So it's that time again (you wanna leave me so I keep you home) where I talk about a concert I was just at and everone's like okay awesome, but I don't know these bands and/or have anything to add towards your concert-going experience.

Only this is where I was last night, me and Roomie G:


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I've had the most ridiculously Sex-and-the-City type day: McG stopped over at around noon and we toasted her birthday with mimosas. We then went to an adorable café on 8th ave --there are about five billion of them-- and had brunch with some more mimosas. We came back to my apartment and joined Roomie J in sunbathing on our roof...with mimosas. ( Read more... )

Um, apparently I had a type I wasn't aware of.

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The only vaguely eventful things that have happened since I posted last were:

- It snowed, except wait, no, it kinda-snowed overnight and then hailed all morning including during my giant walk during studio. And then I killed everyone.

- I almost collapsed into hysterical tears when Andrew Bird as Dr. Stringz was removed from YouTube by Viacom ( Read more... )

Okay, I lied about that no posting thing.

The most amazing thing ever to be on YouTube.

Andrew Bird on the Noggin channel. Jack's Big Music Show. He plays a top-hatted character called Dr. Stringz. He sings, plays guitar, plays mandolin, plays violin, and whistles. While magically fixing your stringed instruments. [In this case, a hammered ( Read more... )

1. Saw Andrew Bird at the Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday and all through the concert I kept thinking that his hair looked like the love child of Mac's and Bob Dylan's. I would post a setlist but it would really only amount to this: 'A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left', 'I', 'Skin Is, My', 'Glass Figurine', 'Tables and Chairs' and a billion ( Read more... )

Andrew Bird is playing the Good-Faith Shepherd Presbyterian Church at Lincoln Center."In his first-ever all-instrumental solo violin recital ( Read more... )