My new friend is Divine!

I went to the Moving Pictures Magazine party celebrating the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday. It was at this cool art gallery on the lower west side, and the joint was jumpin’.

New York City has so much happening on so little land. Kyle and Dom are in Tokyo right now… From what I understand, Tokyo is like 20 times the intensity of New York City. At least when it comes to neon lights, and such. But, Tokyo doesn’t have the Yankees, or the Mets. I betcha they don’t have the Onion, either.

Divine was selling a popular publication called The Onion on 42nd Street and Broadway.

Did you know that The Onion is up to $2.00 now?

Leslie and Kyle trade in the middle of the night.

The last few weeks have been amazing. Kyle came back into town Thursday and made his trade with Leslie for One Day With Alice Cooper.

We’ve been trying to convince Leslie to move to the other side of the duplex. Now, being friends and all, I wouldn’t want to force her to do anything. But, technically, she did sign up for free rent on the other side of the duplex.

It would be nice to avoid doing anything crazy, but I can’t promise

that. Stay tuned…

This should go down in the record books!

For the record, I am soooo stoked about my good friend Leslie trading with Kyle MacDonald One Afternoon with Alice Cooper for One Year In Phoenix. It just goes to show that sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.

Leslie was already planning on coming up to the studio in Toronto – although now, if she visits, and Kyle visits, there will be four One Red Paperclip traders in the same room together. (Brendan and I will be there recording together, of course.)

It’ll be kind of like a mini-reunion. We’ll have to shoot some funny footage for everyone to see. This is gonna be fun.

KPHO Rocks!

Tammy Leitner of KPHO Channel 5 did an amazing piece on One Red Paperclip.

Click the arrow to watch the video in all of it’s splendor.

Interviews with Ronald Lewis

Ronald Lewis was cool enough to interview me for his podcast.

In case you didn’t know, Ronald Lewis has done some amazing interviews in the short time his program has been airing, including high profile apprearances by Kyle MacDonald, Alex Tew and Webaroo.

To Ronald – thanks for the positive and happy vibes.

Laughing til it hurts…

Kyle MacDonald and his dad, Ian, are two of the most upstanding people I have ever met – and they know how to have a good laugh.

After a morning of visiting the local news stations, Kyle and I made our trade Wednesday at high noon.

The whole thing was kind of surreal, since by the time Wednesday night rolled around I had been up a total of 41 hours in a row.

(There’s nothing like being on live television in all of your sleep deprived glory. It allows for lots of silliness, and no one minds if you guzzle all of the newsroom coffee.)

After a really great hang in Phoenix, we all flew to LA for some fun in Hollywood.

I’m here at the ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo , and Kyle is busy “lunching” with some of Hollywood’s finest.

The response and support from everyone has been overwhelming, and I wanted to say, “Thanks.”

This has been one of the most fun and memorable events of my life.

World News Tonight!

My first appearance singing on national TV.

Short, sweet, and freakin’ rad!!!

Click here to watch.

Happy Birthday Indeed!

East Valley Tribune, NPR, The Arizona Republic, CNET all in one week.

By far, this is the craziest and best birthday week ever.

I’ll definitely keep everyone posted with links to the articles, and such, as they come available.

I Got My Paperclip!!!

It’s true. I believe that the world can be changed with One Red Paperclip.

And so today, Kyle MacDonald accepted my offer to trade him One Year of Free Rent in Downtown Phoenix, and I got One Recording Contract.

www.oneredpaperclip.com

Special props go to Brendrum at Metal Works Studios in Toronto, where we’ll be recording.

Being that a year’s rent won’t come free (except to the next lucky trader), please check out my current CD for sale here.

Also, feel free to drop me a line at jody@jodygnant.com and let me know what you think.

It is an honor to be a part of this event that is One Red Paperclip. (Kyle is soooooo going to get his house.)

Buckle your seat belts – this is going to be a fun ride.