VA Writing Trip

The Snow Doesn’t Stop The Music!

This past weekend, Ryan Downing (from Jonas Sees In Color) & I trekked over to Washington DC/Northern Virginia for some writing sessions. By some miracle, we both got there with relatively no fuss, despite a huge blizzard brewing in NYC at the time! We don’t let Mother Nature stop us!

As always with these writing trips, it was work work work, nose to the grindstone. BUT that doesn’t mean that we didn’t have fun. Ryan’s co-writer & his manager were super hospitable, welcoming us both into their home studios for these sessions. And their families were at once amazed and curious as to what we were up to. HITS, that’s what!

I can’t play the songs for you just yet, but here’s a sneak lyrical peak at one of the HOTT TRAX that they came up with this weekend:

“She gets why boy bands are always hated
But she swears the Backstreet Boys are underrated
And they are, they so are, I’ll say they are
If that gets me her love”

Curious to hear more? Good! Come back here soon to hear the tracks.

Without wax,

Maureen

Compost Cookies

COOKIES NOM NOM NOM.

I know the Cookie Monster has decided that cookies are a sometime snack. But I would definitely be okay with them being an all the time snack, especially if they are compost cookies from Momofuku Milk Bar (13th St & 2nd Ave).

I know compost + cookie = delicious is not an equation that sounds right, but trust me it is. This cookie could quite possible be the best cookie I have ever had. It has pretzels, potato chips, coffee, oats, butterscotch, chocolate chips (though I couldn’t taste the coffee).

Milk Bar also serves up some soft serve genius, cereal milk soft serve. I was too intrigued not try some, and I am happy I did.

I love Milk Bar, Anderson Cooper loves Milk Bar, so what are you waiting for?

Anderson Cooper on Milk Bar (Starts around 3:50 mark)

Videos we like - "Giving Up The Gun"

Normally I do not like tripping. I look silly, and some times I hurt myself, but I really enjoyed stumbling across the new Vampire Weekend video for “Giving Up the Gun”.

It is funny, has some pretty amazing cameos, as well as good cinematography. When this all happens and it works with the music, well that is something I like a lot.

The Snow Doesn't Stop the Music

This past weekend, Ryan Downing (from Jonas Sees In Color) & I trekked over to Washington DC/Northern Virginia for some writing sessions. By some miracle, we both got there with relatively no fuss, despite a huge blizzard brewing in NYC at the time! We don’t let Mother Nature stop us!

As always with these writing trips, it was work work work, nose to the grindstone. BUT that doesn’t mean that we didn’t have fun. Ryan’s co-writer & his manager were super hospitable, welcoming us both into their home studios for these sessions. And their families were at once amazed and curious as to what we were up to. HITS, that’s what!

I can’t play the songs for you just yet, but here’s a sneak lyrical peak at one of the HOTT TRAX that they came up with this weekend:

“She gets why boy bands are always hated
But she swears the Backstreet Boys are underrated
And they are, they so are, I’ll say they are
If that gets me her love”

Curious to hear more? Good! Come back here soon to hear the tracks.

Without wax,

Maureen