester it's only been a few shows which has been nice cause dan doesn't get to come with me unless we wanna pay for his ticket on our own.

fortunately i'm feeling much better than yesterday. it was like a nightmare trying to get myself out of the waterfall of worry i was stuck in yesterday thinking that i was gonna just get super sick right before this big trip. my next two weeks looks like this 3 day trip (with 7 total hours of driving) then back home for the weekend, playing a show at the walnut room on monday night, then flying out the next morning for another 4 day trip, then back to colorado and straight into the studio with the dan craig band for 2 or 3 days... then thanksgiving... then i'm decorating the room for the fundraiser at my church on the 1st, another show on the 5th and the 12th ... chirstmas shopping and then christmas... all while trying to promote the christmas EP that dan and i are working on. now that i think about it, i should stop blogging and get to that. i'll leave you with this... a picture of the new ep artwork. dec 12th at the gothic theater in denver is when and where we are releasing it (at the homevibe for the holidays show)


(our new band is called Oh, Starling)



living room studio



about 2 months ago now, dan and i started recording this very cool new artist from fort collins brooke.














she is awesome. we have been working on a 5 song ep and i can't wait for her fans to hear it. people, you are gonna eat her up. :)



she's coming over in a half hour and we're gonna finish up her vocals and get her on her way to being huge.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

newness+change=:)

so i did it. i finally started a blog. it's taken a while to get to this point, but i decided that there should be somewhere that my music and my life can be one. for so long it has felt like they are two separate things but no longer. it's strange... even talking to my husband dan, (dcraigmusic)




(we were married in june) i have come to realize that i have been living two different lives personal, and professional.... and it's starting to feel like a bit of a lie. so now, i embark on a new album, a new sound, a new marriage, a new house, a new era, a new outlook, a new season.... etc. (you get the picture) that being said... i think the new album is going to be a shocker of just how different this new sound i am settling into will be.

xoXO - jess