I don't think people really appreciate how talented, honest, and valuable Lucy deLeche is. There's none of this "Those American Girls" stuff that could have happened without her.
It's not just that she's great at being Alicia American, it's that in real life, she's the opposite of Alicia. Whereas Alicia is based on the women who have actually been in my life, personally torturing me and making me want to die while all my friends and family would side with them in every fight, Lucy is the one person who has always had my back. She's one of the few genuine friends I've ever had and I'll always be loyal to her. Because of Lucy, I can see who is a true friend and who isn't. Because of Lucy, I can get projects finished on time even though my "friends are distracting me and creating false drama and plagiarizing me then smirking at me in unison each time. No matter what they do, as long as Lucy is on my team, we'll keep moving to the next town and doing our show and gaining 1 or 2 new genuine fans per day.
I don't see life the way klout.com sees it. I see it in terms of gathering enough of a small fan base who actually gets what you're doing that you can earn a living at what you love and never have to care about what your "klout score" is ever again. I see the point of life as being able to create a niche for oneself so that one can do one's work, be proud of it and know it's good, and have enough food to eat and enough money for rent. If an artist can do that, his or her work will be remembered and will continue to influence long after he or she is gone.
For those of us drawn to working in media like film or video or music or animation, it's often impossible to do the entire project ourselves. If you're someone like that, you're probably not going to get more than one Lucy deLeche to work or play with per lifetime. When she comes along, you better recognize her.
And the same goes for if a Peter Bernard comes into your life haha.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Those American Girls
It only occurred to me recently that some people might have thought I fell off the face of the planet.
I'm just extremely busy lately.
Our cartoon project, Those American Girls, has 25 thousand followers on Twitter
and it's led to more work than Lucy and I can handle so far,
although we're certainly not complaining.
The characters, who are running for President(s), sell the project themselves,
and you can interact with Alicia & Deb on Twitter here:
http://twitter.com/ThoseUSAGirls
Buy their first album here:
http://ow.ly/68RkS
See their latest music video here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tGboHEAMiNg
& get regular daily (usually) updates from Debbie American here:
http://debbieamerican.blogspot.com
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tGboHEAMiNg
& get regular daily (usually) updates from Debbie American here:
http://debbieamerican.blogspot.com
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If you follow either the Twitter or Debbie's blog,
you'll be up to date on what used to be stuck on this blog.
Only it'll be written by the girls, so you'll like it far better.
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If you follow either the Twitter or Debbie's blog,
you'll be up to date on what used to be stuck on this blog.
Only it'll be written by the girls, so you'll like it far better.
~~~~~~~~
Friday, August 19, 2011
Whale Song: Review of the new Claire Kiechel play
Whale Song or: Learning to Live With Mobyphobia
a New Play by Claire Kiechel
Directed by Brad Raimondo
The Dreamscape Theatre
15th Annual FringeNYC Festival
“Belief in a future Heaven creates a present Hell.”
~Eckhart Tolle
Is insanity hereditary? If your father was crazy, what does that make you? Are synchronicities really omens and portents, or is your paying attention to them a signal that you are schizophrenic?
Now here's an even bigger question-- how do you take those dark questions and turn them into a really funny play? Only Claire Kiechel could answer that last one, and she answers it in brilliant but wiseass fashion with this new play, “Whale Song.” Here is a writer of serious drama that could have been scripting for the Marx Brothers if she lived in the 1930s (I can DEFINITELY picture her at the Algonquin Round Table).
A writer is only as funny as her performers, and this play is cast extremely well. Each actor has an approach and delivery that maximize the humor while taking nothing away from any sadness or drama; it's a talented cast.
Hollis Witherspoon stars as Maya Swan, a schoolteacher grieving over her father, whose bizarre death- suicide by whale- haunts and humiliates her. The stress of wondering about her own sanity leads to increasingly stressed-out behavior and she begins to hear whale song wherever she goes. At the same time, a different whale shows up in the Hudson River, and Maya becomes convinced all these things are related. Is this her father talking to her? Or some great message just for her?
Maya's devoted boyfriend Mark (played charismatically by Ryan Feyk) can't understand why she won't see him or return his calls any longer. This guy tries so hard to please her that I'm betting half the women in the audience were thinking if she doesn't want him, they'd take him. Feyk plays the boyfriend so charmingly that even while you're laughing at the jokes, you're feeling really badly for him.
But Maya doesn't want the life of TV-watching and frozen food dinners that Mark represents and so “accidentally” falls in with the sincere rocker dude “Shep The Motherfucking Drummer” (played innocently by Jordan Douglas Smith). Maybe Shep is on drugs or crazy too, because he hears the whale song as well... and if you want to know the rest of the story, get a ticket today! Cuz I shall go no further in the spoiler department.
All of the main characters are both very funny and fully-formed, which is not the easiest thing to pull off, trust me. One of my favorites in the play, though, was this deliberately 2-dimensional hot chick TV newsbabe played by Rosie Sowa. Each time she clomps on stage in her mega-heels, you know the next scene is going to be funny. She reminded me of Alicia American (from me, that's a compliment).
