Emily Lee
@sfxmaven
Keys, vox, social media - @Shearwaterband.bsky.social, @Lomatheband.bsky.social, the Fiery Furnaces, Snake Oil, @themagfields.bsky.social. Featured in Two Minutes to Late Night. WNET’s music supervisor. Public media consumer and advocate.
My confusion in reading this and realizing they weren’t talking about a theme park called “Jaguar Land” for a split second…
I can’t believe I dragged JM to this tonight. What a (loud, screamy) fascinating show. I’ve never witnessed screams as loud and persistent as (I imagine) Beatlemania was like.
We got Cookie professionally groomed for the first time since we adopted her. Now I see why people go to groomers and don’t always just do it themselves. So cute.
I made a silly one-off test pressing of one song from my as yet unreleased album, in hopes this will push me to move forward with putting this out into the world. If I do physical media, I should probably bite the bullet and make full LPs, right? Or do you think a single 45 is a good idea?
Just sent this guy off to Antarctica. It’s just me minding the @shearwaterband.bsky.social fort for the next few months…
It’s mastering week for the new @shearwaterband.bsky.social record. Though, we may have started a few new songs for the next next record in the meantime…
For Bandcamp Friday, all of the @shearwaterband.bsky.social sheet music I transcribed for piano is on sale in a big bundle. We’ve got other bundles at a discount today as well plus the Bowie tote is only $5! shearwater.bandcamp.com
Unhinged paragraph formatting by the NYT book review. (You have to try to read it to understand.)
This week, I went to see Sadie’s record release show at Sleepwalk. I’d never been to the venue, and it was surprisingly nice for being a small room in the back of a Bushwick bar. Sadie was excellent as always, and also on the bill was Eliot Krimsky who played second keyboards in our Bowie shows.
Yesterday, I was filming a scene from ER so I could show Deron this really cute dog, when my phone started to ring, and my hitting “decline” at an accidentally right moment makes it seem as though Mark’s beeper was remarkably futuristic.
I had dinner at a diner with Sadie tonight, and our ketchup was really high on itself. (Or maybe Charles Schultz gave a testimonial?)
There’s a crazy store called Country Junction that’s close to D’s house. It’s huge and sells untold amounts of weird things. But weirdest by far is this set of Rolling Stones statues. Who will be the final owner of this and why? (It’s been for sale for at least 4 years.)
It was really fun riding along w Deerhoof up to Saugerties, and watching soundcheck and the show… until the heavens opened and created the most sudden and chaotic ending ever. D & I had a venue-provided Airbnb with a sauna for the night. And then went to where NY, PA, & NJ meet on the way home.
There were many amazing scenes in my cemetery this morning during my run: a kestrel screeching from a high branch, 7 grounds crew guys on riding lawnmowers attempting the scariest bumper cars ride ever, and this billboard: angels are screaming, choose new worlds
I saw this in my gardening FB group this morning and I can only assume this was the end of a battle royale between a rattle snake, tarantula, scorpion, shark, and porcupine.