Shanna and the Zellots: Blog

Dear Public Diary,
It's early Saturday morning. I wasn't planning to be awake, but the sunlight pouring in through the windows nudged me to get up a bit earlier than I had hoped (i.e. 7:30 am as opposed to a lazier 10 am). I'm laying in bed looking around my new studio apartment thankful for this quiet, clean 250 sq foot corner of Brooklyn.  Most thankful that my A/C is still pumping cold air in this 80-90+ degree weather.
The Pledge Campaign was revealed on my birthday (7/14) with a huge response: 20% raised in the first 24 hours. It's such an incredible feeling to know that people are behind my music and my vision. My ideal situation would be to exceed my goal in order to raise money for The SAMFund, an organization near and dear to my heart. One step at a time. We have until September 14th to rock this, and rock we shall.
As we are nearing breakfast time and my stomach is starting to growl, I would like to share an insightful lyric I wrote back in high school, circa age 16:
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Dear Friends, Fans, Family, everyone -
Things are certainly happening on the music front. Not quite sure what I'm ready to share, but within a week, lots of updates, new videos, and LOTS of info about the upcoming EP will be released into the world.
So please, please, stay tuned and keep checking into the blog, Facebook and Twitter pages!
I am working harder at keeping updates frequent and interesting.
Sorry if this one didn't quite make the mark.
xoxo,
S

P.S. Next show date is July 24th @ Banjo Jim's 9-11, where I'll be playing about 45 minutes of original music and then we'll roll into a Stevie Wonder tribute night.
P.P.S. For those of you who read this - there is an AWESOME poster (custom illustrated by my friend Andy) to promote the event. Yay!

Today I had a thought completely unrelated to music. It came about when I was strategizing ways to generate more of a buzz for my music, but I simply got distracted and hopped on an entirely different train. This thought, though not completely original, had to be shared with an audience and discussed.

If someone were to narrate your life (in real time), who would it be?

Mine, strangely enough, is Daniel Stern's voice, the narrator of Kevin Arnold's life (Fred Savage) in The Wonder Years. (I tried to insert a fun video clip here but it looks like copyright matters have prevented YouTube from sharing the love).
Why is it that when I have inner monologue, it's never narrated by my own voice?
In fact, why isn't it even a woman's voice? Ha!

So now you tell me who would narrate your life and, if you so please, why...and I promise someday, somehow, I'll relate this back to music.

xoxo,
Shanna

Dear fans, friends, family and fellow music-lovers, I have never really felt the need to blog. I have an established online presence, enjoy reading what other people have to say about music, books, film, fashion and pop-culture at large, but have feared the repercussions of exposing my perspective on well, anything to the ENTIRE world.
Time to change that.
At the very least, I would like to use this blog as a way to document the experience of embarking upon a new project (my upcoming EP) and would like to share the experience with you. I welcome ideas, comments, criticism and of course, love.
We begin our journey tonight at a meeting with producer Jeff Berner of GaluminumFoil studios in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who I recorded with this past Spring for my friends' The Ramblers album, "Getting There." Tonight we'll work through basic pre-production ideas, discuss our timeline, budget and how to make this EP a success.
I have a few ideas up my sleeve. I have a fire in my belly. I have [...]