Thursday, December 20, 2007

HOLIDAY FUN TIMES AHEAD

TOMORROW NIGHT AT UCB:

HOLIDAY DAZZLES WITH YULE LOG!

Featuring:

Ann Carr & Adira Amram as Randy the Red Balled Reindeer and Square Snowman! (obviously, not to be missed) Carolyn Castiglia, Matt McCarthy, Katina Corrao perform O Holy Night! (in their own special way) Matt McCarthy as Good Old Santa Claus!

Glennis, Eliza, Shockwave create musical magic!
Red Hot Funny Lady Jessica Delfino!
Neo-Futurists!

THIS Friday night! 8 pm! $5!

UCB Theatre * 307 W. 26th St (at 8th Ave)




AND STARTING FRIDAY:




CEST DUCKIE!!!

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

NO NAME & A BAG OF CHIPS!!!

TONITE!!

@

THE TANK
(279 Church St. NYC)

7:30 PM

FREE...

lots of performers, free door prizes, cheap booze, fun times

See you there

Thursday, December 13, 2007

JESSICA DELFINO WORLD PREMIERE NEW SONGS!!!!

These are some ROUGH DEMOS which will be on my new CD out on Loudmouth Records, 2008.
When you're done checking them out, visit the rest of the website by my creative french friend and fan, Florent. Please keep in mind that these are ROUGH DEMOS and that means that these are PRE-STUDIO, that means they were crappily recorded by me in my home studio so I could SHOW them to the label so that they would be able to hear my idea of the song. On the CD we're gonna mix a little bit of magic in there you're going to shake and quake with amazement.

Here is proof that I'm actually working on my new CD - see me toiling diligently in the Loudmouth Studio?



It's not just bullshit. I'm actually WORKING on this CD! For you!

HEAR ROUGH DEMOS HERE

VISIT THE REST OF MY WEBSITE, jessicadelfino.com HERE

And to read about my tour with Ben Lerman, visit his website HERE!



We had lots of fun on the road, and he documented the trip with great photos of us and our adventures and the adjoining stories right on the FRONT PAGE of his site. That kid's got his shit together!



For the record, Nashville, (that mean, cranky city full of mean, religious gays who think that god loves them when he does not) can kiss my ass!



AND DON'T FORGET TO COME AND SEE THE BIG VAGINAPALOOZA SHOW!!!

featuring:
Adira Amram - www.adiraamram.com
Gina Vetro - myspace.com/ginavetro
Magin Schantz - myspace.com/hotbloodproductions
Dame Darcy - www.damedarcy.com
and me! - myspace.com/jessydelfino

VAGINAPALOOZA is part of Groove MaMa Ink’s Wonder Women Week
All shows are at:
Center Stage
48 West 21st Street (4th floor)
New York, NY
$15

We've got a great show in store for you, so do try to get your ass out to see it!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

DO YOU LIKE WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK??

I do. I've spent lots of time in that park, bull-shitting around, busking (that's -- playing my guitar for passer's change), hanging out with friends, people watching, lounging, snacking, drinking in the grass, kissing boys, or I guess more accurately, boy, watching parades and events, oogling over NYU gents, watching performances and in general, basking in the beauty and the history that is Washington Square Park.

Some big changes are about to be made to the park that are going to render it incapacitated for many years. My friend Matt Davis, who produced my "My Pussy Is Magic" video has been documenting the Washington Square Park hearings and related ordeal and has spent a lot of time researching the m.o. and meaning of the remodeling of the park.

Apparently, if you're interested in getting involved with keeping the park the way it is, this may be your last chance. Read on if you are and / or watch this video clip:

Youtube Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJrUyRqWcvw

From an email from Matt Davis:

The Parks Dept. is erecting a construction fence, about to have its way with Washington Square Park. In order to achieve a new alignment with Fifth Ave., they will move the fountain (and surrounding plaza) 22 feet east of the park's central axis, where it has stood for 138 years.

Whatever the motive for this aerial symmetry, effects felt on the ground will include:

1) Closing at least half of the park for years to come, beginning with the Fountain Theater,

2) Erasing the amphitheatre aspect of the plaza, and reducing it more than 20%, crowding park users and performers into one another, or out of the soon-to-be street-level pedestrian passage.

and

3) Cutting down the ring of 8 mature shade trees, replacing them with trees of six inch diameter ... not even as thick as many of the existing trees' branches.

But the outcome is not decided. Read the newest developments below, and if you want to hold your public officials to their word, let them know you're paying attention by phoning them.

BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE:

Concerned New Yorkers Please Call TODAY--and spread the word:

Comptroller William: Thompson 212-669-3450

Council Member Alan Gerson: 212-788-7722

Council Speaker Christine Quinn Grey Elam and Kate Seely-Kirk 212-564-7757

Just as the Parks Dept begins construction on the unpopular redesign of Wash Sq Park, a new study by the top building conservation authority in New York, posted at www.openwsp.com, concludes that Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe deceived the New York City Council when he stated, in Council budget hearings, that it would cost no more to move the park?s historic fountain than to keep it where it is.

In fact, the study, by the prestigious Building Conservation Association (more info about them at http://www.bcausa.com/portfolio.htm) concludes, it will cost taxpayers an additional $508,000 to move the fountain.

