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Hey Everyone,

I am writing to you from Toronto, Canada. I haven’t been able to get online too often, so this message is coming a little later than I would have liked.

After a few delays, the judges finally made their selection. I did not get the showcase in France, but I am proud to say that your votes worked. I stayed in the top 10 for the last two weeks of the competition, and finished at #9. When I first emailed you asking for help, I was sitting at #49. Your response and support in voting every day was so unexpected and encouraging. Thank you for helping me make it to the judges round. We accomplished everything we possibly could. (You can go “unlike” Midem now.) I will make it to France another time…

For those of you who didn’t receive a free download of my new live CD, please let me know and I’ll get it to you.

This will be my last post for the year. If you haven’t heard of Kelly Carlin’s podcast, check out her most recent episode. In the beginning she asks a series of questions to ponder this time of year. I’ve been asking them of myself, and I think you’ll enjoy them too. (Daryl’s interview is fantastic too.)

http://smodcast.com/episodes/daryl-wright-and-kelly-kill-the-pc-police/

I hope you all have peace this holiday season, and a wonderful conclusion to 2011. I will see you in 2012.

Thank you so much,

Logan

VOTE HERE once a day until December 7

Hello everyone,

I recently submitted to showcase at midem 2012 and I made it to the voting stage. If you want to help me take my music to France, you can vote for me once a day until December 7. The top 10 will be reviewed and 3 artists will be sent to showcase at midem in Cannes, France.

Here is the link:

http://midem2012.sonicbids.com/BandDetails.aspx?b=29636

Your votes have already moved me up from #50 into the top 10! Now I just need to stay there…

If you vote for me, comment on the Facebook event page or on the showcase page and I will send you an advance download of my upcoming E.P. “Live at Genghis Cohen Two.”

Thanks everyone. Can’t do it without you.

-Logan

This is a blog that I meant to write already, but I didn’t.

I started to write it. On paper. With a pen.

Back in June, Kelly Carlin told me she would be using my music again on her New Dissident Radio show “Waking From The American Dream” when she had Taylor Negron on the program. On that episode, they tell the story of the day I met Kelly and her family in New York City back in the summer of 2008.

I wrote a lot down after listening to this last June, but I’m not going to post any of it yet.

I’m still kind of processing it all, three years later.

It was episode 25, from June 23, 2011:

http://newdissidentradio.com/archives/waking/2011/june/wake-062311.mp3

And here’s the show’s page.

Taylor Negron and Logan Heftel at The Mint!
Monday March 28 at 8pm
6010 W. Pico Blvd 90035
All ages. $10. $15 if you’re under 21. $2 off with this flyer:

I’ve been looking forward to this.

Taylor and I have played many places in the last three years, but we’ve never played at the Mint together. Hollowbody LA’s Donovan Lyman has convinced me it will be our best show ever. Taylor and I have a lot of new material, and this show will be unlike anything we’ve done before.

The world is collapsing. Skies are melting. Singularity is coming.

You should be there.

The show is all ages! Get your tickets here:

http://www.themintla.com/show/detail/39930

Stay tuned this week for some pre-Mint magic.

I’m thrilled to be back at Comedy Central Stage as the musical guest tonight. Some sleep will occur before then.

Some of my favorite people are performing at this one, so make your reservations now. It may already be sold out.

On Sunday I’m playing at a free Family Fair that the Woodland Hills Chamber of Commerce is putting on:

It’s going to be really fun because the rain will have stopped by then! Right? Yes.

Been writing more since the contest ended. More videos are coming soon, because those are much more fun than blogs.

Hope you’re enjoying your election season.

A huge thank you to Kawika for getting this site up and going. The old site will not be missed. There will be much to add to these pages in the coming days.

The only thing I liked on the old site.

I’ve been using iWeb to make the new loganheftel.com. I’m not really happy with the limitations (or the results) but it has been fun, in a helpless sort of way. Not having a music player is one of the worst parts. I’m just linking to my sonicbids page for now.

I first bought the domain name in 2003 or 2004. Joey Mornin built my first site. It had awesome php forms for me to use to update the shows and mail contacts. Joey, those were fun times. I wish I had screen shots of the olden day site. I would put it up again. I’m pretty much stuck in 2004 anyway.

My website has lived through a few incarnations since that first one. A few years ago, in the process of leaving a bad web host, loganheftel.com was sold to some scamming company and I didn’t have it for about a year. The bad web host had refused to give me the authorization code when I refused to renew. The domain went public and when I went to get it, it was not available. I was soon contacted by the buyers and they wanted me to pay about $3000 to get it back. I bought the .net and told them good luck finding another buyer. (Anyone know another Logan Heftel? I think I’m the only one on Earth.)

After months of unsuccessful haggling, they apparently sold it to a similar company who made first contact with an innocent approach: “We see you own the .NET, how would you like to increase your business by owning the more credible .COM?” They even had a bullet point list of reasons why it is advantageous to have a .com rather than a .net, as though I had originally sought out a .net site. They wanted only $300 for my name dot com.

I took an idea from a beautifully short-lived Comedy Central show called “Con” with Skyler Stone. I replied with an email explaining that what they were doing was ILLEGAL (repeated bold and capitalized a few times throughout) and I CC’d a lawyer whose name and address I found on Google. I did end up paying them a little bit, but it was much closer to what a new domain name actually costs.

After getting the name back, it has existed only to redirect. First to an Electronic Press Kit hosted by moreorlessmyself.com. After that fell through, I redirected the name to myspace for longer than I care to admit. Now it redirects to the iWeb site. All the while the old EPK is still at the top of the search engines. I have a lot of work to do. I like that EPK a lot, and I hope it can be updated and turned into something again. But if not, I am still trying to improve the iWeb-do-it-myself approach until a better option is possible.

I’m open to suggestions if you are.

I just wanted to share my frustration with you. This was a little while ago. I’m still disappointed I missed the show.

Happy Friday.