I need your help.

My heart is breaking because of this possible slaughter that could bring about the extinction of many whale species. I wouldn’t want to live in a world without whales. You are all people who have the ability not only to make the call, or email, but to reach more people. If we can just get the word out, together we can help save one of the most mystical creatures on this planet. The more calls, emails or faxes that start spilling out the more we can start flooding them with the importance of this issue. If enough of us do this, we can make a difference!!! Let’s change the vote!! Please read below for information of what’s happening, links to flood the web with, info on how and who to call, online petition through greenpeace, and links to more in-depth information.

***This is time sensitive. Everything has to be in Washington by June 3rd!!!

WHAT HAS HAPPENED,
Reports that the U.S. delegation to the IWC may be supporting a proposal to overturn the ban on commercial whaling would run counter to campaign pledges made by then presidential candidate Barack Obama. Despite refusal to honor the moratorium by Japan, Iceland, and Norway, the moratorium has proven to be the most important whale conservation agreement in history. A working group of the IWC is meeting in St. Pete Beach Florida this week to discuss the controversial proposal.

* It would allow whaling to take place in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary and legitimize commercial whaling rather than seeking to phase it out. With a single stroke, this proposal would reverse nearly three decades of progress in protecting whales.

* It will set interim quotas – the number of whales each country is allowed to catch – based on political need, not scientific evidence. This is a return to the practices of the last century which devastated whale populations.

* Adding insult to injury, the proposal would pass the costs of regulating whaling on to all members of the IWC, meaning that the taxpayers of even anti-whaling countries will be forced to support whaling operations.

This whole deal was brokered behind closed doors with NO environmental agency involved. Something is so very, very wrong and smacks of lies and deals and hidden agendas and tragedy beyond what my heart can bear.

The Presidents own words:

“As President, I will ensure the U.S. provides leadership in enforcing wildlife protection agreements, including strengthening the international ban on commercial whaling. Allowing Japan to continue commercial whaling is unacceptable.”~Barack Obama, April 16, 2008

LET’S MAKE HIM KEEP HIS PROMISE!

HERE’S WHAT WE CAN DO:

1. MAKE ONE CALL to SAVE THE WHALES!
CALL YOUR DELEGATES AND THE WHITE HOUSE.

Take one minute before you leave for work today.

Call:
The White House 202-456-1111 public comment line
Mon. – Fri. eastern time: 9a.m. – 5p.m.
(You might be on hold for a minute or 2, but…
A REAL LIVE HUMAN will come on the line and take
your message verbatim!!!)

Tell them:
“Keep your campaign promise! We hold you to your pledge.
The United States must oppose the International Whaling
Commission proposal to resume commercial whaling!
Support Senator Kerry’s legislation to keep a moratorium on whaling!”
The IWC votes in June!! Only days left to turn the tide!!

2. SIGN ON-LINE PETITIONS!!

https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&cmd=display&page=ActionAlertTakenPage&id=624

3. GET THE WORD OUT!
~ send an email
you can even just copy and paste any or all of what I’ve written if you want, yes you have full permission to plagiarize.

~ twitter the hell outta this
make your own, or RT this bitch!:
RT @mollyzenobia HELP! Oppose IWC proposal to resume commercial whaling! MAKE PRES OBAMA KEEP HIS PROMISE! http://bit.ly/a40oTR @greenpeace
~ Post some videos via facebook, twitter, anything…
youtube links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z2LxKGfmbQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRioXKzNHUU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVheZUatUps&feature=related

4. Become even more informed about the urgency of this horrific issue!

Japan, Norway and Iceland Whaling Actions and News
http://www.peggy-oki.com/environmt/urgent.html
Urge the U.S. Government to Protect Whales: Contact Your Representatives Today!

Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society
http://www.wdcs-na.org/view_e_protest.php?e_protest_select=16&&select=209

THE WAN CONSERVANCY – WESTERN ALLIANCE FOR NATURE
http://wanconservancy.org/whale_volunteer.htm

WORLD SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
http://www.capwiz.com/wspausa/issues/alert/?alertid=14976201

AVAAZ
http://www.avaaz.org/en/whales_under_threat_13/?cl=551932730&v=6021

WHALES & URGENT Greenpeace Alert!
In an altogether shocking move, President Obama’s delegation to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has decided to back a plan that would legalize commercial whaling — including in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary — for the first time since the international ban was passed over 20 years ago. We only have until the start of the IWC meetings in June to show the President that this plan is a horrible idea.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/oceans/whaling/
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/activists-call-on-president

Thank you!
And I mean this in the best possible way, SPREAD IT!

love,
mz

The 2nd in the series of interactive shows. Silhouettes.
The joining of Music & Art
Thursday, March 12th, 2009 @ 7:30pm
The Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge St. (Inman Square)
Cambridge, MA
see the art
listen to the music.
be a silhouette.

featuring:
Molly Zenobia (me - music in the shape of your heart)
Vessela Stoyanova  (marimba virtuoso)
Brendan Burns  (playing silhouettes on guitar)
Valerie Thompson  (adding depth to the shadows with cello)

Nate Greenslit (adding fabulous rhythm by way of collected junk and drums)

constant surprises.
forward art.
~molly zenobia

www.mollyzenobia.com

Ticketing Options:
Door price is $10.
advance tickets available for only $9.50:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/58286

so… a scene i witnessed a couple nights ago begs the question… what is it exactly that differentiates us from a third world country?  mind you i can think of things, but the one that is not part of it is being any more or less cultured.  let me put it more simply:  men pissing in the street.

alexia and i were talking in the car in central square when a silver volvo pulls up… 1st- man gets out of the back seat drivers-side, whips out his dick and starts pissing behind the wheel of the car… yes we are RIGHT THERE and he doesn’t notice.  2nd- back seat passenger-side gets out whips it out and starts pissing between the cars… still no notice.  3rd. Passenger gets out walks up on sidewalk and starts pissing through someones fence… now is when our thunderous laughs are heard.  pissing man 1. gets back in the car before we snapped the joyous occasion on the iphone.  heh heh heh…

here they are, the three pissing men of washington st.  (apparently not that different from the three pissing men of columbia st.)

i venture to say that it’s not very different from kolkata india, except these guys didn’t know we were there… but once they did they started dancing… cause what else is an embarrassed guy to do?  Or maybe it’s the secret male pee-dance, and we should count ourselves as — dear reader please sense the sarcasm in my words love, molly– lucky.

sprechen sie dada?

Join us February 12th 2009 -

those of you who are not familiar with the dada movement it was an
art movement that erupted out of the need for expression around WWI.
The new media and propaganda served as the perfect tools to express
their skepticism. The word dada as with its movement and
representation is open to constant redefinition. I have written a
new dada manifesto. I will present it in the 1st of a series of
themed interactive shows…

COME GET YOUR DADA ON…

an interactive evening of DADA with live art & music…

ADD TO THE ART
[stations where you create art along with the performers]
WATCH THE ART
[Walter Sickert of the Army of Broken Toys will be drawing throughout the show.]
LISTEN TO THE MUSIC
[great performers are lined up to move and shock you.]

featuring:
Army of Broken Toys
Molly Zenobia
plus special guests…

DETAILS:
Thursday February 12th
doors open @ 7:30
The Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge St. (Inman Square)
Cambridge, MA
Ticketing Options:
Door price is $10.
advance tickets available for $9.50:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/54976

~molly zenobia
www.mollyzenobia.com

Kanye West has either a vacant sense of humor or an ego that has swelled into the part of his brain that might other-wise function normally.

After releasing his new line of shoes… he has insisted that his new nickname be Martin Louis the King Jr.

The words that come to mind are arrogant asshole.

But here, you can witness the blundering atrocity yourself:

direct link to video.

i can’t believe it’s this time of the year already. i just moved to the east coast–Boston–and spent my thanksgiving here. the leaves had all dropped and gave me ample opportunity to crunch through them before the ice and snow. [all great sounds under my feet.]

i had arrived just in time to perform at the MassArt gallery downtown in The Speaker Project… playing inside a sculpture that amplified sound through bottles, cones, tubes and all sorts of joyous junk. It was then projected out of these speakers into the wide and high-ceiling space of the gallery. So if you hit a snare drum inside the speaker it sounded huge and never-ending.

this time last year i had just recorded my album, November Antique. and here we are. back again. the seasons have slipped right back into the vibe of that album–into the time of reflection, and pondering of new and old ideas.
[If you do not own this album, please take a song for free off the members section on my site.]

