I actually am well on my way to legitimacy

Something's in retrograde, I'm sure of it. Inconvenient and downright gross things keep happening, though it was way worse for the car behind than it was for us.

So a couple of weeks ago I had the great good fortune to hear Arcade Fire's violinist Sarah Neufeld play a couple of tracks from her forthcoming album. Of course she is prodigiously talented, like all Canadians.

Here is the title track Hero Brother:

you remind me of you on ambien

What a musical month is May! I'm going to David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's experimental musical about Imelda Marcos "Here Lies Love" on Saturday, co-hosting The Kitchen's gala to honor Brian Eno on Tuesday (at which Byrne is going to perform along with other up-and-comers like Michael Stipe) and then hoping to make it over to London for Thursday's album-launch gig by my new band-crush Savages. They're an all-girl punk quartet that sounds like the bastard 20-something daughter of Siouxsie Sioux and The Raincoats.

Here is "She Will", and after you hear it, YOU WILL be a fan of Savages...

I mean. If the universe isn't trying to tell us something.

C'est Pacques, et je suis très content d'être chez ma mère avec mes fils. Mais quelqu'une me manques.

Here's "Promise Me" by DC-based Misun. My new favorite song, as Orlando knows...

After that, Chantal Ackerman is coming to a Kitchen near you, and I can't wait! 

"Je, tu, il, elle" - Chantal Ackerman, 1976