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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Makes a big sister proud...My brother-in-law sent me this e. He's working hard for a great cause, thought
I'd share. What's up friends, family, fellow lovers
of animals,
First of all, sorry if you hate mass emails. You know this isn't like me. Second: Please read
this anyways. Es muy importante.
The 2008 Walk for Farm Animals is fast approaching, and I've received the
dubious honor of being the chief coordinator of New York City events. This annual event has been taking place in Central Park
for nearly 10 years, and this year is gonna be the best yet.
The Walk is a fund and awareness raising event for
Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization. They do vital work sheltering and advocating
for abused farm animals. Farm Sanctuary operates the two largest farm animal shelters in the nation, and they also have some
amazing campaigns to eliminate the worst practices in animal agriculture. Right now, they're working hard to ensure the
passage of Proposition 2 in California, which would ban several of the most cruel aspects of factory farming in the state.
To learn more about this amazing organization, please see www.farmsanctuary.org.
This year's Walk, scheduled
to take place on Sunday, September 28th at noon and beginning at Merchant's Gate in Columbus Circle, will include a walk
around beautiful Central Park with tons of outreach opportunities, and then end back at the Circle, where there will be live
music (afrobeat allstars Shokazoba and indie songstress Bess Rogers), delicious (and free!) vegan food (from the Groovy Baker),
appearances by leaders in the animal protection movement (including Princess Superstar, Vegan Ironman champion Brendan Frazier,
Senator Liz Kreuger and Farm Sanctuary Executive Director Jeff Lydon), and raffles for some incredible prizes. In short: this
is going to be awesome.
If you are interested in walking with me, you can learn more at: www.walkforfarmanimals.org
and registering at www.firstgiving.com/farmsanctuary.
But here's the meat (okay, bad pun) of
why I'm writing you: if you can't make it but still want to support Farm Sanctuary, it would be great if you could
sponsor me by going to my donations page: www.firstgiving.com/pigasus. Thanks so much for your support!
Please forward this far and wide to any animal lovers you may know!
All my love, Cody
10:36 am pdt
Monday, August 4, 2008
Ooops!Yeah, make that 1981!!!
12:53 pm pdt
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Happy Birthday, MTV!It was 27 years ago... Around 6:30
pm August 1, 1891, we all, that the first MTV staff, crew, execs, and VJ's, climbed onto a school bus and drove
to a little restaurant in Fort Lee, New Jersey, The Loft. A school bus. Can you imagine? This is what we all took to
the MTV launch. The Loft was chosen because it was the only restaurant we could find in the NYC vicinity who's cable company
was taking a chance on adding this crazy new basic cable service called MTV. To honor the occasion, Jordan and I packed our hour with as many of the first videos as we could, we got to number
15. It's funny 'cause out of 15 it's the second Rod Stewart video. We didn't have many videos back then to
when a top artist had more than one they were in heavy rotation! One of
my favorite tracks in the hour is "Little Susie's On The Up" by PhD fronted by Scottish singer Jim Diamond.
It's a steamrolling old-school (and I'm talking one-room schoolhouse!) rock track. The only copy we could find was
pretty poor quality but we cleaned it up as best we could, and shortened it a bit so it wasn't excruciating, but since
we did include it, we have an official first 15! Then I got the idea to
try to track down Geoff Downes, keyboard player for, not just Yes and Asia, but for the Buggles. He called me from his iPhone
in England. The line is a bit rough, but it's worth it to hear him share what goes through his mind when he hears "Video
Killed The Radio Star" today, and what it was like for them back then to find themselves at the epicenter of the video
music revolution. August 1st always
sees a flurry of MTV staffers e-mails, and here's the one I sent out. It's pretty sappy but I'll run it by ya
anyway. I should mention that this was in response to one of the crew remembering they used to have Martini's with their
hamburgers at the Sam's, the diner on our little corner of Hell's Kitchen. What??? Who was drinking Martini's???
Remember that day we had no audio everybody had to come
back and do all our segments again? It's ALL MAKING SENSE NOW!!!
I can't believe it. 27 years ago
we were on the school bus, heading out to Fort Lee NJ. Jesus. I can remember being in that dark little basement watching
the blast-off, all of us holding our breaths, "is this really going to happen?" It was monumental
to me, and I was a newcomer, having graduated from NYU just a few weeks before. I can only imagine what it must have been
like for the crew who'd been envisioning MTV for so long. History can't repeat a moment like that. There can
be more, but that one stands tall as one of the greats. The thing I love about it the most is the thread of togetherness it wove through us all.
Ah, getting all sentimental out here in Malibu. Sure wish I was on 33rd and 10th for ONE OF THOSE MARTINI'S!
xoxoxoxoxo, Quinski
9:22 am pdt
Friday, July 18, 2008
Bret Spares YogiYou'll hear in the Bret Michaels show I ask him, "What was the last thing
you shot?" In case you're wondering how I came up with such a random question, I'd read this interview in PR.com
where the subject of hunting came up, and it seemed pretty interesting: Bret
Michaels: I'm an animal freak lover!! I do not kill any animal! However I do love to shoot. I grew up as a kid in Pennsylvania
learning to hunt, and I just decided for myself very early that it was not for me. I love animals and I'd rather save
them then kill them.
PR.com: Especially for sport. It doesn't make any sense.
Bret Michaels: Yeah,
it didn't for me. I'm like, "Hell, we got plenty of hamburger meat. Why do we have to kill this bear???"
So he told me about his archery a la Ted Nugent, and how, though he
loves to have "fun with his guns", he doesn't hunt anymore. Closing
the hour I said, "This labor of love has been a Radiobu production." I threw the "labor of love"
phrase in because when we put together our tribute shows, that's truly what it feels like. We craft and weave and sculpt,
all to present everyone in the best possible light. The featured artist, me, and all the bands who's music we're privileged
to play. We call the shows our "sonic symphonies." I hope you enjoy the Bret show as much as we enjoyed making it.
(btw I believe I stole that line from one of the Beatles, they said it on one of their Christmas records, referring to all
the albums they'd released in the past year.) xoxoxo, Martha p.s. It
was Paul, god bless the internet. Check it out: http://www.thebeatles.com.hk/lyrics/lyrics.asp?lyTitle=Another+Beatles+Christmas+Record Sorry you have to highlight and paste, no direct link from blog section. p.p.s. Have you ever heard Coldplay's song, "Yellow?" My husband thinks everyone
knows it but I'd never heard it. Just curious... p.p.p.s. Miss you already!
xoxoxoxo, Martha
10:06 am pdt
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Bret Michaels this weekend!This weekend we're airing our special, Martha Quinn Presents...Bret Michaels.
And what a great weekend to do it, he just announced he's doing Rock of Love 3! I posted a link over in the clicks section to Joe "Def Leppard" Elliot putting down some of the Sunset
Strip bands, and then you can check out Bret Michaels' response. I like it because he gets a bit gritty and emotional.
That clip gave me a sense of him as "kickin' ass and takin' names" Rockstar, more than his soft-spoken,
totally together-man interviews do. I like it. Bring it on! Though I do agree with his predominantly high-road stance of not
being derogatory about other people's music, and he even went on to say he liked a bunch of Def Lep tunes. That was a
good touch. We played a few tracks from his new album, Rock My World,
as well as some fave Poison tracks. I always love to hear about the brotherhood of musicians coming up through a similar time,
and he shares with me a bit about Axl and Motley and Van Halen.
3:33 pm pdt
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