Update

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

It's been more than a week since I've updated, and in that time a shit-ton has happened. First and foremost, we have an official travel date of 2 July. In five days, M and I will board and plane and travel to the other side of the world, to a ...

These lights will inspire you

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Empire State Of Mind (Part II)...

Depressing

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

I've had a couple of songs stuck in my head for the last week or so. One of them is from Jekyll & Hyde: The Gothic Musical. It's the Board of Governors scene in which Henry Jekyll tries to convince the board of St. Jude's Hospital to let him try ...

Something’s Lost and Something’s Gained

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

It's Wednesday, which means it's run to work day. I left the house about 8am and got to campus, 6 miles away, at 9:42. I ran about a seven minute pace for the full six miles, something I haven't done since I hurt my foot last year. Five hours later, ...

Total Eclipse

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Never heard of the Literal Videos before this. Now I'm hooked.

Music

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

I'm sitting in a Cafe Coffee Day coffee shop on New B.E.L. Road, my first day of trying to write in this crazy, contradictory country. It is both more advanced and more backwards than Sri Lanka. Dirtier and yet more technologically advanced. More crowded, wealthier, and yet so many poor ...

David Cook shocker

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I for one am completely shocked at the outcome of American Idol season 7. I'm not the only one who thought Archuleta was a shoe-in from the beginning. As I kept telling my friends, the kid's got pipes. But perhaps all those people who voted over and over again thought ...

TMBG

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Behold the joy that is They Might Be Giants. My favorite comes at the nine minute mark, when they perform the greatest set of under-fifteen second songs ever recorded. Thanks to Ted

The Capeman

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

This is the third in a continuing series of thoughts written while waiting for the clothes to wash at B. Bubbles on Broadway.On Thursday I saw Songs from the Capeman, part of a month-long retrospective of the songs of Paul Simon at BAM. Having never heard of the story of ...