Being a collection of links and tiny bits of content; oddly, almost none about chalk figures

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Wait For It...

You really, really need to watch this:


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Friday, February 22, 2008

Snow Day Lists

The icy weather affords an opportunity to broadcast a few recent favorites, many of which admittedly have not changed much since November:

Music
Sweden -
The Mountain Goats
Laid -
James
The Life Pursuit -
Belle & Sebastian
Company -
2006 Broadway Revival Cast Recording
Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters -
The Twilight Sad

February Derby Picks
Anak Nakal
Court Vision

Face the Cat

Tale of Ekati

War Pass


Beer

Iron Hill Pilsner Barleywine (West Chester)
Stone XI Anniversary
Troubadour Obscura
Troegs Scratch #7
Victory Baltic Thunder



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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Year-End Music Roundup

This year, I have been mostly listening to:

Crowded House - Farewell to the World, Time on Earth
Eliza Carthy - Rough Music
The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse, Absent Friends
Liam Finn - I'll Be Lightning, Live@Spaceland
Hoots and Hellmouth - Hoots and Hellmouth
The Lucksmiths - Spring a Leak, Warmer Corners, Naturaliste
Math and Physics Club -
Math and Physics Club
Kate Rusby - Awkward Annie
The Tallboys - Rubber Dolly
The Wedding Present - Take Fountain, Search for Paradise

Concerts attended in 2007:

Waterson: Carthy (minus Norma Waterson), Mandell Theater, Philadelphia
Crowded House (with Liam Finn opening), The Mann Center, Philadelphia (and also earlier in the day at World Cafe Live)
The Lucksmiths (with Ladybug Transistor and Still Flyin' opening), DC9, Washington, DC
I suppose technically The Wiggles (The Spectrum, Philadelphia) counts as a concert too...

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

A New Hope

Welcome to the new format...after years of never updating my site because I did not have my ftp login handy, I decided to just switch over to a blog like everyone else.

Here's what you can find here:

First: My hugely interesting CV
Music: Some live Divine Comedy MP3s
Literature: A bit of info on Betty Smith
Blogs: Links to my horse racing blog and my cat's surgery blog (indeed!)
Music Two - Current Favorite Music: The Divine Comedy, The Lucksmiths, The Wedding Present, Kate Rusby, Eliza Carthy, Seth Lakeman, The City Waites, Sequentia
Photos: Recent Linus pictures
Music Three - Current Favorite Musical: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Last Film Seen: The Prestige
Favorite TV Shows: Doctor Who, House, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report
Watchable Baby TV: Jack's Big Music Show, The Wonder Pets
Currently Reading: Howards End (yes, again), Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America

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