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Earlier this week I was lucky enough to go to the Austin City Limits TV taping of The Black Angels. This is the second time this year that I’ve seen the band, as I was lucky enough to see them at Austin Psych Fest.
At the taping I ran into two older friends of mine, who are grown-up enough to have hippie friends from hippie times.
The panda art at Charles de Gaulle airport, July 2013. In honor of the surviving giant panda cub at who was recently born at the National Zoo in Washington, DC , I couldn’t help thinking...
When I was a child, I was very confused by the “No Soliciting” signs. Why on earth would people hang a sign banning lawyers? It turns out that I’d just read too many British...
If you are part of the film/ horror community, you are probably very aware that today is the opening day for the long-delayed release of the horror film You’re Next. While I was lucky...
On Good Friday of this year, I was in a three-car accident in Florida. After a trip to the emergency room, several tests and some morphine, it was determined that I had a lot of bruising, but nothing was broken. For the last six months, I’ve been healing from this bruising.
The second day of the Positivus music festival was a blur. After a cold night, the sun was unexpectedly hot in the afternoon. The set by American singer-songwriter John Grant (who lives in Iceland...
It’s 2:30 in the morning on this festival on the edge of the Gulf of Riga. The wind is blowing, the temps have dropped, and beachside activities have been cancelled. But otherwise the festival...
After first coming to Riga in 1999, then arriving back here in 2008 to find that, really, not many things had changed to my American eyes, I find the current speed of change in...
Thousands of people from all over the world gather in Austin, Texas each March for the South By Southwest Music Conference and Festival. They come back for Austin Psych Fest in the late spring,...
On the Friday night of Psych Fest, 2013, the weather was perfect and the bands were groovy.
The first band I saw after driving straight from Houston was the middle-eastern sounds of Tinariwen.
This was followed by a blistering performance by the Suuns, which was just as intense as their show during SXSW 2013.
