Hmm, very dusty around here…. Well, in the same way that video killed the radio star (and the internet killed the video star), Facebook has totally deep-sixed my need to blog. Ah, our world of instant gratification. Though it’s not as gratifying as it is instant. I certainly am not as addicted as some people [...]
Last night at the Stone Pony I fulfilled one of my musical quests – to see the original members of the band X perform live. John Doe, Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom and DJ Bonebreak played their first album “Los Angeles” from start to finish. I wasn’t disappointed. To top it off, they opened the encore [...]
Last night I had the most wonderful opportunity of seeing Paul McCartney at Yankee Stadium. Kerry, Christopher and I went with some other family and friends. I have now seen both living Beatles live in concert. I must say it was pretty amazing. A true rock show. AND he didn’t sing more than two songs [...]
More music news – My Limited Edition CD of Lamb‘s first recording in eight years (?) has arrived! They asked their fanbase to help by pre-ordering the record… so of course I did. Loved this band! Saw them twice in NYC – once at the Mercury lounge and the other time in Central Park. Drum [...]
My knees. They have been giving me a lot of trouble over the past week. So I’m back in one of the family collection of knee braces (yes – we have a bunch of them) for a while. However, this was not going to stop me from going back down to Terminal 5 in NYC [...]
Very, very busy week this – St Patrick’s Day, the beginning of March Madness, nuclear melt-down of Japan, the end of the Libyan rebellion while the West watches from a distance and the far right pulling funding for NPR because it said mean things about them (and – in turn – the continued, malignant impotence [...]
It’s way too late for me to be doing this, but I have meetings tomorrow – meetings that will have no value except they provide lunch – and pretending to prepare for it and being there will take up most of the day. I need to get this out. Since receiving my new iPod (thank [...]
I’m sitting here watching the DVD of Lou Reed in concert performing my favorite album of his – Berlin – live for (I think) the first time. Damn – Lou’s old! It reminds me that I missed this show when it happened because I didn’t find out it was happening in time. And then I [...]
For this Friday morning, I needed to be uptown for a business breakfast. The boat landed around 8am. I started walking up 35th Street toward Park. The second block up is a park and there are benches along the sidewalk side of the park. Six dark green benches – no backs – spaced evenly apart. [...]
Sakes! This is only the fourth installment all year. Well – as they say – it’s not quantity, but quality. But let me rant first. I for one am very grateful for the Beatles being on iTunes. Now, I have most of the CDs and vinyl and have transferred both. But occasionally, you need a [...]
We have an Xbox here. My son uses it for video games. I have stopped playing video games since you have to use no less than four controllers at the same time and I just don’t have those skills. However, Xbox has allowed me to stream Netflix movies and THAT is a wonderful thing. So [...]
By Tanya Donelly “You think it might Turn out all right After the fighting You’re sweeter than me You think that people Aren’t truly evil That peace will come You’re sweeter than me Help me out Help me out I’ve come unveiled Without the veil my resources fail I suck onto you and leech your [...]
I’m watching Neil Young on TV – on the Palladia Channel which has a boat load of live concerts. He’s playing the Glastonbury Festival last year and he is ripping it up! Burning through “Words” with his classic guitar work. Mr. Young looks stronger than I have seen in some time. On the last concert [...]
I’m up to 14,600 songs on the iPod – much slower this year than last. So after removing all videos and TV shows and a few records I never listened to, my 80 gig has very little room left. However, my wife’s 160 gig iPod has only 3 gigs worth of music on it! And [...]
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