I love my city

Doug and I are holed up trying to unpack ready for our grand Drive­way Sale, but we meant to go out and Do Things this week­end. Ill­ness pre­ven­ted most of it (sorry espe­cially to Stu who was DJing at Car­ni­vore with Michaela VJing; we really wanted to...

New Orleans night out

Arrived in New Orleans and wandered around the Vieux Carré. Res­isted the impulse to revert to Anne Rice and Poppy Z Brite fangirl wor­ship (but did go to Bour­bon St for Lost Souls’ sake). Ate oysters there. It’s an awful strip of strip clubs now.The rest of the...

It must be the horns

There’s just some­thing about ten-piece man-bands that com­bine latin rhythms, reggae beats and horns that do it for me. Cat Empire (Mel­bourne), Les Hur­le­ments d’Léo (Bor­deaux) and Ozo­matli (Los Angeles) just make my hips sway, my feet move, my smile ache and my...
These are a few of my favorite new things

These are a few of my favorite new things

Things are sort of start­ing to settle down here. I’ve had another week of extraordin­ary busy­n­ess and some emo­tional upheavals on the home front (if I owe you e‑mail, please be patient for just a touch longer).I’m trying hard to focus on the pos­it­ives,...

Elle est là …

Eternal grat­it­ude and props to e_dan who saw fit to pur­chase Ember Swift tick­ets for tonight’s gig at The Corner. The day at High Vibes was marred by shock­ing weather (freez­ing winds and pour­ing rain) and an impor­tune inter­rup­tion in the form of magazine...