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Waking Up In Manhattan – Tuesday

Nov 272012

Nicolas Jaar and band live at Rex Club, Paris (Photo credit: TheArches)

Good morning folks, been a while..

Well, it’s been a wild journey, what with moving across the Atlantic, working in a new office, commuting from Long Island, seeing family, finding an apartment, three weddings (Manhattan, Long Island City, and Chicago), finding furniture, Hurricane Sandy, not having power, Maine, moving into the new apartment, getting furniture into the apartment, DC, and Thanksgiving…

But now I’m happy to say that I think real life is actually starting. Real life where I can predictably wake up in the same bed in my new digs in Manhattan’s beautiful West Village every morning. I have yet to fall into some sort of regular routine (obviously, as today is only day one), but I look forward to reading my music news and blogging being part of that regular routine.

So without further ado, here’s your daily dose of fun…

Be good! Until next time…

Tuesdays and Coughing

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Oct 022012

Frank Ocean – Øyafestivalen 2012 (Photo credit: NRK P3)

Apparently coughing and being sick is the new thing these last few days, so I might as well blog about it, right? I’m trying to avoid getting ill myself by moving desks around when I can, but being sleep-deprived (no one to blame but myself for staying up until 4 in the morning to work on silly projects that I’ll probably never finish) isn’t giving my immune system any help.

Oh well, here’s what’s spinning in my world lately:

Dr. Dog – Wild Race EP
ATN Mixtape 21: Sašo Benko (via Zorano)
Flock of Dimes – “Curtain” b/w “Apparition” (that girl from Wye Oak)
Jens Lekman – I Know What Love Isn’t
How To Dress Well – Total Loss (particularly “World I Need You, Won’t Be Without You (Proem)”)
Animal Collective – Centipede Hz
Grizzly Bear – Shields (of course)
Paul Simon – Live in New York City (from that Webster Hall performance last year, some of you know what I’m talking about)
Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE (can’t get enough of “Pyramids” since that SNL performance with John Mayer a few weeks back)

Stay healthy, my friends.

A Weekend of R&R (For a Programmer)

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Feb 132012

Now Playing: Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles

It’s a snowy wonderland outside my window in Ljubljana. It has been snowing basically pretty nonstop all weekend, and with all the things going on between work and shuffling around for this commitment or that commitment, it was a real pleasure to spend most of this weekend in the house just relaxing in PJs. While I did get a bit of sleep Friday night and make it to the market on Saturday, I spent most of the weekend actually developing a prototype for a secret side project – more details later – which leads me to my next thought – it’s kind of depressing being a backend developer because you don’t get to see any of the fruits of your labor until you have a frontend guy swoop in and spend two seconds coding up some pretty design and HTML/CSS to go with it. In my case, after about 36 hours of straight coding on a Django API and a functional Android app that calls that API, I’m still waiting for that frontend guy to show up (looking at you @pronebird and @SlovenianSteve!) – G-d bless frontend guys everywhere and the magic you do!

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Anyway, enough of my nonsense – onto the music news!

Whew, that was a lot!

Out tomorrow:

Punch Brothers – Who’s Feeling Young (Nonesuch) Tennis – Young and Old Shearwater – Animal Joy (Sup Pop)

See you next time…

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