I Am SHAMELESS

Whose brilliant idea was it to give me license to record myself playing instruments and singing badly online? Gaah. Anyway, in a fit of Libertines-related nostalgia (as it appears that a long-hoped-for reunion is in the works?), I decided to record a cover of “Music When the Lights Go Out”. I use the term “record” [...]

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A Bit of Sunday Narcissism

All I can say is I have no explanation. It started with me complaining on Twitter that I couldn’t figure out what the last chord of the pre-chorus to Lady Gaga’s “Speechless” is. (For the record, I have no idea what its name is, but I play it #F-C-E as the last piece of a [...]

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White-Harp Reviews A CURSE DARK AS GOLD

Another White-Harp review vlog! She stayed up so late finishing A CURSE DARK AS GOLD by Elizabeth C. Bunce that this one isn’t quite as coherent as her review of SHIVER. P.S. You can follow her vlog reviews on YouTube or Vimeo. Both she and I really thoroughly enjoyed it, and my review follows beneath [...]

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I'm Sentimental

Okay, I give up; not only am I a sentimental fool, I’m also a complete and utter SAP who apparently cries at the drop of a hat. Take this video for instance: I…I…I can’t even begin to describe how much this moved me. This woman is an artist. Her name is Kseniya Simonova, and she [...]

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