Meet Abby Feldman

We had the good fortune of connecting with Abby Feldman and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Abby, we’d love to hear about how you approach risk and risk-taking
I love taking risks. Risks feel like the safest way to live. Maybe it’s because I’m an Aries. I feel most comfortable and in flow when I am taking a leap of faith and don’t know what’s about to happen next. Maybe it’s because I was a really stressed out kid. The daily routine, having to go to bed, school, chores, ugh. Maybe it’s because Chiron is in my 6th house. When I was six we went to SeaWorld and the dolphin guy picked me to be part of his little show. He had the dolphin shake my hand and dance for me and at the end the guy was like “ok now jump in!” and I was about to just jump my chubby little butt into a pool of dolphin pee because why not? Ever since then I’ve been obsessed with dolphins and adventure and distrusting of men in flip flops. I almost got kicked out of sleepaway camp for skinny dipping and making out with a CIT when I was a camper. He was French and didn’t wash his clothes all summer and that probably inspired my love of travel. I did an exchange program in Argentina that led to me eventually making a documentary as a Fulbright Scholar (this is very important to me because it’s very prestigious and my moon is in Capricorn). I was 21 and filming alone semi-illegally with patients who were diagnosed as criminally insane in the most notorious Argentine psychiatric hospital. One patient climbed over the hospital wall while I was filming and showed me how he escapes at night. Looking back, that seems pretty risky but I was cool as a cucumber at the time. When I had my first real comedy job as a correspondent on a TV show, I ended up quitting to go be with my lover who lived far away because who needs fortune or fame when you’re in love with a fuckboi and your Venus is in Pisces. I could go on and on but this will already have been edited down significantly jfc I am passionate about taking risks I mean we all took a huge risk when our spirits decided to incarnate in this wild wonderful world knowing full well we’re going to have our hearts broken and get pimples and wrinkles at the same time and eventually die and go back to just floating blissfully in the ether so it’s really not that big a risk at all and it’s so lovely, isn’t it?

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I’m so excited for the world to meet ORiMOH, the pop star messiah that is going to save us all with laughter and music and actual healing sound frequencies embedded in the songs. I’m blending together my most passionate passions: comedy, music, spirituality, being extra. Venus is currently retrograde in Leo so obviously ORiMOH is going to officially enter this Earth plane on 8/8, the Lion’s Gate Portal. For a while now, I’ve felt something brewing inside me. I sometimes wondered, am I the messiah? How would a messiah know if they’re the messiah? How would others know if I was the messiah? Would it be a super messiah-y thing to do to pretend to be a pop star messiah so people assume you’re definitely not the messiah but you really are? Or do we all have the potential to be messiahs, to reach enlightenment and vibe out in bliss and raise the overall frequency of humanity until we spontaneously heal our inner individual wounds and achieve collective world peace, etc? Either way, ORiMOH is blessing the world with hot hot dance bops, soulful ballads, hilarious lyrics, meaningful messages and tones to heal and align the chakras and elevate your mood and wellbeing. Music that makes you laugh and heals you while you’re stuck in traffic? Sounds messiah-y to me.

The first ORiMOH song “Poop For Free” was released on 8/8 and hit Number 1 on iTunes Comedy Chart (screenshot attached below!) and is still holding strong at the top of the charts today at Number 2.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
My favorite spots in this city are all on the west side because that’s where the ocean is. The OCEAN. Where the dolphins live. Why anyone lives not walking distance from the ocean is a mystery I will never solve. When someone comes to stay with me, we are going to the farmers markets in Santa Monica and Venice, and we are letting that produce rot in the fridge while we eat three meals a day at Cafe Gratitude. People like to make fun of Cafe Gratitude because the menu is made of different affirmations like “I am enthusiastic” (chicken-fried oyster mushroom sandwich omg drool emoji), and it’s vegan. It’s wild to me that people are still making fun of vegans. Like, eat animals if you want to, but I wouldn’t flaunt that? Like oooh cows lived excruciatingly painful pathetic lives and died in a facility that also leads to many human deaths because of dangerous conditions so I could eat a burger like a real man! Idk maybe it’s because my Jupiter is in Aries jk it is but idk what that means. Also they ask you a question of the day! Like “how can you be more vulnerable today?” and I loooove to contemplate a question while I eat my vegan, gluten free meals. Then we’re going to go to my show at a mushroom shop in Venice (adaptogenic, not psychedelic! I don’t do any drugs or alcohol which is a drug but so normalized I wanna make sure you know I am super self-disciplined except when it comes to chips I go feral and black out and wake up and the whole bag is empty). I perform at a very cool quirky spot that looks like if fairies had an office. Everyone gets complimentary healing mushroom elixirs and experiences miraculous healing because of my music and comedy and then we go eat a late night meal at a taco stand NOT a truck! Taco stands are on the ground (well they’re on tables), and for some reason the food at taco stands is 8 million times tastier than taco trucks. I order rice and beans or veggie tacos without cream or cheese and I order in Spanish because I fell in love with my host brother when I lived in Argentina and we dated for the better part of a decade and we prob should’ve broken up after the third year but on the plus side now I’m fluent! We will walk on the beach every morning before 10am and every evening after 6pm because I’m from the East Coast and there isn’t a brimmed hat big enough to protect me from the mid-day California sun. Oh and I’ll force them to go to yoga and sound baths with me and vegan pot lucks and beach volleyball on Tuesday nights.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I want to thank the haters. The trolls. The older girls who put gum in my hair when I was drunk at the school dance. The boy I dated when I was 16 who told me it was gross that I had arm hair and that I should shave my whole body. The boss who fired me for taking the day off for Yom Kippur. The aunt who lied, the friend who ghosted, the millions of guys who ghosted. Millions? Shut up that’s not the point. All the sucky people, I thank you. All the bullies and jerks and poopy heads have made me so dang strong and weird and wild and amazing. I’ve had to dig deeeeeep inside myself for fortitude and love and something so much bigger than myself. I’ve learned to love myself and all my imperfections and all the yucky situations and people that I drew into my life to help me grow. I don’t know if feeling crappy led me to become an artist or if artists are so sensitive that we feel more crappiness than others, but either way, I am so freaking happy I get to make art that I love and that others love and that I get to shine my light on so many people, even the haters, especially the haters who are reading this right now and being like “ughhh what a tool bag” yes! I AM a tool bag! I am filled with tools because I had to be, like how to make people laugh and write cool songs, and now my work and performances can cheer up other people who had to cover their hair in peanut butter at 2am to try to get the gum out.

Website: www.abbyfeldman.org

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Image Credits
Savanna Ruedy Mindy Tucker