four days ago i moved into my own little place. the studio is up and running again. it was an interesting journey deciding what to keep and what to not before moving 3000 miles. my life felt like the end of the film ‘the jerk’ when steve martin’s character wanders through his house saying he doesn’t need anything at all except “this lamp… this is all I need… and this channel changer…i need this channel changer…” my attachments to things seemed to circle exclusively around my record collection, studio and art stuff. these are the things that make me feel “at home.”

the holidays can be such an interesting time. i hope everyone’s able to take a moment for themselves as we rush through it all.
i am very grateful for all of you who have been a part of my life thus far and am looking forward to hearing more from each of you. thanks for being a part of this crazy journey.

as a thank you, i’ve been up learning, then recording a december appropriate song for you to have all just in the past few hours. (consider it hot off the press) I’ve embedded it (i hope) at the bottom of this post.

i will continue to put upcoming shows on my web-site [expect some starting in February], as well as free content in my members section. (there are a couple of free songs up already)

here’s to diving into the season of whisky, egg-nog & lights.

much love,

~molly zenobia

direct link to mp3 file:
http://mollyzenobiastemporaryblogurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/walkingintheair.mp3
if you’d like to share/pass it on, this link is much more manageable:
http://tinyurl.com/mzSnow
enjoy!

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www.mollyzenobia.com
www.myspace.com/mollyzenobia
www.twitter.com/mollyzenobia
buy molly’s music.
(the top ice balloon photo and the bottom lights photo was taken by my brother, matthew last week… the big freeeeezzzee!)

iTunes, the new 8-ball?

ooo i like this magic 8-ball, but in this difficult economic time- isn’t there an easier way to get those questions answered?

Let’s stop saving all the “big” questions for our selves and our loved ones. Let’s leave it to iTunes.

Set iTunes to shuffle, ask, and press play.

This is no official iTunes mumbo-jumbo. You open/download iTunes (or a variation there-of) set to shuffle, ask your question, then press play.

If you want to give my music a shot in your answers you can download free songs from my members section if you sign-up for my mailing list @ my site:
www.mollyzenobia.com/members

either way, read on…

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. Ask a Question, Press Play, For each question following, press the next button to get your answer.
3. Try the questions below for starters
(most of which are getting passed around the ‘net already)
4. You must write that song name down no matter how silly/bad taste it makes you look.
(hey we all know friends/family send us tunes… cause that’s certainly not my copy of “Don’t Stop Believin’”)
5. Title your comment/post what the answer to your last question is.
6. Good luck and have fun!

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just for the fun of it i threw in quotations from a few of the songs that popped up as they were playing…
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IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?

“Seed” Abandoned Pools, Humanistic

“you don’t have to do this if all you want is love.”

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?

“Cradle And All” Ani DiFranco, Not A Pretty Girl

“take me home
take me home and leave me there
think i’m going to cry, i don’t know why
think i’m going to sing myself a lullaby
feel free to listen
feel free to stare.”

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?

” Gloria” Ariel Quintana, Mass from two Worlds

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

“Bank of Boston Beauty Queen” D.D. A is for Accident

“all this talk and no action’s got me stiff from the tit to the bone oh
so im living in lala land - but at least im not living at home
same old catcalls, the same old chemicals
same old thrills stealing stockings from the shopping mall

love’s not good enough, i want photographs.”

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?

“A Knife In The Dark” Howard Shore, The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring
(…that’s intense)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?

“African Sunset,” Zap Mama, Seven

WHAT DO YOU OFTEN THINK ABOUT?

“A Girl Named Hope,” Atmosphere, God Loves Ugly

“oh-oh, they’ve found me. Loneliness surrounds me.”
“And these are the words that disturb the earth
When I walk away with your Hope”

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

lol, “Polar Opposites,” Modest Mouse, The Lonesome Crowded West

“And I know I should go but I’ll probably stay
And that’s all you can do about some things
I’m trying to drink away the part of the day
That I cannot sleep away”

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?

“All This Time,” Sting, Soul Cages

“What good is a used up world and how could it be
Worth having”

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

“Spiritual Spiral,” Cirque De Soleil, Dralion

“way down the weighing ball indigo violins of??” –> can’t understand this guy- i think i’m way off lol.

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?

“Mess,” Ben Folds Five, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

haha- [this one’s good, although i was kinda hoping for ‘Hit me With Your Best Shot.”]
“Can’t Let Go,” Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

“Well it’s over, I know it, but I can’t let go.”

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?

