Chanteuse

I’ve been amusing myself tonight by checking out some of the videos on the iTunes Music Store, including Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek.” What a lovely song. She does some mixing tricks with the multi-layering of her voice, but it doesn’t come across as saccharine (unlike some other artists who use this technique). Ms. Heap is also the front singer for Frou Frou, whose stuff I quite like as well. I guess this song was also featured on The O.C Now this is when I could get all snooty and say that I never watch that crap, except that I have my sister’s borrowed copy of Season 1 sitting in my pile of DVDs and I’m slowly getting caught up in it. That Summer’s kind of a bitch, isn’t she?
One of my nurses is suggesting I take astragalus as a way of preventing future colds. Astragalus is an herb that apparently has some immune-boosting properties. Anyone have any experience with this stuff? I’m normally skeptical of alternative medicine and of the starry-eyed claims some of its proponents make, but this last infection kicked my ass and I don’t desire to go through that again anytime soon.