Actually they already landed on our shores a couple of weeks ago.
ASOS.COM, an amazing British webshop has finally launched distribution in America! This means NO MORE expensive shipping and a long wait for the products to arrive. Not to mention a much easier policy for Returns.
As a welcome present to its shoppers, ASOS.com is also offering FREE SHIPPING and FREE RETURNS on all items.
What is ASOS you ask?
“ASOS.com, (As Seen on Screen) was established in June of 2000. It is the UK’s largest independent online fashion and beauty retailer. With over 35,000 branded and house label products available and over 1500 new lines added each week, ASOS.com is rapidly becoming the market leader in the UK online fashion world.”
It literally has something for everyone and offers a range of Designer to Bargain prices.
Take advantage of this for your holiday shopping list, as well as a couple of items for yourself. Yes, you deserve it.
Luella says…Three for You, One for Me.
If you make a purchase, Luella wants to see it. Send me a photo and you will become the story for an upcoming post.
Let me preface this by saying I went to see a concert last night and was so moved by the music, I had to share. My disclaimer for this post is that it is intense, personal and supposed to move you to expand your “musical horizons.”
Music is everything. It transcends language, stereotypes, politics and oppression. To me, it is the “light” at the end of every tunnel. Musicians are poets. They give us their secrets, which were lying dormant in their souls, on paper, in verses and through the chords played on their instruments. All of us, through our varied experiences, can relate. Dave Matthews sings, in Funny the Way it is,
“Funny the way it is, if you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school, another’s dropping out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
On a soldier’s last breath his baby’s being born
Funny the way it is, nor right or wrong
Somebody’s broken heart becomes your favorite song”
This is true and what makes music so profound. The same exact song can have a million meanings. You just have to reach out and find yours. My best moments, greatest failures and everywhere in between are woven together by the music or soundtrack if you will, of my life. I am so happy that the importance of song was instilled in me by my Mom from zero on. If your journey was different, it is not too late. Listen. Absorb. Be selfish and take from it what you need and leave the rest for others to interpret. If I had nothing, and some of us do, at least we have music.
Every so often, I will have new volumes with artists or songs I think are amazing. Today it is a spotlight on Indie, Singer-Songwriters that are NOT too be missed.
“A New England folkie with a parched, wounded voice and a mean way with an acoustic guitar, Pureka makes romantic depression seem, somehow, invigorating.”-LA Daily News
“An interviewer asked Chris Pureka to sum up her music as a haiku. I will: Folky sorrowful songs of loneliness and hurt, longing to reunite. Her tunes have the grave Appalachian flavor of Neil Young and Gillian Welch; her guitar playing is subdued but quietly virtuosic. And her voice can be a desolate whisper or a bitter accusation. There’s no comfort, for her, in the clarity of her observations.” – John Pareles, THE NEW YORK TIMES
Songs, all performed LIVE, all written by Chris Pureka.
Joe Purdy is an American folk singer-songwriter who has recorded and released ten albums in eight years. A regular at The Hotel Café in Los Angeles, Purdy traveled to the UK with Tom McRae in 2006 as part of McRae’s Hotel Cafe Tour. Purdy’s appearance at the Wireless Festival in Leeds led to a special request from The Who member Pete Townshend and his girlfriend Rachel Fuller to play with them at their acoustic In the Attic Series shows.
Songs, all performed LIVE, all written by Joe Purdy.
Take some time out and listen/watch the above artists. Musically we live in a world now where originality and organic journeys barely exist. Let’s start a movement to try to change that.
No matter where you live, find your local Hotel Cafe, The Cutting Room or McCabes Guitar Shop. As Marvin Gaye sang, “Can I Get a Witness.” Go support and witness live music for yourself. I would love to hear back from you about what artists you love and who moves and inspires you.
Actually they already landed on our shores a couple of weeks ago. 
What is ASOS you ask? 
Luella says... 
