Frustration

I just remembered that O told me that Vampire Weekend are coming to London in March, a concert I’m super excited to go to, and that someone else told me they have a new album coming out soon. In fact, it comes out in six days. So I decided to use my Barnes & Noble [...]

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Wordless Music Concert, 2007

Colleen; Katya Mihailova and Colin Jacobsen; Beirut Wordless Music September 24, 2007 In this concert recorded live at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, French musician Colleen performs her naturalistic electro-acoustic mix; Piano/Violin duo Katya Mihailova and Colin Jacobsen take on Chopin, Scriabin, Arvo Pärt, and Bela Bartok, while indie band Beirut makes an [...]

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I Can’t Believe I Ate the Whole Thing!

Americans will remember the Alka Seltzer commercial where the dude wails that out but in this case, it is not I, in bed at night with heartburn but in the chair, in the afternoon, surprised that I have consumed an entire tub of Kozy Shack chocolate pudding. I have been on a mission to eat [...]

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Everything Old Is New Again

Lately I’m whining about how hot it is, I feel like I’m melting and it’s one third of the way through November. I know I’m just being a wimp, especially after weathering supra-106 F temperatures in northern California. You want to know what it’s like to be cooked, that’s where you’ll find out. NYC and [...]

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Show at Institute of Contemporary Arts

I took the boyfriend to see Comet Gain, The Bats and Crystal Stilts tonight, meeting O & K at the NE corner of St. James Park first to chitty chat and sip a beer (in public!) across the street. Around 8 p.m. we went in, did the paying thing, amused ourselves with postcards and then [...]

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Oh Hai, Rain!

Can you believe it’s raining again? Oh wait, no, the sky is a beautiful blue. Wait, no, it’s cloudy again. Were it not a complete and utter shock every single time the weather did its highly-varied dance of confusion, I wouldn’t post about it so often. I swear, it happened all within about 20 minutes [...]

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Music You Must Buy

I went looking for the newest Beirut album online, to download not to buy; I wanted to test it out before I purchased it because I had found the last one somewhat ho-hum. Among the three full-length albums, I also found several EPs and a compilation. Dark Was the Night is its title and it [...]

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Music and Cool People

The boyfriend is listening to Micah P. Hinson, whom he met at a tiny in-store performance in Scotland, years ago. “He was nobody,” he said, “A really nice guy, drank a few beers with him and talked for a while.” This guy’s music is amazing, in the new singer song writer style, similar to Elvis [...]

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Riding a Fixed Gear Bike

Project: Ride a Fixed Gear Bike Objective: Get it together and become comfortable riding fixed gear or give it up and switch back to freewheel. Time Frame: 30 days I am giving myself thirty days from yesterday to acclimatize myself to riding fixed gear without throwing the bike off the overpass near our apartment. If, [...]

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Late Night at Kapital

Last night was my second foray into late night Madrid. Normally I can’t handle dancing past 2 or 3 a.m. and most places I’ve lived don’t offer diversions much later than that. Madrid’s clubs and bars close at 5 a.m. Until recently they often ignored the official hour and stayed open until 6 a.m., when [...]

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