There IS a soundtrack for Mildred Pierce!!!!!!!!!!!

I will DEFINITELY be picking that up!!!!!!

Also, the new Dustbowl Revival album is out today!!!! I'll be picking that up as well!!!!

Also also, tickets for The Coronas show in April go on sale today -- including a show in Chicago!!!!!!!  I'm so giddy!!!!!!

I fell in love with their sound after hearing Heroes or Ghosts on an RTE station I streamed in college for new music, and just fell in adoration!!! but then they went ages and ages NOT touring the States while on a label. For like, 7 YEARS I kept waiting for them to come play in the States but could only see them overseas and couldn't afford their ticket prices there. Because they're a big fucking deal Irish rock band. They sell out MASSIVE ballrooms/halls and stadiums in the UK and EU but then they come to the States and play the tiniest little club shows.  Anyway, everyone has heard my excited proselytizing of them by this point, lol.

But they're coming back!!!!!! And Chicago is the only date anywhere near me!!!!

Also, in the "it's a small world" column, the lead singer Danny is actually Aoife Scott's first cousin. So we saw her right before going to see The Coronas in St. Louis and she insisted we tell him she said hi. They played The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill and there were maybe 35 people there - which they told us was humbling but exciting like when the band first formed.  Anyway. Post show, Danny hopped down from the stage to have a beer and chat with people who were hanging around and we greeted him, "Your cousin Aoife told us to tell you hi and give you hugs from her." he laughed and said, "That is the most Irish thing that has ever happened to me in America." Then after another round of hugs "for Aoife" he asked us how we knew her.

Also, Mikaela has THE most adorable teenybopper "I'm going to melt in the ground and hide right now because he sees me" crush on Danny EVER!!!

I watched parts 3 & 4 of Mildred Pierce tonight -- but I'll wait on Part 5. Still need to find the novel. And the original film noir movie of it.

Also, remember me saying how 2011/2012 was a great year in film scores? It's also when We Banjo 3 got together as a band formally and 2012 Irishfest was their first gig in the States, at Milwaukee Irishfest, and what launched their entire career. And I was there for 2 of their 3 shows that weekend.

Anyway, all of this gives me the giddies!!!!!  As do Dave's Insta stories full of inside jokes again.

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Unrelated but important:
I have internally decided that I am not going to allow myself to write anything further here whatsoever about Delta Rae or about Eric. Not receiving that email (not the most recent one which I did get, but the one before that which Britt wrote and sent out about "The Woman & The Bull Part II" but which I somehow never received even though I'm on the mailing list and diehards list and kickstarter) was my final straw of putting up with the bullshit that has been thrown my way by the girls associated with Delta Rae since Fall of 2018. I have not unfollowed or unliked or removed myself from any lists, I had decided I would not until after the release of The Light and I intend to stand by that.

That being said, there is absolutely NO MEANS OF REPAIRING anything with me or gaining me back as a fan or Eric having any chances of even reaching me again in this life WITHOUT addressing the way I have been and still am being treated, the blocking on the band Instagram page, and making right the wrongs that Britt & Jessie & Liz have been guilty of on the official band accounts since Jessie came onboard got involved with the band.  If you don't acknowledge and heal this damage, then it's over. That's my final word.

I am using all social media and emails that I see from the band or any member of it to calm myself from being reactionary and work to train myself in the indifference of having no emotional reactions whatsoever no matter what they say, do, or create. I am attempting to train myself to make my heart un-fuck-with-able by them as a collective and by each of the members individually. I refuse to be any further manipulated by the bullying behaviors I have been dealing with from the official band accounts. I am teaching myself not to have any emotional responses to anything from anyone involved with the band -- I am refusing to let them have space within my head or my heart at this point. Which is why no more writing about any of it here for me.

And that stance is NOT going to be altered without directly confronting and acknowledging and working to repair how fucked up the choices of actions made in the name of the band have been toward me since the Fall of 2018.

That's my final word on the matter unless you take the necessary actions to change my mind. You're out of chances and you're out of being able to charm me by making things I ought to love if you don't address this and fix it. And if you don't, I am walking away with every single piece of my heart intact and leaving none of them behind with the band or with any member thereof.  Because if you DON'T acknowledge and fix this, if you're too chicken shit to face the wrongs you've done (or that were done in your name) and  the facts of reality of the choices/actions pursued on official band accounts, then you don't fucking deserve any of my love or any pieces of my heart.