Mia Borders: Blog

Feel free to respond with your own answers, peeps!
1. Do you have any pets? Yep. A pit/boxer who goes by the name of Bullet. He's gangsta.2. What was the last book you read? The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao3. Do you like to cook? Yep.4. What's your favorite food? Fried chicken, sushi, hummus, anything tasty...5. Do you have brothers and sisters? One super sweet big bro!6. Which sport do you like? Basketball, football... ICE DANCING!!!!7. Do you live alone? Um... what's up, sketchy question?8. Do you live in a house or an apartment? An apartment in a house. I'm so multifaceted like that.9. Have you ever lived in another country? Not yet.10. Have you ever met a famous person? Yes.11. How do you spend your free time? Music, books, movies, my baby boy Bullet, drinks w/ friends.12. Tell me about a favorite event of your adulthood. I don't think it's happened yet. It's been pretty sweet so far, though. Saints winning the Superbowl [...]

Remember that episode of "Saved by the Bell?" Hilarious...
Anyway, peeps, I just wanted to let everyone know how excited I am. I feel like that will more than likely be an underlying theme for nearly all of my blogs, but oh well. If you're reading this, then you should understand how exciting these shenanigans are!
Tonight, we're playing our second show at Maple Leaf this month. What's totally awesome about this show is that we'll be donating 100% of the proceeds from the show to WWOZ for their annual fund drive. It helps keep the music of New Orleans alive, which is clearly a huge priority for all of us.
As with all of our Maple Leaf shows this month, the first ten people to arrive will get a free copy of our previous album, "Southern Fried Soul."
We're super excited (there's that word again) about tonight, not only because of WWOZ, but also because we get to play new stuff from our upcoming album, "Magnolia Blue." It's coming out in April, but we wanted to hit y'all up with some of the [...]

Just to start this whole blogging thing off, I thought I'd do a little baby one.
I was just writing our monthly newsletter and it is filled with shows. I mean, it's bananas. Maple Leaf, WWOZ in-studio, we're heading back to the Rusty Nail after entirely too long. This month is going to be fantastic.
The last time I went to WWOZ was my very first radio interview (and you could totally tell). I said something along the lines of: our band started as a hobby of sorts and now it's snowballed into something really awesome and life-changing. While I got made fun of by some of my peeps for saying that, I stand by it.
This wasn't anything that I imagined would ever become my job. I thought that would be far too amazing to actually happen to me, but it has. What was once a pastime/pet project with my friends has become my life with my friends, and I'm really proud of us. We've done some amazing things in the past four years and it seems to be really paying off in 2010.
We have an amazing album coming [...]