Heaven knows I'm miserable now

Hello world! It's been months and ages since I last wrote and I'd like to get back into the swing of things (although when I say that, it never lasts too long does it?)

Finally feeling better. I've had a cold for almost a week but am happy to say that I didn't have to drink any Dayquil today which is a nice little victory. Last week was Christmas of course and I spent Christmas morning in church with my family, the afternoon at Aunt Angela's house helping her set the tables and get things ready for dinner and the evening eating way too much food and watching my little cousins open presents. Christmas really is for kids.

Mina, Jake and Natalia had a great time opening presents. And watching Dora and Diego on Nick Jr.

Now that I'm older, I don't really find that I ever want anything for Christmas since I buy the things that I want for myself throughout the year. However, I bought myself an early Christmas gift last week when I won a fantastic pair of Jeffrey Campbell boots on Ebay. I'd been looking for these boots ever since I saw Zana from Garbage Dress wear them in photos in one of her posts. I lost a bid on a pair a few months ago but would periodically check Ebay to see if another pair got listed. I'm happy to say that I now own a pair of those gorgeous boots and I didn't even have to pay an arm and a leg for them. The Internet is the best.

A lot has changed since I last posted. I started a new job as a music publicist at a record label, I got a kitten (who's now almost 6 months old), the Shakes broke up and Passion Pit is bigger than ever! The Antlers had one of the best albums of the year with Hospice and I have discovered the awesomeness that are BDG jeans from Urban Outfitters. Here's a picture of the cat from September.

My uncle named him Gigi. Yes, he. But we didn't know he was a boy when we started calling him that. So now we tell people that Gigi is short for Giovanni.

On Saturday, my family and I went to the annual Christmas dance that my Aunt Margaret's church has. I only just found a dress a couple of weeks ago but am happy to say that it fit me pretty well. It's from Express and is a pretty similiar to those popular banded dresses that I've seen a lot of in the last yera or so. Jeazette took this picture with my iPhone before we left the house.


Since my camera died as we were taking photos in the lobby (I could've sworn that those batteries were fully charged) most of the "action" shots from the night were taking by Adhalia with her camera. I'm hoping I can steal the ones she took and put them up on flickr soon.

I have the week off, so I spent the day at Aunt V's watching movies (and doing some laundry in between). Finally saw Brideshead Revisited, Brick Lane, and The Remains of the Day. Enjoyed all immensely and I'd suggest them to anyone. Tomorrow I will go back to my house since I have an appointment with the eye doctor on Wednesday and it's much easier to walk to the train station from my house than from over here.

I have loads of photos from shows I've gone to over the last 6 months but I'll get to that later. I'm happy that it's only Monday and I look forward to relaxing for the rest of the week.

Photo opp

There are so many wonderful things about living in New York. The food. The sites. The people.  But the best thing about New York for me are the shows!  Let's face it, most bands swing through New York at some point and it's so awesome getting the opportunity to see really great music on any given random night in Manhattan or Brooklyn.  Here are some photos from my last few show going experiences.  Enjoy!

More of Harlem Shakes @ Starr Space

More photos of Hymns, The Antlers and Here We Go Magic @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

More of Cut Off Your Hands @ Webster Hall

More of Chairlift @ Bruar Falls

P.S. I took some photos of Love Language at Bell House but they seem to have disappeared from my computer and most unfortunately, never made it to my flickr. The only ones I have are the ones that I posted to my Facebook so maybe I'll get around to adding those to my flickr at some point. 

SXSW

I have some pictures to post from the last 5 or 6 shows I've been too, but I'll save that for later. Let's talk about SXSW 2009 shall we?

I spent three days at the festival with my friends/workmates and had the most amazing time ever. The Shakes were incredible! I saw them on four different occasions over those three days (twice on the 19th, my first day in Austin) and each time they seemed to get better and better. How is that possible? That band is flawless live. I don't think it's possible for them to play a bad show. And that's definitely a good trait to have. For those of you who are fans of the Brooklyn (nope, they're not from Harlem) group, you can catch them on tour with Passion Pit next month. Dates here. I'm going to be in Atlanta the same time they play Drunken Unicorn and I'm so excited for the show!

