Archive: September 28, 2005

Wow, I'm on the cover of a newspaper! It's kind of crazy. I didn't think that it was coming out until tomorrow morning, so when I glanced at the newspaper box on my way home from work, I kind of had a massive shock. Seriously, I started sweating profusely. And then self-consciously tried to grab a bunch of copies without anyone noticing that I was the person on the cover. I'm such a rockstar.
But it is very exciting, and I'm quite happy with the whole thing. I was terrified when I learned that it was going to be a profile shot for the cover, because I'm quite self-conscious about my profile, but the shot is really cool, and, while I haven't suddenly gotten over my hangups, I can stand looking at it, and appreciate it as a good photo. The article is also quite good. I wasn't overly misquoted, although, for the record, I never worked with the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (they haven't really been around since I started working on pro-choice stuff, and now they don't exist at all), and I prefer to identify as queer, rather than lesbian. It's funny that when you only talk about dating girls, they write lesbian. And finally, I didn't say that I didn't want to write about queer stuff because I didn't want to hit people over the head with it. I said that I'm wary of writing political songs in general because it's easy for them to become didactic, and no one wants that. Although, really, if those things are the extent of the misquoting, I think I can be pretty happy about this endeavour. It's just so bizarre suddenly being on the front cover of something, even if it is relatively small and local. I'm hoping that this will help get over the hump of only having friends, and friends of friends, know about my music (even though you guys are obviously the best fans I could possibly ask for). And I'm glad that I come across as fairly geeky in the article because, hey, I am fairly geeky.
So, if you are someone who I don't know who is reading this because of the article, then, huzzah! And welcome, of course.
It's the beginning of big things, my friends. Big queer things. Ha.
So, to coincide with the MASSIVE PRESS COVERAGE (I'm joking, in case that's not blatantly obvious), there are all kinds of updates on the site, in particular some musings on independent music and pro-choice activism, both of which I hold very, very dear to my heart, and a few pictures from the CD release show in July.
And now, in the tradition of, well, my website, we will end on a picture. This is a goodbye-to-summer picture (it would have fit better with my last post, but c'est la vie), of the DELICIOUS blackberry pies my dear friend Nicholas and I baked, after going to pick all the berries and getting trapped in the thicket and playing with bunnies (okay, we tried to play with them, and they ran away, but that's a kind of playing, I suppose). I hope you're all well. As usual, keep me entertained while I'm slyly checking my personal e-mail at work by writing me at info@lesleyhoyles.com. Hope to see you on OCTOBER 14TH. Go look at the dates page for more information on that one.