Théa (say it with me: "Thay. Uh."): guitar, tambourine, egg shaker, snapping of the fingers, clapping of the hands, smacking of the guitar, stomping of the feet, singing. At shows, I do all of these at once. Also: writing of all of the songs.
The following people appear on the CD:
Lucas Hicks: banjo, accordian, percussion Bug Jerome: piano, percussion, vocals Sarah Jerns: trumpet Mitch Rosenburg: vocals, percussion Gabe Rodriguez: bass Wyatt Winston: flute, mandolin Chris Newton: drums Kat Bula: violin
I love them all immensely.
Influences
Artists. Greg Brown, Carina Round, Billie Holiday, Patty Griffin, The Faint, The White Stripes, Jolie Holland, Louis Armstrong, The Noisettes, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, Skip James, Amelie (soundtrack), Babes in Toyland, Kelly Joe Phelps, 16 Horsepower, John Lee Hooker, Sia, The Black Keys, Bug Jerome, Ella Fitzgerald, Everything is Illuminated (soundtrack), KT Tunstall, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, David Eugene Edwards, Shawnee Kilgore, Joan Osborne, Linkin Park, Rosie Thomas, Dean Martin, Sufjan Stevens, Tegan and Sara, CoCoRosie, Chris Smither, Regina Spektor, Elliot Smith, Beck, Fiest, Gary Jules. I'd love to play guitar like The White Stripes' Jack White does.
Authors. J.D. Salinger, Jonathan Safran Foer, Madeliene L'Engle, Ian McEwan, Graham Greene, Truman Capote, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Thomas Hardy, Sheldon Vanauken, Edward Gorey, C.S. Lewis, Kurt Vonnegut, Virginia Woolf, J.R.R. Tolkien, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Conrad Aiken, Thomas Merton, Anne Sexton, Donald Miller, any and all things Harry Potter, Dorothy Parker, Nikos Kazantzakis, John Irving, Vladimir Nabakov, Annie Proulx, Zadie Smith, Wallace Stegner.
I like to play the guitar and write songs and sing.
Also, I am a fan of drawing pictures, and of starting stories, but not finishing them.
I love public transportation.
I cannot leave the house without at least one book, a notebook, and three to five different kinds of lip gloss.
I don't have an appendix, I do have a tattoo, I drink more coffee than is good for me, and I am very clumsy.
I have never seen a prettier Mama, nor a more precious little babe! Coming home on the eve of the 20th! Can you email me the showery info? Like where and where you're registered (do you register for babies?) and you know, the essential facts. I'm going to cry when I see you. I just know it.
Holy Crap!!! Congratulations!!! I saw Cal a couple weeks ago and he told me that you folks were expecting. Again, I say congratulations to the three of you. That girl's got some excellent parents I must say.
Hey Théa Rosenburg
It's been a while, we're coming through Bellingham on Sunday, May 25th at Boundary Bay for an outdoor Ski to Sea Party. Hope you can make it out and party with us. Our friends Poor Man's Whiskey will be opening up the show.
Also, tickets for the 8th Annual Flowmotion Summer Meltdown Festival are on sale now. They go up in price on May 27th. We'll have tickets at the show if you want to come down and get a few at the discount price.
Are you giving birth right now? I just called and left you a message, and I called the number I had as Mitch's cell phone number in my phone and an old woman named Janice answered. CALL WHEN ABLE! AM SO EXCITED FOR BABY!
It's set! Will totally be home for your shower! ps - when is your due date, by the way? I'd love to enter it in my day planner so I know around the time I should call to check on you. Also, quite honestly, I've been DYING to know what you're going to name this thing. This is all too exciting to handle.
Lovely lady, how oh how are you and the babe? In Mississippi, visiting the Eliz. We're going to the big southern bookstore tomorrow, and I wonder: any Thea Rosenburg book requests? I would love to send you a book from the south for your birthday. ps- baby showers anytime soon? I want to be there. Miss you.
Bellingham, here I come! Tonight and tomorrow represent my first-ever musical performances back in the corner of Washington that birthed me from its loins. Hoist high the prodigal son! Hear the angel choir sing! Buy a compact disc!
Hope to see anybody and whomever there.
Tonight at the Viking Union MPR (WWU)
Tomorrow at the Green Frog
(see page for details)
nope like one more week, i'm so excited! and i'm good. i've been reading your blog, it keeps my updated haha. I like the one about you recurring dream. haha it made me giggle. :D
