My Fifth Grade Dream Came True: Last Night I Saw Hall And Oates
Yesterday I woke up in my childhood bedroom and ended the day seeing my favorite band from fifth grade, Hall and Oates. For several years of elementary school, I attended a school built in the 1950s. Carpenter Elementary had lots of windows to open in every classroom, sun streaming in nearly every room, and shiny […]
Neutral Milk Hotel Played Austin, Texas Last Night! Squee!
If you had told me five years ago that I’d be on a high after seeing Neutral Milk Hotel last night in Austin, Texas I’d have asked what you were smoking. Jeff Mangum, the leader of the band, famously stopped touring in the 90s. There were only a few grainy videos of his shows online, […]
Thinking about Music and Austin, Wanting You To Survive SXSW
Living in Austin, Texas in the weeks leading up to the South by Southwest Music Festival, it’s hard not to think about music. A lot has been written about the musical offerings of Austin, with with even more articles and blog posts piling on as this year’s festival gets closer. Some of these things are […]
Valentine’s Day Is My Favorite Holiday!
True confession #21: I’ve always loved Valentine’s Day more than the other holidays, maybe even more than Halloween. Then again, I’m usually EXHAUSTED on Halloween. While Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday, but I’m a big fan of the glitter, glue, crayon and candy hearts version of the holiday. I could care less about the […]
Photo Gallery: Scare For A Cure Presents “Fairy Tale Nightmare”
Last year I was lucky to be a guide at Scare For A Cure’s haunted theatrical charity fundraising event, “Fairy Tale Nightmare.” Before I started guiding most nights of our sold-out run, I grabbed a few pictures when/if I could sneak into rooms before the guests got there. Many people were also kind enough to […]
A Week After The Super Bowl, And We’re Mostly Talking About Dylan Farrow
I don’t know if anyone planned it this way, but I find it very interesting that Dylan Farrow’s open letter to Woody Allen came out just a few days before Super Bowl XLVII. Now the Super Bowl has come and gone, and Dylan Farrow’s letter is still being discussed. If you haven’t read the letter, […]
Last Summer You Could See Imagine Dragons Were Going To Be A Stadium Act!
Last summer at the Positivus Music Festival, I had a casual backstage chat with a European music industry friend about the band Imagine Dragons. The band had sparked the biggest interest of any act that summer at the media tent, and my friend had assumed that last July they were already a stadium act in […]
Stitches
Yesterday I had another doctor’s visit to take care of the ick I had over the holiday season. I learned two things at the doctor’s office. One is that I seem to be an ultrarapid metabolizer of Lidocaine. What this meant was that at the doctor they had to give me a zillion shots, and […]
I’ve Been Cleaning Like A Fool, Trying To Get Ready For Chinese New Year
Every year it’s all I can do to make it through the endless Christmas season. The days are short, the expectation is that you’ll shop with glee for loved ones. Forget it, I can hardly get out of bed and get dressed for the Christmas parties. This past year the holiday season was even worse […]
Pictures from “Ewert and the Two Dragons” Playing Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2013
When my favorite Estonian band “Ewert and the Two Dragons” were on their Fall 2013 US tour, I managed to catch them in Austin. I’ve seen the band several times, including at both Summer Sound and the Positivus Music Festival in Lativa. (Full disclosure: I know about the band because I’m friends with people from […]