Linda Strawberry

the sewing needles are flying!
fabric torn asunder and the pieces throw back together
color cacophony!

im done moving.
im
dead
on
my
feet.

but.. SO EXCITED to be a part of the pageant event on tues. april fools day.
natalia is a hot young successful painter and this version of a "pageant" is based on the characters in her paintings.
www.myspace.com/nataliafabia

it should be wild. i have NO idea what to expect. but i will be performing a song and dancing around and wearing a hillarious dress. so...
if you are in hollywood come to the dragonfly on tues night..
:)

ok time to go do some situps because i have to wear that lime green one piece thingy and im scuurrreeddd.

here are a few shots of me and lovely audrey. my p.o.c.
p.s. justin coloma + me + audrey kitching is gonna be the craziest art house ever! CHAOS FACTORY!
( oh dont forget larry the fat cat who is hiding IN my boxspring mattress.. he’s afraid of the giant unicorn balloon in the kitchen... i guess we know who’d pop out of his closet in Monsters Inc.  )

















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are you going to bamboozle this weekend in irvine, CA? i’ll be there with audrey doing some signing for our skelanimals peta2 campaign if you wanna come say hi and hang out with us.. ill give you more details later in the week.

RED PAINTINGS TOUR!
ok.. ill be blogging writing so much about this coming up..
if you wanna help out street teaming go to www.myspace.com/teamstrawberry for details.
ill post some stuff up tomorrow.
so much to do! this month  going ot be BANANAS.
STRAWBERRY BANANA FLAVORED APRIL.

oooo and im gonna have a new lindastrawberry.com up.. where ill probably move my blog.. and be able to post lots more stuff thanks to uber.com
ive been trying to figure out where to put all my content and ive tried alot of sites out and i uber is run by artists so i think its the right place.
but more on that later..

until then..
if you are on facebook search for me and ill pop up..
im also on ilike on facebook

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also if you havent heard about lastfm.com its great!
it links to your itunes and you can share music with your friends..
http://www.last.fm/music/Linda+Strawberry
i just discovered it. :)

ok........ time to do situps and then sleep. we moved a fancy bed in. its like sleeping on clouds.
:)

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Rant. Monday 24. march.