“In Pieces,” Linkin Park… oh-well, i guess in a way this scares me.

“there’s truth in your lies.”

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

“Stupid,” Sarah McLachlan

WHAT IF I CAN’T FIND THE CONNECTION BETWEEN MY QUESTION & THE SONG?

“Mrs. Bartolozzi,” Kate Bush, Aerial; A Sea Of Honey

“ohh and the waves and coming in, ohh and the waves are going out
ohh and the waves and coming in, ohh and the waves are going out
out of the corner of my eye i think i see you standing outside,
but it’s just your shirt hanging on the washing line waving it’s arm as the wind blows by…
and it looks so alive…
washing maching
washing machine
washing
machine
slishy sloshy slishy sloshy get the dirty shirty clean…
everything clean
and
shiny.”

Go ahead try it. Don’ t be shy.
AND Don’t forget to get a couple free songs from my site to add to the mix.

<3,
molly zenobia

Our priorities are skewed. Since when in our history as a country or state has it ever been a good thing to put discrimination into our constitution? While we’re at it, why don’t we make interracial marriages illegal again too? Cause that got us real far.

Why not spend all the money thrown into California YES on 8 into something that will help people? REALLY help people. Like… to families loosing their homes, or to help people in their community with unemployment. Putting Prop 8 before the real issues of this country makes me sad.

maybe that’s why people have more faith in the virtual.

Ever feel like Winnie the Pooh would make a good mate?
Have you ever
thought damn, that yogi the bear is one hot mo fo?
Or maybe you’re really REALLY into Bill Plympton cartoons. If so
there is hope yet for you:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/30/2405987.htm

What happens when virtual domestic violence comes into play?
Check out the woman who killed her virtual husband: 

 
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3060543.html

Honestly though… are people going to be able to marry inanimate
objects/characters when gays cant marry in California? Cause that’s just sad. 

So in light of all this, I’ve come up with a few virtual come-on lines:

they might work well in a virtual bar, over a virtual drink…

“You’re wearing my favorite pixels tonight.”

“Your X, Y, and Z axis are smokin’”

 
“If I told you you had nice connection points, would to render them against me?”

“Hey baby, wanna keyframe to my place?”

“Mind if I grab you by the control handles?”

“Do you have a USB in your pocket? Cause I can see myself in your operating systems.”

“Wanna plug-and-play?”

“Can my touch-pad be your interface for the night?”

“Can my joystick be your interface for the night?”

“Hi, I’m new to Ruby, can you give me a tour of your code?”

“I’ve gotta joystick with your name on it.”

“I’ve gotta touch-pad with your name on it.”

“Do you have an HID in you? Would you like one?”

“Wii me if I’m wrong, but is your name 11000011001000000111?”

“Let’s put our I/O together and see what pops up.”

“I’ll show you my modem, if you show me yours.”

“How about we memory-map your input to my output?”

“My embedded system is all about me, but tonight I can make it about you.”

“My micro-controller is hard-ware for you baby.”

“Your soft-ware makes me hard-ware for you.”

That’s it for now. But if you use any of these on me, I’ll slap your hard-ware so hard you’ll forget your motherboard.

love,
~molly zenobia

This one really got me this morning. Just wanted to share.

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and just for fun, Les Misbarak…

Come on you old pest fetch a bottle of your best. What’s the nectar of the day?

I love him, but when the night is over
He is gone. The river’s just a river
Without him, the world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers
I love him, but every day I’m learning,
All my life I’ve only been pretending!!!
Without me, his world will go on turning
The world is full of happiness that I have never knownnnnnn!!!!!
I love himI love himI love him…
But only on my own…
(sniffle)

lalala
~molly

48 film festival, translation? NO SLEEP.

I love living on the edge.

My cousin asked for my help in this national film festival to do the score. He was given the theme spy, and in one weekend had to write, film and edit, then in less than one day I had to do the score.

Needless to say I hear a millions things I would do much differently, blah blah blah, but there isn’t enough time to think about it, let alone do it.

Besides I was already overwhelmed playing violin parts, when I can’t play the violin.

It’s up on facebook if you want to check it out.

http://www.new.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=45997090585&oid=58868865936

e-mail me if you can’t get there, it might be because you need to be on it, or a friend, or something like that.

mollyzen [at] mollyzenobia [dot] com

Congratulations to my cousin Josh. (i’m so proud

~mz.