Carla Ulbrich

do you know who or what culture started the thing where you make a vase, purposely break it, and reassemble it?
(and no the answer is not pottery barn. i'm serious)

Well, it's finally here! Exactly one year after the very limited release of Leftovers 1.0, Leftovers 2.0 is now available.

This rare tracks CD is for my longtime fans, who will appreciate the oddball nature of the songs and the oddball album concept: offbeat songs that didn't fit the previous projects, and alternate versions of a few previously released songs. There are fewer tracks than in the 1.0 version of the CD, but the audio quality is better overall than the prototype (of which there are only 65 existing copies).

There will be no big CD release party. And, it will not be going out to any radio stations at all. It's just something a little special and strange i felt like doing.

There will only be 200 copies of this CD printed. After those are gone, it will be available digitally only, at carlaulbrich.com only . So, if you want a "real" copy of "Leftovers," do not delay. I'm telling my LJ friends first. Everyone else will get an e mail later this month (June, that is).

Here's the song list!

1) What If Your Girlfriend Was Gone (twang version with country band)
2) Boy Wonder (pop version- big wall of sound)
3) Open the Car Door (parody of Over the Rainbow)
4) If I Had the Copyright (sound effects version, WLRN)
5) We Don't Need a WalMart with Bob Malone
6) Snickers (spoof on the commercial)
7) W is Listening (wiretapping song)
8) If I Did It (OJ song)
9) The Nth Day of Xmas (parody, about algebra)
10) Guardian Angel (Nashville version)
11) Put It On the List (parody, about groceries)
12) What If Your Butt Was Gone (rap version) with Mark
Johnson

Bits of trivia: layout of graphics done by Tom "FuMP" Rockwell. "Art" (and I use the term loosely) done by me. Leftovers 1.0 has 2 songs with cuss words and a parental advisory. 2.0 has neither. 1.0 has 16 tracks (one of which is a song intro). 2.0 has 12 tracks.

i'm offering a special to those of you who bought leftovers 1.0 and want to purchase leftovers 2.0
if you are one of those 63 people, e mail me with the list of songs off the back of leftovers 1.0, and i'll send you a coupon code for $5 off leftovers 2.0

carlau AT mindspring DOT com

This CD available only at www.carlaulbrich.com/products.html

shortcut to shopping cart for those having trouble locating the "buy" link:
http://www.ccnow.com/cgi-local/cart.cgi?carlau_LOCD_continue-page

hey i'm offering a special to those of you who bought leftovers 1.0 and want to purchase leftovers 2.0
if you are one of those 63 people, e mail me with the list of songs off the back of leftovers 1.0, and i'll send you a coupon code for $5 off leftovers 2.0

hey everybody
i'm putting together my next cd.
what do you like btter- digipaks (cardboardish covers reminiscint of LP sleeves) or jewel cases(hard plastic cd covers)?i've done projects using both kinds, and own others' cds of both types.
have my opinions.
please discuss...

LOS ANGELES (February 17. 2009) _ The 2009 Green Book Festival has added
business books and mysteries to its call for entries to its annual competition
honoring books that contribute to greater understanding, respect and positive
action on the changing worldwide environment.

The 2009 Green Book Festival will consider published, self-published and
independent publisher works in the following categories: non-fiction, fiction,
children's books, teenage, how-to, audio/spoken word, comics/graphic novels,
poetry, science fiction/horror, biography/autobiography, gardening, cookbooks,
animals, photography/art, e-books, wild card (anything goes!), scientific, white
paper, legal, business, mystery and spiritual.

Entries can be in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese or Italian. Our grand
prize for the 2009 Green Book Festival Author of the Year is $1500 and
transportation to our April, 2009 Earth Day celebration in Los Angeles OR an
equivalent amount donated in your name to the environmental charity of your
choice.

A panel of judges will determine the winners based on the following criteria:

1) The overall writing style and presentation of the work;

2) The potential of the work to enhance understanding of the environment and its
issues;

TO ENTER: Entry forms are available online at www.greenbookfestival.com
or may be faxed/e-mailed to you by calling our office at 323-665-8080.

The Green Book Festival is produced by JM Northern Media LLC, producers of the
Hollywood Book Festival, New York Book Festival and DIY Convention: Do
It Yourself in Film, Music & Books and is sponsored by eDivvy, Larimar St. Croix
Writers Colony, Westside Websites and Shopanista.


JM Northern Media
7095 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 864
Hollywood, CA 90028-0893
US

did you all know about this?

These regulations are taken from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was enacted by Congress in 1998Â and is the law of the land.


In a 3-hour period, you may play:

- No more than 4 songs (no more than 3 in a row) from any particular
artist.
- No more than 3 songs (and no more than 2 in a row) from any particular
album.
-No more than 4 songs (and no more than 3 in a row) from a particular
box set.

This 3-Hour period” is any block of 3 hours, so you must be aware of
what the programmer before you has played if you play the same genres of
music.

You may not publish your playlist prior to your show (this includes on-line
playlist postings on personal sites, message-boards, etc.) the only
exception to this rule is classical music programs that have a history of
pre-publishing playlists that predates 1998.

You may not announce in advance when particular songs will be played. Also,
requested songs should not be played at a specific time.

Hey- thanks to my friends here who wrote in to XM about the Folk Channel. They are not only bringing it back, they are bringing it back a few days earlier than planned, on Jan. 2. Looks like we tiled things back towards keeping it!

I know it was in danger not only because of what i heard from the eyes adn ears of the folk music world, btu also by prior experience- Sirius canceled its one folk show, and now Sirius and XM are one and the same. they ar emoving more and more towards playing all top 20 hits from this decade and the 6 previous ones, plus sports and news and not much else. so this was a win for the little guy, the indie singer songwriter and the old folk troubadour writing and singing from the heart.

