Father John Misty and my bum leg. Last photo courtesy The Washington Post. Video from the show at The 9:30 Club performance, not too far from my vantage point. Drama aside, Father John Misty puts on an amazing show. His voice is just as good as on the album, but he’s more sarcastic and snarky…
When I was a sophomore in high school, a senior asked me to go to Prom with him. I went to a relatively small high school for the area (fewer than 1,000 students) and there wasn’t a Junior Prom, so going to Prom as an underclassman was a pretty exciting thing. It was also exciting…
When I was in high school I obsessed over certain bands and singers. Sometimes it was because their lyrics spoke to me, their beats could make me dance all night… but usually it was because of image. Some hot guy mourning over a girl, a badass woman with a nose ring singing about female empowerment….
I wrote about this exercise last week, and have been thinking about it a lot. What WOULD my 80-year-old self say to my 38-year-old self? Dear Young Alison. You asked for my advice, well here you go! Sleep more. Walk more, you’ll need that endurance and strength to get to this age. Spend less time…
Close your eyes and think about your 15-year-old self. If you could go back in time and give her some advice, what would it be? It gets better? Don’t be so hard on yourself. Focus more on books than boys? You are beautiful, give it a year or two and the rest of the world…
I’m not going to become a lifestyle blog, but I have read and seen and listened to some pretty fantastic and interesting things lately (and some not so awesome but popular things) and wanted to share. My friend Nicole calls her music reviews All Up in My Earholes and I love that; this is my…
Do you love blogging your personal style but don’t know how to get your blog off the ground? Do you find blogging fun but know nothing about coding, Photohop, and the technical aspects of blogging? Are you a brand new blogger and unsure how to make your blog look the ways other blogs look? You…
I can’t imagine wearing boots to a music festival! I saw your post on Inforoo saying you wear them but it seems so hot I plan to wear some TOMS what’s the benefit of boots?-family: I know you’ve been to music festivals before, what do you recommend for shoes? I’ve been to Bonnaroo several times,…
There’s a lot of aspects of social media that I like, one big one is the special occasions like Follow Friday (#FF on Twitter) and Throwback Thursday (#TBT on both Twitter and Instagram). Throwback Thursday is awesome because you see pictures of those you follow from years ago. I especially love seeing fashion bloggers from…