She’s a hurricane in all kind of weather

I am sick of winter and sick of school, and although both are almost over all I can do is dream of our annual pilgrimage to Florida where I plan to do nothing more than lay under a beach umbrella every day with a book NOT required for my degree.

Going to iFest this weekend. I’ve actually never been (I know, shameful) so I’m going now and I’m gonna write about it for work. The theme this year is the Caribbean, so Chris Gray and I wrote our weekly HSSS on music inspired by the archipelago. Calypso, ska, exotica.

In the story I obsess about Tacita Dean, the very best Beach Boys song and how I only came to learn in my 20s that Buster Poindexter was David Johansen.

You already know how I feel about Julie Andrews, but Petula Clark is awesome. Read about her controversial duet with Belafonte here.