Covering Music, Film and Pop Culture
It’s September, which means it’s totally time to start getting ready for the enormous haunted event SCARE FOR A CURE . Today I ran across the cell phone bumper that a lot of people...
Twin Shadow is one of the acts that I’ll totally be seeing at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, 2011
I really couldn’t have picked a worse book to keep me company as I stayed up late with the ouchy results of some long-dreaded dental work. It wasn’t that the book was bad, it’s...
One of the things I find very curious about music is how stratified it is. If you are 20 something you listen to one kind of music. If you are older, you listen to...
One of the curious things about regularly visiting a small country where you don’t speak the language is that when you leave, it’s like the country–except for your friends– vanishes from your world. Good...
When I was in Pasadena earlier this summer, I popped into the Pasadena Town Square Mall with my mother. It’s the mall that was built near my parents house in the early 80’s. If...
On my way back to Austin from my summer adventures, I read the novel One Day by David Nicholls. I read it in pretty much one giant gulp. While I had toyed with the...
The car from the film visiting Austin, Texas during SXSW 2011 Last week I saw the movie BELLFLOWER, which, based on the trailers and the general buzz about the film following Sundance, I had...
Thanks to a summer of discount travel, I’ve spent a lot of time in airports. Since I’m too cheap to buy a first class ticket–and too impatient to put up with long layovers–my frequent...
