Alanis Morissette released her album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie three years after the groundbreaking Jagged Little Pill. And though I bought the album and liked the songs well enough, it didn’t quite hit me… Continue reading
I only had one thing on my must-do list when I visited Vienna – I wanted to have kaffee und kuchen in a nice shop. This is thanks to my childhood obsession with… Continue reading
This was the year that Spotify finally synced up with real life. Here’s how my 2020 shaped up. I regularly post about my undying love for U2 here, so like a… Continue reading
I love Christmas music so much that I started out this list and thought I would only list ten songs, but I ended up with fifteen. I’m the type that makes different playlists… Continue reading
I took another tumble down the YouTube rabbit hole recently where I discovered these wonderful videos from the folks at Fantoon Studios. What could be more fun than watching animated renderings of classic… Continue reading
“I’m all right, right now.” Happy October! I tend to feel suspicious when I feel happy or upbeat. I’m always aware when I feel exhausted, depressed or blue, but rarely am I aware… Continue reading
I asked my mom some time ago to enumerate her favorite actors, and not long afterward I also asked my dad. He came up with an interesting list – some choices are no-brainers… Continue reading
This quarantine has had me exploring various ways to keep myself entertained, so I’ve willingly gone down the YouTube rabbit hole and spent hours just reliving the ’90s, when everything was so simple… Continue reading
I’ve been away for a while. It’s not only because of the quarantine. Here’s what happened. There was a major shake-up at work in January. I can’t really talk about it, but it… Continue reading
It’s a little late, but here it is – my 2019 in music! Seasons in Music Last year I really got into the standards, especially Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, and… Continue reading
I hate writing, I love having written. – Dorothy Parker And isn’t that the truth sometimes? Sometimes it’s so difficult to make sense of the jumble of ideas in… Continue reading
TV: I’m loving Encore! It’s a show where theater kids go back to school after 20 years or so and remount their high school musical production. So far the episodes have featured casts reuniting… Continue reading
It was only supposed to be a music weekend devoted to U2 concerts, but somehow my trip to Singapore also turned into a food trip where every meal (or almost) was delectable. Dinner… Continue reading
I finally did it, and I think I deserve a pat on the back – I finished Northanger Abbey! I started my Jane Austen Project four years ago (!), when I planned to… Continue reading
I love Jane Eyre and I love memes. And this, my friends, is pure gold! Jane Eyre, as told through Internet Memes – The Bibliofile
I am always the last to appreciate things but now I can say – I finally listened to Ella Fitzgerald. I wish I had done so earlier, but there’s so much music and… Continue reading
I got lost in the YouTube rabbit hole recently, which is how I stumbled upon the music video for Color Me Badd’s 1994 single “Choose”. I had not seen this video since it… Continue reading
This is my album of the moment, the one I play on repeat, the one I play to start my day because I know that it will give me a feel-good boost. It’s… Continue reading
