REPLAY: Crissi Cochrane on Facebook Live, June 20, 2020
Crissi Cochrane
Let me start off by saying: Happy Father’s Day! We began our day with a trip out to Lowe’s to replace our air conditioner, which has been doing very little to combat the intense heat wave smothering the city. I was up until 12:30am after the stream, looking at which models were available in stores locally, and Mike was loading it into the window by 9:30am today. Phew!
I was so looking forward to last night’s stream! It’s been too long. I’m starting to miss doing our twice-weekly streams, although it is a lot of work to prepare the material. I didn’t have the luxury of much rehearsal time this week, with a custom song to wrap up, and Mike being at CBC a couple days this week - I feel like I get about 20 minutes of personal time during the day while our daughter is awake, and that’s it. The rest of the day, I’m just a machine, ricocheting from one housewifely task to the next. I know I complain about this a lot, but Jesus, being a mother is legitimately the most demanding job in the world. I can’t look away for ten minutes or she’s eating dirt or colouring on the furniture.
Anyway, I made a couple of small mistakes which I probably wouldn’t have made if I’d practiced just once more. Hindsight is 20/20! I am human! But I really, really enjoyed it. I felt like I had that bright, nervous energy that I’d get from performing in-person shows. I love trying to control and harness that great thrill. And I was just so happy to get dolled up - I haven’t worn my hair in a donut bun yet on stream, and I used a super cool magnetic eyeliner and eyelashes combo that I didn’t even know existed until my trip to the drug store on Friday. I’ve been going through falsies like crazy and thought this would be easier to reuse. Time will tell, but so far they are gorgeous and super fun. Magnets on my face! So weird. (I did some Googling before hand to make sure this was OK and not a terrible health hazard - mostly out of concern for what on earth they’d put in an eyeliner that would make magnets stick to it - the answer is iron oxide.)
SET LIST:
8:23 - Brother She’s Gone
14:13 - The Man I Love (jazz standard)
18:18 - Like A Lady
23:43 - Something We Did
28:43 - Baby
33:23 - Melt Way (Brian Wilson)
38:55 - Is This Love (Bob Marley)
44:10 - Between The Bars (Elliott Smith)
48:49 - Just Friends
We had planned to do our first after-show last night, but unfortunately, it didn’t happen. It’s been a real challenge to find a place where we can do live-streams behind a pay-wall. We were able to get it to work for Mike earlier this month, but the app kept crashing last night. I was really disappointed because I had prepared a lot of material for the second hour, and had a lot of things I wanted to chat about. I emailed everyone with an apology, an offer for a refund, and a free download of my new “Only You & Me” Remix (which comes out this Friday!!), and I’m so glad that everybody was super understanding. We’ll have it sorted out for our next after-shows. We’ll be doing them elsewhere… more details TBA.
When the after-show failed, I thought I could maybe use the time (and the fact that I was already in full hair/make-up) to shoot a short segment that I’ve been asked to create for a local organization. I tried to give it a go, but our cameras kept turning themselves off, and in the intense heat, my false eyelashes were beginning to fall off my face, so I gave up. Normally, I would have taken a cute selfie and then tweeted my thanks to all who donated, but to be honest, I was so bummed about the fail-upon-fail and the prospect of spending another night sweating on top of the sheets while our AC pumped out hot stinky foot smells, that I just took off my makeup and went to bed. I was so singleminded in my determination to end the day that I forgot to give the cat his medicine, and now he’s half dead today. (Happy Father’s Day!)
Alright, time to go do some book-keeping and deliver a custom song! Love you all, thank you for reading, and I look forward to singing for you again on Saturday, July 11!