So, I’m at it again, with more record reviews. I think it’s kind of fun that I’ve seen all of these artists live at least once, and I’m reasonably sure that I’ve seen three of them on the same stage, but never on the same night. Come to think of it, that would be a […]

Because that’s what I did the other night, rode into the sunset, and frankly, the glare got in my eyes, and I almost ran over a couple of joggers. Some tunes, now, from Pandora, because I didn’t have anything else handy. Good mix, anyway: “The Mesopotamians” – TMBG “Retreat from the Sun” – That Dog […]

After doing fifteen miles on the W&OD trail after working way too long today, I’ve been spending my evening mostly just sitting there, letting time pass around me. I tried to plunk on the ukulele a bit, but the music just wouldn’t come. Maybe tomorrow…I’ve got it in my head that somebody ought to write […]

Once more into the well with this business; being off doing my own thing for the last week or so (“my own thing” largely being ferrying children to one place or the other, then retrieving them), I didn’t get much “new” listening done, but I did have a coupl e of stuff left over from […]

Seen here, artfully posed with some of the crap lying around my hotel room: This, my friends, is a Lanikai LU22CGC Concert Ukulele. As it happened, I had taken a drive over to Guitar Center this evening to amuse myself after work, and after playing a bunch of guitars and basses I had no intention […]

This is the tenth entry of this particular feature, which is longer than any sort of project I’ve tried to maintain save the random ten (which doesn’t really require all that much effort). With this piece, I’ve talked about 40 records, which barely cracks the contents of the box. If I want to keep going, […]

Lots of rumors this week regarding my getting shuffled around to fix somebody else’s problem…again. I’d use the pawn/chess metaphor, but the people making the decisions aren’t that strategic. At best, I’m a Sorry! token or one of the little kid pegs from The Game of Life. I’m going to the water park now and […]

I’m pretty sure with this entry, I’m caught up with my listening, and it’s probably time to swap out for a new box of CDs. That is, if I can resist just listening to Alpocalypse over and over for a while. What can I say, a boy never outgrows his “Weird” Al. In any case, […]

Once again, I dig into the big box (and elsewhere) to find old records to listen to and blather on about. This volume branches out a little bit past the usual piles of hair metal and mid-nineties pop rock into one of the more embarassing musical phases of my life, which is something, coming from […]

A few more records I’ve been pulling randomly from my big box o’ CDs and listening to on long drives: ♦Halfway There: A Central Pennsylvania compilation: For a couple of years in the mid 90s, Central PA had something of a renaissance of original music. Music that people noticed and appreciated. People like record company […]