Monthly Archives February 2008

Artist of the week

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 […]

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 […]