Hey, I'm just a girl who has a hard time sitting still. So I do stuff. It's not always good. But it's always sincere. My favorite quote lately is "Play well or play badly, but play truly" (David Mamet). I also play at writing. I've been a theater columnist, art writer, sex columnist (as Lily Morrigan for City Link Magazine), and, most recently, a nightlife columist for New Times-Broward Palm Beach. Google says my claims are all true.
Influences
I love any song that is well written and lyrically driven, from hip-hop to folk to show tunes. My influences are Simon & Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Ani DiFranco, Liz Phair, Patti Smith and other lyricists who use language evocatively.
Well, here's what the press said about Hunger-Thump:
It's "rock'n'roll with a singer who appreciates the music of language...sounds like vintage garage rock," says Sun-Sentinel's Sean Piccoli, who also acknowledges there's something reminiscent of Patti Smith and the Cowboy Junkies in our music.
Mark Keresman from New Times calls the band "a good sonic collage" of "an overlap of the poetry and music vistas."
Bill Meredith from the Palm Beach Post says that my vocals remind him of Grace Slick. David K from Closer Magazine and the members of Friendly Fire confirm the Patti Smith influences in Hunger-Thump, too.
I used to be HUNGER-THUMP when I had a band...but band boys are about as reliable as South Florida's public transportation...so now I'm kickin' it solo style til I can find new peeps to rock it with. "Dad's Song" is me doing all the vocals and guitar and my brother-in-law Mitch Siegal on bass.
HUNGER-THUMP (what you're hearing in the other 3 songs) was a collaboration with Jeff Mark (electric guitar), Dan Hess (drums), and Ben Kmosko (bass) and of course me (vocals & acoustic guitar). New Times called us"a good sonic collage" (New Times Broward-Palm Beach) of poetry and music...you can decide for yourself.
Having been compared by music reviewers to such bands as The Velvet Underground and The Cowboy Junkies, Hunger-Thump was my first musical enterprise, an exploration of my poetry within a musical experiment.
Probably better known for my role in South Florida's spoken word & poetry slam scene (2000-2005) and for pushing boundaries (and buttons) on the national scene, I've performed on many stages from West Palm Beach's SunFest (2005) to the National Poetry Slam (Seattle 2001, Minneapolis 2002, Chicago 2003, St. Louis 2004) and Minneapolis Spoken-word Festival, among many others.
Here's wishing you Holiday Greetings and the Happiest of New Years. May all of your dreams come true. I took this photo a few years ago on a cold winter day in the old part of Bratislava, Slovakia, about an hour's train ride from Vienna, and wanted to share it with you.
