SOUNDTRACK: HOSPITALITY-Tiny Desk Concert #212 (April 30, 2012).
Hospitality are a four piece band from New York. They play fairly quiet, kind of delicate music. Most of the songs have a delicately picked out guitar line on the electric guitar and strummed chords on the acoustic. Amber Papini is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist.
“Sleepover” the first song, starts out even more quietly, with Papini picking out notes on the acoustic guitar while singing in what is practically a whisper. There’s an interesting part in the middle where both guitars are picking out melodies and its the bass that is playing the most prominent line of the melody.
“The Birthday” picks things up a bit with a relatively more intense song. The chords are louder and Papini sings more intensely. This song ends with a whole series of “la da de das.” Some songs can’t pull that off, but it works perfectly with this one–especially when the bassist adds harmony vocals–it’s super catchy.
“Betty Wang” opens with just the acoustic guitar and drums as Papini sings. She won me over immediately with the echoed and rising notes of “so shy so shy so shy.” With the electric guitar bursts and rather loud drumming this song is practically raucous.
The band is quite but their melodies are really catchy.
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I was so excited that they were making a continuation of Gilmore Girls. And while it was no doubt hard to live up to all the expectations of all of the fans, I thought the new series was great. It captured the old show very nicely even though everyone had moved on ten years.
I wasn’t expecting a new book from Graham, and certainly not a memoir. But, with some down time, she was able to push this book out as well as doing everything else she’s been doing lately.
For a memoir, this book is a little skimpy (208 pages), and yet, if that’s all she had to say I’m glad it wasn’t padded out with a ton of fluff. Plus, Graham doesn’t tell us everything about everything. She talks about her childhood, about acting, about being single and about Parenthood and Gilmore Girls. It’s all done in what has become Graham’s trademark style (although since we are reading it and not hearing her, the pace is probably much slower). (more…)