im making a personal goal to try to get in the best shape of my life over the next six weeksi just want to. im feeling blah. everything that i want to do depends on me feeling great emotionally and physically and i feel kind of blah. so im gonna fix it. there’s no point in sitting around feeling sorry for myself. ;) im in an cafe with internet. the modem at home bit the dust. but we are moving in a week.. there’s alot of stress right now. but its all good stress. there’s
no time for me to get excited with anything. which is pissing me off. i
need to find something to feel crazy about for a week. haha. like bosch
was to me last week. but i think everythings gonna feel like it has the pause button on til we are done with the move. life is in boxes. and getting dusted off out of storage.. im
doing a fun fake pageant thing with the artist natalia fabia next
monday. and im petrified of the one piece american apparel (barf) thing
we are all wearing. but its really funny. so ill live. its just those
damn clothes leave nothing to the imagination. so we have to use our
imaginations to make them work i guess. but its really fun to try to
figure out what to wear for the rest.. i dont know if you are a fan of
natalia fabia’s art (yet) but she is great. www.myspace.com/nataliafabiai
was just thinking... with myspace and youtube we all try to look glam
in our pictures and have our "picture angles" down but i think it would
be a laugh to have an ugliest picture ever contest. you know when you
are with your friends making faces and laughing? the ugliest face
ever.. ugliest angle. im in if you are in. we could put them on one of
my galleries and have a laugh with each other. life. is so violent. we have to laugh. if
you think about the fact that we are these miniature organisms on this
itsy bitsy teenie tiny rock in an ever expanding endless universe it
makes the fact that we stress out over the tiniest things so comical.
we have to laugh! its all so hillarious. im stressing out over a lime
green bodysuit. gah. hahahahah. oh! but it is terrifying that i just saw that TWO people were murdered in my neighborhood this week. YIKES. *bites nails we are leaving but smash is staying. but.. me
and julie used to live in the WORST neighborhood... it was horrible.
there were CRACK addicts sleeping on my back lawn and a shoot out. yep.
good ole hell A. the other day i was reading a really good book
and wishing that i could be summed up like a character description..
like "bob smithereen - book collector, mother is deaf, is neurotic
about the order of his dishes in the cupboard, picks his nose on the
subway. etc. " you know what i mean? i feel like id need a different
character description for every hour of every day. anyway. this coffee is delicious. someone
was complaining on a site the other day about how everyone blogs these
days and how there’s no mystery anymore. no big superstars. etc. but i
couldnt disagree more with that way of thinking. i think its way
ballsier to write out REALITY. or your own version of it. but it has
started this universal dialogue. people writing poetry and writing
stuff they wouldnt have otherwise written or said or let out. i think
its important to our social psyche that we can change from hero worship
to celebrating people that we know are fallible and human but are
trying to do something great. because we’ve become so narcissistic and
self obsessed. so i think as a society we need to believe that we can
achieve great things again. not famous for bullshit. famous for acting
out. or acting a fool. or being "controversial" because really...
what’s really controversial anymore these days? not much. look at
all the shit people say to each other all over this site and youtube?
now that people can hide behind fake profiles and usernames they’ve
grown tiny balls to spew their fear everywhere. and media and companies
are trying to build upon controversy and that just falls apart so fast.
i hope things get so saturated and static that people start really
being attracted to talented people again. i think right now in our
culture we arent necessarily interested in people we think we can’t
beat. does that make sense? we are flocking to reality shows because i
think its something we can see ourselves doing too. everyone wants to
be famous. everyone wants to be the person in lights. but being that
person in lights is nothing like you’d imagine. its not that exciting.
its all smoke and lights. it doesnt solve anything. it doesnt change
anything. in fact if you are miserable now being famous makes you MUCH
MUCH more miserable. so i see it all around me. our priorities are
backwards. so i hope as a society we get more focused on setting our
standards high again. hmm.good morning. haha. oh ya.
and porn and nudity are everywhere so arent we all like big deal so
what yet? i am. yawn. another girl moves to l.a. to be an ’actress’ and
a year later is taking it all off for some site. borrrinnggg. porn is
boring. drugs are boring. self destruction is mind numbly boring.
breaking guitars and wearing leather pants is boring. we need to
recreate exciting. where are our angry smart young people. why arent we
breaking shit because of the war. or because our world is dying. or
because the rich bankers of the world are manipulating us like chess
pieces... we are asleep. sleepwalking into a recession. sleepwalking
into oblivion. how frustrating. god forbid we miss an episode of our
favorite "reality" tv show. hahahhaha. a;lsdjf;alsdkjf gah! what a
strange world. i wish i could write a song about how i feel about
the iraq war but it makes me so sick i cant even articulate it. what a
clusterfuck! oh. haha. the cover of The Onion is so funny. its
BLACK MAN ASKS NATION FOR ’change’//subheadline - Seen begging for
change in nearly every major city. .. or something like that. witty
social satyr. ;) i dont know who to vote for. i lean towards
hillary. but obama won major points with me over the last couple of
weeks. what did you guys think of that race speech? i was impressed by
it. oh politics make my head hurt in the morning. dont they
just make you feel so powerless? there’s just no way to know how much
is the truth and how much is political hot air. there are alot of angry
scared people in this country. im only afraid they’ll vote for mccain.
we arent the strongest country in the world anymore.. we cant afford to
vote in the wrong person. our dollar is weak. i wish i could get paid in euros too like that supermodel petra. haha. i love america for alot of reasons. and its always going to be home but i wish i lived in barcelona. perhaps. did
you have a nice easter? ashley is so sweet she went and made us an
easter basket in the morning with green grass and chocolate and plastic
eggs. awww. and we drank pink mimosas. delicious! and i went to
the jetrag dollar sale where they put all these old clothes out in
piles on tarps and everything is a dollar. i found some great fabrics
that i can decontruct. some hillarious dresses. on looked like a
comforter attached to a velvet turtleneck.. HAHA. love it. im reading ’choke’ by palahniuk (i stole it from ashley) his writing is really fun to read. he’s so mental. well i best be on with my day. i am going to make a bunch of things for online. are you on facebook? www.facebook.com/people/Linda_Strawberry/add me do you have ilike on facebook?apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/Linda+Strawberryadd me! myspace.com/strawberryare you on lastfm.comhttp://www.last.fm/music/Linda+Strawberryadd me! are you on buzznetlindastrawberry.buzznet.comadd meare you on imeem? (i need to update this..but im gonna)lindastrawberry.imeem.comadd mehmm. i think that’s all. haha. i should do a search and see. oh ya. im on reverbnation toohttp://www.reverbnation.com/lindastrawberryadd mehmmm. ok here’s the vote. what should be the next two songs i release? xoxoxolove, linda strawberry

