Ed sent me this on Facebook; unfortunately embedding is disabled for the original video, which shows Lisa Hannigan opening up a beautiful pop-up book as a narrative. Watch it here. And obviously, since this all somehow has to go back to me (it IS called “Lille”), I watched the whole thing enthralled, thinking how awesome […]
May 10, 2009
We traveled in the heat from Saigon to Siem Reap aboard a Vietnamese bus that stopped at various roadside canteens. Hungover from Tet activities, I threw up at bathrooms that slowly degraded — from tissue papers in toilets to just holes in the ground, until we passed by Kampong Thum, the town closest to the […]
December 7, 2008
Tim Cigelske gave me the heads up on Posterous, a content management system that lets you upload anything you want via e-mail. Tim posts Teecycle photos, but I thought I’d use it to make Attention Deficit Disorder mixes (mostly because if I attach more than three songs to emails, Gmail won’t send it). So here […]
November 27, 2008
I used to be neck-deep in music. I’d go to two to three shows a week, had a neverending pile of CDs by my desk, download a bunch of albums in one go. When the magazine I worked for died, there was no reason for me to keep current on music for work, which meant […]
October 18, 2008
How apt, that while I am preparing for a lengthy trip back to the Philippines, Amir calls me with news that he produced an abridged version of the film we made four years ago, “my break ups into a million pieces.†(He directed/edited/produced, I wrote/produced/was in it.) Parts of it — stuff I said and […]
August 19, 2008
Here’s a Martha Wainwright review I wrote for Fan-Belt Milwaukee: I’m not going to lie: Martha Wainwright and not headliner KT Tunstall was the reason I went to the Pabst for the second night in a row. I’ve been in love with her voice, her impassioned delivery and her obscenity-laced confessional songs since her self-titled […]
August 14, 2008
Here’s a Bon Iver review I wrote for Fan-Belt Milwaukee: Actually, I’m kinda miffed that I had to share Justin Vernon with 100x more people than the last time I saw him. A bunch of people braved the zero-degree weather in January to watch that Mad Planet show, which was also sold-out. Back then, Bon […]
August 6, 2008
This was a review I wrote for the JS, but wasn’t printed. 🙁 Un-frickin-believable lineup aside, four things aptly summed up this year’s Lollapalooza: Obama rumors, Radiohead hangovers, onstage parties and hipster headbands. Whoever planned this year’s Lollapalooza lineup was pure genius: it was the best collection of old and new acts, cult favorites and […]
July 13, 2009
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