i just sang "space oddity" with al gore. (Patreon)

hey guys...

i'll write a longer blog about this early next week, because right now i am kind of collapsed in fetal position (with a baby also in fetal position) but i wanted you to see this shot.

my surprise at the TED conference this year was that i pitched the idea of singing me and jherek's string rendition of "space oddity" and they said YES and then i ran into al gore at the speakers lunch on monday and asked him if he would do the countdown because neil wasn't here and he said YES and then it HAPPENED.

jherek got a great quartet (all women!!) from seattle to join us and the guitarist was usman riaz, one of the TED fellows (there on scholarship, basically) from pakistan.

so...long story short....my week at TED was absolutely ming-bogglingly insane and full of insights and inspirations and my #NINJATED gig at the vancouver theater was off the charts and i'll write a whole blog about who showed up (adam savage! bill t jones! chris hadfield, again! damian from okgo!) but whatever because..

HOLY SHIT I JUST DID A DAVID BOWIE SONG WITH AL GORE

i don't fangirl like this often.

if we want to be very clear here: 

this bowie project would not have happened without the patreon.

the patreon would not have happened without you. you, reading this.

so you, reading this, are personally responsible for possibly the best moment of my life.

thanks for that:

i love you.

i am praying, PRAYING, to the gods of TED that this performance will be shared on the internet. it was SO BEAUTIFUL. so so beautiful.

more soon.

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