The First Gamergirl Song is Here January 26, 2009

As many have heard from me over the course of the last year, I have developed a curious habit: I’ve been writing original songs. Original songs about video games. (I’m just as baffled as you are–apparently the Muses have a “no refunds, no exchanges” policy)

I eventually decided I was having too much fun not to share them, so I enlisted the aid of the charming and incredibly talented Jeremy Lev, who produced and played guitar on this first song.

I’m having so much fun, in fact, that more songs are on the way and music videos are being planned as we speak. But to start with, here’s the first recorded song from my Gamergirl cycle.

Everyone tells you to write what you know. Clearly, this is dangerous advice.

I Like ‘Em Pretty (the Fighting Game Song)

Read Persepolis January 26, 2009

The girl in the veil

I finally read “Persepolis,” the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi that got so much attention two years back (and which was adapted into the Cannes-honored animated film, which I have yet to see). I picked it up during my Christmas shopping spree (wherein my family went nuts at a Borders which was closing and selling everything at 40% off)

A Life in TIME January 6, 2009

The (recently added?) treasure trove of old Time magazine articles that turn up in google searches is on my unofficial list of favorite things. I was link-wandering today. I  started at the Duchess of Windsor, leading me to a post devoted to an artist/designer named Drian, who painted the Duchess. The post included the following paragraph:

“For the beautiful Audrey James, a British heiress whose husbands included the American mercantile magnate Marshall Field III, Drian painted a fantastic mirrored screen depicting a band of black jazz musicians. (It was later owned by James’s friend Eleanor Lambert, the founder of the Best-Dressed List.)”

I decided Audrey James sounded interesting, and while information on her is thin on the ground (apparently she shares a name with a porn star, good thing I didn’t do an image search first), including her husband, Mr. Field III, yields a bit more.