Five days left. At this moment, I am playing with one of my Christmas presents from my lovely wife – an Ion USB Turntable! How else was I going to get all four discs of Palatine on to my iPod? So simple. So sweet to use. Yet – time consuming. Everything happens in real time. [...]
This was my last day at work. (Day? Couple of hours – tops.) I finished a project, dropped off my keys, grabbed my Tom Waits poster from the wall and booked. One chapter over – a new beginning exactly a week from now as I pull up to JFK Airport. Today was hard for only [...]
Final. For a while… Robert Johnson – “King of Delta Blues” Minutemen – “Double Nickels On The Dime” They jam econo. 46 songs – most under two minutes. King Crimson – “In The Court of The Crimson King” Patti Smith – “Horses” Still rocks. Saw her perform this whole album at BAM last year – [...]
Many of you may not know this, but I am a comic book geek. I have been reading comics since I was 8 and have been collecting since the 70s. A good portion of any income in my youth – whether from being an altar boy at weddings or from cutting someone’s lawn – was [...]
There’s, like, this strike going on? Of writers for entertainment programming? And somehow that has cancelled Award shows? Huh? Not that I have ever paid a lot of attention to the now 187 award shows conducted each year (when is the all award show channel coming?), but – outside of the Oscar’s opening monologue and [...]
Last batch? we’ll see… The Doobie Brothers – A smattering of singles from the pre-Michael McDonald years. Mostly “The Captain and Me”. Not a Mike McDonald fan. The Wild Colonials – “This Can’t Be Life” I had a Christmas single of theirs that I liked so I looked for more. Think of a less coy [...]
Nine days before Christmas. Last night I played with the controller on my set of outdoor lights. I had our house looking like a give-away sale at a used car lot! So cool that they make these things for children of all ages… Today I’m cleaning and re-arranging furniture in preparation for the tree. Serenading [...]
They Are Done! That was my big job for today. And i was on a mission. See – last year we didn’t do any decorating because we went to Paris for New Years. This year is supposed to be a blowout (in proportion with what we usually do). I went for gaudy with our outdoor [...]
This is probably the second to last installation before I have to transfer the library to my new laptop for travelin’. This is what takes us up to just over 9,000 songs or 27 days of music. Start with a few singles by Queens of the Stone Age. I don’t know this band very well [...]
That’s how long I have left Stateside. First – a few days in Dubai to do paperwork. Then – Kuwait and my new job. Thank God it has snowed already (and probably will again). I love snow. AND I need the opportunity to teach/play with my new snowblower! This is the first one I have [...]
FYI – the concert Friday was terrific. Grace and the band were in fine form and happy to be headlining finally. It may only be rock ‘n roll… but thank God something is. The highline Ballroom was also a very civil venue. An old man can sit at a table until the lead act comes [...]
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