Video Blog:How To Wake A Teenager

Just how do you wake up a lazy teen on a weekend before noon? With a youtube video of a screaming woman, naturally.

A Poem: Cosmic Soul

the cosmic soul

is me, is you, is everywhere.

united as one.

reaching, stretching, growing, 

open your heart center.

stretch to the sky and

wonder at the infinite void.

the stars above, twinkling, 

they let me know how small my being is.

we are lucky to be here,

to breathe on this planet.

to have been given life at all.

and we are so arrogant to assume we just belong. 

we endlessly take and never give back,

to our one true mother, gaia. 

but we are all connected and only taking from ourselves. 

I want to be set free.

I want my heart to blossom like a lotus.

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Concert Review: Radiohead

I had the immense pleasure and joy of seeing Radiohead perform live this past week, June 6th, at Blossom Music Center. It was a  beautiful summer night for a show, warm and breezy. Radiohead played an epic two hour show, coming back for not one, but two encores! They sounded better than ever, adding a second drummer to the mix (Portishead's Clive Deamer.) They didn't just play a rehearsed show. They played from the heart. The energy was palpable. Soulful and intense. They changed up the set list and added new songs from the previous shows. They debuted "Like Spinning Plates" that night. A favorite of mine! We were treated to old favorites like "Paranoid Android" and "Exit Music For A Film," as well as new tracks like "Identikit" and " Staircase." If the music itself wasn't enough, they outdid themselves with the visual light show. They had 12 different screens floating above the stage, each focused on a different band member. Flashing lights and floating screens provided for a bit of sensory overload, but in just the right way. At one point, Thom repeatedly said "thank you" into the mic and it echoed and reverbed out into the crowd and into the evening, above the dusk sky. Thank you, Thom! What an amazing experience. For a minute there, I lost myself.

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The Set List:

Bloom

15 Step

Kid A

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

Staircase

I Might Be Wrong

The Gloaming

Separator

Like Spinning Plates(tour debut)

Morning Mr. Magpie

Climbing Up the Walls

Identikit

Lotus Flower

There There

Feral

Idioteque

FIRST ENCORE:

House of Cards

Myxomatosis

Supercollider

Reckoner

SECOND ENCORE:

Give Up the Ghost

Exit Music For a Film

Paranoid Android