And in the dark we will take off our clothes (Philadelphia, PA) |
The drive from Brooklyn to Philadelphia should take two hours. For us, it took seven. We got onto the Jersey Turnpike-- me, Gill, and Nathan-- around twelve-thirty and saw the Statue of Liberty righ...
Posted by Nick Jaina on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:01:00 PST |
Catch your plane right on time (Brooklyn, NY) |
When you're going to New York City and you call friends to see if you can stay with them, there's always that point-- about seven seconds into your telephone conversation-- where they always say the s...
Posted by Nick Jaina on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:10:00 PST |
Did I forget to mention Davis? (Davis, CA) |
Michael Leahy is a tall man. (And I assume that I am like most people in that I consider anyone taller than me to be "tall" and anyone shorter than me to be "short". But then, I'm exactly six feet t...
Posted by Nick Jaina on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:10:00 PST |
IN A WORLD.... (Oakland, CA) |
To what extent does being a writer prevent someone from experiencing and enjoying the world? Often the traits that lead to being a good writer-- ability to listen, attention to detail, sober-mindedne...
Posted by Nick Jaina on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:55:00 PST |
What will we do when the curtain falls? (Los Angeles, CA) |
There is nothing funny about Los Angeles. Any movie or tv show getting made there always turns out not funny. Even if funny people are involved and they have funny ideas, somehow in the middle of th...
Posted by Nick Jaina on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:36:00 PST |
We're fighting a war we can't win (San Francisco, CA) |
San Francisco in the warm sun of early February... I used to live there in 1996 and it's where I had my first attempts at live performance. There was a coffee shop just off the corner of Haight and A...
Posted by Nick Jaina on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:18:00 PST |
Don't pull the mask off the Lone Ranger (Sacramento, CA |
When I toured California a year ago, I asked everyone I met where they thought the border between Northern and Southern California would be if we were for some reason forced to split the state in two....
Posted by Nick Jaina on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:29:00 PST |
Everything's Ending Here (Coquille, OR) |
Touring is generally not the glorious venture one would hope it would be. I'll tell you that I'm touring California for two weeks and you'll think of the sunshine and the goldenness and you'll ignore...
Posted by Nick Jaina on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:35:00 PST |
I'm playing a show tonight (1/17) |
I'm playing a show tonight at the Doug Fir with my friend Myshkin. I met her seven years ago in New Orleans when she was trying to sell her old school bus. It hadn't run in months and was parked in ...
Posted by Nick Jaina on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:27:00 PST |
Podcasts! NPR and Oregonian! |
I've recently done two podcasts, one with NPR's All Songs Considered, and one with Portland's daily paper, The Oregonian. NPR:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=665
6180The Oregonia...
Posted by Nick Jaina on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:22:00 PST |
