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Entries from October 2008

Hello! My name is Saferide

October 28th, 2008 No Comments

For my 21st birthday, some friends and I trekked over to the House of Sweden located between the Foggy Bottom and Georgetown sections of Washington, DC. The reason was that indie pop performers Firefox AK and Hello Saferide were performing (a free show). The House of Sweden, which is sort of the cultural arm […]

Tags: Music

Blackberry Luxe Club with DJ Skeet Skeet & Shwayze

October 20th, 2008 No Comments

Not a bad way to spend a Saturday night.

Tags: event

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners - Stick it to McCain

October 15th, 2008 No Comments

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners resides virtually in my back yard and I’ve been meaning to write about them for a bit now. As one of the top independent ad shops in the country, they are responsible for excellent work they produce for clients such as Adobe, Comcast, and Hyundai. The two principles, Jeff Goodby and […]

Tags: Advertising · culture

Hey Champ - Cold Dust Girl

October 15th, 2008 1 Comment

Chicago has the fever! Every time I turn around something else delectable comes out of the Windy City. I could use words like airy, atmospheric and sultry to describe the smooth tunes from electro pop artists Hey Champ. I caught wind of them while sifting through my bulletins on Myspace (Tom please make this […]

Tags: Music

Chocolate Industries vs The Retrospective

October 11th, 2008 No Comments

Wow no updates suck right?  Rejoice! The dry spell is over and here is the first long overdue post. We’ve been fortunate to have our paths cross with a few of the very talented artists on Chocolate Industries straight out of Chicago. Back in September, Alicia and I ventured down to the heart of Boston’s college […]

Tags: Music

Zannel - Twitter on the roids

October 11th, 2008 No Comments

First, explaining to someone what “micro-blogging” is can be a hard and funny task, but a lot of us are doing it every day without knowing it. Besides the ubiquatous staple micro-blogging site Twitter, if you use popular services like Facebook and Myspace and update your “status” you’re essentially micro-blogging. The one difference being that […]

Tags: web2.0 · technology