i put a free song up on my myspace player.   www.myspace.com/strawberry
GO GET IT.

i made it one day when i was feeling very dark.. i felt so full of passion that i had an electric charge on my skin buzzing... (queen bee baby bzz bzz)
especially when i did the noise guitar on the bridge.
so from my black tar heart here’s my song (demo... but sometimes those are the best)

YOU CANT CHANGE A MAN (TAR)

One time i got caught by your words
i believed that it Was it Wasn’t
Two timing son of a bitch
you can hide but you cant outrun it..
Three times the charm - let you back in
ya, i swear to God i tried it..
For I believed that could change a man
No one’s EVER done it.

Oh. I know what you are.
I got covered in your BLACK TAR
Oh, oh.. know what you are
I AM GOING TO BREAK YOUR HEART

Don’t look so shocked
you’re the one who’s gone and made it all so damn hard
you’re full of talk but your words and actions don’t match up, Honey
you DONE ME WRONG..
so don’t act like I’m the one who’s doing all the damage, DAMN IT
YOU’RE JUST A CON...
and I’m never gonna fall for your tricks again...

Oh. I KNOW what you are.
I got covered in your BLACK TAR
Oh, oh.. know what you are
I AM GOING TO BREAK YOUR HEART

TO BREAK YOUR HEART
TO BREAK YOUR HEART
TO BREAK YOUR HEART
TO BREAK YOUR HEART



play loud. ;)

there's a blizzard rolling in and out of my heart, .. love,
there's a wizard who crawls in and out of my head while i dream....of
a hundred different things that i have never gotten to say to you
im so awkward when our eyes meet. the words trip and fall
so i love you has a skinned knee
and i need you is all bruised up
and i want you needs some stiches
and i cannot seem to keep our stars all in a line.
so there's a blizzard rolling in and out of my heart, ... love,
im lying on my back staring up at a blood orange sky
and as a flock of birds covers up the slivered moon
im begging for just one minute where i can unloose this tongue
ive got fingerprints all over and shadows in my eyes
but i know if i could get going i could show you all my secrets
but im so awkward when our eyes meet. the words trip and fall.
and i love you has a skinned knee
nad i need you is all bruised up
and i want you needs some stiches
and i cannot seem to keep our stars all in a line.

i was going to play a RAD show at a rad venue and had to pull out because of my housing/money situation..
now that all that is solved (thanks audrey) i am really wishing i could beam myself down there!!!!
sigh.

LARGO March 4th.

first of all Largo is a gorgeous place to play with an amazing vibe good food and a really beautiful antique upright piano that sounds sooooo good. and our sound guy was spot on. ive never played a show like that where i actually could hear myself.
i had a short set i could have played for the whole night. :)
I almost lost my composure while i sang the saddest song. i just really needed a release like that.. it was perfect.
its hard to describe why this is my favorite show EVER. i guess its because i felt that sierra and carina were so amazing i felt really lucky to be on the same bill as them. i mean really how often do you go to a show where there's not one bad song.
sierra had my full attention and carina made me cry.

all i can say is that if we went on tour together.. us three.. we would kill it!!
here are some photos.. (Taken by Kristin Burns... more photos in my 'largo' album in my pictures)

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here's some of carina and sierra if this is your first time hearing of them. www.myspace.com/sierraswanwww.myspace.com/carinaround
;)

Sierra's 'copper red'


carina round
here's an amazing video that doesnt have an embed code
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL8SsxuUE8w    <----- so good!!
'january heart'

the power of positive thinking....

ive been going through alot of soul searching the last few weeks. really looking at myself.. i kind of tipped off of the edge for a little while and got stuck feeling sorry for myself. i want to make sure that where im coming from is balanced and loving.

ive been thinking about the power of labels. i mean.... ive gotten back on track with my mantras and the stuff i was doing before. i wake up meditate do some yoga and do my mantras. its something that i havent done lately because ive been reinforcing negative labels instead. and spending all my time worrying instead of growing.
so this morning i wrote a list of who i want to be. and i sat in front of the mirror and did my recovery exercise they taught me at the facility where i got well in 2003. you look yourself in the eye and say these things to yourself.