I also saw COYH more than once during SXSW and they didn't disappoint either. I caught sets from them at the Onion party at Radio Room, The NME showcase at Aces Lounge and finally the Rolling Stone party at Peckerheads. They were explosive! I think they played something like 10 shows over the course of the festival which is amazing considering how energized each performance was. Since I love them so much, I also caught their set at the Ra Ra Riot show at Webster Hall last month. It was bittersweet as it was Brent's last show with the band (for at the very least a year). He's taking time off due to a hearing problem. I hope he gets better so that he can come back to the band. I saw the band (with their awesome new drummer) last week at Mercury Lounge and they sounded stellar. I think this will be a great year for them.

Another band that blew me away at SXSW was The Love Language. Mike played them in the office pretty frequently for about a month so I was familiar with their music before SXSW. But seeing them live was a totally different ballgame. Their infectious pop song "Lalita" was made even better when one of their keyboardists jumped off the stage and began dancing in the crowd banging her tambourine. And the melodies on "Manteo" were gorgeous. I was hoping that they'd play "Stars" but they didn't, even though I saw them at Fader Fort AND Peckerheads. But no worries. They played "Stars," "Providence" and a wicked cover of "Hello Mary Lou" at their Bell House show a few weeks ago.

So yeah I saw a few bands more than once. But I was totally cool with that. I also got to see old friends (The Prids and Entertainment), wonderfully energetic and show stopping peeps from across the pond (The Future of the Left and Ebony Bones) and supa-dupa mega stars who love to blog and type IN ALL CAPS!!!! (Kanye "Gay Fish" West. jk Kanye). I made some new friends and ran into some old ones. I also had so many musicians sightings, my mouth was agape in amazement 40% of the time. I love that bands are just walking around freely at SXSW. For instance, when I was walking to the Driskill for a listening party, I ran into The Duke Spirit. And I mean THE ENTIRE BAND! I was too caught off guard to stop the entire band (Liela was totes gorgeous) but I managed to stop Olly. Amanda was with me and said, "Oh, so THAT's the Duke Spirit?" Anyone who knows me knows how much I love them. Hell if you read this blog, you definitely know. I also saw Amanda Palmer when we were coming back from the Gigantic Music showcase at Scoot Inn, Steve Aoki when I was killing time after seeing the Shakes at Cheers, Janelle Monae at a pizza place after watching Kanye at Fader Fort...I mean the list goes on and on. I also love the free EVERYTHING in Austin: Booze, food, portable fans, etc. And the burritos. Burritos are fantastic at 2 in the morning, if you didn't know. I managed to not have any barbecue though. I don't know how that happened but definitely next time.

So in conclusion, SXSW 2009 was awesome and I'll be going to Austin every March from now on until I die. Yep Yep.

I of course took a CRAP load of pictures in Austin and you can view them here, here and here.

Who rocks the party that rocks the body?

So kiddies, it happened. I actually saw Les Savy Fav last Friday night at Brooklyn Masonic Temple. It was amazing!!!! While they didn't play "The Lowest Bitter" they did break out "Patty Lee," "We'll Make A Lover Of You," "Raging in the Plague Age," and "The Sweat Decends" to name a few. It was a sleepver themed show with Tim Harrington wearing a woman's nightgown and shower cap. Oh yeah and some sort of green face stuff. There was a pillow fight, a game of Light as a feather, stiff as a board and lots of liquids flying everywhere. Epic! Opening act Sean Bones was pretty wicked too.





More photos here.

I'm headed off to Austin tomorrow morning for SXSW! Yes I know that it started today but there will still be lots of fun to be had when I get there tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be able to take loads of pictures to document how rad it will all be. I'm probably going to be severely exhausted too, but that's alright. It's just a few days and it'll be lots of fun!

