Be:Do:Have

We waste so much time

2008-07-11T07:02:00.000-07:00

pretending. worrying. thinking. numbing ourselves. paralyzed from living.

its time to wake up. its time to move forward. its time to live.

Home Sweet NY

2008-07-10T07:18:00.000-07:00

It's been wonderful being in NY. It has been extremely hectic - i thought I'd have plenty of free time in 3 weeks to chill, but 3 gigs has turned into 5 gigs, plus a live taping with Woozfly, recording some commercials, and the kicker - recording at the gorgeous LoHo Studios with Todd Perlmutter from Blue Man Group. I'm very excited.. On top of that we got photos back from the shoot last week and they are so cool... Now we're working on redesigning the website and album and all that. Finally came up with a title for the album too. its a secret ;) you'll see..

So.. NY... There is something about coming home to NY that feels so magical. There is so much love in this city and this week being with everyone has been an amazing homecoming. I am even more excited to see everyone at Mercury Lounge on Tuesday. I know that's going to be an incredible night.

One of these days I will get this video blog process moving smoothly and I'll be able to keep a running a video tab up online ;) Still need someone to help edit.. anyone?

Anyway, love to all. gotta catch a train. xx Tiff

devour your life

2008-06-11T15:55:00.000-07:00

almost two years ago i started this blog to share with you all a declaration of "who i am". i went through a life altering experience and realized what an asshole i had been to many people that i loved because it was more important for me to prove that i was right, than to accept a different point of view. how funny we are? we will even be righteous about how open minded we are! "you are wrong - we ARE open minded!" lol.

really its kind of cute - those are the moments where we get stuck in being 5 years old again. now when i get that way or someone i know does, i try to laugh and have compassion, knowing its just a childish reaction. this has three major impacts - 1. i feel way less stressed out and angry. 2. the other person gets heard and acknowledged - which is all they really wanted in the first place. 3. the conversation disappears. try it and you'll see... when you allow another to be heard and gotten, that conversation will literally disappear.

our world is a big game that looks like this: millions and millions of people running around bumping into one another trying to prove that their point of view is right. sometimes we prove it by finding others that agree. other times we prove it by finding people who disagree so we can be pissed and then go find others that agree. lol. silly? maybe.. fun? sometimes.. purposeful? you be the judge.. to me its just what it is and well - its pretty silly, but so is scrabble and i sure as hell love a good scrabble match.

so who i am i in this silly game? freedom, love and play. why? because it is my life and i get to say, as do you!! what i am committed to is to share my love with the world. to inspire you. to teach you. to learn from you. to honor who you are and acknowledge you. to be with you in your heart and soul wherever you are, causing you to look at love in a way you never have before. to have you know that you can create anything for yourself and your life and that true, authentic, unconditional love is the access point to everything you desire.

i invite you to begin to devour life. everything you desire is yours. there are NO limitations! stop suppressing your desires, your life, your adventure. live, love, create, be self expressed. know that every moment of your life is a dance and you get to choose your next move. so who are you today?

with love,

tiff

freedom.love.play
www.tiffanyrandol.com

Channeling, San Diego, Sailing and Studio

2008-06-09T15:58:00.001-07:00

It has been a very interesting week... Last Tuesday I saw a lecture on raw food and enzyme therapy.. was pretty amazing. Then afterwards I sat in a room with 9 people, most of whom were strangers and a Channel or Medium did a session with us. It was one of the wildest experiences I've ever had. I am definitely a very open person - I believe in just about anything that you can't actually see with your own two eyes. Even so, there was that little skeptic in me, but this experience was beyond moving and fascinating. Riz, the Channel, is definitely the real deal. He said things to me and everyone in the room that he could not have known. The thing that moved me the most was that he knew I was a painter and told me to "drop the brushes, dip my hands and body in the paint and that I would feel as i once did as a child". It's been about two years since I've painted and I've missed it so much, but i've been so busy and focused on first, recording this album and now, raising money for it, building a team, and everything that goes into an album release across the board. In any case, I have missed painting. Now I just need to find some place to go paint for a day with my hands and body ;)

The rest of the week was amazing as well. Had some great meetings. Wrote a new song. Thursday I saw a great songwriter play named Buddy, which was wonderful. Saturday I went to San Diego with my friends Ross and Brennan for the day and drank tons of beer on the beach. Yes, I cheated on my diet in a major way ;) But it was microbrew.... I'm helpless with a good microbrew. lol. Sat night I played a show at the strangest venue i've ever been to. Sunday we drove back and I went sailing with a bunch of friends. What a beautiful day... I love the ocean.

