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 […]
Down the Rabbit Hole
Monthly Archives February 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 […]