May 16, 2008 at 7:29 am (Music)
Anne and I went to see The Swell Season concert this past Tuesday night and enjoyed it immensely. There was no video or photo taking allowed, so, of course, here are some clips from the concert on YouTube.
Into the Mystic – a Van Morrison song
Falling Slowly – 2008 Academy Award for best song
Once – theme song from the movie
Once – theme song from the movie
Say it to Me Now – opening song
Songs recorded on previous nights in other cities
May 16, 2008 at 7:00 am (History, News, Websites)
This American Life details and breaks down the housing crisis with a show called “The Giant Pool of Money“
Click here to link to the MP3 file. It’s also available for streaming through iTunes
iTunes is playing Sweet Toffee from “Listen” by Moodorama
May 16, 2008 at 6:48 am (Images, Music, Travel, Websites)
Every year, KFOG in San Francisco puts on a huge fireworks show called KFOG Kaboom. It’s always amazing and and you can click here to view the video of this year’s show.
iTunes is playing Falling By the Wayside from “As Far As the Eye Can See” by People In Planes
May 14, 2008 at 9:44 pm (Travel, Writing)
Anne found the book “The Geography of Bliss” at the library and brought it home for me to read. It’s interesting, funny and even has a section on Moldova. I read the Moldova chapter first and realized I’d had quite a different experience than he did.
He found Moldovans to be overwhelmingly depressed whereas I found them to be fairly positive, but very, very poor. The author pointed out the high rate of alcoholism, which was a very visible problem when I was there too.
iTunes is playing One Day Like This from “Seldom Seen Kid” by Elbow