Have to run - I'm on my way to Jim Scott's Studio to work on a remix of "Kiss Me Kiss Me"

xoxoox

MillionForMarriage

2008-05-29T15:58:00.000-07:00

I signed. Read this letter and sign if you will! xo Tiff

Dear Friend,

Do you want to live in a country that legalizes discrimination?
Despite the recent California Supreme Court decision that
denying same-sex couples the right to marry is unconstitutional,
efforts are underway throughout the country to take away rights
from same-sex couples.

I just joined thousands of others in showing my support for
marriage equality for all. But recently, proponents of bigotry
and hate collected even more signatures in an attempt to
invalidate the California Supreme Court decision. And they won't
stop with California - extremists are even trying to add a
same-sex marriage ban to the U.S. Constitution.

We are at a turning point in our nation's history and I'm hoping
you'll join me in standing up against discrimination. Please
sign the Million for Marriage petition and get us one name
closer to showing that Americans overwhelmingly support marriage
equality!

http://www.MillionForMarriage.org

Every committed couple deserves to enjoy the privileges and
responsibilities conferred by marriage. Add your name to the
petition and be a part of the movement to fight for marriage
equality for all.

Thank you!

Videoblog 3B: Ben Peeler and I in the studio

2008-05-25T15:59:00.000-07:00

This is a very serious blogisode. Ben wrote me a song. He is madly in love. ;) Come see Ben and I play at Genghis Cohen this Thursday 5/29 in LaLaLand. 9pm

BTW - If you have not seen my fabulous new haircut, here is a pic:

On Blogging

2008-05-22T16:00:00.000-07:00

It's a beautiful day as per usual in Cali, though yesterday was kind of stormy. I'm getting ready to run off to Santa Monica and Venice Beach for a couple meetings, but it hit me this morning that I missed writing to you all. When I don't write for a while I get so overwhelmed with the massive amount of things that have happened in my life that I don't even know where to start, so I avoid starting. (The mind is illogical most of the time - did you ever notice??) So then what happens is you have no idea what's going on and then at some point I write a long blog with an overwhelm of crap! ;)There's a fine line between updating and verbal diarrhea - I am still trying to find the balance ;) Funny b/c sometimes I listen to people talk and talk and think - goddamn... I really don't need all these details - when are they gonna get to the point? And then I go do the same thing... ;) lol. I suppose we are all a reflection of one another - in fact, I noticed lately that the things that bother me most about other people are really the things that bother me most about myself. For example - when people are late to meet me or don't return my phone calls. I get so pissed!!! and most of the people in my life will laugh b/c I am constantly late and sometimes I avoid returning phone calls if there's something I don't want to deal with. Yes, I am telling on myself. why? Because I know you'll call me out on it and I love you for that.

Addressing the area of blogging and videoblogging - call me out on it. email me and shout if you don't hear from me every week b/c probably what's going on is exactly what I mentioned above and inside I really want to share every intimate detail of my life (minus the crap part of it;)

As for the video blog bit - I so want to be doing this regularly, but am having tech issues! I am a songwriter - figuring out Imovie Editing is not my thing ;) If anyone would like to help out and be part of my video team - let me know.

Love you all. Running out the door. BUT I will update you later on my travels, where i'm at with the record release, my romance life, and more.

xo Tiff

Desires

2008-05-16T17:10:00.001-07:00

“To thine own self be true.” – Shakespeare

Explore and express your desires fully. Experience all of life so that you are satisfied and complete. When we suppress our desires, it poisons us. We become incapable of being true to ourselves and others.

The beauty and power in life is to not live unconciously based on our past, but to open up to a world of limitless possibilities.