If anyone actually reads this thing and wants to keep up with what I'm doing in Austin, feel free to visit my Twitter. I'll be updating that as often as I can (or whenever something cool happens).

I just see you

'Ello! Here are some photos from The Duke Spirit/Mobius Band/Shilpa Ray and The Happy Hookers show a few weeks ago at Music Hall of Williamsburg.  More photos here.

I waste all our time

I'm so terrible! Haven't written in weeks and it's 11:30 pm on a Monday night. I usually can't get to sleep at a reasonable hour on Monday nights as my sleeping schedule is off because of the weekend, so I'll probably be awake for another hour or so.

March is here and in a few weeks I will be attending SXSW in Austin for the first time ever in my life! I am beyond stoked, kind of anxious and already overwhelmed. There's just so much going on! A friend of mine has been sending me party updates over the past 2 weeks and I can already tell that there's no way that I'll get a chance to see everyone I want to see, even though most bands are playing more than two shows it seems. I hear White Denim played around 14 shows last year! Insane! Anywho, I'm looking forward to catching sets from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, COYH, The Love Language and my lovely friends Entertainment and The Prids. The Prids and Entertainment are both playing the Post-punk.com show at Spiderhouse on the 19th so I've gotta find myself there at some point to see their sets. I haven't seen The Prids in probably two years so I'm definitely due. Can't wait to hear "Shadow and Shadow" and (hopefully) "Before We Are" live again.
Last night, Nerrissa, Jeazette, Adhalia and I went to The Haunt to see a few bands play. Caught sets from Beyond The Reach, Terrorsaur, Nine Days to Drop, For The Foxes, Romance N' Ruin and Ever Since. The Haunt is located in Yonkers and I was shocked to find that there was a venue so close to my house! I never would've guessed. It's definitely a great place for smaller local and up and coming bands to play and reminds me a lot of the main floor of the Masquerade back in Atlanta.

I've been to three great shows over the past few weeks including the Shakes at Southpaw, The Duke Spirit at Music Hall of Williamsburg and the Rabbits at Mercury. All were fantastic. Gotta talk about Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers who played both The Shakes and Duke Spirit shows. This girl is amazing! She has kind of haunting yet commanding voice and plays a harmonium on stage. I'm kind of always fascinated when someone plays an instrument that you don't really see in most bands so Shilpa is a breath of fresh air. She's one of those performers that you can't keep your eyes off. She and her Happy hooker will certainly make a lot of noise this year.

I'm thinking of purchasing a tripod for my camera and think that I've settled on this one. I really want to start taking daily outfit photos. Anyone have any suggestions?

Also trying to find a good pair of ankle skinny jeans or jeans that fit like leggings that I can wear with my Besty Boots so drop a line if you have any ideas for that as well. Jeazette said that I should look into J Brand but they're a bit more than I'd like to spend.

The 51st Annual Grammy Awards

Thankfully, I was able to watch the entire Grammys telecast from beginning to end without getting kicked out of a room so that one of my cousins could watch something terrible on TV like Desperate Housewives (I'm talking to you Adhalia). Like a lot of my other twitter friends, I posted updates all show long. Sasha Frere-Jones' were the best hands down! ("So You Think You Can Dance? Season 5 winner, Thomas Yorke"). But before I give my recap, I've gotta say, WHAT THE EFF CHRIS BROWN!

Chris Brown and Rihanna were both scheduled to appear at the awards show last night but cancelled last minute. It seems as though the two were in some sort of altercation early Sunday morning which lead to Chris turning himself into the LAPD. He's out on $50,000 bail. Now, we shouldn't make any assumptions until we know all the facts but it's not looking good. If he physically hurt her, it's gonna leave a huge black cloud over the rest of his career. That's a shame since he's still so young. People will forgive but they never forget.

