Little Bird

   When I watch Imogen Heap perform "Little Bird" on her Ellipse tour in November 2009, the most sublime serenity swept over my heart. It was as if the entire state of being wedge between a thousand other fanboys and fangirls had obliviated and it was just me and Ms. Heap facing each other alone in a completely black room in which light radiated from we two beings. She was of course playing on her big glass piano, and I stood staring, saying not a thing... To be mesmerized is bliss in a large empty plain.

   At some point I remember falling out of the visceral and into the real. There was this princess in front of me and my friends who wouldn't keep his hands off other people he didn't know. That was real distracting. We weren't sure what we needed to say to him, if indeed we should have said something. Nevertheless, despite this nuisance, I'll never forget that one moment I shared with her as she wax radiant, subtly performing an ephemeral song for my heart.

iMusic, uMusic, he, she, itMusic

   eMusic has truly set the plates spinning. Things used to be much simpler when their selection was clearly limited to mostly independent music. With their recent shift to bring mainstream music at a more affordable price than iTunes, the difficult conundrum of where to go to get music has arisen. eMusic now has practically everything iTunes has, yet this is not always the case. If I want something cheap, I can swing on over to eMusic and download it from there instead of iTunes. Conversely, if there is something I want that only happens to be on iTunes, I can open it up and download it there, even though it will of course cost more per song. My biggest concern right now, however, is that with $9.34 of store credit for iTunes, there is absolutely nothing I am aware of to buy. The nice thing, though, is that this credit will rest very comfortably with my account until I do find something to use it on. I can guarantee, of course, that I won't be using it on Jennifer Knapp's new record. Of this you can be sure.