PS... i am no longer updating this blog. Tune in at www.myspace.com/tiffanyrandol

Love tiff
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Tiff Randol Live @ Mercury Lounge - "Stuck In His Way"

2008-05-09T16:01:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DCy_h03O9I

Hey all - here is "Stuck In His Way" from the Mercury Lounge Show in March. you all did a fabulous job whistling.

xoox t

videoblog 2: Jim Scott’s Studio Check it out

2008-05-08T16:02:00.000-07:00

I went to visit "Plyers Studio" deep in the valley where the legendary Jim Scott and brilliant engineer Kevin Dean create gorgeous music! Jim has produced/mixed/engineered just about every classic artist from Sting to Stevie Nicks to Tom Petty. I had a blast at the studio playing with an overwhelm of toys ;)

Prince @ Coachella

2008-04-28T16:03:00.000-07:00

all i need to say is....................... nothing.....

he said it all when he said "i'm so funky i can't even sleep with myself"

and

prince is heaven. i've never felt so inspired and so inadequate all at once ;)

Pretty In Pink

2008-04-24T16:05:00.000-07:00

just watched it... god i love that movie. ;) i am madly in love with andrew mccarthy. can't help it. although i must say - the kiss at the end looks so painful... those two should have practiced that scene more...

homesick

2008-04-24T16:04:00.000-07:00

i miss my mum and dad and bro and sis and animals and friends in NY and my loves. this too shall pass ;) enjoy my first videoblog. lol. i need an imovie lesson! ox t

Mercury Lounge VIDEO!!!

2008-04-10T07:46:00.001-07:00

sitting at home sick, bored, and desperately needing to do something i learned how to use iMovie ;) For those of you that missed Piano's AND Mercury Lounge a couple weeks ago - here is a Live song from The Merc on 3/14. please comment, subscribe, etc. i am going to have some fun with video blogging. more to come. oxxo tiff

the walking dead

2008-04-08T15:50:00.000-07:00

i feel like the walking dead. i have been extremely sick for over two weeks now. i got that awful cold and its completely gotten out of hand. Last Friday i woke up with no voice whatsoever and it's been that way until today i woke up and i could slightly croak out a few words. sexy, i know. seriously though it has been rough. its my last week in NY until probably June and was not how i envisioned spending it. to be honest, i'm pretty depressed. my voice is my love and not having it feels almost paralyzing. Plus i'm just plain bored with sitting on the couch, steaming my throat, and eating honey til i'm nauseous. And the kicker is that it looks like i will have to cancel my show tomorrow at piano's. i'm still hoping i wake up tomorrow well, but its unlikely. that's all for now. tiff

Sports Illustrated Video from Fashion Week

2008-04-04T20:32:00.000-07:00

They used "All I wanna Do Is Love". cute ;)

What is it about the rain?

2008-03-19T21:29:00.000-07:00

;) It is a gorgeous night here in NY. Just left Rose's in Williamsburg. Tonight is just the right kind of cold and there is nothing quite like a walk home in the rain. It's nights like this when I realize how madly in love with NY I am. How many places in the world can you just wander into an empty bar in brooklyn on a rainy wednesday at midnight and see a lovely jazz trio playing for pennies just to share their music? Absolutely stunning.. Spending time in LA has me appreciate it more and more. It's so easy when I am in NY full time to get into a routine and forget all the things that I came here in the first place: museums, jazz, art and of course romance. To be here with an intention to experience everything and everyone fully is a completely different world. Love Love Love NY.

Mercury Lounge

2008-03-15T21:57:00.000-07:00

was out of control. thank you all for being so damn sexy

Hotel Cafe

2008-03-03T21:59:00.000-08:00

thank you all for coming. i wore my special pink cupcake dress for you. fyi: i am madly in love with my bandmates: Brendan Buckley, Joe Carnes and of course Master Ben Peeler. I am also enamored with a fellow and songwriter that you should all check out: myspace.com/thebrendanhines Lastly wish my dear one Mikki James a happy bday myspace.com/mikkijamestheband and my bud Pesci as well.

xot

A Rainy Day in LA. Plus Hotel Cafe and Mercury Lounge show info.

2008-02-23T19:31:00.000-08:00

Today I sat on the docks in Hermosa Beach watching pelicans and a pod of Dolphins in the rain. It was stunning. One of those moments where I was so present to the unexpected - And to how beautiful and peaceful the unknown can be. With that said I would love to invite you all to be with me at my last show in LA before I leap over to NY for a homecoming at The Merc.

