The Mixtress Online

(FROM 6/22)

…I have to put this project on hiatus. Being honest with you folks: On Friday I was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous/Myeloid Leukemia (AML). I have to understandably kick the shit out of it before I can focus on The Mixtress Online again. Chemo starts tomorrow. Whew…this is so crazy. I can’t really believe it myself. But I’m strong and sassy — cancer doesn’t stand a chance!!!

Well-wishers, I appreciate your care packages, random mix CDs, cards and emails.

No fresh flowers, though, they aren’t allowed.

Please e-mail me at julia@themixtressonline.com to find out how you can stay in touch with me (address, etc.).

The site will be updated throughout the summer — though it might take me a bit longer than usual — and I’ll still make mixes and blog about them! I’ll even still post little music-related things here and there. It’s just the exchange, the Participant Mix of the Month Showcase and the Found project that I’ll hold off on until September.

(UPDATED INFO)

Round one of chemo didn’t do the job.  It puts 80% of people into remission, and I’m the 1 in 5 statistic that needed another round (I’m on day 4 of 5 right now), plus I can look forward to a bone marrow transplant in the coming months (sooner if my sister’s a match).  I was originally supposed to be out of the hospital, well, maybe even today.  But now, with new treatments, I have several more weeks in the hospital ahead of me.  I’m not able to make it to Lollapalooza, which completely bums me out — it would’ve been my third year working there.  Writing my cancellation email last night was depressing, but, hey — what can I do?  I’m fighting cancer here.  It’s just a festival.  Hopefully my job will be there waiting for me next year.  I suppose it’s more than that, though, I’ve lost my summer.  I’ve lost out on fun, and weddings and tours and friends.  Tomorrow I will have been in the hospital a month.  One month down, apparently one to go.  That all said, if you look below, you’ll see that the Boston benefit (one of them) is set and ready to go, lineup TBA…and if all goes well this time around, I’ll be well enough to be able to be there — that makes me smile.

I love you all, thank you for your support. Use this summer to send positive energy my way and to gear up for a big comeback in the fall. You are all rock stars and I’m counting on you to make this easier for me.

Xs and Os,

Jules

Someday I wanna be dignified and old.

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An online fundraiser, powered by PayPal. Thank you in advance.

Also: please stay tuned for information on art & music benefit events occurring in

Boston, Portland, the LA/Berkeley areas and NYC.

[Boston: August 29th at the Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge]

From the AP…seems like this is not really news, but, ehhhh

I like this kid’s voice.  Who does he remind me of…hmmm…I can’t put my finger on it.

He does this dope acoustic version of Marilyn Manson’s “Dope Show”…check it out!

A man by the name of Mr. Shinoda accidentally cut grooves into the road with a digger and later drove over the damage in his car.  The resulting “tune” gave him an idea.  Along with members of the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute he created rows of grooves that, when driven over at a certain speed, would play a “song”.

The result is a “melody road”, with grooves between 6 and 12mm apart: the narrower the interval, the higher the pitch.  These stretches of road, each playing a different tune, can currently be found in 3 places in Japan –Hokkaido, Wakayama and Gunma — with the optimum musical speed being only 28 MPH.

It’s really not like any sort of virtual orchestra.  It’s not pretty…but it’s certainly the first of its kind; creative and mental.

I doubt “radly” is a word.  Indeed, my spell check didn’t like that.

Nonetheless — “Jam Match” is a decent music-related time waster.  Dig it!

http://jamsbio.com/games/jamsMatchSolo