THE MAGNETIC FIELDS
LISNER AUDITORIUM – WASHINGTON, D.C.
OCTOBER 26, 2008
Stephen Merritt is notorious for depriving his fans of that which they most desire–to see The Magnetic Fields, one of indie-pop’s longest-lived and most eccentric bands, play live. The cantankerous genius recently told Indyweek.com, “Touring is traumatic for me and I try and suppress it. Live music [...]
Whoa! Haven’t updated in almost two months. That’s terrible, but that just means that I was having a lot of fun this summer. Here’s a recap:
Went camping with Jimmy, Joseph, the Jens, and Adam to a friend’s cabin in West Virginny (ok, it wasn’t really the Blair Witch woods) over July 4th weekend. None of [...]
Thanks to Youtube, anyone can be famous these days. Post a video of yourself sobbing maniacally over the media’s treatment of Britney Spears, and you’re a small-town drama kid turned glorified internet star overnight! Yes, that would be Chris Crocker, and yes, my roommate and I watched all 50 of his videos one bored night [...]
Spring-mmer, Autumnal Heaven, and Winter(less)
DC’s Spring-mmer is in the air. Spring vitality + summer swelter descend simultaneously here in the nation’s capital, known to skip the balmy breezes of spring and catapult into the muggy, built-on-top-of-a swamp heat, thick and pasty like oatmeal. That’s right, you can bend down and gather up that gloppy, dense heat in [...]
After a full week of visiting every animal shelter in DC, I have finally found my feline soul mate. She was actually the first kitten I met, and greeted me with a sweet purr. When I reached in toward the back of her cage where her 2 siblings crouched, she heaved her 1.5 lb fuzzy [...]
I read an article yesterday that said blogs are the new resumes. If that’s the case, I’m still in Mr. Watto’s 10th grade Western Civ class, and working as a produce cashier at Shady Brook Farm on the weekends.
Don’t ask me why I am only now, in the year 2008, finally getting around to buying [...]
