Full-page article in today’s Trib.  (bugmenot) They quoted both Riyans!  No glaring errors, and very complimentary of the new record, which I so appreciate.  Half of me wants to go out and shake everybody’s hand — I’m a genius!! — and the other half wants to crawl under a rock because it gets so personal.  Arrrrgh!  I’ll try to explain…

It’s not his fault.  Maybe I’m too sensitive but I get a little mortified every time writers want to talk about my love life even in the teeniest two-sentence blurb they do about me.  But it’s hard to blame them when I walk right into it by keeping this blog!  And by being a specialist in breakup songs I guess.  It does seem like a breakup record doesn’t it?  You’d think so but it sure wasn’t written that way; the songs span about fifteen years.  And my track record isn’t so much worse than the next guy — I’ve been in Chicago nine years now and had THREE count ‘em three longish-term relationships in that time, is that so terrible?  The most recent one happened to coincide with the release of this album but people, THIS album is not full of songs about this breakup which only happened less than two weeks ago…!!  Or rather it is not the breakup record you think it is, heheh, that’ll be the NEXT album. ;-) But yeah, I broke up and I talked about it here so it’s too perfect, of course they’re gonna use it.  Therefore I kinda did it to myself, so it’s annoying.  It’s bad timing, all these events just play right into that caricature of me as some kinda lovelorn sad-sack of a girl, which I really am not.  I do fun things all the time, I love my friends and love this city.  And I get along great with my exes don’t I?  The way I see it I’ve have pretty good luck in relationships, though you might not think so based on my songwriting.  Ahem.

Anyway, it is a really nice article, the Drag City kids are sure pleased with it.  And if I’m not quite thrilled with the character that’s being portrayed, all I can do is try to counteract that with my own words, here in my own forum.  Soon as I get off my ass and write some stuff…!!