Now I know you are all thinking "was it the Indigo Girls?" but NO. My friends, I went to a concert of a band I barely knew!

And it was fabulous. I went to see The Church play, with R, last night. They played three whole albums and while I think that might not have been my best possible introduction to them, it was fascinating. And they had enough ( Read more... )

Do you ever have that thing where you've kind of lost touch with a friend and then suddenly they're in the city for an afternoon and you guys grab lunch and it turns out they're engaged and have a dog and became a cantor and stopped smoking pot and keep up with all these people you always thought they hated? There's this surreal moment when you ( Read more... )

Today we had our "school meeting"; the company wide address. It was a combination of State of the Union and Town Hall (complete with questions) and I totally expected to be bored and trying to figure out a way to sneakily play Uno on my iPhone the entire time. Instead of which I remained interested, engaged, inspired and goddamn proud of working ( Read more... )

My fingers are all swollen from the weather, I sniffle a lot and my thighs are constantly cold. Otherwise I manage to bundle pretty sufficiently. The gloves are an issue because then I can't do things like use my phone, book, metrocard, etc, so I end up taking them off a lot. My nose is a lost cause because I hate the way it feels when I wrap my ( Read more... )

So I  spent a couple minutes updating my digital "idea box" (thanks to janni totally being a pain and giving me yet more) and realised that it's beginning to look overwhelming. So I spent a few minutes rearranging it so it looks less scary (in order of priority, then in order of amount of time/type of project and then a misc category for WTF WHY DID I ( Read more... )

I literally just had one of the best nights ever.

I've been wanting to see Butch Walker in concert since I was about 14. I finally did and it entirely lived up to expectations and then shot them in the left leg and danced on them.

Remind me to tell you about the dance party at some point. It was AMAZING.

Also he sang Passed your place, saw your car, ( Read more... )

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On the plus side, CARBON LEAF (and Barry gesturing at us in apparently a complimentary way?) on the down side, you hear me singing.

Still amazing.

I made you some culture, den I listened to it!

Today my grand-step-mother called and randomly gave me two tickets to see an awesome pianist at Carnegie Hall do a good and srsly cultured first half and the awesomest second half ever. It was Schumann being adorable! And then Chopin being Polish! With two bouncy encores! What could be bad?

Then I came ( Read more... )

Darlings (you know who you are) -

I want us to cover I Just Can't Help Believing in a English Classic Rock style with one of us singing a soprano - almost operatic - descant (I know this sounds like this should be you lain, and maybe it should, but it's what I found myself singing as I sang along) and another with the alto melody. Then we need a ( Read more... )

Who amongst you, my darling friends (and random acquaintances) writes music?