I'm Alex Nordenson. I'm from Minneapolis (a fantastic city, and no, it's not in the corn fields), I went to college in Boston, spent a semester in Cape Town, South Africa, and am now a resident of New York City. I studied English, but I don't want to be a professor (or unemployed). Crazy huh? I started this blog for a few reasons, but mainly because...

I enjoy sharing things with people. In particular, I enjoy sharing:

Exciting thoughts.
Music.
Enthusiasm.

On this blog, undoubtedly among other undetermined initiatives, I will be sharing these things. You don't necessarily have to grab and take in what I'm sharing, but I'll be leaving it out there for the taking nonetheless. I hope what I share will provide thought and joy to some, but most of all, I hope sharing it will aid me in my endless, menacing struggle with all the stuff there is in this world to think about.

Also, because most of my friends and all of my family don't reside in New York, I'd like to keep them at least partially in the loop. You know.

When was the last time you listened to Patsy Cline? I sat alone at my kitchen table tonight, eating a sloppy “breakfast burrito” I pulled together with a bit of remnant fridge inventory, with PC’s greatest hits spinning in my living room. To be honest, I think it was probably the first time I ever listened to Patsy Cline and actually knew it at the time. Apparently she’s an impassable blue link on music’s Wikipedia page…which must explain why I hear her voice and instantly think - “the 50s.”

Sitting alone with her tonight seemed particularly John-Favreau-in-Swingers of me. What was music like when there weren’t movie cliches like this to lean it on? Just a thought…