Sometimes things way outside your direct contact can affect you - or maybe effect, I could never get those straight. A recent boing boing post announced Pam Bricker’s death. I had never heard of her, but I saw that she sang for Thievery Corporation, who I really dig. So it just is one of those things that brings you down - even though I didn’t even know this person, I was touched somehow by her voice. It’s sad and amazing at the same time. I hope I can have that same effect on someone, somehow, someday.

She sang the great “Lebanese Blonde” from The Mirror Conspiracy and “All That We Perceive” from The Richest Man in Babylon. It’s really great stuff. I didn’t know any of her more jazzy stuff, but will check it out.

I highly recommend the Thievery Corporation stuff. Probably my favorite “downtempo” artists - jazzy, worldly, loungey… check it out.

Also, turns out I went to CCM with David Pescovitz, a writer for boing boing. We were both in the Electronic Media program at the same time. Small world, eh? I never finished, but he did.