Siri Hellerman as Maya's preppy sister Sarah has no doubt at all about her sanity or anything else for that matter, any smugness genes in the family went to her. Hellerman plays it realistically, which works perfectly for this character in this story. Maya's world is cartoon-like as she doubts her sanity, but her sister Sarah lives in the real world, understands money, handles the family business. Their dead father is played by Gavin Starr Kendall in a light fashion (considering he's dead, at least).
In the interest of disclosure, I should state that Ms. Kiechel actually helped me a bit in an uncredited fashion when I was first forming my “Those American Girls” concept. She grew up in Europe and so had a perspective on what people from other places really think of Americans, and she helped me condense my thoughts on that project, for which I'm very grateful. Because I'm biased toward liking what she does, I brought Checker Phil of the Checkerboard Kids television program with me to provide a second opinion. We left the theatre comparing the play to a good meal and wondering what vegetarians say instead of “meaty.” This play is meaty and satisfying but doesn't leave you too full or groggy, haha. Tickets are under $20 and there are only three performances left, so if you want to see something exciting and new that will leave you with a lot to think about AND teach you several new vocabulary words, go see “Whale Song.”
WHALE SONG or: Learning to Live With Mobyphobia
a new play by Claire Kiechel
directed by Brad Raimondo
a New Play by Claire Kiechel
Directed by Brad Raimondo
The Dreamscape Theatre
15th Annual FringeNYC Festival
“Belief in a future Heaven creates a present Hell.”
~Eckhart Tolle
Is insanity hereditary? If your father was crazy, what does that make you? Are synchronicities really omens and portents, or is your paying attention to them a signal that you are schizophrenic?
Now here's an even bigger question-- how do you take those dark questions and turn them into a really funny play? Only Claire Kiechel could answer that last one, and she answers it in brilliant but wiseass fashion with this new play, “Whale Song.” Here is a writer of serious drama that could have been scripting for the Marx Brothers if she lived in the 1930s (I can DEFINITELY picture her at the Algonquin Round Table).
A writer is only as funny as her performers, and this play is cast extremely well. Each actor has an approach and delivery that maximize the humor while taking nothing away from any sadness or drama; it's a talented cast.
Hollis Witherspoon stars as Maya Swan, a schoolteacher grieving over her father, whose bizarre death- suicide by whale- haunts and humiliates her. The stress of wondering about her own sanity leads to increasingly stressed-out behavior and she begins to hear whale song wherever she goes. At the same time, a different whale shows up in the Hudson River, and Maya becomes convinced all these things are related. Is this her father talking to her? Or some great message just for her?
Maya's devoted boyfriend Mark (played charismatically by Ryan Feyk) can't understand why she won't see him or return his calls any longer. This guy tries so hard to please her that I'm betting half the women in the audience were thinking if she doesn't want him, they'd take him. Feyk plays the boyfriend so charmingly that even while you're laughing at the jokes, you're feeling really badly for him.
But Maya doesn't want the life of TV-watching and frozen food dinners that Mark represents and so “accidentally” falls in with the sincere rocker dude “Shep The Motherfucking Drummer” (played innocently by Jordan Douglas Smith). Maybe Shep is on drugs or crazy too, because he hears the whale song as well... and if you want to know the rest of the story, get a ticket today! Cuz I shall go no further in the spoiler department.
All of the main characters are both very funny and fully-formed, which is not the easiest thing to pull off, trust me. One of my favorites in the play, though, was this deliberately 2-dimensional hot chick TV newsbabe played by Rosie Sowa. Each time she clomps on stage in her mega-heels, you know the next scene is going to be funny. She reminded me of Alicia American (from me, that's a compliment).
Siri Hellerman as Maya's preppy sister Sarah has no doubt at all about her sanity or anything else for that matter, any smugness genes in the family went to her. Hellerman plays it realistically, which works perfectly for this character in this story. Maya's world is cartoon-like as she doubts her sanity, but her sister Sarah lives in the real world, understands money, handles the family business. Their dead father is played by Gavin Starr Kendall in a light fashion (considering he's dead, at least).
In the interest of disclosure, I should state that Ms. Kiechel actually helped me a bit in an uncredited fashion when I was first forming my “Those American Girls” concept. She grew up in Europe and so had a perspective on what people from other places really think of Americans, and she helped me condense my thoughts on that project, for which I'm very grateful. Because I'm biased toward liking what she does, I brought Checker Phil of the Checkerboard Kids television program with me to provide a second opinion. We left the theatre comparing the play to a good meal and wondering what vegetarians say instead of “meaty.” This play is meaty and satisfying but doesn't leave you too full or groggy, haha. Tickets are under $20 and there are only three performances left, so if you want to see something exciting and new that will leave you with a lot to think about AND teach you several new vocabulary words, go see “Whale Song.”
