Straddling the crunch of dusty snow, I gaze upward in at the swirling patterns embossed into the naked white flesh of the statue above me—the rigid outline of which proclaims its arching contour against the silhouette of bare trees. It’s so breathtaking that it even calls for a break in the paragraph. Ready? Okay. ***this [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 15, 2007
I, too, want to marry Hugh Grant and write songs with him, dammit!
In the midst of writing something that vaguely resembles a song in its scattered sections (which I hope will be done in time for Global Grooves, either this one or the other one in progress, but that depends on a lot of things), I flipped through my personal library in search of a certain useful [...]
February 13, 2007
Will you, would you, vivify my billet-doux?
(Oh Words of the Day, how I love you) I woke up early this morning to finish a book. Not that I don’t have the whole day free or anything, but the ending of The Baron In The Trees was summoning me through its star-grazed covers as it sat so peacefully situated on my nightstand. I [...]
February 12, 2007
Welcome to Pittsburgh, temperature 10 degrees…
Here I am in the sweet home of Amos Lee, feeling lucky, for once, to be awake at 3 o’clock in the morning California-time. Having spent the past three hours zoning in and out of a turbulent sleep in all senses of the expression, I was brought back by the lights of Pittsburgh, scintillating softly [...]
February 2, 2007
Sentimentalizing from Starbucks
So this isn’t everything I want to say about L.A., but it’s something… The homebase of Hollywood should stick to making movies, not coffee. Maybe I’m just spoiled by Starbucks/Peets/It’s A Grind/Bellanos in Nerdville, USA, where Stanford and Berkeley students reprogram the espresso machines over summertime to effectively capture and create the savory melancholy that [...]
