I'm on the San Francisco Jazz Festival website! My preview on Chava Alberstein has been quoted. I feel awesome. I'm looking forward to the show tonight.
On another note, I erased half of my notes from the Treasure Island Music Festival. No more bootlegged recordings of Thievery Corporation, Gotan Project, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist. No more interviews with Thievery or Au Revoir Simone. ARRRRRGGGGH. Must learn how to use recorders correctly. Truly frustrating seeing as I had two of my first interviews with musical acts ever. Then, Gotan only threw down the greatest breakdown I have ever heard live on Triptico. But I'm determined to look past it and see this as an opportunity to record more great stuff. And to learn how to use digital recorders.
More apps finished last night after skipping out on the Prefuse 73 show...which sounded like it would be an awesome show, based on the cuts I've heard...I need to start thinking long-term here, especially since I've renewed my look towards a journalistic job...
Showing posts with label Chava Alberstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chava Alberstein. Show all posts
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Why Why Why
Some Guardian clips:
Israeli singer Chava Alberstein performs at the Herbst.
I get 1/5 of the RZA pick.
I just sent it my weekly picks for the Guardian for the week of December 12-18. One is a regular 100-worder for Sunday the 16th for a band named Team Sleep. The other is a 250-word whopper (well, I submitted 280! D'oh!) on writer and advocate Khaled Hosseini. He wrote The Kite Runner and most recently A Thousand Splendid Suns. I got assigned the piece at about 4:30 yesterday. I read the e-mail sometime around 5:45. I bought the book at 6, read for about 40 minutes, ate dinner, read for an hour and a half, went home, dawdled for a couple of hours, then spent 11:30-3:30 finishing the novel. The book was really good. How good? Well, you'll have to read the pick for yourself, next Wednesday. The point is, for the last 14 hours, except for sleep between 7-10AM, I have either been:
1) reading A Thousand Sleeping Suns
2) listening to Team Sleep on YouTube or Myspace
3) writing about Team Sleep
4) writing about Khaled Hosseini.
I really love how writing comes (or doesn't come) together in some weird late night session, but I really hate how it makes me feel afterwards.
Israeli singer Chava Alberstein performs at the Herbst.
I get 1/5 of the RZA pick.
I just sent it my weekly picks for the Guardian for the week of December 12-18. One is a regular 100-worder for Sunday the 16th for a band named Team Sleep. The other is a 250-word whopper (well, I submitted 280! D'oh!) on writer and advocate Khaled Hosseini. He wrote The Kite Runner and most recently A Thousand Splendid Suns. I got assigned the piece at about 4:30 yesterday. I read the e-mail sometime around 5:45. I bought the book at 6, read for about 40 minutes, ate dinner, read for an hour and a half, went home, dawdled for a couple of hours, then spent 11:30-3:30 finishing the novel. The book was really good. How good? Well, you'll have to read the pick for yourself, next Wednesday. The point is, for the last 14 hours, except for sleep between 7-10AM, I have either been:
1) reading A Thousand Sleeping Suns
2) listening to Team Sleep on YouTube or Myspace
3) writing about Team Sleep
4) writing about Khaled Hosseini.
I really love how writing comes (or doesn't come) together in some weird late night session, but I really hate how it makes me feel afterwards.
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