South America

You may have noticed that lapse on the blog about a month ago. Oh, indeed, was out in the world again. I already posted about it all on Front Psych, so here's just links to all of those posts.

Lollapalooza Brasil - Tomahawk, Flaming Lips, Passion Pit, shitty food, internal panic, and the overall experience of being at a music festival in a country where you don't speak the language.

Sao Paulo - order and progress, street art, Ai Weiwei, Easter Sunday, nightlife, the Wild West, and the subtleties of cross-cultural integration.

Buenos Aires - illness, street fairs, steak, open spaces, catch-22s, Armenian cuisine, and how to avoid getting stabbed on Avenida 9 de Julio.

Ear Relevant

Front Psych completed our top 50 albums of 2012. I'll throw my personal list up here eventually. 

Re-discovered this gem last night. Whatever happened to Kaada anyway?




Also, went to Logan Hardware this week and picked up High Energy Plan by 999. Forgotten punk rock classic:



And now that I have tickets purchased, getting excited about New Year's Eve at the Hideout. Chandeliers and the Eternals. Gonna get weird with it.

Beijing / NYC / Israel / Chicago

Here are links to all of the travel essays I wrote for Frontier Psychiatrist (which we titled "你好, Hello, Shalom") during that crazy five weeks of travel.

Beijing (Part One)
Beijing (Part Two)
Pre-Sandy NYC
Israel (interviews with Yoav, Maya and Kobi)
Chicago