Drinking: Fondo Paez Coffee Listening to: Ray Of Light – Madonna Every morning, it’s Olympics hangover. Watching the snowboarders last night, I kept seeing the women put their earbuds in and sometimes sing a few bars before speeding down the half pipe. I kept wanting to see their playlists, so I searched for Olympic snowboarding...
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Drinking: hot chocolate Listening to: the mix below We are exchanging mixes for Valentine’s Day. At first I thought I would keep them private. It felt a little like sharing a love note to post it, but I talked to him about it and he thought it would be okay and added that he would...
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If I make it in to CD Central , it’s usually on my lunch hour so I don’t know that I’ll get to go to this appearance, but it’s cool to know this is coming up so I wanted to pass it on.
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Drinking: Teavana’s Eastern Chamomile loose tea Listening to: Jose Gonzalez, Hand On Your Heart I never thought about music as being seasonal until I met my husband. He would make mixes to accompany novels he was reading, or trips he was taking. DJ Shadow’s Preemptive Strike {for example} was coupled with Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian....
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Drinking: Two Leaves & A Bud Jasmine Petal tea Listening to: Halo, Beyonce One of my favorite sweet little clients, E loves Beyonce as much as I do and during this photo shoot, she sang and danced to Beyonce’s Halo. She is always a source of inspiration for me, this girl. So, because it’s her...
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Drinking: English Breakfast tea – again. I guess I’m a creature of habit. Listening to: Empire State of Mind – Alicia Keyes Jay-Z {An aside: recently, a witness’s phone rang during their deposition with this song as the ringtone and I had to lean over at the next break and say, “I’m sorry, but was...
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This is not the first time I’ve turned off cable TV. As a first year law student living alone, I knew I could not be trusted with unlimited access to TV. Thank heaven I had dial up internet as opposed to something faster or I would never have graduated. I lived alone in an antebellum...
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This week, Lisa Hannigan’s Ocean & A Rock has been on repeat in my car. It is so well written and perfect for the crisp air and sweaters and gloves. This is my husband’s busiest time of year. Mine too, I guess. It’s easy to feel an ocean and a rock away. But George, it’s...
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The Avett Brothers have an album coming out September 28th called I and Love and You. For the next week, you can listen to the entire album for free here at NPR. My favorite song on the album is called Perfect Space. You can listen to it here, unless of course you are my mom,...
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I’ve felt twelve kinds of love for Lisa Hannigan’s music since hearing her with Damian Rice years back. Her new solo album Sea Sew is love, lovely. She gave a great interview about her creative process and the album on NPR that you can read here. The liner notes include a photo of all of...
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