This whole situation seems to be constantly evolving so I'm sure we'll get more info as the days go on. You can read more about the incident here, here, here and here.

Ok, now on to happier things. Lil Wayne, Coldplay, and Alison Krauss and Robert Plant were the big winners last night. They only handed out a few awards during the 3.5 hour telecast but that's totally ok. The Grammys are all about the performances that you talk about the next day around the watercooler.

Mostly all the performances were good. I really enjoyed Jennifer Hudson and Radiohead (with the USC Marching Band -- Bring on your Fleetwood Mac/Tusk jokes).

Even though I'm not a big country fan, Carrie Underwood can sing the hell out of practically any song and she was amazing. It was fun singing along with Neil Diamond (SO GOOD SO GOOD!) as he did "Sweet Caroline" and Whitney Houston even made an appearence (she looked gorgeous and apparently blew everyone away at Clive Davis' party the night before).

I was SOOO happy to see super preggers M.I.A. out on stage doing a wee bit of "Paper Planes" (would've been so epic if she had won) and then "Swagger Like Us" with Jay Z, Lil Wayne, Kanye and TI. Her outfit was classic Maya and being 9 months preggers and about to pop didn't stop her from jumping around on stage. She is gangsta.

Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift are apparently BFF now, thanks to the fact that they've each dated a Jonas (Miley with Nick (the cute one) and Taylor with Joe (the hot one)). They performed a song called "Fifteen" together. Have only heard a little Taylor Swift, but she's totally adorbs. And she can actually write a song.

Adele won for "Best New Artist" and she was so cute! Genuinely surprised and grateful to win. Her album, 19, was defintiely one of my favorites from last year. Think she'll definitely sell a few more copies of that now that she's a Grammy winner. And I'm pretty sure it won't be the kiss of death for her.

Had never listened to Sugarland but my country music loving cousin Jeazette tells me that they're so hot right now. I'm from Atlanta and for the first 13 years of my life, my father rarely changed the car radio dial from Kicks 101.5. So I heard a lot of country growing up. Sugarland seems to be one of the good ones. Their performance was awesome and what was even more awesome is when Adele performed "Chasing Pavement" right after them.

Sir Paul McCartney performed the Beatles classic, "I Saw Her Standing There," with Dave Grohl on drums. Any time a Beatle does anything, it's awesome. And his new girlfriend is super hot!

Ya'll know how I feel about TI. I hope they don't send him to jail :( Anywho, here's him and his BFF JT

View the full list of Grammy winners here. There are videos all over the internet with every performance you could possibly want to see. Happy hunting!

If I could lend you this feeling I would

I got my ticket for The Duke Spirit at MHOW. Where's yours?

Maxwell's tickets

MHOW tickets

Bob Marley would've been 64 yesterday. Happy Birthday Robert.

I wish I'd stayed asleep today

Lady Sovereign has a new song called "I'm So Human" which samples "Close to Me" by my besties The Cure. I'm not sure how I feel about it. What do you think?

Ok. So. I'm trying not to freak out but the Mercury Lounge building is up for sale. The venue is safe for now (their lease runs through 2018) but if they sell it so that they can turn it into something lame (and something lame would be anything other than what it already is) I will cry a thousands tears. The Mercury Lounge is my ABSOLUTE favorite venue in all of NYC. I've been to more shows there than any other venue in New York. So keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to it. And I mean EVER.

Someone in a google group I'm apart of was looking for a contact for The Murder City Devils this morning. I first thought, "Derek Fudesco's Murder City Devils?" (as if there was another). And then I thought, "But didn't they break up?" Well, turns out they are doing a short tour of the west coast this month. Their old label, Sup Pop, is going to reissue their three albums. Pretty rad huh? If you live on the west coast, check out tour dates here. Derek Fudesco was a member of one of my all time favorite bands Pretty Girls Make Graves. They broke up in 07. Don't talk about it. I'm still in mourning.

