The problem with cleaning and sorting trash from recycling is when you discover your old magazine collection and end up slumped in a corner reading things you missed the first time around. In the September 2010 issue of Nylon there's a small blurb about an album I had never heard of before called Forget by Twin Shadow.

I like the way Juliet Linderman refers to it: "It's a very rare record that makes you want to simultaneously dance on a rooftop in your underwear and sit in a corner of a dark bar making sexy eyes at strangers, but that's exactly what Twin Shadow's debut Forget inspires."

The man behind Twin Shadow is Dominic Republican-born George Lewis, Jr., who was raised in Florida and now lives in Brooklyn. Grizzly Bear member Chris Taylor, after hearing his amazing voice, signed him to his label, Terrible Records.

And the rest is music history...something incredible to listen (and dance) to while you revel in the wonderful sounds:)

One of my favorite ways to spend Sunday is to catch up on my newspaper and magazine reading. And my favorite magazine is Q, which has a "50 essential tracks section to download," both online and in print.

June's issue has a lot I really enjoyed listening to, though I could only afford to pick three or four:

Q the music Top 50

 I especially like #31...a slow and sad cover of  "You're the One that I Want" (yes, the one from "Grease.")

hear it here

Two songs from the past caught me by surprise this week and sent a flood of memories coursing through my mind that I'd rather forget. Still, once the pain went away I realized how pretty both of them are. The first ("Make It Real" by The Jets) used to sort of annoy me when I was younger, but now I realize it's one of the saddest and most heartfelt songs ever...

The second song ("Somebody" by Depeche Mode) never ever fails to make me fill up with tears, especially if it's not something I put on my iPod, but a song playing on the radio when I least expect it. I think a lot of people might feel this way about "Somebody," even if they're not Depeche Mode fans. The song is so vulnerable and sincere and full of the kind of yearning that only comes with longing for a kind of love that is true and eternal. Of course, it's also the kind of love that's almost impossible to find.

Oh, boy, I'm in a corny and cynical mood at the same time..never a good combo!!:)

so excited Ally Walker is returning to tv in a starring role in another crime show (though, thankfully, this time a crime show with a lighter side!!):

read here

Don't get me wrong, The Profiler was terrific and ahead of its time in exploring the darker side of crime shows, but it could often be a draining experience watching it and Ally Walker (who did such a great job on it) played a woman with a tortured past and present. 

I saw a brand new copy of The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg on the shelf at work the other day and grabbed it out of curiosity, never having heard of the author before.

Boy, am I glad I did. I picked it up again to read last night when I got home and have had trouble putting it down since. Ms. Eisenberg has this amazing talent for writing about things that are seemingly non-eventful (or even downright boring) and making them absolutely riveting.

It's the emotional complexity and the dark humor and the keen observations on life that make this collection unforgettable (at least, so far.)

There is something unnerving about her work, whether it's the mundane interactions between a woman and her new roomate in "Flotsam" or the awkward and taboo relationship between a high school girl and a twenty seven-year-old man in "What it Was Like, Seeing Chris.'