Lost Connect

I focused in and found my core,
But in the process I became
 woefully unhinged,
The stars above leaned down
and spoke to me
they whispered in twinkling voices,
"You need to rest",
they said,
"Its not your time to etch a mark into the sky
yet, Go back, Go back,
reattach yourself to your sphere!"
And so I floated back, drifting spectral
 in the night, like
a dolphin I dove and splashed
 through the atmosphere,
Until I found the connection I had lost

Swing Prom (or Masquerade in Blues)

Last night we had our annual winter quarter swing dance here in Athens, Ohio and it was fantastic.  The dance was entitled Masquerade in Blues, and near everyone was costumed in a festive mask of some sort.  The "Blues" in the title refers to the four hour blues work-shop we had before the actual dance with instruction by Paul Carryer and Sarah Chapman, and the late night blues dance we had from 12:00 am to 3:00am. The dance itself had live music complements of The Royales, a swing-jazz-funk band that kept the energy lively and never dull. I think during the entirety of the dance I probably only sat out 2 songs. In high school I always thought it would be awesome if one of our school dances had a ridiculous explosive band like this and everyone had actually danced, so in some ways it was like having a belated Swing-Prom. It was so much fun and I am glad I spent my entire Saturday dancing.

Miss Julia Nunes

   I have been a fan of the wonderful ukulele-playing, cute song creator Julia Nunes for a few years now (see here  and also more recently here). Over the past few years she has gone from a Youtube sensation, with some of her videos garnering hundreds of thousands of views, some well over a million, to touring with first Ben Folds then Ben Kweller and getting gigs at Bonaroo Music festival.  Today she came out with a brand new music video for her song Stay Awake, from her album "Settle Down" which comes out February 28th, I will be sharing that video with you shortly. Not only is that exciting, but tonight Julia Nunes will be appearing on Conan O'brien tonight on TBS as the musical guest. I am excited, phenomenally so.

Julia Nunes
Stay Awake


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