WHALE SONG or: Learning to Live With Mobyphobia
a new play by Claire Kiechel
directed by Brad Raimondo
Three performances left:
Mon, 8/22 at 6pm
Wed, 8/24 at 7pm
Sat, 8/27 at 9:30pm
For Tickets:
http://fringenyc.org
or 866-468-7619
This is part of the FringeNYC Festival and sometimes shows sell out in advance, so reserve your tickets today.
The First Floor Theatre at LaMaMa
Mon, 8/22 at 6pm
Wed, 8/24 at 7pm
Sat, 8/27 at 9:30pm
For Tickets:
http://fringenyc.org
or 866-468-7619
This is part of the FringeNYC Festival and sometimes shows sell out in advance, so reserve your tickets today.
The First Floor Theatre at LaMaMa
74A East 4th Street, NYC
P.S. REAL theatre critics like this play, too! The NY Theatre Review called it, "...surreal and cleverly absurd."
P.S. REAL theatre critics like this play, too! The NY Theatre Review called it, "...surreal and cleverly absurd."
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Americast 34: 17K Twitter Lovers
New weekly
THOSE AMERICAN GIRLS
radio show is online now 4 FREE!
♥❤♥ http://t.co/V4SMeqs ♥❤♥
S/O's 2 @kurt_loder @OrrinHatch @JHSty & MORE♥❤♥
THOSE AMERICAN GIRLS
radio show is online now 4 FREE!
♥❤♥ http://t.co/V4SMeqs ♥❤♥
S/O's 2 @kurt_loder @OrrinHatch @JHSty & MORE♥❤♥
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Americast 32: Cabs Trump Nature
Debbie has a modeling gig today so Alicia is doing the podcast by herself!
http://TAGamericast.com
http://TAGamericast.com
Saturday, July 9, 2011
IM SO HOT (Positive Affirmations Song)
OMG lovers! In honor of our like 15 thousendth follower on tha Twitter,
we R like giving away our NEW SONG! http://TAGamericast.com
we R like giving away our NEW SONG! http://TAGamericast.com
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Debbie American Fan Service & Dressup Doll!
Debbie American™ Fan Service Podcast
and Interactive Dressup Doll Kit!
http://peterbernard.com/aablog/?p=209
and Interactive Dressup Doll Kit!
http://peterbernard.com/aablog/?p=209
Monday, July 4, 2011
Alicia's Sexy New Patriotic Song!!
It's the 4th of July!
But perhaps more importantly,
it's Alicia American's 21st birthday!
So she and Deb have a new PATRIOTIC SONG
for you to download for FREE!
For those who heard the earlier version of this track,
this new one has TWICE the orgasm parts!
http://TAGamericast.com
But perhaps more importantly,
it's Alicia American's 21st birthday!
So she and Deb have a new PATRIOTIC SONG
for you to download for FREE!
For those who heard the earlier version of this track,
this new one has TWICE the orgasm parts!
http://TAGamericast.com
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Alicia & Deb in Search of SKUNK APE!
Alicia got drunk before starting to record this episode,
then passed out 45 seconds into the show,
leaving poor brainless Debbie to fend for herself
among the dreaded SKUNK APES of Florida!
Listen now for free:
http://TAGamericast.com
then passed out 45 seconds into the show,
leaving poor brainless Debbie to fend for herself
among the dreaded SKUNK APES of Florida!
Listen now for free:
http://TAGamericast.com
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Americast 29: Alicia Meets Lucy de Leche
Lucy de Leche
&
Alicia American
in
Alicia American
Meets
Lucy de Leche
Starring both
Lucy de Leche
and
Alicia American
as Themselves!
Written by
Lucy & Peter
Performed by Lucy
©2011 Heroical Masterings
The Moon is a Disco Ball: http://tmiadb.com
http://TAGamericast.com
http://AliciaAmerican.com
http://DebbieAmerican.com
http://ThoseAmericanGirls.com
http://HeroicalMasterings.com
http://209show.com
&
Alicia American
in
Alicia American
Meets
Lucy de Leche
Starring both
Lucy de Leche
and
Alicia American
as Themselves!
Written by
Lucy & Peter
Performed by Lucy
©2011 Heroical Masterings
The Moon is a Disco Ball: http://tmiadb.com
http://TAGamericast.com
http://AliciaAmerican.com
http://DebbieAmerican.com
http://ThoseAmericanGirls.com
http://HeroicalMasterings.com
http://209show.com
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Those American Girls Americast 28 "Daddy's Day"
CLICK ON LINK TO READ & LISTEN
http://TAGamericast.com/
http://TAGamericast.com/
*****
http://TAGamericast.com/*****
http://TAGamericast.com/
*****
http://TAGamericast.com/*****
http://TAGamericast.com/
*****
http://TAGamericast.com/*****
http://TAGamericast.com/
*****
http://TAGamericast.com/*****
http://TAGamericast.com/
*****
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Alicia American's Presidential Announcement!
NEW VIDEO!http://AliciaAmerican.com
NEW AUDIO!http://AliciaAmerican.com
Lucy DeLeche & Alicia American
http://AliciaAmerican.com
NEW AUDIO!http://AliciaAmerican.com
Lucy DeLeche & Alicia American
http://AliciaAmerican.com
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