Jane honey,
I am so honored that you would dedicate so much of your limited visit outside the hospital to write one endless paragraph after another about what I think. I find it interesting that you found the one place I mentioned your name in my post to Josiqah and twisted what I said to make it all about you. It is I and at least 30,000 other of Josiah's fans that pity you. Many people, who shall remain nameless, are actually afraid of you. I've been cast as a lecherous old frau, but you my dear are seen as an utter psycopath, who's name has been handed over to the FBI not only by me. Bash me all you'd like darling, for I am writing it all down and I'm currently working with an agent to put all this drama into publication. I am going to get rich b/c of you, Josiah and VFTW.
Thanks...........Judy

Dear Judy

like anyone is going to buy this crap :D


Thanks for the belly laugh, you tool!


Off you go, go polish all your cars, quickly now!

An example of the obsessiveness of these tards, on Josiah's MySpace, over just a few days........

Judy
    
15 May 2008 8:05 AM
The BNB's are still playing the role of faithful admirers

we like to check in to see if you've been back

we do understand you're busy

we also understand that some of us fans have made you mad

some have even scared you

but those of us that believe in your talent and ability to make your dream come true will still be here

we may not be happy but we are satisfied.

from........

me


~ShellZ~    15 May 2008 2:49 AM
Hey you! Just want you to know Im continuing my support here, even though you're not loggin on and are working, because I made a promise to give you my love and support. whether youre here everyday, once a week, or once a year. What matters is youre living your dream. Love, Shellz


Jodi    14 May 2008 9:55 PM
I will remember you
Will you remember me
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories...

Miss you love - hope your smiling

Jod


shelly.?    14 May 2008 7:28 PM
hello my love.
well i hope LA is treating you right. (if you're still there)

i know that you are busy recording but i hope you take the time to do all of the things that you want to do.

i know you're staying away from the space, but if you decide to do a show while you're recording i'd hope that you would get on and post it for us.

love you to the heavens and back.

shelly. in cali.


Dia {violently awake, perpetually dreaming}14 May 2008 5:37 PM
good evening darlin...

so tristan is sleeping in my bed tonight...he escaped out his window again even AFTER i locked it, put the child safety locks on, duct taped it, and put his bookself in front of it...he stacked up his big toys and climbed on the top of his bookshelf, pried the duct tape off, snapped off the "child safety" locks like they were nothing, unlocked the window and hopped right out, little did he know i was standing outside watching him the whole time....what am i to do lol

anyway, hope your evening was great! did you settle on pizza again?

have a great evening and get plenty of rest. dont forget, brush your teeth.

ily josiah,

dia

:D


~ShellZ~    14 May 2008 3:21 AM
'ello 'ello 'ello! K ya in a weird mood this morning lol. So am thinkin of you as always my friend and wishing you a happy day. Maybe some day soon you might post some pics from the studio? Love to ya Peace out ily! ShellZ


Debs    13 May 2008 1:40 AM
MISS you MUCH.
Deb(inOhio)...
keep making that beautiful music...


Jodi    12 May 2008 10:55 PM
Long, long time ago, I can still remember how the music used to make me smile...

Morning Love. I hope you're well and being productive. We're one day closer to September.

Have a Lovely,

Jodi

Dia {violently awake, perpetually dreaming}    12 May 2008 7:24 PM
Good evening Josiah,

I forgive.

Ily.

Dia.


karen    12 May 2008 1:38 PM
Hi there!

I hope you had a great weekend and I hope your mom had a wonderful Mother's day, she is extraordinary!! (I'll never forget what she did for me)

Much love,
Karen

Dia {violently awake, perpetually dreaming}    12 May 2008 7:18 AM
good afternoon josiah,

congrats on gettin in your local paper :) and congrats to my bnb that are mentioned as well...

happy mothers day to your mom and all the other mothers in your family and in your fan base, hope its a great one!

ummm...thats about it for right now...take care and take it easy...

ily josiah,

dia


Tamara12 May 2008 4:56 AM
Good morning, Josiah =) How is your Sunday going? I just had brunch w/my mom, which was nice--we've been apart the last few Mother's Days, so it was a treat.

Hope your day is fantabulous, mr. magical music man..take good care!

Thanks for being you!

Tamara



Jodi    11 May 2008 11:36 PM
Morning Love. I hope your week was awesome and you found the perfect complement for your talent. You must be so excited to go into the studio and get all your tracks recorded. I can't wait to hear the end result. Until then be safe and enjoy the process.

Much Love

Jodi


Debs    11 May 2008 10:03 PM
Hey JL, you are one busy guy. We are thinking of you and sending you good positive energy...Have a great day and HAPPY MOMS DAY TO Sharon :)
hugs for all, Deb(inOhio)

~ShellZ~    11 May 2008 6:46 PM
Hey JL! Watermelon jello shots and karaoke and dancing on the coffee table..Ya it was a great Saturday night lol. Miss ya! Love ya!

