Maybe it’s all the empowerment I feel today, but I can’t get the Regina Spektor song “Us” out of my head. [youtube 9pKujuTgtL0] They made a statue of us And it put it on a mountain top Now tourists come and stare at us Blow bubbles with their gum Take photographs for fun, for fun [...]

Music calms the troubled soul. Tonight I had the coincidental pleasure to enjoy two of my favorite musical obsessions – Jason Mraz at Nokie Live and High School Musical 3 premiere at midnight. It was one of those perfect nights that make you feel like everything is right with the world. And that’s exactly what [...]

So the aforementioned Saturday and Sunday ACL pump up blog posts did not come to pass – but Austin City Limits Festival 2008 did! The following were my most favorite moments of ACL. If I left anyone out, let your voice be heard in the comments! 10. G. Love & Special Sauce If the sound [...]

“No room in the inn” is the general vibe I’m getting for Austin this weekend. With the ACL Fest crowd AND the Texas/Arkansas football game AND the Ike evacuees who are still being told not to go home AND no hotel room available in the city … it’s going to be … well… packed. For [...]

I had such high hopes. I wanted so much for it to be cool. But as usual, iTunes DRM ruins everything. So, the new iTunes upgrade has this seemingly cool sidebar called “Genius.” Genius downloads your library, uploads it to iTunes, and then suggests cool music you might like that you don’t already have. Also, [...]