Listen Everyone
I attended Quaker school from kindergarten through 12th grade, so I am very, very familiar with the moment of silence. We had lots of moments of silence, and we also had a lot of half hours of silence in the form of Quaker Meeting. Although it wasn’t intentional, these periods of silence turned out to...
Listening fast
Well, it’s official. My brain has automatically switched into archetypal back-to-school mode. I am craving fresh notebooks and new shoes. ******* To be honest I haven’t been feeling very talkative lately, so I’ve been keeping things on this side of the firewall. During July and August I took a break from composing to focus on...
Big Ice
Life since that last post has been quite the adventure! In the pre-dawn hours of December 12th, I awoke to the most extraordinary noise, that went something like this: *CRACK!* SSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHcracklecrackleSSSSSHHHHHHHcracklessssssssssss *BOOOOMmmmmm!* Repeat every 20-ish seconds That is the sound of trees falling. Weighted down by a thick coat of ice, thanks to the “wintry...
Big Apples
It’s totally 150% cliche, but… I love New York! Honestly. When I’m there I buy into the frenzy and run around from meeting to meeting to friend visit to concert to meeting to another friend visit to whatever else comes up to….! I always return to DC completely exhausted and oversensitized and inspired and buzzing...
New Electric Blue Pantsuit Recording
A quickie post to let you know about a new studio recording of electric blue pantsuit, which you can listen to here. Jennifer Choi and I recorded it last spring at Threshold Music. An even more sparkly version will be released on Jennifer’s solo CD soon! Here is a photo of us performing it last...
Pieces of Summer
This is turning into a deliciously summery summer, with plenty of exercise (jogging and tennis are my favorites!), fresh vegetables and fruit, spontaneous friend gatherings, sunsets watched from the roof deck. I am heading out once more to North Carolina, this time for a little beach romp at Blackbeard’s home. Having spent nearly every summer...
This Is Your Brain On The Internet
Has anyone read this article in The Atlantic?? I thought I was just becoming really scattered; turns out my brain is being reformatted, and it is totally catching! Truthfully, since entering into a more “webby” existence, my book reading habit has slowed to a crawl…measures are being put in place to fix that. After all,...
*spLaT!*…*POW!*…*kaBOOM!*
A weekday afternoon at the movies is one of my very favorite Decadent Acts. This time it was a tale of an amnesiac assasin….because sometimes a girl just needs a dose of action-packed, booty-kicking, extreme and ambitious special effects glory. You understand. At any rate, the Tangiers fight scene in particular contained some of the...
