I was stuck in rush hour traffic on the 110 South last Friday when I got the chance to hear a segment of Morning Edition that made my day. This is why I’m a member of KPCC. There is nothing like radio. So, the Songwriters Hall of Fame is preparing to induct Johnny Mandel. I… Continue reading Crow in E-Flat
“This Too Shall Pass” from OK GO!
it’s an oldie, from 2008 but I just discovered it, so it’s new in my book! It’s the song “Je veux tout” [I want it all] by Ariane Moffatt, a Montreal artist. The lyrics are so awesome, but please don’t google translate them..they sound flat and awful in English. I’ll paraphrase the song below, so… Continue reading Ariane Moffatt
Hilarious interview with DJ Lady Bunny in NYC: Spice Girls are in demand! I freaking love 90’s music: “A DJ with an empty dance floor is a DJ with an empty bank account!”
Some things just hit me in the face at full speed. I encounter them at face value, and no matter how foreign they are to me, I assimilate them instantly. It was like that with Shantaram. With the first word of the first sentence, I knew. when I finished the first page, I closed my… Continue reading Paper planes
Something that’s been capturing my interest this past week is the LA Philharmonic conductor succession. First of all, their names are SO cool. Esa-Pekka Salonen is the current (Finnish-born) conductor, to be replaced by Gustavo Dudamel in two years. Dudamel is 26 (most LA Philharmonic conductors have been in their mid-twenties) and is an international… Continue reading Essa Peka and Dudamel
Best concert I’ve ever been too. Their music is sheer adrenaline to dance to, I think I danced the entire time…amazing. look them up!!! Their new album is out Tuesday in the US, they’re Melbourne-based. (and their logo is called Pablo)
This is the future of music. The new resume. The future of distribution. The future of marketing! These guys got an MTV award with this homemade video, performed it live with their 8 treadmills and got a recording contract. MTV had to pull it like us, from YouTube because they didn’t have a “video”: This… Continue reading Ok Go
We had a fun little Halloween party at Ramesh’s (below) in Santa Monica… So I thought I had dressed as a Nepali princess (I know….don’t look anything like one) but realized I was actually dressed as a genie when my neighbours asked me to grant them three wishes! Talk about lowering your expectations. So I… Continue reading Halloween
Now that I’m interviewing for Disney I think it’s time I posted my favorite EVER story about my time in Paris. Which happened months ago. I should preface this by explaining that I used to have this horribly beaten up Discman that I hardly *ever* listened to, it didn’t close well, and had stickers all… Continue reading My what big ears you have
How many of us out there have massive amounts of music that we don’t listen to? I know the Mac users do, because iTunes makes it easy, fun, and they have this nifty feature of telling you in hours and days how much music you have. I have 4298 songs, which is 11.8 days of… Continue reading collecting music that goes silent
The Three-Legged Duck 