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#sharkmuffin #quartermachine #garagepop #tarrathiessen #nataliekirch

New video: 'Wide Awake Dreaming" live on Santa Monica beach. Filmed & edited by Chris Carlone.

#santa monica pier #SantaMonica #beach #ukulele #summer songs #california #live music #wide awake dreaming #janet labelle

Day 11. End of the road.

Photographer Jason Roque (http://jasonroque.com/home.html) took this shot of me on my last day in SF before heading off to the airport. I am so thankful for a week of meeting incredible people, wonderful shows, and the chance to take in the beauty of the west coast, if for only a moment. See you soon!

<3

Janet

#Jason Roque #SF #endoftheroad #leavingSF

Day 10. Golden Gate Bridge, Chinatown, City Lights Books, The Beat Museum

A day off! Of course, I had to play tourist. Had a great day exploring the wonders of SF: the book stores, the architecture, the cafes. I couldn't leave without a visit to The Beat Museum, a mecca for Kerouac and Ginsberg fans like myself. I got a kick out of Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose and the community bulletin board at City Lights Bookstore.

#city lights books #keroauc #golden gate bridge #golden gate park #architecture #san francisco #beat museum #jack kerouac

Day 9. San Francisco

Arrived in San Francisco and am in awe of the beauty of the hills and houses. The depth and contours of this city seem to breathe in their own microcosm. After getting settled, I head over to 50 Mason Social House for a performance and am so happy to be greeted by old and new friends. It was a very memorable first SF show.

#50 mason social house #san francisco

Day 6. Big Sur

I had received a call the night before from my best friend back in New York saying that she was able to join me on my trip up the coast to San Francisco. We spent three long and blissful days in Big Sur. Time there unfolds like a dream as it tends to do in a paradise on earth.

#BigSur #Highway1 #ParadiseonEarth #harborseals #beachpebbles #noflowerleftbehind #roadtrip

#big sur #highway 1 #roadtrip

Day 5. Photo shoot with Mark Rigney: LA, Venice beach

Spent time doing a fun photoshoot with LA based photographer Mark Rigney (http://markrigney.tumblr.com) and had the chance to visit some classic LA spots. By the end of the day, the sky had become speckled with cotton candy clouds. This was my last night in LA and the beauty was overwhelming.

#randysdonuts #venicecanals #venice beach #mark rigney #la skyline #clouds

Day 4: The Edison, Mad For Sadness at TAIX

This day started with a delicious breakfast of guava cheese pie from my favorite Silverlake spot, CafeTropical, and a peaceful walk in Griffith Park through the misty morning. I never would have thought in my lifetime that I would get the chance to sing jazz downtown LA, but here I was singing with a Big Band put together by bandleader/producer JC Hopkins (http://jchopkins.net). Needless to say, this was a very memorable day for me! I then zipped over to TAIX French Restaurant in Echo Park to perform a set alongside some extraordinarily talented LA based artists including Rachel Goodrich & The Grrrls (http://rachelgoodrich.tumblr.com/) and Charlie Clark (http://charlieclarkmusic.com/).

#cafetropical #guavacheese #silverlake #breakfastLA #griffithpark #JC Hopkins #the edison #theedisondowntown #madforsadness #rachel goodrich #charlie clark #taix

Day 3: Long Beach, CA

Performed at DiPiazza's in Long Beach. Met some very nice people and ate some very delicious pizza.

#dipiazzas #longbeach #pizza

2nd day: Video shoot, Santa Monica, CA

Spent time in Santa Monica making a video with videographer Chris Carlone (http://chriscarlonecreation.tumblr.com/). The future was revealed to me on Santa Monica pier. I was destined to be a "Taxi Dancer."

#SantaMonica #makingvideos #fortuneandglory

#santamonica #chris carlone #fortune and glory #making videos #santa monica pier

First day of tour: Echo Park, Hotel Cafe, Amoeba

Took a stroll through Echo Park, that gorgeous LA jungle. Performed at Hotel Cafe and had the chance to catch some other fabulous singer/songwriters including the Brooklyn based Deb Oh (http://debohandthecavaliers.com/). I then headed to Amoeba Records for some late night shopping and purchased an album that would serve as my soundtrack for the remainder of the trip.

#EchoPark LAjungle lilypads LA firstdayoftour #driving music #francoise hardy #brooklyngirls #brooklynsinger/songwriters #hotel cafe #amoeba

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

D.H. Lawrence

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One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster, Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. - Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like a disaster.

--Elizabeth Bishop

Getting ready for a live video shoot @ the Florham Park Roller Rink.

I wrote a song tonight that I wanted to share with you.

"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."-Henry Miller

NYC in its summer hour.

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