Dia {violently awake, perpetually dreaming}    11 May 2008 6:10 PM
[happy mothers day to all the moms in your family]

good evening josiah,

hope your weekend was awesome! my dads gettin better :)

im kinda blah, so im gonna go to bed early...sleep well darlin...

ily,

goodnight josiah,

dia

Tamara    11 May 2008 5:19 PM
It's officially Mother's Day (ET). Hope your mom has herself a fantastical day!!

You're in my thoughts--hoping your weekend is terrific...

Talk to you laters..
thanks for being you!

Tamara



Dia {violently awake, perpetually dreaming}    11 May 2008 2:25 PM
good evening josiah,

i guess im one of those that have no life :) but thats ok...im happy with who i am...so i found my cable to connect my ipod to the laptop, so i now have your songs playing on the surround sound :) made my day.

anyway, wishing your mother a happy mothers day :) do something nice...by golly.

heading out for a bit...talk to you later...

ily,

dia



karen    11 May 2008 12:40 PM
Hi there!
I hope you're having a great weekend thus far.
As you once very wisely stated: "Be really good to your moms, you only get one"...and you my dear got an extraordinary one!!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hugs,
Karen

Debs    11 May 2008 4:53 AM
Leaving my daily comment...Love to you and have a safe and fun weekend.
Listening to your CD right now and it's making me feel so much better :) thanks for being able to do that for all of us.
Deb


Tamara    11 May 2008 4:01 AM
It's Saturday!! Which really only means I have to go to work. But regardless, for some reason, Saturday morning still feels good. The fact that I slept in definitely helps =)

I'm wondering if you're driving home. When you do drive, it's going to be a long haul...so be safe, know you're loved, and supported. We understand, it's only going to get busier from here...

thanks for being you!!
Tamara
Tallahassee

Jodi    10 May 2008 11:35 PM
Morning love. Sunday (tomorrow) is the day and I hope you'll be proud and happy.

It's amazing how so many things have changed in a few days. It's sad and I miss you being here. That being said, I don't blame you - you have so many more important things to focus on right now. I will wait patiently for the albums release.

Love and Misses,

Jodi

Tamara    10 May 2008 5:39 PM
W-ell, after a LOT of wine, a bottle of beer (I can't spell it..y-ling? yleing?? whatever), I think I feel okay.

Missin' ya, like a druggie misses crack.
lol...
like a monkey misses bananas..
hmmm..
that's all I've got, mr. man...

thanks for bein' you..
I've pm'd you, but you're busy. It's all good..I'll be right here, waiting for you (ala Richard Marx lol)

Tamara
Tallahassee


karen    10 May 2008 1:16 PM
Just dropping in to show my continued support!!

I can't wait for the day I turn on the radio and hear one of your songs playing!!!

Love you and miss you like everyone else...

~Karen~


Debs    10 May 2008 10:37 AM
Miss ya JL...
hope all is well...
Deb


~ShellZ~    10 May 2008 5:16 AM
Hey sweets. Just a line to let you know were all thinking of you and missing you. Try not to stress.. Just remember the look on Dia's face at The Loft when she opened the door LOL!! Love you all the way to the stars, ShellZ


Grannie Debra    10 May 2008 1:08 AM
Good morning Josiah and Lemingheads! Everyone have a great day and weekend. Don't forget Mother's Day!

If you have never posted on this page before, join in and say hi to Josiah today.

Come on now, Lemingheads can't be shy!

Big Texas Love,

Debra


karen    9 May 2008 10:35 PM
Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!
(FYI you are missed around here)

Only 114 days untill September!!

Luvs,
Karen
Dia {violently awake, perpetually dreaming}    9 May 2008 7:43 PM
good evening josiah,

just a little goodnight whatchawant...

todays been pretty rough...got an email this morning saying my dad had a heart attack while out to breakfast, so hes sched for surgery first thing in the morning since he seems to be in stable condition...so pray that goes well...

hope things are going well in the beginning stages of the studio life :) just keep your chin up, things will work their way through...

get some rest...

ily josiah,

gnite,

dia


shelly.?    9 May 2008 7:17 PM
JOSIAH LEMING!!!!

man what 4 days without the internet can do to a girl.

well im back in fresno now. and i cant stop thinking about the scottsdale show.
im going to visit my dad tomorrow and i get to show him all of the wonderful videos from that amazing night. i cant wait. we will sit and drink and laugh and cry as we watch. its the next best thing since he was unable to make it to AZ.

im sad that you have left us but anxious at the same time. i cannot wait til the new album. and i hope that you can take a break or two and have a show in LA, or somewhere in cali. because we all know that i will be there!

well enjoy your time away from this crazy place, and i will be here when you return.
OH! and i still have yet to put up all my pics. but i will get to them. i promise. moving is a bitch!

love you to the heavens and back.

shelly. in cali.


karen    9 May 2008 12:00 PM
I'm here and going nowhere...just wanted to say that.

