When I was at Juilliard, I refused to listen to classical music for "fun". Everyone around me listened to classical music of their own volition, but I wouldn't unless it was basically thrust upon me, and no one really understood that ( Read more... )

This will be a pretty short entry, because I don't want to go too far into detail since I'm trying to keep these entries all public and this could easily get very, very private very quickly ( Read more... )

These are two completely different songs that are both attached to a similar (but vague) set of memories. So a while after Ashira & I broke up, Kat -- the girl Ashira semi-left me for (at least, in words, at the time of the breakup) -- and I became friends. The how and wherefore of it all is much too long a story for this already late night. But in ( Read more... )

Laurel Canyon is this amazing film about where the music industry intersects with the real world with Christian Bale and Kate Beckinsale and Alessandro Nivola and Frances McDormand by the woman who made High Art. And on the soundtrack is this song, written by someone from Sparklehorse (who's escaping me right now) and sung by Alessandro Nivola. I ( Read more... )

When I was at Juilliard, I wouldn't listen to classical music. But my senior year, I couldn't afford to go out and buy cds all the time anymore, because my dad had cut off my "allowance" (basically, the 16 year old version of like, food stamps, my allowance was enough money to pay for lunch during the week, a cab to and from Juilliard, and food ( Read more... )

Ani's Revelling/Reckoning came out seven years or so ago, and there were two songs I immediately gravitated towards: "Rock Paper Scissors" and "School Night". They were beautiful, and they had ridiculously powerful lyrics, and I loved them both ( Read more... )