Wed 2/27 @ 7pm. The Hotel Cafe. 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles. w/Ben Peeler, Joe Carnes, Brendan Buckley
Fri 3/14 @ 830pm. The Mercury Lounge. Houston @ Essex. New York City w/The MF's. (also Les Sans Culottes & Elk City)

Look forward to seeing you all. Oh - also - if you get a moment, will you review the EP on Itunes?

Thanks!!! xoTiff

freedom.love.play
www.tiffanyrandol.com
www.myspace.com/tiffanyrandol

Valentine's Day

2008-02-15T19:32:00.000-08:00

This was my first Valentine's Day being single. and.... well - it rocked... My godmother Anita took me for a manicure and pedicure. We ate sushi. (I drank sake). Then she took me shopping and gave me some V-Day bling. Exhausted, we came home and watched a chick flick. ;) lol. Could it have been any more perfect? don't think so! Cheers to being single. This is such a strange experience for me and i must admit i am enjoying it. kiss

a day in la

2008-02-06T19:05:00.000-08:00

Realized I stopped blogging for a while and i apologize. What happens is i get so overwhelmed with the amount of things happening, that i don't even know where to begin OR option 2, there are so many scandalous things better left unsaid ;) SO then i just avoid talking about it all together.

Started the day making a vision board. I've never done one, but oprah says its a must and it was actually kind of fun. Then spent the afternoon with a new friend, Charlie Mars who I met at last Monday's Hunnypot Radio Party. Was great to see everyone.. Charlie is a great songwriter - charliemars.com - listened to his new record which has a song that I fell in love with about listening to Dark Side of the Moon. very charming.. We went to check out Jim Scott's studio today which was basically like a big kid toybox.. i was kind of salivating. Lots of little toy piano's and colorful tapestries - Elvis paraphenalia - pure heaven. Going to the Donna's tonight at Crash Mansion in LA.

Ooh La La

2008-02-03T19:04:00.000-08:00

Out in LA now! It's been such a fun week! Played a great show with the MF's at the Knit for the Limewire party. I feel like we hit a nice stride musically and of course as usual had a love fest that went late into the night. Then Greg and I drove out Wed night to Northampton, which is such a cute town.. We played for the gorgeous gals at Smith College and than rocked Guitar Hero all night at the Talbot House. It looks like we will probably be back in the spring again as well! Flew into LA friday - i think i travelled at least 12 hours... Lots of delays, a stopover in N. Carolina and when i got to LA I found out my luggage was left in N. Carolina! Yep - one of those ;) But now I'm here, it's beautiful weather, and i'm so excited!! Yesterday I got to drive my dream van around redondo beach. I will post pix on my blog this week!

Tonight I'm playing Tangier with my good friend and songwriting partner Ari Shine. www.arishine.com We're pretty excited to do our first duo performance - playing eachother's songs and songs we've co written. should be a fun show! Next week playing with the band at Silverlake! I'll try to send an update every week on how things are going! Love, Tiff

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Here are the upcoming dates:

2/3/08 @ 8pm. Tangier w/ Alex and Sam and Ari Shine. $10
2138 Hillhurst Avenue. Los Angeles, CA

2/11/08 @ 9pm. Silverlake Lounge. Full Band Show w/ Robert Francis.
2906 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA

2/17 @ 10pm. Room 5. Acoustic Show
143 North La Brea 2nd Fl., Los Angeles, CA

2/27 @ 7pm. Hotel Cafe w/Full Band.
1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

NYC/MA/LosAngeles

2008-01-28T08:49:00.000-08:00

Hello love birds,

Frantically trying to get ready to head out to LA! Of course I will miss you all, but am thrilled to say I will be frolicking on the sunny West Coast ;) I have some amazing shows lined up (if you are out West and interested in booking me for an event or private performance, please let me know). Then in March I head back to NY to record an album w/Valeze. Check out www.tiffanyrandol.com I've now got a video link on the site that plays two Live videos that I filmed on FOX Fearless Music.

