Monday music felt like Christmas time

2000 Miles – The Pretenders Sidekick – Lisa Mitchell Life in a Northern Town – Dream Academy Jackson – Hem I Gaer – Sigur Rós S utra shël sneg – Akvarium My Girls – Animal Collective Lonesome Swan – Glasvegas My Sister – Leatherbag Twice – Little Dragon The Orthodox Church around here doesn’t celebrateContinue reading “Monday music felt like Christmas time”

My friends do cool things: link round-up

Michael Forster Rothbart, who’s really cool and whom I interviewed earlier this year, has a new site dedicated to his photography, After Chernobyl. It’s interactive. A couple of people I adore have just created an equally adorable — and convenient — app: Pushme.to. Even as a stubborn, pedantic, even illogically hysterical anti-iPhoner, I can recognizeContinue reading “My friends do cool things: link round-up”

Comfort food: WP Inman, Enya

I only really like Jude Law in “Cold Mountain,” where he’s mostly bleeding from bullet holes: Maybe I’m secretly a sadist. “Cold Mountain” wasn’t that terrific of a movie, so I’m not sure why it is that I always come back to it. Pathos? Rednecks? Your guess is as good as mine. My other comfortContinue reading “Comfort food: WP Inman, Enya”

Monday music: you’re the reason I’m traveling on

Skinny Love – Bon Iver Abel – the National The Time of Times – Badly Drawn Boy Grace Kelly – Mika Your Labios as Tulips – Pascal Comelade All I Need – Radiohead Dancing Barefoot – Patti Smith Under My Thumb – the Rolling Stones Hey Jupiter – Tori Amos Don’t Think Twice, It’s AllContinue reading “Monday music: you’re the reason I’m traveling on”