Mike pointed out that while Glastonbury has sold out (even though the lineup has yet to be confirmed), The Langerado Festival (which was was to take place March 6-8 in Miami) was cancelled due to poor ticket sales. I've been to a few festivals and usually I have a miserable time because there are too many people, the weather is wretched and there are lines everywhere. What magical enchantment happens at Glastonbury that makes people pull out their wellies and trek out into a swamp to camp out for three days?

M.I.A. is totally performing at the Grammys this Sunday, even though she might pop the baby out on stage. No one on the corner has swagger like Maya. Speaking of the Grammys, this will be the first year in like 3 that I'm actually going to be able to watch the entire thing. They usually happen on the same night we go out to eat for my Uncle's birthday. Well we had his birthday dinner last Sunday so my Grammy viewing is safe this time around.

I'm going to see the incomparable Steven Patrick Morrissey at Carnegie Hall in March. I've seen Morrissey twice, the last time being in October of 2007 at Hammerstein. He puts on a FANTASTIC show and I can't wait to see him! He's sure to play this song.

They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst

As promised, photos from Wednesday night's show at Bowery.






More photos here.

It's about time

The man who killed Gits lead singer Mia Zapata in 1993 has been sentenced to 37 years for her murder. Jesus Mezquia was actually arrested over 6 years ago after DNA evidence connected him to Mia's rape and murder. I remember seeing a profile of this case ages ago on Unsolved Mysteries and being so annoyed that they hadn't found her killer yet. I'm so glad that they caught him and that he's paying for his crime.

I first heard The Gits in college when I found one of their CDs in the back room of WUOG's music library. I vaguely remembered watching that episode of Unsolved Mysteries and went online to read more about the band. It's so sad when someone who is so talented is taken away in such a senseless and awful way, especially when they haven't even reached their highest potential. Hoepfully, Mia's family, friends and fans can find some sort of peace knowing that he killer will no longer get away with what he's done.

Can you hear my hert beat like a hammer?

The new Metric album, Fantasies, comes out in April. Watch the video below to hear a little of "Help I'm Alive." Seriously, Emily has one of the most beautiful voices ever.

PP was awesome last night. I took a few pictures which I'll probably get around to posting tomorrow. I had an awesome time singing with my girls down in front. Highlights were "Better Things" and "Sleepyhead" of course. Check out some photos and video from last night here, here and here.

Like dirt bikes going on stage

If you're not at this show tonight consider yourself having the worst Wednesday ever. Don't worry. The rest of us will be dancing our asses off in your absence.

Is this real life?

I ask myself that sometimes too, David.

I've watched this video like 10 times today. It's HILARIOUS!

Irish Blood, English Heart

Happy Monday everyone! I hope your weekends went by slowly and you had loads and loads of fun. But chances are that didn't happen. Chances are you got little sleep, didn't finish everything you needed to do and were stuck in line for ages at Stop & Shop with the morons who waited last minute to go shopping for their Superbowl parties (maybe you should go without the Spinach dip this year if it's already 5 o'clock? I dunno, just saying). Anywho, if your weekend was a little drab, here's something to to give you a jolt. Naked Morrissey? Yes please!


The above photo has been floating around the internet over the last couple of days. It's the inside sleeve of Morrissey's new single, "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris." Moz is in the middle. I hope that whoever I end up with when I'm settled down looks that good when he's 49! Morrissey's right hand man Boz Boorer is shown the second from the right. Why is he hiding?

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that Morrissey is playing the first night of Coachella this year. He goes on right before Paul McCartney who is headlining Friday night. The Cure headlines Sunday night and The Killers on Saturday. Other acts include Amy Winehouse (assuming she doesn't OD first), No Age, Jenny Lewis, A Place to Bury Strangers, Leonard Cohen, White Lies, TV on The Radio, The Fleet Foxes and basically everyone else who had a big year last year/will have a big year this year/you want to hear a new album from. Coachella happens April 17th-19th in Indio California. Tickets are $300 which is pretty effing pricey. But there's a payment plan available if you can't afford to shell out all the dough at once. Buy your tickets here. And if you feel inclined to buy one for me as well, I won't object.

