34th Street ACE - What's the deal?

Can someone explain to me why the express and local trains run on opposite platforms at Penn Station? Peter Sand?? Anyone??

It has perplexed me for years. Here I am, standing on the express downtown side and TWO local trains have gone by on the other side of the platform. Oh wait, make that 3 now. Either track will take me to the L train and home to Williamsburg, I just always seem to choose the wrong one. Extra not fun as I'm often in this predicament after an Amtrak ride from Boston.

I'm not complaining about travel as it is such a bummer when people do. Traveling is a privilege. Louis CK sums that up nicely in the following clip.  I first saw this on a yoga teacher's FB page, and it's been passed around through a few circles of friends.  I LOVE the wifi on the story.  



But what's the deal with the tracks at this station? Engineering error? Somethinbg I'm missing? Help me people!

Oh, yay, the A train just showed up. At least I get bberry service down here.

Back to Whitesmith land.

xo
sent without wires

SXSW Past and Present

In 2003, I asked Amanda Palmer if I could tour manage The Dresden Dolls on their first "national" tour.  Sans summer of NIN and Europe 2005, that first tour remains my fave.  

Me & AP on said tour @ a SXSW party in 2004.

 

This year, 2009 Amanda was making her debut as a solo artist.  

• The NME dug Amanda @ The Paste Party
  
• A 6th Street pillow fight with Vermillion Lies ended in love
• AP did an impromptu gig with John Wesley Harding to entertain folks in line for the panel she was about to speak on
• Thanks again to @IanCRogers, for having Amanda on "Do A 360 Deal With Yourself"
• I love love loved Amanda's show @ the Central Presb. Church.  It was beautiful, epic, & featured a sit in by Margaret Cho.
• The LA Times wrote all about it.

And our 2009 hair is shorter.

Margaret played about town as well, debuting songs @ the Myspace party, Velveeta Room, Esther Follies, and Perez's party.  I think I can relate to every song she played. :)  Download "Eat Shit and Die" HERE.

I had a blast hanging out with Alina Simone last night.  Everyone should come out to her 5/21 show @ Union Hall.  Alina, Amanda, and Eugene Mirman are a trio Lexington, MA high school friends, and it's a pleasure to witness all of their careers continue to grow.

A lot more happened, but I'm hitting the wall.  Fave non-Whitesmith shows were Graham Coxon @ the Q party & just plain seeing Bobby Gillespie @ breakfast.  Thanks so much to Ja-rone, Kristan, Beth, Lydia, and Katrina for their help this week.  And of course, yay for Keri and Jenny Applebuam hang time.

x 

Introducing Whitesmith Entertainment, Inc.

Hello Wizzle World Readers!

Keri Smith Esguia and I are proud announce the official launch of our company, Whitesmith Entertainment, Inc.

Whitesmith Entertainment is a full service management company based in New York and Los Angeles with consulting services available within all artist rights. Please check out our press release for additional information on our company and artists.

We are honored to manage the following clients, with more to be announced shortly:

MARGARET CHO

• Stand-up comedy legend, working on her debut music comedy album, Guitarded, slated for a 2010 release, and currently writing with Tegan & Sara, Ben Lee, Amanda Palmer, Jon Brion, Patty Griffin, Kaki King, The New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene, and more.
• Filming Drop Dead Diva this summer for Lifetime Television.
• Making her debut to the music industry this week @ SXSW, which she discussed with Time Magazine.

AMANDA PALMER

• Frontwoman for The Dresden Dolls, songwriter, author, internet phenom, actress, yogi, and activist released her debut solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer in 2008, produced by Ben Folds (Please e-mail us to request a digital and/or physical album).
• Recently wrapped up a world tour, selling out dates in London, Paris, Dublin, and three nights at the Sydney Opera House Theatre. Check out Amanda's performance & antics on Australian national TV.
• Who Killed Amanda Palmer book to be released in June with text by esteemed author NEIL GAIMAN. The album also spawned a video for each song, which can be viewed HERE and will be released on DVD June 2nd.

SARA BENINCASA 2009 ECNY award winner for her Sarah Palin vlogs, which garnered rave reviews from CNN, BBC, and The New York Times.

• Check out Sara's latest clip, parodying The Reader as requested by Youtube prior to this year's Academy Awards.
• Watch for a lot more from Ms. Benincasa in 2009, who is an MTV correspondent, host of Get In Bed on Sirius' Cosmo Radio, creator of NYC's Gossip Girl Summit, and will be launching her interview series, Gettin' Wet w/ Sara B later this year.

SELENE LUNA

• Selene is the break-out star of VH1's The Cho Show and has been touring nationally doing stand-up, opening for Margaret Cho.
  
• Recent film appearances include My Bloody Valentine 3-D and check out her amazing "Madonna and Child" comedy video, starring as Lourdes Ciccone.

IAN HARVIE

• Ian Harvie is the world's first transgendered comedian and host of The Ian Harvie show @ Largo in Los Angeles.
• Currently writing and developing The Manologues and touring nationally at universities.

Also, for those of you who will be in Austin this week, we invite you to stop by Margaret and Amanda's shows and panel, with info in the attached fliers.

To stay up to date on all things Whitesmith Entertainment:
Become A Fan on Facebook
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Please email us directly with questions and inquiries. We are psyched!

Thanks so much,
Emily, Keri, and Team Whitesmith

Emily White
Whitesmith Entertainment, Inc.
New York/Los Angeles
www.WhitesmithEntertainment.com

Amanda on Good News Week in Australia

So hot.

Love,

Em Wizzle xo

CSA and Net News Wire

Hello All!

As most of you know, I moved back home to Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Awesome!

We will be formally announcing and publicly launching our super rad new company, Whitesmith Entertainment, this week. More on that shortly.

In the meantime, I want to encourage everyone to support their local farmer's market. CSA programs (Community Supported Agriculture) are becoming more popular and my roommates and I just signed up for the Williamsburg-Greenpoint pick up. What does this mean? Peeps like us can pre-order vegetables, eggs, fruits, and flowers in advance from a local organic farm. Yum! It's healthy, mega environmentally friendly, and supports local farms. DO IT!!!!

In other semi geeky news, I thought most peeps knew about RSS readers.  I've been using Net News Wire for over a year to subscribe to about 200 blogs and websites in real time.  So in case you don't have a system in place, I highly recommend New News Wire as an RSS Reader.  Two people told me it changed their life this week after I suggested it, so I figured I'd post it here. Enjoy!

Also, I signed up for Twitter in August but am finally active on the Twitter train: http//www.twitter.com/emwizzle

I will try to to keep Wizzle World updated.  I started this blog when I moved to Miami, to keep in touch with friends and avoid the boredom of not being in NYC.  But now I'm home for good, and am crazed with our company and am constantly at events.  I will try and post about all of these fun things, but life is short.  Feel free to add me on Facebook for brief updates/photos/links/event announcements of all things Wizzle, Whitesmith, and beyond.

Love,

Emily White xo

PS - Off to the ECNY's tonight where Sara Benincasa is up for 3 awards.  In her words, ZOMG SO AWESOME!!!