//RECENT

“[T]he crowd seemed really emotionally engaged with the music.”

“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”

- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An extended version of Bon Iver’s La Blogotheque Take Away Show of “For Emma, Forever Ago” with three versions of the song and some very startled tourists.  I think this is one of my favorite things in the whole world. Not just that the song is so beautiful, and is so beautifully sung, but that [...]

A man once said, “Childrens do learn.” and I believe childrens should learn to dream big dreams. Even better is to dream arty dreams like a hipster might draw. This hipster author’s name is Dallas Clayton. Although I do not know for sure that Dallas Clayton is a hipster, he looks like this: And, I [...]

It isn’t simply that you are loved gloriously, or loved beautifully. But rather that a pitch perfect expression of love for you sounds and sounds, Rises into the very air. Though the love itself may fade, I do not know, The poetry you inspire ascends, ascending Becomes stars and you, who are so loved, Look [...]

//FROM THE ARCHIVES

Last night, while trying out a pretty delicious new Italian restaurant in Los Feliz, I got into a conversation with a friend about how his retired father recently joined, and then immediately resigned from, a position on his local traffic commission. He quit after attending a single meeting, which is all it took for him [...]

When Edith sings my mind conjures up grainy, sepia-toned black and white photographs of Paris in the forties. Her voice embodies that tinkling piano that everyone hears in a neighbouring apartment, but never our own. When Edith sings I hear her say (in French), “At first there was no applause, and then the house came [...]

“On really hot or humid days you should have a bottle of water with you in case your dog gets thirsty.”

I’ve decided that I should just have unrequited and cliche crushes on unattainable celebrities like normal people do, I mean, in addition to Jim Jarmusch. My first one is currently Bill Hader: [volume alert: it's quieter]  [volume alert: it's louder]  No, no, let me guess, People Who’ve Met Bill Hader, he’s an asshole, right? You [...]

Forty miles outside of Madrid three twisted piles of metal bled on the roadside. The bus rolled by in flashes like an old movie projector. My eyes were fixed, scanning the scene as we passed by. The cool air inside stung my face but I could only feel the rocks passing under the wheels of [...]