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Antoinette Music: The Future Was Always Here

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010



Antoinette Kristensen is a singer and songwriter from Norway, now living in Los Angeles. If you are familiar with her work as a model or a reality TV star, you already know that she has a style, an image, and a way of expressing herself that is honest and all her own. Her style reflects many beautiful and glamorous women past and present, but it is the way that Antoinette, and only Antoinette, combines these elements to create a woman, an image, and a sound you cannot find anywhere else.

Electronic/Pop/Dance music is abundant and manufactured today. Our best performers, including Beyonce, do not write their own songs. This is one way of doing it and that works: Beyonce is a wonderful performer and singer and her request for original songs is a dream come true for the chosen few.

But Antoinette draws on the spirit of music that precedes our current era of “music as stimulus” and “music as business.” Antoinette Music follows the tradition of “music as art,” and thus a means of communication where wit, storytelling, and personal expression are the most valued set of criteria. In our current era where music screams for attention, Antoinette Music keeps you singing and dancing long after the music is over simply because a personal message by a mature songwriter elicits a response from the soul.



Dancing on a Rainbow expresses the innocence and sensual pleasure of new love completely through metaphor: a “bursting heart” that feels like it’s going to pop from “a 100,000 butterflies that want out” or (my fave) a heart that feels like it’s going to stop “like a rollercoaster when it’s about to drop.” Cynics and hopeless romantics alike would have trouble resisting this song – could be out of your realm of believability if you haven’t experienced this feeling recently, but that’s where Antoinette’s other assets come through, like her voice…



Back and Forth was Antoinette’s first single, released in 2008. This is a sexy song, but Antoinette’s delivery is the icing on the cake. Her velvet alto vocals with feminine high notes, reminiscent of the sounds from Gainsbourg’s women Jane Birkin or his daughter Charlotte, make this track, and the singer, unforgettable.



Crush on the DJ pays homage to the man who runs the show, rocks the party, and asks for very little credit. The video features Antoinette as the most beautiful and stylized (in place of stylish) gal in the club who ignores everyone except for the man who’s really behind it all – the DJ! The musical theatrics, like the piano and her “va va voom” “oh oh o-oh’s” are flirty and humorous. We don’t know if she gets together with the DJ, or if the whole scene was just a dream (or a video shoot), as the music fades and we see her dancing on the sidewalk alone… this is one of those times you really get to see what effect a “fade out” ending was created for.

Antoinette’s music is always fun and danceable, but to make it really shine, her lyrics paint pictures of emotions with a delivery that not only doesn’t quit, but takes you higher than you ever expected to go.

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She has recently been back in the studio to record her new song and makes plans for the next knock-out video. Turn away for a second and you might have trouble keeping up. From what I’ve heard of the new stuff, all I can say is that she remains unpredictable and absolutely fierce!


You can buy Antoinette’s latest release Crush on the DJ and other songs on iTunes. Great music for dancing and feeling good!

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In Defense of Angelina

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

I would say that anyone who slanders Angelina Jolie should be ashamed of themselves. I won’t.

Instead, I say that anyone who slanders Angelina Jolie is ashamed of themselves.

The tabloids and magazines are out of control on this one – this is downright cruelty. She is a human being, and a phenomenal one at that. Angelina Jolie is one of the most philanthropic female celebrities EVER. She’s a talented actress who has progressed with such grace and refinement, from her tragic and haunting portrayal of the supermodel Gia to her stoic, seductive and tough as nails character in Wanted. She has opened her heart and home to children without any guarantee of a future. She does her best to keep her adopted children in touch with their homeland and culture – we’ve seen her take her son Maddox back to Cambodia regularly (she owns a house there) and explore the streets of her son Pax’s native Vietnam on the back of a moped with Brad. She has traveled as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador to many third world countries, relating to the people there and learning their stories to show the world the truth – they are just like us and there is hope! She has worked with Jeffery Sachs and helped to spread the message far and wide that “yes, we CAN end extreme poverty and it already happening!”



So when I say that anyone who slanders AJ is ashamed of themselves I consider all that I’ve written above. Angelina sets a high standard for humanity, one that is hard to reach from our suburban living rooms or even our penthouse apartments. Most people are not willing to leave their comfort zones to benefit the community around them, or even themselves. In a society of sluggishly suicidal ego obsessed Diet Coke drinkers, yes, we would hate someone like Angelina Jolie. These people do what they’re told, do not take risks, do not performs acts of generosity without thoughts of what they will get in return… and, to feel better about themselves, they bond together and slander anyone who does.

