April 4, 2017
While I finish a busy week before Spring Break travels, here are iridescent heads of mallards at the Massapequa Preserve glistening in the sun… The crocuses in the backyard, like me, who are just sick of waiting… The daffodils, worse for wear, finally standing up with the sun… Â And Read more…
October 4, 2016
The postcard that inspired the album’s artwork The album’s artwork The dress I embroidered with gold trim and stars many moons ago, along with other supplies I was so excited that the shoot was finally happening, I snapped a picture of my leg driving to Jacob Riis Beach, a spot Read more…
August 5, 2016
Guess where I am…Yes, I’m in Iowa! Vegan Victuals is now reporting in 48 states! So let’s get to my lunch. I decided that Krunkwich Ramen House in Des Moines, Iowa had the best vegan options in the whole state. Krunkwich has a wonderfully appetizing selection of clearly identified vegan options, from Asian Read more…
August 5, 2015
Travel tucks you into new environments, which facilitate different experiences. And experience is the basis of all learning, all growth. So, travel is enlightenment…. Luckily, there is no need to head to an ancient Buddhist temple to derive this wisdom. There is plenty of beauty, adventure, inspiration, oddity (and vegan eats) just a couple of hours away. Read more…
July 27, 2015
The music used to be your own. Some songs you listened to on your record player. And you noticed the unique speed of your turntable when hearing it for the first time on another’s. Mine was just slightly faster. And the vinyl’s unique scuffs made it even more yours. You Read more…
January 4, 2015
I’m thinking of the piano chords to Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens. They’re kind of thundering, like a definitive decision, like a confident first step of something. I love how that song makes me feel. What is so delightful about music is that you get to pick and choose the emotion you Read more…
July 11, 2013
It was a long drive into Birmingham, Alabama. After hours of being snug between rolling green acres with the occasional billboard, sometimes a city comes out of the night and disorients you. Birmingham was faster than I expected. I slept in and slept off my highway stupor and needed a Read more…
April 14, 2012
Last day in May, the afternoon: remember? Black marks off charcoal from the dune: remember? I thought it wouldnât be too soon; weâd wait at least until its June. The twenty-ninth of March it rained: remember? You looked so sad that I explained: remember? You knew it wouldnât be too Read more…
August 13, 2011
Quick! Name as many starches as you can in this dish from the all-vegan One Love in Toronto, Canada. I’ll help you. 1) Green banana, steamed… 2) sweet potato… 3) yucca… 4) yellow yam… 5) plantain, as well as cooked greens and some fresh avocado slices. As the darling name implies, Read more…
July 7, 2011
From the archives of 1997: Check out the price (and service charge) of the ticket. And my hair growing in from when I shaved it off When the Bouncing Souls announced they’d be playing discography shows in New York, I was a bit giddy. The years surrounding  The Good, the Read more…
July 5, 2011
Thank you for playing the Williamsburg Hall of Music when so many hipsters were out of town, Sunday, July 3, 2011. With this recent Noah Lennox fix, I need not stand outside of Prospect Park’s Animal Collective show later in the month. Panda Bear collaborated with Sonic Boom of Spacemen Read more…
March 22, 2011
I feel like March is my least favorite month of the year. At this point, I am through with winter and impatient for April, when warmer and brighter weather is more consistent. March’s sunny teases leave me annoyed. And it’s a loooong month. Somehow, it is almost over. Bringing us Read more…
February 26, 2011
I did most of my growing up in the 90’s. I did a zine. Worked in record stores. Went vegetarian. Fell in love with misfits.. often who listened to The Misfits. Had an amazing record collection. Listened to Riot Grrrl. [Balanced that with Lou Barlow. Balanced that with Unwound.] Music was my Read more…
January 5, 2011
Sometimes there are vegan options in unlikely places. Park Slope’s Puppets Jazz Bar being one of them. A seitan steak sandwich and jazz? Yes. Can I say something about jazz? I enjoy the dance of musical elements that is jazz, enjoy watching inflated cheeks and pursed lips on brass, music Read more…
July 7, 2010
Home has many shapes and forms. This particular evening, in Green River, Wyoming, it came in the form of the Coachman Inn, yes, but more the huge sky and rock formations that surrounded the cluster stop on the way to the great Flaming Gorge. But morning brought us back onto Read more…
October 10, 2009
July 20, 2009
In Chicago again for the Pitchfork Music Festival I realized I kinda, like, love Chicago.ጠBut moving onward to food, something far more translatable to the written word… I took the opportunity to squeeze in some vegan eats in before, between and after musical acts. As was the case last Read more…
July 1, 2009
When I was a tween watching Headbangers Ball, I internalized the possibility that long-haired metal guys could infiltrate my daily life and save me from the tedium, save me from, say, school, or an arguing father. It seemed completely rational to me that Twisted Sister might show up to help Read more…
May 19, 2009
1.) Lust Lust (Latin, Cupidita), or lechery, is usually thought of as excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. Dante’s criterion was excessive love of others, which therefore rendered love and devotion to God as secondary. Mega-D.I.L.F. Panda Bear, Terminal 5, NYC (photo: Joseph “Whoa Whoa Whoa” Roth c/o Eat My Shots.) 2.) Read more…
May 14, 2009
Animal Collective hosted an enormous party for 3,000 of their disciples at Terminal 5 last night. The show- from the third floor balcony, next to the 7 foot speakers and above the undulating sea of fans- was awesome. Not so much as in “radical dude!” but as in I was in awe the Read more…
February 13, 2009
Happy Valentine’s Day!  Red Heart Cutters Red Metal, Luna Mortis‘s Brian Little Red Dresses Red Car Bumper Chained Red Red Route New York City Red Tomato Red Cowboy Snowboot Red
February 9, 2009
The Brooklyn Academy of Music‘s Howard Gilman Opera House is a wonderful place to see a show. Even more so, to see the instrumental bliss of New Mexico’s Beirut and their cacophony of accordion, trumpets, ukulele, and glockenspiels. And even more so, to see the amazing band supported by the Vassar Read more…
January 27, 2009
I think the Almighty Sound is a band from Minneapolis. Despite several webpages I am still not sure. Anyhow, they created 2001: A Spiritualized Odyssey, unique film project that pairs Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with the J. Spaceman’s space rock.  The coupling is a fantastic fit, a higher brow Wizard Read more…
January 21, 2009
In the basement and auditorium in Good Shepard School in the high reaches of Manhattan’s northern-most neighborhood, I partook in a wonderfully unique experience: the Golden Music Festival, an annual collection of Balkan music, dance and art. Inside the monotone school in Inwood I was transported to the streets of Read more…
January 10, 2009
2009 Resolution #1: Hear more new music. Fresh songs for fresh memories. I miss buying music. Music you can delicately pull from an lp sleeve, lay gently on a record player, wait the 2 seconds of cracklin’. I miss spending long hours in record shops. Those priorities, those discretionary funds. Read more…
