Songs for the Struggling Artist
Songs for the StrugglingArtist
I blogcast about Artist stuff. And Arts Related stuff. Also feminism.
- 19 minutes 26 secondsA Decade of Podcasting
Two old podcast episodes were missing. In my search for them, I started to realize that I’d recorded them in 2016. Which means they were almost a decade old. I looked up the date of my first episode and discovered it was EXACTLY ten years ago. To the day. What kind of date magic is that? I recorded my first episode on March 20th 2016. And there we were ten years later.
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Episode 495
Song: Anniversary
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28 April 2026, 1:17 am - 14 minutes 43 secondsWhat Happened to First Night?
Every New Year’s Eve, my friend and I wish we had a First Night celebration to go to. We both went to many First Nights in our youth and wish such a thing were happening here in NYC. It was a great way to spend the last night of the year and take in a lot of local arts culture in one big burst. It was a lovely way to bring a community together.
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Episode 494
Song: What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
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20 April 2026, 11:25 pm - 12 minutes 18 secondsRe-Broadcast of Episode Three - Why Going Away for Inspiration Is a Good Idea
My allergies have stolen my voice for the day so I'm re-posting this episode from ten years ago, in honor of a decade of podcasting. This early episode has no song and the sound quality is a little chaotic. (No mic yet!) But if you want to hear what this sounded like in the beginning, here you go!
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13 April 2026, 11:30 pm - 15 minutes 6 secondsPronounce "Queens"
The voice of the GPS sounds like a British man, with an RP accent, and he gives his instructions to turn right or left like he’s a butler guiding the staff. He mispronounces some things funny because he does not have local knowledge. For example, he’ll tell us to take the Ed Cock Bridge when everyone knows that, our former mayor, Ed Koch’s name is pronounced with a clear “CH”.
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Episode 493
Song: A New England
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7 April 2026, 1:29 am - 12 minutes 31 secondsChalamet Gate
This Timothée Chalamet story about his dismissal of opera and ballet, calling them arts nobody cares about might be too up my street to resist. Art that nobody cares about is kind of my beat! I am also an artist that “nobody” cares about so I’m well placed to discuss this particular controversy.
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Episode 492
Song: Opera Singer
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*Explicit due to dumb-a**ery
31 March 2026, 12:56 am - 15 minutes 42 secondsActing Is Embarrassing
We had some men in the class but that day we were all women and we were playing a ball game of tossing the ball around the room, to music, trying to find the pleasure and searching for complicity in our classmates. Then our teacher, Jane, gave us the next task. When we caught the ball, we had to hold it up and say, “Look at me! I’m an actress in New York City!”
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Episode 491
Song: Looking at Me
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*Explicit due to Eltaway's book title
24 March 2026, 12:17 am - 16 minutes 27 secondsThe Credulous and the Scammed
Scammers know their scams are not believable. They know most of us we know that the Prince of Nigeria has not emailed us to help with his fortune. They don’t want to scam everyone. They’re looking for the most credulous people they can find and the Prince of Nigeria is a filter. They don’t want anyone who’s going to ask too many questions. They make these things hard to believe on purpose. They want only the extremely credulous.
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Episode 490
Song: Scam Song
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*Explicit due to Sweary Song
17 March 2026, 2:35 am - 14 minutes 48 secondsPreparing for Editing
What’s funny is, I like editing. I’m not sure why I was dragging my feet around editing our book. I’d already made some major changes. The big re-structure had already happened. But somehow I couldn’t bring myself to sit down and fix up some details.
I finally decided I needed to buckle down, though, and instead of getting into the document, I watched a movie made in the year our book was set. It was a great movie and I thought it would get me inspired.
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This is Episode 489
Song: Ready to Go
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10 March 2026, 2:01 am - 19 minutes 25 secondsA Clown Teacher Exits
If you felt a bit of a tremor in the fabric of the universe last week, you’re probably a clown. One of the most influential clown teachers made his exit and more people than I would have expected felt the impact of his loss.
I never studied with Philippe Gaulier but I studied with several teachers who did. I guess I’m a second generation Gaulier clown. I think there are a lot of benefits to being the second-generation student.
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This is Episode 488
Song: Clown Strike
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Explicit due to clowns getting in the sh*t
3 March 2026, 2:20 am - 14 minutes 1 secondDealing with Egotistical Narcissistic A**holes
Back in college, I took a class in producing, as I thought it might come in handy in my future theatre career. The class involved running the student run space with four other students. One of them was an egotistical narcissistic asshole so I quit the job and the class after the first semester of it.
I’d forgotten most of this drama until I saw a friend who also considered walking away. She wonders if she should have quit and I wonder if I should have stayed.
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This is Episode 487
Song: Should I Stay or Should I Go
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24 February 2026, 3:07 am - 18 minutes 46 secondsTheatre, Epstein and Me, Two Degrees Away
When I went to go see my friend in a show at Jeffrey Horowitz’s theatre, TFANA, I had a wild experience with a velvet rope they’d set up after the performance. I wrote about it. But I didn’t name the theatre but now that I’ve read those emails from Horowitz to Epstein, I feel like the two things are connected. Because that velvet rope they set up was to cater to people like Jeffrey Epstein, if not exactly him, and to keep out people like me.
Then I saw the news that Lauren Gunderson was in the Epstein files.
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This is Episode 486
Song: Richard Cory
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