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This evening, sitting around talking to Jeff and Rebecca, telling stories, the idea of “half my life ago” came up repeatedly.
We were listening to And I Feel Fine: The Best of the IRS Years 1982-1987, the collection of the best years of REM. I recalled how one particular girl in my science class mentioned [...]

In lieu of useful public radio to listen to, I’ve been cranking the following on the iPod…

Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (thanks to Dan)
Ray LaMontagne: Till The Sun Turns Black
Mike Doughty: Skittish
Radio Citizen: Berlin Serengeti

I’ve recently started using iTunes on the G5 hooked to the speakers, instead of the iPod connected to them. Today I realized that I hadn’t been listening to anything at all, because iTunes simply never made it to the front of my stack of windows. With the physical iPod situated in front of me, [...]

Last night at the Best Buy, I picked up Phish’s NYE’95 show, which is quite a nice 3-disc set. As my attorney says, wouldn’t it be great if every show was like a New Year’s Eve show? While listening to it, I started surfing and found a nice tidbit about a show with [...]

Last night I managed to pick up Best Reason to Buy the Sun by the Benevento/Russo Duo. Purely instrumental, they are an odd cross of Medeski, Martin & Wood, Death Cab for Cutie, and The Bad Plus. For me, at least, it’s one of the best CDs to sling code or manipulate a [...]