NOVEL ATTEMPTS by ashraya gupta

Also, recorded three songs during Kitchen Cabinet practice tonight:
Changed So Very Much
Autumn
Annabelle

We were watching Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert—when Obama’s picture came up with the words “President Elect”, I waited for the punchline. Then I changed the channel to CNN. I couldn’t quite believe it. People started cheering out of their windows. A car passed, with someone riding on top of it. We rushed outside and [...]

The girl of three first names and I wrote this song a little while back. On Sunday we recorded a rough live version, and then today, I woke up to this in my inbox:
Never Enough
This sounds exactly like the music I wanted to make when I was a high school girl. Awesome.
Now, two midterms to [...]

I don’t have a working microphone input on my computer, or I would spend far longer on these songs. As it is, I record snatches of ideas on my hand-held tape recorder or with Papa’s digital camera. Now, back to you, Wallace Stevens.

P.S. Rob Trump, who is in my Wallace Stevens seminar, and maintains [...]

Anna: I was like, “I’ll play with Mike and Rob cause…Hey, why not? But I’m not going to DO music.”
Me: Yeah. You guys are like the guy I shouldn’t date but can’t help sleeping with.
Anna: You ARE dating us.
The Kitchen Cabinet tours Europe!

The Cabinettes Live at the Silent Barn

http://ashraya.muxtape.com/
Boy, am I tired.

Remember when this happened?
We’re at it again:

The Kitchen Cabinet presents: The Cabinettes Live at the Silent Barn
Monday, July 21st. Doors: 7 pm. Show: 8 pm. 915 Wyckoff Avenue.
With: Dreaming Kids, Data Dog, and Megafaun
Also, another All Things Forgotten coming soon. It’s tangentially related to this:

Well, sort of.

Admittedly, I did not think about Martha & the Vandellas at all whilst writing this. Mostly, I think it was Billie Holiday’s version of “April in Paris”—chestnuts in blossom replaced by taxi cabs sighing, obviously. Really, it was my torturous subway ride to and from band practice on Wednesday. That’s three sentences beginning with adverbs. [...]