I am kind
I am loving.
I am forgiving.
I am empathetic.
i am patient.
i am intelligent.
i am understanding.
i am strong.
i am beautiful.
i am healthy.
i am openminded.
i am responsible.
i am trustworthy.
i am stable.
i am at peace.
i am sexy.
i am charitable.
i have alot of oxygen
i have alot of gifts
i have alot of blessings
i have alot of great friends
i have alot of great opportunities
i am exactly where i should be
i am exactly where god wants me to be
i am in the position to learn something new
i am open to opportunities.
i am a hard worker.
i am a peacemaker.
i am a leader
god loves me as i am.
i will serve someone else today.
i will be kind today
i will be focused today
i will be creative today.
i will eat healthy foods.
i will have healthy thoughts.
i will be a light.
i will be courageous.
i will stand tall.
i will put others at ease.
i will perform well.
i will fill the rooms im in with positive energy.
i will listen if someone needs to vent
i will do something nice for my partner.
i will make one positive change.
I am a beautiful person that is worthy of love and respect


etc. there are more. but if you say these things to yourself its very powerful. it creates such an intense positive feeling. and i believe in that. i believe that changes my life. it leaves me open to receive answers to my questions from a loving god that knows me exactly as i am. that understands my struggles and gives me peace and hope in my hard times. (my god is undefinable except for that i believe its the force greater than our understanding that guides us)
we all have our faults but if i focus on the person i want to be it helps me become that person. forgive myself for past mistakes and move forward on strength and faith.

i did this this afternoon and then some great things happened.
im going to focus on these things and give myself a rest from beating myself up and living in a fearful dark place where i feel hopelessly flawed.
I feel that 'god' is love and wants us to achieve our purposes in this life . there are so many different energies that we can draw from the universe and pull into ourselves. i want to stay in the light.
i know who i want to be. so i need to follow my own philosophy and just BE it.
a good measure is to think about how you make other people around you feel. and how you think they feel about you.
if you reinforce the positives in other people and encourage them it reinforces the positive in you at the same time.
whatever we focus on expands. no matter if its positive or negative. so we are entirely responsible for everything in our lives. who we are is who we've chosen to be and that's nobody's fault but our own.
so im gonna try to be the person that i want to be. even when im letting hurt pass through me and into my art. the pain of love is the pain of life.

anyway...this is where my head is at tonight..

(ill post about last nights amazing show at largo when i get the pictures... :)

exclamation points!!

LARGO

www.largo-la.com

STRAWBERRY AND SWAN.
9 o'clock and 10

this will be a great show.


see you there or you are a square.

;)

:)
just feeling so love sick tonight. sigh.
Justin is absolutely amazing.

this place is getting disgusting.
and you all knowwhat im referring to.
assholes act like assholes
jealous people act jealous
immature people act immature
hateful people say hateful things
guilty people pick fights
people with low self esteem rip other people down
scared people act "hardcore"
egomaniacs act like egomaniacs etc.

im completely grossed out by all the stuff i see happening around here.
created and played out in spite.

some of you might find it funny but take a step back and look at these people.
its not hard to see who is rotten and who is not.
by their OWN ACTIONS its obvious.

blah.

i hope you hold me to this as well. i hope that my life has been proof that im hardworking and creative and motivated. and ive never wasted time on 'haters'.
but what i see here is that its affecting alot of people.. and i have thick skin because ive been thrown in front of the world and been through the fire.. but it still affects me too.

what's scary in this new networking internet world is people feel like they dont have to be accountable for the shit they throw.
its the lowest of the lows to threaten someone else. that's just pathetic.

don't spam my page with your fake bullshit.