The Perishers, Citizen Cope, Nick Cave, Idlewild, Xiu Xiu, Radiohead, Poe, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Tracy Bonham, Aqualung, Oasis, Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen, Local H, Garbage, Radio Iodine, The Meat Puppets, Aimee Mann, ABBA, Vinyard Worship CD's ...
Movies
Roadside Prophets(By Det. Slug), Beyond the Edge (by Det. Slug), The Royal Tenenbaums, Magnolia, Microcosmos, Winged Migration, Zorba the Greek, Annie Hall, Anniversary Party, Strangers with Candy, Ponette ...
Television
Animal Planet, Monk, Reno 911, Strangers with Candy ...
Books
Night Times, Aspiration, Green Mansions, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Naked, Running with Scissors, Holy the Firm, Traveling Mercies, Bird by Bird, The Courage to Write, Spunk & Bite, the Bible: more later ...
Heroes
Jesus, nurses, doctors, researchers, techs; hospice workers.
My favorite artist right here: I came from her!
Montreat College
Montreat, NC
Graduated: 1993
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Bible & Religion
Minor: English or History ... can't remember
Clubs: Newspaper
1989 to 1993
Beverly Hills High
Beverly Hills, CA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: The covers over my head
Minor: Pillows
Clubs: Depression
1980 to 1982
Wilson High
Long Beach, CA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: Keeping afloat
Minor: Ditching
Clubs: Oh, I was only there for a couple of weeks or something
1979 to 1979
Huntington Beach High
Huntington Beach, CA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: Avoiding my peers
Minor: The beach
Clubs: Fear
About me: My friend Julia Gordon-Bramer put me up to this. In fact, I'm sitting at her computer right now. She took all my pics. I just asked her what I should write in this section. I'm drawing a blank. She just went into the kitchen and said, "I'm going to make a few calls." I'm still drawing a blank. I'm a writer. Blanks aren't good.
Julia just returned. She chuckled, "Okay, why don't you say something about the memoir you're writing." And then she said, "New paragraph."
Julia's an editor.
She just asked me if I wanted anything to drink. "No, I'm fine," I said.
Julia's memoir, "Night Times," is going out to publishers right now. Even as we speak. I'm excited for her. I read it. It's great. You'll love it. You should check out her website, I'm writing for nighttimes.com. I'm a music journalist. I also enjoy interviewing rock stars. Check out my first big rock star interview by going to
nighttimes.com. Whoops, Julia just came in. She's in the chair next to me. She said, "Okay, hope you don't mind, I'll just read over your shoulder." I said, "No, I don't mind." Then she laughed and said, "Tell them about your memoir!" And then she got up and now she's playing pac-man in the corner.
I'm writing a memoir called "The Moon Startled Me (A Prayermonger's Memoir). Someone recently informed me that "Startled by the Moon" is the more literary choice. Someone else misundertood my title and now assumes it to be, "The Moon Stalked Me." Someone else also told me that, technically, I'm a prayermongress since I am a woman. But that just doesn't sound right. Prayermongress? What's that? Julia just encouraged me to talk about why I am writing a memoir. When Julia and I hang out--it's like two memoirs talking to one another. She's talking to me right now ... like a memoir. "Tell them that you've recovered from a rare, life-threatening illness and that your memoir deals with this."
I've recovered from a rare life-threatening illness and my memoir deals with this. The name of my former disease is long and ugly; it has three words and two hundred syllables. Any disease with three words is fatal. Most patients who can't pronounce their own disease, die after two months. I survived for three months before I had achieved any kind of sustainable pronounceability. I lived! It's a miracle!
Just an aside here--my profile states that I'm a Virgo but I just want you to know that I don't believe in astrology. I hate name tags; how much less would I like the Virgo tag? I'm not comfortable with people defining my essence according to the random arrangement of yellow dots in a dark sky. Wait, it's not random. Whew, just wanted to clear the air. No offense to those of you who like stars.
Thank you for the support. It means a great deal - the past few months have been amazing. Great reviews, great shows up and down the country, airplay and interviews with Kerrang! Radio & Total Rock Radio, even a show at Alexandra Palace for Freestyle Festival has been confirmed.
Alexandra Palace will bring an end to our first major UK Tour. The tour leads up to the official release of our first EP proper, 'Guerilla'. This will be available everywhere on November 2nd.
If you're not too familiar with us yet, there are some reviews below and you can pick up some free downloads from our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/NIXA/8798900727).
Here are the dates (more to be confirmed).
See you out there x
"NIXA possess a quality that sets them apart from other front runners on the alt/rock scene with perfect dynamics and incredible song craft. They bounce between gentle and aggressive in a single beat, tied with soaring harmonies and mesmerising stage presence. This band will find themselves being listened to by a wide audience, no doubts in both the alternative and commercial rock scenes" TOTAL ROCK
"...done very, very well. Deep, powerful voice, BIG music and just the feeling that something very professional is happening -I don't mean in a clinical way, just in that way that, when you find out they're unsigned, it's a bit of a shock!" XFM
"The absolute epiphany of my weekend was London based Nixa. Everytime I see this band, I fall in love a little bit more. Their performance was stunning and it was definitely the climax of the night as things petered off afterwards. Their Biffy Clyro-esque style, gorgeous vocal harm
On the cusp of this new year I wish you all good things: Endless joy and satisfaction for you and the people you love. Peace and harmony, within and with others. Dynamic festivities that include abundant, boisterous laughter, intelligence, and a profusion of fun. Relationships that are vibrant sources for celebrations. And a life full of meaning, growth, and purpose.
Have a Very Merry CHRISTMAS, a Happy Hopeful HANNUKAH (!הבה נגילה), a Kick-Ass Krazy KWANZA, a Sensationally Spirited and Slightly Sprightly SATURNALIA, a Deliriously Delightful Zhou Dynasty DōNGZHI, a Wonderfully Wayward and Wickedly Wacky SHABE-YALDA, a Joyful Jubilant INTI RAYMI, an Enchanted Elated Extended SOLSTICE DAY with Great Gaiety and Giddy Moondancing Galore, a Blissfully Bouncy and Brilliantly Bountiful ALBAN ARTHAN, a Harmonious and Healthy Hopi SOYAL, a Delicious yet Decidedly Decadent YULE, some Seriously Silly Stupendous SWIANTKI, a Mirthful Month of RAMADAN, a Calm and Contentedly Contemplative BODHI DAY, a Jolly Jolly Jolly DIWALI, a Zowee Zoroastrian DAYGāN, a Fantastic if Fatalistic Nietzschean NIHILIST BLOW-OUT, and/or a Fabulously Feelgood FESTIVUS (for the rest of us)!
And remember: "Every time a bell rings... another congressman, senator or governor gets caught in an FBI corruption sting."