If you are reading your comments, know that I wish you all the best and I hope that everything is turning out the way you want it to!

~Karen~

Tamara    9 May 2008 6:48 AM
"sugar pie, honey bunch...you know that we love yaaaa!!"

I have GOT to get out of this ridiculous hole of gloom I'm in today, so I figured I'd sing you a song..

have a happy!!

tams

Dia {violently awake, perpetually dreaming}    9 May 2008 6:46 AM
good morning josiah!

youre probably busy right now...or maybe youre still sleeping...but i think youre up and working...

just remember... "oooooo sahhhhhh"
dont let the stress get to you, youre better than that and you know it, i know it, and everyone else knows it.

talk at you later love...

ily josiah,

dia


~ShellZ~    9 May 2008 1:34 AM
Good morning sweets. Have a wonderful day. All my love and support!, Shell


karen    8 May 2008 10:45 PM
Josiah, thank you so much for the lyrics to "Artic Outcry Wind".
Best of luck recording your album, you know I can hardly wait!! (:

Take your time, have fun, be safe and I'll be here when you come back!!

~Karen~


Judy    8 May 2008 5:12 PM
Hi Josiah, still early here in Cali., so I won't say goodnight to a fellow night owl


Dia {violently awake, perpetually dreaming}    8 May 2008 5:03 PM
"i like the 'ello' in kellogs. kinda like, 'ello gov'na!" ...

damn i love that commercial...

i hope you had a less stressful day today and hope things are well with you and yours...

ily josiah,

good night,

dia



What inane shit! :D No wonder he doesn't login there anymore! Would you, if all you saw was crap like that?

Good grief. These losers are as bad as the Taytards and the Claytards.....and they'll scare any real music fan away, instantly.

Check them out. Not one is under 35....just what a young and upcoming teenage pop singer needs, right?

Caught in his Web

By John Gullion, Tribune Managing Editor


Jodi Frasier heard the rumors but frankly, she refused to believe them.

The young man from Morristown, Tenn. with the affected British accent, plaintive voice and enthralling back story simply couldn't be kicked off the show so close to reaching his goal.

Then it happened.

The then 18-year-old Josiah Leming got the news that he didn't make the cut. He left the show, gamely trying to hold back the very flood of emotion that had helped make him almost famous.

Sitting in her upstate New York home, Frasier couldn't endure it. She turned the TV off on the spot.

For millions of "American Idol" viewers that's where the story stopped. But for the 38-year-old mother of two, that's really where the story begins.

The Internet isn't a thing any more, it's a place. It's organic with a pulsing life as real for many people as New York or L.A. or Morristown. The Internet is where Frasier and many others went to on the night Leming first came into their living rooms via the same show that threatened to crush him the night he was sent home.

Frasier found Leming's MySpace page after his first appearance on the show. As Leming's face time increased, so did the hits on his self-made Web site.

By the time Josiah made a triumphant post-Idol appearance on Ellen DeGeneres' daytime talk show, a cyber community of young and, well, not-as-young, male and female, gay and straight had taken seed. The page had a life of its own.

"Basically we were all on the site as individuals doing the same things looking for information on Josiah and the progression of his career," she said. "We found out through that process that we all had a lot more in common than Josiah himself. We found that on a day-to-day basis, it's hard to hang out with a lot of friends. You're an adult, you have kids but with this community you're able to do that on your time."

Frasier congregated with a group within the group. They are the Lemingheads.

From various walks of life from all around the country, they are drawn together by a love for a teenage troubadour that few of them had met until a couple of weeks ago.

On April 30, the Lemingheads converged on Dallas. Leming was playing a show at a little club there. As fate would have it, one of the Lemingheads lives in Dallas and offered the other nine ladies space on her floor.

"I think the reason they jumped on planes is because Josiah's story inspires us," said Debra Conway, who hosted the group. "The fact that he's a good musician and his lyrics speak to people so deeply is the added bonus. Because he was exposed to us in our living rooms on 'American Idol,' we sort of found each other … we realized we all felt the same way."

Judy Male, a 48-year-old mother of two from Santa Cruz, Calif. had already made an 800-mile round trip for an L.A. show. But she went to Dallas mostly to experience a show with the other Lemingheads.

"We met because of him. He's brilliant. His brilliant personality is adorable and he has an endearing quality when he performs," Male said. "It's like he's in another world. There's no putting on at all."

Of course, as a mother of teenage daughters, Male had a little explaining to do when she told of her upcoming trip.

"My daughter said, 'Mom, isn't this what you said not to do on MySpace?'" Male said. "My family thinks I'm nuts … this is so out of character."

