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A long hot dry summer comes to an end

Posted on 14 Sep 2008 · tagged , , , , , · comments off

It has been an exceptionally wet summer in real life here what with the remnants of several hurricanes dumping on us here lately and all, but other than the occasional post, it’s a been a long, hot, dry summer here. That’s par for the course around here, though. I abandoned anything like regular posting years [...]

Daptone Records: Soul Kings

Posted on 15 Aug 2008 · tagged , , , , , , · 1 comments

Despite my forays into all sorts of music (both playing/recording and listening), I always come back to two WILDLY disparate genres: 80s jangle pop and dirty, greasy soul music. It’s okay. I’m used to being a man of contradictions. Just ask my therapist.
As far as Soul music goes, I’m generally old school: mostly Stax (Booker [...]

“Impossibly small.”

Posted on 19 Sep 2005 · tagged , , · comments off

So, I pulled the trigger on an iPod nano today. I sold my old(er) iPod on the eBay, and bought the nano. “Impossibly small” doesn’t even begin to cover it! It just doesn’t even seem real. I love it when Apple knocks one out of the park with no rumor leakage like this.

R.I.P. Bob Moog: the father of electronic music

Posted on 22 Aug 2005 · tagged , · comments off

Bob Moog passed away in his North Carolina home Sunday. Memorials can be made here. Moog brought us the first “real” synthesizer in 1964, but which didn’t really catch on until the 70s and the 80s. Without Moog, the history and landscape of electronic music would have been radically different. Read more on Bob Moog [...]

Last one in’s a rotten music meme…

Posted on 12 Jul 2005 · tagged , , , · comments off

Okay, so Jack tagged me last week, but I just noticed it. I’m not sure how a post got past me, but it did. Anyway, here goes…
1. Total volume of music files on my computer: 4812 songs, 14.5 days, 23.97 GB, as reported by iTunes. I’ve probably got another gig or so on my machine [...]

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