The operative paragraph of the study is on the Executive summary, second page (after title page) last paragraph. The study shows that $508,000 of the $2,500,000 total cost of restoring the fountain is associated with moving the fountain, not repairing and restoring it. This has to do with demolishing the perfectly good existing foundation and building a new one, as well as unnecessarily moving every piece of the fountain offsite.

In a letter to Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe dated August 6, 2007 (also on www.openwsp.com), City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council Member Alan Gerson's wrote:

"We expect to see the documents after bids are received to confirm that there is no more than a negligible cost to moving the fountain. In the meantime, we will hold you to your City Council testimony dated June 6, 2006 (see attached) that there is no significant cost differential. Should it be otherwise we would oppose moving the fountain."

To this day, the Parks Department has refused to provide any documents pertaining to its deceptive claim, which was used to secure city funding for this project.

As a result, the Open Washington Square Park Coalition calls upon Comptroller William Thompson to investigate the deliberate misrepresentation with which the Parks Dept received taxpayer funding for this unpopular redesign scheme for Washington Square Park and to use the subpoena powers of his office to investigate a suspicious pattern of circumstances which have led Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and his subordinates to repeatedly deceive the New York City Council, the Community Board, and the public.

In addition, we call upon New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council Member Alan Gerson to stand behind their public letter of August 6, 2007 to Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, and withhold capital funding for the Parks Department until it is willing to disclose and submit for approval a true budget and plan for Washington Square Park.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

NEW VIDEO!!

This video is made for my song, "SUDDEN CHANGE" and is by ELIJAH ATKINS.

Please give me some feedback on this, friends, fans, foes...!



And if you are an animator and think you can do better or want to try to do your own song, let me know. I have lots of songs that need animating! Email me at jessdelfino at yahoo dot com for more details.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

CAN YOU PASS THE PODCAST?

Sure, no problem.

This is a podcast with NYTHEATER.COM featuring Groovemama's Kara Tyler, Bricken Sparacino, Samantha Jones and me, Jessica Delfino, talking about the upcoming WONDER WOMEN WEEK and my special night in the festival, entitled VAGINAPALOOZA.

Check it out! My piece is towards the 3/4 mark and features me playing a new song on my flying V ukelele (or the V-kelele).

HERE IS THE POD CAST LINK

DON'T FORGET TO ATTEND VAGINAPALOOZA
and the other shows of Wonder Women Week
DEC 15th
9:30 PM
$15

with Adira Amram
Dame Darcy
Gina Vetro
Magin Schantz
Jessica Delfino

HOT! AWESOME! GREAT! BABES! TALENT! WIZARDRY! SUPER!

And if you are a beautiful woman and / or you have a full, unopened bottle of booze with you (that's the price of admission according to the host), we will bring you to an amazing party afterwards.

Monday, December 3, 2007

A COUPLE FUN MUSIC VIDEOS FOR YOUR ASSES

Slightly Buzzed, a new show at Rififi with Stuckey & Murray and John Friedman has this accompanying "Name Dropping" video featuring tons of notables from the NYC comedy scene -- and also "name drops" CXB which I think is...(this sentence is unfinishable)

Enjoy!



And...

Here's another great video which I always love to watch, featuring Sweet D, one of my favies. He's funny, he's cute, and apparently, he has so much "booty on his tip" he has to "regulate" it...This video is seriously high end, as is Jason "Sweet D" Muhlberger. Hot! Hot! Hot! A perennial summer jam!

EXCITING NEWS!!



"What Would Jesus Buy?" featuring Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir, produced by "Super Size Me"'s Morgan Spurlock is now OUT! You can see it at many theaters across the US. To learn more, visit the WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY WEBSITE. And this is pretty exciting: the lyrics to the songs in the caroling scene were penned by one Ms. Jessica Delfino!

Here's a video segment from WGN morning news show featuring a brief clip of a song from said caroling scene and an interview with Reverend Billy in all his glory. The song they used here isn't one of my faves, I mean, it's no "Walmart You A Macy's Christmas (& A K-Mart New Year") but I'm pretty excited by this, just the same.







Go see this movie! In addition to being very funny and inspiring, you seeing this film helps me to not have to eat government cheese. I mean, don't get me wrong. Mmmm! Government cheese! But, uh, I'd rather not eat it if I don't have to.

Delfino is headed to mainstreamsville! Just kidding, that will never happen. There are too many vaginas in my songs. Come see for yourself. Your next chance is December 15th, 10 PM in NYC:

VAGINAPALOOZA

featuring:
Adira Amram - www.adiraamram.com
Gina Vetro - myspace.com/ginavetro
Magin Schantz - myspace.com/hotbloodproductions
Dame Darcy - www.damedarcy.com
and me! - myspace.com/jessydelfino

VAGINAPALOOZA is part of Groove MaMa Ink’s Wonder Women Week
All shows are at:
Center Stage
48 West 21st Street (4th floor)
New York, NY
$15

This isn't going to just be some "women's comedy show", it's going to be an awesome show. I hand-picked every person on this bill and they are all so fucking hot and talented that I just used fucking as an adjective.

Wonder Women Week shows run Dec. 11th - 17th!

For more info, visit: www.groovemamaink.com