Current location:	New York
Current mood:	awake
Current music:	Gavin Bryars "After the Requirem"
Entry tags:	life, music, update

back in blog
After a prolonged unjustified hiatus, I'm back to blogging...

Why? Mostly as a platform for reacting to the myriad of experiences in my life, and a way to share recent discoveries in music, film, readings, etc etc etc. I've also discovered that I love reading other people's personal blogs - somehow daily activities of complete strangers or casual acquaintances are often more inexorably fascinating than novels by master writers. Call me a voyeur...

And once in a while, I'll engage in shameless self-promotion and bragposting. Because... why not? :)

Life update: So in the last couple of months, thesoupasonic  and I got back to New York after a 4-month soiree in Budapest and beyond. Some of our stay in Budapest was documented at barmaljova.blogspot.com. We spent the first month catching up with friends and adjusting to the culinary shock to the system - our neighborhood has more Thai restaurants per square foot than all of Budapest, and a few more cropped up while we were away. One of these days, I'll blog on my favorite Thai restaurants in NY.

On the bragging front, we played a sold-out show at Joe's Pub in mid-January. It was a double bill with my band ROMASHKA and Ljova's new project THE VJOLA CONTRABAND. Ljova got a tremendous review in Newsday for the show, and Romashka was featured in the Global Rhythm Magazine, which favorably compared me with Edith Piaf , oui oui :) And the New York Observer featured a beautiful shot of both of our bands on the eve of the show (see above, photo by Nina Roberts).

And for the romantics among you, the New York Observer also featured our engagement story in their Love Beat column, see here:
http://www.observer.com/20070212/20070212_Daisy_Carrington_love_thelovebeat.asp

So that's the happy news so far. I'm enjoying a light semester at school, and devoting much time to all the activities I won't have time for in just a few short months - swimming, reading, surfing the web, walking, shopping.

And finally, a music recommendation: a wonderful recording of Gavin Bryars "After the Requiem" by Bill Frisell and members of the Balanescu Quartet. It'll seduce you into a meditative state, and caress you into blissful solitude. A cross between Philip Glass and Messiaen, with a healthy dose of electric guitar.