If you’re like me, maybe you got a lot of books for Christmas. I know I’ll be kept busy for the next few months – the parents sent me Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible to peruse for new heart-stopping butter-filled recipes, the boyfriend got me The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and his mom got me the entire Hunger Games trilogy. As if that wasn’t enough, my parents got me a subscription to Angry Robot Books,...

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I wrote a song today. I’m not sure if or when anyone will actually hear it, I’m kind of considering saving it for my first trip busking instead of attempting to record, but what’s important is: I wrote a song. I was listening to an interview with Lisa Hannigan some time ago, and that paired with the Swell Season documentary, both of them sort of hinted at this thing, you know, where you write a song based on a fixed moment in...

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Somehow, despite how busy Nick and I have both been lately, we managed to escape to the city yet again – this time to Milwaukee to see one of the limited showings of The Swell Season, the all black-and-white documentary film about the band of the same name. Nick and I discovered the Swell Season sort-of by accident; our exploration of the Irish music scene always seemed to bring up a few of the same names, including the famed Glen Hansard,...

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Remember that blog post from awhile ago where I said I was embarrassed that I hesitated to buy tickets to Lisa Hannigan’s show in Chicago? Yeah, no. Strike that. Post-Concert, I can now upgrade (downgrade?) my status to officially mortified. The trip getting into the city was easy enough, Nick and I learned our way around the “L Trains” pretty quickly, including a hands-on crash course on what you do and don’t do. And...

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It’s about time you all knew about my television obsession, if you didn’t already. I love TV. I love TV shows. I especially love TV shows that broadcast online the night after so I don’t have to deal with the Black Box of Doom popping up on my absurd island television. Among these shows is Glee. So I was doing some thinking today and decided that there are a few songs I would just love, love, love to see them do – in no...

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Today’s post is going to be short and sweet to attempt to draw some attention to something Leslie and I were discussing today! We’d like to host a Tweet-Up here on Ocracoke Island! If you’re not familiar with a Tweet Up, it’s basically an opportunity for twitter users from an area to get together and socialize – and maybe see who else you know uses Twitter! It’s a great tool for both personal networking and...

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