Listen to "With Arms Outstretched" by Rilo Kiley
I spent the final week of August with my family—my parents Melanie and Federico and my sister Nicole and her fiancé 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 [...]
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 [...]
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:
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
This song and video truly moved me. It's good to have hope for our country's future, political and otherwise. I'll be taking some time off tomorrow morning to hear Barack Obama speak at Key Arena a bit after noon.
