2 posts tagged “spin”
My friend and frequent character in this blog Jeff Klein has a nice writeup on Spin.com today.
Go there to listen to the track "Sleepwalking" from his forthcoming digitally-released EP I Sing The Body Electric.
Jeff's doing a residency at the Living Room in NYC this month, so go see him and tell him I sent you.
My friend Kyle is in town for business and we met up after I left work. Since Kyle writes for DCist and his own blog Information Leafblower, we talked a lot about blogging and music writing. We discussed being paid (a rare occurence) vs. not being paid (the -ists) as well as being published in print vs. writing online. I was telling him that I wrote for Spin for a very short stint, just contributing blurbs for their back-of-the-book events section, and that the lead time was insane and four months later they still hadn't paid me. Then, lo and behold, look what was in the mailbox when I got home!
As I was driving home I heard Sade's "No Ordinary Love" on the radio for the thousandth time and it really hit me how romantic that line is: this is no ordinary love. So here's the video:
