Let’s see what I got for my berfday…

• 160 gig iPod
• Amazon.com gift certificate
• Book: This Is Your Brain on Music (do these people know me or what ( Read more... )

…Because, at some point, you looked like this guy:

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Quick! Before they go out of style! Oh, wait.


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I usually don't write paragraph-long entries because I don't want to waste your time, but today's a pretty big day for my family. My parents run two companies: Newmark Advertising, which my mom is now running by herself and has been around for over 30 years, and Bid4Spots, a reverse auction model of buying and selling last-minute radio airtime that ( Read more... )

Now that it’s been three days back at work for the summer (Barnes & Noble, for those who didn’t catch it), I can’t help but think how much easier everything would be if only I had access to a bat.


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If you live in America, or anywhere outside of it, Starbucks is nothing less than your entire life. There’s one on every fourth corner of the main L.A. thoroughfare, Ventura Blvd., and within a five-mile radius of any given place on Ventura there are about twenty. There’s a giant Starbucks attached to where I work (Barnes & Noble), which I’m ( Read more... )

If you've ever been a kid (that's most of you, I'm guessing), your growing-up years were no doubt a cornucopia of yummy snack foods. Big ones, small ones, sweet ones, salty ones, sour ones, colorful ones, weird ones with pistachios in them, and the list could go on for miles. But snack foods aren't solely the province of little kids. I'm 21 years ( Read more... )

AS PROMISED!...this is the first official installment of my London blog. Be afraid. Since I never do what I’m told, and always manage to make things much weirder and more awkward than they have to be, I’ve called this “The A-B-C and 1-2-3 of London.” If that sounds kind of strange to you, don’t worry. It’s incredibly strange. But if you read it, ( Read more... )

Hey all. First, I'm not dead after all! Second, the London Blog is coming in a couple of days, but in the interim, here's a short(ish) survey called "12 Months of Questions" that took me about half a year to finish. This was originally a Myspace bulletin. Notice how much more sarcastic it gets by the end.


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It's been a while since I reviewed anything (now that I've been away from my column for a few months), so I decided to review the album I was listening to at 3 in the morning. Hope you like :)

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Parallel Universe

Parallel Universe is generally considered to be the second-best drum 'n bass album ever recorded (the top spot goes to Goldie's ( Read more... )