Ingrid Michaelson Tries to Find Out if She is Famous

Too funny not to share!

Ingrid and Allie had some time to kill during their tour last month and found themselves in the Mall of America. Ingrid decides to do a little experiment to see just how famous she is:


Feed and email readers may need to come to the blog to see the video

(If you're just joining us, here's my original write up on Ingrid and the other entry on the time she got some big network TV exposure with the song she's asking people about in the video.)

In other news, I did a second radio show this morning! Check out my KRUU blog and playlist for more details there, and tune in to KRUU-LP 100.1 next Tuesday at 9 am Central to hear more Lyrical Venus-y goodness!

Finally, remember when I wrote about Kina Grannis a few posts back? She made it to the final round of the "Crash the Superbowl" contest, so she needs your daily votes for the next three weeks! She has a really cute blog where she records a song every day with her webcam and posts it as a thank you for voting for her. That girl is a master social networker, I tell you.

Speaking of social networking, if you like what I'm doing here on Lyrical Venus, I would be humbled and forever grateful to you if you took a moment to submit or favorite my site (or a blog entry from it) to someplace like digg, reddit, sk*rt, stumbleupon, del.icio.us or technorati. Thank you for reading!!

New Year Off to a Good Start!

Hello lovely readers! You will never guess what I did this morning to kick off the New Year! (Well, unless I told you about it already in person...)

I DID A RADIO SHOW ON KRUU FM!!! One whole hour!



In case all the exclamation points and capital letters didn't clue you in already, I am very, very excited about this. :-)

KRUU is an awesome little local, low power, non-profit radio station here in town. This is the mission statement from their website:

"The mission of KRUU is to give Fairfield a voice and strengthen the community by encouraging creativity, dialogue and community involvement. KRUU is an open, inclusive, diverse forum for music, creative expression, information, and entertainment. It is a non-commercial, non-profit, community-supported low-power radio station with a strong emphasis on locally created and produced programming."

Yeah, it pretty much kicks butt big time. It's run on Open Source software, grassroots community support, enthusiasm, hard work and love. I think they have somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 DJ's? With that many different people, you can imagine the diversity of the shows, somewhere in that mix there's a little something for everyone. It's low power, so the range is only 10-20 miles out from the center of town, but you can listen to the stream online from anywhere in the world.

And now I'll tell you a little secret... When I came up with the name Lyrical Venus maybe a year ago, it was actually in anticipation of having a show on KRUU. But between them being super busy trying to learn how to build and run a 24 hour radio station from the ground up, and me being both busy and rather shy (especially when it comes to sharing music - bad run-ins with music snobs in the past), it's taken this long to get started. I think it's actually pretty good timing, because I've had this much time to discover more artists, build my music library and grow my confidence in my music tastes through this blog. So when James the station manager said to me at 6:30 last night, "You want to come in tomorrow morning at 9 AM? Do you have an hour's worth of music you can play?" I was able to say "um, YES!", tweak up a playlist, and still have a good time out at a friend's house for New Years Eve. My co-host was out of town, but she'll come back and it looks like we'll have the 9:00 AM Tuesday slot going forward, so you can tune in to 100.1 FM in Fairfield, or online to listen to the Lyrical Venus Radio Hour every week!

Never fear readers, I shan't abandon this blog now that have achieved my goal of a radio show. I quite like writing about my all-time favorite singers and new musical discoveries. I have so many artist posts sitting in little draft folders waiting for me to have time to flesh them out and put up for you.

Sometime soon I also want to do a "Lyrical Venus Best of 2007" post, as well as set some goals for 2008. But I was so excited about this I had to share it before going to bed!

Oh, one last thing! Big thanks to any and all of you who read this blog on any sort of regular basis. It really blows my mind that people from around the world are reading the words I sit here typing on my little laptop! Please don't be shy to comment or send me an email if you have any ideas or feedback, I really do love to hear from you.

Until next time, this is Heather, signing out!