Thanks. Well done.

because the waffles are just that tasty

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/4162935/

Thanks to you guys, my LJ friends, for your advice on the inno for an XM receiver. and clearly, a lot of other uses. Joe gave it to me for Christmas (early, so we have radio in the car on the 13-hour drives to South Carolina and back). My old XM receiver, which I've had for 4-5 years, just up and quit. So even though it was an expensive thing to ask for for Xmas, Joe was going to insist on buying me one anyway.

You guys really know your stuff when it comes to tech and tech toys- thanks for all your awesome advice.

I hope you won't be disappointed to know i'm using your advice ot record 2 hours of the 70s channel and 2 hours of the Oprah channel... (Oprah has some deep thinkers on that radio channel of hers! No couch-jumping on the XM Oprah channel. well maybe a half hour of it a day, but the other 23.5 hours are great stuff- Course in Miracles, Dr. Oz, Dr Robin's call-in psychology school, Rabbi Shmuley, Law of Attraction)

XM Radio has knocked the Folk Channel of the air in favor of -what- *another* Christmas channel?! The fear is that the folk channel may not return, and tis' one of the few places a relative unknown -like me, and many of my peers (Christine Lavin, Chuck Brodsky, Roy ZImmerman, Jack Williams, Cheryl Wheeler, Vance Gilbert, as well as legacy acts Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seegar, Tom Paxton, Peter Paul and Mary)- can get heard on the radio. When they start eliminating stations like this, all we'll be left with is simulcasts of the stuff on TV and Top 40 music from the last 4 decades that we've all heard a million times.

If this bothers you, please click here and as XM/ Sirius to bring back the folk village XM channel 15:

http://xmradio.com/help/emailus.xmc

I figured out how to make a montage video today. Hope you enjoy.

Had a corporate holiday party last night and basixally slid all the way there and back in my car. i didn't know it was snowing in pennsylvania.
i barely got there in time, as it took me almost an hour longer than it normally would have to travel.
pretty exciting getting back as well.
mr winter showed up early this year. i hope it means he'll go away early next year!

i visited tom's page today on a whim and stuimbled on this insta-filk tool. i think maybe my answers don't scan perfectly,m but as always, when in doubt, "Holy crap" seems to always been the best answer...

Old McRorschach

Old McRorschach had a blot, I-d-E-g-o.
And in this blot he saw his first menstrual cycle, I-d-E-g-o.
With a mangle mangle here and a slam slam there,
Here a mangle, there a slam, everywhere a mangle slam,
Old McRorschach needs some help, I-d-E-g-o.

Old McRorschach had a blot, I-d-E-g-o.
And in this blot he saw his sister, I-d-E-g-o.
With a thumbdrive thumbdrive here and a annoying annoying there,
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mangle mangle here and a slam slam there,
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Old McRorschach had a blot, I-d-E-g-o.
And in this blot he saw a unicorn, I-d-E-g-o.
With a write an essay on which W was the best president ever write an essay on which W was the best president ever here and a screech screech there,
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Old McRorschach had a blot, I-d-E-g-o.
And in this blot he saw a lobbyist, I-d-E-g-o.
With a Holy crap~ here and a Holy crap there,
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Old McRorschach had a blot, I-d-E-g-o.
And in this blot he saw George Clooney, I-d-E-g-o.
With a furry toothpick here and a tasty ottoman there,
Here a furry, there a toothpick, everywhere a tasty ottoman,
Holy crap~ here and a Holy crap there,
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Old McRorschach needs some help, I-d-E-g-o.

hm!
i figured my rainbow would be blue like crazycajun's.
whaddayaknow. but the explanation makes sense, i do love a challenge, and i rarely give up.

create your own disease here
http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-mongering-engine.asp

Hey peeps
I advanced again tonight, in the Williamsburg (Brooklyn neighborhood) live song contest.
It started with 700 submissions. They narrowed those to 150 (!) and had all 150 songwriters play over the course of 6 days (25 per night) in various Brooklyn venues. 3 songwriters were chosen from each of those nights, making for 18 semi-finalists. half of those were chosen to advance to play the final round tomorrow (Saturday) night.

So, I am now in the Top 9. We played the song we submitted for the contest during both the preliminaries (quarter-finals? Mad 150?) and the semi-finals. Saturday we get to play 2 songs (one of them has to be that same song).

I've been mildly annoyed by the commute form Central NJ into Brooklyn (about 90 miles), but i knew the deal when I submitted to the contest, so I can't really complain. But I was really, really suprised to hear tonight that someone flew in from Oregon and another person from IRELAND to participate. You know, only the top 3 win any money!

i think the temperature is going ot affect how i shop. it's so freaking cold i want to buy everything on line so i don't have to leave the house. which means i won't buy any impulse stupid crap at the counter. so, yeah.

well i finally caught up on sleep today after the big northeast folk convention over the weekend where i totally depleted myself and slept poorly and infrequently on a hard bed that felt like i was sleeping directly on the boxsprings. i sure have gotten soft since getting married, getting the sweetest dog on the planet (see userpic), and getting the most comfortable bed imaginable. Joe is too good to me. I really am turning into a mush. Say goodbye to the Carla of "Corny Schlocky Sappy Songs."
Oh well we'll always have the recording.

Meanwhile I had another acting class today. It's not nearly as challenging or organized as the ones I took in NYC, but hey it's around the corner from my house. and cheap. Thank the Lord because it's so damn COLD this week! Oy! It's hard to motivate and leave the warm house in this weather.

Speaking of which I really need to go grocery shopping. I had a peanut butter sandwich and a leftover slice of pizza today. and a few pretzels. :-/

just came back from the movie synecdoche.
all i can say is what the hell was that? HUH?