This behavior is absurd and it is amongst the worst evil on the planet. Do we not know from our review of Michael Jackson’s life that this type of cruelty does affect the celebrity in a negative way?? It is a horror how we were so willing to take sides against Michael in a legal dispute that never yielded any evidence of a crime, just to sooth our own egos and unfulfilled, yearning souls.

We are privileged to witness such an amazing spirit at work in the arenas of art, philanthropy, and fashion. I look up to Angelina Jolie. She is a warrior who’s call to make the world a better place is so aptly fulfilled with fortitude, truth and beauty. She has never shied away from experience, and she has never told the public what she thought they wanted to hear. Angelina sets an example for anyone, man or woman, of how to be much much more than a couch potato or corporate cog. Follow this link to learn more about an amazing woman who calls herself “Angie.”

Actually, Angelina is perhaps the more accurate representation of what we all are truly meant to be. Really does make me wonder… how about you?

Peace and Blessings to you, Angelina Jolie, and your family.


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Woman: strong, brave and beautiful – YOU ARE LOVED!

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Food-Free Lifestyle: Jericho Sunfire

Monday, September 14th, 2009

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Such an amazing video that highlights the life of Jericho Sunfire, a man who lives a food-free life. He subsists on the energy that is all around us… cosmic energy. He is in extreme physical health – the video shows him performing difficult exercises with ease. Your first thought may be that he’s probably emaciated, or all “Breatharians” are, but this is actually not the case. Mr. Sunfire looks as healthy and alive as any other professional athlete.

It was his journey into rawfoodism that eventually brought him to his food-free lifestyle.

Really makes you think: If people can live completely food-free, then we can certainly take a moment before we eat to choose the best possible food for ourselves and this planet. Is that Philly cheese steak really worthy of you, or even some of the walnut and date treats that so many raw foodists love. We actually ask quite a lot from our bodies because of our addiction to the enjoyment and distraction of eating.

Choose whatever lifestyle works for you, but remember to consider the “slave driver” addiction can be.

Now I want to refer to Gwyneth Paltrow’s lovely newsletter GOOP. This particular issue is all about addiction. Here’s a very important excerpt…

Our addiction to the concept of self is the most deeply ingrained and the hardest to overcome. To do so we have to begin by seeing into the truth that there really is no self. The self is just a concept, an agreed-upon notion, much like that of a corporation. Over a period of 80 to 100 years, the CEO and all the employees will have changed several times. The product and even the name of the company may also have changed. So what is the company? In fact, there is no company, other than a legal agreement that it exists and persists over time as the same company. The self is just like this. We know that before there was a concept of self, there was no such thing called the self. We all agree when a baby is born that this baby is a self and has a self. But the baby doesn’t have a concept of self. We build that concept up over time, and the more time and energy we invest in the concept of self, the more attached, or addicted, we become to the notion that “I” exists as a separate, solid and permanent entity. Moment by moment, day by day, year by year, the more we have invested in this notion, the harder it is to free ourselves from the addiction of self. Once we have truly realized that there is no self, the easier it is to drop our addictions.
-Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel

And, some wise words from Michael Berg, co-director of the Kabbalah Centre™, about overcoming addiction…

Three essential things we can do to begin the process of leaving addictive behavior behind:

1. Realize these yearnings are coming from a true place (our soul) telling us we need to do more, and we can do and be more.

2. Begin a process of both realizing and connecting to our true essence by focusing, meditating and becoming more conscious of our thoughts, behaviors and true potential.

3. Do actions that take us out of selfish behavior. Become a more giving person. This helps us be less busy with ourselves.

Good luck with your journey, and ENJOY!

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Raw Mama

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Dr. Ann Wigmore. She is arguably the mother of the raw foods movement. She was one of the first to tell us about the amazing benefits of wheat grass, which basically makes her the “Les Paul” of natural foods in the West. It was her grandmother who first educated her on the powers of whole foods and herbs. Her message is that there are natural remedies for any and all maladies, as she has proven by winning her battle with cancer.

If you haven’t heard of her before, here’s a little video for a sweet introduction to Dr. Ann Wigmore…

Why raw? (a few thoughts that stand out in my mind)

1. I generally don’t turn on a stove or an oven, which makes me feel good because I’ve been hearing some rumors of a serious energy crisis.

2. The meat industry is a f*ing disgrace to the human race.
(watch Meet Your Meat if you haven’t already)

3. The meat industry is destroying the Earth, which happens to be my home! (read this!)

4. People can never believe I’m above the age of 20 :)

5. I don’t have to deal with snot, acne, thunder-thighs, asthma, allergies, urinary tract infections, bad breath, body odor, brain fog, depression, etc., which is pretty darn sexy these days.

Don’t suffer your life away. You’ve got a choice.

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