Tonight is my Cali Kick Off party!! Please join! It's a free Limewire event that starts at 730. I play with the MF's at 9pm. We get hardcopies of the EP in today, so I will have copies for you all, as well as a new line of tshirts and other goodies. Thursday I play with Greg McMullen on pedal steel at SMITH COLLEGE in Northampton, MA. Then fly out to LA and begin a stint of weekly shows out West starting with Tangier on 2/3 with Ari Shine and Alex and Sam.

I am also playing a game to create 1500 downloads on Itunes by Feb 15. How can you help? Download the EP on Itunes, call 10 friends and ask them to download it, and send out an email blast to all your people! If you want to be on the team to help this happen, please email me and let me know. Word of mouth is everything at this stage in the game and I thank you all for your unending support and love! xo Tiff

Tour Dates as follows:

* 1/28 @ 9pm Knitting Factory Tap Room. Tiff Randol and the MF's. Free Event from LIMEWIRE. 74 Leonard St. NYC.
* 1/31/08 @ 9pm Smith College Goldstein Lounge, Northampton MA
* 2/3/08 Tangier 2138 Hillhurst Avenue. Los Angeles, CA w/ Alex and Sam and Ari Shine. $10
* 2/11/08 @ 9pm Silverlake Lounge 2906 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA w/ Robert Francis
* 2/17 @ 10pm Room 5, 143 North La Brea 2nd Fl., Los Angeles, CA
* 2/27 @ 7pm Hotel Cafe, 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

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Kiss Me Kiss Me, a 5 song EP produced, written, and engineered by Tiffany Randol "is a breathlessly intimate sketch on unconditional love that's drawn comparisons to June Carter, Kate Bush and the sun-drenched harmonies of Lennon and McCartney.”
- Matt Allen, MOJO Magazine

Download "KISS ME KISS ME" on Itunes!!!! www.tiffanyrandol.com myspace/tiffanyrandol

The Master Game

2007-11-27T12:02:00.001-08:00

The Master Game
By Robert S. DeRopp

Seek, above all, for a game worth playing. Such is the advice of the oracle to modern man. Having found a game, play it with intensity – play as if your life and sanity depended on it. (They do depend on it.) Follow the example of the French existentialists and flourish a banner bearing the word, ‘engagement.’ Though nothing means anything and all roads are marked ‘no exit,’ yet move as if your movements had some purpose. If life does not seem to offer a game worth playing, then invent one. For it must be clear, even to the most clouded intelligence, that any game is better than no game.

But although it is sage to play the Master Game, this has not served to make it popular. It still remains the most demanding and difficult of games and in our society, there are few who play. Contemporary man, hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgets, has little contact with his inner world, concerns himself with outer, not inner, space. But the Master Game is played entirely in the inner world, a vast and complex territory about which men know very little. The aim of the game is true awakening, full development of the powers latent in man. The game can be played only by people whose observations of themselves and others have led them to a certain conclusion, namely, that man’s ordinary state of consciousness of which he is capable. In fact, this state is so far from real awakening that it could appropriately be called a form of somnambulism, a condition of ‘waking sleep.’

Once a person has reached this conclusion, he is no longer able to sleep comfortably. A new appetite develops within him, the hunger for real awakening, for full consciousness. He realizes that he sees, hears, and knows only a tiny fraction of what he could see, hear and know, that he lives in the poorest, shabbiest of the rooms in his inner dwelling, and that he could enter other rooms, beautiful and filled with treasures, the windows of which look out on eternity and infinity.

The solitary player lives today in a culture that is more or less totally opposed to the aims he has set himself, that does not recognize the existence of the Master Game, and regards players of the game as queer or slightly mad. The player thus confronts great opposition from the culture in which he lives and must strive with forces which tend to bring his game to a halt before it has even started. Only by finding a teacher and becoming part of the group of pupils that the teacher has collected about him can the player find encouragement and support. Otherwise, he simply forgets his aim, or wanders off down some side road and loses himself.

Here it is sufficient to say that the Master Game can NEVER be made easy to play. It demands all that a man has, all his feeling, all his thought, his entire resources, physical and spiritual. If he tries to play it in a halfhearted way or tries to get results by unlawful mean, he runs the risk of destroying his own potential. For this reason, it is better not to embark on the game at all than to play it halfheartedly.