JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

The last time U2 released an album, I wasn’t a blogger. I was a bit less aware of the world than I am now. I wasn’t aware of All That You Can’t Leave Behind until it took over the Grammys. The most I listen to the radio is whenever I’m put on hold. So I [...]

[Read more →]

Today’s newspapers contained photos of two different people we know. The Bainbridge Review’s entertainment section featured our neighbor Elizabeth Stoyanovich conducting the Bremerton Symphony whose season is starting soon.
Last year we had fun at a Family Concert. This season two Family Concerts are offered: one in October and the other in February. This one [...]

[Read more →]

Why I am a groupie…Okay, I’m not quite a groupie as I haven’t yet followed Scott and Christine Dente on tour by camping out in my car (although I’ve been tempted…). I haven’t yet tried to sneak backstage at a concert so my kids and I could play with their kids (although that sounds like [...]

[Read more →]

Last night I took the girls to the symphony. The local county youth symphony. I heard about it from one of my homeschool yahoogroups: “free family entertainment”. Mozart, Mussorgsky, Pachelbel for free?! Hey, we’re going…
Ted had already made a commitment to help a friend so I took the girls by myself. A bit of an [...]

[Read more →]

Just the other day I was making a list in my mind of all the Christine Dente songs that talk about time. Then I checked her web site and saw that she has posted another journal entry, this one about time, inspired by her fortieth birthday and woven from her lyrics.

Children are brilliant refractors of [...]

[Read more →]

It’s an appropriate time to think of Courtney Love: tomorrow marks the ten year anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death. An article in today’s Seattle Times Kurt Cobain: a life 10 years gone describes how he painted:

In 1992, at the height of his fame, he moved to Los Angeles, a time less is known about. [...]

[Read more →]

On Friday Dave Winer posted “Courtney Love’s incredible story about the math of music that came public in the middle of the Napster heyday. It was a must-read then, and now.”
So I clicked. And read:
(excerpts)
Now artists have options. We don’t have to work with major labels anymore, because the digital economy is [...]

[Read more →]

Gone, like yesterday is gone
like history is gone,
the world keeps spinnin on
you’re going, going, gone,
like summer break is gone,
like saturday is gone,
just try and prove me wrong, you pretend like you’re immortal
(you’re immortal) you’re immortal (you’re immortal) ha-ah
we are not infinite we are not permanent nothing’s immediate
we’re so comforted in our accomplishments look at our [...]

[Read more →]

According to a study released by the mayor’s office a few weeks ago, Seattle’s music industry produces $650 million in revenues a year and employs 8,700 people in the city, more than the biotech industry.
Those numbers include my brother who has a day job but at night plays with Spiral. He’s the [...]

[Read more →]

Abigail our five year old has been discovering some old songs playing on the radio. She’s particulary fond of an Amy Grant one, one that makes me remember Life Before Marriage. When it comes on the radio, Abigail exclaims “Oh it’s this one!” and then starts dancing around her bedroom. It’s as if the song [...]

[Read more →]