Here comes Fall

And yay ! With the beginning of Fall, TV is back again....the summer of Big Brother (what a disappointment, right ?) is over.....and we are back to some oldies Grey's Anatomy ! Ugly Betty ! The Office ! and a few newbies Gossip Girl !...ok, just one newbie, thank goodness :) I hate to admit how much I love television, but I just do.

some pics from san gennaro festival two weeks ago

One of my first memories of New York is about the San Gennaro festival.....it's just a carnival/street fair kind of event, but there is something about it that will always represent New York to me.

music recommends

Not that I think I am the end all be all of music...I can't even begin to know all I probably need or want to know...but I still love it. When I find something I really love, I can't help but tell everyone about it. I've been listening to a few new albums lately: the new pornographers, wilco, etc...and although I love them both they aren't in the heaviest rotation on my ipod right now.

The other day, I had my ipod running on shuffle and came across a song that I had never heard. Apparently, I had obtained it through one of my various paste magazine compilations. Anyway, the song was so engaging to me that I had to have the full-length album immediately. Here is the album:

Teddy Thompson: Separate Ways
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=33812427

He actually has a new album out already that contains various country music covers, but his first album is just amazing. Take a listen if you can.

The other album I can't get enough of can be heard in it's entirety on their myspace page.

Stars: In Our Bedroom After the War
http://www.myspace.com/stars

So that is my two cents worth for music this week. I love the feeling I get when a song has made it's mark on me. It's a feeling that I am in love with, and constantly search for...I don't know...it's nice to know that when it comes to music, I can have that feeling of falling in love over and over again :)

point and shoot

Quite a few NYC periodicals have had photo-focused issues lately so I decided to try my own hand at photography.


washington square park


wash park fountain


butterfly in the hood

new music

I've spent the whole summer doing anything but think about music. I kind of thought that I was just slacking..that there was plenty of new music out there that I was just missing out on. Thankfully, this wasn't the case at all ! There truly was a music drought.....Well, the drought is finally over. Let good music rain down ! (haha, i know cheesy, but i couldn't help it ). Here are a few of my favorite new albums right (in order of relevance):

New Pornographers - Challengers
Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
Bishop Allen - The Broken String

If you can check any of these out, your life will only benefit from it :)