Hello, It's good to be back

Becca and Guillermo

Yes, it has been a long time since I've written here and thankfully that is changing. Many things have happened in the last several months that did a great job of taking all the time. In the last year I got engaged and married, my cat Manny passed away and we adopted a new one named Guillermo (named after the character in "What we do in the shadows"). Job situations also changed and long story short I became a dog walker on the side of all the music stuff.

January 19th marked Bite-the-dust.com's 17th anniversary and my 35th birthday. Since the beginning of January I've been improving the site which includes making it mobile friendly. In addition to all the BTD stuff, I opened a new website called BeccaJonesStarr.com which is where I'm going to move the more personal and non-rock related content. This would include my Chewbacca collection and graphic art commissions.

I am also still working with Jack Cutter and The Gits. Jack Cutter has a bunch of live shows this month in the Bay Area. The Gits, namely Steve Moriarty, is working on the finishing touches for the Art, Rock and Revolution Mia Zapata book. For a few months our Gits fan site has been down. It took us a while to figure out what happened which was Hostbaby getting bought out by Squarespace and is now on "Bandzoogle." We have been trying to get all the info from the old site to move on to the next. To say the least this is a Herculean task, and unfortunately there are more complications. For now we are using out Gits ebay shop to sell merch we have right now. I wish I could go into more detail about what's going on, but it's personal information and I don't want to put that out there.

A few more things to mention: I made a mobile friendly version of my band promo website Becca Jones-Starr's Band Promotion. I'm not creating so much lately as much as I'm focused on selling when it comes to Rock Resurrection Art. I started an instagram account for RRA as well, check it out here!

Music, art and creativity are apart of my life everyday and impossible to stay away from. I've got tons of ideas, content and the motivation to back it up. It's good to be back.

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The album art of Tommy by Mike McInnerney

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We need to talk about this: The Foo Fighters are "AIDS denialists"

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