Making a fairly spur of the moment, cross-country trip isn't exactly a common occurrence for Frasier either, but she said she made the trip for what may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"We'd all been waiting for him to go into the studio," she said. "We figured this may be the last time we'd all be able to see him in an intimate setting."

There is a feeling amongst the Lemingheads that Josiah is on the cusp of something huge. Like the kids that filled the Cavern Club in Liverpool before the Beatles became the Beatles, the Lemingheads believe that they will get to say they saw Josiah before he was a star.

"This kid is brilliant," Male said. "The thing about him and why he's touching so many women, mostly he seems to get it. Men never understand women. They don't know what women want. You can see in this boy's lyrics that he gets it."
The question of how a performer still in his teens can strike such a deep chord within middle-aged women, many of them mothers with far more life experience, is complicated.

"It's amazing," Conway said. "I felt like at the beginning I had to try and defend myself. I usually like Eric Clapton … guitar based rock. I also loved Bob Dylan so I've compared Josiah's-type lyrics to Dylan's but that's not even a good comparison because Dylan did not write about heartache like Josiah does."

Frasier also points to how well Leming can express inner pain.

"I think a lot of his music has to do with loss and all the emotions that go along with it," she said. "I've personally suffered some significant losses. His lyrics reflect those emotions. It helps people. All the women I was with, we've all found his music. It helps us day-to-day. As we listen to it, we feel better."

Leming's fame grew when Idol played up the dramatic aspects of his life. He lived out of his car as he toured the South trying to find gigs.

Though Leming didn't refer to himself as homeless, the Idol producers played off the living out of a car angle.

Truthfully, Leming was never actually homeless, he simply chose not to live at his parents' home as he chased the life of a musician on the road.

Leming's heart-on-his-sleeve crying jags on the show also endeared him to his fans. When he later revealed his mom is ill with in his words a terminal form of cancer, his emotions came into clearer view.

"His feelings about what is going on with his mom, the fact that he's been going through this has shaped him certainly as a lyricist and a philosopher," Male said. "Her circumstance has really made him who he is."

Male has been in contact with Leming's mom, in fact, his mother put in a good word for Male at the L.A. show to make sure she got in.

That concert, Leming's first after Idol, was to a packed house at a small club known for indie bands. Male says Spider-Man himself, Tobey Maguire, was in the audience.

"(Josiah) was so happy and humble," Male said. "He was taken aback by how he was being greeted by people."

Idol, though obviously an emotional roller coaster for Leming had opened many doors. In fact, the weekly Idol appearances were a spring board into Josiah fandom for all of the Lemingheads. However, they are quick to point out that his MySpace page revealed musical chops that producers didn't accentuate as they focused on his back story. The Web, each of the women said, is what kept them coming back for more.

"I realized he was really a musician, a singer/songwriter of the old school age," Conway said. "He seemed very much to be an old soul. I had an opportunity to concentrate on his music because I had to wait a week for him to be back on television."

Once Josiah was off the show and the subsequent wave of TV appearances ended, the friends had to turn to his Web site for Josiah news.

The fact that he shows up there to answer questions or chat with his fans was an added bonus.

By the time Josiah announced the Dallas show, Conway was comfortable enough within the group to open her home.

"It was impulsive," she said. "But I love cooking and hosting. It was very much in my nature to say everybody come here. We'd made friends and this was a very big thing. The fun of this is us getting together. If everybody's here, we can stay up all night and talk, which is what we did."

The freedom to be spontaneous seems to be an invigorating factor for the Lemingheads. Stepping outside the molds of being mom, wife or office worker, doing something unexpected and sharing it with new friends was a common theme.

"By the time we all made the trip, we were as excited to meet one and another – almost – as seeing Josiah," Frasier explained.

When Josiah took the stage – with the Lemingheads supporting him wildly from the front row – sharing the experience made it all the more fun.

"I think knowing that people were there of the same mindset made it much more comfortable in interacting with Josiah," Frasier said. "Enjoying the show, we were there as a group. He knew that and he welcomed that."

The show – they all said – was fantastic. Leming played his older songs as well as some new ones for an upcoming album that will drop nationwide later this year.

"It was phenomenal," Frasier said. "I've been to a lot of very good shows … his emotion - joking back and forth - it was very personal."

They have since returned to their lives, complete with promises to make the get-together an annual occurrence.

But Conway said the experience runs deeper than that. Leming's dream – maybe more importantly his commitment to that dream – provides the ladies with the inspiration to shake themselves from the ruts of their everyday lives.

"I know that it brought me back really hard. Could I have done that when I was 19 years old? Did I even know my dream at 19 enough to make those sacrifices?" she asked. "I can do this, too. I can rethink my goals and really get out there and do what I want to do in my life, too.

"That's the inspiration of us getting together and going to his concert and applauding him. We wanted to give him back the joy he has given to us."