Sara Bareilles Age: 28 What’s her deal?: Grew up in California (yay). After graduating from college, she started singing in bars and clubs and worked her way up into larger venues. Opened for other artists I like such as Mika and Paolo Nutini. Esther introduced her to me shortly before she became more widely known [...]
Rowyn McDonald
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Yearly Archives 2008
Social Dance Music
As some of you may know, I do a lot of social dancing, and over the last two years I’ve built up a respectable library of dance music. Since this post just over a year ago, my collection has decupled (increased by a factor of ten). Well, 11.5, actually. Most of this is thanks to [...]
Disneyland
Good: Going to Disneyland for free courtesy of your company. Better: Going to Disneyland for free in the middle of an off-season week. Better: Going to Disneyland for free in the middle of an off-season week with good friends. Best: Going to Disneyland for free with good friends when the park is specially reserved just [...]
The Invisibles
I need to write at least one music-related post, but I’m tired and lazy so instead here’s a quotation: “There’s a true sense of mystery with magic. Like you’re having a meaningful dialogue with something bigger than you — bigger than anything you can imagine. It reaches into what we’ve all agreed are the workings [...]
Rain
This week was long and stressful work-wise, but it shaped up towards the end thanks in part to lots of dancing. Tonight my tired feet and I are going to sleep cozily and enjoy the rain being outside watering the earth and making a pleasant patter and filling up Lake Lagunita.
Artist of the week
Ingrid Michaelson Age: 27 What’s her deal?: Talented young singer/songwriter. If you watch television, you may have heard the song “Keep Breathing” in the Grey’s Anatomy Season 3 Finale, or her latest hit “The Way I Am” on Old Navy Commercials. Apparently, after Grey’s Anatomy ended, there was a big rush to find her song [...]
2007 Year in Review: Music and Theatre
One of my new year’s resolutions is to write more frequently, so I’m going to start by working around a format I’m comfortable with, the list. I love attending live music and theatre performances, and usually make it to at least one a month. The following are the shows I enjoyed most in 2007, ordered [...]
doh
Some days, unfortunate things happen to my mental and emotional state: the world overwhelms me and I feel unable to cope my confidence and self-worth drop I imagine ways to cease existing, e.g. being made of glass so that I could throw myself against a rock, shatter, then toss the shards into the sky to [...]
Election
I’ve now taken 4 political quizzes in the last week, three of which suggested that the political candidate who best matched my views and opinions was Barack Obama. So I guess I’m going to check out what he’s about and start thinking seriously about who I want to vote for in the upcoming elections.