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Michelle Cross is obsessed with her music. "I [play and write music] all the time. When I don't have a job I'm playing 14 hours a day. When I do have a job I play 4 or 5 hours a day. I have to do it everyday… as much as I can squeeze in." She describes her songs as therapeutic and very personal. "It's like my journal" although she admits she likes to "steal shoes" a lot.
Sprinkled with classical influences and firmly supported by strong vocals, Cross's songs tend to have a darker moodier feel to them. At times, there is a lot of aggression and rhythm in her piano playing, yet even at its most gentle moments her powerfully emotional and melodic piano-based songs have caused listeners to sit-up and pay attention." ( read more... )
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June 28, 2007
New Design is Live!
Michelle gave the go-ahead, so I've finished and implemented the new design. Tell me it's pretty. If you don't, I may have to break down and have a little cry. You'll notice that everything is simpler, a bit more elegant, and in your face. Not in a horrible way, of course, but in your face nevertheless.June 27, 2007
Also, dearest ones, there is new content! I've worked up some simple wallpapers of old photographs of Michelle. Light editing, rotating, fiddling, and voila! It's not magic, but they're pleasant to look at, yes? Do I win something? No cookies please.If you're the sort to poke around you may notice that the blog archives are still reflecting the old website. I am not sure why this is as the archives are supposed to be automatically converted into the new design via Blogger upon publishing. Apparently Blogger is either broken or slow. Let's pray for slow as I do not have it in me to work up a good mad. A mild annoyed I can do, but a good mad is simply out of reach right now.Never fear! I've figured it out. I am a delirious genius!
That's about it, folks. I've worked tirelessly for a total of two nights, am hopelessly in love with how clean the site looks, and am possibly a bit delusional from the sleep deprivation I've managed to give myself. So, having said that, and being extremely clever, I am off to bed.
Enjoy!
[Edited to add: Apparently this site is so far only optimized for IE 7 and Firefox. I'm working on fixing it so that it atleast renders properly in IE6. Sorry about that everyone!]
[Edited to add again: So far I cannot fix it so that IE6 renders the exact same way. My only option is to remove the two top and bottom borders where links and copyright information sit. I think, however, that for the meantime I am going to leave it as it is and encourage the Internet Explorer v6 users to upgrade. If something comes to me in the middle of the night, I will get out of bed and work on the site some more. Thanks everyone.]
New Design Coming Soon!
You read correctly! I am completely tired of looking at this old design, and because I am too impatient to wait for another album release, I am updating the look of this site.June 17, 2007
Something simple. Something elegant. Something a bit more straightforward. I may even sneak a larger photo of Michelle onto the front page.
Just a heads up is all.
My 8 worldly listeners...
You GUYS!!! I just got your darling, DARLING card!! It warmed my heart like hot cocoa...awww. I have propped it up as the center piece on my "main" table. You guys are truly the nicest bunch of folks I have encountered, and I thank you from here to infinity for your support!! How I WISH I could be more "out there". Regular life SO gets in the way! Matty Poo and I have had countless dinner meetings, scheming up ways to get THE recording into the works... I think we're getting closer to actually "doing" with each dinner. This week, we discussed the studio we will be using for the new record. In the meantime, I'm writing tunes that are shinier than the tunes I had originally planned for the new record... I don't know what's going to happen! I will keep you posted!! I hope something happens soon :(
Let's all tell Matty Poo to get on it!! (Matty Poo, you know I treasure you).
KISSES!!!
Mz. Monkey