Greece At Last!
As I probably mentioned to many of you who I talked to before my trip, a huge part of this trip was my desire to go to Greece. After seeing pictures of Greece from my friends Clara & Kyle’s trip last year, I knew I had to go. I’ve only been in Athens for a...
Nice? That’s Nice.
Bonjour from Nice! We arrived in France yesterday night, and though I was sad to leave Italy, there’s a bit of familiarity to France for me. I realized just a few days ago that being in Italy was my first time alone in a country where I don’t speak the language, and I managed just...
More from Florence!
A few lines from my journal before I head off on a walking tour of Florence… “Rome is beautiful. The pastel-colored buildings are so much more inviting than America’s monotone monstrosities. Piazza Navona reminds me a lot of Montmartre, with the painters and cafés. Trevi Fountain also stunning — too bad we’re not allowed to jump...
Ciao from Florence!
I don’t have much time — I somehow managed to spend 22 of my 30 minutes looking at e-mails… Spent the last two days in Rome, which I absolutely fell in love with. Saw the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Colisseum, though I didn’t go inside. I spent a lot of time in the area right...
Peace Out, U.S.A.
Well, friends, family & readers, today I’m leaving to roam around the Mediterranean for about a month. There was a lot more I wanted to write about before I left — Harvey Danger, the albums that got me through finals — but it’s just not going to happen before my flight leaves in 2-3 hours....
Like A (Retrospective On) Rolling Stone
I know it’s old news at this point, but I am going to write a brief description of the Rolling Stone 1000th issue party, because there were a few points of interest. They were: 1. I saw Marilyn Manson, Moby & Andre 3000. Apparently Ethan Hawke (who, once upon a time met me and said...
April Music, Part 2.
This past Monday night, I went to see personal favorites Two Gallants (official, myspace) at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. They put on what was probably one of the best shows I’ve ever seen – including a segue from “Steady Rollin'” into “Two Days Short Tomorrow” (my favorite song from What The Toll Tells and my...
Internship: Days Fifteen + Sixteen
As I’ve told most of you, the big news this week is that casting just began for the MTV/Rolling Stone reality show I’ve been writing about. I had figured that, since it begins taping in June, casting had already been completed – but apparently I was wrong. The lucky contestants will be staff writers for...
Internship: Days Thirteen + Fourteen
Fridays are usually my day off from RS. This week was a closing week (for those of you not in the biz, this means the magazine was getting ready to go to print / all the pages & articles were on deadline / that kind of thing), it was Spring Break for one of the...
Internship: Days Nine – Twelve
As you Gawker.com readers know, the big news around Wenner Media / RS is that Jann & his partner, Matt, will be fathers. It’s kind of sad that I get most of the good Wenner gossip from Gawker… Still, I did hear an interesting item while transcribing the other day – someone brought up a...
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