Speaking of the maybe soon to be ex Mrs. Fielder-Civil, she has decided to put Mitch and Janis in charge of her $21 million dollar fortune. Good idea. It'll be like getting an allowance all over again!

Pitchfork's site was acting all whacky last week so they've posted links to all the stories we may have missed.

TV on the Radio is playing SNL this weekend. I'd love it if they played "DLZ" but that probably won't happen.

OMG. LSF at Brooklyn Masonic Temple March 13th. If you know me, you know why this is major. Tickets on sale tomorrow.

White Lies is playing Bowery March 26 and 27th with Friendly Fires and the Soft Pack. Check them out if haven't heard them. They're awesome.

The News of the World must have spies EVERYWHERE because anytime a celebrity does something naughty, they always manage to get a picture of it. This time, Michael Phelps got caught getting high. A lot of people smoke pot and it's not really a big deal. But he's on the cover of a freaking Corn Flakes box. I bet Wheaties is happy that he turned them down. Now we'll have to wait to see if he loses sponsorships and the halo that's been hanging over his head.

Brooklyn Vegan posted pictures from the Thermals show. I've had a total girl crush on Kathy Foster for like 6 years. She's awesome. I keep hoping that she'll go on tour with her other band, All Girl Summer Fun Band, soon. I heart them.

Photographer Natalie Curtis has posted her November photos on her website. My favorite is the one of the random dude.

I don't care about football so I didn't watch the Superbowl (who won anyway?) I didn't even watch the half time show. But I heard good things about Jennifer Hudson's performance of the Star-Spangled Banner. I didn't even think she was going to make a public performance until the Grammys. Below is her amazing performance of the national anthem. Not an easy song to sing.

In other news, a little PP at Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday night. It's going to be EPIC!

Sleepyhead

I'm off to bed

I don't mean to seem like I care about material things like a social status

It's supposed to snow sometime tonight and I can't for the life of me understand why we've been getting such a shit ton of the white stuff lately. Yes I know I live in New York, but I've been here for three years and haven't seen this much snow. I guess I should be grateful that it's not a blizzard every time but still. It's kind of nuisance.

I'm thinking about getting a tripod for my camera. I want one so that I can take "What I Wore Today" pics like Nubby. And maybe even post them to Wardrobe Remix. I'm still debating. I might want to buy another pair of UNIQLO jeans instead.

When we were shopping with Micky on Sunday, we went into UNIQLO (he was looking for a blue vest or tie). When Pinky was in town last year, we went to UNIQLO and I remember her telling me that she really liked their stuff. I couldn't remember if she said that the sizes ran big or small, so when I found a pair of skinny jeans I really liked, I picked up the two sizes I teeter between. The smaller size fit incredibly well and I'm certain that I'm going to have to get this jean in every non offensive color they make it in (I got wine this time around).

UNIQLO is a Japanese company and the SoHo store in New York is actually the only one in the US (well at least according to their website anyway). The true test of the jeans will come when I finally wear them (which could be months, who knows) but if they look as good walking down the street after a long ass day as they did standing in that dressing room, I am sold.

I really tried to stay up and watch The Walkmen on Conan last night but I think I knocked out sometime around 12:30. No worries though! Thanks to the wonders of the technology, I was able to watch their performance on the NBC website. "In the New Year" was epic!

This is what was going on in the office two Fridays ago. It was awesome.

Why does EVERYONE have to do a cover of "Love Song"? I mean, I know it's like the best known Cure song, but it isn't the most romantic. Check out "Halo." Now that's some romantic shit.



