Sitting here – trying one of my 24-different root beers package I received sometime prior to Vermont – I realised I need to listen to some of this stuff before I endorse it. With Ryan Adams’ “Easy Tiger” – it’s not as good as I had hoped. Sometimes he is focused – more focused than [...]
How’s this for a crazy batch? Ryan Adams – “Easy Tiger” I like him, but I didn’t like the three albums he put out a year ago. He wasn’t writing songs, he was just trying to be Jerry Garcia. He is back to songs now. Black Sabbath – “Volume 4″ My favorite – and only! [...]
I had forgotten what the color green was. It is very green in Vermont (both physically and philosophically). Trees, the green mountains, the farms. Cows everywhere. Restaurants and stores sell “Vermont first”. A very proud state. It was great to spend some time in a place where pavement wasn’t considered foliage. In Waterbury – where [...]
This month’s “blue plate” special. Do you have a favorite record that hits you on all levels? That seems to be wired to your wavelength? And yet every time you try to explain the music or have someone listen to it or actually give them the CD – you just get these odd looks like [...]
The key thing to the whole iPod system is the Shuffle. Whatever mechanism shuffles these songs into a playlist is a master of styles and BPM. The trick is to load your library with everything you enjoy hearing – even the odd Christmas tune or Irish drinking song – and let the computer take over. [...]
Vermont The Green Mountain State. Fourteenth State of the Union. Capital: Montpelier. Largest City: Burlington. Maple syrup – lots of it. Breweries – LOTS of them. A very singular state. They have one of the few Independent U.S. Senators and, of course, Democrat Patrick Leahy, who has been in Congress for almost three decades. Since [...]
Yeah – another week of brain damage (including a brief trip back to politics) BUT I still can do this. Brazilian Girls – Their first album. None of them are Brazilian and there is only one girl. Been reading about them for a while and this is great. Techno, latin, jazz and pop in a [...]
Another short play. More of a monologue. Under Written Works.
On Wednesday, I went to Broadway to see Journey’s End – a play about the British in World War I. It is nominated tomorrow for a Tony. And it will win the Tony. And then it will close. In fact I believe it is closing tomorrow, which is why I went last week. There have [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Liberace Strip Mall! (or museum…) Be sure to buy all his cookbooks and the fabulous Lemon Drop Mix.
Speaking of regressing… Santana – “Abraxas” Grand Funk Railroad – “Greatest Hits”. Some Kind of Wonderful, Foot Stompin’ Music and Closer To Home are great tunes. I think I have the 70s totally covered now. 6,513 songs and counting…
There isn’t any. Doesn’t exist. And I’m not saying – “there’s nothing new under the sun”. “Everything is derivative”. That was true in the 70′s, the 80′s and the 90′s and STILL new music came forward. There is nothing out there now. There is no passion. There are no ideas. There is no spark of [...]
a few things…. Ulrich Schnauss – “Quicksand Memory” This is his new EP. I loved his CD “Faraway Trains”. Sort of soothing and trance-like. This is a bit more lively and follows a Lush/Jesus & Mary Chain vain. Lush – “Spooky” Speaking of Lush…. Mozart – “Symphonies 36 & 38″ by the Prague Chamber Orchestra. [...]
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