Friday the 13th

Greetings fellow creatures,

The first half of the Creature Sessions transpired in February. The creature crew lived in the studio together for a week and the splendiferous chemistry of musicianship and creativity crystallized into an immanently powerful recording!

Michael introduced her harmonious, euphonious cronies, James "Ichabod" Harwood (drums) of Austin,TX and Mike-E McKevitt on bass (E standing for "eminent" today) of San Francisco, CA, for the first time, to work together in proper session style with our luminary Creature. There is a congruence of meaning and sound in the music that has has stayed true to her vision while interconnecting the diligence and experimentation of her players.

Michael has taken it upon herself to completely engineer the record! Her creative intent is guiding all aspects of artistic execution. She is always in service to the work while challenging her talented collaborators. Fortunately, she is spiritedly supported by her soul-mate and couterpart, Mathew, who helps with assisting the board and is contributing harmonica! These are the creative creatures who are preparing for the last half of the anticipated Creature Sessions album, which we would like to announce will be released on pink vinyl later this year!

Other-worldly delights inspired our all star players. Alongside Mike-E's night sky, sparkle purple, Rickenbacker bass (say it 7 times really fast), a propitious meteorite fireball streaked across Austin while the song "Star Child" was being tracked. It was originally suspected to be remnants from the recent satellite crash. Oh yeah, and our little mercury spill, but we won't talk about that!

Get your ticket money out your elephant pinky bank! The 9th annual M.A.L.I. Women's Film and Performance Arts Festival is showcasing the hottest women in fashion, film, and music! So of course, Michael Scott Parker will be there! All the proceeds go to at-risk teen girls. "This event is the number one source to experience innovative multi-media art in Austin,TX. Festival dates are May 28-31." We will update you on the stages and times Creature Rock will be performing!

Michael is humbled to be recognized as a luminary to so many people. Recently, she fulfilled another request to a scholar of numeral systems from Slovene, by the name of Janko Gorenc, who asked Michael to contribute her "dream language" Euthinethany's numbers to his research database of various natural and con-language systems. Janko's project consists of numbers in 14,000 sets (languages / dialects in both natural and conlangs together)! There is an update of the numbers Michael contributed on her art page.

We have had such an outpouring of appreciation from our international fans recently! We would like to thank all of you who have been writing to Michael! We are so happy to hear the music is spreading all the way out to Germany, Poland, the UK and China! Due to popular demand, with the huge number of requests for autographed photos for those of you who don't get to see Michael perform in the US, we are offering them for a limited time with purchase of a CD, T-shirt, or small print of Michael's art (see art and music pages). With the cost of shipping mail around the globe, this helps us get Michael to all of you! Michael hopes to reach all her fans with autograph requests. And keep writing in! We love hearing about all you creatures rocking out there!!

So many amazing polymaths out there! One of our favorite places to read about intelligent art is the wonderful MAKE magazine. We want to send big love and congratulations to our steampunk artist compatriots featured in the current issue MAKE:17 - Molly Friedrich and Jake von Slatt! Jake (on the cover with his Incredible Wimshurst Spark Generator) reviewed the album Naked back in 2008. Molly "Porkshanks", a Seattle-based costume / jewelry artist, made Michael's creature goggles for stage, that we've had so many compliments on! Be sure to read her article on building the "Discreet Companion" ladies' raygun! There is also a great article on one of Michael's all time favorite creators, William Blake, and his process of "illuminated printing."

Enhance your eloquence with a trio of homonyms plus one...

immanent - of God, permanently pervading and sustaining the universe.
eminent - Exalted in dignity, character, quality: majestic in sound.
imminent - Impending, soon to happen.
luminary - A source of intellectual, moral, or spiritual light.

Create a Masterpiece with your life! -----

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Sweet Good-byes to San Francisco

She's a song bird, she's a plane, she's a shooting star!

Hello All! Beautiful people far and dear...

'Tis true, I have been aviating around the planet a bit this past month and half. Exploring Portland to Texas. And I should probably let you all know that I am hitting the road in a moving van Friday and waving sweet good-byes to San Francisco.... Helloo Austin! Amazing synchronicities, signs pointing, and symbols strengthening my soul, have led my spirit again. With the 5 months of strict recording ahead of me (Creature Sessions), opening into a bigger recording studio space and bringing new energy into the rooms with me, will set this album on fire! Although I adore my little studio here in the heart of the city by the bay, everything is bigger in Texas, (that's what they say:) Austin has really captured my heart and soul! Some of you know that I am writing a manifesto on the creative lifestyle and my journey/process. My good friend, Alban, encouraged me to write about my intuitive nature and life as the "work" that I do. My music and art are really just the discipline I use to learn about myself. My work is more about following the directions of the All Knowing Universe. Trust me that good "work", art and spirit, writing and performing are Austin's voice to me.

Onward... the subject of writing, art and music and other adventures:

Thanks so much to TRUE SAKE! For having Michael perform and publishing her spotlight writing for their 5th anniversary! If you have a second, please read the article Michael wrote about True Sake, and what they wrote about her! As a lover and enthusiast of rice wine, she was honored to get to write and perform for her favorite store in Hayes Valley! Love you Beau, Miwa, and Lynette!

In case you haven't heard of photojojo, check out this great resource for photography online! Michael, her husband Mathew, and her brother Sebastian, recently modeled for photojojo's upcoming book of cool projects you can do with photographs, as compiled from their newsletter techniques! Michael modeled hand bags and spy cameras on her pink scooter. And Michael, Mathew, and Sebastian were immortalized into dolls of themselves:) Be sure to get a copy of the book when it comes out! Super fun projects!

As a side project, Michael did some production designing on a short film and spent a few weeks score composing and learning Sibelius. With this software, Michael is learning to arrange sheet music for big pieces. (Michael hopes to release a book of her sheet music alongside Creature Sessions.) Michael searched out artists to commission props for the film, and with great luck found Molly Friedrich and Jake Von Slatt. These exceptional artists are the revolutionary heart of the great steampunk art of this era! Molly built Michael the aviator creature goggles she wears in the picture above, and has been a great inspiration to Michael while defining the visual apect of her new record. The concepts of blackbird, her spirit guide, traveling, being from the stars, and an aviating creature of the sky, are being assembled. Thank you Molly for my beautiful goggles as I travel, body and spirit! And thanks Jake for the great write up on your site! If you want to be blown away and inspired with the genius of today and the aesthetics of the past, try to make their show, Anachrotechnofetishism, in Seattle, WA - Oct.3rd.

Also, hook up a good friend and let them know about how to sign up for Michael's Creature News. Just enter their e-mail address at the top right of the front page of creaturerock.com. We love meeting more music lovers!

HUGE LOVE TO YOU ALL!!!!!! -----

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