Dec 01 2008
Since I have so much to be thankful for, and since it is Thanksgiving, I wanted to do a stream-of-consciousness post on 101 things I’m thankful for. I thought about ordering them at first, but that just didn’t seem right somehow.
1. Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha; my sweetest of sweets daughter. I’ve been ‘in love’ [...]
Nov 15 2008
10 Wolf Parade + You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son
09 Wolf Parade + Grounds for Divorce
08 Sunset Rubdown + Us Ones in Between
.:*Spencer Krug gently singing in the lamplight*:.
07 Sunset Rubdown + For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering)
A great glimpse into Spencer Krug’s show intensity!
06 Wolf Parade + This Heart’s on [...]
Nov 12 2008
I couldn’t sleep this morning - I was wide awake at 4:00 and couldn’t get back. I tried the usual plane crash daydreams but to no avail… so I thought it was the perfect opportunity to start my new regime.
I’d been planning to make some changes this week anyway and was falling behind, so really, [...]
Nov 06 2008
if you’ll believe in anything.
I took a rare week night out with my sis and her husband to go see Wolf Parade at The Marquee in Tulsa tonight - it was the best show I’ve seen in years.
First we stumbled out of the T-storms & tornadoes into “Lola’s,” a dia de los muertos themed tapas bar [...]
Nov 03 2008
If you’re getting back into piano after a ten-year break, don’t try to jump back in with Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #2. (No matter how much you really really want to play it).
No one plays this like Horowitz.
Oct 10 2008
Tegan and Sara! I wasn’t a fan of their earlier music (at least what I’d heard) but many of the songs off of The Con have really grown on me. And in their recent Letterman appearance they were just so cute - the singing was cute (and this song is just beautiful anyway), they were [...]
Oct 09 2008
Well my husband and I got to see Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band at Cain’s recently and enjoyed the laid-back show that Conor and the new band put on. Since it was him and his new band, we didn’t get to hear all those classic Bright Eyes songs like “Let’s Not Shit Ourselves [...]
Sep 22 2008
I got the promo Fasciinatiion CD in the mail last month and I’ve had a few listens and it’s been entertaining. It’s the kind of CD you’ll want to turn up in the car and your drive will be really great, but then a week later you may forget you ever had it.
My favorite songs are [...]
Sep 20 2008
(That title was so Sufjan).
(Let me preface this by saying that this blog post is written with a a few glasses of red wine… I feel so chatty but I’ll pare things down!)
I finally got around to watching The Go-Getter (starring the lovely, dryly humorous, and interesting Zooey Deschanel) and while I haven’t had the time between watching [...]
May 13 2008
…practice, practice, practice!
The old joke couldn’t be more true, though. Since I started taking piano lessons again last Thursday, I’ve realized that as much as I love to play, despite that love I can still fall into the pitfalls that only self-discipline can cure.
I hear all these beautiful songs and I want to play them [...]
Since I have so much to be thankful for, and since it is Thanksgiving, I wanted to do a stream-of-consciousness post on 101 things I’m thankful for. I thought about ordering them at first, but that just didn’t seem right somehow.
1. Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha; my sweetest of sweets daughter. I’ve been ‘in love’ [...]
10 Wolf Parade + You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son
09 Wolf Parade + Grounds for Divorce
08 Sunset Rubdown + Us Ones in Between
.:*Spencer Krug gently singing in the lamplight*:.
07 Sunset Rubdown + For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering)
A great glimpse into Spencer Krug’s show intensity!
06 Wolf Parade + This Heart’s on [...]
I couldn’t sleep this morning - I was wide awake at 4:00 and couldn’t get back. I tried the usual plane crash daydreams but to no avail… so I thought it was the perfect opportunity to start my new regime.
I’d been planning to make some changes this week anyway and was falling behind, so really, [...]
if you’ll believe in anything.
I took a rare week night out with my sis and her husband to go see Wolf Parade at The Marquee in Tulsa tonight - it was the best show I’ve seen in years.
First we stumbled out of the T-storms & tornadoes into “Lola’s,” a dia de los muertos themed tapas bar [...]
It felt like my family and I spent the whole of October celebrating Halloween; or at least celebrating the cool weather and the orange backdrop of fall, as well as out-of-town family & friends coming and going.
Our family loves fall anyway and we always get an early start on the festivities… this year it started [...]
Well - I may not have produced the world’s greatest modern mosaics, but I did end up with three little pieces of color and awkwardness that I like enough to display in my decor. Plus going to art class was really a nice segway from the office.
So here’s what I made - three tree-themed smalti [...]
The OKC Art Museum is just wrapping up their Roman Art from the Louvre exhibition and my family and I made sure we cought it while it was in town. While we found this to be interesting, what we all really enjoyed were the modern art collections that the museum houses, especially the Dale Chihuly blown glass [...]