Michael K is on a roll. EVERY post he made today had me dying on the floor. It's not unusual for me to chuckle at all of his celebrity commentary but for some reason today I found them especially funny. I really liked this one:

As some of you know, Fox is going to fuck with the legendary TV experience that is Absoultely Fabulous. Why, you ask? Because that's what we do in America. We take TV shows from other countries and try to find ways to get them canceled in record time. Although, Kath & Kim is still breathing and I'm not sure why. I'll have to ask Satan that during our weekly conference call

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In other news, Grace keeps playing the new Animal Collective in the office. And I can't get enough of this song.

This will be a better year

Long time no talk, huh? I've been busy doing everything and nothing. That's how it seems to go sometimes. This post will be full of randomness so hold on.

First off, Happy New Year! We all have a fresh new start. And if your 2008 was as shitty as mine, you need it! We've got a fantastic new president who will hopefully not only fix the problems we have but make us seem a little more human to people in other parts of the world. We care. We know. We see what's going on. And we want change too.


I spent New Years Eve in White Plains at the Lazy Boy Bar with my cousins, eating wings and listening to songs on the jukebox. A DJ played later on in the night, much to my disappointment. I made Jeazette look in her bag for a solid 5 minutes for 50 cents so that I could play "The Sound Of Settling." Sad to say that I never got the chance to sing "Bah Bah. Bah Bah."

I saw The Wrestler and Slumdog Millionaire in the past month. Both were great. I was happy to see Mickey Rourke take home the best actor trophy at the Golden Globes and very happy for Slumdog for taking home every award they were nominated for. A lot of great movies have come out lately and that's kind of rare.

Jeazette's birthday was this week so we went out for dinner on Saturday. She picked a Thai place in White Plains called Reka's. It was phenominal! I had spring rolls and the chicken pad thai (I usually go for the chicken pad thai if I've never been to the restaurant before. If you mess that up, everything else will taste like poo most likely.) Also had fried ice cream for dessert. When we got home that night, Jeazette and I watched Funny Games with Naomi Watts and Michael Pitt. I'd wanted to see it for a while. Totally twisted and a bit unsatisfying I have to admit. But totally creepy in the "this could totally happen in real life" way which isn't often the case with horror/thriller movies. So at the very least, I appreciate that. Also, I've had a crush on Michael Pitt since Murder by Numbers. Holla at ya girl Napoleon!

There seem to be a lot of birthdays this month. Why is that? Kind of weird. My aunt, uncle, and two of my cousins all have birthdays this month. Not to mention my grandmother and several friends. Anyone else been buying a bunch of birthday cards this month? My wallet is empty.

Yesterday, Adhalia, Jeazette and I went into the city to hang out with Micky. We had lunch at this really nice cafe on 9th and 30th (or was it 29th?) in Chelsea. Can't for the life of me remember what it's called but the food was great (I had a burger with fries) and if you order something on the brunch menu, you get drinks to go with it (we all got mimosas). Then we hit up a few stores on Broadway before going back to Micky's and hanging out for a bit. We listened to his Santogold station on Pandora and I was surprised that I had most of the records that were being played (Lily Allen, The Cure, Metric, Yeah Yeah Yeahs).

Well, I think that's all I have for major updates in my little world.. So here's a little housekeeping.

The Walkmen are on Conan tonight. Watch it. Don't know what song they'll play, but it's sure to be awesome.

The Duke Spirit is playing Music Hall of Williamsburg on the 16th. I'm pretty sure I'll be going. I know that I'll have a good time and it's always fun going to a venue that I've never been to before. They're also playing at Maxwell's in Hoboken. Small venue and I'd love to see them there. But can you take the Path to Maxwell's? And how late does it run? I'll have to investigate. The band is holding a contest where the winner gets to go to a show of their choice and annouce them on stage. All you have to do is make a YouTube video. Get the deets here.

COYH have a new video for their song "Turn Cold." They're gonna be on tour with Ra Ra Riot soon. Tour dates here.



The Harlem Shakes record comes out in March. Listen to "Strictly Game" on their MySpace. It's my new anthem.

Ok, I think that's all I got for now. I'll try to be a better updater.