So with five weeks left in the New York Metropolitan area (and most of that the holidays), I have one last shot to see live music before I go. A quick run through the Village Voice showed only one possible option… Grace Potter! She and the band are back in town on Friday, headlining their [...]
My visa is ready. My flight is set. January 4th – the adventure begins. yikes…
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and did not have to deal with 1) traffic jams, 2) airport delays or 3) cold turkey. (For me – two out of three ain’t bad.) I also hope no one shopped on Friday. The whole thing is a crock and for a consumer to worry about whether a [...]
… it’s finally here. For years I have searched Ebay for this record collection. It is a four disk set of the best of the Factory label – in my opinion one of the classic DIY labels in rock history. From 1979 to 1990, this was the Manchester sound. Happy Mondays, Joy Division, Durutti Column [...]
You know, I could care less about celebrities. The only reason I know anything about their lives is that even the good newspapers have articles about every D-grade celebrity that ever existed! Every time I turn on my computer, I see which crappy TV star got hitched, fired or arrested for DUI (Gary Collins? Who [...]
Another Sunday – another Fantasy Football fiasco. I’m surprised that there are enough uninjured players to have a game. The whole league went deep into the talent pool just to have a warm body on the field. It’s ugly. Even as I watched today (45 mins. – tops), players fell like flies. Sports medicine is [...]
All right! The (recently) annual family Christmas CD has been decided. Last year, my brothers and sister exchanged CDs of our 15 favorite songs. This year it is our favorite cover songs. Not necessarily fifteen, but a full CD worth (I would say no less than 50 minutes). I have checked with the judges and [...]
As a Catholic for 47 years now (I don’t practice anymore because I got pretty good at it), a few things have bothered me over the years about how the Church heirarchy has progressed… or not. Pedophilia is one. The utter lack of joy in most of their services (no matter how many times they [...]
Took Friday and Monday off for a long weekend of sitting on my butt and praying for my knee to miraculously heal. Because that is the extent of all the expert medical opinions I have received – mainly from the radiologist who actually looked at my MRI films. (Neither of my other doctors even bothered [...]
Well, that took a while. But just because I haven’t posted doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy. Because I have been. Busy. November’s Global Rhythms CD. Mainly Latin sounds – both classic and hip hop – with new Manu Chao, Mala Rodriguez and a duo from Budapest called Katan (beautiful song). But it was a [...]
So someone – “a friend” – has commented that my going to Kuwait for this job is just running away from my problems. This is an interesting thought… and not one unknown to me. This whole thing is a bit like running off to join the circus. But only if I had nothing going for [...]
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