Obama is in town. Will Smith is in town. Wyclef Jean is in town. But this day is all about REGINA SPEKTOR. While I was waiting for Kings of Leon to enter the stage at John Dee a cold autumn night in 2003, this weird girl sat down by the piano to sing songs about “cleavage, cleavage, cleavage” and “UH-merica”. I enjoyed her quirky act enormously – which is more than I can say about Kings of Leon’s distant, stuck-up and arrogant performance. However, I forgot about Regina until I heard her song, Fidelity, on the radio a couple of years later. The album Begin to Hope is one of the albums I have been playing the most since I bought it, and That Time, Better, Fidelity and Hotel Song are still quite near the top of my all time favorite songs list. Let’s hope she will take my list into consideration tonight at Rockefeller!