Posted in Culture, Life, Music, New York, Paris, Travel, Weather, tagged East Coast, Fred Segal, In-N-Out burgers, Kitson's, Los Angeles, Mexican food, mixing, NYC, Paris, recording, strip malls, sunshine, The Grove, Walk of Fame, West Coast on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, actually, downtown LA. This is where I’m mixing my record. We’ve started working on it and it already sounds great—I’m very excited!
It’s been almost two years since I’ve been in LA and coming from Paris now, I really see the difference between East and West Coast. People generally are more open here, friendlier, than [...]
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Posted in Culture, France, Life, Music, New York, Paris, Weather, blogs, tagged argots, blogging, French teacher, Gimme One, jetlag, LA, La Fleche D'Or, Los Angeles, Maggie Kim, models, music video, Myspace, NYC, Olivier, Paris, Place de la Concorde, slang, velib on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Funny how life catches up with you and then you believe there’s no time for the important things—like blogging!
Just landed in NYC last night and am jetlagged so up at 6 am. Plus I’m staying at a friend’s place which is wall-to-wall windows so I imagine the break-of-dawn wakeup is inevitable.
What’s been going on…
1) Show [...]
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Posted in Advice, Celebrity, Culture, Dating, Life, Love, Movies, New York, News, Paris, Relationships, Sex, blogs, tagged Alyssa Shelasky, blogs, Carrie Bradshaw, Channeling Carrie, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Dating, dating columnist, Dating Diarist, Dear Abby, fabulous, fame, gawker.com, Henry Kissinger, Hester Prynne, homewrecker, Internet, Julia Allison, Maggie Kim, Manolos, martinis, Mr. Big, MSN, new york times, one-night stands, Paris, private life, Ralph Fiennes, real-life, rich and famous, scarlet letter, Sex, Sex and the City, Sex and the City movie trailer, slut, snarky, The Other Woman, wedding, writer on Monday, March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There was an article in the New York Times this weekend about the latest crop of Carrie Bradshaw-wannabes, who chronicle their dating lives and hope to land their own Mr. Big. The article made me smile because for as long as Sex and the City has been around, so have a slew of “real-life” Carries, [...]
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Posted in Advice, Celebrity, Culture, Life, TV, blogs, dreams, tagged American culture, Beauty, bellydance, blog, Celebrity, Culture, ego identification, fame, Hard Candy album cover, John Mayer, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, mediocrity, metaphysical, Miss Turkey, Myspace, Oprah, paparazzi, Paris Hilton, self-consciousness, self-help, society, wealth on Friday, March 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I came across a post on John Mayer’s blog this morning. In it, he talks about the disease of self-consciousness, although what I think he’s really talking about is the over-reaching effects of ego identification.
We live in a culture that celebrates mediocrity and he’s right when he says that we’ve all grown up being told [...]
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Posted in Advice, Celebrity, Culture, Desire, France, Friends, Life, Music, Relationships, Sex, Sports, Technology, tagged A New Earth, artist, Asian, blogs, boozing, Celebrity, connection, Eckhart Tolle, ego, enlightenment, evolution, Facebook, fame, famous, France, Friends, image, Maggie Kim, Maggie Roxx, making love, marriage, musician, Myspace, New Age, Oprah, Paris, passion, performer, personality, recording, relatives, Sex, slut, spiritual, stalking, Web 2.0, websites, wedding on Thursday, March 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m reading A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (yes, I know Oprah’s big on it right now.) Anyway, I find the book rather interesting when it comes to ideas of ego, enlightenment and evolution. It’s worth picking up, if you like the whole New Age-y spiritual thing.
Yesterday, I read this sentence in the book, “The [...]
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Posted in France, Life, Music, Paris, Politics, Sports, tagged Alps, black diamonds, cold, democratic primaries, flu, herbal remedy, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Mountain, Ohio, Paris, political, president, presidential candidate, recording, sickness, singing, skiing, studio, Texas, the Obama Delusion, Umcka, Val d'Isere, vocals, whiplash on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
That about sums up my week. After that last political blog (and the subsequent flurry of comments), I was knocked out by the cold/flu/sinus thing that just about everyone in the world seemed to have. BUT I found this great German-by-way-of-South Africa remedy in Whole Foods called Umcka. I recommend it to anyone who’s still [...]
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Posted in Advice, Dating, Fashion, Food & Drink, France, Friends, Life, Love, New York, Relationships, Uncategorized, tagged alone, bitterness, Costa Rica, couple, crackberry, Dating, divorce, engagement, fadeout, frenemy, Friends, gay, girlfriends, go-away wedding, guys, Jimmy Choo, Life, lonely, Love, marriage, married, moving, New York, Nosara, passive-aggressive, sensitivity, single, straight, wedding, wedding drama, wedding planning on Sunday, February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
My (first) wedding was in Costa Rica in December. I arranged everything when it came to where everyone was staying, meals, drinks, activities, the wedding itself, for one week for 20 people. (If you’ve ever done something comparable, you know how difficult it is.) All people essentially had to do was buy a plane ticket [...]
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Posted in Advice, Culture, Dating, Fashion, France, Friends, Life, Love, New York, Relationships, tagged alone, bitterness, Costa Rica, couple, crackberry, Dating, divorce, engagement, fadeout, frenemy, Friends, gay, girlfriends, go-away wedding, guys, Jimmy Choo, Kim Cattrall, Life, lonely, Love, marriage, married, moving, New York, passive-aggressive, sensitivity, Sex and the City, single, straight, wedding on Sunday, February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I have amazing guy friends. Across the board, my male friends (gay, straight, coupled, single) have always been kind, supportive, non-judgmental and all-around cool, treating me with plenty of love and respect. But for some reason, I haven’t had as much luck with my girlfriends. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got some wonderful girlfriends [...]
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Posted in Desire, Life, Love, Music, Relationships, tagged album, anger, bitterness, Desire, google, hope, longing, Love, Love Like Everyone, Maggie Kim, men, Myspace, NYC, Pandora's Box, record, recording, romance, songwriting, YouTube on Sunday, February 17, 2008 | No Comments »
For those of you who don’t know, I’m hard at work on a new album. It’s an album of lovesongs called Love Like Everyone and it’s about love in all its various incarnations: desire, hope, longing, romance, bitterness, anger. So nope, not all sappy tunes, though there are a couple. (You can hear a demo [...]
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Posted in Celebrity, Culture, France, Life, Movies, Music, Relationships, tagged biological clock, conditioning, dreams, Ellen Page, France, Hard Candy, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Juno, Love, Movies, Oscars, romantic, teen pregnancy on Saturday, February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I just saw the teen pregnancy (and so much more) flick Juno. I know I’m a little behind, but I’ve been in France! What a fantastic movie. Ellen Page is remarkable and ridiculously talented, but anyone who saw Hard Candy knows that. She certainly deserving of the Oscar nomination, if not the win. But considering [...]
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