Things Making us Late for Work at See Management THIS (ok, LAST) week.

Last Tuesday night had us all wrapped up and running around like madmen, rubbing shoulders and kissing cheeks like Obama in Tallahassee. Started out the night at star photographer Alexi Lubomirski's opening for his new and first book, Transit. The work was beautifully presented in a rotating strip that rippled along the wall, leaving many of the scenesters slack-jawed in admiration. Seen: Jeffrey Graetsch, Frances Tulk-Hart, Ro Penuliar, Alicia Bridgewater, Mariel Osbourne, Rassi, Alexi, Katie Mossman, Christine de Lassus, Mickey Boardman, Tim Hemmeter, Richard Blandino- the mind boggles.

All frothed up from the heavy-hitter crowd at Milk, we decided to forsake our livers for good and run on over to the CMJ/V Magazine party at the Tribeca Grand. Featuring a performance by the ubiquitous Lykke Li, the party was crowded, hot, and packed to the gills with even more of our cohorts. Though Lykke at one point asked for drinks for the whole crowd to warm them up, we think it was quite warm enough, thank you very much. Lykke is a friend of See Management, particularly Amy Farid and Robert Greene:

She gave a great show. We took a picture with our iPhone of someone taking a picture with their iPhone. A little meta to brighten your day:

Seen: Amy Farid, Sean Hanratty, Sonny of Blonde Acid Cult, Sara Math, Natasha Royt, Brian Molloy, Jeffrey Graetsch.

Props to doorman Spiky Phil.

Things threatening our employment at See Management this week.

There's a new sound blowing in the wind this week at See Management, and it's got us all frothed up and running over to the MAC for tinkering every five or ten:


Pandora is like that friend we all have that doesn't necessarily have a real job and spends all of their time rummaging through crates trying to unearth long-forgotten, best-not-remembered 12-inch versions of records like this one (from our personal collection):


You know the guy- he was into Wilco before they even became a group, schooled you on the Cool Kids two years ago, and knows how to pronounce Lykke Li. Well, if that guy downloaded every LP and EP he ever had into your computer, and then crafted a playlist based on your mood right then and there, played indefinitely, and only stopped when you said stop- that would be like Pandora.

Here's how it works: you want to hear a certain song or a group, you go to Pandora, enter it, and Pandora creates an internet radio station based on your entry. And they're good. Pandora is the creation of a sinster-sounding thing called the Music Genome Project. It's actually just a team of fifty musician/analysts that listens to each song individually and breaks down every track along about 400 (give or take) different category lines. Each song is then entered into their database with each of the criteria attached, which is how the program learns to relate each song to the next. It's kind of spooky. We are obsessed.

Here are a few of our suggestions for Songs/Groups that should keep your head bobbing or your navel gazed-at, depending on your taste:

1. Be True to Your School, The Beach Boys
2. Need U Bad, Jazmine Sullivan
3. Enter Sandman, Metallica
4. Ete Hit, Omnikrom
5. Panic!, The Smiths
6. Portland, Oregon, Loretta Lynn
7. Carmina Burana, Carl Orff
8. I Can't Go For That (No Can Do), Hall & Oates
9. Pop The Glock, Uffie
10. Don't Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult

If you can keep from obsessing about your next Pandora Station, you're better folks than us. Get into it!