Entries Tagged as 'Music'

Season Ending

Post 1

I wrote the following entry on Monday, September 22nd, the day after our sectionals tournament. I was unsure if I should publish my frank thoughts and they were relegated to the drafts folder—all but forgotten—until now.
The two days following our loss were particularly bad but I regained some perspective as the week progressed and [...]


This day by the lake went too fast

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I spent the final week of August with my family—my parents Melanie and Federico and my sister Nicole and her fiancée Mark—at a small cabin on a lake in New Hampshire. As we do every year, we swam and read and cooked and ate and talked and laughed and played Mexican Train Dominoes. And, as [...]


Musics on the Internets

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I like to think I'm in fairly good touch with certain regions of the blogosphere—most notably, I'd say, the web design community. By "in touch" I mean reading far too much and not contributing anything significant. Anyway, I try to share some of the more interesting websites I encounter or frequent and I will do [...]


Weezer Has Returned

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In this month of May, which has been one of the most stressful, loneliest and generally worst months on record, the following made me smile and actually Laugh Out Loud:


Bonafide Hustler

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I loved Freaks and Geeks and, as such, am a sucker for James Franco, despite his Spider-errors, and Seth Rogen, despite the questionable philosophy of Knocked Up. So, team those two back up and throw Paper Planes (heh, get it?) by MIA, a song stuck in my consciousness for the last half year, into the [...]


DarkCash HorseLove

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Wondering about my recent silence? I've been spending my spare time working on a few different projects, such as the following:
DarkCash HorseLove from Carlos d'Avis on Vimeo.


A Musical Week

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My concert attendance has been picking up in 2008. AC and I saw the Decemberists perform on January 31st and this week is even better.
On Sunday, Brooke, Birch and I headed to the Showbox for scratchy goodness. I arrived five minutes into Kid Koala's opening set to find the crowd hooting and hopping, obviously pleased [...]