a celebratory letter from Alanis

excited to have the last of the release days at hand...
there is always the night-before-final-public-sharing feeling in the pit of my stomach...
I am
familiar with it now..
I know it
visits for an
hour and then disappears forever, until the next expression is shared...
thoughts like:
how great
how dare you
how beautiful
how not
how imperative
how fun
how lovely
how terrifying
how perfectly natural...

a sensitive in a public crooner's body...

songs written for me, to get it all out so that I don't get sick...
to distill, clarify, flesh out, catapult...

the act of sharing it publicly done in the spirit of invitation...
the invitation to feel less shame, more allowance, more neutrality, validation, comfort,
self-definition in accordance, support...a bounce, a shoulder alongside...
the knowledge that you are never alone.
the gentleness toward my/your own humanity and it's many colors.

so the album goes from being mine to being yours overnight..

I offer it with a hug, a giggle, some sweat beads, a shrug and a high five....

and always always I offer it with truckloads of compassion, and love: trampoline-style :)

fun fun
loving you,
alanis

Source: alanis.com

"FOE" sightings in Manila

A friend called me to let me know that he already purchased the cd in Odyssey XL in Megamall.

So sounds like Warner Music Manila is slowly but surely distributing the cds to record stores in the city.

So please do get your "original" copy.

Are you from another city in another country?
If you've seen or purchased the cd in your location, please let us know, and will spread the word here.

:)

Today is the International release day of FoE

So today is the international release day for Flavors of Entanglement (FoE).

Cheers to all those people who was able to get it on time at their location!

As for Philippines, Warner Music have not been able to release it, so presumably it was delay and it will be seen on display in the coming days.

I'll keep my ears open.

Meanwhile, please request & vote for Underneath, that can now be heard on Jam 88.3, and hopefully on NU 107 anytime soon.