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Vision is a powerful tool. A great musician once told Michael, "If you can visualize your fingers playing the song, it is more effective than practicing hours and hours a day." The more we can imagine and visualize, the greater our accomplishments can be. As a visionary, Michael "sees" how she wants to be involved and ways she can connect and grow. The bigger the community you have, the more vision you can create!

As you know, we have been sharing in a greater mission by cultivating a mind state of sustainability, with our sisters in the arts, for the M.A.L.I. Festival. The festival catalyzed opportunities to connect with the Austin community. We've pulled together resources with the artists at GAGA, repurposed materials in a creative way, making our show attire from donations, got the kids involved with the process of being in a creative community, making band merchandise and learning music with Michael.

The GAGA GALA was a special event. Michael contributed her time and creativity to appreciative participants, who brought her vision into reality.. the construction of her performance materials with the talents of her fans.

This Thursday, May 21, South Congress St. Bridge, 7PM - We are having one final public appearance before the MALI Festival. We'll be hanging out together underneath the South Congress Bridge, with the Austin Bat Colony. Yes, real bats! They were kind enough to pose for our band poster. We'll be jamming, selling festival tickets, and painting together on the Creature Community Canvas! Come out and paint at sunset with the band. They might give you some cake.

And tomorrow, tune in to KOOP 91.7FM, at 11am to hear another local artist, Joanna Barbera and the director of the M.A.L.I Festival, P.O.W., do an in-studio interview on "What's a girl to do?"

And tune in again on May 25th, 11am for Michael's on-air appearance!! P.O.W. and Michael share their mission and their vision and set the stage for the Women's Film and performance Arts Festival, just 10 days away!!

Infinite thanks go out to our many collaborators/contributors who are essential to Creature Rock-

The short list includes James Harwood, Mikey McKevitt, Emily Boykin, Jessica Gaby, Lisa Stevens, and Albert and the Enchanted Forest. You can read about these and other singular creatures on the collaborators page recently updated at creaturerock.com.

Creature Vocabulary: Explicate your lexicon!

explicate- to expand or clarify.
lexicon- collection or inventory of words or a vocabulary. Like Michael's lexicon of her star language, Euthinethany.

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

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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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The Inevitable

Oh My!! Congratulations to our new visionary President-elect! Back in September, an extraordinarily vivid vision came to Michael in the early morning, where her room turned white with light, and she experienced a Godly presence. She was informed by this vision that Obama would "raise the consciousness of the people," and saw him move effortlessly through a parted crowd, and ascend to a podium. He opened his mouth and light flooded from his eyes, mouth, and ears. Her prediction was realized last night during his acceptance speech in Chicago. The human spirit, rooted in the field of all possibilities, is the heart center of the American soul. And baby, we got soul!

The spirits are still dancing from last week's pre-halloween show, and Michael the Minstrel Muse is inviting you again out to Jovita's in South Austin on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 6:30PM, to release your inner creature! Wear your Oh My! t-shirt or pick one up at the show.

Check out the lo-fi youtube clip of the still vibrantly-shining star child! May we suggest subscribing to the Creature Rock youtube channel as well...

Michael's been taunting us with unreleased tunes from her upcoming Creature Sessions, and vows to prestidigitate with her Euthinethany-covered piano at a gig soon, maybe next Wednesday will be the show!

Don't miss her performances, as they are limited in number by her recording schedule!

Michael and Michael's (McKevitt) recording in Austin, though extremely concentrated, proved magical in printing.

Can't wait for the next round of rocking and "rolling" when he comes back for the other half of the sessions in January. Thanks Mike-E!

And thank you, Mathew for the amazing photos of history in the making. Mathew has been Michael's primary photographer for the past 6 years at live performances and for press, and has photographed prominent rock photographers at work with Michael. If any bands are looking for a photographer with years of experience shooting musicians and live performance, you can reach Mathew through Oh My! Music. Contact us with your request.

Let's take this opportunity to share in the oneness the world is experiencing because of the historic event of Obama's ascension. The more you participate, the more value you create.

Remember,

"Change is inevitable...

Growth is optional."

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

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Elephants in Texas

Hello Beautiful People!

The recording studio in Austin is beyond the previous expectations of Oh My! Music. Michael and the Pink Elephant muses are soaring through the the skies of the Creature Sessions, revealing an album deep in her soul's consciousness. Who said elephants can't fly?

The song entitled "Blackbird" is predominantly Michael's passionate piano and spirited vocals. She stated that the entire wave form of the audio at the printing desk looks just like birds flying! "I'll sing a harmony and it resembles another blackbird with its wing span protracted. I know then, that I have sung it correctly."

The Pink Elephant studio is anticipating the arrival of Michael's San Francisco bassist and great friend, Mike McKevitt, flying in to record in the coming weekend! Yay!

Michael Creature will performing some new tunes from the Creature Sessions at Jovita's in Austin, on October 28th, at 6:30pm. She will be introducing herself to the locals that day. Come out and meet her!

As she has been meeting her new neighbors in the Music Capital, people keep asking her, "Where are YOU FROM?!" Some of you fans say she is from Andromeda (albeit her star language). Michael's wikipedia entry says she was raised around the globe. (yeah she's in the encyclopedia these days) The rockin' review from West Coast Performer Magazine says she's "seemingly risen from the sea!"

But Michael will tell you....."I'm from the future. We manifest things instantaneously there and we do a lot of dancing. It's an amazing place."

- Check out her article at West Coast Performer
- Check out her Wikipedia entry
- Check out Jovita's

And Check out opportunities to work with Michael Creature at Oh My! Music.

If you have expertise in your art form and want to contribute talents to the making of Creature Sessions or inquire about other projects, send her your info at michael@creaturerock.com

Many blessings from the sky!

M and M Management
Oh My! Music

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Rocking San Francisco

Oh My! rocks the Bay View Boat Club in San Francisco. Thanks to Mike McKevitt for standing in on bass guitar, and big thanks to Mike Dingle for inviting us back!

Check out a video of them performing "Good with a Knife" on youtube.

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