Friday night Nick & I headed over to House of Shields to see our friends Dean & Laura play a Haiti benefit gig with their band Tracing Figures. The bar itself is a piece of charming San Francisco history in that it is rumored that President Warren G. Harding died in this speakeasy and was [...]
I’ve been a huge Interpol fan for years and when I lived in the East Village I would often cross paths with members of the band and want to say “You’re awesome!” to them, but was always too scared to. I’m not one to get starstruck, but I fear invading other people’s space and coming [...]
Wednesday night Nick and I went to see Atlas Sound & Broadcast, neither of which we’ve seen live before. The Selmaraines were the warm up band and though we could only hear them from the line outside to get in, they sounded pretty good. Bradford Cox was rad-he is one talented guy, and Broadcast was [...]
Nick & Sara’s Wedding from Sara Williams on Vimeo.
Sunday night Nick and I went to see Monsters of Folk at the Greek Theater. He’s a huge My Morning Jacket fan and we both like M. Ward and Bright Eyes, so it was cool to see the collaborative project mesh so well in their debut album and we were excited to check them out [...]
For my second project for my multimedia class, we are creating an interactive environment in Flash that reflects who we are. My idea is to create an interactive “library of curiosities” that represents elements of my personality and life experiences. The library will take elements from Gypsy Honeymoon, the eclectic antique store I use to [...]
My mother was in the symphony in San Francisco and as a child she would only allow classical music in the house (she thinks Coldplay is hard music), hence I’m quite familiar with classical music. However, aside from the recorder and xylophone in middle school, I never learned to play an instrument. So last spring [...]