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 for her hit single "Love Song."  ( Read more... )

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 extensive sharing with Mike, Jason, and Graham.

Anyway, I spend a ( Read more... )

Ingrid Michaelson

Age: 27

What's her deal?: Talented young singer/songwriter.  If you watch television, you may have heard the song "Keep Breathing" in the Grey's Anatomy Season 3 Finale, or her latest hit "The Way I Am" on Old Navy Commercials.  Apparently, after Grey's Anatomy ended, there was a big rush to find her song on MySpace and that's how ( Read more... )

One of my new year's resolutions is to write more frequently, so I'm going to start by working around a format I'm comfortable with, the list.

I love attending live music and theatre performances, and usually make it to at least one a month.  The following are the shows I enjoyed most in 2007, ordered roughly chronologically.

The Flying Karamazov ( Read more... )

As some of you already know, I'm performing in this year's Christmas Revels in Oakland.  It's now my 6th year in Revels, having taken a break while at Stanford.  The official blurb about the show -- which opens this weekend! --- is below, but here's a quick summary of the important information.

What: The 2007 California Christmas Revels, this ( Read more... )

Saw this audio player on thefire's blog and thought it was nifty. These songs reflect my mood this week, so I'll leave them to speak better than my own words.

Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day

John Mayer - Dreaming with a Broken Heart

Michael Bublé - Home

Ingrid Michaelson - Keep Breathing
It's the overall feel of the songs, not necessarily ( Read more... )