Janae Says...

OK you silly friends of mine who didn't want to "waste" money on a band you didn't know. You've all just missed out on the show of your life! Last night's concert at In the Venue was fabulous! The show started with a few songs from Alexa Wilkinson. She was way funny and witty. I very much enjoyed her--she's a talented girl. Check her out . Some things she did with her voice reminded me of Jewel. Ingrid Michaelson is probably my new favorite female artist. She's very similar to Regina Spektor in some ways. Her performance was literally flawless. She was a lot of fun. It boggles my mind how people like this probably don't ever get seen. If she were to audition on American Idol, I don't even think she'd get past the producers. Is that weird? I hear the top 24 mess up, go flat, go sharp, forget words, and pick terrible songs. And then I hear someone like Ingrid with an amazing voice, who stays on perfect pitch ALL the time, and I wonder how per...

You know, I’m a believer in the idea that this world is becoming increasingly alienating. We have more forms of transportation and communication than ever before—planes, trains, automobiles should make it so we go places, see things, meet people—interconnect. Instead we use these things to get us from point A to point B—as quickly as possible, might I add. We have more ways of communicating than ever before—instant messaging, text messaging, cellular phones, e-mail. We can talk to our friends with the simple click of a button, no matter how far apart we are. We also have more portable entertainment. My religion professor, Brother Bott, tells us we are killing ourselves with our “iPods and mp3-4-5s and text messaging.” I couldn’t agree more. What got me wanting to write about this was that I saw Brother Bott’s concern proven. Case in point, I was walking to Spanish class yesterday and I saw a guy walking out of the JKB. He looked to his left and saw somebody he knew walking into the bui...