Dark Blue. . .

...dark blue have you ever been alone in a crowded room?" - Jack's Mannequin "Dark Blue"

It's a new year, which means we kicked off the year with the first show of the year with Jack's Mannequin at the Viper Room on Sunset Blvd. I forgot how much I appreciate a band that can put on a great live show. They even played one of my JM favorites, "Dark Blue" in the "encore." Here's to hoping the rest of the year is just as fun!

Cave Show

Today M and I trekked out to the Bronson Caves to see Lucy Schwartz play with a string quartet. This by far has been one of the most unusual places I've been to a show, it was beautiful. I took the photo above while Lucy was warming up outside of the cave. Her music is hauntingly melodic and incredibly catchy. Today's show has been one that I'll never forget.

 Speaking of never forgetting, today marked the 10th anniversary 9/11. Ten years ago, I was a sophomore in college getting ready to head to my morning television production class when news started coming in that planes had crashed into the World Trade Center buildings. We watched the news as a class that morning. This evening, I watched the news again to see the country come together again to remember that morning a decade ago.

It Girl

I am currently addicted to this Jason Derulo song and the video is beautiful.

new music

Graham Fink (formerly of The Outline) is in a new band. I missed them at the Hammer Museum, but M and I will probably venture out to hipsterville to see them next week.



Dear WBR - interesting approach to a video when the artist is touring most of the summer....just put the lyrics to the music. The new Jack's Mannequin single comes out in a few weeks on August 2nd. The new album, "People and Things" got pushed from late summer to an October 4th release.

It's a little bit country....

Josh Kelley's latest album and his first country album, "Georgia Clay" came out last week. I picked up cd up on Friday. Love that he's finally doing country and back to his southern roots. Some of you may know him as Mr. Katherine Heigl, however Josh has been a long time favorite of mine. Granted this album has a few songs that were on previous albums that were re-recorded, but it's quite a lovely album and it's one of my favorites out of his more recent stuff.

I had a Best Buy gift card so other recent purchases included Adele, Maroon 5 and Mumford & Sons. All are great. Yes I'm totally somewhat of a pop loving indie rock person. Oh and I'm definitely sometimes emo. But that's besides the point. I'm behind on blogging, but I am currently attempting to Tumbl...we'll see how this goes.

Home for the Holidays...

So I've taken my first full week off from work this year. It's been great, the days I was off I baked while it rained like cats and dogs. Finally tried out my whoopie pie pan from my cousin. Cakes came out great...filling...probably needed more sugar so I'm forcing people to drop them into the freezer so they're more like ice cream sandwiches. Tried a different peach cobbler recipe which is essentially peach pie, two types of chocolate chip cookies and vegan donuts.

Anyway the holidays are in full swing. Finally got around to listening to some of the new cds that I bought this year including the new DMB record. Have cut back on shows this year to save moola...but have had some adventures including those out in hipsterville. Hopefully the new year will include new fun stuff and adventure.

Macaron Part Deux

This was the result of a failed (ok well it wasn't completely failed, but as my mother said, the first batch from yesterday was good, but ugly) attempt and redemption on the second try. These lovely Parisan Macarons are courtesy of Martha Stewart's recipe. This is what I spent my Halloween doing. What'd you do?